Long Family

The history of the Long family as it pertains to the Henry County branch begins with David Long who was born in approximately 1660 and died in June, 1697 in Kent County, Maryland. His widow, Mary Long, was alive in 1697. Since David had no will, it is assumed that he died fairly young and unexpectedly. His widow was listed as Mary Long. It is a fairly safe assumption that John Long, born 1685, is a son of David Long and Mary Long.

John Long was born in 1685 in Maryland and died in February 1746/47 in Queen Anne County,' Maryland. He was married approximately 1710 in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, to Elizabeth Powell. Elizabeth was born in 1690, daughter of George and Ann Powell of Queen Anne's County. She died after 1730 but before 1746. Queen Anne's County deed records show that John Long, 1685-1747, owned variously named farms in his lifetime. The will of John Long, calling him a "planter" was made on October 18, 1746 and probated on February 16, 1747. It lists no land, and names no wife, and give "token" inheritance to his children named as follows:

David Long was born about 1712. This possibly is David Long that died in 1791 in Sussex County, Delaware.

Mary Flowers was born about 1715 and there is no further record on her.

Elizabeth Roberts was born about 1718. Elizabeth married on March 17, 1737, at St. Luke's Episcopal Church at Church Hill, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, William Roberts.

John Long, Jr., born 1722 at Queen Anne's County, Maryland, and died about 1786 in Washington County, Pennsylvania, now part of Greene County, Pennsylvania. On July 12, 1743, John married Ann Harrington who was born about 1725 in Queen Anne's County and died about 1800 in Greene County, Pennsylvania. Ann was the daughter of David and Rebecca Harrington (sometimes spelled Herinton). David was the youngest son of John Harrington, Sr., of Talbot County. David's will was probated on October 21, 1752 and gave his home farm at "Beaver Dam" to Rebecca and sons, Nathan and Nathaniel; and other farms to his sons, George, John, James, and Gideon Herrinton, and one hundred acres called "Hopewell' to his daughter, Ann Long.

In 1763 John and Ann Long sold the farm and it is possible that they lived for a year or so in Sussex County, Delaware. Shortly they moved their family of seven sons and one daughter to the western frontier then under the jurisdiction of West Augusta County, Virginia, in that region which became, after the final running of the. Mason- Dixon Line in 1786, the southwestern corner of modern Pennsylvania. There lands could be had "for the taking-up" under the so-called "tomahawk rights" or warrants of Virginia. John Long died in 1786. The names of John Long and his two oldest sons, David and John, Jr., appear on the 1772-73 Tax List taken by Pennsylvania. Another of John Long's sons, Gideon Long, made application for a Revolutionary Pension and it shows that Gideon was born in 1754 in Queen Anne's County, Maryland. Although he made application through Fayette County court, he was a resident of what is now Greene County, Pennsylvania. The 1790 Census lists John Long's sons as heads of household in what was then called Washington County, Pennsylvania. Their neighborhood became Greene County with that county formation in 1796.

During the War of the Revolution, John and Ann Herrington Long and their family were living on a farm on Big Whitely Creek, in present day Monongahela Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. John's youngest son, Noah Long, had this land re-surveyed in 1786 terming it the "Square". The main eastern half of 250 acres that Noah inherited from his father, Noah renamed as Noah's "Ark".

John Long was fifty-three years old when the American Revolutio-n began so that may account for his having no record of military service. All seven of John Long's sons have records of Revolutionary military service. At one time, 1782, they were in the same Militia Company under their neighbor, Captain John Guthrey, with Gideon Long being the Ensign, and Noah Long, a private. The eldest of John's sons, David Long, was listed in 1782 in Captain Reed's Company which is thought to have travelled into Ohio on Colonel Crawford's Sandusky Expedition. David is reported to have once been scalped but lived. Earliest in serving in the war were Gideon and Jeremiah Long who volunteered in 1776, going east with the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment of the regular Continental Army Line. They spent the winter of 1777-1778 at Valley Forge.

Later in the war, Gideon stated when he made pension application, that he was with the group which went out to build Fort McIntosh, Pennsylvania, and onward to the Tuscarawas River to build Fort Laurens, the only Revolutionary fort in what is now Ohio. Only two of the brothers lived long enough to apply for pensions. They were Gideon and Elial. Noah Long is mentioned in the Pennsylvania Archives Series 6 as receiving $7.23 pay as a corporal in Capt. Anthony Van Sickles' Washington County Militia Company for October, 1794 tour of duty on the frontiers.

John Long's will was probated on March 29, 1786 at Washington County, Pennsylvania courthouse. It is interesting because he had apparently settled earlier on his older sons as he left them only "token" (one shilling) inheritance. This "trait" seems to have been borrowed from his father's will of 1746 and George Powell's will of 1717. All of his children were named in his will. All born, it is thought in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, but living in 1786 in Green County Pennsylvania, then Washington County.

David Long was born about 1746. He and his wife Sarah moved in 1804 to Butler County, Ohio, where David died about 1829.

John Long, Jr. was born about 1750, married Grace, and lived in Greene County, Pennsylvania, where John died on December 19, 1838.

James Long was born about 1752, in 1800 listed as living in Green County.

Gideon Long was born in 1754, married on March 21, 1781 to Hannah Phillips and died on February 16, 1834, and is buried in Cumpsten Graveyard in Dunkard Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.

Jeremiah Long was born in 1755, married twice. First to Mary Ivers, and his second wife was Jane. He died in Dunkard Township on July 4, 1820 and is buried in Garrard's Fort Baptist Cemetery.

Elial Long was born August 8, 1756 and married Mary Davis (?) and lived in Monongahela Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, then in Monongalia County, now West Virginia, where he died on January 13, 1835.

Noah Long was born about 1760 and died in 1815 and his history follows this.

Ann Long was born about 1762. She married George DeBolt of Fayette County, and in 1786 owned land in Greene County. George died in 1839.