Jennet "Jane" Lytle

Jennett McCracken

• Gender: Female
• Birth: 1714
• Belfast, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland
• Death: circa 1762 (43-52) Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
• Burial: Donegal Presbyterian Cemetery
• wife of Ephraim Litle or Lytle (1714–1775)

Children of Ephraim and Jennett Lytle:

• 1. Joseph Lytle
• 2. Nathaniel Lytle
• 3. Ruth Lytle
• 4. Jean Lytle
• 5. Rebecca Lytle
• 6. Priscilla Lytle
• 7. Ephraim Lytle
• 8. Elizabeth Lytle

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History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men Chapter LXVIII. Mount Joy Township

When the territory now included in Mount Joy was settled it was a part of the old original township of Donegal, and it was not set off and, organized as it now exists until 1759. Mount Joy is bounded on its long northern line by Dauphin and Lebanon Counties, the Conewago Creek flowing between its territory and that of the former county. Its eastern neighbor is Rapho township, the line of demarkation between being Little Chikis Creek (originally Chiquei Salunga). Its southern or southwestern boundary is marked by the Lancaster and Harrisburg turnpike, upon the opposite side of which the East and West Donegals lie. The extreme southern portion of the township consists of gently undulating limestone land, while farther north the surface is more hilly and the soil is gravel and gravelly loam. In the extreme north the hills are higher and more abrupt and the land less valuable for cultivation than elsewhere. Nearly everywhere, however, fine improvements meet the eye, and there are evidences of thrift and good farming. The pioneers of Mount Joy were Scotch-Irish, and the first came in about 1735, preceding the German settlers by a decade. The Germans, however, came in greater numbers after they had made their first entry, and the township is now almost exclusively peopled by their descendants. Not one acre of land in the entire township is now owned by the descendants of the Scotch-Irish pioneers who originally patented it. This absence of the families of the pioneers has rendered it difficult to obtain historical facts, and impossible to present a complete record of the early settlement. The Scotch-Irish pioneers selected the limestone lands in the southern part of the township, and the Germans exhibited a decided preference for the gravelly hills to the northward. Among the first-mentioned class of early settlers were the Cunninghams, Lytles, Wilkins, Whites, Moorheads, Scotts, and Howards, and among the earliest and most prominent of the latter class were the Hiestands and Nissleys.... Ephraim Lytle is known to have taken out a warrant for one hundred and ninety acres of land Nov. 24, 1744, and to have received the patent for another tract of one hundred and seventy-nine acres in April, 1767. He probably made his settlement prior to the earlier of these two dates. Ephraim Lytle had three sons--Joseph, Nathaniel, and Ephraim--and six daughters--Martha, Ruth, Jean, Rebecca, Priscilla, and Elizabeth. Nathaniel was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was killed near Philadelphia, his body never being recovered. His brother Joseph served in some capacity upon a peace commission at the same period. Nathaniel Lytle had an only son, Joseph, who was the father of S. S. P. Lytle, now a resident of Mount Joy borough. Ephraim Lytle, younger brother of Nathaniel, reared a family, but there are no members of it now in this county. He removed to the northwestern part of the State. The Lytles, like most of the Scotch-Irish pioneers of Mount Joy, were members of Donegal Presbyterian Church, and the graves of members of three or four generations of the family are to be found in the burying-ground adjoining the venerable house of worship.

children:

Elizabeth Lytle

Jean Lytle

   1736 – 

Joseph Lytle

   1737 – 1788

Nathaniel Lytle

   1740 – 1777

Ephraim III Lytle

   1744 – 1832

Martha Lytle

   1750 – 

Ruth Lytle

   1750 – 

Priscilla Lytle

   1751 – 1831

Rebecca Lytle

   1760 –  

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