The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-07-16
THE EARLY SETTLERS
IN GARRETT COUNTY
By MRS. T. c. HINEBAUGH
By MRS. T. C. HINEBAUGH
Continued from last week.
The Lynn Brothers


of Allegany county were the Lynn
brothers. Their father, David Lynn,
came from Dublin in 1717. He became
Judge of the Frederick county court
and was one of the three commission
ers appointed to lay out Georgetown.
David Lynn, Jr., who married Mary
Galloway, served as an officer through
the entire period Of the Revolutionary
War and was mustered out as cap
tain of the Fourth Maryland Regi-
ment. He was a resident of Cumber-
land but owned extensive land grants
in what is now Garrett county.
Colonel John Lynn was born in
Frederick and was enrolled in the
patriot army. After several promo
tons, he was wounded at the battle
of Eutaw Springs. At the close of the
war he settled in Cumberland where
he became the first clerk of the court
in 1881, which he held until his death
in 1894, at the home of his friend,
DR.. McHenry. His wife was Elinor
Edelyn. In 1894, when President Wash
ington was in Cumberland, he wrote
in his diary: "Major Lynn of the Mary
land Line, an old Continental officer
to whose home / was conducted and
where was lodged and civilly enter
tanned"
John Lewis-or Louis-said to have
originated in France, was born in Ire
land in 1878 and married Margaret
Lynn. He killed his landlord and fled
to America. The inscription on his
tombstone at Bellefont, Va, tells his
story:
"Here lie the remains of John Lewis,
who slew the Irish lord; settled Au-
gusta county; located the town of
Stanton and furnished five sons to
fight the battles of the American Rev.
olution. He was the son of Andrew
Lewis and Mary Calhoun and was born
in Donegal County, Ireland, in 1878,
and died in Virginia in 1852. He was a
brave man, true patriot and firm
friend of liberty"
One of his seven children was Cen
eral Andrew Lewis, born in Ireland in
1920, and settled in Augusta county
in 1854. He was twice wounded in the
battle of Fort Necessity under Wash
irgton, by whom he was appointed
major. Lewis commanded the Sandy
Creek expedition; was in Braddock's
defeat and defeated the Shawnees in
1774, at the great battle of Point
Pleasant on the Ohio.
General Robert Lewis settled in
Gloucester county, Virginia. His
grandson, Major John Lewis, married
Frances Fielding, and their son, Col.
Fielding Lewis, married in 1746 Cath
crime Washington, a cousin of Cen
eral Washington, and when widower
married Betty, sister of Washing
ton.
William, son of Colonel Robert Lew
is, of Belvoir, was a captain in the
State Line during the Revolution and
married Lucy Merriwether. One of
their sons, Merriwether Lewis, private
secretary of President Jefferson, who
appointed him in 1903 to command
what is known in history as the Lewis
Clarke Expedition up the Missouri
River and across the country to the
Pacific Ocean. Soon after his return
he was made Governor of Louisiana.
On trip to Washington he commit
ted suicide. Henry Lewis, son of Philip
Lewis, was living in the "Glade Hun
bred in 1900, now Garrett county, on
the present Reams farm near Swallow
Falls.
Sometime before the death of Col
Gnel Lynn or his friend and neighbor,
Mr.. Campbell, who lived on a farm
adjoining "Wild Cherry Tree Mead
ows," the home of Colonel Lynn, they
made the request that at their deaths
they be buried with their feet touch
ing, so that at the Resurrection they
could sit up and exchange greetings.
But interfering relatives decreed 9TH
erwise, for in after years Colonel
Lynn's remains were disinterred and
removed to Frederick, Md.
This story was told me by Mr.. Jesse
Glotfelty, whose farm in pioneer days
belonged to Meshack Browning and
also adjoined Colonel Lynn's "Wild
Cherry Tree Meadows"
Mr.. Glotfelty had well developed
sense of humor and a fund of quaint
"reminiscences of other days, which de-
lighted him to relate. 1t is my regret
that l made no notes Of what he told.
That entire community is abund-
antly supplied with the most magnifi-
cent springs of ice-cold water. Among
them was a huge boiling spring in
which white sand dubbed up continu-
ally and was very deep. That particu-
lar spring has since been covered by an
arm of the Deep Creek Lake.
Some years ago a number of gen.