Capt. Samuel Small

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Husband Capt. Samuel Small ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 Dec 1773 - northern Ireland 2 3
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Children

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1 F Mary Small ^{2 4}

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         Spouse: Ransol Smith (      -      ) 2

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2 M Samuel H. Small ^{2 4 5}

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           Born: 30 Jan 1810 - York Co, PA 2
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           Died: 26 Jan 1878 4 6
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         Spouse: Melissa P. Collins (1815-1862) 4 6
           Marr: 1837 6

         Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth Jameson (1823-1896) 5
           Marr: 1866 3 6

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3 M Moses H. Small ^{1 2}

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           Born: 16 Jan 1813 - York Co, PA 2 3
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           Died: Aft 1879
         Buried:  - Plum Church Cemetery

         Spouse: Sarah Collins (      -      ) 2 3
           Marr: 1850 2 3

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4 F Jane Small ^{2 4}

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         Spouse: Stephen Collins (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Samuel Small

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He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Coming to America about 1800, he lived in York County, Pennsylvania, until the War of 1812, in which he served as a captain, having organized a company to go to Erie. He brought his company through Venango County on its way to join Commodore Perry, hearing of the famous battle en route. Captain Small was so favorably impressed with this region that when he returned to York County he obtained a yoke of oxen and in 1816 brought his wife and four children out in a wagon, having decided to settle on a tract which he admired, lying along Sugar creek. He bought a tract comprising from three hundred and seventy-five to four hundred acres, and made a location on it between Sugar creek and Lake creek, spending the remainder of his life in the improvement of this property, where he died at the age of sixty-five years. The country was new, game of all kinds abounded, and Indians were even yet seen in the vicinity, but he and his family labored industriously to make a home and succeeded in raising the value of their property even under the adverse conditions then existing. Captain Small was a carpenter by trade, and built many houses and other structures in the new settlement, where mechanics were scarce and in great demand. He was a Freemason, belonging to a lodge in Philadelphia. [HVC 1919, 524]

In 1811 Samuel Small moved to Jackson Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and family of four children, and acquired a tract of 375 acres where his sons remained, the daughters removing west. Samuel Small was a native of Ireland, and lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, before settling in Venango. [HVC 1919, 383]

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 603, 604.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 524.

3 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 604.

4 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 603.

5 E. O. Jameson, The Jamesons in America, 1647 - 1900 (Boston, MA: The Rumford Press, 1901), Pg 112.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 525.