Ray and Hardy

RAY and HARDY


I am searching to prove our family tradition that says........ William Hardy, was married to Margaret Ray, daughter of Lord and Lady Ray..........Margaret was born about 1750 and she died before 1820 in Somerset County PA. Is the Robert Ray that settled Bedford Margaret's father????

Dunaway's The Scotch Irish of Colonial PA says on page 66......Farther to the westward , the Scotch-Irish began to enter present Bedford County, PA as early as 1750 or 1751, when Robert Ray/Rea founded a trading post on the north bank of the Juniata: this was originally known as Raystown, but was later named Bedford town, Bedford County, Pennsylvania

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From a book full of newspaper clips, at the Seattle lib, (sorry I did not get the name but will the next time I am there)



Ray's Sister Captured By Thomas C Imler Early settler John Perrin's first wife was Robert Ray's sister. She was captured by the Indians at the same time that Mrs., Vogan, Clark, Davis, and Tombleson. This raid was led by Chief Wills, As Mrs Perrin was carrying a small baby and could not keep up with the fleeting Indians; on the point of Tussey Mountain near two white rocks (now know as Perrin Rocks) she and her baby were killed and scalped, besides the husbands of women, Michael Huff, George and Joseph Powell, pursued the Indians. By the time these men gained on the Indians the captors were joined by about one hundred other savages. The white pursuers knew it would be impossible to release the captives at that time. The following morning the Indians held a council and about seventy-five of them, with the prisoners started west, the others, except Chief Wills going north. Chief Wills remained at the campsite, until evening, when he also left, and was carefully followed. He camped on a pinnacle of Wills Mountain, where in the morning, at seventy steps George Powell shot and sent his Sprit to the Happy Hunting Grounds, his Topknot was removed and his body buried. The surviving women were returned six years later. John Perin's second wife was Rachel McCoy. He had twenty-two children, and was a useful man in his day. ;-) He lived to be eighty years old and was buried on his farm. Also buried on his farm were Mr. and Mrs Davis and child: Mr. and Mrs Vogan the ancestors of the Boors and Elders of Cumberland Valley. In 1907 these graves were destroyed and cannot be located today. Chaneysvill proper was built by Thomas Chaney Jr. in 1838-39 and was occupied by him as a hotel till the spring of 1844. The first school was built in 1766, school was taught by a man named Ritchey. It was about west of Chaneysville, on a stream then known as Gruber's Creek. George Powell was the brother of Joseph who owned a Trading post on Little Sweet Toot Creek. Along this creek, which runs between Martins Hill and Tusseys Mountain, George Powell discovered the Salt-peter Cave. Here Huff gathered the Salt-petre for Jacob Rowland to make gun powder for the use of the continental army during the war of 1775 - 1780. This cave can be seen, by going to the little Sweet-Root State park, taking the old C.C.C. trail, which the Forest Rangers have cleared and marked. Along this trail is a cut off to the Powell Trading post sight. You pass over a trail along Rabbit Rock, where there is a perfect imprint on the rock of a giant rabbits tracks. Some other early settlers who dates are not known for sure are; Jacob Oiler who owned great amounts of land but did not clear many acres. His sons Peter and Joseph Oiler and Laurence Oiler did clear quite a large amount of land. It has been told that while Laurence was clearing the hill, in back of the buildings on the Carl Dively farm, Indians ran them back into the log house, which is part of the Dively house today. Joseph and John Rickel were very early settlers, Joseph settled where Fred Dively lives now. Joseph's son John's first wife was a daughter of Isaac Fickes, she is buried on the farm her father once owned now owned by Paul Showalter north of Osterburg along Route 220.