William McAlister and Sarah Thomson
Husband William McAlister 1 2
AKA: John McAllister 3 Born: 1745 2 Christened: Died: 7 Jul 1819 2 4 Buried:
Father: Hugh McAlister ( -Abt 1769) 5 Mother: [Unk] Harbison ( - ) 5
Marriage: 30 Jun 1772 2 4
Wife Sarah Thomson 6
AKA: Sarah Thompson 3 4 Born: 1748 2 Christened: Died: 3 Jan 1814 2 Buried: - Brown's Mills, Juniata Co, PA
Father: John Thomson ( -1779) 7 Mother: [Unk] Greenlee ( - ) 8
Children
1 M Hugh McAlister 4 9
Born: 1773 4 9 Christened: Died: while young Buried:
2 M William McAlister 4 9
Born: 28 Aug 1780 4 9 Christened: Died: 14 Apr 1861 9 Buried: - McAlisterville, Juniata Co, PASpouse: Mary "Polly" McCully (1787-1847) 9 Marr: 30 Jan 1810 9
3 M John Bell "Squire John" McAlister 4 10
Born: 12 Apr 1782 4 11 Christened: Died: 14 Apr 1847 11 Buried:Spouse: Jane Thompson (1777-1850) 4 10 Marr: 28 Oct 1806 12
4 M Isaac Thompson McAlister 4 13
Born: 7 May 1784 4 13 Christened: Died: 5 Jan 1829 - near Cincinnati, OH 13 Buried:Spouse: Eleanor Wilson ( - ) 4 13 Marr: 21 May 1815 13
5 F Mary McAlister 4 16
AKA: Mary McAllister,14 Mary McCallister 15 Born: 4 Aug 1786 4 14 16 Christened: Died: 2 May 1834 14 Buried:Spouse: Thomas Bell (1775-1825) 4 15 17 Marr: 1802 14
6 M Robert Harbison McAlister 4 18
Born: 1788 or 19 Jan 1797 4 19 Christened: Died: 1859 - Juniata Co, PA 19 Buried: - Brown's Mills, Juniata Co, PASpouse: Mary Crawford (Abt 1801-1858) 4 18
General Notes: Husband - William McAlister
Revolutionary War: In 1776, he enlisted in Captain John Hamilton's forces, which joined Washington's forces the day after the capture of the Hessians at Trenton.
At the age of 18 years in July, 1763, he was one of a party of twelve who pursued and fought a band of twenty-five Indians who invaded Tuscarora Valley. He came to Lost Creek Valley, in Juniata County, Pennsylvania in 1766, with his brother and others, on their return to their farms after the Indian troubles had ceased. He settled on a tract at the head of the Cocolamus, which was taken up by John Gallagher, June 4, 1762. William McAlister purchased, in 1766, and in the same year obtained an order of survey for, a tract called "Addition." In 1812 he obtained a warrant for seventy-three acres south and west. He also purchased other tracts of land in the neighborhood. He settled on the Gallagher tract. He joined Captain John Hamilton's company during the Revolution. Before leaving home he made his will, dated December 2, 1776, leaving his estate to his wife, Sarah, and only son, Hugh, then three years old. He went to the army and returned in safety. He cut his name out of the will he had written with his own hand. He was one of the party who gathered May 21, 1780, to organize to protect the frontier. In 1789 he built at the place that was later known as Brown's Mills a grist-mill, saw-mill and distillery, and in 1790 was assessed on one hundred and fifty acres of land, the mills, distillery and a slave. He lived at the farm until his death.
1 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 834, 835.
2 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 177.
3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 1200.
4 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 835.
5 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 153, 159, 177.
6 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 14, 177.
7 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 14.
8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 1199.
9 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 178.
10 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 155, 173, 180.
11 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 173, 180.
12 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 180.
13 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 183.
14 Raymond Martin Bell, The Bell Family of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania (Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1941), Pg 49.
15 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 650.
16 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 191.
17 Raymond Martin Bell, The Bell Family of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania (Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1941), Pg 26, 49.
18 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 155, 195.
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Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 195.
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