US patriot. Husband of Elizabeth Jane Lusk Piper. John built a stone house that became Fort Piper and shelter for neighbors during Indian attacks. The attached chimney image is all that is left of Fort Piper, his home, near Colonel John Drive.

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US patriot. Husband of Elizabeth Jane Lusk Piper. John built a stone house that became Fort Piper and shelter for neighbors during Indian attacks. The attached chimney image is all that is left of Fort Piper, his home, near Colonel Piper Drive.

Father link provided by Ben Drollinger. Thanks Ben.

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John Piper (29096231)

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PIPER, JOHN
Ancestor #: A089267
Service: PENNSYLVANIA Rank(s): COLONEL
Birth: 12-30-1729 IRELAND
Death: 1-31-1816 BEDFORD CO PENNSYLVANIA
Service Source: PA ARCH, 5TH SER, VOL 5, PP 57, 60
Service Description: 1) ALSO LCOL, 1ST BATT BEDFORD MIL

Residence
1) City: COLERAIN TWP - County: BEDFORD CO - State: PENNSYLVANIA

Spouse Number Name
1) ELIZABETH X

Contributor: Brenda

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Col. John Piper did not live in Colerain Twp that I knew of after the Rev. War.
He lived west of Cypher, PA. Fort Piper was essentially a sturdy stone house that people took refuge in during American Indian attacks.
After the house (fort) burned down, the stones disappeared. Are they in the barn foundation now? Who knows. Not me.
Fort Piper is in Broad Top TWP, very near Route 26 (200-300 feet?), and quite a ways west of Cypher, PA.
Colerain is south of US 30 and not in Broad Top Twp.
The fireplace is all there is now and it is near the McD' brother's brown ranch house and it is north of the brown ranch house.

Here's what is not known to me or Caroline that knew the location of Fort Piper to within about 1/8 of a mile along Rt 26. Mm many thanks to historian Caroline. Below Piper Cemetery and on the way down the hill to the barn, are a lot of fragments of some type of brick building ruins. Nobody knows what they was used for. The bricks are right next to the east edge of Piper Cemetery. Was it a small chapel ? Who knows.

Until I published where Fort Piper and the cemetery were, the cemetery was totally derelict. The cemetery weeds were 5 feet high and full of carpenter ants that jumped onto my shirt. It is now well cared for by locals or volunteers. Everyone knew of Fort Piper but nobody knew exactly where it was, except for Caroline. I had to find the cemetery in overgrown weeds. The fort was not the reddish brick ruins on the hillside by the cemetery.

Fort Piper is mentioned in colonial records for PA and how it burned down in the early 1800s, as I recall.

2023: I wanted to identify another couple in this cemetery. When I was there or in any other cemetery with my camera, I photograph every tombstone. I am not an expert on the entire Piper Cemetery people buried there. I had one person that helped above. Together we found the known Cemetery location but then we found the Fort Piper actual location, well, remains.
A lady wrote to me from FL. She told me she could not travel to se her ancestor's grave. She thanked me for letting her know what the tombstone looked like. That is why I photograph every tombstone. If someone is looking for an ancestor, I just help a tiny bit.
As for edits, I can't check it all out. So, I post what is sent to me. I hide the suggested edit person's actual identity a bit.
I am interested in just what all those red bricks building remains are down the hill from Piper Cemetery towards the barn. That's it. A later smokehouse? A powder magazine? A chapel?
Just asking. Someone knows.
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"Several of the pioneers of this region were among the most distinguished men of their day, while a considerable number, whose reputations were not bounded by county limits, have claimed Hopewell township as their birthplace or early home. A name well known to those familiar with the history of this part of the state is that of Col. John Piper. He was lieutenant-colonel of Bedford county during the revolutionary war, and in his official capacity was actively engaged in protecting the frontier settlements from the hostile encroachments of the Indians. In 1800 he was appointed major-general of militia. He was born in Ireland, December 30, 1729, and died in Bedford county, January 31, 1816. In early life he came to this country and lived for a time at Shippensburg. Prior to 1771 he removed to Bedford county, and settled upon the stream now known as Piper's run. A log fort was erected at the southern end of Black Oak ridge, near Col. Piper's house, and at various times during the revolution was occupied by troops sent to protect the settlers. In 1777 (as is supposed from a date upon a brick in the chimney) Col. Piper erected a substantial stone house of two stories, to which many settlers, at various periods, fled for refuge, until the building became known as Fort Piper, as it is still called. The old house is remarkably well preserved, and its strong oaken woodwork seems capable of enduring as long as the masonry.
Col. Piper married Elizabeth Lusk. They had eleven children: Mary, born 1771; William, 1774; James, 1775, died , 1778; John, 1777, died in infancy; John, 1779; Elizabeth, 1782; James, 1784; Alexander M., 1786; David, 1788; Esther, 1791; Thomas C., 1794. The oldest son, Gen. William Piper, was for several years a representative to the state legislature from this county, and also served two terms in congress. He commanded a regiment in the war of 1812. Subsequently he served as adjutant-general of Pennsylvania. He was a remarkable athlete, and there are numerous traditions concerning his feats of extraordinary agility--one to the effect that he leaped across the open circle, the highest in the dome of the state capitol at Harrisburg, a distance of sixteen feet, eighty feet above the floor.

James Piper was a surveyor, well known in this county. Alexander M. was connected with the state government, and commanded a company in 1812. Two of his sons were officers in the late war.

Col. John Piper owned a considerable body of land, which was afterward divided into five farms, upon which five of his sons lived. His son John lived in the old stone house until quite aged, when he built the frame house in which his son, James Piper, Esq., now lives [1884]. "Fort Piper" is now the residence of Samuel, son of Squire James Piper.
During the Indian troubles of the revolutionary period, a man named Shorley, who lived with Col. Piper, was shot and scalped by the Indians while he was fishing in Yellow creek.
Under the date May 19, 1781, Lieut. George Ashman writes to President Reed: "On Friday the fourth of this instant the Indians came into this county, killed one man, a woman and two children, and took one man prisoner, within one mile of Col. John Piper's, on Yellow creek;" but does not give the names of the victims.
(Source: "The History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania, 1884," Waterman, Watkins & Co., p. 346.)"
Contributor: Kent
Thanks Kent.
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Some think John Piper attended the US Constitutional Convention.
I am not sure of that.
"The Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1789-90"
"The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787."
"The decision of the Pennsylvania Assembly to rewrite the state constitution
in 1789 brought to a merciful conclusion the bitter controversy surrounding
the politically charged 1776 Constitution."
https://journals.psu.edu/phj/article/download/24953/24722/24792

I think the key phrase on the tombstone is "forming a new constitution convened".
New means another one was replaced, IMO. PSU.EDU wins, IMO.