Andrew Mitchel and Margaret Alexander

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Husband Andrew Mitchel ^{1 2}

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            AKA: John Mitchell 3
           Born: 1 Nov 1754 - Dublin, Ireland 1 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 21 Dec 1825 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 2
         Buried: 

       Marriage: Jun 1795 1 2

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Wife Margaret Alexander ^{4 5 6 7}

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           Born: 1754 - Sherman's Valley, Cumberland (later Perry) Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 22 Dec 1835 1
         Buried:  - Presbyterian Cemetery, Mifflintown, Juniata Co, PA

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         Father: Hugh Alexander (1724-1777) 6 8 9 10 11
         Mother: Martha Edmiston (1734-      ) 7 12 13

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   Other Spouse: Capt. John Hamilton (1749-1793) 5 14 15 16 - Dec 1772 4

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Children

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1 F Mary Gordon Mitchel ¹

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           Born: 29 Apr 1796 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: while young
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Jane Alexander Mitchel ¹

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           Born: 17 Jul 1799 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Dr. Thomas Whiteside (      -      ) 17
           Marr: 29 Nov 1819 18

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew Mitchel

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He was born in Dublin, Ireland; emigrated to America in 1774; served as a Lieutenant in the Revolution; settled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

He was a native of Dublin, Ireland, emigrated to America in 1774, on the eve of the Revolution. Espousing the cause of the colonies, he took position as an officer among the defenders of his adopted country. He was a gentleman of finished education and excellent moral training,-having been destined for a clerical life,-adopted teaching as an avocation, and in the dearth of preceptors after the peace of 1783, had gratifying success as an educator. He came to Harrisburg in 1791, and in June, 1795, married Margaret, the widow of Capt. John Hamilton. He was one of the burgesses of the borough in 1799, and served a number of years in the Town Council. Mr. Mitchel was an officer and early member of the Presbyterian Church, and greatly assisted in its first organization.

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Alexander

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On the death of her first husband, she found herself a handsome and wealthy widow, thirty-five years of age, with six minor children. After a widowhood of two or three years, she too, by a singular coincidence, married a Mr. Mitchel, but not a kinsman of the man whom her mother-in-law had married thirty years before.

Summer and winter she took a cup of tea at daylight. Unusually early, tidy and active in her habits, of good stature, sound health, even temper and "beautiful complexion."

1 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 29.

2 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 521.

3 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 122.

4 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 27.

5 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 461, 499.

6 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 22.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 30.

8 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 15.

9 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 174.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 590.

11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1014.

12 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 18.

13 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1015.

14 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 184.

15 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 18.

16 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 28.

17 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 39.

18 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 40.