James McBurney and Jeanett Milligan

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Husband James McBurney ¹

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           Born: 1740 - Ballynahinch, County Down, Ireland 1
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           Died: 11 Aug 1820 - Midway, Washington Co, PA 1
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       Marriage: 1762 1

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Wife Jeanett Milligan ¹

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Children

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1 M John McBurney ²

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           Born: 1764 - County Down, Ireland 3
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         Spouse: Sarah Hunter (1774-      ) 3
           Marr: 1793 1

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2 F Elizabeth McBurney ¹

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           Born: Abt 1764
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General Notes: Husband - James McBurney

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The first of the McBurneys in Washington County, Pennsylvania, came from McBurneys Mills, Ireland. [TCHWWC, 879]

Little is known of his early life save that he learned and followed the vocation of a merchant tailor. He and his family embarked for America in the fall of 1783, on the first vessel which sailed thence on a peaceful errand after the close of the Revolution. He first located one mile southeast of McDonald, in 1814 moving to a farm not far from Midway, Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was a prominent man in public affairs, having received a commission from Thomas Mifflin, governor of Pennsylvania, to act as justice of the peace in Cecil township, Washington County, the term for which he was appointed being "so long as you shall behave yourself well." On these conditions he filled that position till 1815. He acted as a member of the Session in the Associate Reformed Church, at Robinson's Run, being one of the first ruling elders of that body.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 71.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 71, 514.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 514.