Matthew Allison, Esq. and Sarah Mahaffey

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Husband Matthew Allison, Esq. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 15 Sep 1756 - Ireland 2
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         Father: Archibald Allison (1718-1783) 1 4 5
         Mother: Mary Kennedy (1730-1808) 1 5

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   Other Spouse: Catherine Lamb (      -      ) 2 3

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   Other Spouse: Sarah Baine (      -      ) 2

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Wife Sarah Mahaffey ^{2 3}

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1 F Margaret Allison ³

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         Spouse: Joseph Johnston (      -      ) 3

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2 M William Allison ³

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3 F Mary Allison ³

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4 F Sarah Allison ³

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5 F [Unk] Allison

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         Spouse: James Hutchinson (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Matthew Allison, Esq.

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He was a young man at the time of the ar­rival of the family in America, and the Revo­lutionary war breaking out soon afterward he served as a soldier on the side of freedom. Later he settled in the Nittany Valley, Pennsylvania, and be­came an influential pioneer citizen of Centre County, being one of its first commissioners.

He enlisted in the Revolutionary army at the age of nineteen, and at the close of the war he received his pay in what was called “Continental money,” which afterward proved to be worthless. He married and became the father of four children. Removing from Cumber­land to Nittany Valley, he there purchased 200 acres of land, where he opened up a farm. In 1800 he was appointed by the governor of Pennsylvania to run the boundary line for a new county which he named “Centre County,” and for many terms served as commissioner of the same.

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah Mahaffey

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from Cumberland Co, PA

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

2 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 967.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 504.

4 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 966.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 196.