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John GASTON, Jr.

John GASTON, Jr.

Male 1740 - 1823  (~ 83 years)

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  • Name John GASTON 
    Suffix Jr. 
    Born May 1740  Monmouth Co, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    Military Major, Revolutionary War  [4] 
    Died 10 Sep 1823  Washington Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3] 
    Buried Mingo Creek Presb Cem, Union Twp, Washington Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 5] 
    • Headstone inscription reads "In Memory of John Gaston, who departed this life September 10th A.D. 1823, aged 83 years & 4 months." A separate metal marker staked into the ground adjacent to the headstone reads "Revolutionary Soldier, 1775 - 1883, Placed by the Monongahela Valley Chapter D.A.R."
    Notes 
    • Resided in Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth County NJ, from before 1760 until after 1767, moving then to Mt Bethel Twp, Northampton Co, PA, where he took up 275 acres of land in Feb 1772. Served as a Major in the Revolutionary War. Around 1780-82, moved to Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA, and in about 1790 to Peters (now Union) Township, Washington Co, PA, his wife's sister Elizabeth accompanying them. He purchased a large tract of land there known as Belmont, after which the area became known as Gastonville. The "Gaston House" there was built in 1908 and occupied by Gastons until 1964.

      From a listing of baptisms in "History of the Old Tennent Church," p. 210: "John Gaston Jr., whose Father was Murthered by the Indians; had bap. William, Sep. 6, 1761; Joseph, July 17, 1763; John, Apr. 14, 1765; Samuel & James, Twin Children, Apr. 12, 1767." [6, 7]
    Person ID I3416  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2011 

    Father William GASTON,   b. CA 1720,   d. Dec 1755, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 35 years) 
    Mother Unknown,   d. Bef Sep 1762 
    Family ID F1198  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Charity CHEESEMAN,   b. 13 Mar 1734, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Feb 1821  (Age 86 years) 
    Married 4 Feb 1760  Monmouth Co, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Children 
    +1. William GASTON,   b. 15 Jul 1761
    +2. Joseph GASTON,   b. 25 Apr 1763,   d. 21 Nov 1821, Butler Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years)
     3. John GASTON,   b. 7 Jan 1765
     4. Samuel (twin) GASTON,   b. 18 Feb 1767,   d. IN INFANCY
    +5. James (twin) GASTON,   b. 18 Feb 1767,   d. 13 Apr 1813  (Age 46 years)
    +6. Samuel GASTON, Sr.,   b. 10 Oct 1772,   d. 21 Feb 1853, Washington Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
    +7. Margaret GASTON,   b. CA 1776
     8. Elizabeth GASTON,   b. 8 May 1778,   d. 28 Feb 1858, Washington Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
    Family ID F1199  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
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  • Sources 
    1. [S5] Headstone.

    2. [S504] Ohio Valley Genealogies, Charles A. Hanna, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900)), p. 45.

    3. [S1761] Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Book, Vol 114, p. 231, lineage of Charlotte Gaston Pence, DAR No. 113695.

    4. [S517] Gaston Family Lines of Somerset, "Somerset County Historical Quarterly," Somerville, NJ, Vol. 5 (1916), Anna Reger Gaston, (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~windmill/html/somersev.html).

    5. [S504] Ohio Valley Genealogies, Charles A. Hanna, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900)), p. 42.

    6. [S504] Ohio Valley Genealogies, Charles A. Hanna, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900)), pp. 42, 43.

    7. [S1547] History of the Old Tennent Church, 2nd Edition, Rev. Frank R. Symmes, (1904), p. 210.