James Williamson

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Husband James Williamson ¹

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         Father: [Father] Williamson (      -      )
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• Note: This may be the same person as : Capt. James Williamson.

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General Notes: Husband - James Williamson

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He was the first settler of Otter Creek township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. He was a Revolutionary veteran, whose patriotism and love of liberty was such that it is said of him, that at the time of his entering the army to accept the commission of lieutenant he had just married a beautiful young lady, whom he was forced to leave, and from whom he was separated, by the cruel exigencies of the war, for over a year. He entered the Shenango Valley in 1797, located upon the farm owned a long time afterward by Josiah Kitch, and erected a small cabin. After thus establishing his right to the land, he returned to his family and remained three years. In 1800 he came a second time to his new possession, began a clearing, and was so successful that he was enabled, the same year, to harvest the first crop of wheat ever raised in the township. In the following year he concluded that the hardships of a pioneer life were sufficiently ameliorated to render his permanent residence possible, and he therefore brought his family out and located upon the farm, which he occupied until death. He was without neighbors for a long time.

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 579.