These notes for ISAAC DELONG were compiled by Karen Feisel, and are used with her permission. My hope is that her analysis will help others, and that somehow we can all come together to figure out his ancestors. When you are finished reading here, and want to go back to Isaac DeLong's entry in the genealogy pages, click here.
According to "The Compendium of American Genealogy 1600-1800, Vol. V Lineage Records" Issac was in the War of 1812. Isaac is shown in the 1820 Census as living in Clayton Twp., Perry Co., OH as is his brother Joseph DeLong. A further tie to that location, for his brother Joseph, is the baptism record of Joseph's daughter Mary.
Isaac and his wife Agnes were living in Perry Co., OH in 1822 as evidenced by a document signed by them concerning the sale of deceased George DeLong's property (Isaac's father).
The 1820 census for Clayton Twp., Perry Co., OH shows Isaac Delong's household as follows: one male age 26 but under 45; two males under age 10; one female age 26 but under 45; one female age 16 but under 26; one female under age 10; one person being engaged in agriculture.
Isaac died at age 62 years 3 months 14 days.
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The following info comes from Ancestry.com, the sources being DeLong researchers such as John Baldwin, Carla Nash, and Todd Reeves:
- 1790: Isaac would have been with his parents in Mifflin Co. (now Centre Co.), PA
- 1799: Probably with parents in Ohio Co., VA (now WV)
- 1802: Probably settled with parents in Guernsey Co., OH (then Belmont Co.)
- 1811: Isaac bought Guernsey Co. land from Thomas Thompson - 100 acres, Sect. 3, Twp. 1, Range 1, for $200, indenture Dec. 1, 1811. (Karen Feisel found found a confirming record of this in deed records for Guernsey Co., OH - Vol. B, pg. 178 - which gives the additional information that the property was in Richland Twp.) Also a deed record in Vol. J, pg. 537 for Lot #38, Sec. 3, Twp. 1, Range 1, Richland Twp. from Thomas Thompson for $200; also a deed record in Vol. B, pg. 179, dated 1812 for 100 acres, no location info, that Isaac purchased from Joseph Penticost & wife, for $200.)
- 1812: Ohio service lists confirm that an Isaac DeLong served in the War of 1812.
- 1815: Sold Guernsey Co. land to Robert Thompson (the 100 acres acquired in 1811) for $225 on March 22, 1815.
- 1823: Entered land in Clayton Twp., Perry Co., OH
- 1830: The census for Clayton Twp. indicates that while there had been one unknown female shown in the 1820 census, now there are two females with both born by 1820. By the 1840 census for Clayton Twp., the two unknown girls are gone.
- 1842: Isaac's will was signed April 4, 1842, and he died two days later. Isaac's son Isaac, Jr. died on August 11, 1842, yet reportedly is not mentioned in the will which names William, Mary, John, George and Philip.
- 1865: The land Isaac purchased in 1823 in Clayton Twp., Perry Co., OH became the property of his son Philip in 1865, which suggests it had been entailed to Isaac's wife in 1842 and that after her death in 1864 it went to Philip. (Yet another source indicates she died in 1861 not 1864.)
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The newsletter for the Guernsey County Genealogical Society titled "Guernsey Roots & Branches", Volume 25, No. 4, pg. 51 shows that Isaac DeLong was on the 1816 Tax List for Guernsey County. It shows him being taxed for 100 acres in Range 01, Township 01, Section 03, Lot #38 - the original owner of which had been Thomas Johnston.
The book "Portrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County, Ohio" published by C. O. Owen & Co. in 1895 states on pages 508-509 that among the citizens from Guernsey County who participated in the War of 1812 was Isaac DeLong.
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Regarding the year 1842, shown above, Karen Feisel has on file a copy of an abstract of Isaac's will, which is shown on pg. 360 of "Gateway to the West", Volume 2, compiled by Bowers and Short, and on file at the Fairfield Co. Dist. Library in Lancaster, OH. It confirms the statement above about Isaac's will but also states that the will listed Isaac's wife Nancy (does not say whether she was living or dead). The executor of the will was his son William, and witnesses to the will were Ira E. Lyons and Wm. B. Lyons.