Watson and Morrison Web References

The References section is taken from my book The Oil Creek Flemings of Venango County, Pennsylvania, with related families McClintocks, Culbertsons, Jamisons, Lytles, Morrisons, Watsons and Henderson; therefore it contains references pertaining to all lines, not just to Watsons and Morrisons. The References section include the various county histories, other published sources cited several times in the genealogy sections, the author–date citations of the family history sections, and selected unpublished items. For the genealogical sections, if a source is only cited a few times, the complete source is cited only in the end notes of the section in question. FHL denotes I read the source on film or microfiche supplied by the Family History Library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–Day Saints.

Allen, L. P. 1901. The genealogy and history of the Shreve family from 1641. Privately published, Greenfield, Illinois, 664 pages. Read on microfiche.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1989). History of the petroleum industry symposium. Guidebook: September 17–20, 1989, 84 pages. Samuel T. Pees, Chairman.

Anderson, Nancy U. 1995–1996. McClintock material received from Nancy Anderson in 1995 and 1996: “The McClintock papers,” 22 pages; “McClintock family,” 19 pages; “The McClintock/Huston family,” 11 pages; and the “Papers of Myrtle Molyneaux.”

Armstrong County Pennsylvania. Her people, past and present, Volume II, J. H. Beers and Company, Chicago, 1914.

Asbury, H. 1942. The golden flood. An informal history of America’s first oil field. A. Knopf Publishers, New York, 324 pages.

Babcock, A. (ed.). 1919. Venango County Pennsylvania. Her pioneers and people. Volume I, 560 pages, and Volume II, 527 pages. J. H. Beers and Company, (reprinted 1919). (FHL film 982095).

Bates, S. P. 1899. Our county and its people. Crawford County, Pennsylvania. W. A. Fergusson and Company, 972 pages (FHL film 1000556).

Bell, H. C. (ed.). 1890. History of Venango County, Pennsylvania. Brown, Runk and Company, Publishers. Reprinted 1984 for the Venango County Historical Society, Franklin, Pennsylvania. Volume 1, 1– 604 pages; Volume 2, 605–1164.

This History is multi–authored. Herbert C. Bell was the editor and wrote part of the History. Note that my page number citations are from the 1984 reprint edition; which do not correlate with page numbers of the original 1890 edition (available on film: FHL film 982095)

Black, G. F. 1946. The surnames of Scotland. Their origin, meaning, and history. The New York Public Library, New York, 838 pages.

Black, H. C. 1979. Black’s Law Dictionary, 5th Edition, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1511 pages.

Boggie, Sharon T. 1996. A light in the stern. Genealogical and biographical accounts of our families. Fleming, Trost, Hooper, Boggie in America. Excel Services, Incorporated, Parker, Colorado, 595 pages.

Bolton, C. K. 1977. Scotch Irish pioneers in Ulster and America. Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 398 pages.

Botsford, H. 1946. The valley of oil. Hasting House, New York, 278 pages.

Boucher, J. N. and F. Y. Hedley. 1918. Old and New Westmoreland. Volume I, 581 pages; Volume II, 665 pages; Volume III, 622 pages; Volume 4, 623–1376. The American Historical Society, New York. John Newton Boucher was the author of Volumes I and II; Frederick Y. Hedley was the author of Volumes III and IV.

Boucher, J. N. and J. W. Jordan (eds.). 1906 (reprinted). History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Volume I, 678 pages; Volume II, 649 pages; Volume III, 659 pages, Lewis Publishing Company, New York.

Brown, G. W. 1909. Old times on oildom, 196 pages. Privately published by the author, Youngsville, Pennsylvania.

Brown, P. H. 1908. A short history of Scotland. Oliver and Boyd, Limited, Edinburgh, 350 pages.

Burgchardt, C. 1989. The saga of Pithole City, pages 38–45, in American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Guidebook (1989). History of the petroleum industry symposium, 17–20 September 1989, 84 pages, Samuel T. Pees, General Chairman.

Calvin, C. W. 1945. The Calvin Families. Origin and history of the American Calvins with a partial genealogy. Pasadena, California, 405 pages (FHL film 1321119).

Childe, V. G. 1935. The prehistory of Scotland. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, Limited, London, 285 pages.

Childs, R. History of Forest County, 1867 –1967. Files of Forest Press, 543 pages.

Clifford, H. F. 1985. The ancestors of Ralph Zinn Clifford and Edith Marie (Fleming) Clifford. Privately published, Edmonton, Alberta, 240 pages.

Clifford, H. F. 2003. Cliffords, from New Jersey to Pennsylvania and beyond, with special reference to the ancestors and descendants of Charles and Jane (Gordon) Clifford. Priority Press, Edmonton, Alberta, 778 pages.

Cone, A. and W. R. Johns. 1870. Petrolia: A brief history of the Pennsylvania petroleum region. Appleton and Company, New York, 652 pages. Reprinted 1984 by the Venango County Historical Society, Franklin, Pennsylvania, by Walsworth Publishing Company, Marceline, Missouri.

Copeland, W. T. 1937. The Copeland family. A Copeland genealogy. Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont (FHL film 896953), 821 pages.

Culbertson, L. R. 1923. Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson families. Revised edition. The Courier Company Printers and Binders, Zaneville, Ohio, 478 pages (FHL film 982471).

Darrah, W. C. 1972. Pithole, the vanished city. Privately published, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 252 pages.

Dillon, F. 1973. The Pilgrims. Doubleday and Company, Inc. Garden City, New York, 250 pages.

Dolson, H. 1959. The great oildorado. Random House, New York, 300 pages.

Dudley, D. R. and G. Webster. 1965. The Roman conquest of Britain, A. D. 43–57. B. T. Batsford Limited, London, 216 pages.

Dunaway, W. F. 1981. The Scotch–Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania. Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 273 pages.

Dyer, J. 1990. Ancient Britain. B. T. Batsford, Limited, London, 176 pages.

Elderkin family, with intermarriages. Press of Fisher, Stewart and Company, Limited, 223 pages (FHL film 496890).

Feachem, R. 1963. A guide to prehistoric Scotland. B. T. Batsford, Limited, London, 223 pages.

Fischer, Della R. 1963. Marriage and death notices from weekly newspapers, 1818–1868, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Volume 1. (Copied and typed by William Iscrupe), 2nd Edition, Laughlintown, Pennsylvania, Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Services, 1977, 116 pages.

Fisher, D. J. V. 1973. The Anglo–Saxons age, c. 400–1042. Longman, London, 374 pages.

Ford, H. J. 1966. The Scotch–Irish in America. Archon Books, Hamden, Connecticut, 607 pages.

Foster, R. F. 1989. Modern Ireland. 1600–1972. Penguin Books, New York, 688 pages.

Fox, J. S. 1989. Some geological aspects of the Oil Creek Valley region, pages 46–53, in American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Guidebook (1989). History of the petroleum industry symposium, 17–20 September 1989, 84 pages. Samuel T. Pees, General Chairman.

Giddens, P. H. 1938. The birth of the oil industry. MacMillan, New York, 216 pages (reprint edition, 1972, Arno Press, New York).

Giddens, P. H. 1948. Early days of oil: a pictorial history of the beginning of the industry in Pennsylvania. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 150 pages.

Gibbons, K. 1997. Fleming material received from Kenneth Gibbons in 1997 letters.

Gill, C. 1970. Mayflower remembered. A history of the Plymouth Pilgrims. Taplinger Publishing Company, New York, 206 pages.

Glover, J. R. 1960. The story of Scotland. Faber and Faber, London, 394 pages.

Grant, V. 1996. McClintock material received from Verne Grant in 1996 and 1997.

Grant, V. 1997. The Edward Grant family and related families in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and California. A multi–ancestor genealogy with historical notes. Closson Press, Apollo, Pennsylvania, 186 pages.

Hanson Joan and K. L. Hanson. 1994. Marriages from Venango County (Pennsylvania) sources, 1795–1921 (all), 1886–1921 (outside the county) , 381 pages Closson Press, Apollo, Pennsylvania.

Hanson, Joan and K. L. Hanson. 1995. Venango County, Pennsylvania, death book summary and index (1893–1905) , 105 pages.

Hazen, Tracy H. 1947. The Hazen Family in America, a genealogy. 1163 pages (FHL microfiche 6046919).

Heinen, Patricia. 1992. Watson. Privately published, 555 pages.

Heald Manuscript. No date. Eleven hand–written pages.

This anonymously–authored Fleming manuscript is in the possession of the Heald family of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ann Heald Grosshart (#378 of “Flemings”) does not know who authored the manuscript. The manuscript is a compilation of names, birth, marriage and death dates of descendants of Samuel and Jane McClintock Fleming (#4 of “Flemings’) and descendants of James and Elizabeth Lloyd Jamisons (#9 of “Jamisons”) (the two families were interrelated). The last date was the death of Lillie Fleming Heald (#113 of “Flemings”), who died 26 April 1947. The handwriting is by one person. Perhaps the author was Glenn Heald (1895–1992), son of Lillie Fleming Heald, but I suspect a main source for this material might have been Anna Stahl Fleming, wife of Samuel P. Fleming (#111). The material would indicate the author had a close relationship with both the Flemings and Jamisons. With few exceptions, the names and dates correlate with other sources.

Henry, J. T. 1873. The early and later history of petroleum, with authentic facts in regard to its development in western Pennsylvania. J. B. Rodgers Company, Philadelphia (reprint edition, 1970, Augustus M. Kelley Publisher, New York).

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania. 1885. Warner, Beers and Company, Chicago, 1186 pages, variously authored. (FHL film 962254).

Hollister, C. W. 1983. The making of England, 55 B. C. to 1399. D. C. Heath and Company, Toronto, 318 pages.

Ilisevich, R. D. 1985. (ed.). Pioneers of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, 1788–1800. Heritage Books, Incorporated, 3602 Maureen Lane, Bowie, Maryland, 47 pages.

Iscrupe, W. L. and Shirley G. M. Iscrupe. 1990. Pennsylvania Line. A research guide to Pennsylvania genealogy and local history. Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Services, 376 pages.

Jamison, D. S. 1992. Jamison. Privately published, 116 pages.

Jameson, E. O. 1901. The Jamesons in America, 1647–1900. The Rumford Press, Concord, New Hampshire.

Jones, M. A. 1969. Ulster emigration, pages 46–68 in Green, E. R. R. (ed.). 1969. Essays in Scotch–Irish history. Routledge and Kegan Paul, New York, 110 pages.

Jordan, J. W. (ed.) 1913. Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, 1840–1921. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York. Volume 1 (1–416), Volume 2 (417– 752), Volume 3 (753–1162). (FHL film 1000540).

Kepler, E. 1979–1980. A series of 1979–1980 letters pertaining to Jamison material from Edith Kepler (Marion, Ohio); received from Nancye Thibodeau, see below.

Laing, L. 1979. Celtic Britain. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 190 pages.

Laing, L. and Jennifer Laing. 1990. Celtic Britain and Ireland, AD 200–800. The myth of the Dark Ages. Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 263 pages.

Leeson, Michael A. 1890. History of the counties of McKean, Elk and Forest, Pennsylvania, with bibliographical selections of representative citizens, J. H. Beers and Company, Chicago, 970 pages (FHL film 1550259).

Leonard, C. C. 1867. The history of Pithole: by “Crocus.” Morton and Longwell and Company, Pithole City, Pennsylvania, 106 pages. Read on a microfiche copied from the original in the Library of Congress (F159.P5L5), USA.

Leyburn, J. G. 1962. The Scotch–Irish. A social history. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 377 pages.

Lindsay, D. and Mary R. Price. 1963. A portrait of Britain before 1066. Oxford University Press, 252 pages.

Mackie, J. D. 1978. A history of Scotland. Penguin Books, Markham, Ontario, 413 pages.

Maclean, F. 1970. A concise history of Scotland. Viking Press, New York, 239 pages.

McClintock, Arden. undated. “McClintocks,” 15 pages.

Possibly Arden’s brother Gerald McClintock was also an author of this manuscript. I do not have the entire manuscript. I suspect the manuscript was written in the 1950s or 1960s. The manuscript is in the possession of the Venango County Historical Society, Franklin, Pennsylvania (P. O. Box 101, 301 South Park Street, Franklin, Pennsylvania 16323). The copy that I saw was sent to the Historical Society by Gerald McClintock. There are no cited sources. According to a genealogist of the Venango County Genealogical Club, Arden credited his sources to Mrs. Louise McClintock Kurtz, dating from 1750 to 1882, then finishing to the present by Mrs. Mary LaVene Steele Barnett. Their records were records taken from family bibles (apparently the bible records started with the children of Hamilton and Mary Culbertson McClintock). These records of birth and death dates and marriages appear to be the only source for some of the early Venango County McClintocks, and therefore this is a valuable document, even though some of the inferences are not justified; and the manuscript erroneously reports the founder of our McClintocks in North America to be a Joseph McClintock, instead of Francis McClintock.

McClintock, E. H. 1979. “Life Story of Joseph and Jane (McFate) McClintock, 1810–1879 and 1839–1910,” 31 pages. Provided by Howard Verschell, Brooklyn, New York.

McFate, F. J., Margaret McFate, and W. B. Moore. 1982. Robert McFate and his descendants in western Pennsylvania. Crawford County Genealogical Society, 1982, pages 1–16, 67–87, 102–122.

McLaurin, J. J. 1902. (3rd edition). Sketches in crude–oil. Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe. Hyperion Press, Westport, Connecticut, reprint edition, 1976, 470 pages.

Mitchison, Rosaline. 1970. A history of Scotland. Methuen and Company, London, 468 pages.

Monks, Caroline (ed.) (no date, after 1960), “The Monks–Rohrer Letters,” 92 pages, privately published. The Letters have also been filmed by Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. The original letters are in the possession of Emory University. For more discussion, see End notes of “Oil and Our Oil Creek Ancestors.”

Morison, S. E. 1952 (editor). Of Plymouth Plantation. 1620–1647, by William Bradford. Sometime Governor Thereof. Alfred A. Knopf, 448 pages.

Morison, S. E. 1953. The Pilgrim Fathers: their significance in history, pp. 233–249 in Morison, S. E. By land and by sea. Essays and addresses by Samuel Eliot Morison. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 359 pages.

Morison, S. E. 1956. The story of the “Old Colony” of New Plymouth [1620–1692] . Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 293 pages.

Munger, Donna B. 1991. Pennsylvania land records: a history and guide for research. Published in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Scholarly Research, Incorporated, Wilmington, Delaware, 240 pages. The book is invaluable in understanding the activities of our early ancestors in obtaining land.

“Neill Papers.”

These papers consist of 50 pages of material pertaining to McCaslands and Neills, especially the descendants resulting from the five intermarriages of William Neill and Joseph McCasland’s children. I received the material from the Warren County Historical Society. I am calling this collection the “Neill Papers.” There are seven units, mostly anonymously written, without dates, and usually with no sources. Some units are almost identical, and, because there are usually no page numbers, I found it difficult to separate some of the units. For a critique of these papers, see “Notes on the McCaslands/McCaslins/Neills.”

Newton, J. H. (ed.). 1879. History of Venango County, Pennsylvania. J. A. Caldwell Publishers, Columbus Ohio, 651 pages. (FHL film 982095). There is also a 1976 reprint edition, by the Venango County Historical Society.

Palmer, Helen B. 1996. Fleming and Lytle material sent to me in letters of 26 October 1996, and December 1996 from Helen Palmer and including a letter sent to Olive Peters in 1984. The Lytle sources of Helen Palmer are mainly from family history passed from generation to generation.

Pees, S. T. 1989. Gleamings from F. W. Beers’ 1865 Atlas of the Oil Region of Pennsylvania, pages 3–9, in American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Guidebook (1989). History of the petroleum industry symposium, 17–20 September 1989, 84 pages. Samuel T. Pees, General Chairman.

Perceval–Maxwell, M. 1973. The Scottish migrations to Ulster in the reign of James I, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 411 pages.

Peters, Olive 1985–1996. Lytle–Morrison material received from Olive Peters in 18 letters from 1985 through 1996.

Piggott, S. 1982. Scotland before history. Edinburgh University Press, 199 pages.

Rischard, Maureen M. 1979. Compendium of family history for the McClintock surname. Privately published, 18901 E. Dodge Ave., Santa Ana, California 92705, 123 pages.

Rogers, Helene F. 1973/1995. These consist of two manuscripts: “The McClintock Family” (1973) and “McClintock and Culbertson Information,” June 1995, 18 pages. Since some of the information is identical in the two manuscript, I will treat them as a single reference.

Saklatvala, B. 1969. The origins of the English people. David and Charles Newton Abbot, Bristol, 192 pages.

Schenck, J. S. (ed.). 1887. History of Warren County, Pennsylvania, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. D. Mason and Company Publishers, Syracuse, New York, 692 pages. (FHL film 1000575).

Smith, E. C. 1969. American surnames. Chilton Book Company, Philadelphia, 371 pages.

Smith, R. W. 1972. Genealogical material of the McFate families. The material was received April 1997 from Mark E. Roche, Historian of the Cochranton (Wayne Township, Crawford County Pennsylvania) Heritage Society.

Stevens, Margery. Fleming information submitted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–Day Saints, batch number 6020580, sheet 39, Disk Number 25377, file name STEVENOO.GED (FHL film 1621550).

Stewart, R. W. 1988. The Cumberland Valley: cradle of the Scotch–Irish in America. American Genealogist and Historian, November, 1988, Number 6, pages 16–34, and concluded on page 15.

Steele, J. W. 1902. Coal Oil Johnny. Story of his career as told by himself. Press of Hill Publishing Company, New York, 211 pages. Reprinted 1994 by M. A. Mong Publishers.

I could not find the person or persons who helped Johnny with his autobiography. There are no acknowledgments. The book was written over a quarter of a century after Johnny’s escapades, and Johnny, as he admits on page 86, did not keep a written record of “occurrences and dates.” I found the book low–key, little in the way of embellishment, and for the most part non–apologetic and non–accusatory. An exception is on page 77 where Johnny states: “other misguided beings from the oil region of Pennsylvania were scattered about the country doing foolish things and many of their performances w ere afterwards credited to me.”

Swetnam, G. and Helene Smith. 1976. A guidebook to historic western Pennsylvania. University of Pittsburgh Press, 292 pages.

Thibodeau, Nancye 1997. Jamison material and family group charts sent me in February 1997 by Nancye Thibodeau, Houston, Texas.

Throop. E. F. 1987. Forest County, Pennsylvania, Cemetery Inscriptions. Heritage Books, Incorporated, 3602 Maureen Lane, Bowie, Maryland, 147 pages.

Tomichek, Agnes C. 1988. Marriage and death notices from newspapers, 1808–1921, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Westmoreland County Historical Society, 102 North Main Street, Greensburg, Pennsylvania 15601, 86 pages.

Venango County Genealogical Club. 1981. Vital statistics, Venango County, 1852–1954. Compiled by the Venango County Genealogical Club, 12 pages and 2 page index. Original records are housed in the office of the Register and Recorder, Venango County Courthouse, Franklin, Pennsylvania.

Venango County Genealogical Club. 1987. Venango County (PA) records from the 1975–1989 quarterly newsletter of the Venango County Genealogical Club, Volume 1, 49 pages and 14 page surname index.

Venango County Historical Society (eds.): Carolle Michener, Dennis Armstrong, Ruth Heasley, Beverly Snyder, Barbara Harvey). 1983. Venango County Panorama. A Salute to Its People. A Pictorial History of Venango County, Pennsylvania. Walsworth Publishers, Marcene Missouri, 275 pages.

Waddell, Helen C. (compiler). 1971. Sesquicentennial, Pleasantville, Venango County, Pennsylvania, 1821–1971, 57 pages.

Wainwright, F. T. 1980. The Picts and the problem, pages 1–53 in Wainwright, F. T. (ed.). 1980. The problem of the Picts. Melven Press, Perth, 195 pages.

Weber, D. L. and S. T. Pees. 1989. Wildcat Hollow, historical notes, pages 38–45, in American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Guidebook (1989). History of the petroleum industry symposium, 17–20 September 1989, 84 pages. Samuel T. Pees, General Chairman.

Willison, G. F. 1945. Saints and Strangers. Reynold and Hitchcock, New York, 513 pages.

Oil Creek Watsons and Morrisons

of mainly Venango, Warren and Crawford Counties, Pennsylvania

References

This History is multi–authored. Herbert C. Bell was the editor and wrote part of the History. Note that my page number citations are from the 1984 reprint edition; which do not correlate with page numbers of the original 1890 edition (available on film: FHL film 982095)