Samuel Rippey and Rachel [Unk]

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Husband Samuel Rippey ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1713 - Ireland 1 2
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           Died: 22 Aug 1791 - near Middle Spring, Cumberland Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Hugh Rippey (      -1750) 1 3
         Mother: 

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Wife Rachel [Unk] ¹

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Children

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1 M Capt. William Rippey ^{4 5 6}

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           Born: 1741 - Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA 7
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           Died: 22 Sep 1819 7
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         Spouse: Margaret Finley (      -      ) 8

         Spouse: Elizabeth Finley (Abt 1748-Aft 1819) 6 9 10

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2 M Elijah Rippey ^{5 7}

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           Died: 1794 10
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Thompson (      -1826) 10

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3 M Samuel Rippey ^{5 7}

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           Born:  - Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA
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           Died: 6 May 1804 10
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         Spouse: Mary Finley (      -1836) 10

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4 F Jane Rippey ^{5 7}

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         Spouse: Capt. James Finley (      -1812) 5 11 12

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Rippey

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He was born in Ireland, probably at Maguire's Bridge, a market town on Maguire's river, near Enniskillen, in County Fermanagh. He was one of the pioneers of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, where he settled with his father in 1732-33. Of his occupation in his early years nothing is known, but later in life he became a farmer, purchasing the farm that was owned by Rev. John Blair, when he was pastor of the Middle Spring Presbyterian Church. Mr. Blair's warrant for this tract, which contained 212 acres, was dated Oct. 5, 1743. It was situated adjacent to the church, in what is now Southampton township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Rippey bought it about the time of the outbreak of the French and Indian war. He lived on it during the rest of his life. The loss of the early records of Middle Spring Church deprives us of much information concerning him, but it is clear that he was a worshipper there from the time of the erection of the first log meeting-house; he was a subscriber to the building fund of the old stone church, in 1781. He was buried in the Lower Graveyard. His name appears on the list of original purchasers of lots in Shippensburg from Edward Shippen, his deeds being for Nos. 100, 101, 103 and 109.
There is some uncertainty in regard to Mr. Rippey's marriage or marriages. A well defined tradition that has been perpetuated in the Christian names of a number of his descendants is that his wife was a sister of Col. John Armstrong, the hero of Kittanning. In his will he mentioned his wife, Rachel, who survived him. According to a genealogy prepared by Hon. John McCurdy, of Shippensburg, he married Jane Grabil Allen. If this is correct she must have been his first wife, and the name of his second wife Rachel Armstrong.

1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 52.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 835.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 834.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 8, 53.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 836.

6 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 34.

7 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 53.

8 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 8, 54.

9 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 245.

10 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 54.

11 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 53, 130.

12 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 268.