George McDonald and [Unk] Gordon

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Husband George McDonald ¹

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           Born:  - Scotland
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           Died: 25 Nov 1811 - ? Washington Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - West Alexander, Washington Co, PA

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   Other Spouse: Barbara McDonald (      -      ) 1

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Wife [Unk] Gordon ¹

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Children

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1 M William McDonald ¹

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General Notes: Husband - George McDonald

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His ancestors were the Lords of the Isles off the west of Scotland for cent­uries before these islands became subject to the king of Scotland. He was related to Flora McDonald, the heroine of two dynasties and two continents. Flora McDonald in her youth saved the life of the last of the Stewarts. She afterward emigrated to North Carolina. Her husband and son being made officers of the Highland Regiment raised for the defense of their King, she gave her five sons and son in-law for the cause, accompanied them to camp, and encouraged them to fight for their King.

He was a native of Scotland, from either Rosshire or Sutherlandshire. He immigrated to America in the good ship “Janet,” in 1773, and located on the Potomac near Mount Vernon. After the close of the war for Independence, he with his family crossed the Alleghenies, and purchased a farm on Chartiers creek, Washington County, Pennsylvania. There he remained from 1780 to 1792, when he purchased and moved to a farm in East Finley township, south of Claysville, where he passed the remaining years of his life. He was a most devotedly pious man, and act­ive in the building up of the church in his region. A Presbyterian of the regular Scotch type, and among the founders of the Presbyterian Church of West Alexander, he never let worldly affairs inter­fere with his religious duties. Not only was he punctual in attendance on the means of grace, but watchful for the peace and prosperity of Zion. He was known as the “Scotch singer,” and often led the people in the service of song.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 233.