Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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[Father] Breckenridge




Husband [Father] Breckenridge

            AKA: [Father] Breckenbridge
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Jul 1779 - Huntingdon Co, PA 1
         Buried: 
       Marriage: 



Wife

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Children
1 M John Breckenridge 2

            AKA: John Breckenbridge 1
           Born: Abt 1761
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



2 M Thomas Breckenridge 2

            AKA: Thomas Breckenbridge 1
           Born: Abt 1763
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           Died: 
         Buried: 



3 F [Unk] Breckenridge 2

            AKA: [Unk] Breckenbridge 1
           Born: Abt 1765
     Christened: 
           Died: Jul 1779 - Huntingdon Co, PA 1
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Did Not Marry


4 F [Unk] Breckenridge 2

            AKA: [Unk] Breckenbridge 1
           Born: Abt 1776
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           Died: 
         Buried: 



5 F Elizabeth Breckenridge 2

            AKA: Elizabeth Breckenbridge,1 Elizabeth Breckinridge 3
           Born: Abt 1779
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: William Meek (      -1806) 1 2 3



General Notes: Husband - [Father] Breckenridge


In July, 1779, the Breckenbridge family, consisting of father, mother, two sons, John and Thomas, aged eighteen and sixteen years, a daughter of fourteen, another of three and Elizabeth, then an infant, resided in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, three miles southeast of McConnellstown on the road from Huntingdon to Bedford; John and Thomas had left the house when the Indians attacked it, killing the father and the eldest daughter in the spring house. The mother, with her baby and other daughter made her escape.

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 278.

2 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 213.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 124.


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