Samuel Hoey and Mary McNeil

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Husband Samuel Hoey ¹

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           Born:  - Dublin, Ireland
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       Marriage:  - Scotland

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Wife Mary McNeil ¹

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Children

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1 M James Hoey ¹

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           Born: 1785 1
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         Spouse: Eleanor Huey (      -Bef 1825) 1

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2 F Ann Hoey ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Hoey

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The Hoey family was planted in America by Samuel Hoey, who was born in Dublin, Ireland, later lived in Scotland, from which country he emigrated to America, settling in eastern Pennsylvania, and later coming to Westmoreland County, near Saltsburg, Pennsylvania. He was a farmer and a tanner. His farm of three hundred and sixty acres, in what is now Franklin township, three miles southeast of Murrysville, was taken up by John Byrns, in 1774, who was sold out by the high sheriff of the county, Charles Forman being the purchaser. October 21, 1788, he conveyed it to Samuel Hoey, who on April 22, 1814, willed it to his son James and daughter Ann Hoey. April 13, 1828, they completed the payments due and received a government patent signed by Joshua Dickinson, secretary of the land department. The farm was now divided and subdivided, and by deed dated July 6, 1833, Samuel Hoey (the second), eldest son of James and Eleanor (Huey) Hoey, came into possession of one hundred acres of the original tract, purchasing it from his aunt, Ann Hoey. This farm was in the possession of the Hoey family for one hundred and seventeen years, and only passed from their control in 1905. The "Forbes" road, built in 1758 by Colonel Forbes on his march to Fort Duquesne, passed through the north end of the farm.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 98.