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Notes for Samuel Houston
When Cumberland County, Pennsylvania was formed in 1750 there
was among the taxables within its territory a Samuel Huston, as
appears by the records in the Commissioner's Office at Carlisle. He
was located in the part of East Pensboro township that is now Silver
Spring.
The records of the Internal Affairs Office show that on 9 November
1752 Samuel Huston obtained a warrant for a tract of land in East
Pennsboro township, Cumberland County, the survey for which was
returned on 7 March 1753. The warrant for Samuel Huston's tract
called for 200 acres but the survey made it 240 acres. The draft on
record shows that it was bounded on the south by lands of John
Sample; on the east by John Carson and Richard Peters; on the north
by Robert Carothers, and on the west by John McClellan.
Samuel Huston was a member of the Silver Spring Presbyterian
Church, now made famous in history as the first church west of the
Susquehanna river. His name appears upon the church records in 1764
along with that of 42 other members of this church and Carlisle who
signed a call for the Rev. John Steel to become pastor of this church.
Samuel Huston was a private in Captain Henry McKinley's company,
12th Pennsylvania regiment, commanded by Colonel William Cook,
Revolutionary War. He appears on a receipt roll which shows that he
entered the service 11 November 1776, that he was in the service one
month and four days and received 2 pounds 16 shillings and 8 pence as
the full amount of his pay and 2 pounds and 8 shillings as subsistence.
On 16 September 1784 Samuel Huston of East Pennsboro Township,
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, made his will, which was probated
on 12 October 1784. Samuel Huston gave all his lands or real estate to
his two younger sons, John and Jonathan, to be held by them and their
heirs in common, with the proviso that they pay to his son William the
sum of twenty-eight pounds, and to his son Samuel fifty pounds in
certain stipulated payments. To his wife he gave one-third of his
personal property, together with a reasonable maintenance out of his
real estate, and named his sons John and Jonathan as the executors of
his will.
The witnesses to the will were Jonathan Hoge, Walter and John
Buchanan. Jonathan Hoge being a Justice of Peace at the time, it is
probable that he wrote the will.
Samuel Houston was buried in Pine Hill Graveyard located in the
northwestern corner of the old Samuel Huston farm, near the edge of a
precipitous hill.
Source: 'McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County
Pennsylvania', Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 31. 'History of the
Huston Families and their Descendants', E. Rankin Huston, 1912, p 4,
25, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 82, 202. Janis Arlene (Meadath)
Krulock family group sheets, 7 July 1994, p 4.
Samuel Huston, born 1710, Lancaster County, PA, died October 1784,
Silver Spring TWP, Cumberland Co. PA, m. Isabella Sharon, died
Cumberland Co. PA. Private in Captain Henry McKinley's Company,
12th PA Regiment, commanded by Colonel William Cook, 2nd
Lieutenant; from Silver Spring TWP, Cumberland Co. PA.
Children: Isabella, b. 1744; Margaret, b. 1750, m. John Huston.
From DAR Records: Samuel Huston was 2nd lieutenant in Capt. James
Semple's company, Col. Chambers' 3rd battalion, Pennsylvania
militia. He was born in Lancaster County; died, 1784, in Cumberland
County, PA.
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