John Edie Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: John Edie: a soldier of the Revolutionary War, was born in Pennsylvania in 1760. After the termination of that successful effort for liberty, he migrated to Hancock County. Held the office of surveyor and made nearly all the earliest surveys in that region of the country. In 1790 he married Miss Rebecca Croxton. Served seven years in the legislature and filled the office of justice of the peace for many years. He was the father of eleven children. In 1840 he died at the age of eighty-one years.