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Descendants of John Dille
Generation No. 1
1. JOHN1 DILLE was born 1593 in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England. He married MARY WEIR. She was born
1595 in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England.
Children of JOHN DILLE and MARY WEIR are:
2. i. GEORGE2 DILLE, b. 1619, Rivertown, Ireland; d. 1654, At Sea on a voyage to Ireland.
ii. NATHAN DILLE, b. 1621.
Generation No. 2
2. GEORGE2 DILLE (JOHN1) was born 1619 in Rivertown, Ireland, and died 1654 in At Sea on a voyage to
Ireland. He married (2) ABIGAIL HANDS 1644 in Boston, Massachusettes, daughter of JOHN HAND and MRS.
HAND. She was born 1623 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusettes, and died in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusettes.
Notes for GEORGE DILLE:
John DILLY, The ELDER, of Woodbridge, NJ
Submitted by Bob Smith
"Important first settler, name was orig. Dutch, Flanders, the French flavor leading to the suffixes "e" and "ey",
which were Anglicized as plain DILL, the Anglo-Saxon; DILLA, meaning "good". DILL was corrupted into
DEL and DELL in the early records, but without any entymological authority. Immigrant ancestor of all was
that George DILL, who first settled at Salem, where in 1639 he had a land grant. With the 'First Settlers', there
are to be found the familar names of John BURROWS, 1637; Thomas CHADWELL ( SHADEWELL), 1637;
John BURTON, 1637; Philip CROMWELL, 1648; John ELSTON (ALSTON), 1631; Thomas GRAY, 1626;
Henry HAGGETT, 1642; Joseph HULL, 1637; John MANNING, 1631; Richard SINGLETARY, 1637; Richard
WALKER, 1637; John WEBSTER, 1638; some of whom or whose descendants , later, become neighbors and
intermarried at Piscataway and Woodbridge, NJ.
SAVAGE, indexes as DELL or DILL
More About GEORGE DILLE:
Occupation: Master of his own ship named Goodfellow
Children of GEORGE DILLE and ABIGAIL HANDS are:
3. i. JOHN3 DILLE, b. October 04, 1645, Salem, Boston, Massechusetts; d. March 12, 1683/84, Middlesex, New
Jersey.
ii. SAMUEL DILLE, b. August 31, 1647.
4. iii. JOSEPH DILLE, b. February 1649/50, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
iv. BENJAMIN DILLE, b. April 27, 1652, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; m. CATHERINE BAILER.
Generation No. 3
3. JOHN3 DILLE (GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born October 04, 1645 in Salem, Boston, Massechusetts, and died
March 12, 1683/84 in Middlesex, New Jersey. He married SARAH 1672 in Middlesex, New Jersey. She was
born 1650 in Mendham, Morris, New Jersey, and died 1684 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
Notes for JOHN DILLE:
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John Dille, who temporarily settled on State island, was a charter member of the Puritan Colony that founded
Woodbridge, New Jersey, In 1669. In the autumn of 1665, Sir Philip Carteret, who had been appointed
Governor of new Jersey in 1664, published the Concessions and Agreements of the Lords-Proprietors which
established freedom of religion in the new colony. This was the motivating cause for the establishment of the
permaent settlements of Piscataway Woodbridge, ad Elizabethtown. A signal result of the distribution of copies
of The Concession in New England was the arival in New Jersey of John Pike, Daniel Pierce, and seven
associates from newbury, Mass. They enttered into an agreement on Dec. 11, 1666 where by on Dec. 3,1667
they received from Governor Carteret and some of the Elizabethtown associates a grant of land, embracing what
is now the township of Woodbridge, New Jersey. They, as the representatives of 57 families, on June 1, 1669,
were granted a charter creating a township covering six miles square, named after their pastor, the Presbyterian
John Woodbridge, Of Newbury. Most of the settlers were from Newbury and Haverhill, both in Essex had come
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here with Governor Carteret by the ship Philip which had arrived July 29, 1665. The aforementioned John Pike
was the ancestor of General Zebulon Montgomery Pike 1779-1813, who discovered Pike's peak, Colorado, and
who was killed in the War of 1812.
The 57 Woodbridfge freeholders drew for the town lots in 1669. The land had previously been laid off, and the
lots varied in area from 15 to 448 acres. Some of it was upland and some was meadow. At the drawing from
town lots John Dille drew a 94 acre lot on Papiack Creek, as the record states, "John Dilly witht the two Pierces
and several others occupied lots across the Papiac on the Upland beyond the meadows. The Pierces were
prminent men in the Colony. In the above quotation Johns name is given first, indicating that he had
considerable standing in the community, though only 24 years old. In
More About JOHN DILLE:
Religion: Presbyterian
Children of JOHN DILLE and SARAH are:
i. SUSANNAH4 DILLE, b. June 14, 1676, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
ii. SARAH DILLE, b. December 28, 1677, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey; d. 1697.
5. iii. AARON DILLE, b. August 28, 1721, Woodbridge, New Jersey.
6. iv. JONATHAN DILLE, b. September 30, 1684, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey; d. May 10, 1733, Birth Of
Child, Sussex, Nj.
7. v. JOHN JR. DILLE, b. January 24, 1680/81, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey; d. January 24, 1764,
Nantasket, Boston, Massachusettes.
vi. SUSANNAH DILLE, b. January 04, 1675/76.
8. vii. JONATHAN HAMMAL DILLE, b. September 30, 1684.
4. JOSEPH3 DILLE (GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born February 1649/50 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He married
ELIZABETH HULKEE Abt. 1672. She was born 1652.
Child of JOSEPH DILLE and ELIZABETH HULKEE is:
i. GEORGE4 DILLE, b. 1673.
Generation No. 4
5. AARON4 DILLE (JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born August 28, 1721 in Woodbridge, New Jersey. He
married
HANNAH PERRY.
Children of AARON DILLE and HANNAH PERRY are:
9. i. EPHRAIM5 DILLE, b. November 06, 1755, Hunterdon County, New Jersey; d. July 26, 1844, Senacville,
Ohio.
10. ii. AARON DILLE, b. 1746.
iii. JONATHAN DILLE.
6. JONATHAN4 DILLE (JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born September 30, 1684 in Woodbridge, Middlesex,
New
Jersey, and died May 10, 1733 in Birth Of Child, Sussex, Nj. He married HANNAH ALSTON 1713 in
Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey. She was born 1686 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, and died in
Birth of Child, Sussex, New Jersey.
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Children of JONATHAN DILLE and HANNAH ALSTON are:
i. JOHN5 DILLE, b. March 07, 1716/17.
11. ii. AARON DILLE, b. August 28, 1721, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey; d. Sussex, New Jersey.
iii. JONATHAN DILLE, b. September 02, 1714.
iv. SARAH DILLE, b. September 02, 1723.
7. JOHN JR.4 DILLE (JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born January 24, 1680/81 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New
Jersey, and died January 24, 1764 in Nantasket, Boston, Massachusettes. He married (1) RUTH TAYLOR Abt.
1701 in Mendham, Morris, New Jersey, daughter of JOHN TAYLOR and SARAH TAYLOR. She was born
December 25, 1678 in Mendham, Morris, New Jersey, and died November 04, 1722 in Woodbridge, Middlesex
County, New Jersey. He married (2) MARCY 1722. She was born 1684.
More About RUTH TAYLOR:
Burial: 1722, Newark, Essex, New Jersey
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Children of JOHN DILLE and RUTH TAYLOR are:
12. i. DAVID5 DILLE, b. 1718, Mendham, Morris, New Jersey; d. 1784, Washington, PA.
ii. WILLIAM DILLE, b. 1704, Mendham, Morris, New Jersey.
iii. SARAH DILLE, b. 1706, Mendham, Morris, New Jersey; d. March 24, 1725/26, New Jersey; m. NATHAN
COOPER.
13. iv. ICHABOD DILLE, b. 1722, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey.
8. JONATHAN HAMMAL4 DILLE (JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born September 30, 1684. He married
HANNAH
ALSTON. She was born Abt. 1686.
Child of JONATHAN DILLE and HANNAH ALSTON is:
14. i. AARON5 DILLE, b. 1721.
Generation No. 5
9. EPHRAIM5 DILLE (AARON4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born November 06, 1755 in Hunterdon County,
New
Jersey, and died July 26, 1844 in Senacville, Ohio. He married LUCY UISS AYRES 1780 in New Jersey, daughter
of WILLIAM AYRES and ESTHER HARDIN.
Children of EPHRAIM DILLE and LUCY AYRES are:
i. EPHRAIM V.R.6 DILLE, b. October 25, 1799, Fayete County, Pennsylvania; d. March 20, 1882, Northfield,
Minnesota.
ii. JOSEPH G. DILLE, b. 1782.
iii. ABRAHAM DILLE, b. April 30, 1785.
iv. ROBERT DILLE, b. September 23, 1793.
10. AARON5 DILLE (AARON4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born 1746.
Child of AARON DILLE is:
i. AARON6 DILLE, b. 1776.
11. AARON5 DILLE (JONATHAN4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born August 28, 1721 in Woodbridge,
Middlesex,
New Jersey, and died in Sussex, New Jersey. He married HANNAH PERRY 1743 in Middlesex, New Jersey. She
was born Abt. 1723 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey.
More About AARON DILLE:
Military service: fought in the American Revolution
Children of AARON DILLE and HANNAH PERRY are:
i. SAMUEL6 DILLE, b. Abt. 1757.
15. ii. EPHRIAM DILLE, b. November 06, 1755, Sussex, New Jersey; d. July 26, 1844, Senecaville, Guernsey,
Ohio.
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12. DAVID5 DILLE (JOHN JR.4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born 1718 in Mendham, Morris, New Jersey, and
died 1784 in Washington, PA. He married MARY ELIZABETH WADE 1742, daughter of NATHAN WADE and
MARY DAVENPORT. She was born 1728 in Maryland, Of Bridgewater, Somerset, New Jersey, and died April
13, 1826 in Washington, PA.
Notes for DAVID DILLE:
We do not know how many of his children were with David and his wife, Mary when they left their home in
Morris County, New Jersey, with a group of other pioneers and crossed the uncharted Alleghenies. They must
have followed the Indian Trails and natural routes that later became the Braddock and Forbes Roads. These
lead to the neighborhood where they chose to settle on Ten Mile Creek in southwestern Pennsylvania, near the
present towns of Prsperity and Amity. We know that their Son Aaron, who had married in new Jersey, did not
accompany them but remained in New Jersey until after the Revolutionary War, when he joined his father and
brothers in Washington County. We have found no record that William, Jonathan, or Sarah ever came to
Pennsylvania, but records do show that their other sons and their daughter, Elizabeth, did come to the area now
known as Morris Township, Washington County, PA. Some sources say that David Dille died here around
1784, but there is a record in the courthouse that David Dille and his wife Elizabeth sold property on 3/21/1793
in Washington County. This could hardly have been David jr., whose wives were named Nancy and Mary, so it
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is logical to conclude that David Sr. died after this date. Elizabeth Wade Dille died in Washington County in
the home of her daughter Elizabeth, who was married to William Weir. Her obituary which appeared in an
Ohio Newspaper stated that she was98 years old, and left 9 children, 90 grandchildren, 364 great grandchildren
and 28 great great grandchildren!
That date of this familys migration to Washington County has been set by previous researchers at about 1766.
If this is right all of their children were born in New Jersey. This was the time when the colonies were violently
resisting the many measures designed by King George III form purposes of taxation without representation, and
the colonists felt that their cherished liberties were being threatened. The Proclmation of 1763 forbade the
colonists to migrate into territory west of a line drawn along the crest of the Alleghenies. Presumably this was
to avoid trouble with the Indians. The colonists, however, considered this an infringement upon their rights to
settle western lands included in their original charters, and, distressed by the high cost of living brough on by
the French and Indian War, they continued to migrate.
The spot chosen for settlement by the group with which the Dillies came is South of where the village of
Prosperity, PA now stands, about 25 or 30 miles southwest of the point where the Allegheny and Monongahela
Rivers converge to form the Ohio River. It was here, at Fort Duquesne, that the first shots of the French and
Indian War were fired. In 1763 the Peace of Paris gave England all the region east of the Mississippi, and in
the same year the greatOttowa Chief pontiac roused the Indian tribes and captured 10 of the 14 English frontier
forts. They spread terror throughout the reion west of Fort Duquesne where Pittsburgh, anmed for the great
English statesman, William Pitt, now stands. Both of these events, no doubt, had a great influence over the
lives of the early settlers in the region.
We are indebted to Jacob parkhurst, farmer and minister, for a description of pioneer life in this region at the
time the Dilles lived there. He was born in 1772, and his parents brought him to Washington County, PA in
1773. He wrote sketches of his life when he was 70 years of age. not for speculation or honor but for the
benefit of rising generations. In 1826, his son, John Henry Parkhurst, married keziah Fort, daughter of Mary
Dille Fort, who was the daughter of Samuel Dille, one of David's sons. Mr. Parkhurst pictures clearly and
authentically how these pioneers lived through the Revolutionary Ar, exposed to the tomahawk of the merciless
savage, suffering all the hardships of a wilderness country and the privations of a calamitous war.
During the summer of 1774, the Parkhursts and other Washington County settlers forted in Enoch's Fort, about
12 miles away, leaving their small cabins and a few acres partially cleared in the dense forest, being much
alarmed by the tidings of the indieans, who had crossed the Ohio River and were steering toward our frontier, of
which we were about the front. With their arms and whatever ammunition they were able to obtain, the men
went round in turn to each one's field and some stood guard while the balance planted or hoed their crops. Thus
with much difficulty they obtained a avery small pittance of provisions for the wants of their families. Their
group was favored with no loss of life from the enemy that summer, and in the fall when hunting time came on,
the Indians withdrew.
The settlers lived on venison and hominy with some mush and milk and some corn cakes ground on a hand mill
and sifted through a splinter sieve. The common dress was row linen and dressed deer skin until 8 or 10 years
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of age boys had to do with one long shirt a year, which came down to the calf of the leg. They were worn into
shreds, for they had to last until the next crop of flax was manufactured into linen which was done in winter.
Forting was continued for many years. By 1780 there were several new forts built, namely, Jackson's on the
South Fort of Ten Mile and Atkinson's on the Middle Fork of Lindsley's on the same creek. In spite of the forts
there were, as time wento on, many indian raids that ended in death, scalpings, and destruction of homes of the
settlers. The men went on scouting parties regularly, when the call of a wild turkey might be an indian signal.
The settlers, too, became expert in their tricks to mislead the Indians. This continued until long after peace was
made with Great Britain, until, because of continued migration, this area was no longer a frontier.
There was another enemy which infested the new country also, that was some thing like the indians for they
would hide in the grass until they got the opportunity to strike, and then run and hide. They were the
rattlesnake and the copperhead. They were very numerous and had their dens in the rocks, where they wintered
and woud go early in the spring and slay them by the dozens.
Mr. Parkhurst wrote that, By 1792 my father was now becoming by industry and economy throughout the whole
family, to be tolerably well off, for he had two improvement rights. One he made by actual settlement; the other
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he bought. Each would hold four hundred acres of land by paying ten pounds a hundred to the General land
Office. He managed to pay the fee of one tract of four hundred acres; the other he gave a s a ashare to John
Carmicle for clearing it out of the office. So we began to live in tolerably good style, witht the rest of the
farmers of the backwoods of PA.
Truly the historian, David Saville Muzzey, was right when he wrote: The frontier bred a type of settlers, who,
in their struggle to subdue the wild forests and the wilder savages, became self reliant, resourceful and
courageous... it developed a stark democracy. One man was as good as another, politically and socially...There
was no peasant class in America. Opportunity to rise in the social scale was open to all."
A letter dated May 31, 1963, from Mrs. Florence McLlvaine, Secretary Treasurer of the Washington County
Historical Society PA and regent of the Washington County Chapter DAR 1935-1938, states, There were Dilles
in this county quite early, but I feel sure the group came orginally from Morris County, New Jersey. Our Morris
ownship was almost completely settled in the very early years by people who came here from morris County,
New Jersey. That is where all the early Dilles lived and where many of them live today. In the earliest official
listings of 1781, PA Archives we find the following listed under the Dill name: price, John, David, Samuel,
Isaac, and Caleb all married men.
Washington County was not established until 1781, and official records were not kept before this time. Virginia
claimed all this area and held courts here from 1775-1790, when they withdrew. At the same time PA claimed
the area, and as PA, it was Westmoreland County. As Virginia, the area was divided into three counties: ohio
County, around Wheeling; Yohogania County, mainly the present Washington County: and Monongalia
County, the lower part of Washington County and all of Greene County.
The western part of amwell Township became Morris Township. David Dille was the first signer of the petition
to form Morris Township. Most families had migrated from Morris County, New Jersey. It was not until 1855
that Franklin Township was erected from Canton and morris Townships.
The Library of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington DC reocrds that,
Caleb Dille was a private in Captain Miller's Company, Washington County, PA Militia, one of seven brothers,
all served in the same company i.e. Caleb, Price, Samuel, Israel, Isaac, David and John Dille. They all served
under Captain J. Miller, and he certified their class on 9-21-1781; Caleb and Price, 2nd Class; Samuel 4th
Class; Israel, 5th Class; Isaac, 7th class; David and John 8th Class. The class represents length of service in the
Pennsy lvania Militia.
This establishes the names of seven of David's sons who were living in this are during the Revolutionary War.
The above information is supplied thanks to the invaluable works of:
THE DILLE FAMILY
THREE HUNDRED YEARS
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in
AMERICA
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George Earl Dille
Josephine Kaye Dille
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Earl Kaye Dille
Notes for MARY ELIZABETH WADE:
Her obituary which appeared in the Ohio newspaper stated that she was 98 years old and left 9 children, 90
grandchilderen, 364 great-grand children and 28 great great grand children
More About MARY ELIZABETH WADE:
Burial: April 22, 1826, Prosperity, Washington, Pennsylvania
Children of DAVID DILLE and MARY WADE are:
16. i. ISAAC6 DILLE, b. August 29, 1757, Woodbridge, NJ; d. July 21, 1827, Richland, OH.
ii. WILLIAM DILLE, b. 1738, Perthamboy, Middlesex, New Jersey; m. TUNIS MYERS.
17. iii. AARON DILLE, b. 1742, Bridgeport, Morris, New Jersey/Bridgeport, Gloucester Co., NJ; d. 1822, Dilles
Bottom, Belmont, Ohio.
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18. iv. ELIZABETH DILLE, b. 1764, Morris, New Jersey; d. 1845.
19. v. JOHN DILLE, b. 1746, Bridgewater, Somerset, New Jersey; d. 1839, Gilliam, Missouri.
20. vi. SAMUEL DILLE, b. 1752, Bridgewater, Somerset, New Jersey; d. August 27, 1829, Dille Cemetary,
Montgomery, Ohio/Montgomery Co., OH.
vii. SARAH DILLE, b. 1759, Bridgewater, Somerset, New Jersey.
21. viii. DAVID JR. DILLE, b. October 31, 1753, Bridgeport, Middlesex, New Jersey/Bridgeport, Gloucester Co., NJ;
d. October 19, 1835, Euclid, Cuyahogo, Ohio.
22. ix. ISRAEL DILLE, b. 1750, Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey; d. Aft. 1805.
23. x. ISAAC SR. DILLE, b. August 29, 1751, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey; d. July 21, 1827, Euclid, Ohio.
24. xi. CALEB DILLE, b. 1759, Bridgewater, Somerset, New Jersey; d. 1839, Knightstown, Henry, Indiana.
25. xii. ASA DILLE, b. September 11, 1767, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey; d. 1842, Euclid, Ohio.
xiii. PRICE DILLE, b. February 28, 1754, Bridgewater, Somerset, New Jersey; d. May 22, 1826, Mercer,
Pennsylvania; m. (1) SARAH COOPER; m. (2) ROSANNA ELLIOT.
More About PRICE DILLE:
Burial: Presbyterian Cemetary, Plain Grove, Pennsylvania
26. xiv. LEWIS DILLE, b. 1756, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey; d. December 02, 1820.
xv. JONATHAN DILLE, b. 1757, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey; d. 1839; m. SARAH.
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xvi. SAMUEL DILLE, b. 1761, Bridgewater, Somerset, New Jersey.
xvii. MARTHA DILLE, b. Abt. 1766, Morris, New Jersey; m. JOHN POOL.
13. ICHABOD5 DILLE (JOHN JR.4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born 1722 in Morristown, Morris, New
Jersey.
He married ABIGAIL.
Children of ICHABOD DILLE and ABIGAIL are:
i. RICHARD6 DILLE, b. 1740.
ii. JONATHAN DILLE, b. 1741.
iii. JOHN DILLE, b. February 25, 1748/49.
iv. THOMAS DILLE, b. May 08, 1750.
v. PRICE DILLE, b. February 28, 1754; d. May 29, 1826; m. SERA DILLE.
vi. LEWIS DILLE, b. 1756.
14. AARON5 DILLE (JONATHAN HAMMAL4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born 1721. He married
HANNAH PERRY.
Child of AARON DILLE and HANNAH PERRY is:
27. i. AARON II6 DILLE, b. 1746, Hunterdon, New Jersey.
Generation No. 6
15. EPHRIAM6 DILLE (AARON5, JONATHAN4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born November 06, 1755 in
Sussex,
New Jersey, and died July 26, 1844 in Senecaville, Guernsey, Ohio. He married LUCY UISS AYERS 1781,
daughter of WILLIAM AYERS and ESTHER HARDIN. She was born September 20, 1762 in New York, New York,
and died March 15, 1844 in Senecaville, Guernsey, Ohio.
More About EPHRIAM DILLE:
Military service: fought in the American Revolution
Children of EPHRIAM DILLE and LUCY AYERS are:
i. JOSEPH7 DILLE, b. 1783, Senecaville, Guernsey, Ohio; d. May 04, 1833, Fayette, Pennsylvania; m. SARAH
BULKLEY, Fayette, New Jersey; b. Abt. 1787.
ii. ANNA DILLE, b. 1789, Richland, Sussex, New Jersey; m. ENOCH THOMAS, 1815.
iii. BENJAMIN DILLE, b. 1804.
28. iv. EPHRAIM DILLE, b. October 05, 1799, Sussex, New Jersey; d. March 20, 1882.
29. v. ABRAHAM DILLE, b. April 29, 1785, Senecaville, Guernsey, Ohio; d. September 05, 1875.
30. vi. SAMUEL M. DILLE, b. May 08, 1802, Fayette, Pennsylvania; d. September 30, 1874, Phoenix, Yazoo,
Mississippi.
vii. HANNAH DILLE, b. June 20, 1787; m. BENJAMIN ROSE, Fayette, Pennsylvania.
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viii. ROBERT DILLE, b. September 22, 1793; m. HANNA WATERS MCDONALD, May 29, 1817.
16. ISAAC6 DILLE (DAVID5, JOHN JR.4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born August 29, 1757 in Woodbridge,
NJ,
and died July 21, 1827 in Richland, OH. He married SARA DILLE. She was born August 12, 1760, and died
April 04, 1809 in Washington, PA.
More About SARA DILLE:
Burial: Upper Ten Mile Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Child of ISAAC DILLE and SARA DILLE is:
31. i. ABIGAIL7 DILLE, b. March 18, 1783; d. November 25, 1802.
17. AARON6 DILLE (DAVID5, JOHN JR.4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born 1742 in Bridgeport, Morris, New
Jersey/Bridgeport, Gloucester Co., NJ, and died 1822 in Dilles Bottom, Belmont, Ohio. He married MRS.
FLETCHER 1766. She was born 1743.
Notes for AARON DILLE:
When George Washington was still President of this new country, and Ohio was not yet a state, Aaron, Caleb,
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Samuel, and John, with neighbors and friends, travelled in a southwesterly direction, taking their families with
them into the wilderness across the Ohio River, and founded the town of Dille, in what is now Belmont County,
Ohio. With the surrounding land of the Ohio valley it became known as Dille's Bottom. Dille, Ohio is still
shown on the present maps of Ohio, although there is no longer a post office there. It is located on the Ohio
River ten miles south of Bellaire, Ohio, on Highway no. 7, across the Ohio River from Moundsville, West
Virginia.
In the History of the Upper Ohio Valley Vol. 11 records, Early in 1793 John Dille and Samuel Dille settled
upon lands always since known as Dille's Bottom, which seems to be the first permanent and continuous
settlement of which we have record. The same year Dille's Fort was built on these lands for the protection of
the settlers that seemed to have increased rapidly, and the following year we have record of the killing of old
man Tate by the Indians a short distance below and in sight of the fort, showing that the Indians resented
promptly all efforts at this date to settle in Ohio, Tate, very early in the morning as he opened the door of his
cabin to go out, was shot, and his daughter in law and his grandson pulled his body in and barred the door., and
the Indians, unable to force it open, fired through and wounded the boy, and the woman was shot as she
attempted to escape by the chimney and fell in the fire but the boy pulled her out and again hid. The Indians
forced the door open killed the girl as they came in, scalped those they had shot and made their escape. The
wounded boy, shot in the mouth, made his escape to the fort.
Children of AARON DILLE and MRS. FLETCHER are:
i. SQUIRE7 DILLE, b. Abt. 1778, Gloucester, Bridgeport County, New Jersey.
ii. RICHARD DILLE, b. October 05, 1802, Gloucester, Bridgeport County, New Jersey.
iii. ELIZABETH DILLE, b. Abt. 1785, Gloucester, Bridgeport County, New Jersey; d. 1829.
iv. ABIGAIL DILLE, b. Abt. 1787, Gloucester, Bridgeport County, New Jersey.
v. SALLY DILLE, b. Abt. 1789, Gloucester, Bridgeport County, New Jersey; m. MR. SHEPLEY, 1850, Belmont
County, Ohio.
vi. MATTIE DILLE, b. Abt. 1791, Gloucester, Bridgeport County, New Jersey.
vii. AARON JR. DILLE, b. 1776, Gloucester, Bridgeport County, New Jersey.
viii. JOHN DILLE, b. 1780.
32. ix. ICHABOD DILLE, b. June 03, 1783, New Jersey; d. 1868, Champaign, Huntington County, Illinois.
x. MOSES DILLE, b. 1820.
18. ELIZABETH6 DILLE (DAVID5, JOHN JR.4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born 1764 in Morris, New
Jersey, and
died 1845. She married WILLIAM WEIR 1780 in Morris, New Jersey, son of ADAM WEIR and JANE HINDMAN.
He was born 1755 in Shippensburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, and died August 24, 1804 in Washington,
Pennsylvania.
Children of ELIZABETH DILLE and WILLIAM WEIR are:
33. i. JANE7 WEIR, b. Abt. 1791, Morris, Washington, Pennsylvania; d. Sunset, Washington, Pennsylvania.
ii. JOHN WEIR, b. Abt. 1793, Morris, Washington, Pennsylvania.
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iii. ELIZABETH WEIR, b. Abt. 1798, Morris, Washington, Pennsylvania.
iv. SARAH WEIR, b. Abt. 1800, Morris, Washington, Pennsylvania.
v. MARY WEIR, b. 1804, Morris, Washington, Pennsylvania; d. 1875, Ennaka, Kansas; m. DANIEL
THOMPSON, Washington, Pennslvania; b. Abt. 1800, Washington, Pennsylvania.
vi. SAMUEL WEIR, b. 1796, Morris, Washington, Pennsylvania; d. 1860, Booneville, Cooper, Missouri.
34. vii. ADAM WEIR, b. February 05, 1790, Washington, Pennsylvania; d. November 26, 1871, Pilot Grove, Lee,
Iowa.
19. JOHN6 DILLE (DAVID5, JOHN JR.4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born 1746 in Bridgewater, Somerset,
New
Jersey, and died 1839 in Gilliam, Missouri. He married MARGARET LISH 1768.
Children of JOHN DILLE and MARGARET LISH are:
i. MARY7 DILLE.
ii. REBECCA DILLE.
iii. MARTHA DILLE.
iv. SQUIRE DILLE.
v. AMOS DILLE.
vi. PHOEBE DILLE.
vii. SAMUEL DILLE, b. 1777.
35. viii. DAVID DILLE, b. December 17, 1789, Pennsylvania; d. 1849, Gilliam, Missouri.
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36. ix. WILLIAM DILLE, b. 1796.
20. SAMUEL6 DILLE (DAVID5, JOHN JR.4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born 1752 in Bridgewater, Somerset,
New Jersey, and died August 27, 1829 in Dille Cemetary, Montgomery, Ohio/Montgomery Co., OH. He
married MARY ANN BATES February 21, 1779 in Belmont, Ohio. She was born 1752.
Notes for SAMUEL DILLE:
Excerpt from The Dille Book:
When George Washington was still Presdient of this new county, and Ohio was not yet a state, Aaron, Caleb,
Samuel, and John, with neighbors and friends, travelled in a southwesterly direction, taking their families with
them into the wilderness across the Ohi River, and founded the town of Dille, in what is now Belmont County,
Ohio. With the surrounding land of the Ohio Valley it became know as Dill's Bottom. Dille, Ohio is still
shown on the present maps of Ohio, although there is no longer a post office there. It is located on the Ohio
River ten miles south of Bellaire, Ohio, on Highway No. 7, across the Ohio River from Moundsville, West
Virginia. Brant and Fuller's History of the Upper Ohio Valle, Vol. II, records "Early in 1793 John Dille and
Samuel Dille settled upon lands always since known as Dille's Bottom, which seems to be the first permanent
and continuous settlement of which we have record. The same year Dill's Fort was built on these lands for the
protection of the settlers that seemed to have increased rapidly, and the following year we have record of the
killing of old man Tate by the Indians a short distance below and in sight of the fort, showing that the Indians
resented promptly all efforts at this date to settle in Ohio. Tate, very early in the morning as he opened the door
of his cabin to go out, was shot, and his daughter in law and his grandson pulled his body in and barred the
door, and the indians, unable to force it open, fired through and wounded the boy, and the woman was shot as
she attempted to escape by the chimney and fell in the fire but the boy pulled her out and again hid. The
indians forced the door open, killed the girl as they came in, scalped those they had shot and made their escape.
The wounded boy, shot in the mouth, made his escape to the fort."
DILLE
Broadway, about a mile and a half from the Public Square, is intersected or paralleled by four short streets, all
close together. They are: Dille, Martin, Douse and Gibbs streets, all named for the members of one family
whose farm of 90 acres covered not only both sides of Broadway at this point, but extended westward over the
valley and across the Cuyahoga River, which winds through it on its way to the lake.
Samuel Dille, of New Jersey, said to have been a nephew of David Dille, of Euclid, and Asa Dille, of Doan's
Corners, bought this tract of land in 1804 of Turhand Kirtland, agent for the Connecticut Land Co. He built for
his home a log-cabin, unusually large for the times, in the upper story of which was a room extending the length
and breadth of the house. In this were held public gatherings. In the Stephen Peet sketch in this work will be
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found an interesting account of one of these gatherings that occurred in 1814.
No one can be found who remembers or was told just where this loghouse stood or when torn down. It may have
been replaced on the same spot by the large frame structure which was the Dille homestead fully 75 years ago,
perhaps even earlier. This pioneer dwelling yet stands on the south-east corner of Broadway and Dille streets,
and save the addition of a front porch and a change in the size of window-frames, remains as it was built. The
view from the second story must have been exceedingly beautiful in the years when the river valley was clothed
in verdure, the banks between and beyond covered with forest-trees, wild-flowering shrubs and vines, while, in
their season, innumerable wild fowl flew by, or floated upon the river. Today clouds of smoke obstruct the view,
the banks are dreary with ash-heaps and refuse, unattractive tenements swarming with old-world emigrants
surround and close in upon the old pioneer home.
Source: The Pioneer Families of Cleveland, Volume I
More About SAMUEL DILLE:
Elected: 1882, Constable of Belmont County, Ohio
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Children of SAMUEL DILLE and MARY BATES are:
i. BRICE7 DILLE.
ii. SARAH DILLE.
iii. PHOEBE DILLE.
iv. HANNAH DILLE.
v. JOHN DILLE, b. November 15, 1779.
vi. MARY DILLE, b. 1780.
vii. RICKEY DILLE, b. 1782.
viii. ELIZABETH DILLE, b. 1785.
ix. SAMUEL DILLE, b. 1790.
x. JANE DILLE, b. 1790.
21. DAVID JR.6 DILLE (DAVID5, JOHN JR.4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born October 31, 1753 in
Bridgeport,
Middlesex, New Jersey/Bridgeport, Gloucester Co., NJ, and died October 19, 1835 in Euclid, Cuyahogo, Ohio.
He married (1) NANCY VIERS 1780 in Washington, Pennsylvania. He married (2) MARY SAYLOR March 11,
1797 in West Virginia, daughter of JACOB SAYLER and ELIZABETH. She was born December 14, 1778 in
Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Notes for DAVID JR. DILLE:
David came to Washington County, PA in 1797 to spy out the land. he was a farmer and was looking for fertile
soil upon which to locate, he did not find what he wanted in or near the hamlet at the mouth of the Cuyahoga
and finally decided upon a 100 acre tract in Euclid. This decision would seem to have barred him and his
family from Cleveland local history were it not that they sojourned six weeks in town while their log cabin in
Euclid was being built and that the children and grandchildren intermarried into Cleveland families; so that
David's descendants today, many of them of much local importance, are distributed over the length and breadth
of the city. His brother Asa, settled in East Cleveland on Mayfield road; the nephew, Samuel Dille, on
Broadway...Dille Road, which crosses Euclid Avenue in East Cleveland, is named for this family. David was a
soldier of the Revolution, having served a year as Sargeant, another year as Lieutenant in the infantyr, and two
months with the cavalry. Until this las t enlistment he was with William Crawford in the ill fated expedition to
northwest Ohio terminating in the burning of Colonel Crawford at the stake by the Indians in the presence of
the renegade. Simon Girty...At the age of 78 David dille, received a pension for his Revolutionary Services.
It was not until the spring of 1803 that he came west to remain permanently. He was then 50, had been
married two times and the father of eight children, the oldest of whom was 22 and the youngest a babe. The
family fo Asa Dille, his brother, accompanied himn on the journey. The wives of the two men were sisters.
They rode all the way from the Ohio River near Wheeling, on horseback, each carrying an infant in her arms,
with another child seated behind her, and holding onto its mother for dear life when the road was rough. It took
25 days for the wagons that contained their household effects to tyraverse the last 25 miles of the journey
because there was no road, nothing but a bridle path, and trees had to be chopped down occasionally to make
this wide enough for the team to get through.
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The army record of this war hero was most unusual, Besides that of the father in the War of the Revolution was
that of his three sons, Lewis, Luther, and Asa Dille, who belonged to Captain Murray's Company, recruited in
Cleveland in the War of 1812, David Dille had six sons and 13 grandsons who fought in the Civil war. The
five Sons of David and Nancy remained in this locality for the remainder of their lives but many of the
granchildren removed to the western states as did several of David Jr.s children by the second marriage.
Children of DAVID DILLE and NANCY VIERS are:
i. NEHEMIAH7 DILLE, b. November 15, 1781.
ii. LEWIS BROOKS DILLE, b. August 30, 1783.
iii. CALVIN DILLE, b. April 11, 1785.
iv. LUTHER DILLE, b. April 11, 1785.
v. ASA DILLE, b. February 29, 1788.
vi. CASSINA ELIZABETH DILLE, b. November 03, 1791.
Children of DAVID DILLE and MARY SAYLOR are:
vii. MARY ELIZA7 DILLE.
viii. HARRIET DILLE.
ix. WELLINGTON D. WELSH DILLE.
37. x. SAMUEL WADE DILLE, b. December 14, 1797, Dilles Bottom, Belmont County, Ohio; d. 1846, illinois.
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xi. FRANCIS MARION DILLE, b. February 27, 1799.
38. xii. ISRAEL DILLE, b. August 11, 1802, Dilles Bottom, Belmont County, Ohio.
xiii. CYNTHIA DILLE, b. July 04, 1804.
xiv. MARINDA DILLE, b. April 13, 1806.
xv. SALLY DILLE, b. December 16, 1807.
xvi. JOHN S. DILLE, b. June 29, 1809.
xvii. DAVID G. DILLE.
39. xviii. DAVID BUELL DILLE, b. April 05, 1812; d. 1887, Neeley, Bingham County, Idaho.
40. xix. HIRAM WORTHINGTON DILLE, b. June 18, 1814, Euclid, Ohio; d. 1863, Civil War?.
xx. SALINA DILLE, b. November 25, 1816.
xxi. SUSAN DILLE, b. May 14, 1819.
41. xxii. JUNIUS AURELIUS DILLE, b. August 01, 1821.
22. ISRAEL6 DILLE (DAVID5, JOHN JR.4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born 1750 in Perth Amboy,
Middlesex,
New Jersey, and died Aft. 1805. He married SARAH. She was born 1770.
Children of ISRAEL DILLE and SARAH are:
i. ELIZA7 DILLE.
42. ii. ISRAEL JR. DILLE, b. June 28, 1796, Washington County, Pennsylvania; d. October 11, 1867, Germantown,
Ohio.
iii. JOHN C. DILLE, b. February 09, 1802; d. January 13, 1863, Mentone, Indiana.
iv. SAMUEL DILLE.
23. ISAAC SR.6 DILLE (DAVID5, JOHN JR.4, JOHN3, GEORGE2, JOHN1) was born August 29, 1751 in
Woodbridge,
Middlesex, New Jersey, and died July 21, 1827 in Euclid, Ohio. He married SARA DILLE Bef. 1787 in
Washington, PA. She was born August 12, 1760, and died April 04, 1809 in Washington, PA.
Notes for ISAAC SR. DILLE:
Served for seven months in the Revolutionary Militia from Washington County, PA and on 2-10-1785
warranted 400 acres of land there on the Middle Fork of Ten Mile Branch. He named it Rabbit's Burrow. It
adjoined land warranted at the same time by his brothers, David jr. And Caleb Dille.
According to the History of Washington County, PA:http://www.chartiers.com/crumrine/twp-franklin.html: The
family of Dille, who settled in this section, were numerous. They took up lands in what is now Franklin
township. Caleb Dille warranted a tract of land on the middle fork of Ten-Mile on the 10th of February, 1785,
which was surveyed Jan. 27, 1786, as "Pleasant Harbor," and contained 189 acres. David Dille's warrant was
dated Feb. 10, 1785. His land was surveyed Nov. 7, 1785, contained 400 acres, and was named "Fair Plain."
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