Nathaniel Hurst

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Husband Nathaniel Hurst ¹

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         Father: [Ancestor] Hurst (      -      )
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1 M Nathaniel Hurst ^{2 3}

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2 M Thomas Hurst ^{2 3}

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3 M James Hurst ^{3 4 5}

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           Born:  - Mt. Pleasant Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
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         Spouse: Sarah Blackstone (      -      ) 4 5

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4 M John Hurst ²

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General Notes: Husband - Nathaniel Hurst

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He is supposed to have been one of the older children in the family of John and Ann Hirst. He left his home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and obtained a warrant of survey for three hundred acres of land in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1774, for three hundred acres additional, July 1, 1784, and for two hundred and eighty-five acres and twenty-three perches, February 10, 1796. He and his wife crossed the mountains on pack horses, and settled about five miles from what is now the borough of Mount Pleasant, where he took up nine hundred acres of wild land, above mentioned, which became known as the Hurst Settlement. Here they erected a log cabin and began life under the most adverse circumstances, as the Indians were on all sides of them, and many nights when the husband and father was out watching for an attack by the Indians, the mother with her little family would seek shelter in the underbrush, feeling safer there than in the cabin. By degrees they cleared and cultivated the land, which soon became productive and yielded them a goodly return for their labor. They lived to be well advanced in years, were respected by their neighbors, and the supposition is that they were members of the Presbyterian church. [HWC 1906 II, 161]

The Hurst family of Mount Pleasant township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was transplanted from Virginia to Pennsylvania by three brothers, James, Nathaniel and Thomas Hurst, who settled in Mount Pleasant township more than a century since [1906], founding what became known as the Hurst settlement, some eight miles from Greensburg. They purchased a considerable tract of land, all of which was a wilderness, clearing it and erecting buildings. There they lived and died, all of them having reared families. [HWC 1906 III, 381]

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 161.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 162.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 381.

4 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 786.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 140.