Unorganized Jameson Family Research Notes and References

(FOR AN ORGANIZED SYNOPSIS OF RELATED JAMESONS
FROM THE BOOK "JAMESONS IN AMERICA", CLICK HERE)

Daniel Jameson, also spelled as Daniel Jamison

See: Records of Egypt Reformed Church 1808-1834: Lehigh County, PA

Harold C. Jamison (1911-2002) - Lineage Summary

( to see historian William Baillie’s treatise on the subject, Chapters 1 and 2 - Col. David Jameson & Dr. James Jameson; and Chapters 3, 4, and 5 - Daniel Jamison & Benjamin Jamison)

 Col. David Jameson, M.D. – was born abt 1715 in Scotland and emigrated to Charleston, S.C. in about 1740 after graduating from the medical university at Edinburgh, Scotland.  After living for a time in Shippensburg, PA, he settled in York and married Elizabeth Davis by whom he had  11 children including 5 boys, Horatio*, James, Thomas, and David, Jr. all of whom became physicians.  David became an officer in the Pennsylvania militia during the French and Indian Wars starting in the 1750's and served under such well known figures as Benjamin Franklin and General John Armstrong.
On April 2, 1756, Captain/ Lieutenant David Jameson and his company of men along with others attempted to retaliate against the Indians who attacked Fort McCord and free the captives at the battle of Sideling Hill not far from the Fort. During this engagement he was severely wounded and left for dead. Nevertheless, he survived and eventually made it back to Fort Littleton. At various times during the French and Indian War he was commander of Ft. Hunter, Ft. Augusta and Ft. Aughwick and was also stationed at Ft. Hallifax (period spelling). He was also known to have fought at the battle of Loyal Hanna (March 14, 1769) among others.
Later, David Jameson became a Colonel and physician during the Revolutionary War in 1776 and was commander of the 3rd Battalion of the York Associators* (of York, Pennsylvania). 

• See - Jameson, Horatio G. Memoir of David Jameson, Esq., M.D., Lt. Colonel of the Provincial Forces and Colonel of the Revolutionary Forces of Pennsylvania. Washington, Pa.: Regimental Press, Third Artillery, 1887.
  
• Ed.note: Horatio Gates Jameson (1778-1855), distinguished physician and surgeon, was son of Dr. David Jameson and was a founder and president of Washington Medical College, Baltimore and served as Professor of Surgery 1827-35.

Dr. James Jameson – born in 1771 in York, Pennsyvlania. Some historians have listed his death at 21 March 1831. James was the son of Dr. David Jameson and his wife, Elizabeth Davis. After the death of Jame’s wife, Elizabeth Myers in York in 1805 he moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania where he met Catherina Siegfried and sired 2 children by her.  Jacobus (a/k/a James) Jameson, born 1808 and Daniel Jameson born December 17, 1812.  It is questionable whether Catherina and the good doctor were ever married although LDS records indicate that they were married around 1807. See the church records of the Egypt Reformed Church which confirm parentage of Daniel Jamison by Dr James Jameson and Catherina Siegfried.
Daniel Jamison - born December 17, 1812 (see his family bible) in Allentown, Pennsylvania and baptized at the Egypt Reformed Church where his mother was subsequently buried. Daniel Jamison married Judith Bomboy. Daniel was a well known businessman and lived for most of his life in the village of Centreville (aka Lime Ridge), Columbia County, PA, just a couple of miles South of Berwick, Pa. Daniel and Judith had 9 children, two of whom were Albion B. Jameson and Benjamin F. Jameson. Four or more of his children served in the Civil War. Daniel Jameson died in 1900 at Lime Ridge, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, and is burried on land he gifted as a cemetery to the Lime Ridge Methodist Church.
Benjamin F. Jameson/ Jamison - born in 1842 .  Lived his whole life in the Lime Ridge, Columbia County, PA area. Little is known about his wife, but she is believed to have been Mary C. Glasmoyer or Glassmeyer or Glasmer.  Benjamin enlisted in the 35th Regiment of the 6th Penna. Volunteers under his older brother Albion B. Jameson who became a Captain of his unit, Company A. (note: at times the unit is referred to as Co.A, 6th Regiment Pa. Reserves Infantry (35th Volunteers). Benjamin fought in every major engagement during the Civil War including New Market cross roads, Bull Run, South Mountain, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness Campaign, Antietam, and at Gettysburg.  Although his health suffered greatly from the war, he had many children, including Albert Brittain Lynn Jameson and eventually died in Shickshinny in 1926.
Albert B.L. Jamison - born 1885 in or near Shickshinny, PA.  Married Bertha Church.  Held a variety of jobs and worked for many years as a coal miner.  Later after being hauled out of the mines due to cave ins (on several occasions) he acquired black lung disease and took to painting houses. Albert and his wife Bertha Church had 2 children, Harold and Edna. Albert died in 1961 at Shickshinny, PA.
Harold C. Jamison - born in Berwick, Columbia County, PA in 1911.  His second wife was Ruth E. Duke of Berwick and they lived in Shickshinny, Pa until their divorce.  He had one son, Richard A. Jameson, by this marriage. Harold moved to Snohomish, WA in about 1951 and married Martha Harmon, by whom he had two children, Robert and Elizabeth.  Harold returned to Pennsylvania in his later years and died in Berwick in 2002. 

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Footnote: on Albion B. Jameson (son of Daniel Jamison, brother of Benjamin Jamison)

CAPTAIN A. B. JAMESON, civil service, Washington, D. C., was born in Schuylkill County, Penn., August 23, 1836, in the family of nine children born to Judith and Daniel JAMISON, [footnote: As spelled by Capt. Jameson's father; correct spelling, however, is Jameson.] eight of whom are living, four sons having given their services to the cause of the Union during the war of the Rebellion. The father removed with his family to Columbia County in 1839 and established the hotel known as "The Halfway House," between Bloomsburg and Berwick on the Susquehanna. This hotel was but short lived, however, to Mr. JAMISON, for, having connected himself with the Methodist Church in 1842, he abandoned the business. Our subject attended the public schools until he was sixteen years of age, and then left his home to battle for himself with the realities of life. Later he secured about two years'
schooling at Dickinson Seminary and the academy at New Columbus; then taught a district school one year. April 21, 1862, Mr. JAMESON enlisted in Company A, Sixth Pennsylvania Reserves; was commissioned first lieutenant September 21, 1862, and breveted captain United States Volunteers at the battle of the Wilderness. At the battle of Antietam he received a contused wound of the knee joint, on account of which disability he was appointed acting quartermaster of the regiment, in which capacity he served during the last year of his service. After serving the full term of his enlistment (three years), Capt. JAMESON left the army a cripple, and had, therefore, to accept a position in the civil service. He also commenced the study of medicine, in which he graduated from the University of Georgetown, D. C., Medical Department, March 5, 1867. Capt. JAMESON takes pride in the fact that he has assisted in the adjustment of the accounts of the interest on the public debt; redemption of Government securities; funding and refunding of national loans caused by the war of the Rebellion, involving millions on millions in amounts passed upon, requiring fidelity too the Government and honesty and care in the settlements; and it can be truly said of him, without adulation, that he has always held the confidence of those under whom and with whom he has served in any capacity. Reared in the Calvinistic faith by consistent orthodox parents, our subject has had engrafted on him Christianizing influences. In mature years, however, not being able to subscribe too the iron-bound creeds and dogmas as advanced by Calvin, he sought what he considered the more liberal, larger and broader faith, and became united with the Unitarian Church. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, Bloomsburg, pg. 345) For a Civil War record of Albion and his brother Benjamin F. Jamison, click here.

Horatio Gates Jameson

Horatio Gates Jameson (1778-1855) studied medicine under his father, Dr. David Jameson, and began practice in 1795. He settled in Baltimore ca. 1810, receiving his medical degree from the University of Maryland in 1813. Among other offices, Jameson served as surgeon at the Baltimore Hospital, 1814-1835, consulting physician, Board of Health, 1821-1835. He was a founder and president of Washington Medical College, Baltimore and served as Professor of Surgery 1827-35. He was the editor of Maryland Medical Recorder, 1829-1833 and author of Lectures on Fevers, 1817, American Domestic Medicine, 1817, Yellow Fever, 1824, and Treatise on Cholera, 1854.

Horatio Gates Jameson, M. D.
Historical Biography

Horatio Jameson was born in York in 1778, and married August 3, 1797, Catherine Shevell (Chevell), of Somerset, Penn., (where he then abode), and had issue: Cassandra, Elizabeth, Rush, Catherine, Alexander, Cobean, David Davis, and Horatio Gates. He seems to have sojourned, after his marriage, in Somerset, Wheeling, Adamstown, and Gettysburg, until about 1810, when he removed to Baltimore, where he established himself permanently in practice, founded and became president of the Washington Medical College, and at one time, Health Officer of the city. About 1830 Dr. Jameson with his wife and daughter, Elizabeth Gibson, made a voyage to Europe on one of the packets running from Baltimore to the ports of Germany, and visited several places on the continent, but sojourned longest at Copenhagen, Denmark; to and from the American representative at whose court he was accredited as a special bearer of dispatches by the government at Washington. While on his return from a trip to Tex!
as, (where he had purchased lands), the faculty of the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, composed of Drs. Gross, Drake, Rives and Rogers-all celebrities in their profession-tendered him its presidency; accepting which, he removed with his family from Baltimore in March 1836, and resumed practice there. On one or two of his journeys between Texas or the West and Baltimore, he was severely injured by the upsetting of a stagecoach on the mountains of West Virginia, and was unable to rejoin his family for months. His wife, Catherine (Shevell) Jameson, died in Baltimore, November 1, 1837; and he married in 1852, a lady of Baltimore, Hannah J.D. Ely, nee Fearson, (the widow of Judah Ely, Esq., with a son, Jesse Fearson Ely). Within the last year of his life, he left Baltimore and went to York, to spend his last days among the scenes of his childhood-so fondly remembered and graphically described by him in a Baltimore journal in 1842. But the hope and ambition of his life-to obt!
ain and restore to the family his patrimonial homestead and estate-he
never realized; and he died, unprocessed of its acres and domicile, while on a visit to the city of New York in July 1855-the same year in which the ancient homestead was destroyed by fire. His widow survived him nearly thirty years, and died in the city of Baltimore, August 19, 1884, at the ripe age of eighty years.
Dr. Jameson was celebrated for his surgical skill and knowledge, and also had a wide repute for his successful treatment of cholera-epidemic in Baltimore and Philadelphia, 1793-98 and 1832. He wrote several medical works, which were accepted as authority by the profession, and was an able and earnest advocate of the “non-contagion” theory. Like the great Dr. Rush, he belonged to the school of the immortal Sangrado of Gil Bas fame, whose theory of practice obtained even unto the days of the writer. The earliest recollection of the writer’s youth is that of a fine old English engraving, which hung over the mantel in his grandfather’s office. It represented Galen discovering a skeleton in a forest; and neither it, nor the lines engraved beneath, has ever been effaced from the writer’s memory. The latter are reproduced here, as a suggestive indication that the disciples of Galen, in those days, were devout men, fearing God:

Forbear, vain man, to launch with Reason’s eye
Into the vast depths of dark Immensity;
Nor think thy narrow but presumptuous mind,
The least idea of thy God can find;
Though crowding thoughts distract the laboring brain,
How can Finite INFINITE explain.

Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor

[From Medical Annals of Baltimore, by John N. Quinan]

JAMESON, HORATIO G., M. D., BORN IN Pennsylvania, 1778; University of Maryland 1813; Consulting Surgeon Baltimore City Hospital, 1819-35; Consulting Physician Board of Health, Baltimore, 1822-35; Professor of Surgery and Surgical Anatomy, Washington Medical University, 1827-35, and one its incorporators, 1827; Member American Medical Association, 1856; Professor of Surgery Cincinnati Medical College, 1835; member Philosophical Societies of Berlin, Moscow, etc.; editor Maryland Medical Recorder, 1829-32, and ----; died in New York, 1855.
[Gives subjects of Medical works, treatises, et cetera, of which he was the author, published from 1813 to 1856, included in which are two volumes--”American Domestic Medicine, 1817,” and “A Treatise on Cholera, 1854,” and treatise “On Yellow Fever, intended to prove the necessity of V. S. (Blood-letting) in that disease,” and “On the Non-Contagiousness of Yellow Fever,” (read before the Medical Section of the Literary Assembly, held in the city of Hamburg) 1830].
“Dr. H. G. Jameson was no doubt one of the ablest surgeons of his day. He took away, for the first time in the world, nearly the entire Upper Jaw (1830); in May, 1820, he ligated the External Iliac Artery; in 1823, he performed Tracheotomy, the first in Baltimore; in 1824, he excised the Cervix Uteri, (the first in Great Britain or America). He was the first in Baltimore to attempt Ovariotomy.” ---The Surgeons of Baltimore and their Achievements,” (Read before the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, at their meeting in honor of the Sesqui-Centennial of Baltimore, October 13, 1880, by Bernard B. Browne, M. D.). While physician to the Board of Health, Baltimore, he obtained vaccine virus by vaccinating a cow. ---See his report, 1831.”
1820, January, Dr. H. G. Jameson removes the upper maxillae, after trying the carotid. (The first operation of the kind on record).---Gross.
1821, August, Dr. Jameson (H. G.) ligates the external iliac artery for aneurism.
1823, October 20, Dr. Jameson (among the first in Maryland) performs Tracheotomy. He also attempts Ovariotomy, but fails (first attempt in Baltimore). He also (the first in Great Britain or America) excises the Neck of Uterus.
1826, August 25, Dr. Jameson successfully operates for stone.
1827, March 13, Washington College of Washington, Penn., authorizes the establishment of a Medical School in Baltimore. Faculty are H. G. Jameson, Surgery; Samuel K. Jennings, Materia Medica and Therapeutics; William W. Handy, Obstetrics and Diseases of Women; James H. Miller, Practice; Samuel Annan, Anatomy and Physiology; John W. Vethake, Chemistry. They organize and lecture on Holliday Street, opposite the old City Hall.
1831, March 7, Dr. H. G. Jameson secures virus by vaccinating a cow.
1855, Dr. Horatio Gates Jameson ob. At 77 (in New York)

Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor

Medical History

The first physician in York, of whom we have any records, was Dr. David Jameson. He came from Scotland, where he was born and received his medical education, and located in York to practice his profession among the first inhabitants of the town. During the French and Indian wars in 1756, he offered his services in defense of the colonies, and was commissioned a captain, and left his profession to share the dangers on the frontier. He was wounded in an engagement with the Indians near Fort Lyttleton, at Sideling Hill, on the road from Carlisle to Pittsburg, and was left for dead on the field. He afterward discharged the duties of brigade major and lieutenant colonel.
During the Revolutionary he held the position of colonel. Notwithstanding his position in battle was that of a warrior, he also attended to the duties of surgeon, and at the battle of Kitanning, he dressed the wound of Gen. Armstrong, who was shot in the shoulder. He was a man of some wealth in those days and contributed liberally of his means to support of his country. He was the father of Dr. Horatio Gates Jameson, who was born in York in 1778, and succeeded his father in the practice of medicine at York, for a short time, and afterward removed to Baltimore, where he established himself permanently in practice, founded and became president of the Washington Medical College, and at one time health officer of the city. Dr. Jameson was celebrated for his surgical skill and knowledge, and also had a wide reputation for his successful treatment of cholera epidemic in Baltimore and Philadelphia, (1793-98) and 1832. In 1835 he accepted the presidency of the Ohio Medical Coll!
ege, and held the position until 1836, when he resigned and removed to Baltimore. In 1854 he again returned to York, to spend his last days among the scenes of his childhood. He died while on a visit to New York City, to investigate cholera, which was raging in the city at the time, in July 1855.
While Dr. Jameson resided at Baltimore his brother, Dr. Thomas Jameson, practiced medicine in York, and in all important cases, especially those requiring surgical skill, Prof. Jameson was called from Baltimore in consultation. In 1850 he performed the first operation for Ovariotomy attempted in York County on Mrs. Hoke, of Paradise now Jackson Township. The lady died during the operation. Dr. Jameson was a member of the American Medical Association; member of the philosophical societies of Berlin, Moscow, etc., and editor of the Maryland Medical Record, 1829-32. He was also the author of several medical works. Among these were two volumes on “American Domestic Medicine,” 1817. “A Treatise on Cholera,” 1856, and “A Treatise on Yellow Fever, intended to prove the necessity of blood letting in that disease,” and “the non contagiousness of yellow fever.”
Dr. H. G. Jameson, no doubt one of the ablest surgeons of his day. He took away for the first time in the world nearly the entire upper jaw (1830); in May 1820, he ligated the external iliac artery; in 1823, he performed tracheotomy, the first in Baltimore; in 1824 he excised the cervix uteri (the first in Great Britain or America). He was the first in Baltimore to attempt Ovariotomy. In 1831, while physician to the board of health, he obtained vaccine virus by vaccinating a cow. He was the preceptor of Profs. Smith and Gross, and was on the most intimate terms with these great surgeons. As he was born, raised and died while his domicile was in York County, practiced his profession here for some time, and claimed York as his home, we claim especially his history as part of the medical history of York County, and therefore feel justified in giving this extended notice of perhaps the most eminent man York County has yet produced.
Dr. Thomas Jameson, son of Dr. David Jameson and brother to Prof. Jameson, practiced medicine in York until 1838, when he died while on a visit to his brother, Dr. H. G. Jameson, in Baltimore. Dr. Thomas Jameson resided in Paradise, now Jackson Township, at a place known as Spangler’s tavern on the Gettysburg turnpike, about nine miles from York, from 1832 to 1837. He had an extensive practice among the country people, and was elected coroner in 1808, and held that office until 1818. He was also elected sheriff in October 1821, and held office until 1824, and was more extensively known throughout York County in his time than any physician before, or after him.
Dr. Thomas Jameson was excessively fond of sport, and was one of the greatest cockfight in the county.
His second wife was a widow named McClellan with two children, one named Henry M. McClellan, afterward the well known Dr. Henry M. McClellan, who read medicine with step father, Dr. Thomas Jameson, and upon the death of Dr, Thomas Jameson in 1838, he acquired the greater part of his practice, and retained it and the confidence of the people, until he died August 7, 1869, aged sixty years.

Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor

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Horatio Gates Jameson, M. D. of York County, PA Historical Biography <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/JAMESON/2005-04/1113029452>  by Hitchheick@aol.com 

York  Daily Record 1700-1749  http://www.ydr.com/ntbf/ci_4336784
- Circa 1745: Future York County
Famous family gets early fame

Dr. David Jameson, a 30-year-old physician, opens a medical practice in York. But the call of war draws him into service. He sustains serious wounds in the French and Indian War, and the 61-year-old marches with county troops in the Revolutionary War.
His son, Horatio Gates Jameson, eclipses his father in fame as a physician. He studies medicine under his father, practices medicine at age 17 in Somerset County, and moves to Baltimore, where he earns a medical degree at age 35. He founded Washington Medical School in his new home and published accounts of several unusual and pioneering operations in the early 19th century.
John Gibson, Horatio Jameson's grandson, eclipses his forebear in local prominence. Gibson served as county judge in the 1880s and compiled an extensive county history in use today.

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CHRISTOPHER LAUMAN was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and died in New York. He was 1st Lieutenant in the 3d Battalion of Association of York County in December, 1776, and was at Trenton and Princeton. He commanded the 4th Company of the 3d Battalion, Col. David Jameson's Regiment, in 1778.
(Cert. of Pa. State Librarian of October, 1890.)

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In the French and Indian War of the 1750's, when Benjamin Franklin saw the imminent dangers on the American frontier after British General Braddock's 1755 defeat near present-day Pittsburgh, Franklin over much legislative resistance pushed through the Pennsylvania Colonial legislature funds to support the building and arming of a line of frontier forts to defend Pennsylvania against the French and Indians.

Ben Franklin commanded the Philadelphia militia as its Colonel Commander in this first armed effort to defend against the French and their Indian allies.

Ft. McCord was built by William McCord and his brothers in 1756 as part of this line of frontier Pennsylvania forts. It is well-known and memorialized in Pennsylvania history where 26 people lost their lives or were captured on April 1, 1756 in an attack by the Indians backed by the French. Its history is a poignant one. On April 2, 1756, Captain David Jameson and his company of men along with others attempted to retaliate against the Indians and free the captives at Sideling Hill not far from the Fort. Captain David Jameson, although left for dead survived the fierce battle and crawled back to Ft. Littleton after being shot through the chest. Later the Captain/Doctor credited his dog (Rover) with having saved him by returning to the scene of the battle and helping him to return to Fort Littleton with his severe injuries.

Female members of the William McCord family who had been captured at Ft. McCord on April 1, 1756 were recaptured in a daring rescue in September 1756 at Kittanning, near present-day Pittsburgh.

They were rescued by frontier militia rangers headed by the famous Colonel John Armstrong, who later became one of Pennsylvania's two Major Generals in the American Revolution. Colonel Armstrong's brother had been murdered by the Indians he found at Kittanning.

For the daring rescue of these prisoners at Kittanning, the Penn family and the Colonial government of Pennsylvania struck not one but two medals in Colonel John Armstrong's honor.

Eearly Map - 1750-1775 showing Ft. Littleton

Marker Name:		Fort McCord - PLAQUE
County:		Franklin ? (near Chambersburg, PA)
Date Dedicated:		1914/10
Marker Type:		Plaque
Location:		~2.5 mi. NE of Edenville up SR 4008 to Rumler Rd., ~.5 mi. south to barn, plaque within fence on left
Category:		Early Settlement, French & Indian War, Forts, Military, Native American
		Marker Text: The site of Fort McCord where twenty seven pioneer settlers men women and children were massacred by indian savages or carried into captivity April 1st, 1756. Was a few rods south east of this spot. In the list of victims were Mary McCord, Mrs. John Thorn and babe, Mrs. Anne McCord wife of John McCord and two daughters, Martha Thorn a young mother with unborn babe, and a young girl...

See The Battle of Sideling Hill

This website is intended to collect all pertinent information regarding this battle in a single source.  The purpose is to answer as many unanswered questions as possible with the goal that the Battle of Sideling Hill will no longer be forgotten.  

This should lead to an appropriate marker being placed at the battle site and then, an archaeological study of the site to verify the accuracy of these findings.

Input on how an archaeological study can be initiated will also be greatly appreciated.  A review of the Pennsylvania Government web site reveals a segment regarding such state sponsored studies.  It is not up to date, but none of the studies shown would seem to be nearly as important as Sideling Hill.

  If you have pertinent information that should be included, please feel free to send it via email to: pamrw@msn.com

Excerpts:

"The Battle at Sideling Hill took place on April 4th, 1756, less than a mile north of Maddensville, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.  The entire sequence of events was actually a series of three battles beginning on April 1st.

The Beginning -

The roots of the battle however began three years earlier.  In 1753 William McCord obtained a land grant from the Penn’s, the Proprietors of Pennsylvania, on the western frontier of what is now Franklin County.  This land and the large surrounding area had been a favorite hunting ground for the Delaware Indians for centuries.  As a result, they had built temporary shelters in the area for use during their hunting trips.

McCord reportedly told them they were no longer welcome and they should stop roaming the territory near his home.  The Delaware’s assured him they would not cause him or his neighbors any problems, and ignored his warning. McCord eventually proceeded to burn their cabins.  Some were rebuilt and were burned again.  The Indians withdrew from the area but they did not forget.

As early as 1754, the Ohio Delawares had allied with the French in the French and Indian War and were making regular incursions into the frontier areas, frequently killing and capturing the settlers there.  Late in 1755, uder the leadership of Benjamin Franklin, the Pennsylvania government overcame the resistance of the Quaker legislature and began building a series of frontier forts for defense against these raids.  Fort Littleton which will play a significant roll in the battle was one of these.  Many families followed suite and built private forts to protect themselves and their neighbors.  In early 1756, William McCord and his brother converted William's home into one of these stockades.

The First Battle -

Sometime in late March of 1756, a band of approximately 100 Delaware warriors left their village of Kittanning in Western Pennsylvania on the Allegheny River to raid the frontier settlements to the east.  This tribe had allied themselves with the French who provided them with supplies and arms and ammunition.  This band was led by their two most famous warrior chiefs, Shingas and Captain Jacob.  It is said that the target of these raids was always determined in advance and one of the targets of this expedition was to be a matter of vengeance against William McCord’s earlier mistreatment of the Delawares.

At some point in their march they divided into two equal groups which proceeded separately.  This probably happened in the area where the Little Aughwick and Sideling Hill Creeks converge to form the Aughwick Creek.  The plan called for the two groups to rendezvous at this same location after the completion of their bloody mischief for their return to Kittanning.

Sometime early on Thursday, April 1st the band lead by Shingas arrived at McCord’s Fort.  They were well aware of the settler's practices; knowing that families spent the nights inside the stockade but during the day during the growing season, most, if not all of the men left to tend to their fields.  This day, all but one of the farmers had left by mid-day.  Just after noon, Shingas launched the attack. 

Jean Lowry was at the Fort this day and much of the rest of the story comes from her journal.   A younger sister of William McCord, she and her five of her six children were among the captives taken.  She was pregnant, and with great difficulty she marched with the Indians and other captives back to Kittanning.  The common practice of these Indians was to adopt the captured children into the tribe and to sell the adults as prisoners of war to the French and Canadians which amounted to white slavery.  Lowry spent six weeks as a prisoner of the Delawares before being presented as a gift to the French commander of Fort Machault.   Her child was delivered on July 4th, at Fort MacHault but died four days later.  She worked as a servant for the commander for 14 months, at which time he sent her to Montreal to serve in the same capacity for his wife.  This occurred in July of 1757.  She continued as a servant there until she was eventually exchanged for French prisoners in September 1758.   She ultimately returned to Philadelphia via Quebec and England, in April of 1759, almost exactly three years after her capture.  Her journal was published in 1760 in Philadelphia.

McCord’s Fort was the fortified home of William McCord.  Like most of these stockades it was 2 stories with loopholes through which to fire at attackers.  At the time of the attack there were 27 people gathered at the Fort.  Lowry’s husband, John, was the only adult male present and was on the ground floor with 2 of their children.  She was on the upper level with the other three children.  John killed one of the Indians before he was shot and killed.

Soon after the attack began, the Indians began using flaming arrows to set the structure ablaze which quickly achieved that purpose.  Lowry notes she was “big with child” and thus deeply concerned about her fate as she believed it was the Indian practice to not take women in that condition as prisoners, but rather to simply kill them.  She eventually lowered herself and the three children out one of the upper windows into captivity.  To her surprise and relief, she was taken captive.

All of the 27 settlers present were either killed or captured.

The Chase -

The Delawares then organized themselves and their prisoners for the return to their territory to the west.  The speed of their travel was inhibited by the captives which included children as young as two, two pregnant women and the practice of binding some of the captives.

As word of the attack spread across the valley, it reached Alexander Culbertson who was the captain of a local Militia unit.  He then spread the word that he was organizing his unit along with any other settlers that wished to join them to pursue the Delaware’s and rescue the captives.

Given the speed of travel in the 18th century, the spread of the news of the attack and then the delivery of Captain Culbertson’s order and the gathering of the troops, lasted well into the evening.  Some of them came from as far away as Shippensburg which was nineteen miles from McCord’s Fort.  At dawn the following day, the 31 men who had gathered began their trek through the wilderness on the trail of the Indian party and their captives.

Lowry reports she marched three days through the wilderness, up one mountain and down, then through the mire of the valleys in between and then up and down the next mountain.

Captain Culbertson followed their trail for two days.  When they came near Fort Littleton he determined to detour from his tracking and proceed to the Fort to solicit assistance in the form of more troops.  Captain Hance Hamilton was in command of the Fort.  He assigned Ensign Dr. David Jameson and 18 men to accompany Culbertson.

The troop, now numbering 50 men, started north following the Little Aughwick Creek hoping to reestablish contact with the trail of the Delawares.

The Second Battle -

Unbeknownst to Culbertson, the band he was tracking had that day established a camp at the confluence of Little Aughwick Creek and Sideling Hill Creek to await their rendezvous with Captain Jacob's band.  On Saturday evening, April 3rd, his forward scouts discovered the fires of that camp.  Following the standard military practice of the day, indeed of the millennium, he delayed his attack until dawn of the following day.  The delay undoubtedly cost him his life and that of many of his troops.

At sunrise they mounted their attack.  It was quickly a rout.  The surprised Delaware’s hastily retreated to the surrounding wilderness abandoning their prisoners and many of their weapons.

Lowry reported, “At the first attack only one Indian was killed and another wounded, upon which they all fled and were soon hid among the laurel, (a great deal of it growing in the place) our people then came up and untied me, and removed us to a rising ground at a little distance:  No expressions can sufficiently show my joy when instead of savage Indians I found myself in the midst of friends and neighbors, who had assembled so quickly and pursued so diligently for our rescue.”

The Third Battle -

Unfortunately, her joy was very short-lived.  The timing of the rendezvous of Shingas and Captain Jacob could not have been more perfect for the Indians or any worse for Culbertson and his men.  While they were busy moving, untying, and comforting their newly freed neighbors, Captain Jacob and his warriors arrived on the scene.  In their haste to free and comfort the captives, Culbertson’s men had failed to secure the weapons left on the field when the Shingas' Indians fled.

With the arrival of their reinforcements, the Delawares were able to recover their weapons and surround the settlers.  Now outnumbering Culbertson’s troops by two to one, they immediately initiated a new attack.  This battle lasted over two hours.  The Militia commonly carried twenty-four charges of powder and ball and when that was exhausted they were forced to flea.  Five of the captives were also able to escape.

Those who did escape made their way back to either Fort Littleton or McDowell's Mill; most of those traveling to Fort Littleton arrived there before nightfall.  The Fort’s only doctor, Ensign Jameson had been left for dead on the battlefield so Captain Hamilton sent an express at 8:00 p.m. that evening, urgently soliciting medical help for the wounded and assistance with a burial party for the dead.

Twenty of the rescue party had been killed and another twelve wounded.  This was the highest casualty rate of any Pennsylvania battle during this war.  The dead included Captain Culbertson.  While Ensign Jameson had been left for dead, he revived and although severely wounded, made his way alone to Fort Littleton two days later.  It was initially reported that Captain Jacob had been killed and his scalp taken, but his prompt return to the war proved this untrue.

The Aftermath –

Because of the controlling influence of the Quakers on the Pennsylvania Government, it had been far too negligent in implementing the military actions necessary to defend its frontiers from the French supported and encouraged Indians. 

The importance of the Battle of Sideling Hill was that it finally convinced the people and the government that this was a real war, and not simply a frustrating series of Indian incursions on the frontier. 

Within a week of the government in Philadelphia learning of the Sideling Hill tragedy, it officially declared war on the “Enemy Indians;” established a bounty for the scalps of said Indians; and passed a strong new law regarding the organization and behavior of the Province Militia.  Continued similar aggressive activity by the government throughout May and June, made it clear that the battle had changed Pennsylvania from its passive attitude towards self defense to a posture of active and aggressive measures to defend the frontier and defeat the French and their Indian allies. 

Because of its effect on the people and government of Pennsylvania, and the ultimate influence on the outcome of the war, the importance of the Battle of Sideling Hill cannot be over estimated."

Further from the website regarding the exact location of the battle:

The entry below was found on the Susquehanna River Basin Commission website. 

"Identification - Sidling Hill Battlefield 

Tribes - Delaware and Shawnee

On April 1, 1756, Shingas, leading a party of Delaware and Shawnee from Kittanning, attacked and burned Fort McCord blockhouse at Yankee Gap in Kittatinny Mountain.  All twenty-seven settlers in the blockhouse were killed or captured.  After destroying the Fort, the attackers were pursued by a party of fifty-one settlers and soldiers. The next day they overtook the reinforced Indians (about 100) and captives at the forks of Sidling Hill and Little Aughwick Creeks near Maddensville, PA.  After a two hour battle, the Indians surrounded and defeated the colonists.  All except nineteen colonists were either killed or wounded.”

http://www.srbc.net/pubinfo/docs/IndianNamesDataChart.PDF

The above link is the only Internet entry that identified what is currently the accepted location of the battle.  It was not found early on because of the misspelling of the word Sideling – one of the shortcomings of Google research.  It is the only place on the web that suggested a very precise location and one close enough to Fort Littleton.

This search for the location of the Battle of Sideling Hill has been off and on for over a decade with absolutely no success.

The ultimate demonstration that the Battle has been forgotten was that during the last year, most of the Historical Societies in the area have been contacted along with several local historians that they recommended.  It is truly remarkable that most of them had never even heard of the Battle, let alone had any idea of its location.

The lone exception was the Conococheague Institute which was well aware of the battle and has expressed an interest in firmly establishing the location.

Of the hundreds of hits on the Internet regarding the battle, very few site a location other than Sideling Hill, and those that do universally place it much further south and west of the actual location.  Raystown (now Bedford,) Ray’s Hill (now Breezewood,) and Bloody Run (now Everett) were mentioned most frequently.  These locations were usually the result of confusing the Sideling Hill Battle with other incidents that took place in these locations.  The important part that Fort Littleton played in the scenario ruled out all of these locations. 

During the mid 1990’s a local area historian initiated a project to locate the battle site.  Hayes Eschenmann studied the question at length and in 1997 completed his monograph (as yet unpublished,) “The Battle of Sideling Hill – April 2nd, 1756.”  His conclusion exactly matches that found on the above website. 

No evidence was found anywhere that is more convincing than Eschenmann’s location.  The fact that it is precisely the same as the only reasonable site offered on the Internet means that it will be accepted, with the hope that sometime in the near future archeology studies can firmly answer the question.

Eschenmann visited the site many times and his close associate Joe Luciano accompanied him on several of the trips.  On one of these occasions Mr. Luciano recovered the two musket balls shown above.  He also organized a reenactment of the battle in 1999.  An archived newspaper report of this event led to the discovery of Eschenmann’s monograph and his pinpointing the site.

After identifying the battle site, he attempted to locate the burial sites of the soldiers that were killed.  On a nearby hill he identified nineteen graves and concluded this was the burial site.

Eschenmann utilized the dowsing process to identify these graves.  A substantial amount of research on the effectiveness of the dowsing process reveals that the scientific/archeological community considers it a farce and completely worthless as a means of identifying unmarked graves.  However the same research reveals as many or more articles where the process is claimed to have worked perfectly.  No conclusion will be made here regarding this argument, other than to stress the importance of initiating archeological work on the site.

This research however does suggest a different interpretation of these two sites.  As described in the opening narrative there is good evidence that there were actually two battles and perhaps Eschenmann’s battle site is the location of the first battle, and the second battle took place on his burial site.

Lowry’s description of the two battles and her rescue in between was quoted in the narrative and repeated here, “At the first attack only one Indian was killed and another wounded, upon which they all fled and were soon hid among the laurel, (a great deal of it growing in the place) our people then came up and untied me, and removed us to a rising ground at a little distance:  No expressions can sufficiently show my joy when instead of savage Indians I found myself in the midst of friends and neighbors, who had assembled so quickly and pursued so diligently for our rescue.”

The South Carolina Gazette’s published a letter dated April 12th, eight days after the battle and four years before Lowry’s description which is virtually identical to Lowry’s - 

“In our last we gave a short account of an engagement between some of our men and the Indians on our frontiers, since which we have the following account in a letter from Shippensburg, dated April 12. The morning after McCord's fort was taken, 31 of our people went in pursuit of the enemy, under the command of Capt. Culbertson, who was joined at Fort Littleton by Ensign Jemison, with 19 men, making in all 50 men. On Saturday evening they came in sight of the enemy's fire, and about break of day on Sunday morning they attacked the enemy at their fire, who immediately fled. Some of the captives then made their escape, and Mary McCord was shot by the fire of our men. Our people then came up and loosed the captives, and retired to the top of a hill, where the enemy returned and attacked them. Our men fought bravely for near 2 hours, but the enemy being reinforced by a fresh party, they surrounded our people and killed many, so that they found it necessary to break free and make their escape, in doing which we lost several men. The enemy then recovered some of their prisoners again, but 5 made their escape and got to Fort Littleton. By the best account we can get we killed 15 of the enemy, among which they are confident Capt. Jacobs is one. Capt. Culbertson was killed, with 18 others, and 13 wounded, one of which is since dead.”

It is interesting that the unknown author of the letter is said to be from Shippensburg.  Eschenmann notes that seven of the survivors of the battle were from Shippensburg. (1)

The opening quotation on this page from the SRBC website includes a reference to Sipe’s “The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania.”  This book was checked and it did not contain the location sited, or any other location.  It was then noted that the reference quoted by SRBC was the second edition.  Then it was discovered that the second edition is 200 pages longer and contains a supplement with additional data on many of the incidents described in the first edition.

Thus far, a copy of the second edition has not been found locally.  When it is, hopefully this paragraph can be deleted. -- A copy of the second edition was procured and the there is not additional information on the location.  Research as to the source of the SRBC data has begun.

The conclusion here - again – there must be an archeological dig at this site to verify (or not) the location of the battle.  The investigation could go even further in that there are at least five references on the Internet to ancestors killed at Sideling Hill on family genealogy websites.  The research could go beyond simply identifying graves to identifying individual soldiers via DNA testing.

(Robinson – McCord – Chambers –  Culbertson – Thorn) 

Officers of the Pennsylvania Regiment–1759

First Battalion
Colonel–John Armstrong
Lieut Colonel–Thomas Lloyd
Major–Jacob Orndt
Second Battalion
Colonel–James Burd
Lieut Colonel–Joseph Shippen
Major–David Jameson; to have a Brevet dated Apr 24, 1759
Third Battalion
Colonel–Hugh Mercer, Apr 23, 1759
Lieut Colonel–Patrick Work, Apr 24, 1759
Major–Edwaed Ward, Apr 26, 1759

Ref: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/1pa/paarchivesseries/series2/vol2/pass2-14.html

Note by RAJ: Armstrong and Mercer became famous Generals during the later Revoluntionary war with the latter famously fighting to the death at the Battle of Princeton. David Jameson became a Colonel during the Revolutionary war and led a marching infantry unit at the age of 61 years.

PROVINCIAL OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS, 1757-1764
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NAMES OF THE OFFICERS IN THE PAY OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA, WITH THE DATES OF THEIR COMMISSIONS, THEIR COMPANIES AND WHERE POSTED
DECEMBER 1757

See  http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/1pa/paarchivesseries/series2/vol2/pass2-14.html for numerous listings of David Jamison

Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families
by Lewis R. Culbertson; Zanesville: Courier Company, 1923", p. 95-96.

Fourth Generation

"(VI.) Col. Robert Culbertson of Hopewell Twp., Cumberland Co., Pa., moved to Columbus O., in 1801. Mar. first ______, mar. second Mrs. Elizabeth (Davis) Irwin. (Irwin was her second husband; her first husband was David Jamison, son of Col. David Jamison, M.D. an officer of French and Indian War and the Revolution.)

Issue (Most of These by First Wife):
1. Andrew, d. Apr., 1826. Lived at Columbus, O.
2. James, Lived at Columbus, O.
3. Rebecca (Mrs. Moore).
4. Jane (Mrs. Park).
5. Agnes (Mrs. Park).
6. Keziah (Mrs. Brotherton).
7. Martha (Mrs. Brotherton).
8. Margaret (Mrs. Keller).
9. _______ (Mrs. Breckenridge).
10. Sarah (Mrs. David Jamison)

Note:From Jameson Genealogy and Will of Robert Culbertson.

Fifth Generation

(1) Andrew Culbertson is given Hopewell Tp., Cumb. Co., Pa. Census 1790, self and wife, one son under 16, and one daughter. Andrew first appears as a taxable in Hopewell Tp., Cumb. Co., in 1788. He was of age before that. He moved with his father to Columbus, Ohio, in 1801. Died intestate at Columbus, O., in 1826 and Mr. Deshler (D.W.) of the wealthy Deshler family, was appointed administrator. His children are not given in settlement of his estate but widow Esther is given. In the old Genealogy (Culbertson) the names of the children were taken from the Jameson Genealogy, but the writer of this work fails to mention the son Robert. It was through the Pension office records and correspondence with descendants in Ills. that I was able to connect Robert their ancestor, with the War of 1812 soldier. In pension application he says "Born 1790, drafted into Ohio Militia, Capt. Geo. Gibson's Co., at Columbus, Ohio, Oct., 1814."
Residence at time of application Washington, Tazewell Co., Ills. Descendants say "Robert was born at Columbus, O. Owned land on Scioto [River] at Columbus, Ohio. Had a brother Andrew, who died young. Had a sister who married a Shannon. Grandmother died young and grandfather did not remarry. He was in the War of 1812. He moved to Washington, Tazewell Co., Ills. He and his sons owned land there. He afterwards moved to Gilman, Ills. and lived with his son Joseph and died there about 1870." Records show that Andrew (1) married his cousin Esther Culbertson, daughter of Robert Culbertson, son of Irish Samuel of Pa. "Row." (priv. 1776-7 in Revolution, i.e. Robert.) In his est. inventory filed 1826, only $150 of pers. property and on realty, hence names of heirs not given save in surety of Esther as admn'x.

Issue:
11. Alexander, d. Columbus, O.
12. Elizabeth, d. (Mrs. Andrew Dill), Columbus, O.
13. Isabella, d. (Mrs. John Emmick), Columbus, O.
14. Rebecca, d. (Mrs. Nathaniel W. Smith), Columbus, O.
15. Mary, d. (Mrs. Wm. W. Shannon), Columbus, O.
16. Robert, d. about 1870. Gilman, Ills.

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 498-501

HON. HENRY J. MYERS is a native of Adams County.  Although now engaged in the
business of forwarding and commission merchant and dealer in produce, he was
formerly an extensive farmer, with large merchant mill on Conewago Creek, Tyrone
Township, near New Chester, at which occupation he was engaged until he removed
with his family to New Oxford, April 1, 1878.

NICHOLAS MYERS, wife and sons migrated from Amsterdam, Holland, in 1753, and
located in Lancaster County, Penn.; ten years later Nicholas bought 900 acres of
land in Adams County and moved to the tract, building near Round Hill, in the
vicinity of York Sulphur Springs.  Their children were John, Jacob, David,
William, Ludwick, Nicholas, Jr., Elizabeth, Susan, Margaret J. and Mary.  John,
the eldest, was born in Amsterdam, married Miss Sherman, of York county, and had
issue.  Jacob, our subject’s grandsire, was born in 1760, married Hannah Smith,
and in 1796 removed to Canowago Mills, and later to New Chester.  Their children
were John, Philip, Henry and Elizabeth.  The father lived to be eighty-five and
the mother seventy-five years of age, and their remains were interred in the
Bermudian Cemetery.  David married Mary Sultzbach, of York County, and to them
three daughters and one son were born.  Margaret married Peter Binder, and
became the mother of four sons and one daughter.  Elizabeth, daughter of David
Myers, married James Jameson, grandsire of Henry J. Myers, and died October 14,
1805, aged twenty-five years.  They resided a number of years at East Berlin,
and were buried at Abbottstown.  William Myers married Miss Erb, of Frederick,
Md., and died in Virginia.  They had issue whose names are unknown.  Ludwick
married a sister of the above lady and had issue.  His second wife was a Miss
Dull, living near Abbotstown, and they were the parents of eighteen children. 
Ludwick was seventy-nine years of age at his death, and was interred at the
Bermudian Church.  Nicholas, Jr., married a Miss Weaver, and had issue.  His
second wife was a Miss Chronister; the two bore him twenty-six children, all of
whom reached an advanced age except two.  Philip wedded Mary Heikes, and to
their union were born five sons and one daughter.  The parents were interred at
the Bermudian Church.  Peter also married a Miss Erb, who bore him three sons
and two daughters.  Elizabeth married Michael Miller; they had issue whose names
are unknown.  Susan wedded Andrew Albert, and their issue was Jacob and Anna. 
They resided near Dillsburg.  Margaret married Col. Anthony Kimmel, of Frederick
County, Md., who was elected State senator of that district, and to this
marriage one son, Anthony, was born.  Mary married a Mr. Weaver, of York County,
and had sons and daughters, whose names are unknown.  John, the eldest son of
Jacob Myers, was born in 1783, and married Eva Myers, who became the mother of
five sons and three daughters.  After her death John married the widow of Adam
Myers, who died April 11, 1872, aged eighty-nine years.  Philip was born in
November, 1788, and married Elizabeth Smyser, who bore him five sons and five
daughters.  After her death he married Annie Hersh.  His death occurred August
5, 1881, at the age of ninety-three years.  Elizabeth, only daughter of Jacob
Myers, married Peter Myers, and their issue was two sons and three daughters. 
The parents lived and died near Round Hill; she at eighty-three and he at
seventy-nine years of age.  Henry, youngest son of Jacob Myers, was born April
1, 1791, on lands located by his grandsire, Nicholas, Sr.  His parents later
moved to Conewago Mills.  At the age of twenty-one years he married Nancy
Jameson (their children are mentioned in note of David Jameson).  In 1842, when
the Whigs had a majority of 700 in Adams County, Henry was elected a member of
the Legislature by the Democracy.  He died at New Chester, this county, February
29, 1868, aged seventy-seven years.  For the following maternal history of our
subject the writer is indebted to Gen. Horatio Gates Gibson.  It embraces five
generations.  David Jameson, a graduate of the Medical University of Edinburgh,
Scotland, immigrated to America about 1740, stopping first at Charleston, S. C.,
and finally settling in York County, Penn.  He was commissioned first as
captain, then as brigade-major and lastly as lieutenant-colonel of the
Provincial forces of Pennsylvania, and also held a commission as colonel of
militia of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary war.  He also held civic
offices by executive appointment in the county of York in 1764 and 1777.  He
practiced his profession many years in York.  His wife, nee Elizabeth Davis,
bore him a family of five children:  Thomas, James, Horatio G., Cassandra and
Emily.  Thomas was a physician of York until 1838; he served as coroner from
1808 to 1818, with the exception of two years, and as sheriff from 1821 to 1824. 
His first wife was Miss Hahn, of York, whose children were Thomas, Catherine,
Charlotte and Margaret.  His second wife was Mrs. McClellan, with two children,
and she bore him one son, Charles.  Catharine P., daughter of Thomas Jameson,
married Daniel P. Weiser, of York, and had issue - Gates J., David, Oliver P.
and James.  Charlotte, the daughter of Thomas Jameson, married Adam J.
Glossbrenner, formerly member of Congress from the York, Adams and Cumberland
District, and had issue - Emily, Jameson C., Mary and Ivan.  Margaret, daughter
of Thomas Jameson, died unmarried.  Charles, son of Thomas, became a Methodist
minister and located in or near New York.  Oliver P., son of Daniel P. and
Catherine J. Weiser, married and had issue - Emily, Grace, Oliver and James
(latter deceased).  Emily and Mary, daughters of Adam J. and Charlotte J.
Glossbrenner reside in Philadelphia (unmarried).  Jameson C., son of Adam
Glossbrenner, died young.  He was a page in the House of Representatives at the
time his father was sergeant-at-arms of that body.  Ivan, son of Adam J.
Glossbrenner, married Annie Hantz, of York, where they now reside, their issue
being Lottie L., Adam J., Emily M. and Magdalena. 

 

HORATIO GATES JAMESON was born in 1778, and August 3, 1797, was married to
Catharine Shevell, of Somerset, Penn.  They resided at villages in Pennsylvania,
the last place being Gettysburg, until 1810, when a permanent location was made
at Baltimore, where he founded and became president of the Washington Medical
College.  Their children were Cassandra, Elizabeth, Rush, Catharine, Alexander
C., David D. and Horatio G.  David D., a physician of Chambersburg, Penn., died
in 1832, without issue.  His brothers Alexander C. and Rush were also
physicians, and died without heirs, the latter in 1837, while in military
service.  Horatio G., Jr. (son of Horatio Gates Jameson), was born in 1815, and
in 1836 graduated at the Ohio Medical College.  In 1841 he married Sarah
McCulloch, daughter of Mary (Pannell) and William Porter of Baltimore, Md.,
whose brothers, David R. and George B. Porter, were governors of Pennsylvania
and Michigan, respectively, and James M. was secretary of war under President
Tyler.  The Doctor and wife left no heirs, and died, within a few weeks of each
other, at their home at Mount Washington.  Cassandra Jameson was born in 1798 in
Somerset, Penn., and married the Rev. William James Gibson in Baltimore in 1832,
and had issue-Catharine, Cassandra, William and Robert; of whom Catharine only
survives.  Cassandra Jameson Gibson died in 186-, and the Rev. Dr. Gibson
married Elizabeth Murray in 187-, and had issue - Robert and William. 
Catherine, daughter of Rev. J. W. Gibson, of Philadelphia, became the wife of
George R. Maze, a merchant of Chicago; Cassandra and Robert died without issue. 
Elizabeth Jameson was born in Wheeling W. Va., February 20, 1801, and married
the Rev. John Gibson, September 27, 1821, and had issue - Margaretta Rebecca
Mitchell, William, Horatio Gates Jameson, John and Robert.  Elizabeth Jameson
Gibson died in York, November 9, 1855.  William Gibson was born in Baltimore May
26, 1825.  As a protégé of Capt. Isaac McKeever, he made a cruise of three years
in the Pacific, 1837-40.  February 11, 1841, he was appointed by President Van
Buren a midshipman, and rose to the grade of commander on the active list of the
navy - which rank he now holds.  He married at New Orleans, December 26, 1868,
Mary Meade Addison, of Washington - a niece of Rear-Admiral Sands.  Horatio
Gates Gibson was born in Baltimore May 22, 1827, and is now colonel of the Third
United States Artillery.  He was appointed cadet at West Point March 8, 1843, by
John C. Spencer, Secretary of War, and from that institution his diploma was
received in 1847.  March 16, 1863, he was married to Harriet L., daughter of
Mary H. and Benjamin Walker of St. Louis, and to them were born Annie, in St.
Louis; Horatio G. J., in Louisville, Ky., and Catherine F., in Fort Preble. 
Margaretta R. M., in 1844, married Hiram Schissler, of Frederick, Maryland, and
to them were born Catherine C., Annie M., Horatio G., William and John.  The
mother died in 1879 and the father in 1882.  Catherine S., daughter of Hiram
Schissler, was born in Williamsburg, Penn., in 1847, and in 1872 was married to
Hon. F. J. Nelson, of Frederick.  Annie M., her sister, married Hon. James H.
Hopkins, of Pittsburg, Penn., late member of Congress from that city, and to
them were born William F., Kate and James H.  John Gibson was born in Baltimore
April 17, 1829.  He studied law with C. F. Mayer, Esq., and Hon. Robert J.
Fisher, and in 1849 was admitted to the bar and practiced until his election to
the bench in York County, in 1881.  June 22, 1865, he married Helen Packard, of
Albany, N. Y.  Their children were Robert F., Charlotte P. and John.  Robert
Gibson was born in 1831, served in 1847 and 1849 as a page in the United States
Senate, and was assistant on coast survey, and in 1857 was appointed by
President Buchanan second lieutenant in Third Infantry, United States Regiment. 
He afterward graduated in law, and died at his home in Warrensburg Mo., in 1861,
without issue.  Catharine, daughter of Horatio Gates Jameson, who was born in
Baltimore in 1808, was married, in 1836, to Robert J. Fisher, Esq., who for
thirty years was president judge of the Nineteenth Judicial District of
Pennsylvania.  To the marriage were born eight children, of whom George,
Catherine, Emily S., Annie, Helen C. and David A. grew to maturity.  Catherine
J. Fisher died in 1850.  Catherine Fisher was born in York, Penn., in 1837. 
July 2, 1867, she married James M. Marshall, an army officer, and to the
marriage were born Kitty F., Ellen M., Robert J., Jonas F., Thomas A. and Emily
S.  Annie H. Fisher was born in York and married James W. Latimer, Esq., now one
of the judges of the Common Pleas of York County, and to them three daughters
were born, viz.:  Catherine J., Janet C. and Emily F., and a son, Robert
Cathcart.  Robert S. J. Fisher was born in York, Penn., July 4, 1847.  He
studied law with his father, Robert J., and from the position of examiner in the
patent office was promoted, in 1883, to that of chief examiner by President
Arthur.  His wife is Harriet Tyler.

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Footnote: Whatever happened to President Lincoln's cane that was given to Horatio's grandson's James Buchanan Jameson ?
See from the book "Jamesons in America" the following excerpts:

No. 478.
Horatio Gates" Jameson (Horatio Gates;1ZW/V/1), son of Horatio Gates [450] and Catharine (Shevell) Jameson, was horn Oct. 1, 1815, in Baltimore, Md. He married, 1841, Sarah McCulloh Porter, daughter of William and Mary (Pannell) Porter. She was born in Baltimore, Md. They resided in Baltimore, Md., and Mt. Washington, Md., where Dr. Jameson died Aug., 1865. Mrs. Jameson died in 1865.
Their only child: Kate [498]. She died in infancy.

Memoranda.
Mr. Jameson graduated, in 1836, from the Ohio Medical College, practised medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio, Baltimore, and in Church Hill, Md. Mrs. Jameson was first cousin of Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Lincoln. Mr. and Airs. Jameson died within a few weeks of each other.
They were lovely in their life and in their death they were not divided.'1''

No. 493.
James Buchanan * Jameson (David* James,1Z?,/r/V/'), son of David [465] and Catharine (Carl) Jameson, was born Dec. u, 1830, near Gettysburg, Pa. He married l Adaline Ramsey, who died prior to 1874; Mr. Jameson married Jan. 29, 1874, * Amanda Myers, daughter of Henry Myers. She was born in Hanover, Pa. They resided on Lake Como, near \Velaka, F!a. Mr. Jameson died Nov. 9, 1893. Mrs. Jameson died Oct., 1893.
THE CHILDREN WERE :
Rush [499]. b. prior to 1872." He died in early manhood.
Clara [500], b. prior to 1874. She died young.

Memoranda.
Mr. Jameson was ist Lieut. Union Light Guards, and on the staff of Gov. David Todd, of Ohio. When Lincoln, became president. Lieut. Johnson received a captain's commission, and was made officer in command of President Lincoln's escort, part of the 7th Ohio calvary. He was not with President Lincoln when he was assassinated but arrived soon after and stood watch all night at the house where Lincoln was taken until he died in the morning. Lieut. Jameson later was commander of the escort of President Johnson. In 1887 he was stationed at the Washington barracks.
Mrs. Lincoln presented Capt. Jameson with a cane carved out of orange wood, an exquisitely elaborate piece of workmanship, for which he refused an offer of five hundred dollars.
Capt. Jameson had a fine house on the banks of the beautiful Lake Como, in Florida. In 1893, leaving his wife there he went to the World's fair in Chicago, on the way back he visited Mrs. Jameson's sister and friends in Hanover, Pa., and while there received a despatch calling him immediately to his home in Florida. What was his surprise and horror to find that his wife had been robbed and murdered, and the house burned down to conceal the crime. The poor husband was so overcome that he himself died in two weeks after he reached Florida.

Note: From Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_and_burial_of_Abraham_Lincoln

Remark #3: April 15–19, 1865: body of the deceased president in the White House; shortly after 9 o'clock Saturday morning (April 15, 1865) the remains were placed in a temporary coffin, under the direction of undertaker Frank T. Sands, and removed to the White House, six young men of the quartermaster's department carrying the body. An escort of cavalry Union Light Guard, under the command of Lieutenant James B. Jameson, accompanied the remains, which were followed by Generals Augur, commanding Department of Washington; Rucker, depot quartermaster, Colonel Pelouze, of the War Department, Captain Finley Anderson, A.A.G. Hancock's corps, Captain D.G. Thomas, clothing depot, Captain J.H. Crowell and Captain C. Baker, all walking bareheaded.

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JAMES JAMESON, grandfather of our subject, married a daughter of David Myers, of
Adams County, to whom were born Nancy and David.  The father was also a
physician of Allentown, Penn., and principal owner of a chain bridge across the
Lehigh River at that place.  He was born in 1771 and died in 1831.  Nancy,
daughter of James Jameson, married Henry (her first cousin), son of Jacob Myers,
of New Chester, Penn., and had issue:  Jacob A., Singleton (deceased), Henry
Jameson, Ann E. J., Horatio Gates, David P. and William (latter deceased). 
David Jameson, son of James, married and had issue:  Henry M., Amelia, Nancy,
James B., Rush and Elnora.  They lived one and a half miles east of Gettysburg,
and their brick barn was used as a field hospital by the Confederates during and
after the battle of Gettysburg.  Jacob A., son of Henry and Nancy J. Myers, a
native of Adams County, married Sarah Deardorff, of York Springs, and their
children were Emily S., George H., Ellis G. (deceased), Nancy, Leigh R., Jacob
U. and William B.  Jacob A. resided many years on a farm near York Springs, in
Adams County; then moved to Bethlehem, Penn., where he operated coal lands,
which made him rich.  Henry J. Myers, son of Henry and Nancy Myers, and the
subject proper of this sketch, was born in Adams County November 22, 1826.  He
married Belinda M. Slagle, of Hanover, York Co., Penn., and to them were born
Charles, Robert Gates, Jacob Ross, Edward, Annola, all of whom are deceased,
except Jacob Ross (Charles reached his sixteenth year).  Henry J. Myers was
elected to the State Legislature in 1860, and re-elected in 1862, and since 1873
has been agent at New Oxford for the H. J. H. & G. Railroad in connection with
his business, that of a commission merchant and produce dealer.  Ann E. J.,
daughter of Henry and Nancy J. Myers, was born in Adams County; married Dr.
Lewis Stonesifer, of Littlestown, and had one son, A. C. Stonesifer.  After the
Doctor’s death she married J. M. Walter, of Gettysburg, by whom she had one son,
George M., now an attorney at law.  Horatio Gates Myers married and had issue -
Herndon and Elizabeth.  He was a merchant of Hanover, and at the outbreak of the
late war became captain of a company in a Pennsylvania Regiment and died from
exposure, at Verdant Mead. Hagerstown, Md.  Mollie, his widow, married William
Russell, of Lewistown, Penn.  Emily S., daughter of Jacob A. Myers, married
James Ellis, of Pottsville, Penn., attorney for the Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad and member of the Legislature from Schuylkill.  George H. Myers,
president of First National Bank and burgess of Bethlehem, Penn., married Callie
Weiss; Nancy, his sister, wedded F. C. Mattes.  Leigh R., a prominent lawyer of
Bethlehem, Penn., married Kitty Weiss.  William B. resides in Bethlehem, Penn.;
he married a Miss Chapman and has issue.  J. Upton, another son, is a capitalist
in Bethlehem, Penn.  J. Ross, son of our subject, was born near New Chester,
Penn., June 30, 1867; now a student of Ursinus College, Montgomery County, Penn. 
Herndon Myers, son of Horatio Gates Myers, married Edith, daughter of Gen. J.
Irvin Gregg, and resides at Altoona, Penn.  Elizabeth, his sister, married a son
of B. L. Hewitt, of Hollidaysburg, and now resides in Jamestown, Dakota.  Rush,
son of James Buchanan Jameson, is a telegraph operator in Philadelphia, Penn. 
J. B. Jameson, Sr., who was during the late war first lieutenant of the Union
Light Guard, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and commander of President Lincoln’s and
Andrew Johnson’s body-guard, married for his second wife Miss Amanda C. Myers,
of Hanover, and removed to Lake Como, Putnam County, Florida, where he now
lives.

MYERS and JAMESON Families  (from History of Cumberland and Adams Counties)

[Note: Numerals at the left margin are arbitrary sequence numbers for individuals who begin an entry; superscript numerals9 after a given name correspond to the sequence numbers; the probable birth order of siblings is indicated by small roman numerals, small letters, or Arabic numerals (in successive generations).  Surnames in bold indicate the surname of children of married daughters.]
Abbreviations:  b. born, m. married, d. died, dau. daughter, w/o without

1. NICHOLAS MYERS, immigrated from Amsterdam 1753
            Issue: John2, Jacob3, David8, William11, Ludwick12, Nicholas Jr.13, Elizabeth14, Susan15,
               Margaret J.16, Mary17
2.         i. John, m. ___ Sherman
3.         ii. Jacob, b. 1760, m. Hannah Smith; Issue: John4, Philip5, Henry6, Elizabeth7
4.                     a. John, b. 1783, m. (1) Eva Myers, had 5 sons and 3 daughters; m. (2)
                             widow of Adam Myers, and she d. 11 Apr. 1872
5.                     b. Philip, b. Nov. 1788, m. (1) Elizabeth Smyser, who bore 5 sons, 4 daughters;
                            m. (2) Annie Hersh had son Philip who d. 5 Aug. 1881
6.                     c. Henry, b. 1 Apr. 1791; at age 21 m. Nancy26 Jameson; d. 29 Feb. 1868
7.                     d. Elizabeth, m. Peter Myers, had 2 sons and 3 daughters
8.         iii. David, m. Mary Sultzbach, had 3 daughters and 1 son, including:
9.                     a. Margaret, m. Peter Binder, had 4 sons and 1 daughter
10                    b. Elizabeth, m. James25 Jameson, she d. 14 Oct. 1805 ae. 25
11.       iv. William m. ___ Erb
12.       v. Ludwick, m. (1) ___ Erb (sister of above), m. (2) ___ Dull, had 18 children
13.       vi. Nicholas Jr., m. (1) ___ Weaver, m. (2) ___ Chronister; had 26 children
14.       vii. Elizabeth, m. Michael Miller
15.       viii. Susan m. Andrew Albert, had children Jacob and Anna
16.       ix. Margaret J., m. Col. Anthony Kimmel, had 1 son, Anthony
17.       x. Mary, m. ___ Weaver

18. DAVID JAMESON, M.D. of Edinburgh, came to America ca. 1740; Rev. War Colonel, then
     a physician at York, PA; m. Elizabeth Davis
            Issue:   Thomas, James, Horatio G., Cassandra, and Emily
19.       i. Thomas, physician at York until 1838; m. (1) ___ Hahn, who bore Thomas,                                    Catherine20, Charlotte22, Margaret23; m. (2) Mrs. McClellan (who had 2 children), who                     bore Charles24
20.                   a. Catharine P., m. Daniel P. Weiser of York, had issue:
                               Gates J., David, Oliver P.21, James
21                           3. Oliver P., m. ___, had issue: Emily, Grace, Oliver, James
22.                   b. Charlotte, m. Adam J. Glossbrenner, had issue:
                               Emily, Jameson C., Mary, Ivan
23.                   c. Margaret, d. unmarried
24.                   d. Charles, was a Methodist minister near New York
25.       ii. James, a physician at Allentown, m. Elizabeth10 Myers, dau. of David & Mary                                  (Sultzbach) Myers, and had two children: Nancy26, David40
                  James also had two children – Jacob42, b. 7 Nov. 1808, and Daniel43, b. 17 Dec.                          1812 -- by Catherine Siegfried of Egypt, PA, b. 20 Jan. 1786, she m. John Roth and                           had five children by him, she died 15 Aug. 1876; James died 21 Mar. 1831
26.                   a. Nancy, m. Henry6 Myers (her first cousin)
                             Issue: Jacob A.27, Singleton, Henry J.34, Jameson, Ann E. J.36, Horatio G.37,
                                      David P., William
27.                        1) Jacob A., m. Sarah Deardorff of York Springs, resided there, then at
                                 Bethlehem PA, where he operated coal lands which made him rich
                                      Issue: Emily S.28, George H.29, Ellis G., Nancy30, Leigh R.31, William B.32,                                      Jacob U.33
28.                                   (a) Emily S., m. James Ellis of Pottsville PA
29.                                   (b) George H., m. Callie Weiss
30.                                   (d) Nancy, m. F. C. Mattes
31.                                   (e) Leigh R., m. Kitty Weiss
32.                                   (g) William B., m. ___ Chapman
33.                                   (h) Jacob Upton,
34.                          3) Henry J., b. Adams Co. PA 22 Nov. 1826, m. Belinda M. Slagle
                                        Issue: Charles, Robert Gates, Jacob Ross, Edward, Annola
35.                                   (c) Jacob Ross, b. near New Chester PA 30 June 1867
36.                          5) Ann E. J., m. (1) Dr. Lewis Stonesifer, had one son, A. C. Stonesifer;
                                        m. (2) J. M. Walter, had son George M.
37.                          6) Horatio Gates, m., had issue Herndon and Elizabeth
38.                                           (a) Herndon,  m. Edith Gregg, dau. of Gen. J. Irvin Gregg
39.                                           (b) Elizabeth, m. ___ Hewitt, resided in Dakota [Territory]
40.                   b. David, m.  ???; lived 1-1/2 miles E. of Gettysburg
                                    Issue: Henry M., Amelia, Nancy, James B., Rush, Elnora
41.                   c. Jacob (James), b. 7 Nov. 1808
42.                   d. Daniel, b. 17 Dec. 1812
41.       iii. Horatio Gates, b. 1778, m. 3 Aug. 1797 Catharine Shevell, settled in Baltimore and
                 founded the Washington Medical College; had children:
                        Cassandra42, Elizabeth52, Rush44, Catharine45, Alexander C.49, David D.50,                                   Horatio G.51
42.                   a. Cassandra, b. 1798, m. 1832 Rev. William James Gibson of Baltimore;
                                    issue: Catharine, Cassandra, William, Robert
                            Cassandra d. 186-, and Rev. Gibson then m. 187- Elizabeth Murray, had
                            issue Robert & William
43.                               1) Catharine, m. George R. Maze of Chicago
44.                   c. Rush, d. 1837 in military, w/o issue
45.                   d. Catharine, b. at Baltimore 1808, m. 1836 Robert J. Fisher, had 8 children:
                                    George, Catherine, Emily S., Annie, Helen C., David A., [?] Robert S.J.
46.                               2) Catherine, b. at York PA 1837, m. 2 July 1867 James M. Marshall
                                                issue: Kitty F., Ellen M., Robert J., Jonas F. Thomas A., Emily S.
47.                               4) Annie H., b. at York, m. James W. Latimer, had issue:
                                                Catherine J., Janet C., Emily F., Robert Cathcart
48.                               7) Robert S. J., b. at York PA 4 July 1847, m. Harriet Tyler
49.                   e. Alexander C., d. w/o issue
50.                   f. David D., d. 1832 w/o issue
51.                   g. Horatio G. Jr., b. 1815, M.D. 1836, m. 1841 Sarah McCulloch; no issue
52.                   b. Elizabeth, b. 20 Feb 1801 in Wheeling WV, m. 27 Feb. 1821 Rev. John                              Gibson; she d. at York 9 Nov. 1855
                                    issue: Margaretta Rebecca Mitchell53, William56, Horatio G.57, Jameson,                                         John58 and Robert59
53.                               1) Margaretta R. M., m. 1844 Hiram Schissler of Frederick MD; she d.                                             1879
                                                issue: Catherine C.54, Annie M.55, Horatio G., William, John
54.                                           (a) Catherine S. [? C.], b. 1847 at Williamsburg PA, m. 1872 F. J.                                                       Nelson
55.                                           (b) Annie M., m. James H. Hopkins, had issue:
                                                             William F., Kate, James H.
56.                               2) William, Navy Commander, m. at New Orleans 25 Dec. 1868 Mary M.                                         Addison
57.                               3) Horatio Gates, b. at Baltimore 22 May 1827, Colonel in U.S. Artillery,                                            m.  Harriet L. Walker of St. Louis
                                                issue: Annie, Horatio G. J., Catherine F.
58.                               5) John, b. at Baltimore 17 Apr.1829, m. 22 June 1865 Helen Packard
                                                Issue: Robert F., Charlotte, P., John
59.                               6) Robert, b. 1831, d. 1861 at Warrensburg MO, w/o issue

 

1 JAMES JAMESON b: 1771 d: 19 Mar 1831

  + Catharine SIEGFRIED b: 26 Jan 1786 d: 15 Aug 1876

    2 James JAMESON b: 7 Nov 1808

      + Maria (Polly) Worman b: Abt 1813

        3 Mary Jane JAMESON b: 7 May 1833 d: 14 May 1833

        3 Ellen Margaret JAMESON b: 31 Jan 1835

    2 Daniel JAMESON b: 17 Dec 1812

Subject: Horatio Gates Jameson, M. D. of York County, PA Historical Biography
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Horatio Jameson was born in York in 1778, and married August 3, 1797, Catherine Shevell (Chevell), of Somerset, Penn., (where he then abode), and had issue: Cassandra, Elizabeth, Rush, Catherine, Alexander, Cobean, David Davis, and Horatio Gates. He seems to have sojourned, after his marriage, in Somerset, Wheeling, Adamstown, and Gettysburg, until about 1810, when he removed to Baltimore, where he established himself permanently in practice, founded and became president of the Washington Medical College, and at one time, Health Officer of the city. About 1830 Dr. Jameson with his wife and daughter, Elizabeth Gibson, made a voyage to Europe on one of the packets running from Baltimore to the ports of Germany, and visited several places on the continent, but sojourned longest at Copenhagen, Denmark; to and from the American representative at whose court he was accredited as a special bearer of dispatches by the government at Washington. While on his return from a trip to Tex!
as, (where he had purchased lands), the faculty of the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, composed of Drs. Gross, Drake, Rives and Rogers-all celebrities in their profession-tendered him its presidency; accepting which, he removed with his family from Baltimore in March 1836, and resumed practice there. On one or two of his journeys between Texas or the West and Baltimore, he was severely injured by the upsetting of a stagecoach on the mountains of West Virginia, and was unable to rejoin his family for months. His wife, Catherine (Shevell) Jameson, died in Baltimore, November 1, 1837; and he married in 1852, a lady of Baltimore, Hannah J.D. Ely, nee Fearson, (the widow of Judah Ely, Esq., with a son, Jesse Fearson Ely). Within the last year of his life, he left Baltimore and went to York, to spend his last days among the scenes of his childhood-so fondly remembered and graphically described by him in a Baltimore journal in 1842. But the hope and ambition of his life-to obt!
ain and restore to the family his patrimonial homestead and estate-he
never realized; and he died, unprocessed of its acres and domicile, while on a visit to the city of New York in July 1855-the same year in which the ancient homestead was destroyed by fire. His widow survived him nearly thirty years, and died in the city of Baltimore, August 19, 1884, at the ripe age of eighty years.
Dr. Jameson was celebrated for his surgical skill and knowledge, and also had a wide repute for his successful treatment of cholera-epidemic in Baltimore and Philadelphia, 1793-98 and 1832. He wrote several medical works, which were accepted as authority by the profession, and was an able and earnest advocate of the “non-contagion” theory. Like the great Dr. Rush, he belonged to the school of the immortal Sangrado of Gil Bas fame, whose theory of practice obtained even unto the days of the writer. The earliest recollection of the writer’s youth is that of a fine old English engraving, which hung over the mantel in his grandfather’s office. It represented Galen discovering a skeleton in a forest; and neither it, nor the lines engraved beneath, has ever been effaced from the writer’s memory. The latter are reproduced here, as a suggestive indication that the disciples of Galen, in those days, were devout men, fearing God:

Forbear, vain man, to launch with Reason’s eye
Into the vast depths of dark Immensity;
Nor think thy narrow but presumptuous mind,
The least idea of thy God can find;
Though crowding thoughts distract the laboring brain,
How can Finite INFINITE explain.


Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor



[From Medical Annals of Baltimore, by John N. Quinan]

JAMESON, HORATIO G., M. D., BORN IN Pennsylvania, 1778; University of Maryland 1813; Consulting Surgeon Baltimore City Hospital, 1819-35; Consulting Physician Board of Health, Baltimore, 1822-35; Professor of Surgery and Surgical Anatomy, Washington Medical University, 1827-35, and one its incorporators, 1827; Member American Medical Association, 1856; Professor of Surgery Cincinnati Medical College, 1835; member Philosophical Societies of Berlin, Moscow, etc.; editor Maryland Medical Recorder, 1829-32, and ----; died in New York, 1855.
[Gives subjects of Medical works, treatises, et cetera, of which he was the author, published from 1813 to 1856, included in which are two volumes--”American Domestic Medicine, 1817,” and “A Treatise on Cholera, 1854,” and treatise “On Yellow Fever, intended to prove the necessity of V. S. (Blood-letting) in that disease,” and “On the Non-Contagiousness of Yellow Fever,” (read before the Medical Section of the Literary Assembly, held in the city of Hamburg) 1830].
“Dr. H. G. Jameson was no doubt one of the ablest surgeons of his day. He took away, for the first time in the world, nearly the entire Upper Jaw (1830); in May, 1820, he ligated the External Iliac Artery; in 1823, he performed Tracheotomy, the first in Baltimore; in 1824, he excised the Cervix Uteri, (the first in Great Britain or America). He was the first in Baltimore to attempt Ovariotomy.” ---The Surgeons of Baltimore and their Achievements,” (Read before the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, at their meeting in honor of the Sesqui-Centennial of Baltimore, October 13, 1880, by Bernard B. Browne, M. D.). While physician to the Board of Health, Baltimore, he obtained vaccine virus by vaccinating a cow. ---See his report, 1831.”
1820, January, Dr. H. G. Jameson removes the upper maxillae, after trying the carotid. (The first operation of the kind on record).---Gross.
1821, August, Dr. Jameson (H. G.) ligates the external iliac artery for aneurism.
1823, October 20, Dr. Jameson (among the first in Maryland) performs Tracheotomy. He also attempts Ovariotomy, but fails (first attempt in Baltimore). He also (the first in Great Britain or America) excises the Neck of Uterus.
1826, August 25, Dr. Jameson successfully operates for stone.
1827, March 13, Washington College of Washington, Penn., authorizes the establishment of a Medical School in Baltimore. Faculty are H. G. Jameson, Surgery; Samuel K. Jennings, Materia Medica and Therapeutics; William W. Handy, Obstetrics and Diseases of Women; James H. Miller, Practice; Samuel Annan, Anatomy and Physiology; John W. Vethake, Chemistry. They organize and lecture on Holliday Street, opposite the old City Hall.
1831, March 7, Dr. H. G. Jameson secures virus by vaccinating a cow.
1855, Dr. Horatio Gates Jameson ob. At 77 (in New York)


Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor



Medical History

The first physician in York, of whom we have any records, was Dr. David Jameson. He came from Scotland, where he was born and received his medical education, and located in York to practice his profession among the first inhabitants of the town. During the French and Indian wars in 1756, he offered his services in defense of the colonies, and was commissioned a captain, and left his profession to share the dangers on the frontier. He was wounded in an engagement with the Indians near Fort Lyttleton, at Sideling Hill, on the road from Carlisle to Pittsburg, and was left for dead on the field. He afterward discharged the duties of brigade major and lieutenant colonel.
During the Revolutionary was he held the position of colonel. Notwithstanding his position in battle was that of a warrior, he also attended to the duties of surgeon, and at the battle of Kitanning, he dressed the wound of Gen. Armstrong, who was shot in the shoulder. He was a man of some wealth in those days and contributed liberally of his means to support of his country. He was the father of Dr. Horatio Gates Jameson, who was born in York in 1778, and succeeded his father in the practice of medicine at York, for a short time, and afterward removed to Baltimore, where he established himself permanently in practice, founded and became president of the Washington Medical College, and at one time health officer of the city. Dr. Jameson was celebrated for his surgical skill and knowledge, and also had a wide reputation for his successful treatment of cholera epidemic in Baltimore and Philadelphia, (1793-98) and 1832. In 1835 he accepted the presidency of the Ohio Medical Coll!
ege, and held the position until 1836, when he resigned and removed to Baltimore. In 1854 he again returned to York, to spend his last days among the scenes of his childhood. He died while on a visit to New York City, to investigate cholera, which was raging in the city at the time, in July 1855.
While Dr. Jameson resided at Baltimore his brother, Dr. Thomas Jameson, practiced medicine in York, and in all important cases, especially those requiring surgical skill, Prof. Jameson was called from Baltimore in consultation. In 1850 he performed the first operation for Ovariotomy attempted in York County on Mrs. Hoke, of Paradise now Jackson Township. The lady died during the operation. Dr. Jameson was a member of the American Medical Association; member of the philosophical societies of Berlin, Moscow, etc., and editor of the Maryland Medical Record, 1829-32. He was also the author of several medical works. Among these were two volumes on “American Domestic Medicine,” 1817. “A Treatise on Cholera,” 1856, and “A Treatise on Yellow Fever, intended to prove the necessity of blood letting in that disease,” and “the non contagiousness of yellow fever.”
Dr. H. G. Jameson, no doubt one of the ablest surgeons of his day. He took away for the first time in the world nearly the entire upper jaw (1830); in May 1820, he ligated the external iliac artery; in 1823, he performed tracheotomy, the first in Baltimore; in 1824 he excised the cervix uteri (the first in Great Britain or America). He was the first in Baltimore to attempt Ovariotomy. In 1831, while physician to the board of health, he obtained vaccine virus by vaccinating a cow. He was the preceptor of Profs. Smith and Gross, and was on the most intimate terms with these great surgeons. As he was born, raised and died while his domicile was in York County, practiced his profession here for some time, and claimed York as his home, we claim especially his history as part of the medical history of York County, and therefore feel justified in giving this extended notice of perhaps the most eminent man York County has yet produced.
Dr. Thomas Jameson, son of Dr. David Jameson and brother to Prof. Jameson, practiced medicine in York until 1838, when he died while on a visit to his brother, Dr. H. G. Jameson, in Baltimore. Dr. Thomas Jameson resided in Paradise, now Jackson Township, at a place known as Spangler’s tavern on the Gettysburg turnpike, about nine miles from York, from 1832 to 1837. He had an extensive practice among the country people, and was elected coroner in 1808, and held that office until 1818. He was also elected sheriff in October 1821, and held office until 1824, and was more extensively known throughout York County in his time than any physician before, or after him.
Dr. Thomas Jameson was excessively fond of sport, and was one of the greatest cockfight in the county.
His second wife was a widow named McClellan with two children, one named Henry M. McClellan, afterward the well known Dr. Henry M. McClellan, who read medicine with step father, Dr. Thomas Jameson, and upon the death of Dr, Thomas Jameson in 1838, he acquired the greater part of his practice, and retained it and the confidence of the people, until he died August 7, 1869, aged sixty years.


Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor

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Worman's of Eastern PA ·  ID: I24 ·  Name: JAMES JAMESON ·  Given Name: JAMES ·  Surname: JAMESON ·  NPFX: DR ·  Sex: M ·  Birth: 1771 in Adams Co., PA 1 1 ·  Death: 19 Mar 1831 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA ·  Burial: Old Allentown Cem ·  Occupation: Dr James Jameson was a surgeon. 1 ·  LDS Baptism: 12 Jul 1904 Temple: LOGAN - Logan, UT ·  Endowment: Bef 1970 ·  Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 at 15:21 Marriage 1 Catharine SIEGFRIED b: 26 Jan 1786 in USA Married: Abt 1807 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA 1 1 Sealing Spouse: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 Children James JAMESON b: 7 Nov 1808 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA Daniel JAMESON b: 17 Dec 1812 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA Sources: Abbrev: Swiss Family Worman Author: Dorothy Elsie Worman-1985 NOTE BY RAJ: “James” Jameson, son of Dr. James Jameson, was born 7 Nov 1808 and had as his given name Jacobus according to records of the Egypt Reformed Church. Decendancy: 1 JAMES JAMESON b: 1771 d: 19 Mar 1831   + Catharine SIEGFRIED b: 26 Jan 1786 d: 15 Aug 1876     2 James JAMESON b: 7 Nov 1808       + Maria (Polly) Worman b: Abt 1813         3 Mary Jane JAMESON b: 7 May 1833 d: 14 May 1833         3 Ellen Margaret JAMESON b: 31 Jan 1835     2 Daniel JAMESON b: 17 Dec 1812 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ·  ID: I12 ·  Name: Maria (Polly) Worman ·  Given Name: Maria (Polly) ·  Surname: Worman ·  Sex: F ·  Birth: Abt 1813 in Lehigh Co., PA ·  Death: Y ·  LDS Baptism: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Endowment: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Sealing Child: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 at 15:21 Father: J Henry Worman b: 30 Jan 1779 in Upper Milford Twp., Lehigh Co., PA Mother: Maria Barbara GROSS b: 5 Mar 1782 in Lehigh Co., PA Marriage 1 James JAMESON b: 7 Nov 1808 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA Married: Abt 1832 in Lehigh Co., PA Sealing Spouse: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 Children Mary Jane JAMESON b: 7 May 1833 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA Ellen Margaret JAMESON b: 31 Jan 1835 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Worman's of Eastern PA Entries: 1446    Updated: 2007-08-16 21:21:02 UTC (Thu)    Contact: Susan Lucykanish ·  ID: I55 ·  Name: Daniel JAMESON ·  Given Name: Daniel ·  Surname: JAMESON 1 1 ·  Sex: M ·  Birth: 17 Dec 1812 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA ·  Christening: 16 Feb 1813 Egypt Ref Church, Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA ·  Death: Y ·  LDS Baptism: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Endowment: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Sealing Child: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 at 15:21 Father: JAMES JAMESON b: 1771 in Adams Co., PA Mother: Catharine SIEGFRIED b: 26 Jan 1786 in USA Sources: Abbrev: Swiss Family Worman Author: Dorothy Elsie Worman-1985 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Worman's of Eastern PA Entries: 1446    Updated: 2007-08-16 21:21:02 UTC (Thu)    Contact: Susan Lucykanish ·  ID: I23 ·  Name: Catharine SIEGFRIED ·  Given Name: Catharine ·  Surname: SIEGFRIED 1 1 ·  Sex: F ·  Birth: 26 Jan 1786 in USA ·  Death: 15 Aug 1876 in South Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA ·  Burial: Egypt Cem ·  LDS Baptism: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Endowment: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 at 15:21 Marriage 1 JAMES JAMESON b: 1771 in Adams Co., PA Married: Abt 1807 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA 1 1 Sealing Spouse: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 Children James JAMESON b: 7 Nov 1808 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA Daniel JAMESON b: 17 Dec 1812 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA Marriage 2 John ROTH b: 23 Feb 1787 in South Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA Married: 1817 in South Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA Sealing Spouse: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 Children John ROTH b: 17 Sep 1818 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA Paul ROTH b: 28 Sep 1820 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA M Magdalena ROTH b: 4 Oct 1822 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA Maria ROTH b: 8 Oct 1823 in Lehigh Co., PA Sarah (Salome) ROTH b: 31 Dec 1825 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA Sources: Abbrev: Swiss Family Worman Author: Dorothy Elsie Worman-1985 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Descendancy  for John Roth: ·  ID: I51 ·  Name: John ROTH ·  Given Name: John ·  Surname: ROTH 1 1 ·  Sex: M ·  Birth: 23 Feb 1787 in South Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA ·  Christening: 8 Apr 1787 Zion Reformed Church, Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA ·  Death: 28 Feb 1826 in South Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA ·  Burial: Egypt Cem ·  LDS Baptism: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Endowment: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 ·  Sealing Child: Cleared 2 Oct 2001 ·  Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 at 15:21 Father: Peter ROTH b: 21 Oct 1760 in Lehigh Co., PA Mother: Julianna Margaret MUSGENUNG b: 1 Feb 1758 in <, , PA> Marriage 1 Catharine SIEGFRIED b: 26 Jan 1786 in USA Married: 1817 in South Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA Sealing Spouse: Cleared 21 Jun 2000 Change Date: 27 Dec 1901 Children John ROTH b: 17 Sep 1818 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA Paul ROTH b: 28 Sep 1820 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA M Magdalena ROTH b: 4 Oct 1822 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA Maria ROTH b: 8 Oct 1823 in Lehigh Co., PA Sarah (Salome) ROTH b: 31 Dec 1825 in Egypt, Lehigh Co., PA Sources: Abbrev: Swiss Family Worman Author: Dorothy Elsie Worman-1985

 

Ann Elizabeth Jameson (daughter of Col. David Jameson)

 

James Crawford (1738 – 1775)

October 20, 1738, the officials at the land office of the Colony of Pennsylvania, acting as agents of the proprietors, gave a warrant to James Crawford for land in Pennsboro township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. In 1743 this land was surveyed for Mr. Crawford, and it lay immediately along the north bank of the Yellow Breeches Creek, in what is now Allen township in Cumberland county. This stream empties into the Susquehana river about two miles south of Harrisburg, and the land lies but a few mile at most from that city. The patent for this land was granted to him June 6, 1761, which patent and survey called for 157 acres of land, with an allowance of six per cent for roads, etc. (Patent Book AA, volume 3, p. 352, office of internal affairs, Harrisburg, Penn.). "This was a grant direct from the Commonwealth". Land at that period was worth from fifty cents to five dollars per acre. Mr. Crawford was living in Allen township when Cumberland county was organized in 1750, as shown by the county records, and these same documents show that he was continuously a tax payer in the same locality until his death, in 1775. If complete, there is no reason to doubt that these county records would show that he lived on his land along the Yellow Breeches Creek in Allen township from the time of its purchase in 1738 until 1775. His sons continued to reside there for many years after their father's decease – their names were Robert, William, James and John.
          In 1745 the Lancaster county Commissioners approved a road seven and a half miles in length which had been but recently laid out under their orders by a committee consisting of Mr. James Crawford and three other citizens. This road extended from Thomas Wilkins's ferry along the west side of the Susquahanna river to Nathan Hussy's ferry (Goldsboro). At this point the road connected with a road laid out in 1742 extending northwesternly to where the city of Carlisle now stands, crossing Yellow Breeches Creek at Lisburn and passing directly through Allen township.
          The Cumberland county records show that upon the 8th of October, 1765 Sarah and John Pipen secured the services of Mr. James Crawford of Allen township, conferring on him the power of attorney to represent and act for them in certain business matters. These simple incidents show that Mr. Crawford was considered a man of ability by those in power in his county and had the confidence and esteem of his neighbors. In 1774 Mr. Crawford was assessed three shillings on land which he was holding in Monaghan township in York county.
          James Crawford of Allen township, Cumberland county, died prior to June, 1775, leaving two sons, William and Robert, above 21 years of age also two, James and John, minors above 14 years of age, and at the session of the court for June, 1775 the Court appointed William Rankin, Esq., guardian of the persons and property of these two minor sons of James Crawford deceased. This William Rankin was a Quaker, also a very large land holder, a magistrate, a man of prominence, colonel of a Pennsylvania regiment, and active in both civil and military affairs; but in 1777 he and his two brothers turned against the patriots and fled to England, where they remained until their death.
          The records of York county show that John Baughman of Allen township in Cumberland county on December 4, 1789 deeded to James and John Crawford of Allen township land that lay in Monaghan township, York county. Monaghan is separated from Allen by the Yellow Breeches Creek only. (deed book 2 H, p. 37). Again (deed book 2 H, P. 38) the records show that William and Robert Crawford of Augusta county, Virginia, gave to James Crawford of Allen township, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, a waive[r] of all claims ( a quit claim deed) against his land in Monaghan township, in York county, the deed bearing date March 22, 1791. This deed states that William, Robert, James and John were all brothers and the sons of James Crawford.
          Again (deed book 2 H, p. 39) the records show that James Crawford and Ann his wife and his brother John all of Allen township, Cumberland county deeded a tract of land lying in Allen township to John McGrew, Jr., of the same township September 24, 1791. The deed states that all were residents of Allen township, Cumberland county, and that James and John, and William and Robert were sons of James Crawford. The father of these boys was most probably born as early as 1715.
          That one of Mr. Crawford's four sons whose name was James married Ann Eliza Jameson in York, Pennsylvania, in 1788 or '89. She was the daughter of Colonel David Jameson of Scotland and his wife Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Davis of York, Penn. This James Crawford was born in the year 1760 or within a year thereof, and at the time of his marriage he was a clerk in a store in York town, where his wife had been born and reared. Taking advantage of the opportunity offered, he studied medicine under his father-in-law, a practising physician, his wife's five brothers also being fellow students under their father and afterwards practicing their profession in that portion of the state. Having remained in York and at his old home in Cumberland county for some years, during which period four children were born to them, Dr. Crawford moved to Strasburg, Virginia, where he practiced his profession until 1807, when he removed to Franklinton (Columbus), Ohio, in which settlement he continued the practice of medicine until his death in March 1812. His grave may still be seen in Columbus. His son David Jameson remained in Strasburg, Virginia, when the father and the other members of the family moved to Columbus. He was a clerk in the store of a Mr. Hupp, and later moved to Woodstock, Va. The children of Dr. James Crawford and his wife Ann Elizabeth (Jameson) were:
          David Jameson, born Feb. 15, 1790; married Elizabeth Caw [? Saw? Gaw?].
          Elizabeth, born Dec. 13, 1791; died 1857; married Adam Brotherlin.
          James, died as a boy in Columbus, Ohio.
          Thomas, died as a boy in Columbus, Ohio.

[Handwritten note by Frank B. Crawford on back of page:]
"Our family is not related to the well known Crawford family of Augusta County, Virginia, so far as known." ]

[Page 4 of typed notes is missing]

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D. Jameson to
Edward Shippen

(Fort Hallifax, Oct. 13, 1756)

Jameson, David in: Pennsylvania
Archives, first series,
Vol. III, pp. 8-9.

pp. 8, 9.

(page 8)

Sr:

As Coll. Clapham is at Carlisle, and it being reported hear that his Honour, our Governor, has gone round by York, and therefore not knowing when he will receive an Express that is sent to him from Shamokin, I have thought fitt to send an abstract of Maj. Burd's Letter to me that arrived hear at Day break this Morning that the Gentlemen and Malitia of Lancaster County might take such steps as they think most Prudent. I though it Propper to acquaint you with a piece of Intelligence that I have Received by old Ogaghradariha, one of the Six Nations Chiefs, who came here yesterday in the afternoon, and is as follows, that bout 10 Days before he left Tioga there was two Delaware Indians arrived there who (page 9) was just come from Fort De Quesne & informed him that before they left said Fort there was one thousand Indians Assembled there who were Immediately to march in conjunction with a Body of French to Attack this fort, (meand) Fort Augusta, and he, Ogaghiadariha, hurried down here to Give us the information. He says further, that the day before he came in here he Saw upon the North Branch a large body of Delaware Indians & Spoke with them, & they told him they were going to speak with ye Governr of Pennsylvania, whatever intention they have they are marching towards our Inhabitants.

 

http://www.gbl.indiana.edu/archives/miamis11/M53-58_51a.html