"Squire" James Ewing and Mary McKown

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Husband "Squire" James Ewing ¹

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           Born: Abt 1733 - Cecil Co, MD
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           Died: 20 Feb 1825 - Allegheny Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Montour U. P. Church, near Oakdale, Allegheny Co, PA

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         Father: John Ewing (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )

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Wife Mary McKown ⁴

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            AKA: Mary McCown 2
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           Died: 30 Nov 1825 2
         Buried:  - Montour U. P. Church, near Oakdale, Allegheny Co, PA

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Children

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1 M William Ewing ^{3 4}

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2 M Alexander Ewing ¹

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         Spouse: Martha Larimer (      -      ) 5

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3 M "Major" Samuel Ewing ^{4 6}

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           Born: Abt 1775
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           Died: 1821 6
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         Spouse: Letitia "Letty" McCurdy (1774-Abt 1885) 4 6
           Marr: 18 Nov 1793 6

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4 F Elizabeth Ewing ^{8 9}

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            AKA: Martha Ewing 7
           Born: Abt 1777 - Allegheny Co, PA
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           Died: 2 Sep 1819 - Washington Co, PA 10
         Buried:  - Montour U. P. Church, near Oakdale, Allegheny Co, PA

         Spouse: Mark Kelso (1769-1853) 11 12
           Marr: 4 Feb 1796 13

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5 M John Ewing ⁴

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6 M James Ewing ⁴

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7 F [Unk] Ewing

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         Spouse: [Unk] Boyd (      -      ) 4

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8 F Annie Ewing ²

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         Spouse: Maj.  Walker (      -      ) 4

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9 F [Unk] Ewing

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         Spouse: [Unk] Fryor (      -      ) 4

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10 F Esther Ewing

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General Notes: Husband - "Squire" James Ewing

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In or about the year 1775, he came to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and soon thereafter moved to Robinson township, Allegheny County, to near where the later town of Walker's Mills was located. He purchased a tract of land on Robinson's run, extending on the east and west side of the creek from the present towns of Mansfield to Walker's Mills. In this tract were some nine hundred acres, to which he afterward made additional purchases, owning at one time about two thousand acres.

He was the first recorder for the Court of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, which was organized in 1788 from a part of Washington County and a part of Westmoreland County.

It does not seem that James Ewing was in the revolutionary army, but it does appear that before the war took place, he joined a militia company and received a commission as lieutenant from Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, probably about 1770, when the claims of Virginia were most stongly asserted over the region at the head of the Ohio River.

The Ewings owned slaves whom they freed about the year 1800 and gave to each a piece of land and log house.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary McKown

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She may have been the daughter of William McComb, a Presbyterian elder and first coroner of Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1781.

1 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 496, 636.

2 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 128.

3 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 130.

4 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 496.

5 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 637.

6 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 504.

7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 372.

8 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 575, 944.

9 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 96.

10 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 117.

11 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 372, 575, 944.

12 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 112.

13 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 114.