John Henthorn and Frances Low

This morning I created three PDF reports for the family of John Henthorn and Frances Low of Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania.

These files are now available in My Box on Box.net to those who have been granted access to the OtherHenthorn folder.

Two of the reports are for smaller family groups within the John Henthorn and Frances Low family.

• John Henthorn and Frances Low (379 pages)
• David Jennings II and Mary Henthorn (213 pages)
• James and Mary Quinn (27 pages)

John Henthorn and Frances Low

John Henthorn and Frances Low

Today I finished an edit project on my RootsMagic genealogy file of John Henthorn and Frances Low of Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. This file includes 3,801 individuals and 1,468 marriages. Another family prominently featured in this file is the Jennings family.

The edits:

• including the name of each person in the second line of their notes
• adding sort dates, where needed, to insure that death information precedes burial information
• adding nicknames to the Nickname field whenever possible
• adding Copyright and contact information to the note of John Henthorn
  

I'm now able to produce a 446-page report, with an every name index, from this file. RootsMagic outputs reports in the PDF format.

Frances (Low) Henthorn

RELATIONSHIP: Frances Low was named for her grandmother, Frances Johnson, who was married to Daniel Johnson. She was called Fanny by her grandson, Rev. James Quinn, in his recollections.

Problem: The last name has been reported as: Low and Lowe.

RELATIONSHIP: Frances Low was the niece of Hannah Johnson who married Thomas Cresap, Sr. This is the link between the Henthorn family and the Cresap family. Thomas Cresap was a leader of the folks from Maryland who became involved in a border dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania. Thomas Cresap was imprisoned in Philadelphia for his part in the affair. It is reported by some that his wife and children lived with some of the Henthorns at Cordurus, PA while he was in prison. The various exploits of Thomas Cresap and his sons are quite well documented.

DEATH: She died soon after the birth of her daughter, Sarah in 1744.

LAND-DEATH: Some say she died about 1745. This is because on the conveyance, selling "Providence," dated 3 May 1745, the wife testifying was named: Margarett. Nothing is known of this woman, but it is assumed that John, being a widower with 4 children, would have remarried. "Providence" was located on Codorus River (Creek) in Baltimore Co., MD in what is now the area of York, PA.

REFERENCE: "Lapidum, Another Chapter in Harford County History," by A.P. Silver a pamphlet found at the Library of Congress in June 1966 by Ruth Hanthorne. It was a reprint of a paper A.P. Silver read before the Harford County Historical Society in 1888. [Note: As of Jan 1996, it is not known what information about the Low and Johnson families was in this document or whether there is sufficient cataloging information at the Library of Congress to find it again. REH]

Tags: Genealogy, Henthorn, Low, Cresap