Col. Alexander Lowrey and Ann West
Husband Col. Alexander Lowrey 1 2 3 4
AKA: Col. Alexander Lowery,5 6 7 Col. Alexander Lowry 8 Born: Dec 1723 or 1725 - County Donegal, Ireland 3 7 Christened: Died: 30 Jan 1805 - ? Huntingdon Co, PA 7 9 Buried:
Father: Lazarus Lowrey ( -1753/1755) 3 4 10 Mother: Unknown ( - )
Marriage: 1774 9 11 12
Other Spouse: Mary Waters (1732-1767/1773) 10 11 - 26 Sep 1752 10 11
Other Spouse: Mrs. Sarah Cochran ( -Aft 1805) 9 11 12 - 1793 11 12
• Biographical Sketch: Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872).
To read this brief biographical sketch of his life and career, click here.
Wife Ann West 11 12 13
Born: Christened: Died: - Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA Buried:
Father: [Father] West ( - ) Mother:
Other Spouse: Hermanus Alricks (Abt 1727-1772) 11 14
Children
1 F Frances "Fanny" Lowrey 4 9 11 12 15
Born: 1 Feb 1775 11 12 Christened: Died: 1850 9 Buried:Spouse: Samuel Evans (1758-1805) 4 11 12 15 16 Marr: 16 Apr 1793 15 16
General Notes: Husband - Col. Alexander Lowrey
His father came from Northern Ireland, in 1729, and settled in Donegal, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He located on the celebrated farm known as "Donegal." This place passed into the hands of Col. Alexander Lowrey, one of the most noted Indian traders in the history of Pennsylvania, and he lived on it some years, then sold out and moved to Huntingdon County.
His parents, with several elder children, came to America in 1729, and settled in Donegal township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His father became an Indian trader, which occupation Alexander entered about 1748, in partnership with Joseph Simon of the town of Lancaster, the fur trade with the Indians being at that period quite lucrative. The connection with Mr. Simon, continuing for forty years, was finally closed and settled without a word of difference between them, with large gains resulting, over many and severe losses from Indian depredations on their trains and trading posts. Mr. Lowrey was, from the first, outspoken and ardent for separation from the mother-country. In July, 1774, he was placed on the Committee of Correspondence for Lancaster, and was a member of the Provincial Conference held in Philadelphia on the 15th of that month; and of that convened in Carpenters' Hall, 18th of June, 1776; and of the Convention of the 15th of July following. He was chosen to the Assembly in 1775, and, with the exception of two or three years, served as a member of that body almost uninterruptly until 1789. In May, 1777, he was appointed one of the commissioners to procure blankets for the army. In 1776 he commanded the Third Battalion of the Lancaster County Associators, and was in active service in the Jerseys during that year. As senior colonel, he commanded the Lancaster county militia at the battle of the Brandywine. At the close of the Revolution, Colonel Lowrey retired to his farm adjoining Marietta. Under the Constitution of 1789-90, he was commissioned by Governor Mifflin justice of the peace, an office he held until his death. His remains lie interred in Donegal church graveyard. Colonel Lowrey was a remarkable man in many respects, and his life an eventful one, whether considered in his long career in the Indian trade, a patriot of the Revolution, or the many years in which he gave his time and means to the service of his country. He was greatly beloved by his neighbors, and during his long life, shared with his associate and friend, Colonel Galbraith, the confidence and leadership accorded to both in public, church and local affairs.
He was born in county Donegal, Ireland, and came to America with his parents when six years of age and was reared at Donegal, Pennsylvania. He traded extensively with the Indians of the locality and became one of the seventeen largest land owners in the colony. In 1758 he was one of General Forbes' guides on that officer's march to Fort Duquesne and was also the guide of Colonel Bouquet's force five years later. He narrowly escaped death in the massacre at Bushy Run, in 1762, living a most strenuous life during Revolutionary times because of his activity in behalf of the American cause, and on September 10, 1777, was in command of the Lancaster county militia at the battle of Brandywine. He was a member of the convention which in 1776 framed the first constitution of the state of Pennsylvania, and for several years was a member of the general assembly, serving as senator for one term. In 1790 he was appointed a justice of the peace by Governor Mifflin, filling that position until his death. About the middle of the eighteenth century Colonel Lowrey built a stone house on his three hundred and ninety-one acre estate near Marietta, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which was known as Locust Grove and which is still [1915] in the possession of his descendants. [GPHWP, 602]
General Notes: Wife - Ann West
She was from the north of Ireland, and landed shortly before her marriage at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with her brother, Francis West.
1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 659.
2 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 17, 761.
3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 18.
4 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 101.
5 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 375.
6 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 569.
7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 602.
8 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 294.
9 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 762.
10 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 761.
11 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 19.
12 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 38.
13 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 31.
14 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 461.
15 —, Portrait and Biographical Record of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Chapman Publishing Co., 1894), Pg 157.
16
Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 765.
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