Daniel McDeavitt

Immigrated from Ireland before 1790

NOT A DIRECT ANCESTOR Daniel McDeavitt is not in my direct ancestry. He is related by marriage in the following way: Father-in-law of Jane St. Clair

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	calc. 1756	Ireland
Marriage			To Elizabeth Sturgeon
Imigration	before 1790	From Ireland to Delaware	Moved to Butler Co, PA in 1797
Death	1805 "at age 49"	Brady Twp., Butler Co. PA

Ancestry chart segment

                         Generation 6       Generation 7               
 
                              
                                             +-- Archibald St. Clair 
                                             |   (~1770-1840/50)            
                         +--Jane St. Clair --+                         
                         |(????-????)        | 
                         |                   +--  Unknown 
                         |                         (1770/80 - 1840/50) 
                         |                         
                         |                   +--Daniel McDeavitt
                         |                   |    (~1756-1805) 
                         +--John McDeavitt---+
                                             |
                         +--Henry McDeavitt--+                   
                         |  (1792-1876)      |
                         |                   +-- Elizabeth Sturgeon  
Daniel McDeavitt (1823)--+
                         |
                         |
                         +-- Jane McClymonds                   
                                              
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Children

(children with Elizabeth Sturgeon)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Catharine McDeavitt	F	~1788		not married	died 1864
Henry McDeavitt	M	1792	Delaware	1) Jane McClymonds 2) Mrs Rebecca Bell
James McDeavitt	M	~1796/97	possibly Greensburg, Westmoreland Co. PA	not married	died 1882, age 85
John McDeavitt	M	between 1797 & 1805	expect Butler Co. PA	Jane St. Clair	died 1851 >br>(on business trip to Louisville, KY)

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
Ireland	born ~1756
New Castle, Delaware
"Greensburg" expect Westmoreland Co., PA	by 1797
Slippery Rock Twp., Butler Co. PA (present-day Brady Twp portion)	arrived 1797- died 1805

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1883 History of Butler County PA, by Waterman, p. 363 extract: Daniel McDeavitt, native of Ireland, moved from Newcastle,Delaware to Greensburg; thence in 1797 to Butler County, settling in Brady Twp. with his wife and 3 children. Mrs. McDeavitt rode horseback, carrying her youngest child, James, while Catharine, aged nine years, and Henry, aged seven, drove two cows. Third child, James, resided in the 2nd house built by Daniel McDeavitt, a hewed log structure build in 1815; James died in 1882, aged 85 yrs. The children of Daniel and Elizabeth (Sturgeon) McDeavitt were as follows: Catharine, Henry, James and John. Catherine and James both remained single. Henry married Jane McClymonds for his first wife, and Mrs. Rebecca Bell for his second. Six children were born of the first wife, and one of the second. All are now living except one. John married Jane St. Clair, and died while absent on business at Louisville, Ky., in 1851 . Catharine died in 1864; Henry in 1876. He was an 1812 soldier. Daniel McDeavitt, the father, died in 1805 at the age of forty-nine. His widow survived until 1835."	(See complete text)
2	Souvenir History of Slippery Rock, PA, 1923 ed. Rev. Geo. S. Bowden, Ziegler Printing, Butler PA, p.23 "Brady township, once part of Slippery Rock claims as its first settler, Luke Covert, who came in 1796; while James Campbell, Alexander Irvine and Bartol Loffer came the following year as did also Daniel McDeavitts and his wife and three children, Henry, Catherine, and James.
3	1850 United States Federal Census, Franklin Twp., Butler Co. PA. Date of census: 16 Aug. 1850 Ln 33-38: Henry McDavitt 58, farmer, $1500 real property, b. Delaware; Jane, 28; Daniel, 25, farmer; Mary A., 17; Elizabeth, 14; Samuel, 6. All except Henry b. PA. Note: Richard Hines (Sr.) also on this page.
4	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams]	N/A

Source notes

• The reference in the 1883 biography of Daniel McDeavitt to "Greensburg", is probably Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., PA. Depending on how long they were in that area, the three older children could have been born there, in Newcastle, Delaware, or in Ireland. As only the first 3 children accompanied the parents into Butler County in 1797, it is assumed that John was born between that date and the 1805 death of his father, and in Butler Co., probably Brady Twp..
• The note that Daniel went "back to Maryland" to work, after arriving in Butler County suggests that they had been there before. Possibly they immigrated through Baltimore, before residing in Newcastle, Delaware. Or the reference may meant simply that he went "back east".
• Per source #1-History of Butler County Henry McDeavitt's first wife,Jane McClymonds, died between the birth of Henry's 4th and 5th children, so between 1844 and 1850.