Crawford County, Pennsylvania
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Crawford County Genealogy
TOPICAL INDEX
Subjects
Ancestor Tables
Bible & Family Records
Cemeteries
Census Returns
Churches
Courthouse Records
Crawford County Genealogical Society
History & Biography
Maps
Military Affairs
Newspapers & Publications
Vital Statistics
Key to Symbols: c Corrections or Additions
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Ancestor Tables
Anderson, (James) Maxwell 1:81*
Davis, Joseph Iryl 11:25
Hover, Alton V. 15:70
Phillips, Judith Ann Zeigler 1:106
Powell, Thomas Brodhead 3:19*
Yoset, François Xavier 16:128*
See also members' Ancestor Tables
Bible & Family Records
Bennett 8:17
Canfield, Horace Wayne 6:33
Cochran 9:18
Cook 2:78
Depue 15:11
Ellis 17:15
Fink 10:48
Frew 21:1
Hatch, Hiram 6:50
Homan 11:87
Humes 15:50
Irvin 1:25
Isherwood 16:1
Jameson 11:74
Kelley, Wilson, and Foust 4:1, 105c
Kelly 5:91
May, George W. 16:113
McDowell, Josiah 12:50
McFate 5:1
Mason family of Shenango Twp. 21:83
Perkins—chart 2:49
Powell 10:112
Randall—of Greenwood Twp. 14:24
Ridgway 14:18
Rundell 5:89*
Stewart 14:76*
Yocum 3:62
See also Dunn Bible 8:10
CEMETERIES
Custodians 3:88
Tombstones discovered 12:49; 13:13
Township surveys:
East Fairfield Twp. 1:29
Wayne Twp. 1:85
Transcriptions:
Barber (Sadsbury Twp.) 18:41
Brawley (Randolph Twp.) 2:33, 107c
Conneaut (Fairfield Twp.) 4:67
Hartstown 12:49c
Johnston (Vernon Twp.) 11:43
Maple Grove (Rome Twp.) 13:27
Milledgeville (Mercer Co.) 6:1; 12:53c
Pioneer Park (Titusville) 16:38
Quigley (Vernon Twp.) 11:47; 12:13c; 14:50
Roger (Hayfield Twp.) 13:56
Tryonville (Steuben Twp.) 4:45
Waid (Steuben Twp.) 2:67; 4:105c
Census Returns (Crawford County)
Errors 2:14
Federal
1790 17:20; see also 6:44*
1800 18:46
1810 18:87
1820 20:21
Federal mortality schedules
1850 5:17
1860 8:1; 9:102c
1870 8:91; 9:65
1880 16:8, 89
State
1800 (septennial) 21:13, 99
See also 1798 tax list 5:100
See also 1800 Tax Duplicates 19:19, 121
See also 1888 residents 1:14
Churches
Baptist
First, Richmond Twp. (1842-1874) 12:22
Catholic
Sts. Peter & Paul, Pettis (cemetery) 1:34*
Episcopal
Trinity Protestant, Conneautville 9:1, 70
Lutheran & Reformed
Adamsville area (1833-1841) 3:53
Old Reformed Church Cemetery 1:90*
Baptisms (1839-1840) 1:13, 108c
Trinity Lutheran, Meadville (1865-1890) 21:37 (marriages, burials), 120 (baptisms)
Zion Evangelical, Venango—burials (1829-1830) 1:97
Zion Evangelical, Venango—baptisms (1815-1871) 18:23
Zion Evangelical, Venango—confirmations, communicants 18:76
Methodist
Blystone (Skeltontown), cemetery 2:58*
Calvary, Steuben Twp., cemetery 3:22*
Erie Conference—marriages (1866-1868) 8:120
1872-1899 3:1
Espyville Circuit—marriages (1864-1906) 11:61
State Line—cemetery 3:68*
Pastors' and pastoral records
Craighead, Richard 15:19, 85
Dickey, James W. 6:24
Excell—marriages 7:103
Perry, J. F.—marriages (1872-1899) 3:1
Smith, Samuel F. (1829-1840) 5:107
Presbyterian
Concord, Venango Co. (1842-1870) 10:21
Cochranton area deaths (1866-1907) 1:105
"Power's" [Covenant] 4:67
History 11:89; 13:1
North Shenango U. P. records 8:103
Reformed (1829-1840) 5:107
Seceder Cemetery 1:91*
Second, Meadville (1840-1863) 15:19
Shenango Reformed, Adamsville—session minutes (1834-1867) 13:1, 101
South Shenango United—cemetery 5:30*
Unitarian, Meadville (1831-1857) 11:16
Crawford County Courthouse Records
Court of Common Pleas
Adoptions
1859-1881 12:1
1881-1890 16:51
Appearance dockets (1800-1811) 9:99
Change of name (1890) 16:88
Feme sole traders 17:52, 130c
Habitual Drunkards 20:149
Lunacy petitions (1846-1862) 9:40
Married Women petitions 17:81
Naturalizations (1800-1829) 10:83
Veterinary Register 8:15
Court of Quarter Sessions
Baseborn children (1800-1818) 21:143
Bigamy cases 19:97
Coroners' inquests
1807-1854 2:1
1800-1861 18:9
1862-1869 18:113
County Home Reports (1852-1875) 19:45
Slave children registration 20:19
Township division petitions (1800) 9:103; see 18:40*; 20:41
Deeds
Indentures and apprenticeships 16:79
See Holland Land Company 18:53,79
Discharges—Civil War—index 1:5
Prisoners (1807) 3:22
Probate records
Renunciations (1800-1899)
A-D 19:31
E-K 19:77
L-R 20:6
S-Z 20:108
Tax Duplicates
1800 19:19, 121
Vital records
Deaths (1852-1854) 1:62
Marriages (1852-1854) 2:81
Wills
1800-1805 3:64
Kingsland, Jane C. 5:93
Unprobated 1:47; 2:105c; 19:8
Crawford County Genealogical Society
Announcements 4:93; 6:51, 123; 7:95; 9:102
Book reviews 5:113
Formation 10:1
Free help—1864 dictionary 13:26
Memorials—Ward, Margaret S. 6:122
History & Biography
Boundaries
County & township 20:41
Boroughs 20:91
Churches
Milledgeville (Mercer Co.) 6:1*
Presbyterian 11:89; 13:1
Society of Friends (Quakers) see 21:111
South Shenango Twp. 5:29*
Country Club see 1:98
County Home Reports 10:23; 19:45
Formation and division 1:1; 9:103; 18:35; 20:1
Holland Land Company 18:53,79
Industries
Glass 4:6
Oil 4:28
Land companies
Holland Land Co. 18:53, 79
North American Land Co. see 21:85*, 132*
Letters
Champagne (to France) 14:81
Daniel/Armstrong 8:84*
Denny 14:20*
Ellis 17:15, 130c
Irish/Pettit (1855) 7:68
Lynch, Timothy (1866) 1:61
Wotring (to Lehigh Co. 1834) 19:5
See also Gilmore recollections 10:42
Local legislation 7:76
Nationalities
Belgian glassblowers 4:6
English settlement—Rome Township 13:27
French families 1:2; 6:84; 8:45; 10:15; 11:80, 82; 14:25, 81; 15:63; 16:120; 17:34, 130c; 18:51;
19:58, 147c; 20:39, 89; 21:45 (Finney), 155 (Curty)
Passenger lists 10:15; 17:113; 18:110
Pennsylvania Germans see 1:98, 17:15; 19:1; 21:21
Prominent or notorious residents
Rev. Timothy Alden 8:26, 114c
Maxwell Anderson, playwright 1:79
Rev. Karl Wilhelm Colson 4:61*
Rev. James W. Dickey 6:24
Col. Edwin Drake 1:41
Dr. Edward Ellis 17:15
Samuel Lord 6:34, 91
Gen. David Mead 11:1; 14:23, 59c
Howell Powell (Shadeland) 2:97; 3:14, 93c; 4:105c; 7:123c; 10:112c; 14:57c
Judge Henry Shippen 12:87
Jonathan Titus 20:121
Maria T. B. Yates, sister of Pres. James Buchanan 1:27, 108c
Xavier Yoset a/k/a "French Joe" 16:120
See also Titusville oil families, below
Published works 1:1, 108c; 17:1
Revolutionary War veterans
Adsit through Beardsley 17:1, 130c
Berlin through Butler 17:91
Camp 19:55
Carroll 19:119
Carver/Garber 21:34
Schools
Conneautville 4:88
Mercer Soldiers' Orphan 2:87; 6:51
Slaves 20:19
Titusville oil families 1:41; 2:22, 66, 107c; 4:28, 106c; 5:93; 7:17, 20, 26; 9:81; 10:113c;
11:27; 12:53c; 14:60c, 70; 20:1
See also 11:94; 12:57c; 14:60c
Women's Lib 2:65
Maps
Connecticut
East Haven 7:39
New Haven (1641) 7:36
France—Dept. of Doubs (portions) 14:83
Parish map 19:58
Germany—Colson family 10:36
Pennsylvania
Allegheny County 20 (No. 1) and 21 (No. 2) back cover
Crawford County
Alden property 8:27, 30, 31 ?
Boroughs (1876) 20:91
County maps
1816 17:107
1839 18:35, 128c
1848 18:107
1876 (southwestern part) 21:133
Railroads, 1904 2:56
Smith property 8:36, 39, 48, 50
Titusville—1860 16:51
Townships 1:1; 17:107; 18:35; 20:41
Athens—1876 7:48
Beaver 2:15
East Fairfield 1:29
Mead—1876 [partial] 7:50; 21:12
South Shenango 5:29
Steuben 3:31
Venango 2:57
Wayne 1:85
West Shenango 3:67
Woodcock—1876 [partial] 7:50
Donation Districts 20:back cover
Holland Land Company holdings 18:54
Lehigh County 19:2
Mercer County
French Creek Township 6:1
Sandy Creek Township 20:74
Surveying Districts 20 (No. 1) and 21 (No. 2) back cover
Military Affairs
Civil War
Discharges 1:5
Draft 14:97; 16:25, 105; 19:69
Exemptions 16:25, 109
Experiences seeMason family, 21:83
G.A.R. Posts (1895) 13:61; 14:60c
Soldiers' orphan schools
Mercer (1877) 6:51
Titusville (1874) 2:87
Veterans
Nageottes 1:2
Xavier Yoset 16:120
Cussewago Militia Rolls (1793-1795) 17:127; 21:162c
Mercer Soldiers' Orphan School 2:87; 6:51
Revolutionary War
Pension of J. George Peiffer 12:90A
Veterans: see History & Biography
Spanish-American War—discharges 1:5
War of 1812
Service in Erie (1812-1814) 14:39, 108
Survivors
1875 10:18
1881 19:96
Newspapers & Publications
Abstracts
Alleghany Magazine (1816-1817) 4:57
Ashtabula Co., OH (1835-1875) 2:72; 7:1,128c
Conneautville Courier (1851-1863) 2:50
"Obscure" newspapers (1821-1861) 9:60
Reprints
Civil War draft 14:97; 16:25, 105; 19:69
County Home inmates (1874) 10:29
Gehr court case 15:99
Local legislation 7:76
Pioneer Park Cemetery 16:38
Residents born before 1820 (1888) 1:14
Soldiers' orphan schools (1877) 2:87; 6:51
War of 1812 Reunion (1881) 19:96
Vital Statistics
Civil Records
Federal (for Crawford County):
Mortality schedules
1850 5:17
1860 8:1; 9:102c
1870 8:91; 9:65
1880 16:8, 89
See also Peiffer pension 12:90A
State (for Crawford County):
Deaths (1852-1854) 1:62
Marriages (1852-1854) 2:81
Local—Meadville:
Deaths
1880-1882 14:1, 61
1883-1884 15:37
1885-1886 17:21
1887 18:98
1888-1889 19:9
1890 19:90
1891-1892 20:137
Court records
Coroner's inquests 2:1; 18:9, 113
Ecclesiastical records see Churches, above
Legislative records (PA)
Divorces 21:53
Private records
Barr, Dr. G. W.—birth register—Titusville (1857-1869) 12:61
Railroad fatalities (1866-1887) 8:115
Troy Township marriages (1864-1869) 2:31
W.C. Waid funeral records (1900-1906) 19:65
See also Bible & Family Records, above
See also Newspapers & Publications, above