Capt. Joseph Sherer and Mary McCracken

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Husband Capt. Joseph Sherer ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 1731 - Ireland 1
     Christened: 
           Died: Dec 1776 1 5
         Buried:  - Old Paxtang Church, Dauphin Co, PA

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         Father: Samuel Sherer (      -      ) 1 4 6
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Mary McClure (      -      ) 1 2 3 5 - 6 Feb 1759 1 2 3 5

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Wife Mary McCracken ^{5 6}

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Joseph Sherer

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He was about four years old when his parents came to America. He secured a fair English education and was brought up to the life of a frontiersman, that of a farmer. During the French and Indian war, he served as a non-commissioned officer, and was in active service as a scout or ranger on the frontiers. When the thunders of the Revolution reverberated along the valley of the Susquehanna, with all his Scotch-Irish and German neighbors, he entered into the contest for liberty. In 1775 and 1776, he was in command of one of the companies of Colonel James Burd's battalion of Associators. Colonel Burd's farm at Tinian joined the Sherer homestead, and the two patriots were intimate friends. Captain Sherer was a member of the Committee of Observation for the county of Lancaster, and was chosen by the vote of the people a member of the first Constitutional Convention of the state of Pennsylvania, which met at Philadelphia, on the 15th of July, 1776. While in attendance on this representative body of the Revolutionary era, he took ill, returned home, and died on the 1st or 2d of December following. His remains were interred in the burial ground of old Paxtang church, of which he was a consistent member.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary McCracken

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from Northumberland Co, PA

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 536.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 133, 175.

3 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1891), Pg 90.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 70.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 71.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 175.