The Irish Bomfords

Achmuty family

(36) Arthur Gates Auchmuty, only son of Arthur Auchmuty

Notes from Clare Eagle (emails Apr 2009)

Arthur Gates Auchmuty XE "Auchmuty:Arthur Gates" only son of Arthur Auchmuty and his second wife Ann Gates XE "Gates:Anne" .

Dublin pedigree: “Arthur Gates Auchmuty named in the will of his Grandfather Capt John Achmuty

Captain John mentions Arthur’s son Arthur Gates Auchmuty in his will, Arthur having predeceased him: -

“To my grandson Arthur Gates Auchmuty the Sum of five pounds to buy mourning”

Alumni Dublinensis: “Auchmuty, Arthur Gates, Siz. (Rev. Maurice Neligan, Longford), June 21, 1728, aged 17 ; s. of Arthur, Colonus ; b. Newtown, Co. Longford.”

Notes compiled by Alice L Ahmuty: -

1730 or about 1732 AGA arrives in RI

1734 On September 8, 1734 Arthur Gates Auchmuty married Ann Dickinson XE "Dickinson:Ann" at the house of Benjamin Mumford in South Kingston, Rhode Island, in a ceremony performed by the Rev. Dr. James McSparrow. Records of St. Paul’s Church, Narragansett, 1718-1875, Washington Co, R.I.[Source: LDS Film 1002595, R.I. Narragansett, Washington, St. Pauls Church]

1738 AGA “who lately dwelt in SK but now in Jamestown have a certificate owning hiself & his family to be inhabitants of SK & ye sd town ....”[Source: Alden G. Beaman, PhD, “History and genealogy from Early town Council Records: Abstracts of South Kingstown Council Records,” SK TC Vol 3 1735-1743, RIGR, 13:276. Page 42,]

1738 Arthur Gates Auchmuty born in RI to AGA and Ann Dickinson

[Lowell email to Clare 21 Feb. 2002] (I have been given no source or evidence for this birth and Lowell has not proved it. M.C.E.)

1740 Arthur Gates Auchmuty was living in South Kingston as of 7 September 1740 testifying in Case 709 - Newport Court files.

[Source: Jane Flecher Fiske, “Gleanings from Newport Court files, 1659-1783." Boxford, MA: 1998.]

1743 Arthur Gates Auchmuty witness to a will in Philadelphia

1747 Ann (Dickinson) Auchmuty witnessed a deed at South Kingston from Thomas & Hannah Stedman to Nickolas Holway.

[Source: from Beaman’s RIGR, Vol. 2, #3, pp pp. 155-156, Jan. 1980. “The Family of William Chappell of South Kingstown,” by Virginia (Southwick) Chappell of Wakefield, RI.]

1747 Ann Auchmudy (wid.) married Enock Kenyon, married by Elder Joseph Park, Nov. 24, 1747.

[Source: Arnold: VRRI, Vol. 5, Charlestown 11.]

1752 Samuel Auchmuty XE "Auchmuty:Samuel" born 1752 in Fisher’s Ferry, Northumberland, Pennsylvania.

[Source: Family Search Ancestral file v4.19, submitter: SW Hatcher Film number 1512670] [Kevin Campbell states that Samuel was born “around or before 1750 near Selinsgrove, PA.]

1753 The “Susquehanna Company” was formed by several hundred individuals at Windham, Connecticut on July 18, with the avowed purpose of establishing a settlement along the banks of the Susquehanna. [Kevin Campbell]

1754 Nancy Auchmuty XE "Auchmuty:Nancy" born abt 1754, Pennsylvania.[Source: Family Search Ancestral file v4.19, submitter: SW Hatcher Film number 1512670] Nancy is mentioned in the administration papers of her father’s estate as Nancy Taylor

1754 A deed was secured from the Indians to a tract of land along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. It secured a dubious deed to a large tract of land along the Susquehanna River, amounting to about one-third of Pennsylvania.

It is believed that AGA went to Pennsylvania as an official of the Susquehanna Company of Connecticut. [Kevin Campbell]

1755 Struck by Indian attack near Penn’s Creek close to the site of Arthur’s first home site in PA “where his oldest son George lived”, this quoted from Kevin Campbell. (I have not been given any evidence that AGA had a son George) A petition, addressed to Robert Hunter Morris, then Governor under the Proprietors, requesting help was signed by George Auchmudy among others. (Evidence indicates that ‘George’ may be an incorrect transcription of ‘Gates’ says Lowell Thomas

[Most land title records, wills and estate papers, and other genealogical source materials relating to Connecticut’s Susquehanna settlers are in Pennsylvania. One location is Northumberland County Courthouse, 201 Market Street, Sunbury, PA.]

1765 AGA could see that Connecticut claims were not in good standing and applied for and received authorization from Pennsylvania to trade with the Indians. AGA moved from New England to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he established himself as an Indian Trader.[Kevin Campbell]

1765 JJA on AGA - “his tombstone in Trinity Church graveyard, Newport, RI carries the date 1765”. (This is an anomaly. There is a mention of a burial of an AGA in 1765 in the records of this Newport church but also a note in those records that no tombstone was found. JJA’s reporting is misleading. I cannot make sense of this date or event at all. M.C.E.)

1768 Another Auchmuty plot (at Fisher’s Ferry): Warrant 27 March 1768; Name Samuel Auchmuty; Patent 15 May 1821; Name Robert Auchmuty; size: 226 and 1/4 A. [Lowell Thomas, May 24, 2003]

1769 Arthur Auchmuty entered his deed for tract #46 in Augusta Township. This was for 300 acres of land in the Fisher’s Ferry section and included his family’s homes.[Kevin Campbell]

Plot name is “Narrowbottom”; Application date: 24 May 1769; Name: Arthur Auchmuty; size: 251 A. 62P. [Lowell Thomas, May 24, 2003]

1797 the Orphans Court Docket lists Arthur G. Auchmoody as the deceased.

[email from James Long to Eagle, Oct. 16, 2002] See transcription below

1797 Letter of Administration for Arthur Gates Auchmuty - “Arthur Auchmudy Dec’d

that of the Twenty third Day of October in the Year of our Lord 1797 letters of administration in due and Common Form of Law, were Granted to Samuel Moody, Of all and Singular the Goods & Chattels, Rights and Credits which were of Arthur Auchmoody Deceased Who hath put in Sureities, to wit George Hilebeidel and John Rewatt” AGA died in or about 1794 since Samuel says he has been supporting the widow for 3 years [though Ann the widow may have d 1796 (according to FindaGrave - though basis for that isn't at all clear as the photo (as at Jul 2025) is of a much more recent plaque that makes no mention of Ann)].

In Letters of Administration 1797 - Samuel was the son of Arthur Auchmoody deceased and administrator of the estate..

“the following goods were given to Nancy Taylor In part of her ----or Right of her Father’s Estate....”

1797 AGA – Monumental Insription Fisher’s Ferry, PA, bd. Newport RI [JJA] (There is a tombstone in existence that gives AGA’s dates as born in 1714 and dying in 1797; both dates false! It is thought to have been erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution, M.C.E.))

Orphans Court April 1798 Northumberland County, Pennsylvania

“Arthur Gates Robert Irwin Esquire High Sheriff of the County of

Auchmooty dec’d Northumberland came into the Court and returned to the Court

Inq returned here the Writ of Partition or Valuation of the lands and tenements which were of Arthur Gates Auchmoody deceased to him directed tested at Sunbury the twenty third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight together with an Inquisition thereunto annexed taken in the township of Augusta in the County of Northumberland the twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven Hundred and ninety eight under the Hands and Seals of the said Sheriff and of twelve free and lawful men of the Bailiwick of the said Sheriff whose names are contained in the said Inquisition Whereby it appears that the Sheriff aforesaid together with the said Inquest did go to the lands and tenements whereof Arthur Gates Auchmuty died seized and then and there upon the Oaths and Affirmations of the said inquest did find that the same could not be parted and divided to and among the parties in the same writ named without prejudice to and spoiling the whole thereof Therefore the Inquest aforesaid on their Oaths aforesaid have appraised the same at the sum of Forty shillings for each and every Acre with the appurtenances making in the whole the sum of Five Hundred and fourteen Pounds if the said Premises contain two hundred and fifty seven Acres as by as will the said Writ as the Inquisition aforesaid thereto annexed filed of Record appears

By the Court

Source:

microfilm number 0961032 Ch of the LDS

Orphans Court Docket, Documents Vol 1- , Years 1772 - page 127 of Vol 3”

More about Arthur Gates Auchmuty and his descendants will be written in Section VI