Andrew Oliphant and Ann Hughes

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Husband Andrew Oliphant ^{1 2}

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           Died: 1790 - Fayette Co, PA 2
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Wife Ann Hughes ²

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           Born:  - Chester Co, PA
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1 M Woodbridge Oliphant ¹

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2 M Orlando Oliphant ¹

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3 M Col. John Oliphant ^{2 3}

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           Born: 9 Sep 1759 - Chester Co, PA 2
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         Buried:  - Woodbridgetown, Fayette Co, PA

         Spouse: Sarah McGinnis (1778-1842) 2
           Marr: 19 Jun 1794 2

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4 M Andrew Oliphant ⁴

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         Spouse: Mary Griffin (      -      ) 5

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5 M Ethelbert Oliphant ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew Oliphant

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He lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania, until the close of the Revolutionary War, and was a trader, crossing the mountains with packhorses and goods, returning with the horses laden with furs and other articles of barter. He was present at Braddock's defeat and personally assisted in removing the wounded general from the field to a place of safety. He assisted in the construction and defense of Fort Necessity; he also served as sergeant in Captain John Lacey's company, Colonel Anthony Wayne's regiment, Fourth Continental Battalion. He served in the Jersey campaign, as did his son John, who ran away from home, a lad of sixteen years, and enlisted under an assumed name. After the revolution, Andrew Oliphant settled near Merrittstown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he died. He was buried in the Presbyterian graveyard at Dunlap's Creek, that county. [GPHAV, 875]

He had his home in Chester County, Pennsylvania, previously to the war of the Revolution. He was a trader, and transported goods over the mountains on pack-horses, exchanging them with the Indians and settlers for furs and land, for there was no money there at that time. Gen. Braddock, in his campaign against Fort Du Quesne in 1755, pressed him and his pack-horses into his service. When Braddock fell, mortally wounded, at the battle of the Monongahela, on July 9, 1755, he was carried on a litter swung between two of these horses, under the direction of Andrew Oliphant, in the retreat to Dunbar's camp, the rear-guard of the army, where he died on the fourth day after the battle, and was buried in the road, near the site of Fort Necessity. Tradition says Andrew Oliphant assisted in the construction and defense of Fort Necessity. After the war he moved out to Fayette County, and settled on land near to Merrittstown. His remains rest in the graveyard of the Dunlap's Creek Presbyterian congregation. [HFC 1882, 583]

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 583.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 875.

3 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 583, 766.

4 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 583, 699, 766.

5 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 699, 766.