James Loudon and Christiana [Unk]

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Husband James Loudon ¹

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           Born:  - ? Scotland
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           Died: 22 Sep 1783 2
         Buried:  - Bull's Cemetery, near Ickesburg, Perry Co, PA

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         Father: [Father] Loudon (      -      )
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Wife Christiana [Unk] ²

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           Born: 
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           Died: 21 Jun 1807 2
         Buried:  - Bull's Cemetery, near Ickesburg, Perry Co, PA

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Children

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1 M Archibald Loudon, Esq. ³

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           Born: 24 Aug 1754 - at sea, Atlantic Ocean 2
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           Died: 12 Aug 1840 4
         Buried:  - Old Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA

         Spouse: Mary Carson (1761-1795) 5

         Spouse: Hannah Gustine (      -1822) 3

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2 M John Loudon ²

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3 F Margaret Loudon ²

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4 M Matthew Loudon ²

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           Born:  - Raccoon Valley, PA
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           Died:  - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA
         Buried:  - Old Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA

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5 F Elizabeth Loudon ²

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6 F Christiana Loudon ²

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General Notes: Husband - James Loudon

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He and his younger brother, Matthew, came from Scotland to America in 1754. According to some accounts there was also a brother John. These three brothers settled in the Raccoon Valley, in what is now Perry County, Pennsylvania, early in 1755. They were soon afterwards driven away by the Indians, and came to the south of the Kittatinny Mountains, where they remained for five years, waiting for the Indian hostilities to subside. When peace was restored, James and John ventured back to their possessions in the Raccoon Valley, but their brother Matthew, having formed new alliances, remained in the Cumberland Valley.

In 1754 he and his wife came from Scotland to America. On the 24th of August of that year, while the ship in which they came was in the Gulf stream, their first child, a son, was born. They named him Archibald.
The family landed in Baltimore, Maryland, but did not long sojourn there. He was a printer and probably worked at that trade while in Baltimore, but soon found it advantageous to change his occupation and his location. He moved inland toward the frontier and his family became the Loudon family which for many years figured prominently in the affairs of southern Pennsylvania.
The region to the north of the Kittatinny range of mountains having been purchased from the Indians in 1754, that desirable section was thrown open to settlers. James Loudon accepted the invitation and early in 1755 located in that part of the Shearman's Valley which afterward came to be designated as the Raccoon Valley. Here he preempted land, built a cabin and prepared to make a home for himself and his family. But he was not permitted to long remain in his new abiding place. Braddock's defeat on July 9, 1755, let loose the Indians of the western Pennsylvania woods, and with torch and scalping knife they descended upon every settlement along the entire frontier. The Loudons, with such goods as they could carry on the backs of their horses, fled into the Cumberland Valley, where they remained for five years. Peace having become fairly well established by that time, they ventured back to their frontier possessions, and busied themselves at rebuilding their home and improving their lands. But they returned only to be driven away again. In the summer of 1763, two years after their return, the fires of Indian hostility again swept along the entire western border and the Tuscarora and Shearman valleys again suddenly emptied their populations into the Cumberland Valley. The Loudons were again compelled to flee for their lives, this time to remain away for two years. They then returned for the third time and nearly all of them remained in the Raccoon Valley in peace and comfort to the end of their days.

1 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 27.

2 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 818.

3 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 182.

4 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 821.

5 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 820.