John McIlduff and Ann Wallace

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Husband John McIlduff ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: John Duff 2
           Born: Abt 1744
     Christened: 
           Died: 22 Sep 1816 - Duff's Mills, Westmoreland Co, PA 4
         Buried:  - Old Tent U. P. Cemetery, Export, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: [Father] McIlduff (      -      )
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Ann Wallace ^{2 3}

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           Born: Abt 1750
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Aug 1831 - Duff's Mills, Westmoreland Co, PA 4
         Buried:  - Old Tent U. P. Cemetery, Export, Westmoreland Co, PA

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Children

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1 M John Duff ^{4 5}

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           Born: Abt 1779 - Westmoreland Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 4 Nov 1859 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 4
         Buried:  - Old Tent U. P. Cemetery, Export, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: Mary Ann Patterson (Abt 1786-1828) 4 5

         Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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2 M Alexander Duff ^{4 6}

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           Born: 1783 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 1854 6
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Mary Lusk (      -      ) 4

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3 M Robert Duff ^{6 8}

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            AKA: Robin Duff,3 Rupert Duff 7
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Mary Johnson (      -      ) 7

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4 F Anna Duff ⁹

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John Watt (      -      ) 6

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General Notes: Husband - John McIlduff

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The Duff family was founded in America by John and Ann (Wallace) McIlduff, of Scotch-Irish extraction, who came from near Belfast, Ireland, about 1775, and settled on land near what became known as Export, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Mr. McIlduff, who later changed his name to Duff - although the full name appeared on the tombstone - was the owner of about six hundred acres in the vicinity of Export, and he erected the first mill in that neighborhood. He was one of the leading men in his township, a prosperous farmer, and an earnest Christian man. He was a seceder in faith and was one of the founders of the Seceder or "United Presbyterian" church at Export, and he also donated the ground for the cemetery at Export, which was known as the "Old Tent" burial ground. He was a man of large build, strong character, and very punctilious in dress, and although a pioneer wore his wig and other evidences of the gentleman. On the occasion of an Indian insurrection Mr. and Mrs. Duff were out in the fields, their babe being in the house. His wife growing uneasy, she went to the house and brought the babe out with her, and shortly afterward the Indians ransacked the house and burned it to the ground.

John and Alexander McIlduff were two brothers who came from Ireland and settled in Franklin township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, about 1780, on a tract of three hundred and thirty-one acres, in pursuance of a warrant dated Aug. 26, 1786, which tract was surveyed by John Moore, deputy surveyor.

He was a member of the military body organized under state auspices, the Westmoreland Rangers, formed to protect the inhabitants of the county against the raids of bands of plundering natives. This body rendered valuable service during the Revolutionary War by holding the border against the marauding Senecas from the north.

John Duff and his wife built their cabin and cleared a small corn-patch, and the following year, when they were walking out one Sunday evening, leading their little and oldest boy by the hand, and were returning from their walk, they saw a smoke arise from the direction of their cabin. When he ran forward, by good luck only far enough to get a glimpse, he saw it in flames and surrounded by Indians. Mr. Duff, with his wife and boy, hid in the thicket all night. At this invasion of the savages many of their neighbors were massacred and Hannastown burned.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 612.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 429.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 270.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 430.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 271.

6 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 613.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 149.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 114, 430.

9 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 431.