~1710-1769
Pennsylvania
Our next ancestor is Garrett Deweese, son of Cornelius and Margaret Kuster Deweese. He was born in Pennsylvania. His brother John was baptized in 1710, so Garrett was probably born sometime around then. Don't you love the accuracy of all this? His father was a farmer, his uncles and cousins mill-owners.
He married Mary Unknown, probably in the late 1720s. (Their first child was born ~1730.)
Second son Cornelius was baptized at St Gabriel’s Episcopal Church in Douglasville in 1731. (I believe this was later part of Berks County, which was formed in 1751.) Son William was baptized in the same place in . . . well, my notes say 1753, but that seems like quite a stretch. The books about the Deweese family (by La Munyan and Bayless) say he was born in 1733, so I think someone, probably me, made a typo.
St Gabriel’s Episcopal, Douglasville
Deweese, Cornelius 22 Mar 1731 - Garret & Mary
William Jan 1753 - Garret & Mary (probably 1733)
John 2 Feb 1753 - Cornelius & Elizabeth
Elizabeth 1755 - Cornelius & Elizabeth
Paul, Frederic G. Berks County, Pennsylvania, births, 1705-1800. (Reading, Pa. : HP Pub., c1988-)
Another source, John T Humphreys, lists Elizabeth Deneese - parents Cornelius and Elizabeth - as being born 9 Oct 1754 and being baptized in St Gabriel’s Episcopal in Amity. Possibly Douglasville was an early name for - or suburb of - Amity???
I haven’t found documentary information for the rest of the children - yet? And the two Deweese books do not agree. He and Mary may have had 5 children altogether (Bayless lists 3, La Munyan 4 - but a slightly different mixture):
Edward, born about 1730 (Bayless)
Cornelius, born 22 March 1730/31 (La Munyan)
William, born 1 January 1732/33 (both)
Elizabeth, born 1735 (La Munyan)
Henry, born 1746 (both)
That seems quite a gap between Elizabeth (1735) and Henry (1746), but I have no explanation for it.
Note - from D. Johnson, Nov 2010 - she includes John b 1744 and Paul on the list of children, and omits Edward.
In 1734, he is listed as one of the people who owned land in Philadelphia County:
Hanover Township
Cornelius De Wees 24
Garret De Wees 100
Rupp, 30K Names, Appendix 1, p. 430
In 1752, he and his son? Cornelius were in Berks County (Robeson Twp):
Garrett Dewese - Robeson
Cornelius Dewese - Robeson
Williams, Richard T. And Mildred C Williams. 1752 list of taxables, Berks County, Pennsylvania. (Danboro, Pa. : Williams, [1976?])
Garrett and Cornelius were still in Robeson for the 1754 tax list:
Robeson acres? tax
Garrett Denese 20 5
Cornelius 10 26
In 1767, only Garrett was still in Berks County, but he had moved to Reading Town, where he had a house and a town lot. (This information has been reprinted in several places; it comes originally from the Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd series.)
He is not on the 1779 Pennsylvania septennial census for Berks County, which is next list I have found at the Historical Society Library. There may be other places to look. But he supposedly died in 1769. Nothing more is known of him.
Of the children:
Edward - nothing more known
Cornelius bp 1731 - married Elizabeth Jones on 25 Dec 1752 - 2 children, John & Elizabeth (baptized Douglasville, above)
(he may have gone to Virginia? There is a Cornelius on the tax list of 1775 for Botetourt County.)
William bp 1733 - married Unknown - 4 children, Edward, Garrett, William, Henry
email from D Johnson, 28 November 2010 - information from her grandfather:
William DeWeese 1733-1807 - married Hannah Nellie Gearhart (m Berks Co, PA 1757) - moved to Montgomery Co, VA - children: Mary, William, Samuel, David, Thomas, Jesse, Eleanor - son Jesse Grand was administrator of will - moved to Kentucky - several children moved to Butler Co, Ky - later on to Illinois, Missouri. There is a William Deweese (also Hannah, David and Jesse) on the tax lists in Virginia.
Elizabeth - married James Burnes on 3 May 1751. nothing more known.
Henry, our next ancestor - married Elizabeth Hughes in 1768 - 9 children.
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