Matthew Welch and Elizabeth Reed

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Husband Matthew Welch ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1767 - County Down, Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: 1851 - ? Smith Twp, Washington Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - U. P. Cemetery, Burgettstown, Smith Twp, Washington Co, PA

       Marriage: 1797 - ? Lancaster Co, PA 3

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Wife Elizabeth Reed ³

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            AKA: [Unk] Reid 4
           Born: Abt 1781
     Christened: 
           Died: 1873 3
         Buried:  - U. P. Cemetery, Burgettstown, Smith Twp, Washington Co, PA

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         Father: William Reed (      -      ) 3
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 F Isabella Welch ^{2 3 4 5}

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           Born: Abt 1800
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1882
         Buried: 

         Spouse: William Galbraith (1800-1860) 2 4 5
           Marr: Scotland

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2 F Mary Welch ⁶

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           Born: 
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         Spouse: William Campbell (      -      ) 6

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3 F Jane Welch ³

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           Born: 
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         Buried: 

         Spouse: James McNary (      -      ) 3

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4 F Nancy Welch ³

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           Born: 
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         Spouse: Mark Stephenson (      -      ) 3

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5 F Elizabeth Welch ³

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            AKA: Eliza Welsh 7
           Born: 
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           Died: Aft 1893
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Robert McBurney (1808-1875) 7
           Marr: 1 Feb 1834 7

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6 F Margaret Welch ⁸

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           Born: 
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           Died: Aft 1893
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Thomas McCorkle (1814-Bef 1893) 8

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7 F Rachel Welch ³

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           Born: 
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           Died: 18 May 1865 9
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Robert K. Scott (1824-      ) 10
           Marr: 13 Jun 1850 9

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8 F Julia A. Welch ³

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            AKA: Julia Welsh 11
           Born: 
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           Died: Aft 1893
         Buried: 

         Spouse: James Vincent (Abt 1805-1876) 3 11

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9 F Hannah M. Welch ³

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           Born: 19 Sep 1823 - Smith Twp, Washington Co, PA 12
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1893
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Matthew Welch (1825-      ) 13
           Marr: 18 Dec 1856 12

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10 M Matthew R. Welch ³

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           Born: 19 Dec 1826 - Smith Twp, Washington Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
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         Spouse: Mary White (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Matthew Welch

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He emigrated from Ireland to America about 1802, with his wife and a daughter Isabella, then an infant. He lived a short time at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and in the spring of 1803 removed to Washington County. On the 26th of July in that year he purchased one hundred acres of land of Hugh Lee, it being part of one of the tracts patented by Samuel Johnston. Mr. Welch lived on this place the remainder of his life, and died there at the age of eighty-four years.

He was educated in his native country, and, at the age of twenty-four years, crossed the ocean in a sailing vessel, the voyage occupying eight weeks. He landed in New York, proceeding thence to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. After residing in that county for about four years he married. The young couple resided in Lancaster County three years after their marriage, and in 1802 moved to Washington County, the journey being made in an emigrant wagon containing their household goods and provisions, drawn by four horses. They were three weeks on the road, and finally settled until spring on a small place in Smith township. They bought a place two miles distant, and immediately began to make improvements on it, afterward raising a large amount of stock. In politics he was a Whig, and in religion a member of the Seceder Church, at Burgettstown, to which he gave a hearty support.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Reed

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She had married at the age of fourteen years, and had then journeyed from the eastern part of Pennsylvania [to Washington County, PA] in a Conestoga wagon.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 746.

2 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 915.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 747.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 155.

5 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 583.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 901.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 72.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 560, 747.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1110.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 747, 1110.

11 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 516.

12 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 775.

13 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 747, 775.