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Dan,
Isaac and Hannah (Worrell) Clendenin are also my 4th great grandparents. My research had led me to believe that Benjamin Worrell was a brother of Hannah's. I will try to review my findings and contact you directly via your email. Cheryl in Kansas City
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From: "Daniel W Treadway" <treadway(a)netins.net>
To: clendenin-l(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CLENDENIN] Hannah (Worrall) Clendenon
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 22:27:36 -0500
In the fall of 1832, eighty-eight year old Benjamin Worrall made his
way to a courtroom in McConnellsville, Morgan County, Ohio. He was
there to tell of his years in the Continental Army. When he had
enlisted, he had been living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which summer
he could no longer remember. His company commander was Captain Jacob
Weaver in the 10th regiment of the Pennsylvania Line. They had spent
the next cold winter with Washington at Valley Forge, and afterwards
had marched as far away as Stony Point, on the Hudson River between
New York and West Point. His testimony was to establish that he was
eligible for a pension based on his service over half a century
before.
Subtracting, we see that Benjamin was born in 1744. He was the ninth
and youngest child of John and Hannah (Taylor) Worrall who lived in
Marple Township, Chester (now Delaware) County, Pennsylvania. He was
by birth a member of Chester (now Media) Meeting of the Religious
Society of Friends (Quakers). His father died in 1762 without a will,
so perhaps the death was sudden. Minutes of Chester Monthly Meeting
for 1st Month 1767 record that Benjamin was reported for "marrying by
a priest to one not a member, drinking to excess and neglecting
meetings." A committee was appointed to meet with him and try to get
him to return to Quaker ways, but their report was not positive, and
he was removed from membership. The next fact we have of his life is
his enlistment in the summer of 1777. He was, of course, with his
regiment from then until his discharge in the spring of 1781. In 1792,
he wrote a letter to Chester Monthly Meeting acknowledging his
transgressions and "hoping Friends would pass it by" and reinstate his
membership. This was granted. By the beginning of the next year, he
had requested transfer of his membership to Robeson Meeting, Berks
County, Pennsylvania. He had quite possibly been living not far away
for many years, near his oldest brother Jonathan.
Because Benjamin was not a member during the years his children were
born, their births are not recorded in Quaker records. Among the sons
were Jonathan, listed in the 1850 census as age 78, George, born
between 1772 and 1779, Thomas, born 1786, possibly Isaac; there was at
least one daughter, but her identity is uncertain. In 1794,
Benjamin's son Jonathan requested membership at Robeson Meeting but
was turned down. Perhaps the committee suspected his reason for
joining was romance rather than religion. Such suspicions might have
been right, for the Jonathan and Eleanor Gerrad were married outside
of meeting on 30 Sep 1794, and afterwards Eleanor had to make
apologies and convince the meeting they were sincere in order to
retain her membership.
Not many years after that, members of the family began leaving Berks
County for points further west. Benjamin's membership was transferred
from Robeson to Redstone Meeting in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in
1797, and in 1804 to Short Creek Meeting in Jefferson County, Ohio.
Daughter-in-law Eleanor got a certificate of transfer from Robeson
Meeting in 1798, which she carried first to Redstone, then in 1801 to
Westland Meeting in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and fianlly in
the spring of 1803 to Concord Meeting in Belmont County, Ohio. At
Concord that same spring, Jonathan applied again for membership and
was this time accepted, along with children Sarah, Benjamin, and
Nathaniel. When Short Creek Meeting was formed in 1804, Jonathan and
Eleanor were among its original members.
Benjamin and Jonathan took up land about two miles apart in Jefferson
County. Jonathan and his family moved to Salem in Columbiana County,
Ohio, in 1807, but returned to their homestead in 1811. That same
year, Benjamin sold some land to Jonathan, and the courthouse record
of that transaction reveals that Benjamin's wife at that time was
named Elizabeth. In 1813 when Harrison County was formed, Jonathan's
land was included but Benjamin's remained in Jefferson County. In
1812, Benjamin's son Thomas Worrall and his wife and three children
were accepted into membership at Short Creek Meeting; Thomas died in
1824 at age 38, and was buried at West Grove, about a mile from land
he purchased from Jonathan in 1815.
In the 1820s, the family was on the move again, this time to Morgan
County, Ohio. In 1826, a Benjamin Worrall purchased federal land in
Morgan County; it is not clear whether this is Jonathan's father, or
his son. In 1828 both Benjamin, Sr., and Jonathan and his family
transferred membership to Deerfield Meeting in Morgan County, and
Thomas' widow Esther and her children followed the next year.
In the 1830 census, we find Benjamin in Penn Township, Morgan County,
listed between Isaac Clendenon and Thomas Worrell. In 1832 Benjamin
applied for his pension, and must have been alive in June of 1833,
when he was once again read out of Quaker meeting--the peace-loving
Quakers could not allow one of their members to profit from making
war. This is the last record we have of his life.
**********
Information passed down in my family says that Isaac and Hannah
(Worrall) Clendenon are my 4-greats grandparents, that Isaac was born
6-11-1768, that Hannah was born 9-3-1767, and that they were married
12-21-1792. Records of Rebeson Meeting show that Hannah Worrall was
witness to the marriage of Joseph Jackson and Mary Bonsall on
4-28-1971, and that on 3-5-1793, Isaac and Hannah Clendenon signed
together as witnesses to the marriage of Ellis Hughes and Elizabeth
Bonsall. Another witness to the Hughes marriage was Benjamin Worrall.
Isaac lost his Quaker membership soon after he married Hannah--she was
not a member. By 1808, they were living in Belmont County, Ohio, and
Isaac wrote back to Robeson Meeting apologizing and asking that he be
reinstated. That same year Hannah taken into membership at Stillwater
Meeting in Belmont County, Isaac's membership was transferred there
from Robeson, and their six children added to the rolls as well. In
1827, Isaac and Hannah transferred membership to Deerfield Meeting in
Morgan County, where Isaac died in 1834, and Hannah in 1857.
**********
I am all but certain that Benjamin Worrall who married out of meeting
in 1767, and Hannah (Worrall) Clendenon, who was born in 1768, were
father and daughter. From that time until Benjamin's death in the
1830s they never lived more than a score of miles apart for long,
making two major moves in parallel.
I will be grateful to anyone who can add facts to this account, and
especially to anyone who can provide information that links them for
certain. I hope to travel this summer to Pennsylvania and Ohio to
gather more information myself, and would be glad for any tips on
where I should search.
Thanks to all who have read this to the end.
--
Dan Treadway
P. O. Box 72 Gilbert IA 50105
treadway(a)netins.net
http://showcase.netins.net/web/treadway/
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In the fall of 1832, eighty-eight year old Benjamin Worrall made his
way to a courtroom in McConnellsville, Morgan County, Ohio. He was
there to tell of his years in the Continental Army. When he had
enlisted, he had been living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which summer
he could no longer remember. His company commander was Captain Jacob
Weaver in the 10th regiment of the Pennsylvania Line. They had spent
the next cold winter with Washington at Valley Forge, and afterwards
had marched as far away as Stony Point, on the Hudson River between
New York and West Point. His testimony was to establish that he was
eligible for a pension based on his service over half a century
before.
Subtracting, we see that Benjamin was born in 1744. He was the ninth
and youngest child of John and Hannah (Taylor) Worrall who lived in
Marple Township, Chester (now Delaware) County, Pennsylvania. He was
by birth a member of Chester (now Media) Meeting of the Religious
Society of Friends (Quakers). His father died in 1762 without a will,
so perhaps the death was sudden. Minutes of Chester Monthly Meeting
for 1st Month 1767 record that Benjamin was reported for "marrying by
a priest to one not a member, drinking to excess and neglecting
meetings." A committee was appointed to meet with him and try to get
him to return to Quaker ways, but their report was not positive, and
he was removed from membership. The next fact we have of his life is
his enlistment in the summer of 1777. He was, of course, with his
regiment from then until his discharge in the spring of 1781. In 1792,
he wrote a letter to Chester Monthly Meeting acknowledging his
transgressions and "hoping Friends would pass it by" and reinstate his
membership. This was granted. By the beginning of the next year, he
had requested transfer of his membership to Robeson Meeting, Berks
County, Pennsylvania. He had quite possibly been living not far away
for many years, near his oldest brother Jonathan.
Because Benjamin was not a member during the years his children were
born, their births are not recorded in Quaker records. Among the sons
were Jonathan, listed in the 1850 census as age 78, George, born
between 1772 and 1779, Thomas, born 1786, possibly Isaac; there was at
least one daughter, but her identity is uncertain. In 1794,
Benjamin's son Jonathan requested membership at Robeson Meeting but
was turned down. Perhaps the committee suspected his reason for
joining was romance rather than religion. Such suspicions might have
been right, for the Jonathan and Eleanor Gerrad were married outside
of meeting on 30 Sep 1794, and afterwards Eleanor had to make
apologies and convince the meeting they were sincere in order to
retain her membership.
Not many years after that, members of the family began leaving Berks
County for points further west. Benjamin's membership was transferred
from Robeson to Redstone Meeting in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in
1797, and in 1804 to Short Creek Meeting in Jefferson County, Ohio.
Daughter-in-law Eleanor got a certificate of transfer from Robeson
Meeting in 1798, which she carried first to Redstone, then in 1801 to
Westland Meeting in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and fianlly in
the spring of 1803 to Concord Meeting in Belmont County, Ohio. At
Concord that same spring, Jonathan applied again for membership and
was this time accepted, along with children Sarah, Benjamin, and
Nathaniel. When Short Creek Meeting was formed in 1804, Jonathan and
Eleanor were among its original members.
Benjamin and Jonathan took up land about two miles apart in Jefferson
County. Jonathan and his family moved to Salem in Columbiana County,
Ohio, in 1807, but returned to their homestead in 1811. That same
year, Benjamin sold some land to Jonathan, and the courthouse record
of that transaction reveals that Benjamin's wife at that time was
named Elizabeth. In 1813 when Harrison County was formed, Jonathan's
land was included but Benjamin's remained in Jefferson County. In
1812, Benjamin's son Thomas Worrall and his wife and three children
were accepted into membership at Short Creek Meeting; Thomas died in
1824 at age 38, and was buried at West Grove, about a mile from land
he purchased from Jonathan in 1815.
In the 1820s, the family was on the move again, this time to Morgan
County, Ohio. In 1826, a Benjamin Worrall purchased federal land in
Morgan County; it is not clear whether this is Jonathan's father, or
his son. In 1828 both Benjamin, Sr., and Jonathan and his family
transferred membership to Deerfield Meeting in Morgan County, and
Thomas' widow Esther and her children followed the next year.
In the 1830 census, we find Benjamin in Penn Township, Morgan County,
listed between Isaac Clendenon and Thomas Worrell. In 1832 Benjamin
applied for his pension, and must have been alive in June of 1833,
when he was once again read out of Quaker meeting--the peace-loving
Quakers could not allow one of their members to profit from making
war. This is the last record we have of his life.
**********
Information passed down in my family says that Isaac and Hannah
(Worrall) Clendenon are my 4-greats grandparents, that Isaac was born
6-11-1768, that Hannah was born 9-3-1767, and that they were married
12-21-1792. Records of Rebeson Meeting show that Hannah Worrall was
witness to the marriage of Joseph Jackson and Mary Bonsall on
4-28-1971, and that on 3-5-1793, Isaac and Hannah Clendenon signed
together as witnesses to the marriage of Ellis Hughes and Elizabeth
Bonsall. Another witness to the Hughes marriage was Benjamin Worrall.
Isaac lost his Quaker membership soon after he married Hannah--she was
not a member. By 1808, they were living in Belmont County, Ohio, and
Isaac wrote back to Robeson Meeting apologizing and asking that he be
reinstated. That same year Hannah taken into membership at Stillwater
Meeting in Belmont County, Isaac's membership was transferred there
from Robeson, and their six children added to the rolls as well. In
1827, Isaac and Hannah transferred membership to Deerfield Meeting in
Morgan County, where Isaac died in 1834, and Hannah in 1857.
**********
I am all but certain that Benjamin Worrall who married out of meeting
in 1767, and Hannah (Worrall) Clendenon, who was born in 1768, were
father and daughter. From that time until Benjamin's death in the
1830s they never lived more than a score of miles apart for long,
making two major moves in parallel.
I will be grateful to anyone who can add facts to this account, and
especially to anyone who can provide information that links them for
certain. I hope to travel this summer to Pennsylvania and Ohio to
gather more information myself, and would be glad for any tips on
where I should search.
Thanks to all who have read this to the end.
--
Dan Treadway
P. O. Box 72 Gilbert IA 50105
treadway(a)netins.net
http://showcase.netins.net/web/treadway/