Philip Quiggle and Hester [Unk]

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Husband Philip Quiggle ¹

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            AKA: Philip Quiggley 1
           Born:  - York Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died:  - Wayne Twp, Clinton Co, PA
         Buried:  - Quiggle's Cemetery, Wayne Twp, Clinton Co, PA

       Marriage: 

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Wife Hester [Unk] ²

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died:  - Wayne Twp, Clinton Co, PA
         Buried:  - Quiggle's Cemetery, Wayne Twp, Clinton Co, PA

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Children

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1 M George Quiggle ³

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           Born: 8 Sep 1785 - York Co, PA 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 25 Jan 1843 4
         Buried:  - Quiggle's Cemetery, Wayne Twp, Clinton Co, PA

         Spouse: Hester Swartz (      -      ) 4
           Marr: Wayne Twp, Lycoming (later Clinton) Co, PA

         Spouse: Catherine Strayer (1794-1878) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Philip Quiggle

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The ancestors of this family emigrated from Germany in an early day. The name was formerly spelled "Quiggley," the German mode of spelling being "Quickie."

He was a descendant of Christian Quiggle, or Quickel, as the name was originally spelled, who was the pioneer ancestor of the family in America. He was a resident of Rotterdam, Holland, to which city his parents had migrated from the grand duchy of Baden. Christian sailed from Rotterdam to America in the ship "Fantana," and landed at Philadelphia in 1736. He settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and probably engaged in farming; he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, serving in Colonel Swope's battalion of the "Flying Camp" under General Washington, on Long Island. He married and had a number of children.

He was born and reared in York County, Pennsylvania, where also he spent some years of his manhood. He married, and had several children, but his wife's name is not known. Late in life he decided to make a new home in central Pennsylvania, then a wilderness, and removed with his family to what is now Wayne township, Clinton County, the territory being at that time a part of Northumberland County. He took up a homestead of 160 acres of timber land, which he proceeded to clear and improve, building a log house that was considered quite a palatial abode for those times. A comfortable living was obtained by fishing, hunting and boating on the river, while the proceeds from the clearing of the homestead also proved a source of profit.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 604.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 610.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 600, 605.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 605.