Abel Janney

1820 census @ wayne Indiana not stated where he was born

1830 census @ Tippnecanoe Indiana not stated.

Is this the Abel Janney or his father. dates....abel janney 19 may 1777-18 jul 1851miamai ohio

virgina who dared to cross the ohoio river along with john russell and coleman wilks. and the indianas spotted them and shot wilks and russel dead. they took janney for prisoner and he did not get home for 15 months.[in freidnly virginia by jay worral] the narrative of abel janney is recorded in diary from beginning

there is also a legend by his granddaughter that abel went to kenticky was captured by indiana and held for 7 years. the indians then sold him for 1/2 keg of firewater..he was in kentucky prospecting for land when the enlish /american war broke out/

quakers

Notes on what I think is his great grandfather. 13 mar 1788 simon ruckett purcahsed line from abel janney

1806 tax montgomery ohio

another article on Abel Jannet ..indebted to mr. lupton n e n e lupton of ridgeville for the use of a manuscript on the capture of abel jannet by the indians and his life among the savages on northern ohio in the year 16782. the narrative seemsto have been written orginally by the cpative himself who unlike many if not mosr the white men captured by the indians was not able to write b but was engaged to teach the children of the officers of a grarrison and merchants on an island in canada before his release. the manuscripy to me is not the orginal but a copy by jacob janney who died in warden county at an advanced age are some 30 years old.