Joshua Elder and Sarah McAllister

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Husband Joshua Elder ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 9 Mar 1745 - Paxtang Twp, Dauphin Co, PA 2 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 5 Dec 1820 - Paxtang, Dauphin Co, PA 2 4
         Buried:  - Paxtang Church Cemetery, Paxtang, Dauphin Co, PA

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         Father: Rev. John Elder (1706-1792) 5 6
         Mother: Mary Baker (1715-1749) 3 7

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       Marriage: 23 May 1783 4

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   Other Spouse: Mary "Polly" McAllister (1753-1782) 1 2 3 - 16 Sep 1773 4

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Wife Sarah McAllister ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1762 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 6 Dec 1807 2 4
         Buried:  - Paxtang Church Cemetery, Paxtang, Dauphin Co, PA

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Joshua Elder

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He was a farmer by occupation; served in the Provincial forces during the French and Indian war; one of the sub-lieutenants of the county of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during the Revolution, and a justice of the peace. Under the Constitution of 1790, he was appointed, by Governor Mifflin, one of the associate judges of the county of Dauphin. Governor McKean, a warm personal friend, commissioned him prothonotary January 5, 1800, which position he filled nine years; was afterwards chosen chief burgess of the borough of Harrisburg, in 1810.

He was a farmer by occupation. During the frontier troubles of 1763-64 he was in active military service. When the Revolution broke out he was a leader on the patriot side, and appointed one of the sub-lieutenants of Lancaster County, as also a justice of the peace, serving until the close of the war. He was a prominent advocate for the formation of the county of Dauphin, and under the Constitution of 1790 was commissioned by Governor Mifflin one of the associate judges of the courts, Aug. 17, 1791. The appointment, however, of Sheriff Clunie to the bench on the resignation of David Harris, who had removed to Baltimore, so incensed him that he peremptorily resigned. He was appointed by Governor McKean prothonotary Jan. 5, 1800, a position he filled by reappointment until Feb. 6, 1809. In March, 1810, he was elected burgess of the borough of Harrisburg.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 503.

2 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 482.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 191.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 193.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 535.

6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 187.

7 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 622.