Robert Agnew and Esther Carnegie

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Husband Robert Agnew ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1757 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 1840 - Moon Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 2 3
         Buried:  - Clinton, Findlay Twp, Allegheny Co, PA

       Marriage: 

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Wife Esther Carnegie ^{2 3}

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           Born:  - New Jersey
     Christened: 
           Died: 1792 3
         Buried:  - Clinton, Findlay Twp, Allegheny Co, PA

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Children

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1 F Sarah Agnew ^{2 3}

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            AKA: Cynthia Agnew 4
           Born:  - Canonsburg, Washington Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John Cooper (      -      ) 3 5

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Agnew

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Sources disagree as to his place of birth - one states New Jersey, another, Ireland.

He was born in Ireland and came to America, settling at Bennington, New Jersey. He enlisted at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was engaged in the battle of Three Rivers, Canada, June 8, 1776, taken prisoner at the battle and detained about three months on board prison-ship at Quebec. Was at Crawford's defeat at Sandusky, Ohio, June 5, 1782, by the Indians and the renegade, Simon Girty. When he came west he first settled in Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania, afterward moved to Beaver County, 1790. He was a private in the Revolutionary war in Captain John Lacey's Company, Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, under Colonel Anthony Wayne. He was also about four months a private under Captain John Nelson. Robert Agnew's name is found in Pennsylvania Archives, second series, volume 10, page 129.

He was a soldier in the Continental army, seeing a great deal of active service in that conflict. He fought under General Wayne in the battle of Three Rivers, under General Morgan at the battle of Cowpens, and at the battle of Three Rivers was captured by his British foes and confined for a considerable period on a prison ship. He also served under Colonel Crawford in his Indian campaign in Sandusky, Ohio. His martial duties at an end, he moved west to Washington County, Pennsylvania, settling near Canonsburg, later making his home on a large farm in Moon township, Allegheny County, where his death occurred, when he had attained a greatly advanced age. He was of Scotch descent, a Covenanter in religion.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 438.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 256.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 439.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 411.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 256, 411.