John Purviance and Elizabeth Thompson

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Husband John Purviance ^{1 2}

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            AKA: John Purveyance 3
           Born: 30 Nov 1742 - northern Ireland 1
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         Father: John Purviance (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Lettice Dinsmore (      -      ) 1

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Wife Elizabeth Thompson ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Mary Thomson 3
           Born: 3 Jul 1757 1
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         Father: Alexander Thompson (1722-      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Edmunston (1729-1815) 1

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Children

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1 M Robert Purviance ¹

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2 M Col. John N. Purviance, Esq. ^{1 4 5 6}

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            AKA: John W. Purviance 2
           Born: 28 Dec 1781 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 4 6 7
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           Died: 28 Dec 1820 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 6 7
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         Spouse: Annalana Anderson (1780-1858) 2 8

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3 M Parker Purviance ¹

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         Spouse: Susan Carpenter (      -      ) 1

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4 F Mary Purviance ¹

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         Spouse: Robert Callow (      -      ) 1

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5 F Eliza Purviance ¹

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         Spouse: Maj. John McCluny (      -      ) 1

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6 M Alexander Purviance ¹

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         Spouse: Jane McKinney (      -      ) 1 9

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7 M William Purviance ¹

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         Spouse: Sophia [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - John Purviance

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He was a soldier in the revolu-tionary war, serving as a private in Captain William Findley's company, Eighth Battalion, Cumberland county militia (March, 1778). After the revolution he went to Little Washington, Pennsylvania, as a surveyor. In 1817 he purchased a farm from Thomas Waller, consisting of four hundred acres, which he surveyed and laid out in town lots, fifty feet wide by two hundred deep. He named the town Claysville, and advertised the lots for sale in the Washington Reporter, April 21, 1817. The old Wheeling road was laid out and opened through it. About the year 1800 he opened a tavern in a large two-story log house (having three rooms on the lower floor and four in the upper story), which stood on the site of the hotel later occupied by Thomas Bell, and conducted this until 1808.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 488.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1458.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 81.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 50.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 151, 738.

6 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 243.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 151.

8 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 50, 57.

9 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 184.