Andrew Swearingen and Unknown

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Husband Andrew Swearingen ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1746
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           Died: 26 Jun 1824 - Chartiers Twp, Washington Co, PA 3
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         Father: John Swearingen (      -      ) 4
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Wife Unknown

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Children

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1 M Joseph Swearingen ³

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2 F Sarah "Sally" Swearingen ^{2 3}

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           Died: Abt 1852 - Chartiers Twp, Washington Co, PA
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         Spouse: John Cooke (Abt 1771-1858) 2 3
           Marr: 25 Nov 1797 3

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew Swearingen

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He emigrated to Washington County, Pennsylvania, from Virginia in 1772. He was a captain in the McIntosh campaign; was at the Wheeling fort when that place was invested by the Indians, and at the commencement of the Revolutionary war he received a captain's commission, and headed a company of scouts during the greater part of that struggle. He was appointed one of the justices of the peace of Yohogania County, Virginia, at the October term of court in 1776, and in 1783 was appointed treasurer of Washington County, and served till 1794. In 1799 he was elected justice of peace in Chartiers township. As a magistrate he was noted for settling difficulties between neighbors without resorting to the law.
He took up large tracts of land on Virginia certificates, which were confirmed to him by warrants of acceptance from the board of property April 19, 1786. Two of these tracts were located on George's Run, a branch of Chartiers Creek. One was surveyed under the name of "Canaside," containing three hundred and ninety-eight acres, and patented April 1, 1788; the other was surveyed under the name of "Drusilla," containing one hundred and sixty-seven acres. This tract was patented March 6, 1789. (It was probably named Drusilla after a daughter of his brother, Van Swearingen, and who became the wife of Samuel Brady, the well-known Indian scout.) On the 30th of July, 1805, he sold these tracts to Joseph Nesbitt, who bought them for himself and his brothers Jonathan and John. He also owned a large body of land on Chartiers Creek, in Chartiers township. On this tract he lived, and conveyed the greater part of it to his children. On the 9th of July, 1796, he transferred six-hundred and seventy acres to Joseph Swearingen, a son, who later lived in Philadelphia, and on the same date conveyed seven hundred and seventeen acres to Thomas Swearingen. This last body of land was composed of two tracts that were surveyed as "Belmont" and "Vermont." Warrants of acceptance were issued by the board of property April 9, 1786, and patent issued June 1, 1786. On the 27th of September, 1799, Andrew Swearingen conveyed to his only daughter, Sally Cooke, two hundred and eighty-one acres of land adjoining his other land and Soseph and Thomas Swearingen. Andrew Swearingen lived on his farm till he died, in his seventy-eighth year. He became an elder in the Presbyterian congregation of Washington upon the organization of that body, and served in that capacity till his death. [HWC 1882, 710]

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 483, 710.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 604.

3 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 711.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 238.