Nathan Fish and Sarah Reeder

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Husband Nathan Fish ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1734 - Newtown (Queensboro), Long Island, NY 2
     Christened: 12 May 1734 2
           Died: 16 Aug 1801 - Center Twp, Butler Co, PA 2
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         Father: Benjamin Fish (1697-      ) 2
         Mother: Sarah Sackett Moore (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Jane Campbell (1740-1796) 2 - 1779 2

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Wife Sarah Reeder ²

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Children

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1 F Mary "Polly" Fish ^{3 4}

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           Born: Cir 19 Dec 1769
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           Died: 28 Sep 1850
         Buried:  - North Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PA

         Spouse: George McCandless (1771-1842) 3 5
           Marr: 1794 4

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2 M Nathaniel Fish ²

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           Born: 1777 2
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General Notes: Husband - Nathan Fish

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When he was eleven years old, his parents moved the family to Ewing (now Trenton), New Jersey, from which place Nathan and brothers served in the Revolutionary War in New Jersey and in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. Nathan Fish had a cousin by the same name, but ten years older. The two Nathans were officers in the earlier years of the Revolution: one a lieutenant and the other a quartermaster.

It is interesting to note that Alexander Hamilton, Jr., and his family moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, with Nathan Fish and his family. Carlisle was the meeting place of the McCandless and Fish families. Nathan II and his daugh­ters, Mary and Nancy, were the only ones of their family living there at the time they joined the party migrating to western Pennsylvania. They stopped for a time in Plum Township, Allegheny County. Nathan Fish II and his daugh­ters, Nancy and Mary, and the latter's husband, George McCandless, later moved thirty miles north into Center Township, Butler County. Here Nathan Fish II resided until his death in 1801. He died at the age of sixty-six and was the first person interred in the Unionville cemetery and for forty years the only person interred therein. Time has almost obliterated the following lines on Nathan's tombstone:
Life's duty done as sinks the clay,
Light from its load the spirit flies,
While heaven and earth combine to say
How blest the righteous when they die.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 344.

2 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 2.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 338.

4 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 6.

5 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 8.