Notes for John ROSS

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Notes for John ROSS

First information on this family was found in Harold Leckey's book, "The
Tenmile Country and it's Pioneer Families", Cornerstone Genealogical Society,
Greene County, Pennsylvania, page 470. John had a patent on the land next to
a Henry Ross, possibly they were brothers since Henry became a family name
in all subsequent generations of John's descendants. Henry sold his land to
William Heaton and moved to Bourbon County, Kentucky about 1793 where he died
in 1798. He left four children for whom guardians were appointed: John,
Phoebe,Nancy, Mary, and Elizabeth.
John Ross died intestate in 1815 but Orphan's Court records, Docket 1,
page 67, shows Mary and John, Jr. as administrators and subsequent plat maps
show Mary heir to Johns, Sr.'s land. In some histories she is referred to
as Elizabeth. John was one of the earliest settlers on Ruffs Creek branch of
the South fork of Tenmile Creek in Morgan Township. He sold the Mill
March 18, 1797 to John Phillips, a diagram of the mill, dam and pond is
included in the deed record.
The Draper manuscripts in the library of the Wisconsin Historical
Society notes an interview with William Herrod, Jr. in which he states that
his father, William Herrod, was in command of the fort on John Ross's farm in
1774 and that the family forted there that year during Lord Dunsmore's War
and they collected supplies for Lord Dunsmore. The farm was near the present
area of Lippincottt and was subsequently passed to Daniel Heaton by his widow,
Mary Elizabeth Ross. This farm is essentially still intact and I was able to
visit and walk it in 1995 and again in 1996. The family cemetery in one corner
came to be known as the Heaton Cemetery and has been cataloged by Dorothy
Heaton ("Cemetery Records of Greene County, Pennsylvania", Volume 10, 1978, a
Project of the American Revolution Bicentennial Observance 1776-1976, printed
1992 by the Cornerstone Genealogical Society, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.) No
stone remains for John Ross, however, his estate records show a charge for the
boards and nails for the grave and he was burried on his farm. Grimes
Schoolhouse, the ruins of which are still standing on the farm several
hundred feet from the cemetery, came to be a landmark for the farm and
the cemetery. The most common identifiable stones in this terribly overgrown
and almost destroyed cemetery is of the Reinhart family.
Henry Ross sold his tract to William Heaton and a part of this tract was
deeded on March 26, 1793 to the Baptist Church for land on which the present
Church and cemetery stand.
I have in my files a copy of the partition suit for John's estate and an
inventory of the estate since he died intestate. There are also some tax
records and deed abstracts involving the sale of his millpond and mill with a
diagram of them. The tax records include some reports of the births of his
slaves and the tax records regarding his slaves and a description of his
house.
My branch of the family (via Jacob, grandson of John

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