Maj. John Polhemus and Susannah Hart

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Husband Maj. John Polhemus ¹

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Wife Susannah Hart ¹

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         Father: John Hart (1708-1779) 1 2 3 4 5
         Mother: Deborah Scudder (      -      ) 1 4

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Children

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1 F Eleanor Polhemus ¹

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         Spouse: Capt. John Axford (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Maj. John Polhemus

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He had a very distinguished record in the Revolutionary War.
He was a personal friend of Lafayette and Gen. Washington. He served in the expedition to Canada, in every battle around New York, across New Jersey, and around Philadelphia, which included the winter at Valley Forge, and also a two years' imprisonment in Provost Gaol and Sugar House Prison, New York City. Later, he was a member of the State Society of the Cincinnati of New Jersey.

1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 435.

2 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 761.

3 Rev. Joseph A. Bausman, A.M, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York, NY: The Knickerbocker Press, 1904), Pg 229.

4 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 571.

5 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 2.