John Van Voorhis and Sarah Frye

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Husband John Van Voorhis ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: John Van Voorhees 4
           Born: 3 Mar 1781 - Burlington Co, NJ 3
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           Died: 28 Jun 1874 - near Nashport, Muskingum Co, OH 1 2 3
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         Father: Daniel Van Voorhees (1738-1819) 4
         Mother: Mary Newton (      -1789/1789) 4 5 6 7

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       Marriage: 12 Dec 1805 8

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Wife Sarah Frye ³

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Children

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1 M Daniel Van Voorhis ⁹

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           Born: 25 Nov 1806 - Carroll Twp, Washington Co, PA 9
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           Died: 3 Jun 1893 - Zanesville, Muskingum Co, OH 9
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         Spouse: Jane Roberts (      -1871) 9
           Marr: 24 Jan 1834 9

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2 F Mary Van Voorhis ⁹

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           Died: Bef 1893
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         Spouse: Abel Randall (      -Bef 1893) 10

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3 F Elizabeth Van Voorhis ⁹

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           Died: Bef 1893
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         Spouse: Samuel Adams (      -Bef 1893) 10

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4 F Theresa Van Voorhis ⁹

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           Died: Bef 1893
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         Spouse: John A. Blair (      -Bef 1893) 10

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5 M Samuel Van Voorhis ⁹

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           Died: 1840 10
 Cause of Death: Accidental fall
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6 F Sarah Van Voorhis ⁹

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           Died: Aft 1893
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         Spouse: [Unk] Cook (      -Aft 1893) 10

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7 F Nancy Van Voorhis ⁹

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           Died: Aft 1893
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         Spouse: Littleton Adams (      -Aft 1893) 10

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General Notes: Husband - John Van Voorhis

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He first lived in a cabin near the Van Voorhis cemetery gate on the Brownsville road, Washington County, Pennsylvania. He moved with his family to Muskingum County, Ohio, in April, 1812. He located on a farm near the present town of Nashport. He and a man the name of Trout built a keel boat at the mouth of Pigeon creek. In it he moved the heavier articles, among which were five barrels of whiskey, seven barrels of flour, two iron kettles, and a box filled with earth in which were placed scions of current bushes, apple and other fruit trees in embryo, together with a barrel of dried apples, and farming implements. The family went overland with the team. The men pushed and floated the boat down the Ohio to the mouth of the Muskingum, and thence up that river to Zanesville, from which point the goods were taken by wagon to Nashport, twelve miles distant. That region was then a wilderness of woodland, but he lived to see it blossom as the rose. He was a Baptist of the strictest kind in religion, and of the old political school a federal, and of the new a republican.

John Van Voorhis, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, came into this township in 1811, and bought a three hundred acre tract of land from George Jackson; this tract was owned, in 1880, by his son, Hon. Daniel Van Voorhis. In 1812, Mr. Van Voorhis brought his family; his cabin stood on what is now the bank of the canal, about twenty-five rods southwest of Nashport. The death of this gentleman occured in *

The only mound in Liqking township was on this farm, and near the residence of Daniel Van Voorhis. In 1876, Mr. V. planted an evergreen centennial tree upon the summit of this mound. In 181 2, this relic of a vanished race was thickly-covered with forest trees ; some of twenty-four inches in diameter. These disappeared as the years rolled by, and the mound has been dug away in excavating, by Drs. Wheaton and McClellan, without making any important discoveries.

John Van Voorhis built a brick residence on his farm in 1817. This was the first brick house in Licking township. Mr. Van Voorhis had the brick made upon his farm.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 695.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1059.

3 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 190.

4 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 187.

5 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 696.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1058.

7 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1220.

8 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 192.

9 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 191.

10 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 194.