Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Charles Craig and [Unk] Bird




Husband Charles Craig 1 2

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           Died: Summer, 1782 2
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         Father: Capt. William Craig (      -Bef 1772) 2 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Wilson (Abt 1721-      ) 2 3


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Wife [Unk] Bird

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         Father: Marks Bird (      -      ) 2
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Children

General Notes: Husband - Charles Craig


He was first lieutenant of Captain Miller's company, Colonel William Thompson's battalion of riflemen at Boston, 1775, promoted captain in November, 1775; later was captain in the First Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line, and received a wound in the battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1782. In the summer of 1782 shot himself, leaving a widow and one child (see an account of his deliberate suicide in Biddle's Autobiography, note to page 172).

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Sources


1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 743.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 113.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 742.


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