William Mateer and Margaret Carothers

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Husband William Mateer ^{1 2}

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            AKA: William McTeer 3
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         Father: Samuel Mateer (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Margaret [Unk] (Abt 1702-1802) 1

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Wife Margaret Carothers ¹

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Children

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1 M William Mateer, Jr. ¹

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2 F Alice "Elsie" Mateer ¹

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           Born: 15 Jul 1767 1
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           Died: 8 Aug 1828 - Rossville, York Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Maj. William Ross (1760-1821) 4
           Marr: May 1790 1

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3 F Jean Mateer ¹

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            AKA: Jane McTeer 3
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4 M James Mateer ¹

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         Spouse: Elizabeth Ross (Abt 1768-      ) 4

         Spouse: Ann Bailey (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - William Mateer

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He came with his parents and four brothers from County Down, Ireland, and settled in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, not far from where the town of Mechanicsburg was later located.

He was a fifer in the Third Pennsylvania Artillery.

1 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 56.

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

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 265.

4 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 50.