John CULBERTSON, Sr.

1796 - 1877  (81 years)

• Name	John CULBERTSON
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	30 May 1796	Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
  Christening	3 Jun 1796	Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	17 Aug 1822	New York City, New York County, NY
  Death	7 Dec 1877	Greenville, Outagamie County, WI
  Burial	Greenville Cemetery, Outagamie County, WI
  Notes	(1) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index ®, Copyright © 1980, 2002, data as of September 27, 2009, Batch No.: C115079, Dates: 1776 - 1798, Source Call No.: 1041005, Type: Film, Printout Call No.: 6900996, Type: Film, Sheet: 00 JOHN CULBERTSON Male Event(s): Birth: 30 MAY 1796 Christening: 03 JUN 1796 Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland Parents: Father: JAMES CULBERTSON Mother: JANET WHITE (2) New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database online], Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006: Name: John Culbertson Arrival Date: 17 Aug 1822 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1799 Age: 23 Gender: Male Port of Departure: Greenock, Scotland Ship Name: Natchez Port of Arrival: New York, New York Line: 2 Microfilm Serial: M237 Microfilm Roll: M237_3 List Number: 400 [Note by compiler: John CULBERTSON's future wife, Margaret REID, was also a passenger on the same voyage on the Natchez from Greenrock, Scotland to New York.] (3) Caution: The compiler has not verified whether the following information relates to the John CULBERTSON who was born on 30 May 1796 in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database online]. Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2009: Name: John Culbertson Year: 1824 Age: 27 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1797 Place: Pennsylvania Source Publication Code: 9972.20.3 Primary Immigrant: Culbertson, John Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date step in naturalization process was accomplished (usually in York County, Pennsylvania.) Title changes in Volume 5:3 to York County PA Naturalization Papers. Previous articles indexed in PILI 1986-1990 under source numbers 9872.3-.9872.4 and 9872.7-.9872.20. Source Bibliography: YORK COUNTY PA NATURALIZATION RECORDS In Codorus Chronicles (Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Services). vol. 6:2 (Aug. 1988), p. 13 (1820-1822); vol. 6:3 (Nov. 1989), pp. 14-15, 18-21 (1821-1825). Page: 19 (4) Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records <http://www.glorecords.blm.gov>: Patent Description Names Patentee: JOHN CULBERTSON Survey State: INDIANA Acres: 80 Metes/Bounds: No Title Transfer Issue Date: 8/1/1838 Land Office: Jeffersonville Cancelled: No U.S. Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) Document Numbers Document Nr.: 10134 Accession/Serial Nr.: IN2680__.098 BLM Serial Nr.: IN NO S/N Legal Land Description [Parcel 1] Aliquot Parts SWSE Sec./Block 29/ Township 5-N Range 12-E Fract. Section No Meridian 2nd PM State IN Counties Jefferson Survey Nr. Legal Land Description [Parcel 2] Aliquot Parts SESW Sec./Block 29/ Township 5-N Range 12-E Fract. Section No Meridian 2nd PM State IN Counties Jefferson Survey Nr. (5) A household headed by John CULBERTSON is listed in the 1850 census of Shelby Township, Jefferson County, IN. John is listed in the 1850 census as a farmer who was then 53 years of age; therefore, according to the 1850 census, he was born in about 1797. According to the 1850 census, he was born in Scotland. Listed with John is his wife, Margaret, who was then 48 years of age; therefore, according to the 1850 census, she was born in about 1802. According to the 1850 census, she was born in Scotland. Also listed with John is his daughter, Jenett, who was then 18 years of age; therefore, according to the 1850 census, she was born in about 1832. According to the 1850 census, she was born in IN. Also listed with John is his son, Alexander, who was then 16 years of age; therefore, according to the 1850 census, he was born in about 1834. According to the 1850 census, he was born in IN. Also listed with John is his daughter, Margaret, who was then 13 years of age; therefore, according to the 1850 census, she was born in about 1837. According to the 1850 census, she was born in IN. Also listed with John is his daughter, Nancy, who was then 11 years of age; therefore, according to the 1850 census, she was born in about 1839. According to the 1850 census, she was born in IN. (6) Spencer, Elihu, Record of the Pioneers of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, Appleton, WI: Post Publishing Co., 1898, pp. 23-24 [available online at http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/]: About the beginning of the eighteenth century, there lived near Campbeltown [sic], Scotland, one James Culbertson, who took for a wife Jean Campbell; whose son Robert married Nannie Harvey; whose son James and his wife Jenet White Culbertson had six sons and three daughters, Jean[,] Agnes, Robert, Janet, William, John, James, Samuel and David. For many years the family rented and lived on the Skerbolin farm, five miles north of Campbeltown [sic]; but when all the children had reached maturity they emigrated to America between the years 1818 and 1822, locating in southern Indiana, where the first settlers were making their pioneer start. John, who was born in May, 1796, was the last to emigrate. Soon after reaching America, but before his journey was completed, he was married September 11, 1822, to Margaret Reid, a member of the same emigrant party and a resident of his native land. They located in Shelby township, Jefferson county, Indiana, where John's people had preceded him. Here he took a quarter section of unimproved very heavily timbered land and subdued it into a modern farm of that date and here their family was born: James, Matthew, John, Janet, Margaret, Alexander and Nancy. At the time the boys had reached manhood and wished to establish homes for themselves, Wisconsin territory was in the boom, and March 22, 1848, John, accompanied by his son Matthew, started on a land-seeking expedition. They went by an Ohio river boat to Cincinnati, from there by canal boat to Toledo, then by railroad sixty-five miles to the terminus, then by stage to St. Joseph, Mich., from there by boat to Sheboygan, Wisconsin territory, where they arrived at the earliest possible moment, which was April 4, and from here they proceeded on foot, finally holding up at Green Bay where, April 14, they bought in the Government land office three hundred and eighty acres of land, being that upon which members of the family now reside in the town of Greenville. Matthew at once built a cabin and was the first settler in Greenville. His father, after remaining with him several weeks, returned to his home in Indiana, where Matthew joined the family in November. The next spring, accompanied by his brother James, moved with team and wagon to the pioneer home, where they were joined by John Jr. in 1850 and Alexander in 1855. In 1854 their mother, Margaret, died, and their father, selling his farm, moved to Wisconsin in 1858, accompanied by Margaret and Nancy. March 6, 1851, Matthew took for a partner in life Hannah, daughter of Enos Otis. John was married Dec. 8, 1852, to Miss Esther Prentice; James March 18, 1860, to Abbey Wickwire, and Alexander to Sylvina Perry, April 15, 1869. Their father, John, died Dec. 7, 1877, and was buried in the Greenville town cemetery. (7) The Land of the Fox: Saga of Outagamie County, Appleton, WI: Outagamie County State Centennial Committee, 1949, pp. 47-48: [available online at http://images.library.wisc.edu/]: Greenville's first permanent settler, Matthew Culbertson, whose 100 year old farm near Medina is still in the family as the home of the present Merle N. Culbertson, started out March 22, 1848 from a Scottish settlement in Indiana with his father, John, to seek farm land for a home in the Wisconsin Territory. The elder Culbertson, later a resident in the Town of Greenville, emigrated in1822 from Campeltown [sic], Scotland, and met his future wife, Margaret Reid, onboard ship. John and Matthew made their journey to Wisconsin like many an eastern traveler-in stages-first by way of steamboat, then canal boat, a railroad trip to the end of the line, then stagecoach, lake-boat, and finally on foot. They walked from Sheboygan to Green Bay where the father purchased land for his four sons and himself at the Government Land Office. On April 18, after four more days of walking, they came to their property. Matthew started at once to build his cabin while his father started walking the journey back to Sheboygan for their baggage, marking the trees along his route so he could find his way back. (8) Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records <http://www.glorecords.blm.gov>: Patent Description Names Patentee: JOHN CULBERTSON Survey State: WISCONSIN Acres: 40 Metes/Bounds: No Title Transfer Issue Date: 9/1/1849 Land Office: Green Bay Cancelled: No U.S. Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) Document Numbers Document Nr.: 12440 Accession/Serial Nr.: WI1370__.315 BLM Serial Nr.: WI NO S/N Legal Land Description Aliquot Parts NENE Sec./Block 30/ Township 21-N Range 16-E Fract. Section No Meridian 4th PM - 1831 MN/WI State WI Counties Outagamie Survey Nr. (9) Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records <http://www.glorecords.blm.gov>: Patent Description Names Patentee: JOHN CULBERTSON Survey State: WISCONSIN Acres: 40 Metes/Bounds: No Title Transfer Issue Date: 3/1/1850 Land Office: Green Bay Cancelled: No U.S. Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) Document Numbers Document Nr.: 14461 Accession/Serial Nr.: WI1410__.081 BLM Serial Nr.: WI NO S/N Legal Land Description Aliquot Parts SWSW Sec./Block 20/ Township 21-N Range 16-E Fract. Section No Meridian 4th PM - 1831 MN/WI State WI Counties Outagamie Survey Nr. (10) Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records <http://www.glorecords.blm.gov>: Patent Description Names Patentee: JOHN CULBERTSON Survey State: WISCONSIN Acres: 40 Metes/Bounds: No Title Transfer Issue Date: 3/1/1850 Land Office: Green Bay Cancelled: No U.S. Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) Document Numbers Document Nr.: 14462 Accession/Serial Nr.: WI1410__.082 BLM Serial Nr.: WI NO S/N Legal Land Description Aliquot Parts NWNE Sec./Block 30/ Township 21-N Range 16-E Fract. Section No Meridian 4th PM - 1831 MN/WI State WI Counties Outagamie Survey Nr.
  Person ID	I19151	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	James CULBERTSON, Sr.
  Mother	Janet WHITE
  Marriage	22 May 1779	Campbelltown, Argyll, Scotland   [1]
  Family ID	F8531	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret REID,   b. Between 1802 and 1805, Scotland d. 23 Mar 1854, Jefferson County, IN (Age ~ 52 years)
  Marriage	11 Sep 1822	Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA
  Family ID	F8530	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

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  Details: Details: Details: Details: Details: Details: Details: Details: Details: Details: Details: Citation Text: (1) The Church of JesusChrist of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index ®, Copyright © 1980, 2002, data as of September 27, 2009, Batch No.: M115076, Dates: 1771 - 1798, Source Call No.: 1041004, Type: Film, Printout Call No.: 6900069, Type: Film, Sheet: 00 JAMES CULBERTSON Male Marriages: Spouse: JANET WHITE Marriage: 22 MAY 1779 Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland.