Clock-maker. Warrant for 150 acres Mifflin County farm near present site of Lewiston. Did clock-making/silversmith and farming, had half a dozen properties, Tax lists of Carlisle 1765. 6th John generation at Kilmarnock Scotland.
The Gemmill GEMMILL-MITCHELL family herein recorded descends from Scotch ancestors seated for five or more generations at Kilmarnock, Scotland, from whence in the sixth generation came John Gemmill, the American ancestor. John Gemmill came to Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, where he purchased land in or near the present site of Lewiston. He married Elizabeth Porter, and all of his six children were born on the Mifflin county farm. He was a deeply religious man, the letters written to his children indicating that he was a holy man�perhaps a preacher. He is buried at Lewiston, his wife in "Hart's Log" graveyard, once the site of an old Indian fort near Alexandria, Huntington county, Pennsylvania. Children: John (2), born November 12, 1759, was a minister of note, and held the chair of theology in Yale: Zachariah, of whom further; Elizabeth, Marion and Anna.
