Andrew Hosey and Elsie McCann

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Husband Andrew Hosey ¹

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           Born: 1729 - Tipperary, Ireland 1
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           Died: 1821 1
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       Marriage: 1750 1

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Wife Elsie McCann ¹

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           Born: Abt 1732
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           Died: 1818 1
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         Father: Lord  McCann (      -      ) 1
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Hosey ¹

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            AKA: Elsie Hosay 2
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           Died: Abt 1862 - Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA
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         Spouse: Richard Reynolds (1792-1850) 3
           Marr: 1816 1

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew Hosey

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He was a linen draper by trade. Leaving Tipperary, Ire­land, he went to Dublin and hired with Lord McCann, a very wealthy man who owned a line of ships. He was a sportsman, owning a large stable of blooded horses and a large kennel of fox­hounds, and was a great gentleman. He had two sons and one daughter, Elsie. When he hired Hosey he gave him charge of his stable. Hosey was well educated, a small handsome man. He fell in love with the old lord's daugh­ter and persuaded her to run off with him. They took ship and landed in Philadelphia and were married in 1750, at which time he was twenty-one and she eighteen years old. She wrote to her father, and received an an­swer saying he had disowned her and would not suffer her name to be mentioned in his presence. As the young couple were without a dollar she worked as chambermaid and he as hostler at the tavern where they were stop­ping. They stayed there some two years, and saved money enough to pay for twelve acres of land in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, onto which they moved, and there raised their family of three sons and two daughters. In the course of time one of their sons was drafted into the army and marched with Harrison up into the lake country, with which he was so pleased that he came home and persuaded his father to sell his small farm and move out there, and take up government land. They settled close to Waterford, Erie County, Pennsylvania, cleared a lot of land and planted it in corn-and when the corn was in the milk frost killed it. This left them, three miles from the nearest neigh­bor, twelve miles from Waterford and the nearest grocery, in a dense wilderness with starvation staring them in the face. They loaded up their belongings and moved back to what is called the Licking settlement, about two miles from where Richard Reynolds had a small grocery store. There Richard Rey­nolds fell in love with Elizabeth Hosey, the youngest daughter, and married her in 1816. Mrs. Hosey died in 1818, Mr. Hosey in 1821. The old stock of Reynolds were a short-lived race of people, averaging about sixty years.

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 371.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 692.

3 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 370, 385.