Joseph Chambers and Margaret Rippey

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Husband Joseph Chambers ¹

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           Born: 1756 - Chamber's Mills, Franklin Co, PA 2
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           Died: 28 Dec 1811 2
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         Father: Col. Benjamin Chambers (Abt 1708-1788) 3 4
         Mother: Jane Williams (1725-1795) 5

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Wife Margaret Rippey ⁶

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           Born: 1769 2
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           Died: 4 Jul 1820 2
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         Father: Capt. William Rippey (1741-1819) 7 8 9
         Mother: Margaret Finley (      -      ) 6

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Children

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1 F Margaret Chambers ²

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         Spouse: Rev. John McKnight (1789-1857) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Chambers

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He was the first of the children of Col. Benjamin Chambers whose birthplace was within the stockade known as Fort Chambers. As a younger son he was kept at home during the Revolution, but was enrolled in Capt. William Findley's company, Cumberland County Associators. He owned an extensive plantation on the Falling Spring, east of Chambersburg, and extending from the North to the East Point.

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

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 8.

3 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 272, 625.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 181.

5 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 625.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 8, 54.

7 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 8, 53.

8 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 836.

9 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 34.