Hugh McConnell and [Unk] Thompson

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Husband Hugh McConnell ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - County Armagh, Ireland
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   Other Spouse: Jane Ferguson (      -1779) 1 - 1776 - Clearfield Co, PA 1

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Wife [Unk] Thompson ¹

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Hugh McConnell

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He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and was born in the northern part of Ireland in Armagh County, being one of a large family of eighteen children. In religious faith, he was a Protestant, and because of the persecutions directed against his sect in Ireland at that time, he left his native soil, and immigrated to America in 1772. On the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, he joined the patriots, and gave his best services for the land of his adoption. After several years in the Colonies, he made a permanent settlement in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. [BOBLC, 217]

He was a native of Ireland, and upon coming to America served as a soldier in the Colonial Army during the Revolutionary War. He engaged in milling in Centre County, Pennsylvania, and later with his son, James, moved to Crawford County. They erected a mill on the Shenango Creek, at West Middlesex, being the founders of that town. [TCHNCLC, 925]

1 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 217.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 925.