Perry CHANCE b. abt. 1787 PA married Lavina RUBEL Note: Listed in 1850 Ohio Cenus Stark County - Perry Chance - age 63 Ohio, app. yob 1787; wife Lovina - age 59 VA, app. yob 1791 - A bio is found on Perry Chance in Baskin & Battery, History of Stark County, Ohio. Chicago: 1881. 741 -- giving birth date as 20 Feb. 1791 -- possibly date of birth was reversed with wife Lavina Rubel ??

* Searching for male child - father of James Chance 

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Census---
1820 Harrison Co., Ohio

Short Creek Twp. page 32, line 2, 1 person in manufacture
Benjamin (Sr. - *probably III) Chance b. bet 1790-1800 
Female Chance b. bet 1790-1800
Female b. bef 1775


Short Creek Twp. page 32, line 6, 1 person in agriculture
Benjamin Chance Jr. b. Bef. 1775
Female Chance b. bet. 1775-1794
Male Chance b. bet. 1804-1810
Male Chance b. bet. 1804-1810
Female Chance b. bet. 1804-1810
Male Chance b. bet. 1810-1820
Female Chance b. bet. 1810-1820
Female Chance b. bet. 1810-1820
Female Chance b. bet. 1810-1820


Short Creek Twp. page 32, line 9
Benjamin Chance b. Bef. 1775 (?Sr.)
Female Chance b. b. Bef. 1775 (?Jane Howard Chance)

Short Creek Twp. page 32, line 10
Perry Chance b. Bef. 1775 (?Sr.)

1- Free White Males 0-10 

1- Free White Males 10 -16

0- Free White Males 16-18

0- Free White Males 16-26 - Including head of Household

1- Free White Males 26-45 - Including head of Household

0- Free White Males 45 and up   - Including head of Household

2- Free White Females 0-10 

0- Free White Females 10 -16

1- Free White Females 16-18

1- Free White Females 16-26 - Including head of Household

0- Free White Females 26-45 - Including head of Household

0- Free White Females 45 and up   - Including head of Household

1- Number of Persons engaged in Agriculture

Note: * Benjamin Sr and Benjamin III - ages would indicate Benjamin Sr. and Benjamin III have been reversed in 1820 census  - According to a bio of Perry Chance it states he lived by his father Benjamin Chance (& Jane Howard)

Samuel ROBB  - Short Creek Twp. page 32, line 19

1- Free White Males 0-10 

1- Free White Males 10 -16

1- Free White Males 16-18

2- Free White Males 16-26 - Including head of Household

0- Free White Males 26-45 - Including head of Household

1- Free White Males 45 and up   - Including head of Household

 

1- Free White Females 0-10 

1- Free White Females 10 -16

1- Free White Females 16-18

0- Free White Females 16-26 - Including head of Household

1- Free White Females 26-45 - Including head of Household

0- Free White Females 45 and up   - Including head of Household

1- Number of Persons engaged in Agriculture

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1820 Harrison Co., Ohio - names listed

1. Thomas PARKERSON  -- 0 -0 -0- 0-0 -2 -0-0-0-0-1
2. Benjamin CHANCE Sen -- 0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0 1-0-1-0
3. James LEECH – 1-1-0-0-1-0-2-0-0-1-0
4. William JOHNSTON Sen – 0-0-0-0-1-1-1-0-1-1-0-0
5. James JOHNSTON – 0 -0-0-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-0
6. Benjamin CHANCE Jun – 1-2-0-0-0-1-3-1-0-1-0-0
7. James BOALES  -- 1-1-1-2-0-1-2-1-1-1-0-0
8. Joseph BOALES – 2-1-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-1-0-0
9. Benjamin CHANCE – 0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0
10. Perry CHANCE – 1-1-0-0-1-0-2-0-1-1-0-0-0
11. Charles HOLMS – 1-2 -0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-0
12. Margaret BRADEN – 1-2-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-0
13. John AIKINS – 3-2-0-0-1-0-2-1-0-1-0-0
14. William KYLE – 1-0-0-1-0-1-5-2-2-1-0-0-0
15. James GIBSON  -- 1-1-0-1-0-1-2-1-2-0-1-0-0
16. John CLIOTE – 2-0-0-0-1-0-3-0-0-1-0-0-0
17. Andrew CAGLESON  -- 0-3-0-0-1-0-3-0-1-1-0-0-0
18. Francis McCONNELL – 3-0-0-0-1-0-2-1-0-1-0-0-0
19. Samuel ROBB  -- 1-1-1-2-0-1-1-1-1-0-1-0-0

From the Sharples(s) Family Books...

John Howard, son of Henry & Hannah (Sharples) Howard, was born 2/3/1725 and died 10/12/1793, probably Edgmont Twp. At Middletown Friends Mtg. on 2/22/1747 he married Elizabeth Perry, daughter of Christopher Perry. She was buried 4/1/1790 at Middletown Friends Mtg. as was her husband. John Howard was a farmer and was taxed on 60 acres of land in Edgmont in 1764 and with 30 acres there at the time of his death.
ISSUE (Children):
Peter, probably died unmarried.
Jane married Benjamin Chance about 1773.
Grace (about 1748-1814), married George Good.
Perry ( - 1812), in April 1793 married Elizabeth Evans (1776-1869).
Mary married Benjamin Worrall.

1772-1773 - Benjamin CHANCE marries Jane HOWARD

1773 Nov. 29, Jane Howard is removed from the rolls of Quakers for marrying out of unison. (Sharpless family history - Quaker records, Widener Institute)

Sharples(s) family notes: Hanna SHARPLESS, b. Aug 5, 1699, dau of John & Hannah (PENNEL) SHARPLESS married at the Chester Friends Society to Henry HOWARD, son of Richard HOWARD from England. Of their nine children, son John HOWARD b. Feb. 3, 1725 m. Aug. 22, 1747 to Elizabeth PERRY, dau of Christopher PERRY. 

WILLS: Abstracts and Administrations 1713-1825: Chester Co, PA (Proved 1782)

HANNAH HOWARD. Edgmont. (PA)
June 9, 1775. April 11, 1782.
To daughter Mary Moss £2.
To sons John, Peter, Richard and James Howard 2 shillings, 6 pence each.
To granddaughter Jane Chance, daughter of son John, bed, etc.
To granddaughter's daughter Esther Andrews, large Bible. 
To granddaughter's son Benjamin Andrews 10 shillings. 
To granddaughter Abigail Passmore 20 shillings and to each of her brothers and sisters 2 shillings, 6 pence each, being children of daughter Hannah Passmore, deceased. 
Remainder to daughter Rebecca Howard, also Executrix. Wit: Samuel Richards, Rees Price, Benjamin Titley.
CRISWELL, GEORGE. Oxford. April 12, 1782. Adm. to Mary and Moses Criswell.



HOWARD, REBEKAH. City of Phila.
July 16, 1807. March 1, 1808. 2.245.
To bro. Richard Howard if living, if not, to his children.
To Jane Chance, dau. of bro. John Howard.
To Howard, Samuel and Thomas Williams, sons of Thomas Williams.
To Grace Good, dau. of John Howard.
To Hannah, dau. of Richard Pasimore. To Benjamin Bonsall.
To Howard, William and Charles Abbott, sons of Timothy Abbott.
To niece Rebekah Abbott.
Exec: kinsman Timothy Abbott.
Wit.: Daniel Sharpless, Enos Sharpless.




HANNUM, JAMES. East Caln.
August 19, 1809: October 6, 1809.
Provides for wife, who is not named.
Executors to sell certain real estate, including several lots in West
Fallowfield bequeathed me by my father and tavern on Wilmington Road with 60 acres of land, part of the Doe Run tract.
Remainder of said land to heirs of son John, said son to have the rents and profits during his lifetime, except £30 annually for the support of his 2 children, Mary and James.
To daughter Hannah a house and 20 acres of the McGuire tract during life; also interest of £600, with principal to her heirs.
To daughter Mary the interest of £700 during life and principal to her heirs.
To daughter Sarah the interest of £1000 during life and principal to her heirs.
To grandson James H. Bennett £300, to remain in the hands of his father Titus Bennett, until he is 21.
To Jane Chance £20 for faithful attention to me in sickness.
To step-son Morgan Reese £20 when 21.
Executor: Robert Miller, Esquire, of East Caln; also trustee for daughter Hannah.
Wits.: Samuel Baldwin, Jesse Meredith.

Last updated: April 20, 2006

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