James Chambers and [Unk] Hutchinson

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Husband James Chambers ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1746 - Ireland 3
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           Died: 1848 - Washington Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 3
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       Marriage:  - Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA

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Wife [Unk] Hutchinson ²

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Children

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1 M William Chambers ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 1777 - Washington Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 5
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           Died: 1851 3 5
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         Spouse: Fannie Bovard (1787-1864) 3 5

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2 F Jane Chambers ^{4 6 7}

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           Died: Bef 1883
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         Spouse: Judge James Bovard (1776-1853) 4 6 7 8
           Marr: Westmoreland Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - James Chambers

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Prior to the revolutionary war four Chambers brothers, James, Benjamin, George and Charles, emigrated from Ireland and settled in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where they lived for some time, long enough, in fact, to give their name to the place. About 1770 they moved to Westmoreland County, taking up a large tract of land in the townships of Washington and Allegheny. Benjamin, George and Charles did not long remain there, but James took up one thousand acres of government land and made his home in Washington township.

He was born in Ireland, immigrated to Pennsylvania and settled at Chambersburg, Franklin County. There he married and after his marriage he removed to (near Apollo) Washington township, Westmoreland County. He took up seven hundred acres of land, was captured by the Indians and kept prisoner on an island in Lake Erie until the close of the French and Indian war. After this the red men stole his horses, but his stentorian cries brought the soldiers from the block-house two miles away and they recovered them. [BHCWC 1890, 718]

1 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 236x.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 718.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 446.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1283.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 719.

6 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 369.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1081.

8 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 589.