John Barr and Mary Nelson

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Husband John Barr ¹

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: 1847 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Old Sewickley (later Old Dick) Church Cemetery, near West Newton, Westmoreland Co, PA

       Marriage:  - near Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA

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Wife Mary Nelson ¹

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Children

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1 F Mary Barr ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Squire John Pinkerton (1801-1877) 2 3 4

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General Notes: Husband - John Barr

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He was a native of Ireland and immigrated to America, settling near Carlisle, PA, where he married and soon came west to Westmoreland County, locating in South Huntingdon township about 1791. He at that time had one child, which together with all his effects he conveyed across the mountains on three horses. He settled on the land later occupied by Mr. Pinkerton, which was origi­nally a part of a tract of land patented by the Martin boys, who after being freed by the In­dians who had captured them took out a patent for the land which contained in the Hun­ter, Fullerton and Pinkerton farms. Mr. Barr was a farmer and distiller.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 625.

2 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 270.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 610, 625.

4 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 290.