| Name |
HULINGS, Marcus |
| Birth |
1739 |
Amity Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Biography |
- From History of Northumberland Co. PA 1876: The business of inn-keeping was evidently quite prosperous there, or else the Hulings were especially inclined toward that calling - or perhaps both - for in the next year, on the fourth Tuesday in August, the Court of General Sessions granted Marcus Hulings, Jr. - the blacksmith - "a license to keep a public house, he giving bond, etc., agreeable to the laws of the Province," which latter condition shows that inn-keepers, even in those times, were compelled to conduct their establishments in a lawful and orderly manner.
In another section is the following description: by the ruins of Hulings' blacksmith-shop, and where the engine-house now is.
The engine-house in 1876 was at the north end of what is now Lincoln Park, facing down Broadway.
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| Biography |
- MARCUS HULINGS, JR. secured the "Big Island" in the Susquehanna directly west of Milton in 1770 by purchase from the Proprietaries. He built a log house on its eastern side north of the river terminus of Center street, and north and west of this residence planted an orchard of apple trees, one of the best in the county. In that rich alluvial soil the orchard flourished; the trees became large and spreading, and produced abundant harvests of white and yellow summer and autumn fruit and large red winter apples. At the same time the pioneer husbandman also cleared his land and planted crops of grain and corn. Separated by many miles of unbroken forest or winding river from the older established communities in the southeastern part of the State, he next directed his attention to the construction of a canoe for the transportation of his products. This was accomplished by hollowing out a large pine log, and with this rude specimen of river craft he could take grain or peltries to the amount of about one ton down the river at each trip. The first regular river boat made here was constructed by John Clendenin, and after that Hulings also built boats, some of them large enough to carry from eight to ten tons. About this time he transferred his residence to the eastern bank of the river at the western extremity of Broadway; there he erected a rude log cabin, in which he was licensed to keep a house of public entertainment in 1772. At some time during the Revolutionary period he went down the Susquehanna by boat to Duncan's island, near the mouth of the Juniata. Subsequently he removed to Pittsburgh and thence to Franklin, Venango county, Pennsylvania, where he again found himself in the vanguard of civilization and pursued the occupation of boatman the remainder of his life. His descendants still reside in that county.
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| Biography |
- Marcus Hulings, born c. 1739 in Amity Township, married his cousin Mary Boone, born 11 Nov. 1739, daughter of Benjamin Boone and Susannah Lykins (Laican) and widow of Samuel Patterson, and became stepfather of her two small sons, Benjamin Patterson (born 10 September 1759) and Robert Patterson (born 22 Feb. 1761). Marcus Hulings, a blacksmith, was shown on the tax record of Greenwood Township, Cumberland County, Pa., in 1769. On 25 Sept. 1781, he purchased an island in the west branch of the Susquehanna River in White Deer Township, Northumberland County, Pa. Later the family moved to Lycoming County, Pa. Marcus and Mary (Boone) Hulings are reported to have had five children: William (twin), born c. 1775, who married Mary Chatham; Charlotte (twin), born c. 1775, died in infancy; John; Andrew Jackson, who married Betsy Morris; and Nancy, who married Philip Sipps. Marcus Hulings' widow Mary died in 1822 in Painted Post, Steuben County NY.
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| Tax List |
1769 |
Greenwood, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Purchased |
1770 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States [4] |
| "the big island" from the proprietaries |
- It was inhabited after Hulings' departure by Isaac Himrod.
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| Sold |
1782 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| the "big island" to Bethuel Vincent |
| Census (desc) |
1790 |
Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| _UID |
AE6AC2C03212BE418CB3DA76B3F96937B8B4 |
| Death |
Yes, date unknown |
| Person ID |
I3339 |
Milton Families |
| Last Modified |
27 Dec 2020 |
| Family |
BOONE, Mary Anna, b. 11 Nov 1739 d. 1822, Steuben, New York, United States (Age 82 years) |
| Marriage |
1765 |
| Children |
| | 1. HULINGS, Nancy, b. 1765 d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 2. HULINGS, John, b. 1767 d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 3. HULINGS, Andrew Jackson, b. 1769 d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 4. HULINGS, William, b. 1775, Booneville, Clinton, Pennsylvania, United States d. 1858, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 83 years) |
| + | 5. HULINGS, Charlotte, b. 1775 |
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| Family ID |
F1850 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
16 Apr 2024 |
1739 - Yes, date unknown
