The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
John English was born about 1750. He married Frances “Fannie” Boatman, born about 1752. Their known children were:
John Jr. was born on 26 October 1785.
James was born in 1782.
Margaret was born on 19 December 1783.
Mary “Polly” was born in January 1784.
Claudius was born on 1 February 1788.
Elizabeth was born about 1788.
William was born on 20 September 1793.
Frances “Fanny” was born in 1795.
Sarah Jane was born on 1 January 1797.
Thomas was born about 1799.
During the American Revolution, John English enlisted as a Private in January 1778 for a three-year term in the Company of Lieutenant John Piercy, commanded by Colonel Walter Stewart of the Second Regiment of the Berks County Militia of the Pennsylvania Line. He was discharged at Trenton, New Jersey, by General Wayne in 1781. John appeared on the roll of May 1780 in the Company of Major James Hamilton’s Company.
John’s name appears on deeds for land at Northumberland County before, during, and after the Revolution. In the 1790 U.S. Census, John is listed in the area of Northumberland County that would later become Lycoming County. He is living near the homes of Claudius Boatman and James English, his brother. By the 1810 U.S. Census, he is head of household at Mifflin Township, Lycoming County.
John died in 1846 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and was buried with his wife at the English Family Cemetery at English Island. A Veterans Administration headstone is located at Lower English Cemetery, near English Center.
Sources:
Find a Grave.com, digital record, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com: accessed 17 June 2020), memorial for John English Sr., Find A Grave Memorial # 28453932, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
Sons of the American Revolution, National Society, Louisville, Kentucky. Primary application of Robert Alan English, National Number 119829.
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. Micropublication M804, roll 929. Washington: National Archives. S42710.
Linn, John B. and William Hegle, Pennsylvania Archives Second Series, Vol. XX, Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, State Printers, 1896, page 412.
Pennsylvania. Northumberland. U.S. Census, 1790, Micropublication M637, roll 9. Washington: National Archives.
Pennsylvania. Lycoming. U.S. Census, 1810, Micropublication M252, roll 52. Washington: National Archives.
Speech given at the unveiling of the Memorial to John English, Fort Antes Chapter, Daughters of The American Revolution. 20 October 1923, by J. M. English. English Island, Waterville, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
Land Warrant Applications, 1733-1952. Harrisburg. Pennsylvania: State Archives.
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