1776 ANDREW FORSYTH LAND DEED TO JAMES ROSE
A land deed impressed on woven paper and dated 1776. "Andrew Forsyth of the City of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania shopkeeper" for five shillings sold land to "James Rose of the aforesaid City and State." The land situate in the County of "Northumberland in the State of Pennsylvania bounded Northwest by Pine Creek to include a large rich bottom highly opposite to the mouth of Elk Creek, Buffalo Township, and adjoining lands of James McLaughlin, containing 300 acres . . . which the Honorable the Proprietaries of the said Province, by their Commission of Property Richard Penn Esq. by Warrant dated the twenty third day of February in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred seventy three have authorized and required to be located and surveyed to me the said Andrew Forsyth . . . to him the said James Rose . . . . In Witness Whereof, I the said Andrew Forsyth have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this 7th day of August in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred seventy six."
"Personally appeared before me the subscriber of the duties of the Court of Common pleas in and for the City and County of Philadelphia the within named Andrew Forsyth and acknowledged the within as his act and deed and as such desire the same may be recorded as witness my hand and seal this 8th day of Aug. 1776. Geo Bryan."
Andrew Forsyth arrived in Philadelphia as a young man from Scotland about 1765. He worked himself into the position of being one of Philadelphia's leading merchants. He also took his business to Lebanon, Maiden Creek and Hamburg, sometimes working in partnership and sometimes on his own. Forsyth was a Private in Captain Wills Company, First Battalion; in the American War of Independence. He married his second wife, Agnes Loughead, the daughter of Col. James Loughead in 1780. He spent the last years of his life in Danville, PA, where he died about 1810.
James Rose, Chester County, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, had a son, James Rose (w/Isabella Hall) of Northumberland and Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Robert H. Rose (with Jane Hodge) of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. [There was a James Rose who petitioned the Chester County, PA Court in 1738 for a license to engage in the Indian trade. (Hanna, Vol. 1, p. 179).]
A commemorative biographical record in the USGenWeb Archives notes: ". . . John, Jr. (Forster), the third son, died young and unmarried, the victim of an Indian massacre. His death occurred on the 16th of May, 1780, in an attack made by a band of raiding Indians on what was known as French Jacob's Mill (Jacob Groshong), about five miles north of Mifflinburg, and near where the road through the Brush Valley narrows enters Buffalo Valley. He was one of a company of enlisted rangers whose duty it was to patrol the northern side of the Valley along the Buffalo Mountain to guard against Indian incursions . . . and in the smart skirmish that followed four of the rangers were killed, among them being John Forster, Jr. The names of the others were James Chambers, George Etzweiler, and James McLaughlin."
George Bryan (1731-1791) was a Pennsylvania businessman, statesman, and politician of the Revolutionary era. He served as the first Vice-President of Pennsylvania (analogous to Lieutenant Governor) and its second President (Governor) following the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. [He became Acting President upon the death of Thomas Wharton, Jr., the first President and served in that capacity for just over six months.] He was an early abolitionist and a judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
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