David Horner (abt. 1739 - abt. 1804)

Born about 1739 in County Antrim, Ireland

Descendants

Died about 1804 at about age 65 in Mount Joy, York County (Adams County) PA USA

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Biography

David Horner is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A058505.

Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed March 18, 2023), "Record of David Hornor", Ancestor # A058505.

David was a native of the County of Antrim, Ireland, born about 1739. He emigrated to America about the year 1760, and settled on a farm in Mt. Joy Township, York (now Adams) Co., Pa. He was a farmer, and resided there the rest of his life. He died in 1785 in Pennsylvania in either Adams or York County.

Many of the descendants of David Homer became active and influential members of Emmittsburg, formerly Tom's Creek and Piney Creek Presbyterian churches. " (Passmore 1897:32)^[1]

David and Robert Horner came from Antrim County, Ireland to America and settled on land granted to their father by William Penn. The grant of land, 600 acres, was in Mount Joy Township, York (now Adams) County, Pennsylvania. On this land later was Horner's School and Horner's Mill. David married Mary Love and they had seven sons and two daughters. About the brother Robert, I have very little information. Most of my chart comes from a history of the Horner family written by Captain John Horner, grandson of the original David Horner and Mary Love Horner, when he was 72 years old. David Horner was born in 1739 and died in 1785. Mary, his wife was born in 1744 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Alexander Love and Margaret Moore. Mary Love's parents moved to South Carolina. The above was written by my sister Jeannette Horner Herr in 1979 when she was 70 years old, and is contained in Appendix J, Horner Genealogy of the Robertson Family of Carroll County, Maryland.

David Horner and Mary Love had nine children: John, Robert, Alexander Love (1784 - 1839), David, William, Andrew, James, Margaret, Polly"^[2]

David Horner came with his brother, Robert, to this country from County Antrim, Ireland about 1760, and settled on 600 acres in Mt Joy Township, York County, near where the Hoffman Home is now located-land which they had purchased from the heirs of William Penn. The name of David Horner is shown on the muster rolls of The War of the Revolution as a Private in Capt. William Lindsay's Co., York County Militia, from December 8, 1781 to February 8, 1782. His name also appears on the payroll of Capt. Lindsay's Co. for the above dates.

In a Source Book of York County, Pa., In the American Revolution compiled by Henry Young in 1939 (Black Series, P. 160), under Recquisition of Recruits, David Horner's name is listed as a Recruit. 2nd Class and Robert Horner as Recruit, 4th Class, as of the 1st day of February, 1781, In a letter addressed to Mrs. Harvey Thomas, of Baltimore, Md., dated December 21, 1915, from the Pennsylvania State Library, Division of Public Records, it states, "The name (David Horner) is also shown on the muster rolls of the War of the Revolution as a 1st Lieutenant in Capt. Robert Horner's Co, 2nd Battalion, Mt Joy Township, York County Militia". The letter is signed by Thomas L. Montgomery, State Librarian. This is verified in the Pennsylvania Archives, Series 6, Vol. II, p. 470, where Robert Horner and David Horner are named as Capt. and 1st Lieutenant respectively, in the Mt. Joy Company's List of Field Officers of the 2nd Battalion of York County Militia. Also in York County, Pennsylvania In the American Revolution: A Source Book compiled by Henry James Young in 1939 (Red Series, Vol. I, pp. 14 and 15), Robert and David Horner are listed as Capt. and 1st Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, headed up by Robert McPherson, Col., David Kennedy, Lt. Col., and Moses McLean, Major.

Again, in the Pennsylvania Archives, Series 6, Vol. II, pp. 807-808, one can read, "Know all men by these presents that we, Samuel McIllheny, Samuel Linn, David Horner, Robert Breckenridge, Andrew Smith, Robert Horner, Patrick Gibson, Joseph Walker and James Walker, do hereby authorize and empower James McIllheny in our and each of our names for us to use and receive for us and each of us the certificates and sums of money due to us for personal service at Camp Security in guarding British prisoners, and in our names to sign, seal and deliver acquittances or discharges as shall be judged necessary hereby holding firm whatsoever our said attorney shall do or lawfully cause to be done in the premises. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals the 8th day of March, 1787". Signed, Samuel McIllheny, seal, under Capt. Johnson. This apparently was an attempt to secure pay for guard duty performed from July 10th to September 11th, 1781.

Regarding the Horner brothers service, available evidence indicates that one or the other or both, were on active duty at Camp Security from July 10th to September 11th, 1781, and that one or the other or both were also on active duty from December 7th, 1781 until February 8th, 1782" ^[3]

See DAR patriot list. There are more than thirty descendants who have joined the NSDAR under David Hornor's service.

Married Mary Love, daughter of Alexander Love, another patriot of DAR Service Pa. Archives, 6th Series, Vol. 2, pp 469, 471, 470, 649, 807, 808. 1st. Lt. Capt William Lindsay, Col Robert McPheson

Sources

1. ↑ Passmore, John Andrew Moore. Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Moore, 1612-1897. Lancaster, PA: Wickersham.
2. ↑ Horner, John. Unkn date. "A Brief History of the Horner Family" in "W. G. Horner & Co., Emmitsburg's Other Bank" Emmitsburg Area Historical Society. http://wwww.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/places/business/horner_co.htm
3. ↑ Horner, John. Unkn date. "Adams Countians In the American Revolution: Militia In the Revolution." Emmitsburg Area Historical Society. http://wwww.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/history/rev_war/adams_countians_in_rev_war.htm "

• History by grandson William H. Horner