Col. George Thompson Ross ^715,1347

  General Notes:

George Thompson Ross - b. Lancaster, Pa. 1776, d. * age 40 years, Lancaster, Pa., buried June 7, 1816, m. Henrietta .** He was appointed Lieutenant of Artillerists and Engineers, U.S.A., Dec. 19, 1796, resigned May 20, 1801. Ensign and Second Lieutenant, 2nd Infantry, May 3, 1803, resigned, Oct 6, 1804; Colonel, 44th Infantry, Aug 1, 1813, honorably discharged, June 15, 1815, under the Act of March 3, 1815, reducing the Army to a Peace Establishment.
Issue:
Alonzo ***
George Thompson ****
Others, who died young
Henrietta

*Lancaster Journal, June 7, 1816
**Executrix of her husband’s will.
***Mentioned in father’s will, dated May 28, 1816, proved March 31, 1817. He directs that he be buried "along side my deceased children at New Orleans." ****I don’t know if this son was legitimate, see his father’s will.

Notes - R. R. Claiborne says 12/29/97 George Thompson Ross had 3 children, Alonzo, George and Henrietta. Latter writes a letter, dated New Orleans, Las., Jan 15, 1854, to G.G. Claiborne in which she laments the death of her brother, which brother she does not state. R. R. Claiborne says the widow of G. T. Ross was a Catholic, a woman of great wealth and he thinks she left her fortune to the Catholic Church. He thinks none of the children of G. T. Ross married.

Col. George T. Ross, "late of the city of New Orleans and Col. Of the 44th Regt. Of the U.S." will, dated May 28, 1816, prob. March 31, 1817, Exec. - Henrietta Ross, Children Alonzo, & George, Father, Col. James Ross, Aunt Susanna Kuhn. Uncle John Kuhn. Nieces - Marie and Sarah Kuhn and Polly Bird. Directed his body to be shipped to New Orleans.

Miss Grace King, 2221 Prytania St., New Orleans, Secretary of the Louisiana Historical Society, writes me 1/19/98, and sends a letter from James Zacharie, 3rd St., between Chestnut and Coliseum, New Orleans, one of her "unfailing authorities about old New Orleans Society." His letter says: "From various data, I think I have placed this person (wife of Col. George T. Ross), the three Miss Copperthwaites became Mrs. Col. Ross, U.S.A., Mrs. Major Carmichal, (?Carmiat) and Mrs. Reynolds. First, Mrs. Ross had a Isabelle Ross, whose cat had hydrophobia and her head cut off with a carving knife. Second, Mrs. Major Carmiat Who had Mrs. Dr. Canas, recently dead. Third, Mrs. Reynolds had Corrinne Mortimer, Judge of the Criminal Court, and James, who killed a waiter in a saloon. Mortimer left town, and someone carried the prisoner a loaf of bread in which was a pistol and James shot himself. The portrait of Major Carmiat always hung in Mrs. Carmiats room and I think Colonel Ross’s was also there.......

Catharine Thompson Ross - b. Lancaster, Pa., d. Lancaster Co., Pa, 1850*, m. March 5, 1807 Richard Claiborne, son of Augustine and Mary (Herbert) Claiborne. He was b. Westmoreland Co., Va., Aug. 4, 1755, d. New Orleans, La., March 1819. (buried in the large cemetery outside the city, near Governor Claiborne, New Orleans.) He was an officer of the Virginia Line**, during the Revolution. He became Major and Aide-de-Camp to General Nathaniel Greene and retired from the army with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was appointed Secretary of State of Louisiana by his cousin, Governor William C. C. Claiborne. He also held the position of Clerk of the U.S. Court at New Orleans, and was subsequently appointed Judge of the U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana***.
Issue (surname Claiborne)

Henrietta Elizabeth Virginia - b. Alexandria, Rapides Parish, La., 1809, d. Rockford, Il, 27 Nov 1882, m. 1st, 26 Mar 1834, Preston Billings Elder, and 2nd, 19 Mar 1843, Peter Haldeman.

Guilford Greene - b. Alexandria, Rapides Parish, La., 10 Oct 1811, d. Philadelphia, Pa., 5 Jan 1876, m. 4 Oct 1832, Elizabeth Kidwell Currie.

George Thompson ROSS19 was born about 1776 in Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA. He died on 7 JUN 1816 in Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA. He was buried in St. James Church Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA. George was appointed Lieutenant of Artillerists and Engineers, U. S. Army, 19 Dec 1796, and resigned 20 May 1801. He became an Ensign and 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Infantry, 3 May 1803 and resigned 6 Oct 1804. On the first of Aug 1813, he was appointed Colonel in the 44th Regiment, and fought in the War of 1812. He was discharged 15 Jun 1815 under the act reducing the Army to a peace establishment.
George resided in New Orleans and visited Lancaster Co., PA for the benefit of his health which was impaired by severe privations in the army.

He was married about 1796 to Henrietta, last name unknown. Her last name may have been Copperthwaite. She is thought to have been a Catholic and a woman of great wealth.

George’s will dated 28 May 1816 was probated 31 Mar 1817 in Lancaster Co., PA. It lists his children Alonzo and George, wife Henrietta Ross, father Col. James Ross, aunt Susanna and husband John Kuhn, nieces Maria and Sarah Kuhn and Polly Bird. Either Alonzo or George (or both) died before 1854.

Among other things, his will recites: "I request my friend John Dick to use every means in his power with the officers and all concerned in the land and naval force under my command and that of Capt. Daniel Patterson, in capturing the vessels and cargo near the Island of Barataria, and which the Honorable Congress have relinquished in favor of the said George T. Ross and Capt. Daniel Patterson and their officers."

It further says: "I order and direct that my friend and physician Dr. Eberly prepare my body to be immersed in a hogshead of strong Rye Brandy and that said hogshead, containing my body, shall be conveyed from Lancaster to New Orleans in care of Messrs. Boyle and Hand, merchants at Baltimore, and it is my request that they receive the same and ship it off in the first vessels sailing for New Orleans." This request was not honored as George is buried in St. James Church Cemetery.

78 iv. Maria Sabina ROSS was born on 12 APR 1779 in Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA.21 She was baptized on 11 MAY 1779 in Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA. She died in 1803 in Lancaster Co., PA. Maria was unmarried.

George married Henrietta ? in 1796.⁷¹⁵