Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Samuel Langdon, patriarch

From Lawrence County, Ohio History Book:
Samuel Langdon, Jr. was born 1/26/1763 in Long Island, Dutchess County, NY. That was the year the French and Indian War ended and George III had just come to the throne of England. His father was Samuel Langdon, Sr. His mother is unknown.
Samuel married Anne Clifton on 2/6/1799 in Montgomery Co., VA. Little known about her. Her name may have been Clietall, an Irish name, and her father may have been Richard Clietall of Montgomery Co.Samuel and Anne had at aleast five children, one being a son named William Langdon. He was born in 1804 or 1805 in Montgomery Co. Anne Clifton appears to have died prior to 1815 when Samuel married Drucilla (Zilla) Booth on August 2, 1815, in Montgomery County, Virginia. He was 52 years of age and she was only 22; this was most likely her first marriage. She bore him at least 10 children and is buried next to him.
After 1815 Samuel and Druzillah moved to North Carolina. Around 1818 several families from Montgomery Co. migrated to Lawrence Co. Langdons, Thompsons and Booths. Samuel and Druzillah were in Lawrence County by 1820 when they appeared on the tax lists. They took up land on Symmes Creek, at Getaway, in Lawrence County. They brought with them mill stones with which they built the first water-powered grist mill. Then they manufactured corn meal and wheat flour.

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