Andrew Byerly and Beatrice Guldin

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Husband Andrew Byerly ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - ? Germany
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1776
         Buried:  - Brush Creek Cemetery, near Manor Station, Westmoreland Co, PA

       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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Wife Beatrice Guldin ^{3 4}

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           Born:  - Canton Berne, Switzerland
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew Byerly

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He came from Germany to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where his first wife died. He married again and then removed to the site of Harrison City, Westmoreland County.

He was one of Col. Bouquet's scouts at "Bushy Run." He was one of eighteen scouts sent out on the morning of that battle, and was one of but six who were not killed.

He came to western Pennsylvania with Braddock's army as General Braddock's butler. Here he married and settled. [ONW, 176]

A noted pioneer, he located at Lancaster, Pennsylvania at an early date. He served in General Braddock's army in 1755, and from then until 1760 was with the garrison at Fort Bedford. In 1759 he was granted a tract of land on Bushy Run in Westmoreland County, on which a year later he built a cabin, and established a relay station between Fort Pitt and Fort Ligonier. At the decisive battle of Bushy Run in August, 1763, he fought under Colonel Henry Bouquet. He died just prior to the Revolutionary War. [ONW, 1256]

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General Notes: Wife - Beatrice Guldin

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She "escaped Pontiac’s confederates and bore her tender babes through the wilderness (at night) from Bushy Run to Ft. Ligonier in 1763, and was a blessing to hundreds of pioneer settlers by her deeds of Christian charity."

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 73, 91, 354.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 176, 1256.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 73.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1257.