THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE PHILIP E. LINN FAMILY
 The supposition exists that Soloman/Solomann Lynn/Linn (died between 1790 and 22/March/1798) is the father, and Diademia/Diamid is the mother of:
(1) BARBARA ANN LINN of Bedford Co., Pa who was born 1762-1764
(2) JAMES LINN  born 1765
(3) ELIZABETH LINN (1) about 1770
(4) WILLIAM LYNN/LINN (1) in Cass Co., PA 1773
(5) TIMOTHY LYNN/LINN(1)  in Erie Co., PA 24/October/1784
(6) SOLOMON LINN in 1786

 The supposition is because there are no records at this time to prove that Soloman and Diademia are the parents, however succeeding generations named many of their children Soloman and Diademia.  In genealogies that have been sent to me as well as gathered from many sources on the internet, this seems to be a common thread that the Lynn/Linn family researchers are using at this time. 
 The first census was in 1790 and any records before that time are very difficult to find.

(1) BARBARA ANN LYNN/LINN-married PETER SHAKLEE 17/November/1788  She died in Center, Morgan Co., OH, at 81 years of age.
Their children were:  Solomon Shaklee....Dennis Shaklee....Diadama Shaklee....William Hardy Shaklee....Catherine Shaklee....Barbara Shaklee....Timothy Shaklee....Peter Shaklee....Ann Shaklee....Elizabeth Shaklee....Permilia (Emily-Emelia) Shaklee  
(2) JAMES LYNN/LINN-was born 1765
(3) ELIZABETH LYNN/LINN-was born about 1770 she married DEVORE
(4) WILLIAM LYNN/LINN-was born 1773, Cass Co., PA?.  WILLIAM married ELIZABETH LAIRD, ELIZABETH was born in Lancaster Co., PA 1772.  WILLIAM  died in March, 1847 in Nicholas Co., KY at 73 years of age and ELIZABETH DIED December, 1811 in Mercer Co., PA. At 39 years of age.
Their children were:  John Lynn/Linn...Diadamia/Diadamid Lynn/Linn...William Lynn/Linn(2)...
Timothy (Laird) Lynn/Linn...Mary Ellen (Polly) Lynn/Linn...Elizabeth (Laird) Lynn/Linn...PHILIP EDMOND LINN(1)....this is the ancestor of this history and genealogy.
 
(4) WILLIAM LYNN/LINN married twice, he married ELIZABETH STOOPS in PA., 1811-1812.  ELIZABETH STOOPS was born 13/March/1791 in Westmoreland Co., PA.  Elizabeth was the daughter of William P. Stoops and Mary Ann Brown.  Her body was interred in Buckhorn Twp., IL, Linn Cemetery.     The children of this marriage were:  Sarah Lynn/Linn...Massy Lynn/Linn...Susanna Lynn/Linn...Alexander B. Lynn/Linn...Nancy B. Lynn/Linn...Martha H. Lynn/Linn...Elmira Lynn/Linn...Robert S. Lynn/Linn...James Lynn/Linn...  Samuel F. Lynn/Linn...Mahala Lynn/Linn...Benjamin Lexington-Lynn/Linn. 
(5) TIMOTHY LYNN/LINN was born in Erie Co., PA 24/October/1784  he married twice, he married SUSANNA (possibly Laird) about 1802.  The children of this marriage were:  Dedomia/Dedena Lynn/Linn....
Susan Lynn/Linn...Solomon Lynn/Linn...Henrietta (Esther) Lynn/Linn...Mary Lynn/Linn...
Barbara (Barbary) Lynn/Linn
 
(5) TIMOTHY LYNN/LINN married NANCY AGNES STOOPS in Nicholas Co., KY 18/September/1823.  Nancy was the daughter of William Stoops and Mary Brown.    The children  of this marriage were Melissa Dean Lynn/Linn...Polly McCann Lynn/Linn
TIMOTHY died 22/March/1863 in Bourbon, Marshall Co., IN., at 78 years of age and NANCY died at 56 years of age.  Both died the same day according to records that were given to us.NANCY and ELIZABETH STOOPS the wife of WILLIAM  were sisters.
(6) SOLOMON LYNN/LINN  no further information is available.
 At this time, June 2002, I have had contact with 37 researchers of the Lynn/Linn families.
 
 Some early records exist on the family of Barbara Ann Shaklee in Bedford County PA., regarding the estate of Solomon Linn.  Benjamin Scrotchfield and Diadema Linn were administrators of Solomon Linn's estate.  The Morgon County, Ohio court minutes names Barbara Shaklee's surviving children.  (Wm. Shaklee)
 Land sale, tax, and estate records and historical written records exist in Kentucky of the Lynn, Stoops, Shankland, McDannald, Bowen and Ishmael families, who are inter-married.

  William Lynn wrote his will the 11th day of March 1847 and it was witnessed by R. West and John Stoops.  The will was produced in open court at the August Term in 1847 in Nicholas Co., Ky. And proven by the oaths of Robert West and John Stoops.  In the will he names his wife, Elizabeth; sons:  Robert S., John, William, Phillip?, Alexander B., Samuel T. and Benjamin Lex; daughters:  Polly Ishmael, Elizabeth Ishmael, Sarah Boen (Bowen), Nancy Campbell, Susan Lynn, Martha H. Myers, Elmira Lynn and Mahala; grandchildren:  Almarinda and Thomas Jefferson. 

 Parts of the genealogies of most of the above persons have been recorded by the researchers of each of the families.

PHILIP EDMOND LINN
   Philip was born in Sandy Lake Twp. of Mercer Co., Pennsylvania, near the present town of  Sandy Lake.  He was the youngest of eight children of William and Elizabeth (Laird) Linn.  Elizabeth died in, or as a result of childbirth and a few months after her death William married Elizabeth Stoops, whose family resided in the adjoining Venango County.

 Early in 1813 William and his family moved to Kentucky.  After residing in Fleming County a year or two, where he worked at his trade as a miller, he moved to a farm in the adjoining Nicholas County, where he remained until his death in March 1847.  It was on this farm, along or near Cassady Creek about a mile from where it flowed into the Licking River in northeastern Kentucky, that Philip was reared.  In 1831 he married Mahala McDannald and in about 1838 they moved to Illinois with their first four children.

 For the next ten years he devoted most of his time working at his trade of millwright and carpenter-mostly in Brown and Adams counties.  In about 1848 he moved to a farm near Buckhorn in Brown County where he also operated a small sawmill and a grist mill.  About the time of, or shortly after the death of his wife, Mahala, April 10, 1859, Philip moved to a farm near Mt. Sterling.  There he married Christina Long and in the spring of 1865 he, and his first wife's brother, John McDannald, organized a wagon train and brought their large families to Oregon.  The McDannald family settled in Umatilla County, across the Columbia river from Walla Walla, Washington.  The Linn part of the train, following a different route from Ft. Hall, Idaho, came across Central Oregon and the Barlow Road and settled south of Eagle Creek in Clackamas County. 

 Philip was a leader in every community in which he lived and was highly regarded and respected by all who knew him.  He was a very religious man all his life but held the respect and friendship of those with less concern about religion.  He was quiet-spoken, reticent and did not seek publicity but was a leader by precept and deed, rather than by boisterous words.  At Buckhorn, Illinois, he had donated land and helped to build the first public school there, which was thereafter known as the Linn School.  Soon after his arrival in Oregon he again donated land and helped very materially in building the first church (Southern Methodist) in that part of Clackamas County.  And later he gave material help in building the first bridge across the Clackamas River at the present town of Estacada.  We can be justly and duly proud of this fine progenitor.

 (From the Genealogy by Albert Shankland begun in the mid 1940's and published in 1965.)
 Philip Edmond Linn was the first Patentee#18237 April 24, 1820 sale Entry (2 Stat. 566) of 42.75 acres Land Office : Quincy.  He was also the Patentee #15414 April 24, 1820 Sale Entry (3 Stat. 566) of 85.52 acres, Land Office: Quincy.  He bought land from John Beckman on January 23, 1838, and thus Philip Linn came to own the entire section of land.  These lands were not surveyed at the time of purchase nor were there any mineral reservations for the land.  This was former Indian lands, bought by the government, that were being offered to the white settlers.

 The land directly across the roadway from Philip Linn's property  was owned by Tobias Long, Christina's father. Upon the death of Tobias Long, the property was willed to her sister Caroline (Long) Bradney, and Christina received $25.00 from her fathers will.