Edward Byram

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Husband Edward Byram ^{1 2}

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           Born: 11 Jun 1742 2
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           Died: 25 Aug 1824 2
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         Father: Ebenezer Byram (1716-1762) 1 2
         Mother: Abigail Alden (1721-1762/1763) 1 3

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Wife

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Children

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1 F Abigail "Indian Abby" Byram ^{4 5 6}

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           Born: 1765 or 1766 6
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           Died: 27 Nov 1851 - Murrysville, Westmoreland Co, PA 7
         Buried:  - Murrysville, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: Col. Joseph Collins (1762-1814) 4 6 8

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General Notes: Husband - Edward Byram

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With his daughter, Abby, he was taken prisoner by the Indians, April 7, 1779, at his newly established home in western Pennsylvania. He afterward escaped, but Abby, then a child, was sold to the French and did not return to her home until she was a young woman.

He and his daughter Abigail were captured by a band of Indians of the Seneca tribe, April 7, 1779. They were in captivity about two years, were fairly well treated, but suffered greatly from cold, fatigue and hunger, while in camp and while on marches from place to place. They were taken to Canada one winter, and while there were in the power of Joseph Brant, the leader of the hostile Indians. Finally they were released and made their way back to New Jersey, the old home of the Byrams, and subsequently to Edward Byram's old farm and home near Murrysville, where he found his wife and younger children, who were overjoyed to see one whom they had mourned as dead.

He was the father of nine children.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1187.

2 Eunice Byram Roberts, Byram-Crawford and Allied Familes Genealogy (Publisher Unknown), Pg 43.

3 Eunice Byram Roberts, Byram-Crawford and Allied Familes Genealogy (Publisher Unknown), Pg 42.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 361.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1187, 1354.

6 Eunice Byram Roberts, Byram-Crawford and Allied Familes Genealogy (Publisher Unknown), Pg 83.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1354.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1187, 1354.