Capt. Phillip Null and Margaret Beauchamp

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Husband Capt. Phillip Null ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1752 - Wrightsville, York Co, PA 2 3
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           Died: 1834 - Point Pleasant, VA 2 3
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       Marriage: 1782 - Lincolnton, Lincoln Co, NC 2

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Wife Margaret Beauchamp ^{3 4}

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            AKA: [Unk] Bushong
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         Father: Pierre Beauchamp (      -      ) 3 4
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Children

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1 M Henry Null ^{4 5 6}

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           Born: 24 Apr 1783 - Lincolnton, Lincoln Co, NC 3 4
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           Died: 9 Oct 1845 - East Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 4 7
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Pool (1784-1873) 3 4 6
           Marr: 20 May 1804 3

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2 F Sarah Null ⁴

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         Spouse: Jacob Saddler (      -      ) 4

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3 F Gloria Null ⁴

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         Spouse: Ludwick Otterman (      -      ) 4

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4 M Philip Null, Jr. ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Phillip Null

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His parents were Huguenots, from the French-German district, known as Alsace-Loraine and were French people. [They settled in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 1731.?]
In 1780 he went as a captain of the revolutionary war in the militia to North Carolina, and was at the battle of Camden, August, 1780, where General Gates was defeated by Cornwallis. He was also under the command of General Francis Marion, for whom he named his youngest son. He settled at Lincolnton, North Carolina, and married. His eldest son was born in North Carolina, the eldest of six children. The family resided several years at the home of their grandfather, Pierre Beauchamp, in Virginia. They crossed the Alleghany mountains in 1799, locating in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on land on which later would stand St. Joseph's Academy at Greensburg. After a few years the family, except three children, removed to Putnam County, Virginia, locating on several hundred acres of land taken on an officer's script. His son Henry and two married daughters remained in Westmoreland county. Captain Phillip Null died at Point Pleasant, Virginia in 1834 of cholera, while en route to visit his son Henry at Greensburg, Pennsylvania. [HWC 1906 II, 19]

He was born in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, and was there reared and educated. He was an officer in the Revolutionary war, serving under Generals Marion and Sumpter, and upon the cessation of hostilities located and resided for some years in Lincolnton, North Carolina. He then returned north and for a time was a resident of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, living in the vicinity of Greensburg, from whence he removed to West Virginia, locating on the Little Kanawa river where he spent the latter years of his life, passing away at an advanced age.

When the mutterings of war preceding the Revolution were heard in Pennsylvania, he enlisted, in 1775, in Captain George Hudson's company, associated battalions of Lancaster County, and in 1777 was a private in the First Associated Battalion, Fourth Company, commanded by Captain George Null. In 1780 he went to North Carolina, settling at Lincolnton. There he again entered the army, attaining the rank of captain of militia. He participated in the battle of Camden, fought in August, 1780, and was in the memorable two weeks' retreat after that battle which was a defeat for the Colonials. He was with General Marion at the Battle of Cowpens, and was with him during that period of depression when the fires of liberty were burning very low save in those Carolina swamps. The records of North Carolina in the Revolution were carried away or destroyed during the Civil War, and further official record of his service is impossible.
After the Revolution, Captain Null and his family spent several years in the area of Rockingham County, Virginia, but in the year 1800 they crossed the mountains to Pennsylvania, locating on the farm which later became the site of St. Joseph's Academy at Greensburg. They resided several years on the farm on the Sewickley known as the Colonel John T. Fulton farm. Later Captain Null returned to Virginia with his three younger children and took up sixteen hundred acres in Putnam County on warrants issued to him on account of his services as an officer of the Revolution. His son, Henry, and two married daughters remained in Westmoreland County, and his grandson, Henry Harrison Null, is authority for the statement that in 1828, Captain Null came from Virginia to visit his son Henry. "He was then an aged man and walked with a cane. I remember him well." It was from the lips of his grandfather that Henry Harrison Null obtained the information concerning his military experiences in North Carolina as herein set forth. [P-AH, 93]

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Beauchamp

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from Rockingham Co, VA

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 19, 258.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 93.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 19.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 94.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 19, 138.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 647.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 20.