MRS. SARAH ORTON, P. O. Wesleyville (sic: farm was on Clark Road and house was taken by Interstate 90), born in 1799, is the first white child born in Harbor Creek Township, daughter of Amasa and Tryphena (Miller) Prindle, natives of Connecticut and Massachusetts respectively, who had 13 children, 6 living -- Eliza, now Mrs. Walker, in California; Charles; Jesse; Jane, now Mrs. Philip, a widow, in Illinois, Chauncey and Mrs. Sarah Orton, our subject. Mr. Prindle was by trade a shoe-maker and currier, but mainly followed farming. He was a highly esteemed pioneer of Erie Co., settling in Harbor Creek in 1777, when it was covered with forest.
MRS. SARAH ORTON, P. O. Wesleyville (sic: farm was on Clark Road and house was taken by Interstate 90), born in 1799, is the first white child born in Harbor Creek Township, daughter of Amasa and Tryphena (Miller) Prindle, natives of Connecticut and Massachusetts respectively, who had 13 children, 6 living -- Eliza, now Mrs. Walker, in California; Charles; Jesse; Jane, now Mrs. Philip, a widow, in Illinois, Chauncey and Mrs. Sarah Orton, our subject. Mr. Prindle was by trade a shoe-maker and currier, but mainly followed farming. He was a highly esteemed pioneer of Erie Co., settling in Harbor Creek in 1777, when it was covered with forest.
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