James Kerr and [Unk] Stewart

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Husband James Kerr ^{1 2}

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            AKA: James Carr 3
           Born: 1702 - Ireland 1
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           Died: 1778 - Fitter's Fort, PA 1
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   Other Spouse: Susanna Stephenson (      -      ) 3

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Wife [Unk] Stewart ²

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           Died:  - Donegal Twp, Lancaster Co, PA
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Children

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1 F Jane Kerr ⁵

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            AKA: Jean Kerr 4
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         Spouse: Peter Titus (      -      ) 5 6
           Marr: 1766 5

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2 F Elizabeth Kerr ⁷

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         Spouse: John Curry (      -      ) 2

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3 F Ann Kerr ⁷

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         Spouse: John "Jack" [Unk] (      -      ) 7

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4 F Ellen Kerr ⁷

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         Spouse: John Felton (      -      ) 7

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General Notes: Husband - James Kerr

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He emigrated from Ireland to America and first settled about 1732 in Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, at about the age of thirty. There he married a woman named Stewart, who died there after having borne to him ten children. Not long after her decease he married his second wife. He moved from Lancaster County about the year 1766, and, after stopping a few months in Canogocheague settlement, where he buried his second wife, he continued his course westward to a place on the Juniata River, now in the bounds of Huntington County, where he com-menced a settlement, on a tract of land near to what was called Frankstown, an old town, where he continued to reside until the Indians invaded that neighborhood, when his children all left him alone, he utterly refusing to leave his own house, and fled to Cambria County. This was in December, 1777. He continued alone in his house in very feeble health until some time in January, when he was taken to Fitter's Fort, where he died soon after. He was an elder of the Presbyterian church for about forty years.

He had ten children with his first wife. He had two sons and one daughter with his second.

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 565.

2 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 296.

3 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 762.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 510.

5 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 295.

6 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1156.

7 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 555.