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Note: Additions to the information found in Plumb's History of Hanover are shown below in red text.
Frederick CRISMAN, 1 (German descent) came to Hanover as early as 1788; built and kept the Red Tavern; died in 1815. They had:
Abram CRISMAN 2 [or Abraham, see note above] (Frederick 1) kept the Red Tavern; married [blank]. They had:
Jesse CRISMAN 2 (Frederick 1) was born in Hanover; married Polly HARTZELL; removed to Kingston; lived in the house at the west end of the Wilkes-Barre bridge; in 1834 he put his family, live stock and furniture on a sort of an ark in the river there, floated down to the feeder lock at Nanticoke, entered the canal, went down to the Juniata, up that canal to Hollidaysburg, across the Allegheny Mountain on a railroad, without unloading his boat, took the canal on the other side to Pittsburg, intending to have entered the Ohio River there and floated[sic] down to Illinois, his destination. He never reached his destination, but was robbed and murdered at Pittsburg. Names of his family not known.
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