Family of Ormsby.
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trade; and in the year 1763 was plundered of all his property, his people murdered, and himself shut up in Fort Pitt during the Siege.
"Mr. Ormsby was a large stockholder in the Indian(a) Grant, which would have remunerated him for all his losses by the Indians, had not the Revolution taken place; notwithstanding, he was a Staunch Whig and gloried in our Independence."
Issue:
| 1. | John Ormsby, Junr. |
| 2. | Oliver Ormsby, m. Sarah Mahon. |
| 3. | Jane Ormsby, m. Doctor Nathaniel Bedford. |
| 4. | Joseph Blakeney Ormsby, unm. |
| 5. | Sidney Ormsby, m. Isaac Gregg. |
ORMSBY.
| 1. John Ormsby, Junior (John1), b. Bedford, Pa., 1765; d. August, 1795. Judge H. H. Brackenridge,in his "Incidents of the Western Insurrection," relates that, as he and others were riding to General Neville's house, which they wished to dissuade the insurgents assembled there from burning, they met Col. Pressly Neville, Major Lenox (the marshal) and young John Ormsby all armed and on horseback and addressing himself to the young man, with whose family he was on terms of friendship, said, "What! armed!" "Yes," said he. "You will not go with us armed?" "You may go as you please," said Ormsby, "we will go armed." These three then took a different road from the others and arrived at the house about the time it was being fired, experiencing great difficulty afterwards in escaping from the insurgents, a party of whom started in pursuit of John Ormsby, whose family were known adherents of the government, and would | ||
