The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical SketchHensel, W. U. (William Uhler)
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The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical Sketch
Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler)
Christiana (Pa.) -- History; Riots -- Pennsylvania -- Christiana
The sole survivor of those who were directly involved in the events
that have been narrated is Peter Woods, a very respectable colored
man, who does not know his own age, but who likely is an octogenarian
and was twenty years old when the riot occurred. He lives on his
little farm of fifty-eight acres, in Colerain Township, just south
of Bartville, with his good wife, and the youngest of his thirteen
living children, the family being much esteemed by those who know its
members. He was a soldier in the Union Army, having served nearly three
years in the Third Regiment, Colored U. S. Infantry. During the war
he met Alex. Pinckney, at Charleston, S. C., who was also a soldier
in one of the Northern regiments. Recently his pension was increased
through the influence of Congressman W. W. Griest, of the Lancaster
district--who is a son of Major Ellwood Griest, author of the vigorous
Bart resolutions of 1850. In the absence of precise proof that Peter
Woods was above seventy-five years of age, the United States Government
assumed that it would not have indicted a boy of fifteen for treason.
The descendants of Edward Gorsuch maintain the high social station of
their family in Maryland. They were Methodists in religion and Whigs in
politics, and are now Republicans; during the civil war they zealously
supported the Union cause.
Edward Gorsuch’s immediate descendants are Mrs. W. W. Campbell and
children, of Orwig’s Mills, Md.; Mrs. T. B. Todd, Jr., of Fort Howard,
Md., who is a daughter of Alex. Morrison; Mrs. E. D. Duncan, of Govans,
Md.; Mrs. Fannie Thomas, Wilmer Black and Anna Black, the last four
being children of Melinda Gorsuch, intermarried with Robert Black; and
Mrs. R. F. Mitchell, wife of Dr. F. G. Mitchell, of Glencoe, Md. (who
was the daughter of Dickinson Gorsuch), her son and two daughters, the
youngest of whom, as an infant, appears in the arms of “Mammy” Kelly,
one of the illustrations of this volume.
Joseph Scarlet died July 8, 1882; his descendants are as follows:
I. Children--Joseph Scarlett, 5313 Master Street, Philadelphia; Annie
V. Scarlett, Mary E. Scarlett, 1413 Peach Street, Philadelphia; William
Scarlett, 5444 Girard Avenue, Philadelphia; Mrs. Ella A. Jackson, 304
North Franklin Street, West Chester, Pa.
II. Grandchildren--J. Ralph Scarlett, Inda Scarlett Conrow, Elsie J.
Scarlett, Edwin W. Scarlett, Anne Scarlett Custer, Dr. Charles J.
Morell, Florence M. Christ, T. Harold Jackson, William Scarlett, Leslie
Scarlett, Richard Scarlett.
III. Great-grandchildren--Lavinia Scarlett, Helen Scarlett, John S.
Custer, Charles J. Morell, Jr.
Elijah Lewis died Oct. 18, 1884, aged 86; his descendants are as
follows:
I. Children--Mrs. Martha A. Cooper, Palmyra, N. J.
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