William McGinnis and Martha Wilson

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Husband William McGinnis ¹

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           Born: Abt 1750 - County Down, Ireland
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       Marriage: 1780 1

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Wife Martha Wilson ¹

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Children

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1 M James McGinnis ¹

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           Born: 1781 - Ireland 1
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         Spouse: Mary Scott (      -1849) 1

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2 M John McGinnis ¹

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3 F Martha McGinnis ¹

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4 F Elizabeth McGinnis ¹

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5 M William McGinnis ¹

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General Notes: Husband - William McGinnis

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He was born about the middle of the eighteenth century in County Down, Ireland. He married and two years later he and his wife came to America and settled in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. After a short sojourn there, he began looking about for a suitable location for a home, and made a trial of Staunton, Virginia, and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; finally in company with his wife he took up his residence near Cavatt's Mills, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where he lived from 1796 until 1800. In that year Mr. McGinnis bought a 200-acre tract of land in Shenango township, Crawford County, and devoted the greater portion of his remaining years to clearing the ground of the forest, and getting the fields into cultivation. He died on this farm in Crawford County. He was an active and zealous member of the Seceder's denomination.

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General Notes: Wife - Martha Wilson

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She was of Scotch ancestry.

1 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 152.