Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: James GETTYS
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 4 Aug 1759 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania b
  • Death: 15 Mar 1815 in Gettysburg, Cumberland Twp, Adams Co, Pennsylvania d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Samuel GETTYS Birth: Abt 1725 Death: 15 Mar 1790 in Gettysburg, Cumberland Twp, Adams Co, Pennsylvania
    • Mother:
  • Isabella RAMSEY Birth: 1731 Death: 12 Mar 1815 in Gettysburg, Cumberland Twp, Adams Co, Pennsylvania

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. James GETTYS Death: 1877
  2. Robert Todd GETTYS

Bibliography
  1. Lay, Ed, James Gettys, private email 8/12/2007. Author address: KEdwardLay at Virginia dot edu Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007].
  2. Helm, Emily Todd, "TODD Family, based on the manuscript of Emily Todd Helm", series of magazine articles in Kittochtinny Magazine, vol 1ff, 1905, p69-383 (with gaps). LDS FILM#0176612#1 (installments 1-3). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/008703194 images 6-55. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Helm TODD p[0-9-]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007]
1760 [Ref: Helm TODD p179],
place:
[Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007],
parents:
[Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007]
Samuel GETTYS & Isabella ___ [Ref: Helm TODD p179]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007, Helm TODD p179],
place:
[Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary TODD
names:
[Ref: Helm TODD p76],
child:
[Ref: Helm TODD p179]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
names:
James GETTYS & Catherine Mary ST CLAIR [Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007]
Research Notes:
1786: laid out the town of Gettysburg, with 210 lots and a central town square on the land surrounding the tavern of his father [Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007]

lived where the town of Gettysburg now stands. James Gettys laid out the town in 1790, in anticipation that it would become the county seat of a new county. His expectations were realized in 1800, when Adams County was created out of the western part of York. He built the first house in the new town; it was used as a tavern for many years but was accidently destroyed by fire in 1880. He was sheriff 1803-06, and represented the county in the Pennsylvania Legislature, 1807-08-09. He was a brigadier-general in the State Militia in 1812. He was a man of sound judgement and great business activity. [Ref: Helm TODD p179]



Pedigree of James GETTYS
 /-----Samuel GETTYS
James GETTYS
|         /-----William RAMSEY
 \-----Isabella RAMSEY



Descendants of James GETTYS
1. James GETTYS m. Mary TODD
m. Mary TODD father: Robert TODD mother: Ellinor McFARLAND

2nd generation

2. James GETTYS m. Hannah DICKSON
m. Hannah DICKSON father: John DICKSON

3rd generation

4. Hannah GETTYS m. William Tennent TODD
m. William Tennent TODD father: Andrew TODD mother: Hannah BOYER

4th generation

13. Andrew TODD m. (Unk) HARPER
m. (Unk) HARPER