William Budd, Esq. and Hannah Riggs

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Husband William Budd, Esq. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 19 Oct 1773 - New Jersey 4
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           Died: 23 May 1849 2
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         Father: William Budd (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Sichy [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 13 Oct 1821 4

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   Other Spouse: Drucilla Hulse (Abt 1782-1815) 2 3 - 1798 - Washington Co, PA 4

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Wife Hannah Riggs ⁴

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           Born: 5 Sep 1779 - New Jersey 4
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           Died: Bef 1849
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - William Budd, Esq.

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He came from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and commenced a settlement on the west side of the Shenango River, in the southern part of the present borough of Sharon, in the spring of 1796. He took up one of the 400-acre tracts of the “warrant lands,” built a log-cabin, and kept “bachelor's hall” for nearly or quite a year. The next season (1797), he built a new log-house a little farther south, and, after its completion, returned to Westmoreland County, and married Brasilia Hultz, and brought her to his home on the Shenango.

In 1796 he was sent out from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to the Shenango Valley by his father, for the purpose of selecting lands for settlement. After exploring the country embraced in Mercer County he selected a tract lying on each side of the Shenango River, built a cabin, and passed the winter of 1796-97 in hunting and trapping, and the following year in the same way. In 1798 he returned to Washington County, where he married, and again came out to his settlement on the Shenango. He was afterward joined by his parents, brothers and sisters, and he built a cabin for his parents not far from his own. He laid out the original town of Sharon on his land, in the year 1815, on the west side of the river, and lived to see it quite a flourishing place. He was a justice of the peace about thirty years.

Another source: The first justice of the peace was William Budd, Jr.

In 1796 William Budd, a native of New Jersey, who had moved from that state to Washington County, Pennsylvania, selected a tract of land on each side of the Shenango river, Mercer County, and passed nearly two years in the locality in hunting and trapping. He really came as an advance agent for his family in Pennsylvania, and in 1798 returned to Washington County and married. He then returned to his settlement on the Shenango, and was afterward joined by his parents (for whom he built a cabin near his own) and his seven brothers and sisters. Thus was established the Budd family in Mercer county. [HMC 1909, 382]

He was born in Washington County, PA, and went to Mercer County in 1790, up the Beaver and Shenango Rivers in a canoe. He built the first log cabin where Sharon now stands and gave the borough its name. He also built the first frame house in Sharon. He purchased from four to six hundred acres of land south of State Street, on both sides of the Shenango River. He gave the land and assisted in building the first church in Sharon—the Baptist church—built of logs. He also gave the ground for the cemetery, which was later destroyed by the people removing the bodies of the dead. The land upon which it was located was sub-divided into lots. Politically, William Budd was a Democrat, and in church faith a Baptist. [HMC 1909, 938]

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 12.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 374, 710.

3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 382.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 710.