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From: "A Strawn" <>
Subject: [RHEA] Re: [RHEA-L] Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Pewholders, 1794 Franklin Co. Pa
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:45:46 -0400
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Pat
Do you know Jack Ray's email address?
He sent me marvelous info
Anita Strawn
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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
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Subject: [RHEA-L] Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church Pewholders, 1794
Franklin Co. Pa
> Church: Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church, Pewholders, 1794: Letterkenney
> Twp, Franklin Co, PA
>
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> I was going to copy Rhea names, but when I saw so many of the people who
our
> Rheas were either related to or friends with, I decided to send it to you
in
> its entirty. Pat (forgive my spelling it is 4:00 a. m. in the morning.)
> Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church, Pewholders 1794
>
> >From "Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical and Genealogical:
> Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania" William Henry Egle, Fourth
> Series, Vol. 2, 1895, pp 100-103.
>
> Pew #
>
> 1 Joseph Culbertson, Samuel Culbertson, John Rhea
>
> 2 Col. James Armstrong, James Finley, William Young
>
> 3 Robert Mitchell, Moses Blackburn, John Gelvin, Andrew Thomson
>
> 4 William Smith, Thomas Ferguson, William Witherow
>
> 5 William Wallis, Alexander Robertson, Robert McCarney
>
> 6 Daniel Eckels, Joseph Henderson, Robert Cauven [Caven]
>
> 7 James Moore, Noble Heath, Thomas Ross
>
> 8 John Gray, Samuel Reed
>
> 9 James Henderson, Charles Herron, Janet McCouch
>
> 10 James Tom, Samuel Menter, Robert Stockton
>
> 11 Capt. James Sharp, Stephen Doyle, William Nicholson
>
> 12 Samuel Jordan, John Beard, Thomas King
>
> 13 Andrew Marshall, Arthur Patterson, Martha Wade, William Bell
>
> 14 Cathleen Dunlap, John Beard, William Beard, James Henry, Samuel Henry
>
> 15 James Wilson, Daniel McGregor, Nathan Mead
>
> 16 James Lockard, David Jordon, William Gibson
>
> 17 John Anderson, James McClure, Robert Miller
>
> 18 Alexander Mares, John Wilson (Elder), William Waddle
>
> 19 James Walker, David Grimes, William McCord
>
> 20 Samuel Miller, James Hise, James Ensley
>
> 21 Capt. John McConnell, George Wilson, Reuben Gillespy
>
> 22 William Davis, James Davis, Josiah Ramage
>
> 23 Nicholas Patterson, Andrew Wilson, Isaac Martin, James Endslow
>
> 24 Eliza Thomson, James Nickel, Thomas Boyd, William Archibald
>
> 25 Major James McCalmont, Albert Torrence, Hugh Wiley
>
> 26 John Stewart, Moses Lamb, William Wayne, James Barr
>
> 27 Charles Cummins, William Kirkpatrick, John Shaw
>
> 28 Stephen Colwell [Caldwell], Robert Colwell [Caldwell], James Harper,
> William Johns
>
> 29 Capt. Alexander Culbertson, James Reed, William Trotter
>
> 30 John Ferguson, Hugh Torrence, Joseph Clark
>
> 31 Samuel Culbertson (creek) Capt. Robert Culbertson, Alexander McConnell
>
> 32 Samuel Nicholson, George Davidson, John Boyd
>
> 33 John Beard (mountain), Joseph Stevenson, John Beatty
>
> 34 James Kirkpatrick, James Dougherty, Alexander White, Thomas Taylor
>
> 35 John Thomson, William Fullerton, Charles Stewart, James Fleming
>
> 36 John Mahon sr, John Mahon jr, Robert Brotherton
>
> 37 John Breckenridge, Samuel Breckenridge, James Breckenridge, John
Clayton
>
> 38 Robert Mahon, John Colwell [Caldwel], Thomas Crawford, William Sharp
>
> 39 Robert McConnell, James McConnell, John McConnell, Donald McConnell
>
> 40 (Formerly PreacherÕs Pew) Thomas Stockton, Robert Cook, Thomas Kincaid
>
> 41 Nathan Ferguson, Margaret Dixon, John Chestnut
>
> 42 James Eaton, Rebecca Eaton, Capt. Samuel Patton, John Wilkison
>
> 43 John Wilson, James Gibson, Thomas McConnell
>
> 44 James Hindman, William Ramsey, William Barr, Charles Berry, William
> Fullerton
>
> 45 Capt. George Matthews, James Matthews, John Peck, Martha Allen
>
> 46 Robert Allison, David Blair, Robert Craig, Robert Dixon
>
> 47 Samuel Ligget, William Ferguson, Betsey Thomson, Capt. Wm. Huston
>
> 48 Robert Peebles, Moses Barnet, John Kerr
>
> 49 John Thomson, Samuel Rhea, Josiah Allen, William McClintick
>
> 50 Oliver Culbertson, William Gill, Joseph Sivan
>
> 51 Thomas Hoops, George McElroy, John McClellan, Charles Kilcrease, Robert
> Carrick
>
> 52 Henry Duncan, Mary Kerr, John Moore, Alexander Spear
>
>
>
> [Note: The pew arrangement in 1794 differed from the current
> arrangement. The aisles formed a cross with the pulpit in the center
> of the cross. Pew # 1 was at the inside left lower corner of the arm
> of the cross, the numbers ran through #13 back the center aisle to the
> rear door, then came back up the center aisle ending with #26 at the
> right across from # 1. #Õs 27-30 were vertical pews behind #26-22.
> They ran to the door on the right arm of the cross, then crossing in
> front of the right door, #31-39 ran back towards the center pulpit
> along the front church wall. There was a break at the top of the cross
> (where the pulpit is now located), then #40-48 continued across the
> front of the church to the left door. Crossing the aisle in front of
> the left door, #49-52 ran vertically back to # 1. They only extended
> behind pews #1-5. Sketches of the 1794 and 1894 seating plans can be
> found on pages 102 and 104 EgleÕs article.]
>
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