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Miscellaneous Pennsylvania Clover Records

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    Church Records
    Tax Records
    Vital Records: Marriage Records and Death Records
    Military Records  See also United States Military Page for more PA military records.
    Pennsylvania Negative Searches in various sources.
Church Records

Pennsylvania Vital Records, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1983), 107.
    This book consists of articles originally published in the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine and the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
    There is one entry which might be of interest. I am not sure if it is for a Clover or not. Beginning on page 76 of the book, there is a set of baptismal records from the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia.  It is of interest that there was considerable minister traveling in the area as far north as Staten Island, New York, and as far south as Cape May, New Jersey.  So although the birth is recorded in Philadelphia, this does not mean that the child was actually born there or even baptized there. A large number of the travels were listed on page 76 and no trip was listed for this date. I do not know if the list of travels was complete.

page 107: 22 February 1745/6   Jacob, son of Conrad Cluever was baptized
Pennsylvania CD Rom

There are many CDs available about Pennsylvania records.  However, some of these are not new information.  They are reprints of the Pennsylvania volumes which were printed by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland.  We are all familiar with these large dark blue books in many libraries.  I checked the following books for Clovers:

PA German Church Records,     Vol 1,2,3     
PA Vital Records                         Vol 1,2
PA German Pioneers, `                Vol 1,2        
PA German Marriages
Genealogies of PA Families,        Vol 1,2,3

I found only two items which included Clovers.  
“Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania,”Pennsylvania German Church Records, Volume 1, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1983), 176.
Baptism of Samuel Clover, born 11 March 1789, baptized 17 May 1789, son of Archibald and Hanna Clover.

“First Reformed Church, 1736-1806, Lancaster, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania German Marriages, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982), 220.
Archibald Clover married Hannah McDonnel of Con, 12 Apr? 1785. 
[I do not believe that this is a Clover because of the following.  Note the Archibald Clover is listed with the G names which would strongly suggest to me that he was a Glover.
 East Nottingham Township Landowners (1774): Chester County, PA
Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sandra Ferguson
Copyright 2004.  All Rights Reserved.http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm
from THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, by Futhey and Cope (1881);
From Alphabetical List of landowners: Joseph Gatchel, David Gatchel, Archibald Clover, Jas Hudeers]
STONE HOUSE GETS PLAQUE   

Originally published in the Clover Family Exchange Vol. 5 Issue 2 November 1989 bu Bob and Marguerite Clover. Thanks to Pat Vaseska for typing this for us.
Taken from the Clarion News, October 5, 1989
Sent in by Ralph Clover

    The stone house was given a house plaque and dedicated as historically significant by the Clarion Conservancy on September 26, 1989.  H. Ray Pope and his wife, Mary Louise, were presented the plaque by Kent and Karen Pope and their grand-children, Kip, Kirk, and Nicole.
    The house is south of the town of Clarion, Pennsylvania at Rte. 66 and the Strattanville-Reidsburg Road.  It has had a long and varied history that goes back to the settlement of the county, having been built in 1820 by Philip Clover, son of Paul Clover and May Pierson, who were early settlers near Curwensville in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.
    Philip came with his uncle, referred to as Philip Clover, Sr., along with other families from Potter’s Mill of Penn’s Valley in Centre County in 1801.
    Philip Clover was a blacksmith who built a log house and blacksmith shop near where the stone house stands. 
    The land description is as follows:  First beginning at a white oak by land of John Roll, east to a white thorn, thence by land of John Love south to a crab tree, thence west by land of Robert Wilson, Samuel Lucas and Catharine Mortimore to a chestnut, thence north by lands of Frederick Watt to the beginning 150 acres together with all and singular houses, outhouses, buildings, barns, stables, ways, woods and waters to Philip Clover.
    Philip Clover became a prominent citizen, was a major contributor to the founding of the town of Clarion, and was involved in the future of Clarion Borough as a developer.  When the county was formed, he offered land to the new Clarion County Commissioners on condition the Clovers receive half the proceeds from the sales of the lots.  They also donated outright the land for the Memorial Park, the Courthouse and the jail.
    In 1840 the house was transferred to Judge Peter Clover.  During his ownership, part of the Clover family lived there at various times, and at other times the place was rented or vacant.  It often was used as an inn.  It is not known whether Judge Clover ever lived there, although he owned it during the 1860’s.
   In the 1870’s the stone house appeared to be empty.  There were rumors that it was the headquarters for Boss Buck, a notorious horse thief, also known as Sebastian Buck.  He was the owner of property in Beaver Township but was never caught in Clarion County.  During the Roaring Twenties, the stone house was used as a speakeasy.  In the next decade it was used as a gas station but it only dispensed gasoline for a brief period.
    After the ownership of Joseph Thompson, the stone house went through several hands until it was purchased on October 27, 1945 by attorney H. Ray Pope and his wife.  There were 5 acres of terraced lawn and woods acquired.
    After 70 years of misuse, most of the roof was gone, trees had started to grow inside, the windows were out, and someone had kept a cow in the basement and chickens on the first
floor.  The plaster was a combination of horsehair and mud, which was plaster replaced.  At first the third floor was made livable and the family moved in while work continued.  It took from October 1945 to May 1946 to clean the place.  They were able to move downstairs in December of 1947.
    Today the house continues to be the home of Pope and his wife.  The walls of stone are 28 inches thick.  The walls opened up into an original floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace in the front room.  There is a 24 foot fire blackened log in the back of the fireplace, hard as steel.  Six fireplaces originally graced the house and the Popes were able to keep four.  

Also from a county history book, unnamed:
Ca. 1872, when the property was sold several times, it was described as:
Containing 160 acres, more or less, with the following improvements:
One Stone dwelling house 26 X 30 feet, two stories high with kitchen attached 18 X 20 feet one story high, one spring house 12 X 15 feet one story high, one smoke house 10 X 12 one story high and other necessary outbuildings, a good spring of water at the door, about 400 fruit trees growing on said premises, also about 200 grape vines grown on said lot, also a bank of good stove coal in operation thereon, about 130 acres cleared and under fence.
Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Genealogical Records of the Descendants of Jacob Beidler of Lower Milford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania: together with historical and biographical sketches and illustrated with portraits and other illustrations (Milton, New Jersey, 1903) 198.

W. Harrison Weber, born 1 February 1858, son of William Casselberry Weber, and Hannah Walker, married Mary Clover, PO Norristown, [Montgomery County], PA.
Children: Charlotte Weber, Mary H. Weber, Helen Weber, Stanley Harrison Weber, Marguerite Weber

If you are interested in this family, the entire book is reproduced on Google Books.  You can access this free.  I suggest loading the pdf format as it is easier to read. 
Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790
G. ( no idea what G means)
1765, June 15. Clover, Esther, and Hugh Jones.
1773, Apr. 29. Clover, William, and Letitia Tittermary.

I don't know the source of these. They were sent to me a long time ago.  I think they are off one of those old genealogy CDs.


Newspaper article on General Seth Clover
The Intelligencer and Journal, then edited by George Sanderson, was the regular organ of the Democratic party
in Lancaster County. It was a weekly publication, and at  that time a vigorous and exciting campaign for the State
election in October was in progress. Col. William Bigler of Clearfield County was the Democratic nominee for Governor;
General Seth Clover of Clarion County for Canal Commissioner, and for Judges of the Supreme Court the first ticket
presented by the Democratic party under the new elective system bore the illustrious names of Jeremiah S. Black, Somer-
set; James Campbell, Philadelphia; Ellis Lewis, Lancaster; John B. Gibson, Cumberland, and Walter H. Lowrie,
Allegheny.
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/christiana/chapter8.htm
Clover Tax Records
 
Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
The following tax records were sent to me by the Librarian of the Centre County, Pennsylvania Library. According to her, Mrs. Spangler was a former genealogist in Centre County from the 1920's to the 1960's.  She compiled 176 notebooks and 25 scrapbooks of genealogical information on Centre County.  All of the books are indexed so it's easy to locate someone who lived in Centre County.  These are the only records she found on Clovers in these Spangler books.

1792 Assessment List for Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, Potter Township

Paul Clover        150            1 horse    1 cow
Phillip Clover     100             --            2 cows
There is no mention on this page as to what 150 and 100 mean. I would expect it to refer to acres.  

I was interested in this record because it is the earliest record I have so far seen of Paul in Pennsylvania. Does anyone have copies of deed records from Mifflin County?  I would very much like to know exactly when Paul and Philip got to Pennsylvania.  
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania: 1783 Census (Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 2001), 41.  The information says that this is reprinted from the Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series without changes of the name.  It is in fact a set of tax records.
Page 41, Springhill Township: Jacob Clover no acres 2 horses 1 cow no sheep 

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                        Discussion of this newly located record on Jacob Clover.
    I was excited to locate this entry and have checked some material hoping to find more Clover information in the same area. I can report the following as of now: 
FHL microfilm no.1315268, Vital Records of Clarion County
Marriages 1885-1916
page 111 no. 10. Eliza J. Clover married Nathan Masters, 21 June 1886.  Nathan Masters was the son of George and  Catherine Masters, aged 49 years, resided Richland Township.  His wife died 9 March 1885. Eliza was the daughter of James and Margaret Dugan.  Her husband died 28 August 1863.[ This was Eliza Jane Clover, widow of Gamaliel Clover, Jr.  Gamaliel4 Clover, (Gamaliel3, Philip2, John Peter1 Clover of New Jersey.) ]

Vital Records: Death Records
 
Venango County, Pennsylvania Death Records
Joan Search Hanson, C. G., and Kenneth L. Hanson, PHD, Venango County, Pennsylvania Death Book Summery and Index, 1893 to 1905, (Apolla, Pennsylvania: Closson Press, 1995), 17. 
Page 17: Nalcy Clover, died 1895, aged 40, daughter of John and (Rose Shannon)
[I copied this out of a book in Salt Lake City several years ago.  I now wonder if I copied it right.]


Jefferson County.

Patricia M. Steele, Who, When, and Where, Volume II, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Newspaper Items, 1834-1837, 1854- 1889, page 18.
13 June 1866, newspaper unknown.  On June 6, at Brookville, C. C. Dempsey of Cherry Tree, Venango County, married Miss Rhoda A. Clover, of Brookville, by Reb. J. C. Scofield.

Sent by Mark Lussky:
Newspaper clipping from the Jefferson County, Pennsylvania Genealogical Society
Newspaper unknown, Dated: 26 September 1866:, Married
On the 1st instant, by Rev. W. Hollister, at his residence, Mr. Joseph Farrington, to Mrs. Mary Clover, all of Brookville.

Sent by Mark Lussky <mlusskyjchc@windstream.net> :
Newspaper clipping from the Jefferson County, Pennsylvania Genealogical Society
Political History of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania 1866.10.03
Clover, the 13th Township [of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania]  organized in 1841, taken from Rose Township, named for Levi G. Clover, then Prothonotary of the county.

Sent to me by Mary Lee Clover:
Mary A. Clover, daughter of Levi G. Clover and granddaughter of Philip Clover. This was taken from A History of the Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies at Bethlehem, PA with a catalogue of its pupils 1785-1870.  Mary was listed as a pupil here in 1852. 
 

         I found the following item on the internet at the Pennsylvania State Archives. This was in the Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File (Series no. 13.50) These cards are arranged alphabetically by the name of the soldier. There is an explanation on line for these cards which does not exactly tell me why his name was there.  This card relates to the Militia Loan of 1784-1785. This loan was established to pay individuals for services and goods provided during the Revolutionary War that had not been reimbursed at that time.  I have been unable to find out any more about it. I am not sure if it is pay for later militia duty or for his earlier service or for some other reason. If anyone is able to find out, we would like to know.  It might help if someone is actually at the archives in person.  It may be that these are a result of the state not being able to pay the militia and some vouchers which were issued in lieu of payment.
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/  Pennsylvania State Archives, ARIAS Section, which is the Archives Records Information Access System.  These are all digitalized records.  There are a number of Peter Jones records in the same set of Revolutionary War Abstract Card File. I have no idea which would apply to the Peter Jones who was the father of John Jones and Martha Jones. Interested individuals are urged to search the Pennsylvania digitalized records.  
          Militia