Dec. in Quaker records
From Pennsylvania Quakers and the War for Independence, pp. 24-25: “The case of two Exeter Friends reinforces the proposition that the punishment suffered was overly harsh for the crime committed. Moses Roberts and Job Hughes both lived along the frontier in Northunberland Co. (which the Assembly had formed out of Berks and other counties in 1772) and were active in the establishment of Catawissa indulged Meeting in 1775 to serve the needs of Quakers along the advancing frontier. Brother Roberts and Hughes had moved there from Oley Twp. in eastern Berks Co., and they had married daughters of Thomas Lee, one of the leaders of Exeter Monthly Meeting. Roberts remarked in 1780 that he had decided to settle in that region after noticing ‘the loos and irreligious lives and conversations of the people’ The Quakers who migrated to Catawissa did not experience the harsh effects of the War for Independence until 1778 when some of the Connecticut migrants who had settled in northeastern Pennsylvania fled west to avoid Indian raids in the Wyoming Valley. The situation remained tense between the ‘Yankees’ and the Quakers until April 1780. On April 9, 1780, representatives of the Northumberland Co., sheriff imprisoned five residents, including two Quakers, Roberts and Hughes. When they arrived at the county seat, a military officer ordered them to jail without pressing any official charges. A few days later, a judge finally questioned them about the suspected crimes of high treason and of cooperating with the Indians. All of the prisoners denied passing messages along to the British or to the Indians and contended that the only Indian they had even seen since the beginning of the war was ‘one Dead one, that went down the River in a Canoe.’ They also did not know who had gone to aid the Indians, although they had heard reports of such activity. After the questioning, the law enforcement officials told them that they all would be leaving the county for another jail unless they posted L10,000 bail each and promised not to appear in the county for the rest of the war. None of the prisoners could afford the bail, so the sheriff ordered their removal to the jail in Lancaster. The imprisonment of Moses Roberts and Job Hughes prompted requests for assistance. In July 1780 Jane Roberts and Eleanor Hughes appealed to Chief Justice Thomas McKean, pleading for the release of their husbands. They contended that county officials had unjustly arrested their spouses, and that they too had suffered since then. Armed men had forced the Roberts and Hughes families to leave their homes without warning, not even allowing them to prepare food to sustain themselves on their journey back to their father’s home in Oley Twp. Their property losses included livestock, crops, furniture, a sawmill, a gristmill. and ‘a Chest of Carpenters tools which we were just burying under ground when the men came upon us.’ The soldiers also confiscated four horses, leaving the women with only two mares to use to transport their families and personal effects. In October, Exeter Monthly Meeting appointed a committee to visit the two women to inquire into their circumstances and raised L5 for the families’ support. A month later, Philadelpha Meeting for Sufferings joined the call for assistance. A committee appealed to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania to inquire into the ‘oppression’ suffered by the two men. Moses Roberts described in a letter to the assembly how ‘when the Calamities of war Encreased in [Northumberland] County, my heart and houses were always open to Receive and Entertain my Distressed Country people, as well as fields and Meadows to pasture their Cattle, without pay or Reward, when they fled from their own Dwellings for fear of the Indians.’ But because he was a Quaker and not an active supporter of the war effort, he suffered imprisonment; consequyently, he feared ‘whether the Noble cause of Liverty’ is not in Danger of being turned into Cruel Slavery, tyrany, and oppression...’ Job Hughes also wrote to the assembly, describing the manner in which Northumberland County officials had captured them and hauled them to jail without being ‘so much as charged with the breach of any Law.’ Hughes further pointed out that the assembly should ‘weightily Consider whether the Government you are establishing, is not in danger of being more Corrupt than that from under which you are come if such work as this is allowed of and acknowledged.’ The appeals of the Meeting for Sufferings and of Roberts and Hughes had litrtle impact, as the assembly refused to consider the cases of the two men, and Chief Jusice McKean ignored the pleas for justice. Finally, in mid-1781, the Lancaster County sheriff released the two men, perhaps recognizing that they no longer posed a threat to the Commonweaalth.”
Marriage Notes for Moses Roberts and Jane LEE-386975
Exeter MM
Philadelphia MM
Philadelphia MM shows the following:1776, 8, 30 John dis associating to learn the art of war.
1778, 4, 27 Ruth, w., John & ch Priscilla, Sarah Ann & Jane gct Gwynedd MM
1780, 6, 30 The above plus Stephen rocf Gwynedd MM. 1781.
1781, 4, 27 Back to Gwynedd 1787, 2, 23 Rocf Gwynedd plus Robert and Ruth.
1789, 8, 28 Back to Gwynedd plus John.
Philadelphia MM, PA
Marriage Notes for John Scotton and Ruth EVANS-387000
in con mcd Philadelphia MM, PA
Philadelphia MM, PA
1739?
Redstone MM, OH: “1794, 4, 25. Wm & w. Mercy, & ch Phinehas, Mercy & Amos rocf Goose Cr MM, VA”
“1806, 3, 28. Wm & w Mercy & dt Mercy gct Miami MM [OH].”
Marriage Notes for William Heston and Mercy CUTLER-387009
1763?
12 Sep 1770?
Marriage Notes for John Wharton and Mary CUTLER-387019
13th? Falls MM
“Desember(sic) the 18th, 1803. I peter martin do give William Tuning leave to Mary my daughter Salley marten here before my son James marten. This my hand /s/ Peter Martin.”
1850 Bath Co. Census - Age 43
1810 Census: Spotsylvania Co., VA - 7 slaves - There is also a John Chewning in this same Census, pg 141840 Census: Nelson Co., VA
1850 Census: Bath Co., VA
1850 Census Slave Schedule Easterm District, Spotsylvania Co., Virginia: 70 yr. old black female
Some of his family fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War
1880 Census: Williamsville, Bath Co., VA - Name is shown as Tuning, lived next door to his son Albert H. Tuning.
aft 1850
Name is shown in various places as Lucinda, Lorena and Lorinda (in 1880 Census
Marriage Notes for Joseph Chewning Tuning/ and Lorinda LUCINDA Page/-387602
1832?
Pisgah Cemetery
Co. B, 31st VA Inf., CSA
Mt. Pisgah Cemetery
Never married
Mt. Pisgah Cemetery
1900 Census: Clay Dist., Ritchie Co., West Virginia