Joseph Sheirer and Mary McClure

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Husband Joseph Sheirer ¹

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           Born: 1730 - near Londonderry, Ireland 1
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           Died: 1 Dec 1776 - Paxtang Twp, Lancaster (later Dauphin) Co, PA 1
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Wife Mary McClure ¹

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Children

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1 F Mary Sheirer ¹

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         Spouse: Samuel Cochrane (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Sheirer

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He was born near Londonderry, Ireland, came to America as a youth and settled on a farm at what is now Paxtang Township, Dauphin County, where he later, after serving as a captain in Colonel James Burd's Battalion of Associators, Lancaster County. He was also a member of the Committee of Observation from that county, was elected a member of the first Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania and became one of the outstanding patriots of that section.

1 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 13.