Col. James Paull and Mary Cannon

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Husband Col. James Paull ¹

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           Born: 17 Sep 1760 - Frederick (later Berkeley) Co, VA 2
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         Father: George Paull (      -      ) 3
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Wife Mary Cannon ⁴

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1 F Hannah Paull ⁴

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         Spouse: Rev. Joel Stoneroad (1806-Aft 1882) 5
           Marr: 27 Jun 1854 4

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2 M James Paull ²

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3 M George Paull ²

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4 M John Paull ²

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5 M Archibald Paull ²

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6 M Thomas Paull ²

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7 M William Paull ²

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8 M Joseph Paull ²

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9 F Martha Paull ²

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         Spouse: William Walker (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Col. James Paull

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He lived in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, from childhood to old age, and was one of its prominent and most honored citizens. He was born in Frederick (now Berkeley) County, Virginia, and in 1768 removed to the west with the family of his father, George Paull, who then settled in that part of Westmoreland County which afterwards became Fayette County, his location being the Gist neighborhood, in the present township of Dunbar, which was the home of James Paull during the remainder of his long life.
In the early part of his life James Paull was much engaged in military service, and in it his record was that of a brave, honorable, and efficient soldier and officer. His military experience began in 1778, when, as a boy of eighteen years, he was drafted for a tour of duty in the guarding of Continental stores at Fort Bard, on the Monongahela, under Capt. Robert McGlaughlin. Three years later\emdash in 1871\emdash he was made a first lieutenant by Thomas Jefferson, Governor of Virginia, and in that grade served with a company raised largely by his efforts, and which formed a part of the expedition which went down the Ohio under Gen. George Rogers Clarke on a projected campaign against Detroit. Upon the failure of that expedition he returned on foot through the wilderness from the Falls of the Ohio (Louisville, Kentucky) to Morgantown, Virginia, and thence home, being accompanied by the men of his own command and also the officers and men of Maj. Isaac Craig's artillery, of Pittsburgh. In 1782 he served a short tour of duty as a private soldier at Turtle Creek, above Pittsburgh, and at its close joined (still as a private) the expedition of Col. William Crawford against Sandusky. Again in 1783 and 1784 he was engaged in frontier service against Indian incursions along the southwest border of the State. In 1790 he served in the grade of major and lieutenant-colonel under Gen. Harmar in the unsuccessful campaign of that officer against the Indians in the Maumee country, and in this, as in all his military service, he acquitted himself most honorably. This was the end of his military experience. Having married, he settled down to the comforts of domestic life and the pursuits of agriculture, in which he was eminently successful. He had some concern in iron manufacture, and was occasionally in middle life a down-river trader. He was never ambitious for office, and the only one he ever held was that of sheriff of Fayette County from 1793 to 1796.

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 538, 540.

2 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 538.

3 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 56, 538.

4 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 540.

5 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 539, 795.