Joseph Culbertson and Mary Breckinridge

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Husband Joseph Culbertson ^{1 2 3}

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           Born:  - Culbertson's Row, Ballygan, County Antrim, Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: Dec 1784 - Culbertson's Row, Franklin Co, PA 1
         Buried: 

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         Father: [Unk] Culbertson (      -      )
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary Breckinridge ¹

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            AKA: Mary Breckenridge 3
           Born: 
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         Father: [Father] Breckinridge (      -      )
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Children

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1 M Samuel Culbertson ^{3 4}

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           Born: Bef 1746
     Christened: 
           Died:  - Scott Co, KY
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Martha [Unk] (      -      ) 5

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2 M Col. Joseph Culbertson ^{3 4}

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           Born: 1753 ?
     Christened: 
           Died: Nov 1818 - Franklin Co, PA 3 4
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Elizabeth Wiley (      -      ) 6

         Spouse: Margaret [Unk] (      -1838) 4

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3 M Col. Robert Culbertson ^{3 4}

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           Born: 23 Jul 1755 - Culbertson's Row, Franklin Co, PA 3 4
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           Died: 26 Jul or Aug 1801 3 4
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Ann "Annie" Duncan (1755-1827/1827) 4 7
           Marr: 6 May 1778 4 7

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4 F Margaret Culbertson ^{4 8}

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           Born: 
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         Spouse: William Duncan (      -      ) 4 8

         Spouse: John Breckenridge (      -      ) 8

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5 F Martha Culbertson ^{3 4}

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           Born: 
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           Died: 1793 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 F Elizabeth Culbertson ^{4 8}

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           Born: 
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           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: James Breckinridge (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 16 Nov 1795 4

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7 F Mary Culbertson ^{4 8}

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           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1784
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Samuel Breckinridge (      -      ) 4 9

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Culbertson

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He was one of three Irish brothers, who settled in the Cumberland Valley in what is now Franklin County, Pennsylvania, at a very early period, certainly before 1743.
At the outbreak of the French and Indian war, he built a fort on his farm as a place of refuge for his neighbors. It is said that it stood in front of his house, near where the spring house later stood.

In 1730, three brothers, Alexander, Joseph and Samuel Culbertson, from near Ballymoyney, County Antrim, Ireland, emigrated to Pennsylvania and settled in Lancaster County. Long prior to the organization of Cumberland County, they located in what became Lurgan township, Franklin County, seven miles north of the present site of Chambersburg, and called their settlement "Culbertson's Row" after the home of their ancestors in the Province of Ulster, Ireland. [CRFP, 640]

He was always supposed to have been another brother of the three siblings of "Culbertson Row," Pa. He lived and died in the Row, whereas the third brother lived in Peters Tp., Cumberland County. He came to America with his cousins between 1728 and 1742. He received a warrant for his land in Lancaster Co., Pa. (No. 255), issued Feb., 1744, Pat. ret'd 1752, made his will in Letterkenny Tp., Franklin Co., Pa., Dec. 12, 1784; probated Jan. 1, 1795; wife died 1791. He was a first cousin of the three "Row" brothers. Samuel (Irish) of the Row calls him in his will "Cousin Joseph." His daughter, Margaret, at the time he made his will, was married to a Duncan but before 1794 Duncan had died and she had remarried to a Breckenridge, as shown by Settlement Record of Franklin Co., Pa. of estate of Joseph's daughter, Martha, as in this it says, "Paid £24 to each brother Samuel, Joseph, Robert, Mary Breckenridge (no doubt a niece and daughter of Mary), Margaret (Breckenridge), James and Ehzabeth Breckenridge. This Martha died intestate 1793.

1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 128.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 640.

3 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 254.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 129.

5 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 256.

6 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 263.

7 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 268.

8 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 255.

9 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 671.