The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vol 47, No 2, Title and Contents

THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE A lOi — Volume 47 Number 2 October 2011 published by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania 2207 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA STAFF Executive Director. Associate Director. Administrative Manager. Joyce Homan Anita Sheahan Coraluzzi Emily Shaw OFFICERS President. Vice Presidents'. Secretary-. Treasurer: Carol Sheaffer, MD SUSAN S. Koelble Deborah Coombe Haas Karen Higgins Nancy C. Janyszeski DIRECTORS Terms expiring 2012 Kristin Bryson Daniel Dailey Terms expiring 2013 Terms expiring 2014 Donn Devine, CG Jane Benner Aaron Goodwin Norman E. Donaghue II Valerie-Anne Lutz Nancy Cassada Nelson Shamele Jordon Norman Douglas Nicol, PFID Michael S. Krasulski FELLOWS OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA (FGSP) Annette Kunselman Burgert Jane Adams Clarke James M. Duffin Patricia Law Hatcher Dr. Don Yoder DECEASED FELLOWS OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA Charles R. Barker John Goodwin Herndon Raymond Martin Bell Dorothee Hughs Carousso George E. McCracken W. Blake Methany Ralph Dornfeld Owen Hannah Benner Roach Milton Rubincam Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. Carl Thurman Smith Ruth L. Springer Robert M. Torrence John Insley Coddington Lewis Daniel Cook Peter Stebbins Craig Frederick Swing Crispin Francis James Dallett John P. Dornan Eleanor C. Hand THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE before 1948 called Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Volume 47 Number 2 October 2011 Aaron Goodwin Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, FGSP Editors Sandra M. Hewlett, Proofreader ©201 1 by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 2207 Chestnut Street, Phila¬ delphia, Pennsylvania 19103 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine (ISSN 0882-3685) is published twice per annum (April and October). Nonmember subscriptions are sold by volume only (2 issues), $30.00; foreign subscriptions, $34.00; single issues, $20.00 each; back issues, contact the Society office. The Society does not assume liability for statements of fact or of opinion made by contributors. EDITOR’S NOTES DERIVATIVES D erivative sources and data abound in genealogy. In some instances they can mislead or stymie good research. In other instances they can be used to locate original sources for more accurate and more com¬ plete information. In yet other instances they may be among the only resources available for a particular family and must be accounted for and considered, whether accurate or not. And, of course, we produce our own derivative data when other sources fail to clearly articulate the iden¬ tities and relationships we seek. In this issue a Palatine immigrant's Wiirttemburg origins, along with several additional generations of ancestors, are discovered in part by carefully considering the mistaken and limited data provided by descendants in Internet postings and other publications. The name of a Revolutionary War veteran of western Pennsylvania appears in records in six different counties. The delineation of two veterans by that name, and the identification of many descendants of one, was derived from examin¬ ing the signatures on those records. And a Scotch-Irish immigrant family first written about in 1835 was written about again, thirteen more times over one hundred thirty years. Chronologizing and analyzing those deriv¬ ative sources illuminates the most reliable data contained therein, as well as the introduction, repetition, and evolution of fictitious data. Library staff in Charleston, South Carolina, created a database of city deaths, from which they derived a discrete list of 19th-century Pennsyl¬ vanians who died there. A family Bible from Montgomery and Philadel¬ phia counties makes no specific reference to European origins, but Ger¬ man origins are derived from noting small clues found there. Marriages conducted by Rev. Nathaniel R. Snowden are found in a number of deriv¬ ative sources, including contemporary newspapers and modern abstracts online, but Snowden’s personal register includes marriages not found elsewhere. A typescript derived from the earliest York County Orphans Court records is in a manuscript collection, but contains errors and omis¬ sions. Corrections and more details are given by going back to microfilms of the original records found on open shelves. The existence of an 18thcentury African-American family could not be derived from commonly used sources of the period. The only known record of the family is found in a slim folder in the Pennsylvania Abolition Society’s massive record collection. Aaron Goodwin 98 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 47 (201 1) THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE Volume 47 Number 2 October 201 1 CONTENTS EDITOR’S NOTES 98 DERIVATIVES . . THE GERMAN ORIGINS OF GEORGE FELTY (HANS JERG VELTIN) OF LEBANON COUNTY PART 1: PATERNAL ANCESTRY Clifford L. Stott, AG, CG, FASG 101 ADAM HILL OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 111 Russell Lynch, AC. GREGGS OF PENNSYLVANIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND BALLYARNET, 131 IRELAND: A STUDY IN CONFLICTING FAMILY HISTORIES Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, FGSP PENNSYLVANIANS IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA DEATH RETURNS, 1819-1872 149 contributed by Elizabeth Newcombe, George K. Bennoitt, and Christina Shedlock REED FAMILY RECORD MONTGOMERY AND PHILADELPHIA COUNTIES 157 contributed by Joyce Homan MARRIAGES BY REV. NATHANIEL R. SNOWDEN, 1793-1820 159 contributed by Aaron Goodwin YORK COUNTY ORPHANS COURT DOCKET, 1749-1754 contributed by Teresa Koch-Bostic 165 BLACK FAMILY RECORD PHILADELPHIA 177 contributed by Aaron Goodwin “I WON’T TELL” PHILADELPHIA 178 contributed by Sandra M. Hewlett PENNSYLVANIA STATE AGENCY TRANSPORTATION PASSES FOR CIVIL WAR BODIES ( continued) 179 contributed by Aaron Goodwin ADDITIONS & CORRECTIONS 190 ARTICLES OF PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST IN NON-PENNSYLVANIAJOURNALS 192 Genealogical Credentials: CG, Certified Genealogist, CGL, and Certified Genea¬ logical Lecturer are service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists®. Accredited Genealogist and AG are certification marks of the International Com¬ mission for Accreditation of Professional Genealogists. Individuals are licensed to use the credential designations after meeting the competency standards of those organizations. FASG designates fellows of the American Society of Genealogists, an honorary society' limited to 50 living members chosen for the quality of their published genealogical scholarship. Fellowship in other societies may also be rec¬ ognized by a postnominal designation, including FGSP for fellows of the Genea¬ logical Society of Pennsylvania.