Col. Robert McPherson and Agnes Miller

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Husband Col. Robert McPherson ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 10 Jun 1730 - Ireland 4
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           Died: 19 Feb 1789 1 2
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         Father: Robert McPherson (      -1749) 1 2 4
         Mother: Janet McElwee (      -1767) 4

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       Marriage: 11 Jun 1751 4

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Wife Agnes Miller ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 16 Apr 1732 4
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           Died: 12 Sep 1802 1
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         Father: Robert Miller (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 M Lt. William McPherson ²

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           Born: Abt 1757
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           Died: 2 Aug 1832 - Gettysburg, Adams Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Mary Carrick (      -      ) 2

         Spouse: Sarah Reynolds (      -      ) 2

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2 F Nancy McPherson ⁵

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            AKA: Agnes McPherson 2 3
           Born: 1765 3
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           Died: 9 Nov 1827 3
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         Spouse: Andrew McDowell, M.D. (1761/1762-1846/1846) 2 5 6
           Marr: 9 May 1793 3

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3 F Mary McPherson ^{2 7}

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         Spouse: Alexander Russell (      -      ) 2 7

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4 F Janet McPherson ²

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         Spouse: Maj. David Grier (      -      ) 2

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5 F Elizabeth McPherson ²

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         Spouse: James Riddle, Esq. (      -      ) 2

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6 M Robert McPherson ²

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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7 M John Bayard McPherson ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Sarah Smith (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Col. Robert McPherson

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He was educated at the Academy at New London, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and was for thirty years an active and influential citizen, and filled many important positions in York County. He was auditor in 1755 and 1767; commissioner in 1756; sheriff in 1762; assemblyman in 1765-'67 and 1781-'84. He was a member for York County of the provincial conference of committees, which met in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, June 18, 1776, and was also a member of the Constitutional Convention, which in July, 1776, formed the first constitution of the State of Pennsylvania. He was captain in Gen. Forbes' expedition to reduce Fort Du Quesne in 1758, and served as colonel in the Revolutionary Army, and, after expiration of term, as an assistant-commissary of supplies.
He was one of the charter trustees of Dickinson College.

He was educated at Rev. Dr. Alison's school at New London. In 1755 he was appointed treasurer of York County, and commissioner in 1756. The latter office he resigned on accepting a commission as captain in the Third Battalion of the Provincial forces, May 10, 1758, serving under Gen. Forbes on his expedition against Fort Duquesne. From 1762 to 1765 he was sheriff of the county, and from 1764 to the beginning of the Revolution was a justice of the peace under the Proprietary, and was re-commissioned under the first Constitution. From 1765 to 1767 he was a member of the Provincial Assembly, and in 1768 was appointed county treasurer to fill a vacancy. At the outset of the war of independence he was commissioned a colonel of one of the York County battalions of associators; was a member of the Provincial Conference which met at Carpenters' Hall, June 18, 1776, and represented the county in the convention of July 15th following. During that and the following year he was in active duty in the Jerseys and in the subsequent campaign around Philadelphia. After his return from the field he was employed as the purchasing commissary for the western end of York County. From 1781 to 1785 he served as a member of the Assembly. Col. McPherson was one of the charter members of the corporation of Dickinson College, and continued to act as a trustee until his death. He was an elder in the Upper Marsh Creek Presbyterian Church, which was organized in 1740, or within two years of the beginning of the settlement. His death, from paralysis, occurred on the 19th of February, 1789, his wife surviving him until Sept. 12, 1802. [HLC 1883, 317]

He had nine children-six daughters and three sons. Of the former two died in infancy.

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General Notes: Wife - Agnes Miller

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from the Cumberland Valley, PA

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 317.

2 —, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 364.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 89.

4 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 45.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 370.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 88.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 393.