Charles Harah and Margaret Gilchrist

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Husband Charles Harah ¹

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           Born: 8 Feb 1744 2
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         Mother: Agnes [Unk] (      -1790) 3

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       Marriage: 1764 4

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Wife Margaret Gilchrist ⁴

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           Born: 4 Oct 1743 - Little Britain Twp, Lancaster Co, PA 4
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         Father: James Gilchrist (      -1782) 4
         Mother: Sarah [Unk] (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 F Sarah Harah ¹

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           Born: 1 Sep 1765 1
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2 F Agnes Harah ¹

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           Born: 19 Oct 1767 1
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3 M William Harah ¹

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           Born: 3 Sep 1770 1
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4 F Peggy Harah ¹

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           Born: 7 May 1773 1
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         Spouse: [Unk] Baldwin (      -      ) 1

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5 F Polly Harah ¹

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           Born: 7 Oct 1775 1
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6 M James Gilchrist Harah ¹

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           Born: 7 Jul 1779 1
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         Status: Twin

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7 M Alexander Harah ¹

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           Born: 7 Jul 1779 1
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         Status: Twin

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8 F Jean Harah ⁵

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           Born: 9 Apr 1782 - Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Capt. Robert Long (1774-1848) 6 7
           Marr: 29 Dec 1802 or Jan 1803 5

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9 M Samuel Harah ¹

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           Born: 7 Jun 1787 1
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           Died: 9 Feb 1861 1
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         Spouse: Jane Steel (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 13 Sep 1810 1

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General Notes: Husband - Charles Harah

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He was a resident of Little Britain township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, until the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. He was taxed for 150 acres in Little Britain in 1771; for 200 acres in 1772; and for 300 acres in 1773.

He was a private in Captain Robert Campbell's Company, in Colonel Thomas Porter's Battallion, Lancaster County Militia, which company, "Destined for the Camp in the Jersys", was "mustered and passed by the Committee of Observation and Inspection of Lancaster County, on the 15th Day of August 1776." This company participated in the battle of Long Island, two weeks later, and with other companies of the Flying Camp, and Associated Battallions, was disbanded in the Fall of 1776 or Spring of 1777.

Charles Harrah took the oath of allegiance required by the Act of Assembly of 1777, on July 1, 1777, in Little Britain township, Lancaster County. He was taxed for 370 acres of land in Rostraver township, Westmoreland County,
for the year 1783, and for 1786.

A family memoranda says that he served in the militia during the Whiskey
Insurrection from Elizabeth township, Allegheny County.

1 Warren S. Ely, Long Family of Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1909), Pg 36.

2 Warren S. Ely, Long Family of Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1909), Pg 33.

3 Warren S. Ely, Long Family of Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1909), Pg 32.

4 Warren S. Ely, Long Family of Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1909), Pg 34.

5 Warren S. Ely, Long Family of Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1909), Pg 13, 32.

6 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 347.

7 Warren S. Ely, Long Family of Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1909), Pg 13, 31.