2A-H: Abigail Guthrie
ABIGAIL GUTHRIE
Parents: John Guthrie 1708IRE – 1790PA and Ann Hill (or Emmons) 1715IRE – 1814PA
Birth: 1762
Birth Location: Pennsylvania
Marriage: 12 Sep 1781 to Alexander Andrews
Andrews Children: James (1782), Phoebe (1786), Ann (1788), Jane (1793), Mary ‘Polly’ (1796), Martha (1798), Alexander (1804), Abigail Jane (1811)
Death: 18 Feb 1843
Death Location: Andrews Bridge, Colerain Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial Location: Union Cemetery, Kirkwood, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
ALEXANDER ANDREWS
Parents: Arthur Andrews 1724IRE-1799PA and Phebe Galbraith abt.1728PA-1797PA
Birth: 1758
Birth Location: Pennsylvania
Occupation: Tavern Owner / Inn Keeper / Farmer
Military Service:
Death: 15 Jan 1846
Death Location: Andrews Bridge, Colerain Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial Location: Union Cemetery, Kirkwood, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
NOTES:
The youngest child of John and Ann (Hill) Guthrie was born about 1762. She married Alexander Andrews. They lived on the Guthrie homestead. Information on the Andrews Bridge Historic District reveals that John Guthrie (Guthrey) was the early land owner of Guthrey’s Ford. Following John’s death, his daughter Abigail’s husband, Alexander Andrews, acquired his holdings. The area then became known as Andrews Ford. Alexander opened a tavern at the crossroads by the ford by 1805. In 1813, he petitioned the Commissioners of Lancaster County to construct a bridge where the ford previously existed, and in the following year a stone arch bridge was erected spanning 450 feet across Octorara Creek, which connected Chester and Lancaster Counties via the Newport Road, a primary road during the Colonial period. The village changed its name again, to Andrews Bridge. With increased travel, Alexander Andrew’s tavern, known as the Rising Sun, prospered and was later known as the Andrews Bridge Inn. He sold the remains of his estate at Andrews Bridge, including the inn, to William C Worth in 1836. Abigail (Guthrie) Andrews died on 18 Feb 1843 and Alexander Andrews on 15 Jan 1846.
CHILDREN: 8
JAMES ANDREWS
1782PA-1824DE
James Andrews was born in Pennsylvania on 12 Sep 1782. He married Elizabeth Ross. James Andrews died on 17 Aug 1824. Trees list his death location as New Castle, Delaware. He was buried in Cochranville, PA at Fagg’s Manor Presbyterian Church. He was 42 years old. His widow died three years later.
1) Martha Andrews 1804PA-1871IA m. Samuel Black (Farmer) +children
2) Abigail Jane Andrews 1806PA-1833PA m. John A Love (Farmer) +children
3) Eliza Andrews 1808PA-1891CA m. John Van Armringe (Sandpaper Maker / Real Estate Agent) +children
4) Alexander James Andrews 1812PA-1887PA (Whole Grain Merch.) m. Amelia Dominick Van Amringe +children
5) William Ross Andrews 1814PA-1871RI (Engraver) m. Emelia E Pinkney +children
6) Louisa E Andrews 1816PA-1846PA m. John Joseph Andrews (Farmer) +children
7) Shemenith Andrews 1818PA-1838PA m. James S Underwood – No children
8) Rebecca Andrews 1820PA-1841RI – Unmarried
9) Willison Whitefield Andrews 1823PA-1863PA m. Mary Jane Turner +children
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
PHOEBE ANDREWS
1786PA-1821PA
Phoebe Andrews was born in or about 1786 in Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She married William Murdaugh on 26 Nov 1804. They had 2 sons and 6 daughters before Phoebe’s death at 35 years of age in 1821 in East Nottingham, Chester, Pennsylvania.
CHILDREN:
1) Mary Anne Murdaugh 1805PA-1896IA (Housekeeper) – Unmarried
2) Abbie Jane Murdaugh 1807PA-1821PA died at 14 years of age
3) Joseph Murdaugh 1809PA-????
4) Alexander Andrews Murdaugh 1812PA-1893IL m1.1833DE Jane A McCoy, m2.1868IL Lydia Decker +children
5) Phoebe Elizabeth Murdaugh 1814PA-1889PA – DOD needs verification – No further details.
6) Lavinia Murdaugh 1816PA-1889PA – Unmarried
7) Nancy Theresa Murdaugh 1818PA-1821PA died during early childhood.
8) Martha Caroline Murdaugh 1821PA-1906PA (Seamstress) – Unmarried.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
ANN ANDREWS
1788PA-1876PA
Born in Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in or about 1788, Ann Andrews remained in the Lancaster / Chester County area her entire life. One tree lists her name as Hannah suggesting that Ann was a nickname. She married John Haney on 4 June 1822. they had 2 sons. John died in 1871 and Ann on 15 Sep 1876. They are buried at Manor Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Cochranville.
CHILDREN
1) James S Haney 1830PA-1900PA m.1857PA Mary Elizabeth Ortlip +children
2) John Andrew Haney 1832PA-???? – No further details.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
JANE ANDREWS
1793PA-1885PA
Jane Andrews was born about 1793 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She was a single woman most of her life. She married widower James Fleming sometime between 1860-1870. He had adult children and presumbably grandchildren by that time. He died 6 April 1870. During that census year Jane was living with her unmarried sister Mary Andrews, seamstress niece Caroline Murdaugh, and Joseph Andrews, 56, a math professor. Caroline was still living with Jane in 1880. Jane (Andrews) Fleming died on 25 Jan 1885. No Children.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: N/A – No Known Descendants
MARY ‘POLLY’ ANDREWS
1796PA-1879PA
Mary Andrews was born about 1796 in Pennsylvania. She remained unmarried and earned her living as a seamstress. In 1850 she, her spinster sister Jane, and her niece Martha Caroline Murdaugh were all housed together. Jane married a widower, James Fleming, and moved out, leaving Mary and Caroline living and working as seamstresses, but Jane returned after the death of her husband in 1870. Mary died on 15 May 1879. She is buried at Union Cemetery in Kirkwood, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA,
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: N/A – No Known Descendants.
MARTHA ANDREWS
1798PA-1887PA
Martha Andrews was born on 26 Sep 1798 in Pennsylvania. She married 9 March 1820 in Cochranville to John Rankin. They had 1 known child, a daughter, Abigail Ann Rankin. John Rankin died in 1851 after which Martha remained a widow residing with Rankin family members. Martha survived both her husband and her daughter. She died on 19 Dec 1887 at 89 years of age and is buried at Manor Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Cochranville.
CHILDREN:
1) Abigail Ann Rankin 1821PA-1873PA possibly m.1842 Eli W Hickman (needs verification)
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
ALEXANDER ANDREWS JR
1804PA-1883PA
Alexander Andrews Jr was born about 1804 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. According to online trees, he was married 3 times. Maria Downing (1808-1832) was his first wife. They married 22 March 1826 and had 3 sons: James, John, and Alexander. Six years after Maria’s death he married Jane Work, also listed in trees as Jane Mary Morrison Work (1806-1846). They were married at the First Presbyterian Church on 27 March 1838. They had 4 sons: Melacthon, Howard, Wesley, and Cranmer. After Jane’s death, Alexander reportedly married for a third time to a Caroline Albright by whom he had 1 more son: George. The family was living in Juniata County, Pennsylvania during the 1860 census. Alexander was a farmer. He died 11 Jan 1883.
CHILDREN:
1) James W Andrews 1826PA-1871PA m. Mary Ann Lyons +children
2) John D Andrews 1829PA-1883PA m. Elizabeth Andrews -No children.
3) Alexander Whitfield Andrews 1831PA-1842 died during childhood.
4) Melacthon Andrews 1839PA-1842 died during early childhood.
5) Howard Andrews 1842PA-1907PA m. Mary Catherine Keener +children
6) Wesley Andrews 1844PA-1881PA m. Mary M Cargill -No children
7) Cranmer Andrews 1846PA-1846PA died in his infancy.
8) George W Andrews 1854PA-Aft.1900IL m. Annie E (MNU) -No children.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
ABIGAIL ‘ABBY’ JANE ANDREWS
1811PA-1896PA
Abigail Jane Andrews was born on 16 March 1811 in Pennsylvania. She married Abner Davis about 1840. He was a farmer. They raised 4 children in Andrews Bridge, Upper Oxford, Chester, Pennsylvania, and had one son who died in infancy in 1849. Abby Jane died on 27 Feb 1896 and Abner the following year in 1897. Their remains are buried at Union Cemetery in Kirkwood, Lancaster, PA.
CHILDREN:
1) Hanford Abner Davis 1844PA-1923PA m. Ada Brogan +children
2) Mary Jane Davis 1845PA-1901OH/PA m. James H Kirkwood +children
3) Son Davis 1849PA-1849PA died in his infancy.
4) Josephine Davis 1849PA-1932PA m. James Josiah Jackson +children
5) Emlen Rankin Davis 1851PA-1921PA m. Clara D Roop + 1 son who died in infancy
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
READING and RESOURCES
WEBSITE: Andrews Bridge Historic District – LivingPlaces.com
“Andrews Bridge developed along an old Indian trail which became the Newport Road (Route 896), a primary road during the Colonial period. First known as Guthrey’s Ford for early landowner John Guthrey, the village acquired its present name in 1814 when Alexander Andrews petitioned the courts and succeeded for the erection of a stone arch bridge over the Octorara Creek.” [See site for more detail on John Guthrie, Abigail Guthrie, and Alexander Andrews.]