John Cline Sr
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John Cline Sr (1764 - 1835)

John Cline Sr
Born in Manchester Township, York, Pennsylvaniamap
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Husband of — married 15 Jun 1789 in Tom Brooks, Shenandoah County, Virginiamap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 71 in Scott Township, Harrison, Indiana, United Statesmap
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Biography

John Cline was born on 1 March 1764 in Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania, the son of Andreas and Florentina Klein. [1] On 28 November 1780, John, aged “sixteen years and upward,” petitioned the York County Orphans’ Court to choose Peter Shultz as his guardian. [2]

The earliest record of John in Shenandoah County, Virginia, is in the 1787 personal property tax list. He was the second of Andreas’ sons to make his way to Shenandoah County. He was listed with Isaac Layman, who paid John’s tax, indicating that he was living with and probably working for Isaac Layman. [3]

On 15 June 1789, Isaac Layman was surety for the bond for John’s marriage to Mary Ann Armstrong. [4] They were the parents of ten children born between 1790 and 1813.

John Cline was a blacksmith and farmer. His first purchase of land was in 1791, when he and John Blaughey purchased ninety-one acres on the drains of Cedar Creek, in Frederick County, from Richard Longacre. [5] Since John is found in Shenandoah County tax lists for this period, it does not appear that he settled his family on this land, which he and Blaughey sold in 1796. [6]

The next year a survey was made for John of 138 acres at the foot of Little North Mountain, land for which he a received patent for the land from the Commonwealth of Virginia on 29 October 1798. This land was in Shenandoah County and adjoined land of Jacob Parrot, Frederick Parrott, Jr., and Valentine Rodes. [7] It is likely John was living on this land by the time of the survey. Rodes purchased 50 acres of this tract in 1801. [8]

In 1806 John bought 31 acres on Toms Brook near Saumsville from Joseph Layman [9] and made his home there until 1818. In August of that year John sold the remainder of his 1798 grant, 88 acres, and his 31-acre home place and shortly afterward moved his family to Harrison County, Indiana.

Two of John and Mary Ann’s sons remained in Shenandoah County, and John must have assisted them in acquiring their own land. On 8 September 1822, John Cline Sr.—who was by that time in Indiana—George Cline, and John Cline Jr., purchased three tracts of land containing 161½ acres in Shenandoah County from the executors of the estate of Richard P. Barton. The next year the sons bought out their father’s interest. [10]

In Indiana John purchased 120 acres of land in the northeast quarter of section 8 of Scott township in Harrison County, Indiana. [11] He and Mary Ann spent the rest of their lives on this farm. John died in Harrison County, Indiana, on 30 June 1835, aged 71 years and 4 months. [12]

Mary Ann was born in 1767 and died on 17 September 1835. [13]

John's will was probated on 24 September 1835. He left his entire estate to Mary Ann during her lifetime and directed that after her death the personal property and land were to be sold and the proceeds divided equally among his children, except that the two youngest, David and Levi, were to receive an extra $15 each. His executors were Mary Ann and his son-in-law, Samuel Clark. Samuel eventually distributed $312 from the estate, with John Jr.'s not being delivered until 13 October 1846. [14]


Sources

  1. Glenn V. Cline, Descendants of Andreas Klein (private printing, Dennis Cline: Chester, Va., 2007), p.14. Birth date calculated from age at death. John is named in the will of Andreas Klein.
  2. Glenn Cline tabulated and analyzed the personal property tax records of Shenandoah Co., Va., to sort the various Cline families. Glenn V. Cline, “A Study of Personal Property Tax Records, Shenandoah County, Virginia; 1782 – 1820: Cline.” (http://www.vagenweb.org/shenandoah/clinetax.html)
  3. Glenn Cline tabulated and analyzed the personal property tax records of Shenandoah Co., Va., to sort the various Cline families. Glenn V. Cline, “A Study of Personal Property Tax Records, Shenandoah County, Virginia; 1782 – 1820: Cline.” (http://www.vagenweb.org/shenandoah/clinetax.html)
  4. Shenandoah County, Virginia, Marriage Bonds, 1789-1791, Library of Virginia microfilm, reel 69, exposures 304,305.
  5. There is no deed recorded in Frederick Co. for this land. The date, 2 Aug 1791, and acreage is from the deed by which Cline and Blaughey conveyed this land in 1796.
  6. Frederick Co. Superior Court Deeds 2:466 (15 April 1796) John Klyne and wife Mary Anne and John Blaughey and wife Katherine of Shenandoah Co. to John Tewalt of Frederick Co.
  7. Northern Neck Grants, vol. Y, pp. 81-82 (29 October 1798) and Northern Neck Surveys, vol. 4, pp. 444-445 (warrant 24 December 1795; survey 17 March 1797) Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants/Northern Neck Grants and Surveys, Library of Virginia Digital Library Program. Land warrant to Wm. Dulaney in 1795, 138 acres assigned to Cline.
  8. Shenandoah Co. Deeds M:401 (13 Apr. 1801) John Cline and wife Mary Ann to Valentine Rode
  9. Shenandoah Co. Deeds P:306 (13 Oct 1806) Joseph Layman and wife Barbara to John Cline.
  10. Shenandoah County Deeds BB:477 (6 Sept 1822) Executors of Richard P. Barton to John Cline Sen., George Cline, and John Cline, Jun.; Deeds CC:182 (1 February 1823) John Cline and wife Mary of Harrison Co., Ind., to John Cline Jr. and George Cline of Shenandoah.
  11. Harrison County Deed Book C:456 (18 Jan 1822), Jacob Crecelius to John Cline for $1,000. The complete designation is Section 8, range 3 east, township 4 south.
  12. Death date and age from John’s gravestone in the Cline family cemetery on his farm in Harrison County, Indiana: reported by Glenn V. Cline, Winterset, Iowa, in correspondence of 24 June 1999. Glenn provided a photograph of the grave marker.
  13. Glenn Cline wrote: “In researching the Elias Cline branch of our family I recently came into some data that was in the form family records that were kept by Caroline Cunningham Cline, 2nd wife of Francis Marion Cline, who died in 1911. In her records she had the DOD of Mary Ann Armstrong Cline as 17 Sept 1835. This is the only record that I have ever seen in my 25 years of research on our family of a DOD for Mary Ann. Other dates in this data are very accurate as I have confirmed many of her dates on proven research of my own. She listed Mary Ann’s DOB as 1767 so I am inclined to go with it.” [electronic mail, Glenn Cline to Carol Westfall, 11 December 2002].
  14. Harrison County, Indiana, Wills B:55-57; Harrison County Probate Records, Box 14: accounts.
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9485841/john-cline: accessed 12 January 2024), memorial page for John Cline Sr. (1 Mar 1764–30 Jun 1835), Find a Grave Memorial ID 9485841, citing Cline Family Cemetery, Harrison County, Indiana, USA; Maintained by Terry Bigler (contributor 46632780).






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Cline-6753 and Cline-1224 appear to represent the same person because: Same name, same spouse, same DOB and DOD and location.

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