A Seneca Co., OH history titled: "Ohio, Early State and Local History"; by Dolly Todd Madison Chapter DAR, Tiffin Ohio 1915 found at the Ohio Historical Society mentions on page 53 under Pioneer Men and Women:

"Daniel Dildine Sr., and his wife (Margaret McEwen) came to Tiffin in a very early day. To them were born five children: Andrew, who married Jane Owen; William, who married Christena Ann Berger; Daniel Jr., who married Laura E. Perkins; Ann E., who married John M. Wolf; and John, who married Betty Hines."


"The Scorch-Irish of Northampton County" page 520 lists a Return of Mount Bethel Township for County Tax, January, 1775: On page 522:
Dildine, Henry - 200 acres deeded;
Dildine, John - 50 acres DO;
Dilsine, Andrew - 0 acres 2 horses, 1 cow, 17 years.

This would make Andrew born in 1757/1758.

Much later in the list there is page 524:
Dildine, Harmon 100 acres.

And finally, under the heading "Names of Young Men":
Dildin, John

I am interested in a relation between the Dildine and McEwen families of Northampton Co., PA, Columbia Co.,PA and Seneca Co, OH. I believe Daniel Dildine Jr. (b. Sep 23, 1781, d aft 1860), son of Andrew Dildine and Anna Magdalene; married Margaret McEwen (B.Oct 4, 1782, d. Mar 10, 1862), daughter of John McEwen and then moved to Seneca Co., OH with her husband and lived near her brother William McEwen in Clinton Twp. who also was from Northampton Co.



From information recently obtained I offer the following addition to your site:

Howard Hilton provided information about a genealogical report prepared by Austin C. Graybeal of Des moines, Iowa for the Flansburg family which referenced a family bible:

John MCQUOWN/MCEWEN b. Apr 15, 1745, d. Dec 22, 1815, m. Dec 3, 1771 to Margaret HERRON b. Dec 3, 1771, d. May 21, 1826.

Children: Margaret MCQUOWN b. Sep 24, 1783.

Daniel DILDINE b. Sep 14, 1780 Columbia Co., PA

From information recently obtained I offer the following addition to your site:

Howard Hilton provided information about a genealogical report prepared by Austin C. Graybeal of Des moines, Iowa for the Flansburg family which referenced a family bible:

John MCQUOWN/MCEWEN b. Apr 15, 1745, d. Dec 22, 1815, m. Dec 3, 1771 to Margaret HERRON b. Dec 3, 1771, d. May 21, 1826.

Children: Margaret MCQUOWN b. Sep 24, 1783.

Daniel DILDINE b. Sep 14, 1780 Columbia Co., PA

John DILDINE b. Mar 24, 1804; Andrew DILDINE b. Dec 1, 1805; Daniel DILDINE b. Nov 11-12-13,
1807; Anna Magden DILDINE b. Aug 24, 1809; Williana [William McEwen] DILDINE B. aUG 9, 1816;
Eliza DILDINE b. Jan 16, 1818.

"HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY OHIO" by Warner beers & Co., 1886 [R60A] page 768 has:
"William Oscar DILDINE, coal merchant, Tiffin, was born in Republic, this county [Seneca], in 1849; his father, William MCEWEN DILDINE, was a native of Fairfield County, OH and with his parents came to this county in 1823, settling upon the land now occuppied as Green Lawn Cemetery, and was of English pioneer acnestry of Pennsylvania. His mother, Christina Ann (Berger) DILDINE , was a natice of Frederick County, Maryland, and came with her uncle, Levi Davis, to this county in about 1830.....William Oscar and Wallace Berger DILDINE are the only living issue of their parents...."

Seneca Searchers 17:4(July/Aug 1998) has the Story of Daniel and Margaret MCEWEN DDILDINE has Margaret's b. Oct 4, 1783 and Daniels's b. at Sep 24, 1780 in Northampton Co., PA. It describes his journey to Fairfield Co., OH and then to Seneca Co., OH where they settled near by to William MCEWEN.

Daniel Dildine and Margaret McEwen Dildine were married in 1803. Two years later they came down the Erie
Canal. Took their covered wagon to Pickway County,to a farm near what is now Centerville. The family was very religious.Daniel never smoked and never drank. He was the treasurer of the Tempereance League in Tiffin. Their first son William McEwen (born in the covered wagon on the trip) did not like farming and wanted to be involved in city government. At the age 16 he moved to Tiffin. He could also purchase a gallon of whisky for ten cents I have Daniel and Margaret's Wedding picture. I have recent obtained the Dildine Christing cup a the Dildine Christing gown in a box at my father's home. My father passed away April 1,2001 of alcholism. His name was Robert Erhart Dildine Born in 1918 in Tiffin. I will have to write more later about the thee William Oscar I, William Oscar Dildine II and my brother William Oscar Dildine III.
Take care
Mary Dildine Niederkohr

From Dildine GENFORUM message by Larry L. Dildine in January of 2001. He states that according to Margaret's obituary in the Seneca Advertiser March 21, 1862, they were married when she was 19 and he 22 in PA in June 1803. Daniel's obituary was in the same newspaper for October 3, 1872, giving the same marriage year. They came to Fairfield Co., OH in 1805/1806, and lived in that area when all children were born. They moved to Seneca Co., OH in 1824.

..Daniel Dildine, Sr., settled on Rock Creek, in 1824, died September 27, 1872 . . . . Margaret, wife of Dan. Dildine, died March 10, 1862 . . . . Mrs. Jane Dildine, born in Columbia County, Penn., November 29, 1806, settled at Tiffin with her parents in May, 1829 . . . . Mrs. Jane DeWalt, born in Northumberland County, Penn., April 15, 1815, settled at Tiffin, with family in April, 1824 . . . . William McEwen Dildine was a native of Fairfield County, Ohio, came with his parents to this county, in 1828, and settled upon the land now occupied as Greenlawn Cemetery; Christina Ann (Berger) Dildine, his wife, was a native of Maryland, and came with her uncle, Levi Davis to this county about 1830 . . . . John W . and Elizabeth Ditto, former born in Pennsylvania, in 1785, and the latter on the Atlantic Ocean in 1795, parents of Mrs. Henry Sheats, and of Mrs. James Patterson, married in 1814, and settled in this county, where Mr. Ditto died April 7, 1853, and Mrs. Ditto in 1885. John Ditto settled in Clinton, early in 1822 .....Peter and Margaret DeWitt, former a native of New Jersey, latter of Pennsylvania, parents of Samuel H. De Witt, of Clinton Township, who was born in 1822, in Pennsylvania, came to this county from Marion County, Ohio, CLINTON TOWNSHIP. - 451 http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Seneca/SenChapXVII.htm