Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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[Unk] Breckenbridge




Husband [Unk] Breckenbridge

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Jul 1779 - Huntingdon Co, PA 1
         Buried: 
       Marriage: 



Wife

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Children
1 M John Breckenbridge 1

           Born: Abt 1761
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           Died: 
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2 M Thomas Breckenbridge 1

           Born: Abt 1763
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3 F [Unk] Breckenbridge 1

           Born: Abt 1765
     Christened: 
           Died: Jul 1779 - Huntingdon Co, PA 1
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Did Not Marry


4 F [Unk] Breckenbridge

           Born: Abt 1776
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           Died: 
         Buried: 



5 F Elizabeth Breckenbridge 1 2

           Born: Abt 1779
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         Spouse: William Meek (      -      ) 1 2



General Notes: Husband - [Unk] Breckenbridge


In July, 1779, the Breckenbridge family, consisting of father, mother, two sons, John and Thomas, aged eighteen and sixteen years, a daughter of fourteen, another of three and Elizabeth, then an infant, resided in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, three miles southeast of McConnellstown on the road from Huntingdon to Bedford; John and Thomas had left the house when the Indians attacked it, killing the father and the eldest daughter in the spring house. The mother, with her baby and other daughter made her escape.

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 278.

2 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 213.


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