History of the Peter Dillow Family Lineage

Records of Pierre Delon AKA: Peter Dillow AKA Peter Delo

The Canaday Family History and the book Henry Dillon wrote in 1909 "History of Dillon, Fletcher, and Kindred Families" have simular accounts that Luke Dillon and his wife Susanna Garret came to the Colonies in the early 1700.

TheCanaday family legend think that Luke Dillion and Susanna Garrett first migrated from Kilkenny, Ireland to Nantucket and then later migrated to Bucks County, PA.

The Dillon family legend simply has that Luke Dillon was born in Kilkenny, Ireland and appeared in Bucks County, PA where they supported themselves by their profession as weavers. Their two sons, William and Daniel Dillon immigrated from Bucks County, PA about 1740 to Frederick (Jefferson) (Berkeley) County, VA.

Luke Dillon and Susanna Garrett's son, William , remained in Frederick (Jefferson) (Berkeley) County, VA until he died. It is also believed that it is William Dillon AKA William Dillow through his sons who along with Peter Dillow born in VA about 1754-57, the nephew of William, were the Dillows of Frederick (Berkeley) (Jefferson) County, VA which became Jefferson County, WV.

William's brother, the son of Luke Dillon and Susanna Garrett, Daniel Dillon left in a Quaker immigrated from Frederick Jefferson) (Berkeley) County, VA on to Guilford (Rowan) County, NC sometime before 1770. The first public record of Daniel Dillon and his family show up in Guilford County, NC in the census of 1770.

Daniel Dillon , according to the Quaker records found by Henry Dillon in 1909 is believed to be the father of Peter Dillon AKA Peter Dillow born in VA about 1754-57.

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The following advertisement from Sowers Newspaper, dated February 13, 1761, is typical of the information found in northern Pennsylvania counties:

Land of the Pennsylvania Land Company is advertised for sale, and the names of the occupants are given as follows: ...... Makefield Township, Bucks County, 4,000 acres ...... ... James and William Dellon ... (and 13 other names)

There was no further record of these two persons - at least none Early American Delo Families can identify, as well as other researchers at this time.

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The records that have been found show that there is no connection between the Dillons and Dillows that branched from Luke Dillon and Sussana Garrett who were of Irish-English orgin, and the Dillows and Dillons that branched from Pierre Delon of French orgin who arrived in PA 1736, nor to Nicolas Delon also of French origin who arrived inPA in 1749.

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SHIPS TO PENNSYLVANIA and OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE, 1727-1775

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In ship "Princess Augustus," September 16, 1736--Jean Comer, Sebastian and Dietrick Coquelin, Pierre Delon, Nicholas Gerard, Jean Francois Christean, Collas Drasbart, Joseph and David Noel, Francois and Nicholas Orth.

On the ship list Pierre's name was spelled three different ways. It was spelled as Pierre Dulon on the ship list. On the list of men to be qualified his name was spelled Petter Delo, 40. For some reason, he was listed again on the ship's list as Pierre Dilon, a wife and 4 children.

[Palatines imported in the Ship Princess Augusta, Samuel Marchant, Master, from Rotterdam. Qualified September 16, 1736.]
MEN TO BE QUALIFIED,AGES
(List B): The signers of the Oath of Allegiance to England Petter Delo,40

(List A): The Captain's List [List 42 A] Women & Children making in all Three hundred & thirty Persons.

Francis Ore, a wife 3 children.
Nicholas Ore
Nicholas Trasbart, a wife and 6 children.
Pierre Dilon, a wife and 4 children.
Nicolas Gerard, a wife and no child.
Jean Francois Chretien, a wife and one child.
Eneas Newell, a wife and one child.
Joseph Newell, a wife and 6 children, of whom Pierre Newell is one.

A true List.
Septr. 16th 1736. Saml Marchant.
"At the Courthouse of Philadia, September 16th, 1736.
One hundred and twelve foreigners from the Palatinate, and other places, who, with their families, making in all three hundred thirty persons, were imported here in the ship Princess Augusta, Samuel Merchant, from Rotterdam, but last from Cowes, as by Clearance thence, were this day qualified as usual." From the Minutes of the Provincial Council, printed in Colonial Records, Vol.IV, p.72.

(List C): The signers of the Oath of Abjuration [List 42 C] At the Courthouse of Philadelphia, Septr 16th 1736. Present The Honble James Logan, Esqr, Presidt. Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Griffits Ralph Asheton, Esqrs. William Allen, Esqr, Mayor of the City of Philadia. The Palatines whose Names are underwritten imported in the Ship Princess Augusta, Samuel Marchant, Master, from Rotterdam, but last from Cowes, did this day take & subscribe the Oaths to the Government.

Pierre Dulon.

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• Peter Dillo(e).....................1736 A Huguenot in Lancaster County, PA. ^{1 & 2}

DILLON ( Welsh). " Dillyn the From fine: brave, gallant, handsome.
DILLON (British). "Dillo (='destroy')" (Germanic). Names taking -- or based on -- the first name of the ancestor's father (patronymic).

Many names of the early French settler's names became Huguenot or because many of them could not read or write their own names they were spelled by others by the way they sounded. As a result most of the descendants are unaware of their Huguenot ancestry.

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The records of Peter Delon, Dillo, Dilloe in Southeast Pennsylvania are:²

Peter Delon.......................1736 Arrived in Philadelphia via Rotterdam.

Pierre Delon.......................1736 100 acres of land surveyed, Lancaster County, PA

Pierre Dillo(e)....................1736 100 acres of land surveyed, Lancaster County, PA

Lancaster County was formed on May 10, 1729 from part of Chester County.

Lancaster; incorporated Mar. 20 , 1818; laid out as town in Mar. 1730. Incorporated as a borough August 13, 1742.⁴

• Anne Marie Delon.........26 April 1725    daughter of Pierre Delon and Agatte Munier; godfather: Joseph Charpantier; godmother: Marie Poirelle.
• Michel Delon........17 September 1726    son        of Pierre Delon and Agathe Munier; godfather: Michel Charpantier; godmother: Odile Dieudonne.
• Pierre Delon................9 January 1729    son         of Pierre Delon and Agathe Munier; godfather: Nicolas Le Boube; godmother: Anne Benoit.
• Jeanne Delon ..................19 July 1733   daughter of Pierre Delon and Agathe Munier. Godfather: Michel Munier; godmother: Magdelaine Quirin.
• Genevieve Delon..30 November 1735    daughter of Pierre Delon and Agathe Munier. Godfather: Nicolas Delon; godmother: Marie Mathieu.

Records seem to incicate that two of the four children on the ship's list which Pierre Delon AKA Peter Dillo brought with him to PA in 1736 were two sons named Michael and Pierre. *The dates given are christening dates and not necessarily their birth dates. Many protestian religions such as Presbyterian also christened children. Anyone looking for records should look in all the protestian churches that christen children. They may have marriage records as well.

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Reasons for the lack of records are that no schedules are known to exist for 1790 for Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Only scattered schedules for 1800 exist. Apparently, both the 1790 and the 1800 missing schedules were destroyed during the British attack on Washington during the War of 1812. The 1790 schedules for Virginia were based on state enumeration's done about 1785.

The 1890 schedules were almost all lost when a fire broke out in the Department of Commerce building in January 1921. for additional information on the fate of the 1890 census schedules see Kellee Blake, "First in the Path of the Firemen" The Fate of the 1890 Population Census (Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration, Spring 1996, vol. 28,no.1).

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Pierre Delon AKA Peter Dilloe AKA Peter Dillo arrived in PA in 1736. He had land records in 1736 at age 40 in Lancaster County, PA. Because of the continious changing and settling of new land, people changed their county of residence without ever having to physically move an inch. For example, Berks County, formed on 11 March 1752, was formerly part of Philadelphia County, Lancaster County and Chester County.
Peter Dillo........1762 Berwick Twp., 1762 land purchased
Peter Dello.......1762 Taxed on land held in Berwick Twp.

Peter Dillo........1772 Buys land in Maytown, Donegall Twp., Lanc. Co.
Peter Dilow......1773 State taxes; owns no land, Leacock Twp., Lanc. Co.
Peter Dillow.....1779 State taxes; owns no land, Leacock Twp., Lanc. Co.

Peter Dellow....1782 Land transaction in Maytown, Lanc. Co.
Peter Dillo........1786 Land deal in Donegall Twp., Lanc. Co.

Besides the ship and land records from 1736 to 1786, there are no other records found, at this time, for Peter Dillo, Dello, Dillow, Dellow, Dillo in PA. The land transactions span a 53 year time frame. There is no way to know for sure if they are all the records of the one Pierre Delon born 1696 or if they include records both Pierre Delon and his son, Pierre Delon, born 1726.

In any case, there are no other records of Pierre Delon born 1696 in PA. And unless some of the land records are for Pierre Delon 1726, there are no records of Pierre Delon 1726 in PA.

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According to the Delo, De Loe, Dillow Family History Delo, De Loe, Dillow Family History-- Michael Hartman Dillow was first located as a resident of Northampton County, situated north of Philadelphia. Two references to M. H. Dillow are found in that county for 1761. The first was his oath of allegiance, taken March 22, 1761 at Philadelphia; Northampton was given as his residence. (The oath was taken by foreigners who had been in the country more than seven years and who wanted to become a citizen of England.)

That same year, Michael Hartman Dillow paid taxes on land he owned in Upper Milford township in Northampton. No further record of this man was found in the state of Pennsylvania.

He re-appeared in the state of North Carolina in 1772 where he purchased almost 300 acres of land in Rowan County, near the Yadkin River. From then on, through the early 1800s, his name was spelled the same way as were his Virginia and Pennsylvania relatives; Delow, Dillow, Dello, Delo. Subsequent investigation by Mrs. Connie Dillow and myself revealed that most of the Dillows of North Carolina migrated to southern Illinois around 1818. Peter, (1773 - 18? ) the oldest, was one of three sons of Michael Hartman Dillow.

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Other and records that appear in the same area as Peter and John Delow, Dellow, Dillo, Dillow are for Michael:

Michael Delow......Berwick Twp., 1762 land surveyed but not purchased.
Michael Dillow......Franklin Twp., 1768 land surveyed but not purchased.
*Michael Dillow....Cumberland Twp., 1770 owns land
Michael Delow......Menallen Twp. Adams Co. which was surveyed in 1769.
Michael Delow......Menallen Twp., Adams Co., which was surveyed in 1770 and located in Buchannen Valley AKA Pleasant Valley.
Michael Delow......Menallen Twp., Adams Co. 1772 payes taxes.

* Adams was not formed until 1800, but the area lies in the territory which became Adams. Originally it was York Co.
There are no further records in PA of this Michael Delow, Dillow, Delow in PA who was with John in about 1772 in "Pleasant Valley."

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John Dellow, Dillow, Dillo, Dello, Ditlow has the following land records:

John Dillow....1768-1783 land and taxes, Cumberland Twp.,
....................*1769: land in Cumberland & Franklin Twps., Adams Co.*
......................1773: taxes in Cumberland Twp., Adams Co.
......................1779: personal property taxes; no land. Mt. Jay Twp., York Co.
......................1780: personal property taxes; no land. Mt. Jay Twp., York Co.
......................1781: taxes on 30 acres in Cumberland Twp., Adam Co.
......................1782: sold land in Cumberland Twp. for 100 pounds sterling.
......................1783: head tax: no land. Cumberland Twp.,Adam Co.

* Adams was not formed until 1800, but the area lies in the territory which became Adams. Originally it was York Co.
John moved to Buchannen Valley AKA Pleasant Valley about 1770 with Micheal Dillow AKA Michael Delow about 1770.

There are no records that have been found, at this time, that can definitely connect this John to the Pierre Delon who arrived in PA in 1726 with two sons named who's christening names were Michael and Pierre, Jr.

Is this John a son of Pierre Delon who was born after the family arrived in PA in 1736? Or, is this John, actually the Pierre jr who arrived as a child with his father Pierre Delon in 1736?

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John had one son that we know of who was named Charles. Charles was born in the valley about 1760. Charles had three sons born late 1770's early 1780's named: Peter, Michael and John.

It was Charles's sons, Peter and Michael who were original members of St. Ignatius Catholic Church 1818. Their families married into Erwin/Irwin clan families of the Noels and Strausbaugh, and other families of the Erwin/Irwin clan. They changed their name finally to Dillon.

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All and records for Michael and Michael Hartman disappear in PA by 1772, the only the records that have surfaced thus far are for a of a Michael Dillow are of a Michael Hartman Dillow who surfaces in Rowan County NC in 1772 who's records indicate that he was married and had one child born in in PA, before his relocation to NC.

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Henry Dillon in 1909 in his quest to find Quaker records of Daniel Dillon's son Peter Dillon AKA Peter Dillow states that, "It seem some letters from Mr Davis tells of some records of Dillons (Dillows) we are unable to connect with any family of Dillons we have so far found in our relationship. The record is as follows: 'Peter Dillon, son of Peter and Susanna Dillon, was born March 24, 1725.' He could not be a son or a grandson of Luke Dillon, the emigrant.

Since christening dates were not and always birth dates, I can't help but wonder if this Peter Dillon or Peter Dillow is the son of Pierre Delon Jr and grandson of Pierre Delon born 1796. I have found many errors in Henry Dillon's book written in 1909. I find it is possible that he may have gotten the dates wrong, and that this Peter Dillow is the son of Michael Hartman Dillow who migrated from PA to NC in 1772. There is a second record of a Peter Dillon or Peter Dillow in the New Market Quaker records who married a Charity Mills in the New Garden meeting 9 MAR 1786.

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Southwestern Pennsylvania History Ti meline
Serious disputes were had by Pennsylvania with the neighboring colonies in relation to boundary lines. The settlement of the line between her and Maryland was attended with much difficulty, and consumed many years of negotiation. Had the claim of Lord BALTIMORE, of Maryland, been conceded, the line would have been run twenty miles or more north of the present boundary, and Pennsylvania would have lost about three million acres of her most fertile soil. Had PENN's claim been conceded, the consequence would have been still more serious to Maryland. She would have lost all north of Annapolis - about two-thirds of her territory, including the site of Baltimore and several important towns. The existing boundary, known as MASON and DIXON's line, was run in the year 1767 and 1768, and the agreement ratified by the King in 1769.

The Pittsburgh region appears to have first been the subject of controversy in 1752, when Thomas PENN wrote to the Governor of Pennsylvania, desiring him "to enter into any reasonable measures to assist the Governor of Virginia to build a fort there, to wit: at the Ohio, taking some acknowledgment from him that this settlement shall not be made use of to prejudice our right to that country."

The controversy between Virginia and Pennsylvania in regard to the ownership of territory assumed its most serious aspect about the time the Maryland boundary question was adjusted.

Note that "western" or "southwestern" Pennsylvania refers to the area where present-day Washington County (an others) is located, although ownership of the land changed many times before 1786.⁵

• 1669 - Earliest French exploration of western Pennsylvania.
• 1736 on 16 September the ship Princess Augusta docked in Philadelphia. The ship's journey originated in the Rhine River Valley of Germany and passengers boarded as far down the Rhine as Rotterdam, port of embarkation. The only other stop was at Cowes, England. On board were several Huguenot families which included Pierre Delon Delon AKA Pierre Dulon AKA Peter Dilo and his wife and at least four children all under sixteen years on age.
• 1739 and 1749 - More French expeditions to establish fur trade with the Indians.
• 1740 William and Daniel Dillon left Bucks County, PA and immigrated to Frederick (Berkeley)(Jefferseon)(WV), VA.
• 1740 There is no mention of the children of Susanna and her second husband Peter Dillow's children from Bucks County, PA.
• 1748 - The Ohio Company is formed by Virginia gentlemen, including two of George Washington's brothers, to affect settlement in southwestern Pennsylvania and carry on Indian trade on a large scale.
• 1750 - Disgruntled Indians pushed back from the east into western Pennsylvania by this time.
• 1750/1752.....1. MICHAEL MATHEW DILLOW born about 1750, married Mary Keiffer was called Michel Dillow of Fort Dillow after he built the fort in 1775.
• 1753 - French build forts and begin asserting their claim to the region including western Pennsylvania.
• 1754 - Spring, Col. George Washington sent by Virginia with a military force to get the French to leave the territory. Washington loses the ensuing battle at Fort Duquense.

Gov. DINWIDDIE, of Virginia, on the 19th of February, 1754, announced his intention of building a fort on the Ohio to oppose further encroachments or hostile attempts of the French, and offered the men who were to be engaged in the work, over and above their pay, 200,000 acres of land, 100,000 acres of which should be contiguous to the fort, and the other 100,000 on or near the river. This proclamation was immediately transmitted by Gov. DINWIDDIE to Gov. HAMILTON, of Pennsylvania, and the latter soon replied that, having inquired very particularly into the extent of this province westwardly, he had the greatest reason to believe that the fort and lands intended to be granted were within the limits of Pennsylvania. Gov. DINWIDDIE was equally firm in the belief that they were within Virginia’s jurisdiction. Thus, as CRAIG states, "the region around Pittsburgh was the bone of double contention; England and France were about to go to war for it, and Pennsylvania and Virginia to commence a controversy about it, which endured for more than twenty years, in the course of which much ill blood and angry feeling were displayed." After the consideration and rejection of many propositions for the settlement of the disputed claims, the present line between Pennsylvania and Virginia, on the south, was agreed upon by the two States in 1782. It is an extension of MASON and DIXON's line, and was not completed and permanently marked until 1784.

• 1755 - British Gen. Braddock takes troops west, is joined by militia, and is ambushed and massacred before reaching Fort Duquense. Indians begin attacking settlers along the frontier, forcing them back east of the Alleghenies.
• 1755 to 1756 - Settlements begin in the area of present Washington County.
• 1755..............2. ABRAHAM DILLOW born about 1755, married MARY born about 1755? They had a child named ELIZABETH DILLOW (born circa 1776
• 1756 - Colony of Pennsylvania declares war on the Shawnees and Delawares. Pennsylvania begins building forts along the frontier, provisioned with men and supplies.
• 1757..............4. MARGARET DILLOW (27 APR or SEP 1757-27 MAR 1830) married Joseph R McKinnon (1734-22 JUN 1809)

Children:
• Mary McKinnon.........................1774-APR 1845.
• Daniel McKinnon................24 MAR 1776-24 SEP 1854.
• Nancy McKinnon.................20 FEB 1778-15 JAN 1880.
• Michael McKinnon...............01 AUG 1781-27 APR 1874.
• Ruth McKinnon.........................1783-04 May 1851.
• Margaret McKinnon.....................1787-??.
• John McKinnon..................30 OCT 1792 in Washington Co., PA-died on 08 AUG 1828 in Wayne Co., Indiana.
• Theopolis Addison McKinnon........JAN 1794 in Washington Co., PA- died on 24 Oct 1827 in East Liverpool, Columbiana, OH.
• George Dillow McKinnon.........14 OCT 1795-11 OCT 1880.
• Joseph R McKinnon Jr.......... 10 MAR 1796-24 OCT 1880.

• 1758 - Peace treaty signed between Pennsylvania and the Shawanees and Delawares.
• 1758 - November, British Gen. Forbes takes Ft. Duquense with a force of 2500. Fort renamed Fort Pitt.
• 1759 - French abandon area of western Pennsylvania.
• 1762 - British sign treaty with French, British left in possession of all eastern America.
• 1763 - Summer, remaining dissatisfied Indians attack all along the frontier. Some forts defeated. British send troops reinforce Fort Pitt. Indians defeated at battle of Bushy Run.
• 1765 - Settlements made at Redstone (below Brownsville on the Monongahela) and Turkey Foot.
• 1768 - October, Proprietary of Pennsylvania purchases country from the Indians as far west as the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers.
• 1768.............9. ABRAM DILLOW (1768-1852) married Elizabeth Steele, daughter of Robert Steele and Mary Keeling:

11 Children of Abraham Dillow born 1796-1827:
• Robert Dillow.....................1796-187? b. Wythe County VA;-d. about 1873/1879 Greenup County, KY.
• James Dillow......................1798-187? b. Wythe County, VA; d. about 1870/1879 Tazewell County, VA.
• Female Dillow....................1800-??. Either died or married before the 1830 census.
• Thomas Dillow*.................1808-1891 b. Wythe County, VA; d. TN 1891. Thomas disappeared 1820 VA census; shows up in TN 1830.
• Mary Dillow.......................1812-1860 b. in Wythe County, VA; d. Aft. 1860 in Dekalb County, MO.
• Addison Dillow...................1814-1880 b. n Wythe County, VA; died Aft. 1880 in Bland County, VA.
• Elizabeth Dillow..................1816-1880 b. Wythe County, VA; d. Aft. 1880 Bland County, VA.
• Margaret Dillow.................1819-1880 Wythe County, VA; d. Aft. 1880 Bland County, VA.*
• William Dillow...March 11, 1822-1880 b.Wythe County, VA; d.Aft. 1880 Bland County, VA.*
• Granville Dillow..................1825-1860 b.Wythe County, VA; d.Bet. 1859/1860 Wythe County, VA.
• Catherine Dillow.................1827-185? b.Wythe County, VA; d.Bet. 1854/1860.

• 1769 - April, opening of land offices for sales of lands obtained in the 1768 Land Purchase. Within one month, 3200 applications for warrants were made, mostly by Scotch-Irish in eastern Pennsylvania.

After provincial Pennsylvania's land purchase from the Indians in 1769, a migration of people began coming from the eastern counties of Chester, Lancaster, York, and Dauphin as well as those of Northern Maryland. By 1773 the population was increasing steadily. And it was between 1771 and 1775 that the lands west of the Monongahela River were settled. Most of these lands were obtained under Virginia titles, especially along Chartiers Creek, rather than Pennsylvania, mostly because the price Virginia was asking is said to have been one fourteenth the cost asked by Pennsylvania.

"Most settlers of the new land [western Pennsylvania] followed the river valleys and old Indian trails to the interior. The trip beyond the Alleghenies was more difficult because this this required going across the mountains. The most used route was known as the Great Pennsylvania Road, running from Philadelphia to Lancaster to York to Gettysburg to Chambersburg to Bedford to Somerset to Greensburg to Pittsburgh."⁴ After the Revolution, the preponderance of settlers in southwestern Pennsylvania were Scotch-Irish mingled with some English, Germans, and others. By 1790, ten Presbyterian churches had been established in the area. By the second generation, even more settled by these peoples which overflowed to the north and to the west into Ohio, making the region a stronghold of this ethnic group in the commonwealth.

From a letter written in 1832 by Rev. Dr. John McMillan we get a glimpse of conditions in 1775 when he first crossed the Allegheny Mountains to preach along Chartiers Creek in what is now Washington Co.: "...But we had neither bedstead, nor tables, nor stool, nor chair, nor bucket. All these things we had to leave behind us, as there was no wagon road at that time over the mountains."

What is the Presbyterian practice regarding appointing godparents? Marriage and birth records were kept in family Bibles, not in the churches.

The term "godparent" is not used in our Directory for Worship. Instead, we speak of baptismal "sponsors." While "godparents" are often understood to assume a special role in the life of a baptized child on behalf of the child's parents, baptismal "sponsors" serve the one being baptized, whether child or adult, on behalf of the entire congregation. Baptismal sponsors are appointed by the church session on behalf of the entire church. When presenting their children for baptism, parents may request specific sponsors, whom the session then endorses for service in this capacity. Sponsors act on behalf of the church to assure that the baptized are indeed nurtured by the community in the Christian faith.

• 1770-1771 - Influx of Scotch-Irish from Chester, Lancaster, Bedford, and York counties and some directly from Ulster.
• 1770...............10. JOHN JOSEPH DILLOW SON OF MICHAEL MATHEW DILLOW OF FORT DILLOW IS BORN.
• 1772 Michael Hartman Dillow leaves PA and relocates in Rowan County, NC.
• 1772...............11. THOMAS DILLOW born about 1772 only have military records about him.
• 1773...............12. GEORGE M DILLOW SON OF MICHAEL MATTHEW DILLOW OF FORT DILLOW IS BORN. (1773 – 1848).
• 1776...............13. ELIZABETH DILLOW (born circa 1776 DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM DILLOW; she married William Mullin.
• 1775 - April, war breaks out in Massachusetts against the British.
• 1776 - July, Continental Congress declares the American Colonies independent.
• 1776 - Pennsylvania given a new constitution, overthrowing the proprietary Penn government and shifting control away from the Quakers.
• 1780 - Pennsylvania passes slave emancipation law.
• 1780.....................MICHAEL MATTHEW DILLOW BUILDS FORT CALLED FORT DILLOW.
• 1781 - March, County of Washington established with population 23,866.
• 1781 - October, British surrender to the Americans and the Revolution is over.
• 1782......................MICHAEL MATTHEW DILLOW is ambushed and killed by Indians; son JOHN JOSEPH DILLOW is taken captive.

• 1785................John Joseph Dillow escapes from the Indians. His mother and siblings have gone. His land is gone.
• 1786 - Region of southwestern Pennsylvania previously under the claim of Virginia is ceded to Pennsylvania by a joint commission of the two states.
• 1787 - Early, Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
• 1787 - December, Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the Constitution.
• 1788 - Allegheny County established, taken from Washington and Westmoreland Counties.
• 1789 - April, George Washington inaugurated President.
• 1791 - Tax on whiskey passed by the Federal government.
• 1794 - Farmers in southwestern Pennsylvania openly oppose all efforts collection of the tax. President Washington sends militia troops to the area and the rebellion is quashed.
• 1857..................Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized in 1858 by Rev. John DELO, who came here in 1857; History of Butler County Pennsylvania, Concord Township.
• 1862...................Name of Groom: James A. Dillow, Name of Bride: Frances A. Grady Date: 10-16-1862;
Bland county, VA.
• 1863. June 20 West Virginia split from Virginia and became a state.
• 1873..................Greece City was created a separate station in 1873, with Rev. B.F. DILLO in charge, but since 1874 it has been a part of the North Washington circuit. In 1883 the church building was moved from the hill to its present site.

"We the subscribers, do hereby engage ourselves as soldiers in his Majesty's service, under the command of Captain John Vanetta, for the space of one month and whoever of us shall got drunk, desert or prove cowardly in Time of Action, or disobedient to our officers, shall forfeit our pay. This agreement we make in consideration of being allowed at the rate of $6 per month wages, one dollar for the use of a gun and blanket to each man who will furnish himself with them and the provisions and rum mentioned in the paper hereto annexed .....          Franz delon, willing.

• Daniel Ralph Delong
• Cornelis Delong
• James Delong
• Abraham Delong
• Mary "Polly" Delong
• Jacob Delong
• Francis Delong
• Hannah Delong>
• Irene Delong
• Orra Delong
• Lydia Delong
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