William McNitt

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Husband William McNitt ^{1 2}

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General Notes: Husband - William McNitt

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The first McNitt settlement in Pennsylvania was in Cumberland County, near Carlisle, where five McNitt brothers settled at comparatively an early day. They were Scotchmen and came direct from their native land to Pennsylvania. In 1755 they, with the exception of James, journeyed to what is now Mifflin County, where each brother selected a tract and settled thereon. Their farms, averaging about two hundred acres each, were in Armagh township and warrants were issued to all, September 8, 1755. Each brother built, cleared and improved his land, and all remained thereon until death, except James, who went west and was never after heard from. All married and left descendants. [HJV 1913, 663]

[The five brothers] came to the east end of the Kishacoquillas valley, where each took out a warrant for a large tract of land, September 8, 1755.
James McNitt, the fifth of the patriarchs, took up the tract where the daughters of Brown McNitt now [1897] reside. He married and had seven daughters. He remained on his land only a few years, when he abandoned it, removing with his family to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [CBEJV, 663]

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 663.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 663.