1810 Maryland Census Index

	Derry, James		Kent	229	No TWP

	Schultz, C.		Balt	296	Baltimore
	Schultz, Frederick	Balt	169	Baltimore
	Schultz, John		Balt	295	Baltimore

1820 Census Index - Pennsylvania

	Derry, Bazel		Fayette 159 Georges
  1---1-1--1--1
  1 Male under 10
  1 Male 26-45
  1 Female under 10
  1 Female 26-45
  1 Person engaged in agriculture
	Derry, Jacob		Fayette 159 Georges
  2---1---1---1
  2 Males under 10
  1 Male 26-45
  1 Female 16-26
  1 Person engaged in agriculture
	Derry, London		Fayette 110 Washington
	Derry, Mary		Fayette 159 Georges
  1------11-1
  1 Male under 10
  1 Female 10-16
  1 Female 16-26
  1 Female above 45
	Derry, Phebe or Hannah  Fayette 159 Georges
  1-----1--1
	Derry, Phillip		Fayette 101 Springhill

1840 Census Index - Pennsylvania

	Derry, B.			Fayette 298	Georges
	Derry, Mark		Fayette 230	Washington
	Derry, Murry		Fayette 297	Georges
	Derry, Solomon		Fayette 230 	Washington

1850 Census Index - Pennsylvania

	Derry, Bazil		Fayette 048 Georges TWP
	Derry, Jacob		Fayette 048 Georges TWP
	Derry, Solomon		Fayette 378 Washington TWP
	Derry, Mary		Fayette 047 Georges

1850 - Census, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
	Georges TWP p. 48
12 12
Mary Derry		39 F Widow	Pa
Andrew			12 M		Pa
Bazil			 5 M		Pa
Mary E.			 2 F		Pa

19 19
Bazil Derry		50 M Farmer	Md
Mary			57 F		Md
Charity P.		16 F		Pa
Lavina			14 F		Pa

24 24
Jacob Derry		32 M Shoemaker 100 Pa
Nancy			28 F		Pa
Mary E.			10 F		Pa
Bazil			 5 M		Pa
Melechor		 4 M		Pa
Margaret Hartman	24 F		Pa
George			22 M Laborer	Pa
Josiah Mitchell		21 M Do.	Va

35 35
Alexander Brownfield	53 M Farmer	3000	Pa
Martha			48 F			NJ
...
Merker Hartman		62 M Farmer		Md

1852 - La Fayette - Marriages of Fayette Co.

	George Hartman, farmer, s/o Melker and Mary Hartman, born in Georges Twp, now residing in Georges
Twp., and Charetta Phebe Derry, d/o Bazel and Mary Derry, were married 23 Dec 1852 in Georges Twp. in
a legal ceremony by G.W. Hertzog of Smithfield.

1860 Census - Fayette Co., PA Georges TWP

	1395 1391
	Derry, Bazzil		74 M Old Gent	Pa
	Mary			72 F		Pa

	1402 1398
	Derry, Jacob		45 M Shoe Maker	Pa
	Nancy			40 F		Va
	Mary E.			19 F		Pa
	Bazzil			17 M Shoe Maker	Pa
	Melchi			16 M		Pa
	Margaret Hartman	33 F Domestic	Pa

1861 - La Fayette - Marriages of Fayette Co.

Gaskins, William and Mary Ellen Derry, both of Georges Twp.  married on 27 Dec. 1861 by Lewis Hunter
Esq. (9 Jan 1862)

1870 Pennsylvania Census - Georges TWP, Fayette County, PA

 423 427	Derry, Basil	83 M W	Invalid	200 --  	Penna
		Mary		82 F W	Keeping House		Virginia
                Mother & Father of Mary are of Foreign Birth

1880 Census - Fayette County, PA Georges TWP

 50 50	
 Hartman, George W M 52	Husband	Farmer  Penna W.Va Penna
 Phebe           W F 41	Wife            Penna Penna Penna
 Ellen           W F 22	Daughter	Penna Penna Penna
 Nancy           W F 18	Daughter	Penna Penna Penna
 William         W M 14	Son		Penna Penna Penna
 Liza Jane       W F 12	Daughter	Penna Penna Penna
 Sarah           W F 10	Daughter	Penna Penna Penna
 Dery, Mary      W F 86	Mother of Wife	Penna Penna Penna


BAZIL DERRY ~ Newspaper Article ~ 1879 (?? Daily Standard??)

Bazil Derry was born in Bedford County, PA, in the month of April, 1786, and is now 92 years of age.
His wife, Mary, was born in the same county, in the year 1789, and is now 90 years of age. This
venerable couple have lived in the same house nearly 70 years, about 1/2 mile south of Woods Tannery,
and near the foot o the mountain in George Township, Fayette County, PA.

Mr. Derry has been confined to his bed for 8 months, is reduced to a mere skeleton and is almost
blind. They had 5 children born to them, all of whom are living. Jacob, their only son, is over 60
years of age. Mrs John Gates, Mrs. Samual Huntley, Mrs. William Emme, and Mrs. George Hartman, are
their daughters. They have a large number of grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren.

Mr. Derry was a shoemaker by trade, but followed hunting in the mountains until his eyesight failed,
and is safe to say that he has killed more deer and bear, caught more coon, and shot more turkeys and
squirrels and killed more rattlesnakes than any other man that ever lived in Fayette County. He has
been to the head of Cheat River, and all over the Canaan Valley on that stream in his hunting tours.

Mr. Derry is a very singular and excentric man, is entirely unlettered, but well-acquainted with the
habits and instinks of wild animals.

R.H.J.

**Note: This article was written on May 1, 1879. Bazil died May 20th, 1879. Wife Mary, was living
with daughter Charetta (Chariety) Phebe Hartman and husband George, in the 1880 PA Census.

~ GENIUS OF LIBERTY NEWSPAPER ~
~ Uniontown, PA ~

Thursday, January 1, 1891

A COUPLE Who Slew Wild Animals About Haydentown in Early Days

The following story comes to us from Gainesville, NY. Many of our readers will remember Derry and his
wife. For further information concerning them we refer you to J. Gates Hartman and A. W. Scott who
knew them well.

"Of all the men I need to hunt with when the Pennsylvania woods were filled with game, not one is
alive, and they were all younger than me except one, Basil Derry of the Laurel Hill Mountains, way
down in Fayette County," said the veteran Url Parmly of Gaines Corners. Mr. Parmly is nearly 93 years
of age, and undoubtedly is the oldest hunter in the state, although he does very little hunting now.
"Not because I'm too old," he says, "but because there isn't game enough to make it worth while."

"Basil Derry was seven years older than I," continued the old hunter, "and he's Been dead ten years.
He was a great hunter. He had bought a small piece of land on the Laurel Mountain as early as 1812,
and there married a girl named Mary Shultz, a member of the same stock that rock ribbed old Governor
Shultz came from."

"The day they were married they started afoot through the woods on their wedding tour to their new
home in the mountains. Basil, carried his rifle, and on his way to, killed fifteen wild turkeys, five
deer, a bear and two wild cats. The bear and the wild cats Basil and his wife hung up in the woods
out of reach of wolves. He shouldered two of the deer and six of the turkeys and his wife loaded
herself of the nine remaining turkeys and carried them to their home. Some of the burden had to be
carried twenty miles."

"The business Basil was going to engage in on the mountain was charcoal burning for the furnaces at
Haydentown. He sold the deer and turkeys he killed on his wedding trip for enough money almost to pay
for his cabin. The bear and wildcats his wife and himself went back and carried in after they got
their other game same home. They had to take a tramp of ten miles to do it, and then got back before
dark. This was in the early part of March, 1812."

"A few days after Basil and his wife (he was only 20 and she 17), got settled in the wilderness on
the Laurel Mountain, Basil gathered in a back load of wild turkeys. He started with them to
Haydentown, and on his way in killed a bear. He sold his turkeys and bear skin, having left the
bear's carcass in the woods, and was about to start back home, when he was solicitied to stay and
fiddle for a dance that was to be given in Haydentown that night, Basil being a good natural
fiddler."

"He didn't want to leave his wife alone in the cabin, miles from anyplace, although he knew she could
take care of herself, but the snug purse they offered to make up for him, he needed, and so he agreed
to stay and fiddle. He left for home at daylight, and when he got home, he found that Mary had been
sitting up all night shooting wolves from a loophole in the cabin, around which they had been howling
all night. The snow was strewn with dead wolves, and the young wife told Basil she was glad he had
stayed at Haydentown and earned the money."

"When out hunting, Derry always wore moccasins made by himself out of a groundhog skin. He made his
way through the woods on these as noiselessly as a shadow. He had two guns, both flint locks, and he
never changed them to percussion locks when those were invented. He said the old flint locks had
always stood by him, and he intended to stand by them. He called his guns, Burnt Eye and Black Snake.
Black Snake he always kept home for his wife for emergencies. In case no emergency arose she
frequently started out herself in the woods to raise one. She seldom came home without a turkey or
two, perhaps a deer, and likely as not, a bear."

"One time, after they had lived on the mountain a year or two, he wounded a big buck late in the
afternoon. One of the bucks forelegs were broken by the shot. Basil did not follow the deer then, but
returned home, ate his supper, and told his wife he was going back to run down the deer."

"All right," she said, "I'll go with you." "Taking a couple of dogs, which they led, Basil and his
wife started for the clearing where he had wounded the buck. Arriving there, they waited and
listened. They heard deer after deer pass them in the darkness, by their footfalls on the dry
leaves,but the quick ear of Basil could tell that none of them was his wounded buck. By and by, a
deer came along through the woods, and by its gait, Basil knew that it was the wounded buck. The dogs
were turned loose. Down the steep ascent the deer went, the dogs after him."

"Basil ran after the dogs, and his wife kept easily at his side. They ran nearly two miles, and then
came out suddenly in an open space, lighted brightly by the moon. In the mmonlight, Basil saw that
one of his dogs had caught the deer and was holding it by one of its hind legs. He shot it. Aided by
his wife, he dressed and skinned it. They were at least seven miles fom home, and it was late. Basil
built a fire. His wife cooked some of the venison. She ate a hearty meal, and lay down on the bare
ground and slept soundly until morning, although it was late in November. How was that for a young
married couple?"

"For sixty-seven years Basil Derry followed the life of a hunter and backwoods farmer, and the many
grand hunts I've had with him make me feel good to think of. He never had his superior as a woodsman.
He was a native of Loudoun County, Virginia, and was a son of Molly Derry, the fortune teller of the
Revolution. Derry died in Fayette County, (PA) and his wife was still living in 1883, hale, sound and
hearty."

From Vance Funeral Home records (974.884 V3m):

Levina Emme (William G. dec'd)
9-2-1836 11-14-1927
Father: Basil Derry Mother: Mary Polly Schultz
Christian Church Cem. Haydentown, Pa.

7/4/90 -  Information from Arch Miller as written in his book. (brackets are my comments)
			Arch Miller
			c/o Barbershop
			Fairchance, PA 15436

Polly Shultz - There was supposed to be a write-up in the Pittsburgh paper listing witches and she
was on the list.  It is possible she just beleived in omens & superstitions and in those days the
people thought she was a witch.  (born before our time)

Charlotte Phoebe Derry married George Hartman Dec. 23, 1852 by Rev. G.W. Hertzog in Smithfield, Pa. 
Parents of George were Melker & Mary Hartman.

In 1884 Jacob transferred a piece of property to Basil his brother.

Basil Derry							Polly Shultz
b. around 1787 MD					b. 1788 still listed
d. between 1870-1880					in 1880 census
Shoemaker (leather)					bn in MD

				Jacob - Nancy Hartman
				Barbara - John Bates
				Charlotte Phobe - George Hartman
				Kathryn - Samuel Huntly
				Lavina - William Emme
				Basil - single (Smithfield)
				Sofe - Henry Roderick
1. Charlotte Phoebe - 1834
2. Lavina - 1835
3. Jacob - 1815
4. Nancy - 1822
5. Basil - 1845
6. Melicher - 1846
7. Barbary - 1823		Basil Jr. died 3-22-1917

						Lavina Derry
						b. Sep 2, 1835
						d. Nov 14, 1927
						youngest of children
						bad temper
Basil Derry/Polly Shultz
	lived around Haydentown, Pa.  They are buried at Rubles Mill in a field opposite Paul School on the
farm.

Shacklet
	Henry Roderick & Jones buried there.