Isaac McMurdy, Sr. and Ellen [Unk]

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Husband Isaac McMurdy, Sr. ¹

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           Died: 1849 - Butler Co, PA 1
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Wife Ellen [Unk] ¹

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           Born:  - Pennsylvania
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           Died: Bef 1849
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Children

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1 M George McMurdy ^{2 3 4}

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           Born: 1788 4
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           Died: 23 Mar 1850 4
         Buried:  - Harmony Cemetery, Harrisville, Butler Co, PA

         Spouse: Polly Martin (1783-1871) 3 4 5

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2 M Isaac McMurdy, Jr. ¹

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3 M John McMurdy ¹

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4 F [Unk] McMurdy

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         Spouse: Jacob Izel (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Isaac McMurdy, Sr.

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He was a tailor by trade [weaver?] and lived in Baltimore, Maryland, before settling in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. He and his son George came to Irwin Township, Venango County, in the spring of 1797. They selected a tract of land containing five hundred acres in Venango and Butler counties, three-fourths of it in Venango. They cleared a patch and planted it with potatoes, built a log cabin, and returned to Huntingdon County, from whence they had come. In the fall they came back, dug the potatoes, planted wheat, and again returned. In February, 1798, they returned, bringing the family, moving their worldly goods on a wagon drawn by a pair of oxen, which is claimed to have been the first in this section of the country. He remained on the place of settlement in Irwin Township until within a year of his death, when he went to Butler County, and died at the home of his sister, his wife having died a few years previously. [HVC 1890, 853]

1 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 953.

2 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 527, 953.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 327.

4 Claudine Adams Diemert, The Descendants of David Martin (Self-published.), Pg 296.

5 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 527, 954.