Francis Jamison and Margaret [Unk]

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Husband Francis Jamison ^{1 2 3 4}

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            AKA: Francis Jameson 5
           Born:  - Buckna, Belfast, Ireland
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           Died:  - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
         Buried:  - Middle Church Cemetery, near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA

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Wife Margaret [Unk] ⁵

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         Buried:  - Middle Church Cemetery, near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA

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Children

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1 M John Jamison ^{1 3 4}

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            AKA: John Jameson 5
           Born: 1749 - Buckina, Ireland 1 6
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           Died: 1819 - Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Janet Martin (      -      ) 1 6
           Marr: 1774 6

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2 M Robert Jamison ^{1 2 4}

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            AKA: Robert Jameson 5
           Born: 1755 - Ireland 7
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           Died: 24 Aug 1825 - Westmoreland Co, PA 7
         Buried:  - Middle Church Cemetery, near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: Elizabeth Gaff (1746-1830/1831) 2 5

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3 F Margaret Jamison ^{1 4}

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            AKA: Margaret Jameson 5
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         Spouse: [Unk] Robinson (      -      ) 5

         Spouse: [Unk] Peoples (      -      ) 5

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4 F Rosanna Jamison ^{1 4}

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5 M Marmaduke Jamison ^{1 4}

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            AKA: Marmaduke Jameson 5
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6 M Francis Jamison ^{1 4}

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            AKA: Francis Jameson 5
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General Notes: Husband - Francis Jamison

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He was a native of Buckna, Belfast, Ireland, and migrated to the New World with his wife, four sons and two daughters. They settled first in Maryland, near the spot made famous in 1862 by the battle of Antietam, where they remained but a short time. Then they moved to Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The family were members of the Presbyterian Church in the old country, and when they left the following note was put into the hands of the father: "That Francis Jamison, his wife, and family lived within the bounds of this congregation from their infancy, always behaving themselves in a sober, regular and Christian manner, free from all public scandal or church censure and may be admitted to Church privileges in any Christian Society wherever it may please Providence to cast their lot, is certified at Buckna (Ireland), this 17th day of July 1764 by me John Logue, Mod." This godly couple lived to an advanced age and are buried in the Middle Church [Ridge Church?] Cemetery, near Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
It is a matter of Pennsylvania history that Francis Jamison was a private in Colonel William Thompson's battalion of Riflemen, who enlisted the latter part of June, 1775. This battalion is described in Thacher's "Journal of the Revolution" as "remarkable stout and hardy men, unusual marksmen, striking a mark with great certainty at two hundred yards distance." In August, 1775, they formed the picket guard that took possession of Ploughed Hill (in front of the British post at Bunker Hill). In several engagements the battalion did commendable work and the men were publicly thanked by George Washington for their bravery during the skirmish at Lechmere's Point (near Boston).

He and his wife were born of Scotch ancestry in Ireland. They lived for some years in Buckina, Ireland. But about 1764 sailed for America, and located first in eastern Pennsylvania. Later they removed and settled in Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland County, where they spent the rest of their lives. [JIA, 111]

They landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and proceeded west to the Cove or Connoshaque, near Mercersburg, Franklin County. In 1769, the land office being opened for Westmoreland County, the two older brothers, John and Robert, went there to settle. Robert took land near Pleasant Unity, which was improved and planted with corn the first summer, and a cabin built. In the fall they stored their corn in the cabin, took their horses and went home. The next spring they returned with one of their sisters to keep house for them. In three years they had enough land cleared and cabins built to make homes for themselves and their parents. The old people had their cabin on their son, Robert Jameson's farm. The land being rapidly taken up, John Jameson, the oldest son, established himself on a farm two miles further north. The children were all married except Marmaduke, the third son, who passed his summers on a farm in Mercer County, and having stored his gathered crops he took his horses and drove to Westmoreland County and spent the winter months in the families of his brothers. [JIA, 111]

He, his wife, four sons and three daughters emigrated from Buckna, Ireland, in 1764, and settled in Maryland not far from the locality made famous in 1862 by the battle of Antietam. Some ten years later they came to Pennsylvania, where each of the brothers acquired possession of farm sites containing three hundred acres in Westmoreland County, which they improved. [HWC III, 419]

The Jamison family was founded in the colony of Pennsylvania as early as 1764, when one Francis Jamison came with his wife, four sons and two daughters from the North of Ireland and made their home in Franklin County. Francis Jamison and his wife continued to reside in this new home, but their children, seized with the same enterprising spirit as that possessed by the parents, made their way further to the west and some of them eventually stopped in Westmoreland County.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 37.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 419.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 5.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 147.

5 E. O. Jameson, The Jamesons in America, 1647 - 1900 (Boston, MA: The Rumford Press, 1901), Pg 111.

6 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 148.

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