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Martin Tidd, Sr.

Martin Tidd, Sr.

Male 1750 - 1837  (87 years)

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  • Name Martin Tidd 
    Suffix Sr. 
    Birth 1750  Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 19 Sep 1837  Kinsman, Trumbull County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4297  Carl
    Last Modified 26 Jul 2014 

    Father John Tidd,   b. 1708   d. 23 Jun 1757, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years) 
    Mother Olive Martin 
    Marriage Nov 1738 
    Family ID F1355  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Betsey Marvin 
    Children 
     1. John Tidd,   b. 1772, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Apr 1804, Trumbull County Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years)
    +2. Sarah 'Sally' Tidd,   b. 5 May 1775, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Sep 1852, Roundhead, Hardin County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
     3. Samuel Holmes Tidd,   b. 5 Mar 1779, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Mar 1851, Roundhead, Hardin County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
     4. Charles Tidd,   b. 1782, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1872 (Age 90 years)
     5. Betsy Tidd,   b. 9 Apr 1785, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1855, Trumbull County Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     6. Martin Hillman Tidd,   b. 1789, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Mar 1837, Williamsfield Ashtabula County Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)
    Family ID F1354  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 18 Jan 2014 

  • Photos
    Martin Tidd, Revolutionary War certificates
    Martin Tidd, Revolutionary War certificates
    Martin Tidd
    Martin Tidd

  • Notes 
    • 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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