Alexander Scroggs and Rachel Leith

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Husband Alexander Scroggs ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1704 or 2 Oct 1708 - Scotland 1 3
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           Died: 1788 - Cumberland Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Scroggs (      -      ) 4
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Rachel Ireland (      -      ) 2 - 1768 1

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Wife Rachel Leith ¹

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Children

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1 M James Scroggs ⁵

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           Born: 1746 - Green Spring, near Newville, Cumberland Co, PA 6
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           Died:  - Washington Co, PA
         Buried:  - Raccoon Presbyterian Church, Washington Co, PA

         Spouse: Margaret Jack (      -      ) 6
           Marr: Scotland

         Spouse: Margaret Cowden (      -      ) 7 8
           Marr: Abt 1772

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2 M Alexander Scroggs ³

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           Born: 1749 3
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         Spouse: Mary Brown (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 1776 3

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3 M Ebenezer Scroggs ³

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           Born: 1751 3
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 F Jeannette Scroggs ³

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         Spouse: Joseph McElwain (      -      ) 3

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5 F Rachel Scroggs ^{1 3}

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         Spouse: John Stevenson (      -      ) 3

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6 F Ann Scroggs ³

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         Spouse: Hugh McElroy (      -      ) 3

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7 F Sarah Scroggs ³

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           Born: 1762 3
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General Notes: Husband - Alexander Scroggs

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He was born in Scotland. In 1745, when he was thirty-seven years of age, he came to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He located on a farm on Green Springs, in Hopewell (later Newton) Township, about three miles west of Newville. He was, like his brother Allen, a ruling elder in the Big Spring Associate church. At one time he was the owner of some 600 acres of land.

He had eleven children with his first wife, but no names are found for four of them. It is supposed that those died in infancy.
Another source: he had twelve children with his first wife, and ten with the second.

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General Notes: Wife - Rachel Leith

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from Edinburgh, Scotland

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Notes: Marriage

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The tradition is that this was a runaway match. Rachel being a considerable heiress and her family objecting to Alexander because he was a younger son and not in line to have much estate.

1 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 458.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 980.

3 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 41.

4 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 39.

5 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 22, 42.

6 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 42.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 144.

8 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 22, 43.