Thomas Liggett and Elizabeth McPherson

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Husband Thomas Liggett ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 17 Jan 1779 - County Tyrone, Ireland 1
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           Died: 15 Dec 1854 - Wilkins Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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       Marriage: 31 Aug 1809 1

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Wife Elizabeth McPherson ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
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           Died: 10 Nov 1861 - ? Allegheny Co, PA 1
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Children

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1 M James [1] Liggett ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: in childhood
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M Thomas Liggett ¹

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           Born: Abt 1812
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           Died: 8 Nov 1851 1
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3 M William G. Liggett ¹

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           Born: Abt 1816
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           Died: 4 Jan 1837 - Pensacola, Escambia Co, FL 1
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4 F Sarah Liggett ⁴

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           Born: 
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           Died: Aft 1889
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         Spouse: Lawrence Peres Hitchcock (1811-      ) 5 6
           Marr: 1853 5

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5 M John Liggett ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 19 Jan 1821 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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           Died: 19 Mar 1905 2
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         Status: Twin

         Spouse: Frances B. Kelly (      -Aft 1908) 1 2 3
           Marr: 7 Jun 1853 - Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA 1 2

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6 M Joseph [1] Liggett ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: in childhood
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         Status: Twin

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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7 M James [2] Liggett ¹

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           Born: Abt 1823
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           Died: 4 Jun 1848 1
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8 M Joseph [2] Liggett ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: in childhood
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Liggett

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He was one of a family of two boys and four girls. The family immigrated from Ireland to America in 1791, and settled in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where the father died one year later. Thomas was then apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, which he mastered, and in 1802 moved to Pittsburgh, where he began building operations. He continued actively in the contracting business for many years. In the meantime, having faith in the future of Pittsburgh, he invested his savings in realty, notably the block on Smithfield street from Fifth avenue to Diamond alley, partly occupied by the Kaufmann building. This he bought in 1827, from Alexander Miller and John Thaw for $3,800, being about $15 per foot front, and afterward used as a lumber-yard. In 1836 he bought of Joseph McFarland twenty acres in Wilkins township (later the Twentieth ward of Pittsburgh). He called the place "Springwood," built a country residence and moved there in 1839. The old homestead was later occupied by John Liggett, and was his home for fifty years. Thomas Liggett served as prothonotary of Allegheny County.

He came to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from Ireland in 1801 and died at "Springwood", the family home in East End, Pittsburgh, in 1865. [CRFP, 1459]

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth McPherson

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from Scotland

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 272.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 307.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1459.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 452.

5 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 543.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 451.