Dr. Thomas Ruston Kennedy and Jane Judith Ellicott

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Husband Dr. Thomas Ruston Kennedy ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1763 - Chester Co, PA 1
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           Died: 24 Mar 1813 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 1 3
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         Father: Dr. Samuel Kennedy (Abt 1730-1778) 4
         Mother: Sarah Ruston (      -      ) 4

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Jane Judith Ellicott ⁵

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           Born: 25 Jun 1778 - Baltimore, MD 5
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           Died: 27 Nov 1845 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 6
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         Father: Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820) 7
         Mother: Sarah Brown (      -      ) 7

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   Other Spouse: John Reynolds, Esq. (1782-1871) 8 9 10 - 1814 6

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Thomas Ruston Kennedy

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He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, and studied medicine under Dr. Morgan, of Philadelphia. In a letter of Governor Mifflin, Nov. 17, 1794, to Maj. Denny, who had charge of troops "to relieve the garrison at Le Beuf" (near Lake Erie), he writes: "I have appointed Dr. Thomas Ruston Kennedy, a young man of excellent character, surgeon of your Battalion. You will be pleased to receive him, and consider him as my friend." Dr. Kennedy was subsequently surgeon to the troops under charge of Andrew Ellicott, who constructed a fort at Presque Isle, and passed his life in successive public posts of honor and responsibility, and one of whose daughters subsequently became the wife of Dr. Kennedy. On the organization of Crawford County, in 1800, Dr. Kennedy was by Governor McKean appointed prothonotary and clerk of the courts, held by him until 1809. He was a man of great energy, and "affected more the early progress of Western Pennsylvania than any other man."

The first prothonotary and clerk of court in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. In 1794 he was appointed surgeon of Captain Denny's command at Fort Le Boeuf, and located at Meadville the following year, being doubtless the first physician to settle in northwestern Pennsylvania. He was a gentleman of great energy, being identified with all of the leading enterprises of his day in that portion of the state.
He erected mills on the Conewango, in Chautauqua County, New York, at the point on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad named "Kennedy," in honor of his public spirit and to perpetuate his memory.

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General Notes: Wife - Jane Judith Ellicott

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She was the mother of five children by her first husband and of four by her second.

1 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 620.

2 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 303, 379, 761.

3 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 379.

4 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 619.

5 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 715.

6 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 761.

7 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 714.

8 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 564.

9 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 760.

10 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 588.