In 1999 I wrote
The Oil Creek Flemings of Venango County,
Pennsylvania, with related families McClintocks, Culbertsons, Jamisons,
Lytles, Morrisons, Watsons and Hendersons, Volume 1, 586 pages, and
Volume 2, 466 pages. I also treated several families that were
associated with the eight surname units by marriages or family history
events: the Shreves, Smalls, Stewarts, McCaslands, Neills, McFates,
Hunters, Holmdens and Storys. The two volumes are now out of print. This 2005 web
site pertains to Jamisons of Volume 2, updated 2005 for the online version.
(April 2006 update) All web site versions are now online:
Oil Creek Flemings.
Oil Creek McClintocks and Culbertsons.
Oil Creek (and Westmoreland County) Jamisons.
Oil Creek Lytles.
Oil Creek Hendersons.
Oil Creek Watsons and Morrisons.
Cliffords,
from New Jersey to Pennsylvania and beyond.
Ancestors and descendants of Conrad Zinn.
Jamisons of our line were the last of our eight ancestral lines (Flemings, McClintocks, Culbertsons, Jamisons, Lytles, Watsons, Hendersons, and Morrisons) to come to Venango County, Pennsylvania. Our Jamisons were in North America by the mid-1760s, in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, having come to North America from County Antrim, in the north of Ireland. Brothers Robert and John Jamison were probably in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, by 1770, where they and their descendants left many records.
One of these Jamison families came from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to Venango County, Pennsylvania, in the 1840s. This was James and Elizabeth (Lloyd) Jamison and their children. Four of their daughters married Flemings (they were not brothers, but were three first cousins and one second cousin). One of the Jamison daughters was Hannah Rebecca Jamison; she married John S. Fleming. Their son William H. Fleming married Josephine Louise Lytle; their oldest daughter was Edith Marie Fleming who married Ralph Zinn Clifford. They were my parents, and this is how I relate to the Westmoreland County and Vennago County, Pennsylvania Jamisons.
There were other early Venango and Forest County Jamison families, apparently not related to our Jamisons. Our Jamisons left few records in Venango County. Most of the Jamisons encountered in Venango County records in the nineteenth century were not of our Jamisons. See also the “Jamison” section in volume 2, pages 11-63, of
The Oil Creek Flemings and related families of Venango County.