Proudfit, John (b. 9 FEB 1831, d. ?)

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 35
Data:
Text: birth and place

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 35
Data:
Text: birth and place

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 35
Data:
Text: birth place and date

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 35
Data:
Text: birth date and place

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 35
Data:
Text: birth place and date

Note: Andrew and his son Robert ran Proudfit Sporting Goods Co. at 351 Twenty -fourth Street, Ogden, Utah in the1920's.

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 35
Data:
Text: birth place and date

Source: (Death)
Title: Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Utah

Data:
Text: Location 2B-7-33-1E

Death: 4 MAY 1913 Ogden, Utah

Burial: Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Utah

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 17

Note: Andrew came to America in Sept, 1754 with brother, James arriving in Boston. Later Robert and David came in 1759. Andrew enlisted in Lieut, McKissick"s Co, 6th, batallion of militia of York Co, Pennsylvania (American Historical Society, Vol I, page 269) was called out July 7th, 1776, assembled at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, marched to Philadelphia, thence to Trenton N.J. and Perth Amboy.

Compton's Proudfit Family History gives date of birth as 1732.

McAlister cemetery located off Lentz Rd due east of Crossroads near School Road intersection. In August, 2001 located at end of long driveway to trailer home. Then a walk through a cornfield to a small wooded area where the graves are located a few steps inside. (G or F9 )on map-original street map near Rambo Run creek and Muddy creek convergence.[G7 & J7] Guided to location by J.Nelson Cross. Also mentioned in Cemetery records of York Co Historical Society file # 726-184. Owner Terry Frey,125 Country Club Rd. Red Lion, Pa,17356, phone # 717-244-1795, store-Lion Pharmacy- 717-244-4450.

Proudfoot Point-name on original warrant survey map for Proudfit homestead. Hiverly Survey Map 22-East Hopewell Twp, York Co.,Pa . Located on Coal Rd near Brenmon Rd near Crossroads.[A10 on city map] The log cabin is still in fairly good condition in August, 2001. It has a tin roof and is covered with siding but there still is a huge stone chimney on the side. An upper story window on the side has 3 panes which is most unusual and a good identifier. This building is being used as a storage area and barn. The inside is in good condition except the main living area where the floor has fallen into the floor below. The planks are still there. The building 's colonial origin is still readily apparent on the inside as confirmed by historical expert from Historical Society.The original blacksmith hinges on the doors, the saw marks on the planking, etc. The building is extremily close to the narrow road and across the road is an old victorian 2/3story house that is also neglected. The two buildings are owned by the Hyson family related to the {old} Wallace family and are rental property. See picture.

Also see Wallace-Cross Mill historical site on Nat'l registry list built in same time frame and owned by Wallace family. Andrew's father-in-law or brother-in-law.?

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 9, 13, etc
Data:
Text: book mostly concerned with his descendents

Event: Type: Ethnicity/Relig.
Place: Presbyterian

Immigration: Date: 1754
Place: Watertown, Mass ( Boston)

Occupation: Place: Shoemaker

Occupation: Place: Farmer

Death: 30 MAR 1807 York Co Pa

Burial: McAlister Family Cemetery, East Hopewell twp,York Co, Pa

Death: 27 JUN 1814 York Co Pa

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 16
Data:
Text: birth,death and 10 childrens names and dates, marriage dates for 3 wifes

Source: (Birth)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 17
Data:
Text: "In the record of James Proudfit kept at the Bureau of Pensions, his birthplace is given as Nottingham Township, Chester County, Pa."

Immigration: Date: 1754
Place: landed in Boston (Watertown)

Death: 1856

Death: 15 AUG 1769

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 21

Death: 11 JUN 1830 Crooked Creek, Muskingum Co.,Ohio

Death: 1860

Note: The common ancestor of the famly in America was Andrew Proudfoot who was born in Scotland about 1700. He was married twice. There were four sons and two daughters by the first wife. Andrew and James came to America in 1754 and Robert and David who came in 1759. They settled in York Co , Pennsylvania. Two names are possibilities for the first and second wifes: Janet Prop and Elizabeth Peebles. Andrew's brother, James' descendents named a child Hugh Peebles Proudfit. However, this still could have been a naming for a stepgrandmother rather than a grandmother.

Note: "James, the second child, was person of serious mind, great memory, and well-balanced mentally. He was born near Perth in 1732 , and at a suitable age was sent to the University. He became dissatisfied with the Established Church, and decided to join the Antiburgher branch of the Secession Church. His parents protested the step against the step, regarding it as fatel to his prospects of temporal preferment. James, after mature deliberation, carried out his purpose, completed his literary course, and studied theology under the direction of the Rev. Alexander Moncrieff, professor of divinity in that denomination, for whom he subsequently named a son. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Perth and Dumferline in 1753 to preach the gospel."

"Frequent appplications were made at that time by members of the Associate, or Secession Church, who lived in the British colonies in America for preaching. Accordingly the Rev. Alexander Gellatly and the Rev. Andrew Arnot were sent as early as 1753 (possibly not till 1754), the former as a permanent minister with a view to settlement, the latter as a missionary for a year. They came to Lancaster County, Pa., and organized the Associate Presbytery of Pennsylvania, subordinate to the Associate (Antiburgher) Synod of Scotland."

"November 2, 1753, James Proudfit was deemed eminently fitted to occupy this new field of labor, and accordingly, in July, 1754, he was ordained to the ministry, with a destination for North America. The ordination sermon was preached by the Rev. Geo. Brown from Gal. 1:15, 16."

The young missionary was acccompanied by his older brother, Andrew. They landed in Boston in September, 1754, and proceeded at once to southern Pennsylvania which was the field where the work of the Rev. James Proudfit lay. Families from Perthshire had already built up homes in York County, so that it was natural that Andrew should settle there.

Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family of York, Pennsylvania Compiled by Margaret Comptom, 1911, pg 10

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 9, 10, 26,
Data:
Text: history of birth, immigration, marriage, children and descendents and ministry. Studied under the direction of Rev. Alexander Moncrieff, professor of Perth and Dumferline in 1753 to preach the gospel.

Source: (Burial)
Title: Evergreen Cemetery List, Salem, New York

Data:
Text: Burial 42, G140 , other family members included

Immigration: Date: 1754
Place: Boston, Massachutsis

Ordination: Date: JUL 1754
Place: Destination America, The ordination sermon was preached by the Rev George Brown from Gal. 1:15, 16

Death: 22 OCT 1802 Salem, N.Y.

Burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Salem, New York

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 29

Occupation: Place: Farmer, Hopewell, York County, Pennsylvania

Property: Place: Willed his "plantation" to adopted son, Andrew Bennet

Death: 1802

Note: "in 1907 I met in York County two descendants of David Proudfoot: John McAlister Gemmill, and W. N. McAlister, veteran of the Civil War, and at that time postmaster at Laurel, Pa.

Other great-grandsons of David Proudfoot who served in th Civil War were Joseph Proudfit, Smith Proudfit, and Henry Clay Proudfit, all from York Co., David Proudfit McAlister (died in hospital), and John McCalmont of Bulger, Washington Co., Pa.

John McAlister Gemmill, son of William and Agnes Proudfit (McAlister) Gemmill, lives on the old Gemmill farm which has been held in that name for more than one and a half centuries, and which lies not far from Proudfoot's Point, the home of Andrew Proudfoot. He has eight children:
1. Annie (Mrs Ettlich) 5. Florence
2. William H. 6. Roscoe
3. Albert V. 7. Chauncey
4.John M., Jr. 8. Norman

James Proudfit of Pottstown, Pa is of this line of Proudfits. (David Proudfoot)

pg 32. History of the Proudfit Family by Margaret Compton

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 30, 31, 32
Data:
Text: birth, immigration, marriage, descendents

Immigration: Date: 1759
Place: came with brother, Robert, five years later than Andrew and James

Death: JUL 1822 Hopewell Twp, York, Pa

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 9

Source: (Name)
Title: Historical Sketch Of The Proudfit Family Of York County Pennsylvania
Author: Margaret Compton
Publication: 1911, Meadville, Pa; reprinted 2002
Media: Book

Note: Excellent

Page: pg 9

Source: (Death)
Title: Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Utah

Data:
Text: Webber county, American History and Genealogy Project, US GEN WEB
Location: 2B-7-33-2E
Note: Ogden City Cemetery, 1875 Monroe Blvd, Webber Co, Ogden, Utah

Death: 8 OCT 1948 Ogden, Utah

Burial: Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Utah