Andrew Byerly1

(June 26, 1713 - 1775)
Andrew Byerly|b. Jun 26, 1713\nd. 1775|p789.htm|Johannes Martin Beyerle|b. 1680\nd. Nov, 1735|p794.htm|Anna Sara Gemelin||p795.htm|Hans D. Beyerle Jr.|b. 1640\nd. 1716|p797.htm|Maria M. Albert||p798.htm|||||||

Relationship=5th great-grandfather of Rev. Don Emmet (Sr.) Smith.
Charts on which this person appears:
Rev. Don E. Smith, Sr. Family Tree
     Andrew Byerly was born on Monday, June 26, 1713 in Germany, son of Johannes Martin Beyerle and Anna Sara Gemelin.3

Andrew married Anna Catharine.

Andrew married Beatrice Kuhl in 1747.

Andrew married Phoebe Beatrice Gulden in 1758.

Andrew Byerly was a baker, an Indian scout, and a military express rider.2

"Andrew Byerly… was a Pennsylvania-German, who, coming from Lancaster County with his family, in 1759, settled near Harrison City, Westmoreland County. He had been a baker in the army of General Braddock, in 1755. He loved to relate that, in the Braddock campaign, he, with George Washington as his backer, won a wager of 20 schillings in a foot race with a Catawba Indian warrior. He was the founder of the Pennsylvania-German settlement in the Brush Creek Valley - if not the first settlement, at least one of the first within the limits of the present Westmoreland County. He died just before the Revolutionary War, while on a visit to Lancaster County, and his dust reposes at Strasburg."4

Andrew died in 1775 in Lancaster, Grant County, Pennsylvania.

Child of Andrew Byerly and Beatrice Kuhl

Citations

  1. [S12] Family History Library, Online: FamilySearch.org, LDS Research Center .
    . Note: Unverified information, added here only as a suggestion as I continue researching this family line. Please conduct your own research before quoting it as fact.
  2. [S12] Family History Library, Online: FamilySearch.org, LDS Research Center . Note: Unverified information, added here only as a suggestion as I continue researching this family line. Please conduct your own research before quoting it as fact.
  3. [S12] Family History Library, Online: FamilySearch.org, LDS Research Center . Submission Search: 817954-0707100060203 / CD-ROM: Pedigree Resource File - Compact Disc #17
    . Note: Unverified information, added here only as a suggestion as I continue researching this family line. Please conduct your own research before quoting it as fact.
  4. [S405] C. Hale Sipe, Fort Ligonier and its times: a history of the first English fort west of the Allegheny Mountains, and an account of many thrilling, tragic, romantic, important but little known colonial and revolutionary events in the region where the winning of the West began : based primarily on the Pennsylvania archives and colonial records (Harrisburg, Pa.: Telegraph Press, 1933), (HeritageQuestOnline.com: Search Books. Reel/Fiche Number: Genealogy and local history; LH11377). Hereinafter cited as Fort Ligonier and its times.
 


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