Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Michael Kuhn and Catharine McClarty


Husband Michael Kuhn 1 2 3 4 

           Born: 5 Apr 1747 - New Jersey 4 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 Jan 1820 - ? Plum Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 4 5
         Buried: 


         Father: Adam Kuhn (1700-      ) 1 2 3
         Mother: Eve [Unk] (      -      ) 2


       Marriage:  - New Jersey

Wife Catharine McClarty 1 4 5 

           Born: 5 Mar 1743 4 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 12 Jul 1823 4 5
         Buried: 


         Father: Archibald McClarty (      -      ) 5
         Mother:


Children
1 F Eve Kuhn 4 6 

           Born: 26 Jun 1769 - ? Derry Twp, Cumberland (later Mifflin) Co, PA 4 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Thomas Elrod (      -      ) 6

2 M Archibald Coon 8 

            AKA: [Unk] Coon,7 Archibald Kuhn 1 4 6
           Born: 28 Aug 1771 - Derry Twp, Cumberland (later Mifflin) Co, PA 1 4 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 13 Dec or 17 Dec 1831 - Plum Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 6 9
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Martha Stotler (1781-1818) 6 10 11
           Marr: 16 May 1799 - Plum Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 6

         Spouse: Margaret Rea (Abt 1785-1863) 6 12
           Marr: 20 Sep 1825 12

3 M Adam Kuhn 4 13 14 

           Born: 13 Jun 1774 - Derry Twp, Cumberland (later Mifflin) Co, PA 4 14
     Christened: 
           Died: 23 Apr 1851 15
         Buried:  - Long Run Presbyterian Church, North Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: Mary Deborah McJunkin (1774-1858) 14
           Marr: 1797

4 M Samuel Kuhn 4 16 

           Born: 20 Mar 1777 - Northumberland (later Lycoming) Co, PA 4 16
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Jane Drennen (      -      ) 17
           Marr: 1804 17

5 M John Kuhn 4 19 

            AKA: John Coon 18
           Born: 28 Dec 1779 - Dauphin Co, PA 4 19
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 Nov 1859 20
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Margaret Brandon (1782-1844) 18 19 20
           Marr: 1799 19 20

6 F Mary Kuhn 4 19 

           Born: 25 Aug 1782 4 19
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Stephen Hall (      -      ) 19 21

         Spouse: [Unk] Barber (      -      ) 19

7 M David Kuhn 4 19 

           Born: 9 Oct or 9 Dec 1785 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 19 22
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 May 1848 - ? Allegheny Co, PA 4
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Elizabeth Cowan (1778-1862) 19 21
           Marr: 2 May 1805 19

8 F Nancy Kuhn 23 24 

           Born: 16 Oct 1788 23 24
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Nov 1881 23
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Thomas Black (1787-1819) 23 24

General Notes: Husband - Michael Kuhn


He married a Scotch lady, and lived in the Susquehanna valley of Pennsylvania for a number of years. The Indians being very troublesome there at that time, and being burnt out by them, he moved down the valley past where Harrisburg now stands some ten or fifteen miles, and settled near a stream called Swatara. There he remained until about 1782 or 1783, and then came to western Pennsylvania and located near Ellrod's fording on the Youghiogheny river until 1788, when he moved to what is now Plum township, Allegheny County, and bought a farm, on which he and his wife lived during the rest of their lives. He was by occupation a weaver. He had five sons and three daughters. In faith he was a Presbyterian and all his children belonged to some branch of the Presbyterian Church.
He died at the age of seventy-five years.

Soon after his marriage, he settled in Juniata County, Pennsylvania, and afterwards on the Susquehanna river, in the Wyoming settlement, and there several of his children were born. The family was kept constantly in terror by the Indians. On one occasion two of the children went to the spring for water, through a pathway in the woods, in which were concealed a number of the dusky foe, who permitted them to pass unharmed, as was afterwards learned. At the time of the awful Wyoming massacre the Indians burned the cabins of the Kuhn and McClarty families, and they concluded to leave that part of the state. With their families, and such of their effects as could be transported on horseback, they traversed the Susquehanna river to Harris' Ferry (the present site of Harrisburg), there crossed the stream, and traveled eastward about twenty miles, and settled on Swatara Creek at Middletown, where they remained until the close of the Revolutionary war. They then removed in 1783 to what is now Allegheny County, near the Youghiogheny river, at Elrode's Ferry, and a few years later to what is now Plum township, where they lived a few years upon a rented farm. Before he had brought his wife and small children to this place it was the habit of Mr. Kuhn and his two sons, Archibald and Adam, nearly grown, to come to the new farm to put in the spring crop. On one such occasion the father and sons lay down at night on the cabin floor, and at a late hour heard someone prowling about; knowing that Indians might be expected, Mr. Kuhn spoke in a loud voice, "Boys, are the guns loaded?" The footsteps were not heard again. Fearing that the Indians might return they got up and concealed themselves in a large clump of trees some distance away , and kept watch till morning, and heard the Indians disappearing. It was believed that the Indians supposed themselves to be pursued. In one of their migrations it is related that the Kuhn and McClarty families came to a point where the road divided, and a discussion arose as to which branch they should take. All were agreed but a deaf and dumb man, who positively refused to go that way . At last they agreed to take the course he was so decided upon, and it was afterwards learned that if they had done otherwise, as they first inclined, that they would have fallen into an Indian ambush and perished. Mr. Kuhn remained on the rented farm until he bought property of his own from Colonel Hugh Davidson in the same neighborhood, and upon which he lived the remainder of his life, and there some of his children were born and married.
From early youth he was a pronounced Presbyterian, and a man of strong traits of character.

General Notes: Wife - Catharine McClarty


Born and reared in America, she had been trained to the strictest Presbyterian rule; she had a thorough knowledge of the Bible, taking great delight in reading it over and over, and making constant study of the Confession of Faith and the Catechism.

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Sources

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 451.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 418.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 464.

4 Helen Kuhn (Jackson) Black, The Kuhn (Coon) Family of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Wichita, KS: Self-published, 1956), Pg 9.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 465.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 466.

7 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 421.

8 Helen Kuhn (Jackson) Black, The Kuhn (Coon) Family of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Wichita, KS: Self-published, 1956), Pg 103.

9 Helen Kuhn (Jackson) Black, The Kuhn (Coon) Family of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Wichita, KS: Self-published, 1956), Pg 9, 106.

10 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 421, 451.

11 Helen Kuhn (Jackson) Black, The Kuhn (Coon) Family of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Wichita, KS: Self-published, 1956), Pg 10.

12 Helen Kuhn (Jackson) Black, The Kuhn (Coon) Family of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Wichita, KS: Self-published, 1956), Pg 106.

13 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 315.

14 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 467.

15 Helen Kuhn (Jackson) Black, The Kuhn (Coon) Family of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Wichita, KS: Self-published, 1956), Pg 108.

16 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 470.

17 Helen Kuhn (Jackson) Black, The Kuhn (Coon) Family of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Wichita, KS: Self-published, 1956), Pg 11.

18 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 462.

19 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 471.

20 Helen Kuhn (Jackson) Black, The Kuhn (Coon) Family of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Wichita, KS: Self-published, 1956), Pg 12.

21 Helen Kuhn (Jackson) Black, The Kuhn (Coon) Family of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Wichita, KS: Self-published, 1956), Pg 13.

22 Helen Kuhn (Jackson) Black, The Kuhn (Coon) Family of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Wichita, KS: Self-published, 1956), Pg 9, 115.

23 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 472.

24 Helen Kuhn (Jackson) Black, The Kuhn (Coon) Family of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Wichita, KS: Self-published, 1956), Pg 14.

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