'Squire Alexander Gilfillan and Margaret Boyd

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Husband 'Squire Alexander Gilfillan ¹

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           Born:  - ? Scotland
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           Died:  - ? Allegheny Co, PA
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• Note: This may be the same person as : Alexander Gilfillan.

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Wife Margaret Boyd ¹

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Children

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1 M John Gilfillan ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1785 - Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Margaret Fife (      -      ) 2

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2 M Andrew B. Gilfillan ¹

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           Born: Abt 1790
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           Died: 1873 1
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         Spouse: Ann Caldwell (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - 'Squire Alexander Gilfillan

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The pioneer of this family in America, he came from Scotland in 1780, settled in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and took up four hundred acres of land on Chartiers creek, where he remained until his death. He was the first justice of the peace in his township (then St. Clair), and filled the office for forty years. He was an elder in the U. P. Church of Mt. Lebanon, was always a farmer, and a prominent man in his day.
He and his wife had ten children.

1 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 465.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 286.