Isaac Newhouse, John Newhouse, Samuel Newhouse, Lewis Jackson Newhouse

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

ISAAC NEWHOUSE

Isaac Newhouse was born in 1749 near Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, the youngest son of Anthony and Mary Britton Newhouse. Isaac's father Anthony "Neuhaus" immigrated from Germany before 1744, and about that same time built a paper mill at Trout Run Creek in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania (now Montgomery Co), with Benjamin Franklin as one of his famous customers. Isaac Newhouse’s father was a prosperous man having owned a paper mill on which paper the Pennsylvania Colonial bank notes were printed. Anthony Newhouse sold his paper mill to Jacob Hagey, prior to his death in 1763 in Philadelphia County. Hagley was listed as next to Isaac’s brother Jacob Newhouse in a tax list. Jacob was known to have worked with Hagey after his father's death. Isaac’s mother Mary left a Will in Nov 1763 in Plymouth, Philadelphia Co, that listed her sons Jacob, David, Jonathan and Isaac; and daughters Susannah and Sarah.

Isaac Newhouse was an orphaned at the age of 14 and he was apprenticed out to Philip Sharp, a weaver in the village of Whitemarsh. Isaac’s brother Jacob Newhouse was recorded on same tax list as Philip Sharp. At the age of 23 Isaac Newhouse witness the Will of Philip Sharp in 1772

A document recorded in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania dated 20 March 1770, regarding the administering of the estate of Catherine’s parents Derrick Van Pelt and Mary Britton, showed Isaac Newhouse was married by 20 March 1770 when he would have been 20 or 21 years old.

“ Isaac Newhouse, husband of Catherine VanPelt endorses Joseph McClean as the Administrator of both Estates of Derrick VanPelt and Mary VanPelt. Mary VanPelt died before this date, in Whitpain. Derrick Van Pelt and Mary Britton were married 14 February 1742/3 and he was a tavern innkeeper in Whitpain Pennsylvania at his death in 1767. The Van Pelt were of Dutch ancestry and were settlers of New Amsterdam in the mid 17th Century who resettled in Pennsylvania.

When the Revolutionary War began Isaac Newhouse was a resident of New Britain Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In 1775, Isaac enlisted as a private in Captain Grier's New Britain Company, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and served during the War for Independence alongside his brothers-in-law Joseph and John Van Pelt.

During the war Isaac Newhouse and Catherine Van Pelt moved from eastern Pennsylvania to northern Virginia. On 10 September 1779 he was admitted a member of the Broad Run Baptist Church in Fauquier County although he was raised a Quaker. His wife Catherine Van Pelt Newhouse who was also raised a Quaker, was not admitted a member of the Baptist church until 10 September 1781.

Isaac was found on the tax lists of Fauquier County from 1782 through 1785.He was living near his brother Jonathan Newhouse. In Fauquier County he may have been raising livestock as he had four horses and 4 cattle. In 1787 the Newhouse family left Fauquier County in the fall. Broad Run Baptist records showed that in October 1787 the church “agreed to dismissal of Bro. Isaac Newhouse and his wife.” They had voluntarily withdrawn their membership for their impending move south.

About that same time, Isaac moved his family to Montgomery County, VA, recorded in 1788 Montgomery Co. tax lists, and which his residence became part of Wythe Co, VA in 1789.

Isaac and Catherine Newhouse left northern Virginia following the Great Wagon Road to Southwest Virginia. Isaac Newhouse is found next in Montgomery County, Virginia in 1788. He may have been at the same location in Wythe County as that county was formed from Montgomery in 1790. Tax records from 1788 to 1794 showed Isaac as living there until moving to Washington County from Wythe. The tax list of 1788 Montgomery County showed him owning 4 horses. In 1790 Isaac is listed in Wythe County which had just recently formed from Montgomery. He is listed with 3 horses. The 1794 tax list taken when Isaac was 45 years old showed that he owned 6 horses.

A deed dated 13 May 1794 in Wythe County, recorded a land transaction where Isaac and Catherine Newhouse sold 27 acres at the South Fork Branch of Cripple Creek to Michael Bransteter. The following year on 22 January 1795, Isaac Newhouse made a claim for 200 acres at the head waters of Cripple Creek.

In 1796 Isaac Newhouse is taxed in Wythe County on 6 horses. A deed record dated 12 August 1796 also in Wythe County has Isaac and Catherine Newhouse selling 195 acres for $200 to Peter Darter, “on south branch branch of Cripple Creek where Isaac Newhouse now lives. Isaac Newhouse was able to sign his name but his wife just made her mark.

Isaac lived in Wythe County until 1797, when he moved to adjacent Washington County, VA, and owned 490 acres along the "Poor Valley" near Brumley Creek, north at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He also acquired property near the Holston River where he is listed as owning 3 horses. Two years later at the age of 50 years he paid taxes on 2 horses and 168 acres of land in 1799.

On 2 May 1798 Isaac and Catherine Newhouse sold their remaining property in Wythe County for $200 to Peter “Tarter” [Darter] which was 200 acres at headwaters of Cripple Creek adjoining Peter’s own land.

At the turn of the 19th Century on 1 June 1800, Isaac Newhouse is listed with 1 horse and 490 acres of land. He sold 50 acres of the land by 1801 when he is only taxed of 440 acres but now was back up to owning 4 horses. By 1802 Isaac is down to 140 acres and 1 horse and the same acreage in 1803 but had now 2 horses.

On the 20 August 1805 in Washington County, Esau and Elizabeth Hayter sold to Isaac’s son in law and daughter George Williams and Nancy Newhouse 490 acres for 290 pounds land that had once belong to Isaac Newhouse located on the north fork of the Holston River.

Isaac was listed in Washington County, Virgina tax lists from 1797 until 1809, with his sons Isaac Jr, James, John, Samuel, and son-in-law George Williams. Isaac Newhouse however later, he moved to Indiana by crossing through the Cumberland Gap up through Kentucky to Louisville where they crossed the Ohio River into Franklin County, Indiana Territory. Here Isaac is listed on a tax list for 1811 with his son Samuel when he was 62 years old.

Catherine Van Pelt the daughter of Derrick Van Pelt and Mary Britton was born in Whitpain, Philadelphia County (now Montgomery), Pennsylvania but there is no death information known for Catherine. She was last recorded in Wythe County, Virginia land deeds in 1798. Her husband Isaac remarried in 1820 in Fayette County, Indiana - therefore, Catherine either died in Wythe or Washington County, VA by 1810 or died in Indiana between 1810-1820. What is certain is that Catherine Van Pelt Newhouse died before her husband and he remarried on 11 September 1820 in Fayette County, Indiana a widow Winifred Bailey Sandifer. He was 71 years old at the time of this marriage. She was the widow of Robert Sandifur who had drowned.

Winifred Bailey Sandifur was also the mother of Isaac’s daughter-in-law Patsy Sandifur, who was married to his son Samuel, and mother of his granddaughter Mary Williams' husband, Noah Sandifur.

Isaac Newhouse and his second wife Winifred Bailey are probably the over 45 year olds listed in family of his son Samuel Newhouse in the 1820 United States Census of Fort Prairie, Madison County, Illinois. His 2nd wife Winifred was listed with her son Noah Sandifur in Columbia, Fayette, Indiana in 1830, and it is presumed that Isaac died in Columbia, Fayette Co, Indiana before 1830. However he could have died in Illinois.

Children of Isaac and Catherine Van Pelt Newhouse

1. Nancy Newhouse married George Williams

Birth 10 JAN 1774 • New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA

Death 07 OCT 1847 • Near Troy Mills, Union Twp, Fulton County, Illinois, USA

2. Mary Polly Newhouse married Reuben Stanton Pierce

Birth ABT 1775 • Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA

Death BEF 1850 • Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, USA

3. Isaac Newhouse Jr married Martha McCulloch

Birth ABT 1776 • Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA

Death BEF 1830 • Blountville, Sullivan County, Tennessee, USA

4. John Newhouse married Elizabeth Miller

Birth 14 JUL 1778 • Fauquier County, Virginia, USA

Death 23 APRIL 1852 • Rush County, Indiana, USA

5. Rev James A Newhouse married Betsy Wallace

Birth 5 APR 1781 • New Baltimore, Fauquier, Virginia, USA

Death AFT 27 FEB 1839 Delaware County, Indiana, USA

6. Elizabeth Newhouse married Thomas Sargent

Birth 16 SEP 1785 • Fauquier County, Virginia, USA

Death 1824 • Center, Rush, Indiana, USA

7. Samuel Newhouse married Patsy Sandifur, Martha Nance, and Jane Parvin

Birth 1790 • Wythe County, Virginia, USA

Death ABT 1849 • Clinton County, Missouri, USA

JOHN NEWHOUSE

John Newhouse was born 14 July 1778 during the Revolutionary War in Fauquier County

Virginia, John Newhouse was born on July 14, 1778, in Fauquier, Virginia, his father, Isaac, was 29 and his mother, Catherine, was 26. By 1790 his father moved the family to southwestern Virginia where John Newhouse married Elizabeth Miller on October 5, 1801 in Washington County when he was 23 years old. He is shown on Washington County tax lists until 1816 when he moved his family to Indiana with other relatives. The 1820 Census showed that they were living near the community of Columbia, in Fayette County, Indiana. By 1830 however he resettled his family in Rush County, Indiana where he lived out his life as a farmer. In the 1850 census he and his wife were living with his son in law Cicero Hackleman in the township of Jackson in Rush County. He died on April 23, 1852, in Rush, Indiana, at the age of 73, and was buried there. His wife survived him by 10 years and died in 4 May 1862. He and his wife had 14 children in 23 years.

Elizabeth Miller was born 16 September 1785 in Somerset County, Pennsylvania the daughter of Samuel Miller and Elizabeth Christina Fudge. Samuel Miller was born Feb. 4, 1762 in Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Christiana Fudge on June 3, 1785 in Augusta County, VA. Christiana Elizabeth Fudge, daughter of John Fudge, was born Apr. 30, 1766 and six months pregnant when she married.. Samuel died Aug. 3, 1813 in Washington County, Virginia. After Samuel died, Elizabeth Christiana, and children settled in Indiana. Most are buried in or near Rush County, Indiana except Elizabeth Christiana and son, John Miller and his wife, Sarah as they had settled in Des Moines County, IA. Elizabeth Miller’s mother died Sep. 6, 1847 at Dodgeville, Des Moines County, Iowa and was buried at Old Stone Church Cemetery, Des Moines County,

SAMUEL NEWHOUSE

Samuel Newhouse was born 6 June 1802 in Washington County, Virginia, USA and married

Mary "Polly" Kitchen on 19 Feb 1821 in Fayette County, Indiana. She was born 6 December 1805 in Virginia the daughter of James Kitchen and Polly Guthrie who were married on 4 Sept 1798 in Greenbrier County, West Virginia

The parents of Samuel Newhouse were John and Elizabeth Miller Newhouse, who emigrated to Franklin County, Indiana about 1816. Samuel Newhouse and his bride removed to Rush County, locating in Union Township, in 1821. Here “he entered eighty acres of wild, timbered land, put up a cabin and began to clear up a home. Samuel Newhouse remained there until January, 1837, when he disposed of his property in Union Township, and purchased 240 acres of uncultivated land in Jackson Township, his object being to secure a larger tract of land. Here he developed one of the best farms in the township, where after a long and useful life he was called away on February 22, 1862. He was a member of the Baptist Church, with which he united early in life. The mother survived him until June 14, 1886, when she, too, was called home, having reached the advanced age of eighty three years. She, also, was a devout member of the Baptist Church. Thus ended the lives of two of Rush County's earliest pioneers, but they are not forgotten; their memories are kept green by sons and daughters who survive them”.

Polly Kitchen Newhouse’s grandfather, James Kitchen, served in the Revolutionary War as a private in the Virginia militia. He served under Capt. Mathew Arbuncle at Point Pleasant, Virginia as an Indian spy. His widow, Jane Patterson Kitchen, applied for a pension based on the Pension Act of 1838 but the pension was denied. Jane could not prove that she was the legal wife as the marriage papers were destroyed when their house burned on January 14, 1801 in Russell Co. Virginia. James' son John filed a sworn affidavit in Carter Co., Kentucky in support Jane's widow's pension application, indicating that his father had served 3 years and 6 months at the mouth of the Kanawha as an Indian spy, and that he had fought in several Indian skirmishes. Several other witnesses also gave written testimony on the widow's behalf that they had knowledge of James Kitchen's service as an Indian Spy during the Revolutionary War. Additionally, the pension application file records indicate that the name of James Kitchen did appear on payroll lists of the Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Line of Virginia of 1776-1777, per the Auditor of Public Accounts. However, since the original payroll records upon which the lists were based were unavailable, the Auditor found that the actual dates of term of service could not be established. That James Kitchen did serve in the Virginia Militia, Revolutionary War does not appear to have been disputed by the pension court. However, despite numerous affidavits of witnesses, it appears that the Widow's Pension of Jane Kitchen was suspended, due to the fact that she was unable to produce a certified copy of a marriage bond or marriage license at the court's request for the court to examine as proof of marriage. Jane died while the application was in suspended status awaiting proof of marriage; however their son John continued the quest for approval of the pension application on behalf of Jane's estate, to no avail. The application for Widow's Pension was eventually denied.

LEWIS JACKSON NEWHOUSE

Lewis Jackson Newhouse was born in Union township, 23 May 1824, the son of Samuel and Polly (Kitchen) Newhouse, natives of Virginia. Samuel Newhouse, who was the son of John and Elizabeth Newhouse, came to Rush county from Franklin county in 1821, entering eighty acres of timbered land in Union township. In 1837 he sold his farm, and bought a larger one of 240 acres in Jackson township where he spent the remainder of his days.

Lewis J. Newhouse grew to manhood amid pioneer surroundings, and at the age of twenty one began farming for himself. He became a “prominent farmer and respected citizen of Jackson Township.” “When he began life on his own responsibility his father gave him a horse, saddle and bridle, and $100 in money; with this grand start he began to face this unfriendly world.’ “He commenced working by the day and month, receiving very meagre wages, earned by ditching for twelve hours a day, but he carefully saved his earnings, and just before his twenty-second birthday, he purchased eighty acres of partly improved land in Section 24. His neighbors made fun of him for making such a choice, and goaded him by saying that he would surely starve out on such a poor tract.

This was in the spring of 1846, and to-day we find Mr. Newhouse still in possession of sixty acres of that tract, for which he has refused $100 per acre. He added to the tract until at one time he owned here in one body 420 acres, but as his children grew up and desired a start in life he would assist them, and gradually his farm has decreased until to-day it consists of 300 acres. His improvements are good and he is now enjoying the comforts of a pleasant home.

Lewis Newhouse followed farming during his active life, mostly in Jackson township, and before his death he had increased his holdings to 400 acres by constant application to business.

On April 17, 1849, he married Mary A. Hackleman, a daughter of Richard and Hannah Hackleman, pioneers of this county.

“Our subject, as stated, was reared amidst the scenes of pioneer life in this county, and his early education was fair for that day of log school houses. At the age of twenty-one he began to do for himself, by engaging at farming. On April 17, 1849, he was united in marriage with Mary A. Hackleman, a native of this county and daughter of . Richard and Hannah Hackleman, old and respected residents of Rush County at the time of the birth of Mrs. Newhouse. The former was present when the Surveyor laid out the city of Rushville, and secured enough timber in what is now the principal street of the city to erect a log house. This union was blessed with five children: Hannah M., Marshal E., Elbert, Samuel R. and Pleasant A., all of whom are married, and enjoying homes of their own. This union lasted until May 4th, 1862, when death visited the family circle and Mrs. Newhouse passed away. She died a member of the Baptist Church and respected by all who knew her.

On June 9, 1863, Mr. Newhouse was again married; this time he chose for his companion Miss Nancy Pogue, daughter of William and Anna (Saylers) Pogue, natives of North Carolina. Mrs. Newhouse was born in Noble Township, this county, March 6, 1837, and her entire life has been spent here. Her parents are deceased, the mother passing away June 25, 1887, in her eightyeighth year. This union is also blessed with five children: Alfred M., Harvey M., Almeda E., Schuyler C. and Erastmus T., all of whom are living.

Mr. Newhouse is a member of the Baptist Church with which he has been united over thirty years. In politics he is a Republican and firmly upholds the principles of that party.

He assisted in building the Rushville and Knightstown gravel road, and was one of its principal builders, and is now one of its directors. Being reared on a farm he adopted farming as a life profession, and to-day can be classed among the successful farmers of Jackson Township; he has adopted a straight-forward course in life, and has taken a deep interest in the welfare of his family, educating his children liberally and providing each at the age of twenty-one, or at the time of marriage, with either forty acres of land or $2,000 in money. Honest and upright in all his dealings, he is now one of the respected citizens of this county.