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- BIO-BOOK---Tidds of Ohio by Howard H Tidd; pg 105 shows Martin Tidd, son of John Tidd & Olive Martin, was born 1739 in Pennsylvania, some distance below the present site of East-on. He went through the Broadhead massacre & witnessed the killin g of his father in 1756. He served in the armed forces in the Revolutionary War as a private in "Robinson's Rangers". He moved to a place directly below Pittsburgh PA & from there he moved to the new settlement of Young's on the banks of the Mah oning river in 1798. In 1802 he became the first settler in Kinsman OH, where he remained until in death sometime in the 1820's. In 1764 he married Betsy Marvin near Stroudsbug PA. To this union were born Ann, John, Sarah, Samuel, Charles, Betsy , MartinH. [Each has a paragraph--see their page for same]
Report Of The Commission To Locate The Site Of The Frontier Forts Of Pennsylvania, Volume One.
By Clarence M. Busch, Published by State Printer Of Pennsylvania, in 1896.
page 294.
. . . letter from Major Parsons, of June 26th, was
presented giving an account of the attack on Brodhead?s
house, about a mile from and in sight of Fort Hamilton, which
they burnt. At the same time they killed and scalped one
Tidd besides destroying a number of animals. (Col. Rec., vii,
p. 620.)
page 314,
June . . .
23. In the morning, near Eleven O?c, the fort was allarm?d
by some of the neighbours who had made their escape from
the Enemy, ?ve of them in Company near Brawdhead?s house,
seeking their horses in order to go to mill, was ?r?d upon by-
the Enemy, and said that one of them, John Tidd by name,was Kill?d,
BOOK: OH-Ashtabula County obits from 1831-1869...gleaned from the Ashtabula Sentenniel & The Conneaut Reporter lists hat Martin Tidd died 19 Sep 1837--located at Western Reserve Historical Society #F34X-AA82802
ODDSTUFF--this must be the father of Martin H as Martin sold his TrumbullCnty land in 1833 & in 1852 one daughter wrote that her father died "about 15 years ago".
CENSUS: The 1830 census for Kinsman shows Martin Tidd Jr &fam with a man abt 80--likely Martin Sr.
During the Wyoming Valley Massacre, his home may have
been used as blockhouse. Source: The Susquehanna Company Papers. An account Wyoming Valley Massacre was recorded 1846, and much later published in a book "Proceedings and Collections of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society for the yea r 1901". Edited by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, M. A., volume VII, Wilkes-Barre, PA., Printed for the Society, 1902. page 82. The can be read online at: http://www.pagenweb.org/~luzerne/towns/wyoming.htm
Title: Historical collections of the Mahoning Valley:
Author: Mahoning Valley Historical Society
Publisher: The Mahoning Valley historical society, 1876, page 299
"There were but few mechanics among the settlers at this time. James Hill and Walter Davis were shoemakers, Capt. D. Randall cooper, Wm. Christy and Martin Tidd blacksmiths. Tidd made the cow-bells; David and Elam Lindsley, Joseph Murray, John L . Cook, and Jahazel Lathrop, all single men, were carpenters."
Source: Title: A history of the Tidds of Ohio, Genealogy & local history, AuthorHoward Harmon Tidd
Some data from Aaron Hill mrmayor at hotmail.com
Martin TIDD, Sr. was involved in the Connecticut-Pennsylvania land controversy, participating in the Battle of Wyoming. In April 1770, He was implicated in the murder of Capt. Amos OGDEN, but testified with others that a John MURPHY (also spelle d MURPHEE) was the killer. Later in 1784, although not included in the original indictments, he was arrested and charged with conspriacy. In his deposition to the court, he successfully argued that since the matter of land ownership was still be ing debated and decided by the Pennsylvania authorities and the Continental Congress, he should not be detained nor hindered from his property. He served as a private with Robinson's Rangers during the American War for Independence. For more inf ormation see citations from The Susquehanna Company Papers.
Martin Tidd 1790 Federal Census Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
1804 Kinsman, Trumbull County, Ohio Tax List
1806 6th Collection District, Trumbull County, Ohio Tax List
1808 Mixed Townships, Trumbull County, Ohio Tax List
1809 Green Township, Trumbull County, Ohio Tax List
Martin Tedd
1810 Green Township, Trumbull County, Ohio Tax List
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