Bios: FLENNIKEN, Elias 1745-1834: Greene (then Westmoreland) Co, PA

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FAMILY of Elias FLENNIKEN

    Elias Flenniken, son of John and Martha (Alexander) Flenniken, was born
October 22, 1745, and died in Greene Co., Pa, on Mar 17, 1843. (Tombstone
says he was aged 88 years, one month and 29 days.) His wife was Mary Dunlap,
born Oct 23, 1752, who died Apr 23, 1834.  She was a daughter of Joseph
Dunlap of Franklin Co., Pa, whose will, made April 20, 1783, was attacked in
Franklin Co court by Elias Flenniken, and was declared void.  Joseph Dunlap
was a son of Andrew and Jane Dunlap of Cumberland County.  Andrew died there
in the summer of 1764.  Mr. Samuel P. Flenniken says that Elias Flenniken
made his first trip to what is now Greene Co, Pa, in 1761, when, with John
Armstrong, James Flenniken and Zebulon Hollingsworth, they visited the site
of a tract of land which Flenniken's father had secured the previous year,
and that made their trips to the site in the years which followed before
settling here in the years following the Revolution.  Elias Flenniken served
in the Revolution in Captain John Orbison's Company, Cumberland Co Militia
in 1781 and 1782. (Penn Archives Series III Vol 23 pp 768-779.)  When he
finally came to settle he built his log house at the head of Jockey Hollow.
Land records show that he took title to the to the tract of land next north
of Oliver Crawford, who had the ferry at the mouth of Muddy Creek.  He also
got the patient for the land that was warrented to Thomas Flenniken, and
later bought out Oliver Crawford's tract at the ferry.  He and his wife are
buried at Glades Church Cemetery.

SOURCE:Ten Mile Country It's Pioneer Family pg 556-557.