William Montgomery and Mary Evans

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Husband William Montgomery ¹

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Wife Mary Evans ¹

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           Born:  - Wales
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Children

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1 M William Montgomery ²

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         Spouse: Mary Nichols (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - William Montgomery

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He brought his family to Delaware in 1760, and settled in the neighborhood of Wilming­ton, where he owned a large farm and tannery. He also held slaves, but these he afterward freed. There were eleven sons and two daugh­ters in his family. During the revolutionary war ten of the sons enlisted in the continental army, the youngest being too young for serv­ice. They engaged in the battles for liberty until peace was declared. Not one of this band of gallant brothers received a wound, although the Delaware regiment in which they served was greatly depleted in numbers from disease and bullets. The family homestead was so near the scene of action that its mem­bers witnessed all the horrors of the struggle. A force of five thousand British encamped on the farm and established their winter quarters. They slaughtered the cattle for beef, and did not hesitate to appropriate anything they wish­ed for their use. They used the large stone house for a hospital, seized all the linen in the household for dressing wounds, and on one occasion a soldier rudely tore off a linen neck­erchief worn by the lady of the house, but the natural gallantry of the English officer assert­ed itself, and he reproved the soldier and offer­ed the lady in compensation his own silk scarf. [GPHAV, 809]

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 808.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 809.