John Scroggs and Jane Paxton

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Husband John Scroggs ¹

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         Father: James Scroggs (1746-      ) 2
         Mother: Margaret Cowden (      -      ) 3 4

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Wife Jane Paxton ¹

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         Father: James Paxton (      -      ) 5
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Children

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1 F Margaret Scroggs ⁶

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Jane Scroggs ⁶

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3 M James Scroggs ⁶

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General Notes: Husband - John Scroggs

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He reached an advanced age, living with his brother, Rev. Joseph Scroggs, of Ligonier, Pennsylvania. He was a genial and pleasant man but his visionary tendencies and his bitter enmity to secret orders, especially to Masonry, which was a prominent characteristic of the Associate Church of that day, rendered him somewhat peculiar. He published a paper at Washington, Pennsylvania, called the "Anti-Mason Investigator" and sunk a large amount of money in the enterprise. He invented a number of curious and complicated machines but was not successful in having them brought into general use. He also constructed a large mill at Canonsburg and for a time carried on the manufacture of woolen and cotton goods. The burning of the mill lost all his means, together with considerable sums borrowed from his brothers and sisters for this enterprise. He was highly religious, strictly temperate, economical, honest, and industrious, but impractical and unfortunate. Although he had been enriched from his father's estate and had twice married, both times to women of considerable wealth, yet he died a pensioner on the bounty of his youngest brother, Joseph.

1 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 43.

2 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 22, 42.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 144.

4 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 22, 43.

5 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 49.

6 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 47.