Capt. Thomas Whiteside and Margaret Porter

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Husband Capt. Thomas Whiteside ¹

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       Marriage:  - Lancaster Co, PA

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Wife Margaret Porter ^{2 3}

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Children

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1 F Rebecca Whiteside ^{2 3}

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         Spouse: Hugh McConnell (      -      ) 1 3

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2 F Martha Whiteside ^{2 3}

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            AKA: Rebecca Kirkpatrick 4
           Born: 22 Nov 1765
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           Died: 20 Nov or 27 Nov 1842 3
         Buried:  - Congruity (Presbyterian) Church, Salem Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: David McConnell (1764-1829) 1 4 5
           Marr: 10 Jan 1788 2 3

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3 F Violet Whiteside ^{2 3}

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         Spouse: Samuel McConnell (      -      ) 1 3

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4 F Mary Whiteside ^{6 7}

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           Died: Feb 1823 - near New Alexandria, Westmoreland Co, PA 6 8
         Buried:  - Salem Cemetery, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: Robert Elder (1751-1837) 6 7 9
           Marr: ? Lancaster Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Thomas Whiteside

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He was an English gentleman who came to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the eighteenth century, and there married. He was the father of five daughters and three sons. Three of his daughters intermarried with three McConnell brothers. Samuel, the oldest of the three brothers, married Violet, the youngest of the three Whiteside sisters, while Hugh, the youngest of the brothers married Rebecca, the oldest of the sisters. David McConnell married Martha Whiteside, who in order of birth was the third of the five daughters of Thomas Whiteside. In respect to church connection the McConnells were Seceders of the old type, while the Whitesides were Presbyterians. In those days this difference was regarded as a very substantial matter, and the parents of the respective contracting parties, in each case, objected to the marriage on that account, but in each case the marriage took place in spite of such objection.

He fought in the revolutionary war and lost an arm in the battle of Long Island.
Most of his descendants resided in Ohio and Illinois.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 13.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 14.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 34.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 490.

5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 34, 145.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 536.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 191.

8 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 199.

9 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 600.