Mays Family Tree - Person Sheet
Birth Dateabt 1753
Birth PlaceHunterdon County, NJ, USA
Death Date27 Dec 1840776
Death PlaceClinton, Vermillion Co., IN, USA
FatherJohan Philip METTLER (-1783)
Misc. Notes
The widow Nancy Mettler and children following her husband Paul’s death in 1821, removed to Clarion County [PA?] and joined their Clover relatives.672
Spouses
Misc. Notes
Paul Clover made a settlement at the mouth of Anderson’s Creek, about 1801. He remained here several years, keeping a “ public house ” or tavern, and did some work as blacksmith. Clover died of a cancer, after which his widow and children moved to Clarion.7116
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Paul Clover is regarded as the first settler on this land [Curwensville, PA] about 1797. He was from Hunterdon County, NJ and a blacksmith by trade. His cabin and shop were somewhere between the covered bridge and the river bridge.
He seems to have had the first “Susquehanna Tavern” where the pig destoyed the twin papooses, and where Ann Price worked when Monks murdered Giles at the top of Bridgeport Hill in 1817. She [Ann] was the first child of William Bloom, Sr. and his wife Mary Mettler, and widow of Thomas Price who disappeared about 1802. Paul died 1821 and surely was buried nearby beside their little daughter, Nancy, who died in 1804.710
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Paul Clover was the first settler. He settled near where the store of Emanuel Schnarrs is now located. As this is now in Curwensville borough we will at this time give it only a passing notice.7117
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Paul Clover was probably the first settler in Pike township [Clearfield county, PA], having arrived in 1797, and built a house and blacksmith shop where the “corner store,” in Curwensville, now stands [1911].833
Note: This claim of Clover being the first settler does not appear to be true per other historic records. See especially Cladwell’s Atlas of Clearfield County, p. 9.3
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A little later [after 1797] Paul Clover "squatted " on the bank of the river at a point now [1878] occupied by the Irvin store at Curwensville.... The first blacksmith was Paul Clover. His shop was near the site of Irvin's store, on the river bank, at Curwensville.1372
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The next day was the Sabbath and we were called upon by Paul CLOVER and wife, who were then living at the place where Alexander IRWIN now lives.7118
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Paul Clover, "who had a warm and generous heart," made a settlement at the mouth of Anderson's Creek in the year 1801, kept a "public house" or tavern, and did some blacksmithing. After his death, his widow and children moved to Clarion.1015
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Around 1800, or perhaps a year of two earlier, he [William Bloom b. 1752] moved to join a former neighbor from Hunterdon County, NJ, Paul Clover, who had moved to Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, around 1797 and where Paul was the first settler; Clover was married to Nancy Mettler, William's [Bloom] sister-in-law.7119
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Paul as well as Peter Clover among others is named in December of 1806 among the 155 taxable inhabitants of Chinklacamoose township, (Centre County) which included all of Clearfield county. 7120,1919 1005
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Paul Clover’s log house and it’s approximate location within the present [1946] borough of Curwesnville, PA is identified as River Street.770
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The "Susquehanna House," recently razed [1949] when the highway was relocated, was the second of that name, the first one likely at the base of the hill and owned by Paul Clover. Among the proprietors of the recent hotel were: Eli Bloom, Newton Read, Lewis C. Bloom who built the Central Hotel about 1881 or 1882.1840
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EARLIEST BURIAL PLACE
In this connection it seems proper to mention the burial plot near the mouth of Anderson Creek. It was believed by many of the older people that Indians used this plot to bury their dead and was continued as such by settlers for a time but not now used. The first burial was that of Nancy, the young daughter of Paul Clover, and his wife Nancy Mettler, in 1804. Others were interred in the place until 1821 at least. In that year Paul died and' surely was buried beside their child.672
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In the heart of Curwensville once stood a blacksmith shop owned by Paul Clover. Here he raised his family in the late 1700s.
A daughter, Nancy, is the first white settler buried in this area. A large marker on a plot of ground next to the Curwensville VFW Post is her final resting place. She died in 1804.
This historical burial ground on River Street near the VFW is believed to be a place where the Shawnees, a sub-tribe of the Leni-Lenape Indians of Algonquin stock who inhabited Clearfield County at that time, buried their dead.7121
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Paul Clover is regarded as the first settler on this land [Curwensville, PA] about 1797. He was from Hunterdon County, NJ and a blacksmith by trade. His cabin and shop were somewhere between the covered bridge and the river bridge.
He seems to have had the first “Susquehanna Tavern” where the pig destoyed the twin papooses, and where Ann Price worked when Monks murdered Giles at the top of Bridgeport Hill in 1817. She [Ann] was the first child of William Bloom, Sr. and his wife Mary Mettler, and widow of Thomas Price who disappeared about 1802. Paul died 1821 and surely was buried nearby beside their little daughter, Nancy, who died in 1804.710
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Paul Clover was the first settler. He settled near where the store of Emanuel Schnarrs is now located. As this is now in Curwensville borough we will at this time give it only a passing notice.7117
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Paul Clover was probably the first settler in Pike township [Clearfield county, PA], having arrived in 1797, and built a house and blacksmith shop where the “corner store,” in Curwensville, now stands [1911].833
Note: This claim of Clover being the first settler does not appear to be true per other historic records. See especially Cladwell’s Atlas of Clearfield County, p. 9.3
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A little later [after 1797] Paul Clover "squatted " on the bank of the river at a point now [1878] occupied by the Irvin store at Curwensville.... The first blacksmith was Paul Clover. His shop was near the site of Irvin's store, on the river bank, at Curwensville.1372
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The next day was the Sabbath and we were called upon by Paul CLOVER and wife, who were then living at the place where Alexander IRWIN now lives.7118
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Paul Clover, "who had a warm and generous heart," made a settlement at the mouth of Anderson's Creek in the year 1801, kept a "public house" or tavern, and did some blacksmithing. After his death, his widow and children moved to Clarion.1015
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Around 1800, or perhaps a year of two earlier, he [William Bloom b. 1752] moved to join a former neighbor from Hunterdon County, NJ, Paul Clover, who had moved to Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, around 1797 and where Paul was the first settler; Clover was married to Nancy Mettler, William's [Bloom] sister-in-law.7119
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Paul as well as Peter Clover among others is named in December of 1806 among the 155 taxable inhabitants of Chinklacamoose township, (Centre County) which included all of Clearfield county. 7120,1919 1005
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Paul Clover’s log house and it’s approximate location within the present [1946] borough of Curwesnville, PA is identified as River Street.770
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The "Susquehanna House," recently razed [1949] when the highway was relocated, was the second of that name, the first one likely at the base of the hill and owned by Paul Clover. Among the proprietors of the recent hotel were: Eli Bloom, Newton Read, Lewis C. Bloom who built the Central Hotel about 1881 or 1882.1840
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EARLIEST BURIAL PLACE
In this connection it seems proper to mention the burial plot near the mouth of Anderson Creek. It was believed by many of the older people that Indians used this plot to bury their dead and was continued as such by settlers for a time but not now used. The first burial was that of Nancy, the young daughter of Paul Clover, and his wife Nancy Mettler, in 1804. Others were interred in the place until 1821 at least. In that year Paul died and' surely was buried beside their child.672
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In the heart of Curwensville once stood a blacksmith shop owned by Paul Clover. Here he raised his family in the late 1700s.
A daughter, Nancy, is the first white settler buried in this area. A large marker on a plot of ground next to the Curwensville VFW Post is her final resting place. She died in 1804.
This historical burial ground on River Street near the VFW is believed to be a place where the Shawnees, a sub-tribe of the Leni-Lenape Indians of Algonquin stock who inhabited Clearfield County at that time, buried their dead.7121
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