Nicholas Myers was born around 1747 likely in British Colonial Pennsylvania. Nicholas married Hannah MNU around 1770. Nicholas Myers likely died in Montgomery County Ohio before 1830.
Nicholas Myers was born around 1747 which can be ascertained from Nicholas' own testimonies given in Montgomery County, Ohio, in the 1820's. Nicholas was the 3rd son and one of 8 known children of John Myers. Nicholas was likely born in Lancaster County, British Colonial Pennsylvania. He may have been born in the portion that became York County in 1749 or the portion that became Berks County in 1752. There is also a possibility that Nicholas was born in the Province of Maryland.
Around 1770 Nicholas married Hannah whose maiden name has not been proven. Nicholas and Hannah reportedly had 8 children, although only 7 have been identified:
- John Myers
- Samuel Myers
- Mary Myers
- David Myers
- Hannah Myers
- Michael Myers
- Jane Myers
Nancy Myers, who was born in 1793 and married Joseph Kauffman, is likely not the child of Nicholas and Hannah since Nancy's date of birth has been established and a daughter under 10 years of age does not appear on the 1800 US census.
Nicholas was of German descent. He signed all of his documents in “high German”, also referred to as “Dutch”. Nicholas appears to have been entrepreneurial and industrious, and also a man of means. He was described by one source as a land speculator. For Nicholas to accomplish what he did and who he did it with, he likely knew the English language.
Sources have reported that Nicholas was a Mennonite. He may have instead been a member of the German Brethren Church or the United Brethren Church.
As the Revolutionary War was coming to an end, Nicholas purchased land in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. On November 15, 1781, Nicholas purchased 2 tracts from Frederick Swagerty. One tract contained 162 acres and the second tract contained 82 acres, 244 acres in total. The land at the time was in Fermanagh Township, located in a bend of Cocolamus Creek. Nicholas was taxed on this property the following year. Nicholas' house was referred to in a 1788 court session pertaining to the building of a road “from David Miller's Ferry on Juniata River to John Graybill's Mill on Monhontongo [sic Manhantongo] Creek. By the draft it commenced at Miller's, passed by N. Myer's house, crossed the Cocolamus creek to David Beal's [sic Boal's] dwelling …” Today the property Nicholas once owned is home to Sweet Water Springs Farm near Millerstown, Perry County, Pennsylvania.
On April 16, 1786, Nicholas of “Fermanagh Township, Cumberland County” purchased 2 tracts of land in Reading Township, York County, from Marmaduke Wilson. One tract contained 166 acres and the second contained 94 acres, 260 acres in total. The following year Nicholas mortgaged the 2 tracts to John Thomas. Curiously when the mortgage was written on April 28, 1787, the deed referred to Nicholas and Hannah of “Reading Township, York County”. The mortgage was fully satisfied and discharged on April 27, 1790. The tract which contained 166 acres ended up in the hands of John Albert who, along with Margaret his wife, sold it to Conrad Hains in 1793. The descension of the 94 acre tract has not been found as of this date.
In 1789 Mifflin County was formed from parts of Cumberland and Northumberland Counties. Nicholas' land was still located in Cumberland County, but the township lines changed and his land was now in Greenwood Township. Fermanagh Township was solely located in Mifflin County.
On November 9, 1789, Nicholas was granted a warrant for 65 acres of land in Greenwood Township, Cumberland County. When the land was surveyed in 1789, it lay adjoining the land of David Miller and Adam Michael.
In the 1790 US Census Nicholas and his family were recorded in the eastern part of Cumberland County. The census recorded 3 males above the age of 16, likely Nicholas and sons John and Samuel, 2 males below the age of 16, likely sons Michael and David, and 4 females, likely Hannah his wife, and daughters Mary, Hannah and Jane.
On October 15, 1792, Nicholas was granted a warrant to survey an additional 54 acres across the creek and adjacent to his property. When the land was surveyed on December 5, 1793, the survey noted the shifting boundaries of the time: “a tract of land in Greenwood (formerly Fermanagh) Township, Cumberland County”.
In 1793 Nicholas' son John made his first appearance on the tax assessment recorded as a single freeman which indicated that John had arrived at the age of 21 years. Shortly after the assessment John married Elizabeth Rothrock, daughter of George Rockrock. They settled in Mifflin County near Lost Creek.
In 1793 Nicholas began to acquire land in Mifflin County, a bit north of his farm on Cocolamus Creek. He acquired 81 acres of an 188 acre tract warranted to John Thomas and Robert McTeer which he patented on January 16, 1797. The remaining 107 acres were conveyed to John Shellenberger. The same year, 1793, Nicholas also acquired a 40 acre part of an 119 acre tract from David Martin which he patented on January 14, 1797. The remaining 79 acres were conveyed to John Shellenberger.
Around this time Nicholas also came into possession of 220 acres of a 352 acre tract which was warranted to William Martin. Nicholas patented the tract on November 2, 1803. The remaining 132 acres were conveyed to John Shellenberger.
About 1794 son Samuel left for Northumberland County where in 1795 he married Catharine Rush, daughter of John Rush. Samuel returned to Mifflin County in late 1799 or early 1800 where he settled near his brother John on Lost Creek.
Around 1796 daughter Mary married neighbor Jacob Michael.
Sometime prior to March 7, 1797, Nicholas' father John wrote his Last Will and Testament. “John Miers of Farmanaugh [Fermanagh] Township and Mifflin County” made bequests to his 8 children. John devised his third son Nicholas “my hand screw and cross cut saw and a fluke for rowling [rolling] logs”. He appointed “my Grandson John Miers the son of Nicholas Miers” to be the executor and the will was witnessed by Samuel Sharon and Jacob Adams. Letters of testamentary were issued to John Myers on March 10, 1797. While Fermanagh Township was quite large at the time, it is known that witnesses Samuel Sharon and Jacob Adams lived along and near Lost Creek close to the Juniata River, which is also where Nicholas' son John lived, so John Miers must have lived in close proximity to the three. Regarding the bequest to Nicholas, several sources report that Nicholas was skilled at carpentry as he built many houses on the properties he acquired and subsequently sold, some of the houses surviving into the 1920s.
By 1800 Nicholas had moved his family to Mifflin County. At the time Mifflin County east of the Juniata River consisted of 2 townships, Fermanagh and Greenwood. The line dividing the townships ran through the center of McAlisterville. Nicholas' land lay on or near the township line.
The 1800 US Census recorded Nicholas and Hannah living in Greenwood Township, Mifflin County, with 2 sons, 1 age 16 to 25, likely David, and 1 age 10 to 15, likely Michael, and 2 daughters, 1 daughter age 16 to 25, likely Hannah, and 1 daughter age 10 to 15, likely Jane. Sons John and Samuel were recorded nearby in Fermanagh Township.
After the census, son David became of age and appears to have gone to York County where he met, and in 1801 married Mary Bradley, daughter of Joseph Bradley.
On May 18, 1802, Nicholas along with his wife Hannah “of Greenwood Township, Mifflin County”, sold the property on Cocolamus Creek to George Negley. The deed included 3 tracts of land, the 2 tracts of land conveyed to Nicholas from Frederick Swagerty and the 54 acre tract that Nicholas had warranted and surveyed. The tracts were described as “in Greenwood (formerly Fermanagh) township”, Cumberland County. In total the property contained 300 acres.
Also around 1802 daughter Hannah married the widowed Michael Beshoar who had a young son.
By 1803 son David, along with daughter Mary and her husband Jacob Michael, were in Montgomery County, Ohio, where they agreed to purchase 640 acres for $2 an acre for a total of $1280 with installments payable over a 4 year period plus interest. They put down $320 and paid off the balance plus interest by August 22, 1805. The following February David Myers and Jacob Michael received the patent for the land. In October of 1807 David Myers and his wife Mary, and Jacob Michael and his wife Mary, sold 323 acres of the tract to Jacob Bradley “of York County, Pennsylvania”, Mary Bradley Myer's half-brother.
In October of 1805 Nicholas' son John died leaving his wife and 6 young children. Nicholas' son Samuel, along with John Rothrock, administered his estate.
About 1807 daughter Jane married John Lauver.
On Oct 29, 1807, Nicholas “of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania” purchased 395 ½ acres of land in Montgomery County, Ohio, from Daniel Chribe (Cripe). Nicholas and Hannah sold this property on October 11, 1815, to John Shup (Shoup).
On August 18, 1810, Nicholas patented 178 acres in Fermanagh Township which were made up of three adjoining tracts. The first tract of 51 acres was acquired from his son Samuel who had purchased it from Hugh McElroy. The second tract of 99 acres was acquired from Hugh McAlister. It is unclear how Nicholas acquired the third tract of 28 acres. The east branch of Lost Creek ran through the second and third tracts.
On May 27, 1811, Nicholas agreed to purchase 181 acres for $4100 from Robert Mitchell, one of the heirs of Samuel Mitchell. The tract lay in both Fermanagh and Greenwood townships and part of the tract was leased to Christopher Coffman. It was agreed that Nicholas would take possession of the tract when the lease expired. Nicholas paid an initial payment of $1000 and another $1000 the following April. The agreement required Nicholas to pay $533.33 to Samuel Mitchell's widow Ann when she requested it and $266.67 to register the deed in his own name. With deed in hand and the final balance yet to be paid, Nicholas patented this land on October 3, 1813, and then sold it to John Foust on May 20, 1814. The final payment was due to Robert Mitchell on April 1, 1815. It is due to this transaction with Robert Mitchell that so much is known about Nicholas' life after this date.
In 1812 Nicholas sold 70 acres of his 178 acre tract to his son Michael Myers of Berks County. Michael sold less than an acre of the property to Benjamin Bashore on March 12, 1812.
On November 1, 1816, Nicholas patented 95 acres of land in Fermanagh Township on the south branch of Lost Creek. On the same date, he patented 32 acres adjoining which he had acquired from Hugh McAlister.
By 1816 Nicholas and Hannah could no longer get along and live together. It was decided that Nicholas would leave Pennsylvania for Ohio, where two of his children (David and Mary) already lived. In a deposition given in Ohio in 1825, Nicholas alleged that he “lived unhappily with his wife [Hannah] in Pennsylvania who at four different times abandoned him and his house remaining absent from six weeks to three months, taking with her, without his consent, his furniture and other property, sometimes to to the amount of $60 to $70 which she never returned” and that “after having suffered extremely for many years, separated from his wife.” While the true nature of the relationship between Nicholas and Hannah will likely never be known, it is interesting to note that almost all of their children named a daughter Hannah while none named a son Nicholas.
In preparation for his departure, Nicholas deeded 2 large tracts of land in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, to his son Michael dated December 3, 1816. The tracts were located on the south branch of Lost Creek, 1 contained 119 acres and the second contained 140 acres. Michael sold both tracts to his brother-in-law Michael Bashore on February 17, 1819.
Prior to leaving Pennsylvania, Nicholas employed Barbara Smith to “come with him” and “to keep house”. He also promised that “if she remove with him to Ohio and keep house for him he would make a good provision for her.” Nicholas and Barbara then left Pennsylvania for Ohio and Nicholas testified that “at the time [he was] 71 years of age”.
On July 9, 1817, Nicholas' son David sold Nicholas for $3000 a 223 acre part of the land that David and Jacob Michael had patented in 1806. It was probably a surprise to David when his father arrived with at least one infant child which may have been why Barbara Smith filed a lawsuit against David for slander in August of the same year.
On April 17, 1818, Nicholas, who was already in Ohio, entered into an agreement with his sons Samuel and Michael, and son-in-law John Lauver, to take care of his wife Hannah. Nicholas also gave Samuel and Michael power of attorney over his properties in Mifflin County. On this same date, Hannah gave power of attorney to Nicholas to sell one plantation in Jefferson Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, containing 223 acres and one plantation in Fermanagh Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, containing 101 acres. Nicholas' son-in-law John Lauver witnessed the power of attorney along with David Walker.
Apparently there was tension between Nicholas and his family members in Ohio because by May of 1818, Nicholas was in Hamilton County, Ohio, where he purchased 4 acres of land for $763 near the town of Reading. On August 1, 1818, Nicholas of “Hamilton County” sold this property to Barbara Smith “in consideration of the work, labor and services rendered and to be rendered and for $100”.
The following day, August 2, 1818, Nicholas wrote a deed in which he sold the 223 acres property in Montgomery County to Barbara Smith for $100.
On April 1, 1819, Nicholas was sued by his son David for debt in the amount of $1866.29. David produced several obligatory notes signed by Nicholas which were unpaid. When Nicholas was summoned to court, he refused to show up and he refused to pay the debt. Sometime shortly after this date, David moved his family to Washington County, Indiana.
On Dec 18, 1819, Nicholas sold his 101 acre tract in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, to John Musser. Reportedly this tract had been the family homestead and today, like all of Nicholas' other land holdings in Mifflin County, became located in Juniata County, when the county was formed in 1831.
Sometime between 1818 and 1820, Nicholas returned to Montgomery County where on May 29, 1820, he purchased from Jacob Krull 252 acres which adjoined his land in Montgomery County, Ohio.
On August 15, 1820, Nicholas wrote two deeds, one which he called his Last Will and Testament. In this deed Nicholas gave Barbara his housekeeper a tract of land in Montgomery County as long as she agreed to take good care of him and remain his housekeeper during his natural life. The tract was not specified. In the second deed, Nicholas conveyed to Barbara for $1850 the 223 acres tract Nicholas had purchased from his son David. From these deeds, it is not clear whether he deeded all of his land to Barbara or just the 223 acre tract.
When the 1820 US Census was recorded there were 5 people in Nicholas' household in Montgomery County, Ohio. There was 1 male above age 45, Nicholas, 1 female above age 45, 1 female 26 to 44 years of age, likely Barbara, 1 male less than 10 years of age, and 2 females, 1 between the age of 10 and 15, and 1 less than 10 years old.
On October 2, 1822, Nicholas deeded a 5 acre part of Jacob Bradley's, Barbara Smith and Nicholas Myers' land to Rebecca Smith for $50. Barbara Smith witnessed the deed. The relationship to Rebecca Smith is not known but she was likely related to Barbara and either the female over 45 or the female 10 to 15 years of age in the 1820 US census. In 1824 Rebecca deeded the land to Barbara Smith.
On June 4, 1823, Nicholas wrote another deed. This time he deeded the land he purchased from Jacob Crull to William Myers, Rebecca Myers, and Lydia Myers, “three natural children born to me of the body of Barbara Smith.” The tract was 247 acres, 252 acres minus the 5 acres he sold to Rebecca Smith.
So between 1816 and 1823, Nicholas had 3 children with his housekeeper Barbara Smith:
- William Myers
- Rebecca Myers
- Lydia Myers
Sometime in 1823 Robert Mitchell tracked down Nicholas in Montgomery County claiming that Nicholas never paid the final installment from the deed they entered into on May 27, 1811, in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, for 181 acres. Nicholas either refused to pay Robert, or he did not have the money. Robert sued Nicholas for the money plus interest.
On October 13, 1823, in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, Robert Mitchell's lawsuit against Nicholas Myers was presented. The charge was “Plea of Covenant Broken” and Nicholas was summoned to court. Nicholas showed up the following day and the case was continued until the following March so that both parties could file their pleadings.
The case commenced on March 1, 1824. Robert presented the deed with Nicholas' seal. Nicholas defended “the wrong and injury” but said nothing that would refute the case. Robert was awarded $1996.15 in damages and the cost of the suit. Robert filed an execution of judgment for the damages and costs to be levied of the goods and chattels of Nicholas and if there were no goods and chattels then against the lands or tenements of Nicholas Myers.
The sheriff was unable to recover the damages and costs from Nicholas and reported to the court that “No goods, chattels, lands or tenements found in my bailiwick whereof to levy”. This was true since Nicholas had deeded all his property to Barbara Smith and to his youngest children. Robert Mitchell then filed a case against Nicholas Myers, Barbara Smith, William Myers, Rebecca Myers and Lydia Myers for fraud.
Robert Mitchell presented his case in Chancery Court on November 8, 1824. Robert asserted that Nicholas owned about 475 acres of valuable land in Montgomery County and that knowing he was indebted to Robert, fraudulently conveyed or pretended to convey all of his land. Robert further asserted that the deed to Nicholas' children, William, Rebecca and Lydia Myers, was void because the children were under the age of 21. The court agreed that the case had merit, appointed a guardian ad litem for the children, and continued the case to the following February.
Nicholas, Barbara Smith, and Alexander Grimes, the guardian ad litem, were issued a subpoena by the sheriff on January 13, 1825. Since the defendants had 60 days to respond, when the court convened on February 28, 1825, the case was continued to May.
The court commenced on May 13, 1825. Nicholas' lawyer presented Nicholas' deposition. Nicholas affirmed that he had not made the final payment to Robert Mitchell and that he had it in hand and ready to pay but Robert Mitchell had left the county and was “absent at some parts unknown” to Nicholas. Nicholas went on to say that around 1817 friends of Robert Mitchell received letters from some place about 500 miles from New Orleans and that Robert was dead. Nicholas said he kept the money waiting for an agent or representative of Robert's to receive it, and when no one did, he spent it. Nicholas argued that he should pay Robert the final payment but that the many years of interest on the whole amount should be deducted.
Nicholas stated that when he moved from Pennsylvania for Ohio, he left with his son Michael Myers more that 6000 pounds in “bonds and obligations against responsible individuals” to be kept by Michael for Nicholas' use. Nicholas then claimed that Michael “combining with his other children” disposed and collected the lands and obligations and “apportioned them among themselves.” Nicholas said that since he did not want to engage in “unpleasant litigation with his children” he entered into an agreement with them to support his wife. At the time he left Pennsylvania, Nicholas surmised he was worth at least 8000 pounds.
Nicholas said that he purchased land from his son David who was then living in Montgomery County and he did owe a debt to David, but it was his only debt owed. Nicholas said that when he wrote the deeds to Barbara Smith and to his children by Barbara, he did not know of the complaint against him by Robert Mitchell. He said he wrote the deeds because his older children told Barbara they would take the land as soon as Nicholas was dead. Nicholas also stated that because his older children had already possessed themselves of his property in Pennsylvania, he “had a right to dispose of his other lands” as he pleased.
Nicholas went on to state that about 4 years prior he had fallen from a horse and was injured and “extremely feeble” and that Barbara has been “kind and attentive”. He said that Barbara had “worked for him faithfully and industriously for 8 years, not only as his housekeeper but often at cutting and hauling wood and seeing to his farming business” and that the “land is no more than a fair compensation to her for her services rendered”.
Finally Nicholas denied that there was any fraud intended and that the case be dismissed.
The deposition of Barbara Smith was presented next. She affirmed that Nicholas had given her a deed to 223 acres of land in August of 1818. She stated that she had entered into an agreement with Nicholas prior to leaving Pennsylvania to be his housekeeper and in return that “he would provide for her a good tract of land that should be her own.” Barbara stated that the deed was given to her “in pursuance of the said agreement.”
Barbara stated that “soon after the deed was given, the said Nicholas' children contended and continue to contend” that the deed “was good for nothing and that they would have the land.” Barbara became concerned about her title to the land and requested that Nicholas write another deed to her which he did in August of 1820.
Barbara went on to state that “for eight years she has labored faithfully and incessantly” while for much of the time Nicholas was “very infirm and feeble, several times confined to bed, and much of the time afflicted with a diabetes, which rendered her labor, not only arduous, but very unpleasant especially in cleaning his apparel and bedding.”
Barbara said that in addition to being Nicholas' housekeeper, she “hauled and cut firewood … threshed out the garden, got out the flax, transported to and from the mill the grain for their bread, and many other jobs … of a farmer.”
In the end Barbara denied any intention of fraud and requested that the case be dismissed.
Alexander Grimes, the guardian ad litem to William, Rebecca, and Lydia Myers, appeared in court next. He stated that the children “are altogether ignorant of all and singular the matter of things in the plaintiff's bill”. He also said that the children were “infants of tender years” and therefore submit themselves to the judgment of the court.
Prior to the judgment Robert Mitchell discovered that Barbara Smith entered into a contract to sell the land to Henry Ludy. Robert amended his lawsuit, included Henry Ludy in the charge of fraud, and requested time to prove his charges. Robert asserted that the defendants colluded together to prevent him from obtaining full and fair satisfaction of judgment. New subpoenas were issued to Nicholas and Barbara and Henry Ludy and the case was continued to October of 1825. When the court met on October 12, the case was continued to the following February.
The case commenced on February 27, 1826. Nicholas' deposition stated that “he had nothing to do with the land, that it belonged to Barbara”. He also stated that he was “nearly 78 years of age, quite infirmed in body and his recollection so much impaired”. He again denied the charges of fraud and requested the case be dismissed.
Barbara Smith's deposition stated that she did enter into a contract to sell the land to Henry Ludy in December of 1824 and did so because she was threatened by Robert Mitchell. Mitchell told her that “if she would not give up the land, he would put her in jail and keep her there till she would”. Barbara Smith claimed her understanding of the English language was imperfect and that she was poorly qualified to understand the law. She stated that because she did not want to be taken away from and her children and because she thought that “the troubles, anxieties and expense” of the lawsuit would go away, she entered into an agreement with Henry Ludy to sell both tracts of land, the one deeded to her and the one deeded to her children. She stated that Henry Ludy visited her the following April and they agreed to cancel the contract.
Henry Ludy's deposition stated that on December 8, 1824, he made a contract with Barbara Smith for the purchase of the land. Henry said it was his understanding that the purchase money was going to be used to pay Robert Mitchell. However when Henry learned that Robert Mitchell was continuing the case in Chancery Court, Henry canceled the contract with Barbara Smith by mutual consent. Henry then denied all charges against him and requested to be dismissed from the charge and recover the reasonable costs that he sustained.
Robert Mitchell then requested judgment on the case. The judgment came at the next court session on May 29, 1826. The Chancery Court adjudged and decreed that the two deeds “be canceled and made void” and “that the same land may be sold on execution to be issued by complainant on his said judgment at Law”. The court ordered that of the proceeds from the sale of the 223 acre tract, Barbara Smith should receive $854.50. The charges and bills to Henry Ludy were dismissed.
The sheriff seized the two tracts of land and advertised them for auction in the Dayton Watchman and Farmers and Mechanics Journal to be sold to the highest bidder on September 9, 1826. On November 22, 1826, the sheriff conveyed the 247 acre tract to John Ewing, the same tract that Nicholas had once conveyed to his youngest children.
On November 24, 1826, the sheriff conveyed the tract containing 223 acres to Barbara Smith who paid $4.83 per acre, about $1077.
The last record of Nicholas Myers occurs on March 5, 1827 when Nicholas presented a Petition for Insolvency. “To the Honorable the Court of Common Pleas, the petitioner represents that he has resided in this County more than 4 years before filing his Petition, and that by means of misfortune and accident he as become insolvent and unable to pay his debts, and prays the benefit of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors”. It was adjudged that Nicholas was entitled to the benefit of the act.
It is likely that Nicholas died sometime between 1827 and 1830 in Montgomery County, Ohio.
As for Barbara Smith and the children, the last record occurs on November 1, 1827, when Barbara Smith “single woman” sold the 223 acre tract to Henry Hipple for $1200. The following day she sold the 5 acre tract that Rebecca Smith once owned to John Stone.
Genealogical Research and Life Sketch Completed: June 2024
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