John Harper MONTGOMERY

Father: Thomas MONTGOMERY
Mother: Rebecca HARPER

Family 1: Melinda PLATT
  1. John Nelson MONTGOMERY
  2. Benjamin F MONTGOMERY
  3. Elizabeth O. MONTGOMERY 
                                                                 _William MONTGOMERY ___
                                           _James MONTGOMERY ___|_Mary AKEN ____________
                      _Robert MONTGOMERY _|
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                     |                    |_Mary HENRY _________|_______________________
 _Thomas MONTGOMERY _|
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|                    |_Mary WHITE ________|
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|--John Harper MONTGOMERY 
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|                                                                _James HARPER _________
|                                          _John HARPER ________|_Janet "Jannet" LEWIS _
|                     _John HARPER Col.___|
|                    |                    |                      _William MONTGOMERY ___
|                    |                    |_Abigail MONTGOMERY _|_Mary AKEN ____________
|_Rebecca HARPER ____|
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                     |_Miriam THOMPSON ___|
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BIRT DATE bet 1789 and 1792 BIRT PLAC Harpersfield, Montgomery (now Delaware) Co., NY Moved early in life to Western Pennsylvania (Crawford County). John Harper was a brother of Benjamin, both were sons of Thomas Montgomery, RIN 12. Benjami n went to Wisconsin (when?). According to the 1820 Federal Census, in Madison, OH, there wer e 9 daughters in the household of John Harper's father, Thomas Montgomery. John Harper is listed as a Private in the War of 1812, in Capt. John Reed's Company, 3rd Sub- legion, from the official "Roster of Ohio Soldiers in War of 1812", Vol.1, Page 59. John Har per was a soldier in the War of 1812 to the end of that War. From the official "Roster of Oh io Soldiers in War of 1812", Vol.1, Captain John Reed's Company served from August 23 unti l November 30, 1812, and from January 1 until March, 1813. (According to a history, written and passed down by James Ivor, John Harper's grandson, Joh n Harper was "a captain in Kimball's Ohio Militia Volunteers during War of 1812 and was one o f 33 refugees from the massacre of The River Raisin". Also passed down was that he was a per sonal friend and counselor of General Harrison. The Battle of the River Raisin took place Ja nuary 18-23, 1813.) Lived in Madison Township, OH, 1815 to 1824, according to (Marriage) Probate Records, Jeffers on, OH. On Richmond Township, OH: "Once a part of Jefferson, Denmark and Pierpont Townships, a final separation resulted in th e organization of Richmond Township in 1828. At the organizational meeting, the following we re chosen to serve the residents: John H. Montgomery, Levi Brown and David Prindle, Trustees ; . . ." Married Malinda Platt, 1819, Denmark Town(ship), Ohio, according to Probate Court records fou nd at the County Seat / Archeological Archives of Ashtabula County, Jefferson, OH. Moved to Illinois in 1845. He settled at Buck Creek, north of Ottawa, IL. According to docu ments located at LaSalle County Courthouse, Ottawa, IL, and in the Illinois State Archives, t he first piece of property purchased by John Harper Montgomery in Illinois was 80 acres, i n a Federal Transaction, for $1.25 an acre ($100.00), November 24, 1845, located 6 miles nort h of Ottawa, IL, in Dayton Township, about 1/8 mile west of current Illinois Route 23 along w hat is now Wedron Road, near a creek (Buck Creek): "The East 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4, Secti on 2, Township 34N (Dayton), Range 3East, 3rd Principle Meridian." According to the Federal Census of 1850, the entry for John Harper and the rest of his famil y living together was followed by the entry for a Brower family together with a man named Bea ch, which had to have been directly across the road (the next stop for the census taker), a s indicated on the Plat of the Township for the area for the given timeframe. According to the Federal 1850 Census of LaSalle County he was 56 years of age in 1850. Joh n Harper was born in 1793, according to his age calculation from his obituary, making him 5 6 at the time of a summer Census, enumerated in November of 1850. In his Personal Journal entry on March 26, 1883, J. Ivor Montgomery, John Harper's first gran dson, writes that, from the (Lett) family farm south of Sandwich, IL, he " . . . drove to Ot tawa via Bostwick's in Freedom; stopping at Ed. Temples in Serena + I. (Irenus, see 1850 cens us) Browers + A.E. (Ashbel - see 1850 census) Beache's in Dayton: I got tea and supper at Be ache's. He had cut - today - a cottonwood tree by the front gate that Grandfather had plante d; I counted 32 rings on it." "Grandfather" would have been John Harper Montgomery and the t ree would have been planted ca. 1850-1851, the time John Harper purchased the land / farm fro m James Stout for $1.00. Leter Dayton Township Plats show the farm land being owned by a "Be ach." John H. died at the house of his son, John Nelson Montgomery, in Serena (Township), LaSalle C ounty, IL, December 12, 1867, according to his printed obituary.



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