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during her widowhood, and one third part of my estate during her natural life; after her disease to be divided equally between my two youngest daughters, Peggy and Eliza. I give to my daughter, Hetty Black, five hundred dollars, to be deposited in the hands of my executors, to be appropriated to her personal benefit that way which they in their judgement shall think most proper. I give to my four grandsons, Zachariah, Samuel, William and John Black all that tract of land lying situate in Ohio State, whereon my daughter Hetty Black now lives, to be equally divided among them. I give to my son John
Connell the debt with he now owes me on a book account. I wish all my debts to be punctually paid. After my debts and the above legacies are paid, my desire is that the balance of my estate, whatever it may be, should be equally divided between my other six children (leaving out John and Hetty) one sixth part to each. And I appoint my son, Hiram Connell, William Page and Greenbury R. Jones, executors of this, my last Will and Testament. And I do hereby revoke and cancel all Wills by me heretofore made, and do by these presents acknowledge this my last Will and Testament. Signed this 2nd day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirteen. (Seal.) ZACHARIAH CONNELL
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endure the severest hardship." He was a man of considerable intellectual ability, "gifted with splendid business judgement, and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all his fellow citizens." He was considered eccentric, primarily because he never registered to vote in the
Borough. His refusal to vote, however, was not due to any lack of interest in politics or town affairs, but to his desire that the citizens of the town might feel free to govern themselves without interference or influence from himself. Zachariah refused to consume alcohol, even though it was freely imbibed by all classes of people (especially whiskey).
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an abundance of it." This area was known as the
District of West Augusta and was claimed by both Virginia and Pennsylvania. It is probable that Zachariah's former acquaintance with the Crawfords of Virginia and George Washington directed him toward the area that would become his eponymous township. Zachariah was a surveyor and a man of wide influence amount the early settlers of this region. Under his superintendence, many of the original surveys for the surrounding country were made.
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Zachariah exists. He was described as a typical Scotch Sandy with red hair, brown eyes and a florid complexion. He stood about five feet, nine inches tall, straight "as a popular, wrong and muscular and possess of a constitution that could
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Almighty God, Amen. I, Zachariah Connell, of the town of Connellsville, being deeply impressed with the uncertainty of life, have made this my last Will and Testament. I give to my wife, Peggy, the new house that I am now building (which is to be finished out of my money) to live in
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The
Connell family was credited with 2,569.5 acres: three farms containing 964.25 acres are credited to Zachariah Connell and two farms consisting of 819 acres were credited to his two sons. These lands didn't include several other valuable tract that were purchased by Zachariah at a later date. A
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October 1770, during a stop-over at Captain William Crawford's cabin across the river from the present town cite, George Washington wrote: "We went to see a coal mine... on the bank of the Youghiogeny River. The coal seemed to be of the very best kind, burning freely, and
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Zachariah married (2nd) Margaret
Wallace (the Wallace family were Virginians and well-acquainted with the Washington family) m. 10 May 1807, d. Connellsville, 20 Jun 1845, with whom he had the following two daughters:
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Margaret Rice, b. Connellsville, PA 18 Aug 1808, m. 14 July 1825 John Wesley
Phillips, b. Uniontown, PA, son of Capt. John Phillips of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, captain in the War of 1812 and descendant of
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Connell died in his Water Street home 26 Aug 1813 and is buried on a hill overlooking Connellsville. His last Will and Testament, made a few weeks before his death, is given herewith:
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and Mary Ogden) and Anne Williams. Zachariah's earliest "Connell" ancestor to settle in America was James O'Connell (d. 1700) who emigrated from Ireland in 1678 and settled in
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town of 180 quarter-acre lots was surveyed, and a charter for a township secured for the same bearing date of March 21, 1793. This charter, recorded in Deed Book C of the
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Zachariah Connell married (1st) Rebecca Rice, b. Virginia in 1741, d. Connellsville, October, 1805, with whom he had the following two sons and three daughters:
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