Demas Lindley Lindley

1733 - 1818  (84 years)

• Name	Demas Lindley Lindley  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	3 Jun 1733	Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, USA   [2, 3, 4]
  Christening	Yes, date unknown  [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Jan 1818	First Presby. Church Cem., Morris, New Jersey, United States   [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
  Death	22 Jan 1818	Upper Ten Mile, Washington Co., Pennsylvania, USA   [2, 3, 4]
  Notes	In 1760 Demas Lindsley left Mendham, Morris Co., NJ and led a band of pioneers to Washington County, PA, where they settled in 1763 and built the Lindsley Fort near Upper Ten Mile, now called Prosperity. Demas was a church elder, miller, county commissioner, and land owner. Demas Lindley, built a very strong fort eight miles south of Washington,later Prosperity, Penn. about 1770. He moved there with his family from Mendham, N.J. in 1773. (In 1928, there was a momument erected marking the location of this fort.) He was buried in the graveyard at the Upper Then Mile Presbyterian Church. His tombstone states in the "60th. year of his Eldership in the Church." Notes from "History of Washington Co. PAP 1882, Boyd Cumrine, Records of First Chruch, Morristown, N.J., Combined Registers, 1742-1885, P.197. Notes ,"The History of the Lindley, Lindsley-Linsley Families in America"1639- 1930, by John M. Lindly, Page 177.
  Person ID	I190	Molteno Genealogy
  Last Modified	1 Feb 2022

  
  

  Family	Joanna Prudden,   b. 4 Nov 1735, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA d. 11 Nov 1808, Prosperity, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	25 Jan 1755	Mendham, Morris, New Jersey, USA
  Children	1. Ziba Lindley,   b. 4 Nov 1762, Sussex, New Jersey, USA d. 2 Jun 1849, Athens, Harrison, Ohio, USA (Age 86 years)   2. Rev Jacob Lindley,   b. 13 Jun 1774, Lindleys Fort, Ten Mile Creek, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA d. 29 Jan 1857, Connellsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F42	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Jun 2020

  
  

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