Thomas Pomeroy and Margaret [Unk]

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Husband Thomas Pomeroy ^{1 2}

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            AKA: George Pomeroy,2 George Pumroy 2
           Born:  - ? Ireland
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           Died: 1776 - Letterkenny Twp, Franklin Co, PA 2
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Wife Margaret [Unk] ^{1 2}

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           Died: 1777 - Letterkenny Twp, Franklin Co, PA 1 2
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Children

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1 M Thomas Pomeroy ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1733 - Lurgan Twp, Franklin Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: Sep 1803 2
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         Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

         Spouse: Mary Graham (1747-1815) 3

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2 M John Pomeroy ^{1 2}

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            AKA: John Pomroy 4
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         Spouse: Hannah Graham (      -      ) 3

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3 M George Pomeroy ^{1 2}

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4 M Samuel Pomeroy ¹

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5 F Elizabeth Pomeroy ²

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         Spouse: Charles Boyle (      -      ) 2

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6 F Mary Pomeroy ²

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            AKA: Polly Pumroy 5
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         Buried:  - Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: Robert Reed (Abt 1730-      ) 2 5

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7 F Hannah Pomeroy ²

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         Spouse: John Wallace (      -      ) 2

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8 F Margaret Pomeroy ²

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         Spouse: David Duncan (      -      ) 2

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9 F Isabel Pomeroy ²

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         Spouse: John Carmichael (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Pomeroy

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Among the earliest settlers in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and in Lurgan Township, was Thomas Pomeroy, who came about the year 1730. He was the owner of a large tract of land about two miles from Roxbury on the Newbury road. He reared a family of eight children-four sons and four daughters. [HFC 1887, 566]

He was the first of the name to settle in the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania, and was the ancestor of the Pomeroy family of Franklin County. He was a taxable in old Lurgan in 1751, but lived in what later became Letterkenny township. The Pomeroy tradition is that their emigrant ancestor was Thomas Pomeroy, a merchant of Liverpool, who was seized in the street by a "Press gang" for service in the Royal Navy, but succeeded in putting his captors to sleep by plying them with liquor, and making his escape to a merchant vessel in the harbor bound for America. There is no record evidence relating to Thomas, but the will of George Pomeroy, of Letterkenny, dated Oct. 5, 1773, and probated at Carlisle Nov. 6, 1776, proves that he was the progenitor of the family. His name in his will is spelled Pumroy. The name in Europe is always Pomeroy. It has been conjectured that Thomas Pomeroy changed the spelling of his name as a disguise in case of pursuit; the inference is still stronger that he dropped the name Thomas and called himself George Pumroy. This spelling was retained by some members of the family until 1856, when the return to the old form was made uniform. [BAFC, 248]

1 Editor, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 566.

2 Editor, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 248.

3 Editor, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 249.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 586.

5 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 6.