Capt. Joseph Sherer and Mary McClure

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Husband Capt. Joseph Sherer ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 1731 - Ireland 1
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           Died: Dec 1776 1 5
         Buried:  - Old Paxtang Church, Dauphin Co, PA

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         Father: Samuel Sherer (      -      ) 1 4 6
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       Marriage: 6 Feb 1759 1 2 3 5

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   Other Spouse: Mary McCracken (      -      ) 5 6

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Wife Mary McClure ^{1 2 3 5}

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         Father: Thomas McClure (      -1765) 3 7
         Mother: Mary [Unk] (      -1773) 3 7

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Children

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1 F Mary Shearer ^{8 9}

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            AKA: Mary Sherer 5
           Born: 1754 - Chester Co, PA 9
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         Spouse: Samuel Cochran (1738-1818) 8 9
           Marr: 1770 9

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2 M Samuel Sherer ¹⁰

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           Born: 1755 5
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           Died: 26 Dec 1821 5
         Buried:  - Paxtang, Lancaster Co, PA

         Spouse: Elizabeth Barnett (1761-1816) 10

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3 M John Sherer ⁵

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4 F Jean Sherer ⁵

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5 M Richard Sherer ⁵

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6 M Joseph Sherer ⁵

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7 M William Sherer ⁵

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8 F Catharine Sherer ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Joseph Sherer

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He was about four years old when his parents came to America. He secured a fair English education and was brought up to the life of a frontiersman, that of a farmer. During the French and Indian war, he served as a non-commissioned officer, and was in active service as a scout or ranger on the frontiers. When the thunders of the Revolution reverberated along the valley of the Susquehanna, with all his Scotch-Irish and German neighbors, he entered into the contest for liberty. In 1775 and 1776, he was in command of one of the companies of Colonel James Burd's battalion of Associators. Colonel Burd's farm at Tinian joined the Sherer homestead, and the two patriots were intimate friends. Captain Sherer was a member of the Committee of Observation for the county of Lancaster, and was chosen by the vote of the people a member of the first Constitutional Convention of the state of Pennsylvania, which met at Philadelphia, on the 15th of July, 1776. While in attendance on this representative body of the Revolutionary era, he took ill, returned home, and died on the 1st or 2d of December following. His remains were interred in the burial ground of old Paxtang church, of which he was a consistent member.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 536.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 133, 175.

3 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1891), Pg 90.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 70.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 71.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 175.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 133.

8 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 297.

9 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 20.

10 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 65.