Matthew Dean and Elizabeth [Unk]
Husband Matthew Dean 1 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Marriage:
• Note: This may be the same person as : Matthew Dean.
Wife Elizabeth [Unk] 3
Born: Christened: Died: 1780 - Canoe Valley, Huntingdon Co, PA 3 Buried:
Children
1 F Rebecca Dean 1
Born: 13 Mar 1770 1 Christened: Died: Abt 1834 Buried:Spouse: Maj. David Caldwell (1762-1813) 1 Marr: 13 Jan 1789 1
2 F Elizabeth Dean 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Samuel Caldwell ( - ) 1 Marr: 28 Nov 1797 4
3 M John Dean 2 3
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Matthew Dean
Canoe Valley, Huntingdon Co, PA
He was of Scotch-Irish extraction, and settled in Canoe valley, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, prior to the revolutionary war.
His wife and three of their children were killed in Canoe valley, in 1780, by a Delaware war party. He and five of their children escaped the tomahawk by being at some distance from the house.
1 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 412.
2 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Blair County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 83.
3 Samuel T. Wiley & W. Scott Garner, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Gresham Publishing Co., 1892), Pg 157.
4
J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 414.
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