James Ross and Sarah Flint

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Husband James Ross ¹

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           Born: 1752 - Chester Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1806 - Cumberland Co, PA 2
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         Father: William Ross (Abt 1725-1777) 3
         Mother: Jean Nesbit (      -      ) 4

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       Marriage: Abt 1790

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Wife Sarah Flint ⁵

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         Father: William Flint (      -      ) 5
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Children

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1 M James Ross ⁵

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2 M William Ross ⁵

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3 M John Ross ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - James Ross

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He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and came with his parents to Warrington Township, York County. In 1778 he entered the Continental Army as a private in Captain Ligget's Company of Militia. He settled at Newville in Cumberland County, where he was rated in the list of taxables in Hopewell Township as James Ross "soldier."
In 1790 he sold his property at Warrington Square, now Rossville, York County, for seven new Conestoga wagons which were to be delivered at the shop where they were made. He was engaged in a general mercantile business and transported his goods by means of wagons from Newville to Pittsburgh on the west and Philadelphia on the east.

He died at his residence in Cumberland County, which was located on a tract of land now the site of Newville. By his will dated Dec. 26, 1805, and proved Nov. 18, 1806, he provides, after the disposal of his real estate, that a pocket Bible when they are able to read in it well shall be given to his sons James and John, and that his house Bible shall be given to his son William, who is to receive in addition, "Burkett on the New Testament, William's Sermons, Edwards on Affliction and Redemption, Blair's and Erskine's Sermons."
Little is known of the sons of James Ross except that some time prior to the death of their uncle Major Ross of Rossville two of the sons returned to Warrington Township on a visit to their relatives, at which time the elder of the two was engaged in business in Pittsburgh. Miss Ann Ross, the last of the Rossville family to live in the old homestead, often heard her father speak of this visit and of a day spent at Beaver Creek.
On the 11th day of August, 1829, James Ross, then living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, executed a letter of attorney to Thomas Lindsay empowering him to convey said James Ross's one-third interest in his father's estate in Newville to one James Herron.
A John Ross, born near Newville, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in 1802, died in Marshall County, Illinois, in 1876, leaving at least one child, Minerva Ross, who married John C. Ames, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Lieut. James Hunter of Fort Hunter, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, paymaster in the army. She was born in 1814, married in 1835, and died in 1892.

1 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 50.

2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 52.

3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 10, 48.

4 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 10.

5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 51.