Capt. Samuel Kearsley and Sarah Kirkpatrick

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Husband Capt. Samuel Kearsley ^{1 2}

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         Father: Dr. Jonathan Kearsley (1718-      ) 2 3
         Mother: Jane [Unk] (1720-      ) 2

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Wife Sarah Kirkpatrick ¹

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           Born: 27 Mar 1
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           Died: 25 Feb 1826 1
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         Father: William Kirkpatrick (      -1760) 1 4
         Mother: Margaret [Unk] (1726-1802) 1 4

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Samuel Kearsley

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. . . of the Revolutionary War.

He and his wife gave liberally of their means to provide for the comfort of the starving and freezing soldiers during the terrible winter at Valley Forge, and in appreciation of this generosity, General Washington, in the presence of the assembled soldiers, later presented his own sword to Captain Kearsley.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 218.

2 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 457.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 185.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 1002.