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Note: The following information regarding a Phoebe BURKHART was sent on January 24th, 2014 by a B. ANTAL to Samuel William AYLESWORTH ("SWA"), the compliler of this database.
Based on my review of this and related new information, I have accepted the conclusion suggested by Ms. Antal that this Phoebe BURKHART is the daughter of Nicholas BURKHART and his wife Barbara. This Phoebe married Andrew RYLAND in1793. I, SWA, descend from this couple through their son William RYLAND who married Elizabeth LIPPINCOTT, and then through their daughter Rachel Ann RYLAND who married Thomas STANTON.
(If you can assist in further substantiating or refuting this identification of Nicholas BURKHART as the father of this Phoebe BURKHART, please contact me by email at saylesworth@shaw.ca)
I greatly appreciate that Ms. Antal shared this significant new information with me.
The email from Ms. Antal reads as follows:
" ... I am not a Ryland researcher, but rather a Burkhart/Burkhard researcher. Although I do not believe I relate to Phoebe, I've gathered lots of Burkhard info to try to sort them out. So many Andrews, Philips and Samuels!
I have seen the many posts of others, including on Phoebe's Find A Grave site that her father was Samuel. I believe that her father was Nicholas and her brother was Samuel. I have not done extensive research on this but I have [located the following]:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/wills/willabstrbkx2.txt
"BURKARD, NICHOLAS. Bristol Township. Co. of Phila.
November 1796. December 12, 1796. X.521.
Wife: Catharine.
Children: Margaret, Samuel, Philip, Phebi [Wife of Andrew Reily], [transcription error?, see newspaper ad below]
Catharine [Wife of Henry Paul].
Granddaughter: Sarah [Daughter of Catharine Paul].
Exec: Children Samuel, Philip, Phebi, Catharine and Margaret and George DeBenneville.
Wit: George DeBenneville."
Newspaper ad on genealogybank:
Date: Saturday, January 21, 1797 Paper: Claypoole's American Daily
Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA) Issue: 5551 Page: 1
Notice
All persons indebted to the estate of Nicholas Burkhart, late of
Bristol township and county of Philadelphia, deceased....for settlement to the subscribers:
Samuel Burkhart
Philip Burkhart
Phebi Ryland
Catharine Paul
Margaret Burkhart
[all above subscribers are shown as executors, Nicholas´s will names children as execs]
St Michael's & Zion:
29 Jan 1796, Henry Paul, widower, & Catharine Burkhard, single, of Phila. County. Witnesses: Isaac Martin and Sarah Burkhard
Also on genealogybank:
Date: Saturday, September 24, 1803
Paper: Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA)
Volume: XXXII
Issue: 8358
Page: 3
Died at Germantown on Sat last, Samuel Burkhurt [sic] of this city; 34th year of age; left aged mother and number of relations & friends [this would seem to indicated he was single or widowed but no children]
I [B. Antal] also have an administration file for Samuel Burkhart; Phila 1803 administration #167:
admins: Philip Burkhart, Jacob Fry, Andrew Ryland
States: "Inventory of the personal property of Samuel Burkhart deceased held in partnership with his Brother - Philip...The whole value of the property in partnership is sett [sic] down and halfed at the bottom."
As I said, I do not believe these are any relation to my Burkhards found primarily in Phila:
Andrew Burkhard (1807-1835) md in 1830 Sarah Ruhl
son of Samuel Burkhard (1770/75-1830) md in 1796 Anna Maria Weisinger
possibly son of Andrew Burkhard (1738-1812) md in 1761 Anna Susanna Baumann
Hope I´m correct in my thoughts ... I´m always open to being shown that I am wrong.
B. Antal [USA]
[This note added on January 24, 2014 by Samuel Wm. Aylesworth, with strong appreciation to B. Antal. Transcriptions of the lengthy Estate Administration Paper that B. Antal refers to are provided in the Notes sections for Nicholas BURKHART in this family tree/database. First, though, you may enjoy the following story about Phoebe RYLAND (nee BURKHART).]
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The following note was posted on RootsWeb, on the Ryland-Message-Board, by a person identified only as "Major99". It was first posted on May 27, 2001 and was edited on Sept 15, 2004. It is copied here with appreciation to Major99:
"Mrs. Ryland's Lethal Candlestick, OR, The Highwayman's Comeuppance"
There's a tale from the early years of the American Republic, handed down through the generations.
Phoebe Burkhart was born May 7, 1769, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Andrew Ryland from neighboring Berks County was a couple of years older. DAR lineages purport they were married in 1788, but no records of the marriage seem to have survived, and the marriage may in fact have been somewhat later.
They lived in Whitemarsh Township of Montgomery County. Today the area is suburban Philadelphia, but 200 years ago it was an agricultural expanse of gently rolling hills and rich topsoil. The population of the township was 1,085 in 1800. The nearest village was Barren Hill (renamed Lafayette Hill since 1884). Andrew operated a grist mill on Wissahicken Creek.
The Barren Hill Church is now St. Paul's Lutheran Church, but in those days the building was shared by worshippers from all around the surrounding countryside. Andrew was not much inclined to attend the evening prayer meetings, but Phoebe went regularly with one of her women friends. In those days before electric lighting -- even before gaslight -- it was the custom for each of the worshippers to bring along a candle in order to illuminate the church building.
One evening, Phoebe and her friend were returning home on horseback, when a man jumped from the bushes into the roadway and demanded: "Your money or your life!"
Saying nothing, Phoebe filled her hand and pointed something metallic and menacing at the brigand. He turned and fled.
The two women looked at each other. . .breathed a sigh of relief. . .and then burst out laughing. It seems that Phoebe had "outgunned" the robber with her silver candlestick.
The story, which was far too good to keep, soon spread all over the county. Everybody who heard it had a good laugh, except for the villain in question. He resolved not to be fooled again.
So a few weeks later, he struck again, confronting the two women along the same stretch of road with the same demand. This time, he did not flinch when Phoebe raised her hand.
What he failed to count on, was that Phoebe knew better than anyone how much the tale of the previous incident had gotten around. This time, she was packing one of Andrew's pistols. She fired once and shot him in the leg.
The hapless robber made his escape, empty-handed. It is related that for some time thereafter, one of the local men was confined to his home recuperating from an injury that was difficult to explain.
Otherwise, Phoebe and Andrew led a quiet life in rural Pennsylvania. She bore him eight children between 1793 and 1810. (Two girls appear to have died young.) When her oldest boys -- 18-year-old Sam and 19-year-old William -- enlisted for the War of 1812, she sternly told them not to come back with a bullet in their backs. Fortunately, they returned without any bullet holes anywhere, and resumed working with their father at his mill. William helped with the actual milling, and Sam made the barrels, until Andrew passed away in 1823. Phoebe lived to be 82. She never remarried."
(This note by Major99 posted on RootsWeb was copied here on October 7, 2011 by Samuel Wm. Aylesworth.)
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