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- On 11 September 1766 John Polley applied for Warrant land in Cumberland County,
300 acres bounded east by a branch of Cockalamus Creek, west by a survey not
known, south with a ridge, and north by the Narrows Mountain. This property
was pattented on 30 April 1829 to David Longnecker. This application followed
by less than a month a similar transaction by Pauley's brother-in-law Robert
McTeer, and was followed immediately by one on the part of another
brother-in-law William Boyd; all three warrant applications described land
bounded on the north by the Narrows Mountain.
On 20 May 1778 John Pauly and John Chain Jr. were witnesses to a deed from
William Boyd and wife Elizabeth, to James Barr; the property conveyed at that
time was located in Fermanagh Township, Cumberland County, abutting on lands of
John Pauly.
According to published tax lists 1778-1785 John Pauley owned 100 acres in
Fermanagh Township. In 1792 he had 150 acres in Greenwood (formerly Fermanagh,
now Fayette) Township, Mifflin County.
During the Revolutionary War in September 1777 John Pauley served as a private
soldier in the 4th Battalion of the Cumberland County Militia.
On 5 April 1784 David Evans of Derry Township, Cumberland County, conveyed to
John Pauley and Edward Watterson of Pennsylvania, gentlemen, for 200 pounds, a
messuage, tenement and tract where Evans now lives, also one-half part of an
improvement purchased by Thomas Evans deceased from John Ferguson now deceased.
These lands were located south of Jacks Mountain and north of Bald Ridge.
Witnesses: John Lamb, John Agnew.
John Polly was listed in the 1790 census as a resident of Mifflin County "north
of Juniata"; his household had two males over 16, two younger boys and four
females.
Shortly after 19 April 1794 Thomas Pauley and Isaac Sellers were appointed
Administrators of the intestate estate of John Pauley, late of Greenwood
Township, Mifflin County. On 13 April 1796 John Pauley over the age of 14
years, son of John Pauley deceased, chose as his guardian Samuel Sharron,
Esquire; on 11 April 1797 Betsey Pauley, over 14 years, daughter of John Pauley,
chose as her guardian John Henderson of Lost Creek.
On 8 February 1803 Samuel Wiley, guardian of Elsey Pauley, one of the daughters
of John Pauley, late of Greenwood Township, deceased intestate since 19 April
1794, petitioned for an inquest of partition and/or evaluation of John's real
estate, 200 acres in Greenwood Township, abutting on lands of Jacob Smith and
the Widow Hart; John Pauley's heirs were listed as a widow Sarah now Sarah
Charter, "and issue to wit": Thomas Pauley eldest son; James Pauley; John
Pauley; Agnes, wife of Isaac Sellers; Sarah, wife of Ewing; and Elsey
Pauley. The writ for an inquest was issued, then voted by the omission of one
of the heirs.
Finally on 19 May 1807 it was agreed that Thomas Pauley, the eldest son, should
take over his father's real estate on these terms; He will pay yearly interest
on $882.75 to Sarah Charters her lifetime; in addition he will pay now $252,22
and an additional $126.11 at his mother's death to each of the following: to
James Pauley, to Archibald Ewing in the right of his wife Sarah, to Isaac
Sellers in the right of his wife Agnes; to Samuel Miller in the right of his
wife Elizabeth, to Elsey Pauley, and to John Pauley or his legal
representative. Shortly after the termination of this probate Thomas Pauley
sold his father's land to David Longnecker, who finally obtained a patent in
1829.
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Reference:
McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis
McTeer, 1975, p 40-42.
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