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- Samuel Huston is believed to be born in Ireland. He is thought to be brother
of John Huston who arrived in Cumberland Valley Pennsylvania about 1735 and
removed to Virginia on "Burdens Tract", in Rockbridge County in 1745.
Christopher Huston is also believed to be his brother. Christopher Huston
settled in the same neighborhood as Samuel. Samuel Huston's sister Janet
married John Clendenin and also lived in Samuel's neighborhood.
When Cumberland County, Pennsylvania was formed in 1750 there was among the
taxables within its territory a Samuel Huston, as appears by the records in the
Commissioner's Office at Carlisle. He was located in the part of East Pensboro
township that is now Silver Spring.
The records of the Internal Affairs Office show that on 9 November 1752 Samuel
Huston obtained a warrant for a tract of land in East Pennsboro township,
Cumberland County, the survey for which was returned on 7 March 1753. The
warrant for Samuel Huston's tract called for 200 acres but the survey made it
240 acres. The draft on record shows that it was bounded on the south by lands
of John Sample; on the east by John Carson and Richard Peters; on the north by
Robert Carothers, and on the west by John McClellan.
Samuel Huston was a member of the Silver Spring Presbyterian Church, now made
famous in history as the first church west of the Susquehanna river. His name
appears upon the church records in 1764 along with that of 42 other members of
this church and Carlisle who signed a call for the Rev. John Steel to become
pastor of this church.
Samuel Huston was "a private in Captain Henry McKinley's company, 12th
Pennsylvania regiment, commanded by Colonel William Cook, Revolutionary War."
He appears on a receipt roll which shows that he entered the service 11
November 1776, that he was in the service one month and four days and received
2 pounds 16 shillings and 8 pence as the full amount of his pay and 2 pounds
and 8 shillings as subsistence.
On 16 September 1784 Samuel Huston of East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland
County, Pennsylvania, made his will, which was probated on 12 October 1784.
Samuel Huston gave all his lands or real estate to his two younger sons, John
and Jonathan, to be held by them and their heirs in common, with the proviso
that they pay to his son William the sum of twenty-eight pounds, and to his son
Samuel fifty pounds in certain stipulated payments. To his wife he gave
one-third of his personal property, together with a reasonable maintenance out
of his real estate, and named his sons John and Jonathan as the executors of
his will.
The witnesses to the will were Jonathan Hoge, Walter and John Buchanan.
Jonathan Hoge being a Justice of Peace at the time, it is probable that he
wrote the will.
Samuel Houston was buried in Pine Hill Graveyard located in the northwestern
corner of the old Samuel Huston farm, near the edge of a precipitous hill.
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Reference:
"McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania", Frances Davis
McTeer, 1975, p 31.
"History of the Huston Families and their Descendants", E. Rankin Huston, 1912,
p 4, 25, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 82, 202.
Janis Arlene (Meadath) Krulock family group sheets, 7 July 1994, p 4.
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