And eight others.
Third Generation.
3
Jacob^ Vanderheyden {Dirk/ Jacob Tysse^), baptized April
23, 1692; died April 10, 1746; married Hester Visscher.
Issue :
4 i. DiRCK,* born 1722; died 1775.
ii. Jacob, born 1724.
Fourth Generation.
4
DiRCK* Vanderheyden, (Jacob,^ Dirk,- Jacob Tysse^), born
1722; died 1755; married Elizabeth Wendell.
Issue :
5 i. Jacob D.,' born Oct. 20, 1753; died Sept. 4, 1809.
Fifth Generation.
5
Jacob D."* Vanderheyden, {Dirk* Jacob,^ Dirk/ Jacob
Tysse^), born Oct. 20, 1753; died Sept. 4, 1809; married Mary
Owen, bom July i, 1786; died Feby. 20, 1809.
bayeux-vanderheyden-king. 563
Issue :
6 i. Sarah A. M.,^ born April i, 1806; died Oct. 8, 1831.
And others.
Sixth Generation.
6
Sarah A. M.^ Vanderheyden, (Jacob D.,^ Dirk* Jacoh,^
Dirk,^ Jacob Tysse^), born April i, 1806; died Oct. 8, 1831 ; mar-
ried Dec. 5, 1825, John H. Bayeux, who died June 25, 1833.
Issue :
Ellen B. L." Bayeux, born Oct. 11, 1826; died Aug.
12, 1900.
Seventh Generation.
7
Ellen B. L.' Bayeux, (Sarah A. ikf.® Vanderheyden, Jacob
Z)./ Dirk* Jacob, ^ Dirk,- Jacob Tysse^), born Oct. 11, 1826; died
Aug. 12, 1900; married May 6, 185 1, Harvey J.^ King (Roger,^
Lieut. Eliphalet,'* Capt. Joseph,^ James,- William^), born July 16,,
1824. For further account of Harvey J. King, Esq., and his de-
scendants see King Genealogy, pages 245-248, ante.
3
HAIGHT-KING.
Janet Cameron^ Haight, (Fletcher M./ Gen. Samuel 5"./
Stephen,^ Jonathan* John,^ John,^ Simon,^ of Charleston, Mass.,
1628), born July 9, 1823, in Bath, N. Y. ; died Dec. 21, 1844, in
Rochester, N. Y. ; married Jany. 23, 1844, at Rochester, N. Y.,
George EHphalet" King (Seth,^ Lieut. EHphalet,* Capt. Joseph,
James,- WilHam^). It is supposed that the name Haight was de-
rived from the word Hoit or Hoyte, of Dutch origin. The word
hoit or hoyt is now obselete, but in old Enghsh it sometimes
meant "to leap or caper" (Webster's Diet., Hoit) or to be noisily
or riotously merry. The ancestor of the family may have ob-
tained the surname from his athletic proclivities of leaping or
capering, or because he was a noisily merry fellow. We meet with
the word in the old English of Beaumont & Fletcher in the
"Knight of the Burning Pestle" where the words run as follows :
He "sings and hoits and revels among his drunken companions."
The tradition is that the family was originally Dutch — "Hoyte" —
and it is said that the present Baron V^on Hoyte of Germany and
the Haights, Hoyts and Hights are all from the same Dutch
stock. However that may be, the family was well established in
Somersetshire, England, as early as the year 1400. The earliest
spelling of the name in the records of England in 1417-1418-1503
is Hoyte but Hayte and Haite occur with reference to the same
family in England in the years 1548-1572-1610. The first Amer-
ican ancestor of the Haight family, Simon Hoyte, (sometimes
spelled Hait) landed in Salem, Mass., in the year 1628 and soon 1
thereafter the family spread to Connecticut, Long Lsland, and I
several places in New York state.
One of the most singular facts in connection with the Haight
family is the orthography of the name and the various ways in 1
which members of the same family have spelled their names. No
less than thirty-four different methods of spelling the name appear
in the records, as follows : Hoyte, Hoyt, Hoite, Hoit, Hoytt,
Hoitt, Hoyet, Hoyett, Hoyette, Hoyht, Hoitte, Hoith. Hoyat,
Hawett. Hoyght, Hoight, Hight, Hite, Hoett, Hyet, Hioght,
Hiot, Hyot, Houet, Hyte. Hyatt. Hayts, Haitt, Hayt, Hait,,
Height, Hayte, Haite and Haight. Where the English and Dutch 1
streams of migration met in Westchester County, New York, the
various forms of the name settled into Haight, and the descend-
HAIGHT-KING. 565
ants of John Hoit or Hoyt of Rye, Connecticut and Moses Hoyt
of Eastchester and of Samuel Haight who was in Flushing, Long
Island, as early as 1684 continued the name Haight until during
the 1 8th century it became the commonest form of spelling it.
The Haight family has produced many distinguished members.
The father of Janet Cameron Haight (King) was Fletcher Math-
ews Haight, born Nov. 28, 1799, at Elmira, New York, died at
San Francisco, California, Feby. 2}^, 1866. He was a graduate
of Hamilton College, N. Y. Began the practice of law in Bath
N. Y. Removed to Rochester, N. Y., in 1824 and became emi-
nent in his profession. He was elected to the legislature from
Monroe County, New York, in 1833. Removed to St. Louis in
1846 and to San Francisco, California, in 1854, where he prac-
ticed law in partnership with his son, Henry H. Haight (after-
wards Governor of California) until 1861 when he was appointed
United States District Judge of the Southern District of Califor-
nia by President Abraham Lincoln, which office he held until his
death in 1866.
Major General Samuel S. Haight, the father of Judge Fletcher
M. Haight and the grandfather of Janet Cameron Haight
(King) born at Athens, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1788, died at Cuba, N.
Y., April 20, 1863, was by profession a lawyer and practiced at
Newtown, now Elmira, N. Y. He was Major General of the
1- ew York State troops in the war of 181 2 and was marching at
the head of his troops toward the Canadian frontier when peace
between the United States and England was declared. His uncle,
Major Jonathan Haight, born 1736, died 1779, was a gallant of-
ficer who had a short and brilliant life with an extremely sad ter-
mination. Maj. Jonathan Haight held a commission in the Eng-
lish army as Captain in the 44th Regiment, of which Jonathan
Le Roy was Colonel. Maj. Haight's commission as Captain was
signed by Governor James De Lancey of New York March 22,
1760 and is still preserved by his descendants. He was before
that^ in the Indian Wars of 1759. He went with the English
troops to Cuba in the War of England against Spain and was
promoted to Major for his bravery at the taking of Morro Castle,
Havana, in 1762. When the War of the Revolution broke out,
however, he resigned at once from the English service and es-
poused the American cause. He was denounced by the English
as guilty of treason and a price was set upon his head. He was
hunted from place to place and his estates confiscated. When
he died in 177^ he left a son Samuel Haight, who was afterward
a general in the United States army in the War of 181 2. This
General Samuel Haight is not the Major General Samuel S.
566 APPENDICES.
Haight, who was in command of the New York troops in 1812,
but was his cousin. Janet Cameron Haight (King) had also
a brother Henry Huntley Haight, born at Rochester, N. Y., May
20. 1825; died at San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 2, 1878; graduate of
Yale, 1844. He removed from Rochester, N. Y., to St. Louis
in 1846 where he began the practice of law, but left St. Louis
Nov. 1849, for California and arrived at San Francisco, July 20,
1850. He was eminently successful in the practice of law in San
Francisco and acquired a considerable fortune. He was elected
on the Democratic ticket Sept. 5, 1867, Governor of the State of
California over George C. Gorham, the Republican candidate,
Ijy a majority of 10.000 votes, being the first Democratic Gover-
nor elected after the Civil War. He held the office of Governor
until December, 1871.
Elizabeth Stuart (McLachlan) Haight, the mother of Janet
Cameron (Haight) King, was a descendant from the Camerons
of Lochiel, consecrated in history by the pens of Campbell, Scott,
Hogg, Wilson and Macauley. She was born in Scotland at
Fort William. Inverness County. We will begin with the first
Haight ancestor in America.
FIRST GENERATION.
SiMON^ HoYTE, (sometimes in the records spelled Hait), landed
in Salem, Mass., in 1628. He was for a short time in Charleston,
Mass., in 1628 and was one of the first settlers of Dorchester
in 1630. He moved to Scituate, Mass., where he appears on the
records of the church at Scituate, as "Symeon Hayte" and also as
"^'Haite" — From Scituate he moved to Windsor, Connecticut,
where he had a large grant of land from the Plantation of Con-
necticut, Feby. 28, 1640. He removed to Stamford, Conn., in
1657 and died there Sept. i, 1657. He was married to Susanna
Hayte, who survived him. ^
Issue :
2 i. John- (Hait-Hoit-Hoyt) b. before 1630; d. 1684; m.
Mary (and others).
SECOND generation.
2
John^ Hait-Hoit-Hoyt (Simon^), born before 1630; died
1684; m. Mary . He lived in Eastchester, Westchester Co.,
N. Y., and moved to Rye, Conn., in 1676.
haight-king. 567
Issue :
3 i. John' ( Hait-Haight). b. 1664; d. 1726; m. Eliza-
beth (and another").
THIRD GENERATION.
3
John* Hait-Haight, {John,- Simon}) born 1664; died in
Rye, Conn., 1726; married Elizabeth . At this period the
name is more frequently spelled Haight.
Issue :
4 i. Jonathan* (Haight) b. 1689; d. 1780; m. 1735 Su-
sanna Thrall (and others.)
fourth generation.
4
Jonathan* Haight (John,^ John,- Simon^), born in Rye,
Conn., in 1689; died in Courtland, N. Y., 1780; married in 1735
Susanna Thrall, daughter of Ebenezer Thrall of Rye.
Issue :
5 i. Stephen/ b. 1740; d. 18 — , m. Margaret Cook of
Loonenburg, N. Y.
ii. Jonathan, b. 1736; d. 1779 in Fishkill, N. Y., m. Eliz-
abeth Mandeville. He was a major in the English
Army. An account of him has been given above.
(And others.)
FIFTH generation.
5
Stephen^ Haight, {Jonathan,*' John,^ John,^ Simon}), born
1740; died 18 — ; married Margaret Cook, daughter of John
Cook of Loonenburg, now called Athens, N. Y.
Issue :
6 i. Samuel S.^ b. Sept. 17, 1778; d. April 20, 1863; m.
(i) Sarah Mathews Jany. 26, 1799. (2) Maria W.
Cheesman April 2, 1839. (And others).
sixth generation.
6
Major General Samuel S.^ Haight {Stephen,^ Jonathan,*"
John,^ John,- Simon^), born in Athens, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1778;
e68 APPENDICES.
died in Cuba, N. Y., April 20, 1863; married (i) Jany. 26, 1799,
Sarah Mathews, daughter of James and Hannah Mathews; (2)
April 2, 1839 Maria W. Cheesman. He was Major General of
the New York troops in the War of 181 2 and was marching
against Canada when peace was declared between the United
States and Great Britain.
Issue :
7 i. Fletcher Mathews/ b. Nov. 28 1799; d. Feb. 23,
1866; m. (i) Elizabeth Stuart MacLachlan ; (2)
Mary A. Brown.
(And ten others.)
SEVENTH GENERATION.
Fletcher Mathews^ Haight, (Maj. Gen. Samuel 5./ ,;
Stephen,^ Jonathan,^ John,^ John,^ Simon^), born in Elmira, ;:
N. Y., Nov. 28, 1799; died in San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 23, 1866; :,
married (i) Oct. 3, 1822, Elizabeth Stuart MacLachlan, born at |
Fort William, Inverness, Scotland, and a descendzfnt of the |
Cameron of Lochiel. She died at Rochester, N. Y., July 30, |
1827; (2) Mary A. Brown. Fletcher M. Haight was Judge of ji
the United States District Court for the Southern District of ;
California, to which office he was appointed in 1861 by Presi- .;
dent Abraham Lincoln and which he held until his death. ,^
Issue: ;
8 i. Janet Cameron,^ b. July 9, 1823; d. Dec. 21, 1844; '|
m. Jany. 23, 1844, George Eliphalet King. f
ii. Henry Huntley, b. May 20, 1825; d. Sept. 2, 1878; i
m. Jany. 24, 1855, Anna E. Bissell. He was Gov- ^
ernor of California 1867-1871. Children (i) Janet ^
Cameron, b. July 2, 1858; unmar. (2) Henry H., J
b. (3) Louis Montrose, b. Oct. 7, 1868. j
iii. Dugald Cameron, b. May 27, 1827; d. June 24 1852; |
unmar. \
iv. Samuel, b. Sept. 4, 1830; d. Dec. 31, 1853; unmar. j
V. Fletcher, b. Oct. 23, 1832 ; d. Feb., 1833. j
vi. Elizabeth, b. March 16, 1834; m. i860, Samuel Knight i
who was at head of Wells Fargo Express Co. in i-
San Francisco and was killed by an explosion. ^
vii. Sarah, b. March 26, 1835; m. Hon. Edward Tomp-
kins. He was a distinguished lawyer of San Fran-
cisco, Cal. ; deceased.
HAIGHT-KING. 569
viii. Fletcher M., b. Sept. 29, 1839; d. April 25, 1847.
ix. Anna, b. Feb. 14, 1841 ; d. Sept. 18, 1868; unmar.
X. Robert, b. Feb. 15, 1842; m. (i) Sophia Brannan;
(2) . Children all by first marriage (i) Rob-
ert Fletcher who mar. June 25, 1903, Mary Roberts;
(2) Elizabeth Yount who mar. Joseph Strong an
artist, now deceased.
xi. Lucy, b. March 6, 1844; m. Oct 29, 1867, Charles
H. Sawyer, who died 1876. He was a lawyer.
xii. Mary, b. Aug. 26, 1846; m. Capt. Edward Hackett.
EIGHTH GENERATION.
8
Janet Cameron® Haight (Hon. Fletcher Mathews,'' Maj.
Gen'l. Samuel S.,^ Stephen J' Jonathan,*' John,^ John,^ Simon^),
born in Rochester, N. Y., July 9, 1823 ; died in Lima, N. Y., Dec.
21, 1844; buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N. Y. ; mar-
ried in Rochester, N. Y., Jany. 23, 1844, George Eliphalet*' King
(Maj. Seth,'* Lieut. Eliphalet,* Capt. Joseph,"* James,^ WilHam^),
born in New Ipswich, N. H., June 11, 1814; died in San Fran-
cisco, Cal. Dec. 27, 1897. f^o^ ^ further account of George E.
King, Esq., and issue, see King Genealogy — George Eliphalet
King — pages 251-252 ante.
(
BEVERIDGE-KING.
At least four centuries of Scottish life should be sufficient to
give the name ''Beveridge" the character of being strictly Scot-
tish. So much is attested for it by the "Exchequer Rolls" of
Scotland, vols. VI to XI, and Beveridge's "Culross and Tulli-
allan." Mr. D. Beveridge mentions Friar Beverage, or Bever-
idge, burned to death on the Castle Hill of Edinburg along with
Thomas Forret, vicar of Dollar in 1538, and suggests that he
may have been a monk of Culross, where a garden adjoining the
convent yard was known in after days as "Beveridge Yard."
The name, he further says, is a common one in Kinross-shire
and the western district of Fife. The derivation accepted by
Mr. Beveridge in his interesting book is "Beverege" or Beaver
Island, which he refers to as an island in the Severn, mentioned
under that name by Florence of Worcester. Beverly is also in-
stanced as a cognate name. Supposing this to be the true deriva-
tion, the islet in the Severn would not necessarily be the actual
source of the Scottish family name but a Beaver Island may have
existed in Scotland. The Exchequer Rolls give us James, John
and Thomas Beverage as tenants of Bonehill, in Fife, as far
back as 1485-7. Burke calls Beveridge Norman. There is a
Beuvrages, Nord of France. Bishop Beveridge's family was of
Leicestershire and it is well to note that the tine domain of Bel-
voir Castle, Leicestershire, pronounced "Beever" has hills of
which the "edge" or "ridge" may account for the joint Beveridge.
(See "Notes and Queries, 7th Series, p. 252.)
Anna Eliza Beveridge married Cameron Haight King, April
2, 1873, ^t Sacramento, California. She was born at
Benicia, Solano Co., Cahf., June 13, 185 1, and was the daughter
of David Forney Beveridge, born 1827; died April 16, 1872, and
Hanna Rebecca Beveridge. born 1828; died Aug. 9, 1873,
daughter of Capt. Robert and Eliza (Harvey) Winn. Capt.
Robert Winn was a sea captain and was from Salem, Mass.,
but took up his residence at Benicia, California before 1850,
Eliza (Harvey) Winn survived her husband and died at San
Francisco 1881. She had a brother in San Francisco, James
Harvey. David Forney Beveridge, the father of Anna Eliza
I
BEVERIDGE-KING. 571
born in Scotland, came to America before 1822 and in 1823, at
Baltimore, Md., married Anna Maria Forney.
Robert Beveridge shortly after his marriage with Anna Maria
Forney went with his wife to Florida which was then a wilder-
ness and the Indians there very troublesome. He and a business
partner laid out a town which they named in honor of their wives
— Mary and Anna — transformed into Marianna, now the county
seat of Jackson County, Florida. There Mrs. Beveridge died
and was buried. The children of Robert and Anna Maria (For-
ney) Beveridge were Susan Louisa, David Forney and Robert
Duval. The last named, who died in childhood, owed his middle
name to the fact that Governor Duval of Florida was visiting
at their house when he was born. Susan Louisa Beveridge b.
July 21, 1824, was brought up by her grandmother, Mrs. David
Forney who took her daughter's children to her home in Balti-
more after their mother's death in Florida. She, Susan Louisa
Beveridge, married Jeremiah Fisher, then a merchant in Balti-
more. Two of their children, Jeanette and Ella, died in child-
hood within a few days of each other. Mrs. Fisher's health
failed after this, and after a vain attempt to regain strength by
a visit to Florida, among her father's (Robert Beveridge) family
by his second marriage, she returned to Baltimore and died May
31, 1859. She left surviving her (i) Anna Louisa Fisher, who
died Dec. 29, 1876, was married to Henry Sage Manning of
Brooklyn, N. Y., and left a son Richard Fisher Manning. (2)
Leila Beveridge Fisher who married William C. Howard of
Brooklyn, N. Y. They have three children, Helen Louise How-
ard, born Jany. 31, 1878; Ruth, born April 24, 1885, and Wil-
liam Fisher Howard, born Dec. 14, 1887. The residence of Mrs.
William C. Howard is (in 1903) No. 246 Washington Ave,
Brooklyn, L. L
David Forney Beveridge born 1827, died April 16, 1872;
went to California in 1849 o^ 1850 in the early days of the gold
fever. He soon thereafter lost his right arm by an accident while
hunting. He returned with his family to Baltimore, but subse-
quently went back again to California. He held several county
offices in Solano County, California, and while doing so resided
at Suisun in that County. He was also Engrossing Clerk of the
Assembly in the Legislature of 1869-70 and thereafter made Sac-
ramento, Calif., his residence where he died April 16, 1872.
572 APPENDICES.
FIRST GENERATION.
1
Robert^ Beveridge born in Scotland; married at Baltimore,
Md., 1823, Anna Maria Forney, daughter of David and Louisa
(Nace) Forney- He went to Florida in 1824 where Anna Maria
his wife died and he married a second time.
Issue ;
i. Susan Louisa- b. July 21, 1824; d. May 31, 1859;
m. Jeremiah Fisher.
Issue :
1 Anna Louisa Fisher, d. Dec. 29, 1876; m. Henry
Sage Manning. Had one child surviving her.
Issue:
I Richard Fisher Manning. Res. Brooklyn, L. I.
2 Ella Beveridge Fisher b. Nov. 19, 185 1 ; d. Dec.
24, 1854.
3 Jeannette Beveridge Fisher, b. Mar. 24, 1854; d.
Jany. 2, 1855.
4 Leila Beveridge Fisher m. William C. Howard.
Res. Brooklyn, L. I.
Issue:
1 Helen Louise Howard, b. Jany. 31, 1878.
2 Margaret M. Howard, d. in infancy.
3 Ruth Howard, b. April 24, 1885.
4 William Fisher Howard, b. Dec. 14, 1887.
2 ii. David Forney, b. 1827; d. April 16, 1872; m. Han-
nah Rebecca Winn,
iii. Robert Duval, b. 1828; d. 1836.
(Robert Beveridge had several children also by his
second marriage at Marianna, Florida.)
\
second generation.
2
David Forney^ Beveridge (Robert^) bom 1827; died April
16, 1872, in Sacramento, Cal. ; married August 6, 1850 Hannah
Rebecca Winn, born 1828; died Aug. 9, 1873; daughter of Capt.
Robert and Eliza (Harvey) Winn.
Issue :
3 i. Anna Eliza, b. June 13, 1851 ; d. July i, 1879; m.
April 2, 1873, Cameron Haight King,
ii. David Forney, b. Nov. 6, 1852; m. Nov. 24, 1880
Addie King. Res. Vallejo, Cal.
beveridge-king. 573
Issue :
1 Walter Trembley, b. Sept. 29, 1882. Res. Vallejo,
Cal.
2 David Forney, b. Feb. 21, 1884. Res. Vallejo, Cal.
iii. George Fisher, b. Nov. 6, 1854; m. July 20, 1895
Mary Ruth Coffin. Res. San Francisco, Cal.
Issue :
I Frances Edwards Beveridge, b. Sept. 5, 1896.
iv. Louisa Forney, b. Nov. 6, 1856; m. Dec. 14, 1878,
Thomas Barton, who d. 190
Issue :
I Ralph Clark Barton, b. Oct. 25, 1884. Res. Ala-
meda, Cal.
V. William Tiffany, b. Jany. 18, 1857; m. Nov. 9, 1887
Adelis Meachem.
Issue :
1 Leland Stanford, b. July 13, 1888.
2 William Meachem, b. June 21, 1892.
vi. Joseph Winn, b. Dec. 20, 1861 ; m. Nov. 26, 1890,
Fannie Angeline Bullock. Residence Portland,
Ore. Mr. Joseph W. Beveridge is in the printing
business, a prominent citizen of Portland and was
member of the State Legislature (1906).
Issue :
I Helen Louise, b. March 28, 1894.
vii. Harry Hurlburt, b. March 18, 1863; died unmarried,
viii. Susan Caroline, b. April 24, 1865; m. Dec. 5, 1891,
Portland, Ore., Harry Young. Res. Portland, Ore.
Mr. Young is the agent for the Northern Pacific
Steamship Co., and one of Portland's most respected
and energetic citizens.
Issue:
I Harry Beveridge Young, b. June 20, 1893.
ix. Mary Jeannette, b. Oct. 24, 1867; d. Oct. 11, 1873.
THIRD generation.
Anna Eliza^ Beveridge, (David Forney,^ Robert^), born June
13, 1851, in Benicia, California; died July i, 1879 in San Fran-
cisco, Cal. Married April 2, 1873, in Sacramento, Cal., Cameron
Haight King. For their descendants see King Genealogy —
Cameron Haight King — pages 377-380, ante.
FORNEY - KING.
Anna Maria Forney, who marrkd Robert Beveridge, was
the grandmother of Anna EHza (Beveridge) King, wife of Cam-
eron H. King and an account of the Forney family may be of
some interest.
Johann Adam Forney, the first ancestor of the family in Amer-
ica, came to Pennsylvania in 1721 from Wachenheim-in-the-
Haardt, a small town ten miles west of Mannheim. The Haardt
is a mountainous wine-growing district of the Rhenish Palatinate
and it is there that the scene of Cooper's novel, The Heidenmauer,
is laid.
The family name which has been spelled Fourny, Fornich,
Forny, Farney, Ffarney, Furney, Forne, or Forne, Faurney and
Farny is probably French; it is not uncommon in France and
French Switzerland. A family tradition says that the Forneys
were originally Huguenot refugees from France, who sought an
asylum in Germany from religious persecution.
Christian Forney, the emigrants' father, had lived in Wachen-
heim long enough to become a citizen and they had relatives in
the neighboring city of Duerkheim, where representatives of the
family still reside.
Johann Adam Forney brought with him to this country a cer-
tificate, of which the following is a translation; the original is
still in the possession of his descendants in Hanover, Pennsyl-
vania.
"We, magistrates, burgomasters and council of the city of
Wachenheim-in-the-Haardt, certify herewith that before us came
the worthy Johann Adam Forney, citizen and tailor here, the leg-
itimate son of the worthy Christian Forney, also a citizen here,
and informed us that he, with his wedded wife, Elisabetha Lowisa,
have firmly resolved to set out with their four children and
effects, on the journey to the island of Pennsylvania and to settle
there ; but he stands in need of an attested certificate of how he
behaved with us and why he departed, such as he can show at the
place of his settlement. Which we gave him according to his reas-
onable desire and truthfully ; moreover, because we believed it
would really be required in order that no one could calumniate
our citizen or citizen's children ; although we have sought dili-
FORNEY-KING. 575
gently and earnestly to dissuade him from such departure, yet
he remains of his first intention ; therefore after steadfast per-
severance we have given the said Johann Adam Forney this cer-
tificate : That as long as we have known him he has behaved
himself honorably, piously and honestly, as well becomes a good
citizen and artisan, and, moreover, showed himself so neighborly
that no one has had any complaint to make of him ; he also is
bound to no compulsory service or serfdom; he will not be un-
willing to give, to show with all readiness to those of his intended
residence all affection and kindness.
To this true certificate we, the authorities, have affixed our city
council's great seal to this statement which is given at Wachen-
heim-in-the-Haardt, the 7th day of May, 1721."
In his family Bible the emigrant made this record: "In the
year 1721, on Oct. i6th, I Johann Adam Farny and Lowisa Far-
nisin, with four children, arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."
Where they went after landing we do not know. A bond of
John Digges dated Oct. 5, 1731 "to give at some future time an
absolute title to the land" which he sold to the emigrant, describes
him as "Adam Faurney of Philadelphia County in the Province
of Pennsylvania, farmer and tailor," so that he probably spent his
first years in America in that county.
He was settled in the neighborhood of what is now Hanover,
York County, Pennsylvania, in 1734. It was then known as
Conewago Settlements or Digges' Choice. The latter name it
got from John Digges, who some years before had taken up some
land there on a Maryland warrant, had it surveyed for him by a
Maryland surveyor, and had sold some of it to Forney and others
whose lives were "made miserable for some years by the tur-
moils arising out of disputes between Digges and other settlers,