Person Info
- Name: Samuel GETTYS
- Sex: M
- Birth: Abt 1725 b
- Death: 15 Mar 1790 in Gettysburg, Cumberland Twp, Adams Co, Pennsylvania d
- Burial: Marsh Creek Cemetery, Adams Co, Pennsylvania u
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- Mary GETTYS Birth: 7 Dec 1752 in Gettysburg, Cumberland Twp, Adams Co, Pennsylvania
Death: 24 Sep 1823 in Tyrone Twp, Perry Co, Pennsylvania
- Elizabeth GETTYS Birth: 1755
- William GETTYS Birth: 1757 in Tork, York Co, Pennsylvania
Death: 1813 in Rutherford Co, North Carolina
- Ann GETTYS Birth: 1759
- James GETTYS Birth: 4 Aug 1759 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Death: 15 Mar 1815 in Gettysburg, Cumberland Twp, Adams Co, Pennsylvania
- John GETTYS Birth: 1761
- Isabella GETTYS Birth: 1764
- Martha GETTYS Birth: 1768
- L C GETTYS Birth: Abt 1770
Bibliography
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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].
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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-]*].
- date:
- abt 1725 [Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
- place:
- Gettysburg, Cumberland Twp, Adams Co, Pennsylvania [Ref: Ed Lay
8/12/2007]
Sources for death Information
- date:
- [Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007],
- place:
- [Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007]
Sources for burial Information
- place:
- [Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007]
Sources with Information about marriage to Isabella RAMSEY
- date:
- abt 1750 [Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007],
- names:
- Samuel GETTYS & Isabella ___ [Ref: Helm TODD p179, Helm TODD p180],
- child:
- [Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007, Helm TODD p179, Helm TODD p180]
Research Notes:
immigrated from Londonderry Ulster to America [Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007]
1761: established a tavern in the area known as Marsh Creek [Ref: Ed Lay
8/12/2007]
Merchant and Tavern keeper [Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007]
1765: owned 381 acres [Ref: Ed Lay 8/12/2007]
settled on the site of Gettysburg as early as 1767, and perhaps earlier. His
name was variously spelled by his contemporaries: Gottee, Gattus, and Gittys.
He became a man of large wealth for his period, but he lost heavily by dealing
in continental money during the Revolution. [Ref: Helm TODD p179]
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