Perry/Wallin Ancestry - Person Sheet
Perry/Wallin Ancestry - Person Sheet
NameHenry Birney
Birth3 Jan 1737, Londerry, Ireland
Death1814, Scioto, Adams County, OH
Spouses
Birth1748, Plymouth MA
Death22 Jul 1805, Standing Stone PA
Marriage1767
ChildrenMary (1784-1819)
 Hannah (1769-)
 Sarah (1770-)
Notes for Henry Birney
Revolutionary War soldier, Sergeant in militia engaged in Hartley Expedition & in Sullivan Expedition in Bradford City. (See Tioga Point Museum in Athens Library)

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Henry Birney(1737-1814) History of Bradford County 1770 to 1878 : Henry Birney was for a number of years a prominent man in the neighborhood where he lived. his wife belonged to a Wyoming family and died in 1809. In a paragraph announcing her death, a Wyoming paper says she encountered great hardships and the sufferings peculiar to the times and place in which she lived. She was buried in an old burying ground near where Dr. Clagget lives, in Standing Stone. Mr. Birney sold his farm to Johathan Stevens in 1812, and moved to the Scioto, in Ohio with his daughter Hannah. He made the journey on horseback. Here he died past eighty years of age. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, as is attested by numerous documents. Among the New England people his name was usually pronounced and frequently written Barney. He had one son and five daughters.

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