John Vance

• General Notes
  • "A descendant of the MOSES VANCE Family, who retained a copy of their original family bible, states several of the MOSES VANCE descendants were buried in this same cemetery, but no doubt their stones were destroyed when the Railroad constructed their branch, or they could have been moved elsewhere, but the above two stones remain under a group of trees.
    
    We shall add here the bible records as follows:
    
    MOSES VANCE, b. 5/23/1773; died 1/27/1829; married ELIZABETH, daughter of JACOB & ELIZABETH STRICKLER, settlers in Tyrone Township in 1797.
    
    ELIZABETH STRICKLER, b. 1773; died 9/8/1849, and both (husband and wife) are buried on the NATHANIEL KING Farm.
    
    Their Children:
    
    JOHN VANCE, b. 1/11/1797; d. 3/12/1886; married MARY STRICKLER, daughter of ABRAHAM STRICKLER.
    
    JACOB VANCE, b. 11/7/1798; d. 11/4/1883; married CHARLOTTE HARDY
    SAMUEL VANCE, b. 7/30/1800
    FRANCES VANCE, b. 3/27/1802
    WILLIAM VANCE, b. 12/6/1804
    CRAWFORD VANCE, b. 3/13/1806; married SUSAN CLAYTON
    MARGARET VANCE, b. 3/29/1808
    ALFRED VANCE, b. 4/22/1810
    ELISA VANCE, b. 9/22/1813; single
    GEORGE VANCE, b. 1/12/1815; single"
    [Reference, MOSES VANCE FAMILY, found in the book "History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, pages 401, 784, 787", by author Franklin Ellis; information transcribed for PA Archives, November 1997.]
    
    Research on the Strickler/Vance families from the "History of Fayette County Pennsylvania Edited by Franklin Ellis, Volume 1; 1882"
    
    
    Moses Vance
    Alexander Vance held one of the 4 land warrants issued for Tyrone County (his was issued 4/3/1769, but not surveyed till 4/11/1788). John Vance, Moses' father settled on a tract of land in 1766. John Vance (d. 1772) "who's ancestors came from Scotland and Ireland, was a native of Virginia". He came to PA with his sister's husband Col. William Crawford. John was already married to his wife Margaret White before he left VA. John died young leaving his wife Margaret to raise their 6 children, David, William, Moses, Jane, Elizabeth, and Maria. "Among the records of property is one where, under date of Jan. 10, 1781, Margaret Vance, widow of John Vance, reported the list of her registered slaves, - one female, named Priscilla, aged twenty-seven years, and two males, Harry and Daniel, aged respectively seven and three years.
    
    Priscilla and Harry afterwards became the property of the daughter, Jane Vance who was married to Benjamin Whalley. The son David (Vance) settled in Kentucky, and William (Vance) remained on the old place until middle life, when he died, never having married. Moses Vance also stayed upon the homestead, and when, in 1790, the land upon which his father's family had lived so long was warrented to Benjamin Whalley, two hundred and fifty acres of it was transferred to him and upon that he resided until his death.
    
    Moses Vance's wife was Elizabeth, a daughter of Jacob Strickler, and they reared a family of seven sons and two daughters, John, Jacob, Samuel, Francis, William, Crawford, George, Margaret, and Eliza. John still lives on the old Gamer place, Jacob is in Lower Tyrone, and William's home is in Connellsville. Before leaving his native town, Tyrone, William held the office of justice of the peace for some years. George Vance removed to Illinois, and Samuel, Francis, Crawford, and Margaret are dead." Note: The above was written around 1882.
    
    1803-1804 Moses Vance and Henry Strickler are listed as Auditors for their Township. 1807 Moses is again listed as an Auditor. In 1847, William Vance is the Auditor. 1849 and 1855, Jacob Vance is the Auditor.(p. 790)
    
    1820 & 1821 Moses Vance was a County Commissioner. (p.150) With 10 shares, he was one of the original ivestors of Connellsville's first banking institution which was formed in 1816 and called "The Connellsville Navigation Company". A number of his Strickler relations were also involved. (p.380) At the March term of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Fayette County in 1822, Isaac Measor, Moses Vance, and Thomas Boyd were appointed commissioners "to enquire into the expediency of dividing Bullskin township and forming a new township out of part thereof to be called Connellsville township." They were successful. (p.401)
    
    
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