TENTH GENERATION

576. William LINN was born about 1702 in New Jersey?. He died before 1767 in Bethel Township, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania?. He was married to Jane ADDIS about 1727 in NT, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania.

577. Jane ADDIS was born about 1709 in NT, Bucks Co, PN. She died in 1783 in PBTC, Bedford Co, PN.
Bedford Co. PA 1779 Tax List
100 acres, 3 horses, 18 cows, 16 sheep Children were:

288 i. LINN.
ii. Thomas LINN was born about 1730 in New Jersey. He died about 1783. [1] Scalped during a raid by Indians on Stoddart's Fort, Frederick
Co., Maryland in the spring of 1757. He was seriously maimed for life. In
the Shane interview, Isaac Clinkenbeard states "My Uncle Thomas Linn, also, was
scalped and thwacked, and left laying in the sand all night. Next morning was
found. Brs. (Brothers?) bored his head full of gunblast[?] holes to get the
blood out. Was made blind by being scalped. Many a season I've led him. Had fits
too, sometimes."

iii. John LINN was born in 1733 in New Jersey. He died on 26 Feb 1756 in Combe's Fort, Frederick Co., Maryland. DEATH: [1] Killed by Delaware Indians during an attack on 26 February
1756 at Combe's Fort on the Potomac River at the mouth of Little Connolloway
Creek in Frederick Co., Maryland. In the Shane interview, Isaac Clinkenbeard
states "My Uncle, John Linn, was killed there."


iv. Mary LINN was born about 1736 in Northampton Twp., Bucks Co, PN?. She died in 1763 in Ayr Township, Cumberland Co., PN.
v. Isaac LINN was born in 1739 in New Jersey. He died about 1785. [1] "Reverend John D. Shane's Interview with Pioneer William
Clinkenbeard," The History Quarterly of The Filson Club Historical Society,
Louisville, Kentucky, Vol. 2, No. 3, April 1928, pp. 95-128.

During an Indian raid in the area of the Linn's home on Connolloway
Creek, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania, and Fort Stoddart, 2 miles south on the
Potomac River in Frederick Co., Maryland, Isaac was taken prisoner by the
Indians and held for 11 or 12 years. According to cousin Maude, he was 11 years
old at the time of capture and, when he finally escaped, he returned home just in
time to witness, during another Indian attack in about 1756, the killing of
his father Thomas and brother John, and the permanent maiming of his brother
Thomas Jr. In the Shane interview William Clinkenbeard states "Recollect when
Isaac Linn came back, he went out in the back porch at his Mother's and put on
his Indian dress and took his gun. His mother was afraid he was going off to the
Indians again but he only went to hunt."
[1] "Reverend John D. Shane's Interview with Pioneer William Clinkenbeard,"
The History Quarterly of The Filson Club Historical Society, Louisville,
Kentucky, Vol. 2, No. 3, April 1928, pp. 95-128.

Bedford Co. PA 1779 Tax List
90 acres, 4 horses, 7 cows, 11 sheep

vi. Lieutenant Levi LINN was born on 9 Oct 1748 in Bethel Township, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania?. He died in 1826 in Bethel Township, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania. [1] Lieutenant during the Revolutionary War.

Bedford Co. PA 1779 Tax list
Bethel Township 3 horses, 5 cows, 1 sheep