William Pollons and Elizabeth Weaver

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Husband William Pollons ¹

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            AKA: William Pollins 1 2
           Born: 1785 2
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           Died: 1871 - Fayette Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Pennsville Baptist Cemetery, Bullskin Twp, Fayette Co, Pa

       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Hannah Hess (      -      ) 2

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Wife Elizabeth Weaver ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
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         Father: Frederick Weaver (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Margaret Leasure (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M David Solomon Pollins ^{1 2}

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           Born: 20 Jan 1812 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1887 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1 3
         Buried:  - Middle Presbyterian Church, Mt. Pleasant Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: Sarah Pippett (1815-1905/1906) 1 3
           Marr: 1840 1 3

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General Notes: Husband - William Pollons

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Although William Pollins' immediate ancestry is not known, it is believed that he was of English or possibly German descent. County records reveal a John Pollins in Westmoreland County in 1785. On February 28 of that year a warrant was issued to him for a tract of land in a loop of the Kiskiminetas River, where the Borough of Hyde Park was later situated. However, a second warrant having been issued on the same day for the same tract to a John Bratton, he instead of Pollins later acquired the patent. Whether this John Pollins was in the ancestral line of the family cannot be established with certainty, but because of the rarity of the name and from the fact that he was in the county at the date of the birth of William, it is altogether probable that he was the father of William, and the first ancestor of the name in the county. The tendency in a pioneer community to spell a name by sound rather than by fidelity to accurateness, when it did on a few occasions become necessary to write it, has made it difficult to trace the family back of this period. As early as 1780 an Isaac Pollings or Pawlins was a member of Captain Jeremiah Lochery's Ranging Company, organized in Westmoreland County for the defense of the frontiers. The "Pennsylvania Archives" disclose the name of numerous families in the Colonial history of the state named Pollin, Pollen, Pawlins, Pollands and Polhans, but inasmuch as no trace of the spelling "Pollins" can be found prior to 1785 it is believed that the spelling of the name took its present form about that time and that the Colonial Pennsylvanians, bearing a similarly sounding but differently spelled name, were the progenitors of the family.

The exact place of his birth is not known, yet he was in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Youngstown before he was twenty-five years of age. It is thus that his residence is indicated in his enlistment in the War of 1812. He served in that war in Captain McQuade's Company of the Pennsylvania Militia, 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade. Although a carpenter by trade, from 1825 to 1833 he owned a small farm on the old Greensburg-Latrobe Road near Latrobe.

He originally resided in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, but after his second marriage, removed to Fayette County, where he died at the age of eighty-four years.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Weaver

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She died a short time after her marriage and left only one child.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 879.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 265.

3 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 266.