Capt. Archibald McAllister and Elizabeth Carson

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Husband Capt. Archibald McAllister ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 17 Apr 1756 1
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           Died: 1831 or 1832 1 2
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         Father: Col. Richard McAllister (      -1795) 1 2 4
         Mother: Mary Dill (      -Bef 1795) 2

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       Marriage: 1785 1

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Hayes (      -Bef 1785) 2

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Wife Elizabeth Carson ^{1 2}

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Children

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1 M John Carson McAllister ^{2 5 6}

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           Born: Abt 1789
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           Died: 1862 2
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         Spouse: Frances Harris Hanna (1791-1868) 2 5 6 7
           Marr: 27 Oct 1812 6

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Archibald McAllister

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He was a captain in the revolutionary war, and and at the age of twenty fought at Monmouth and Germantown. In 1785 he bought Fort Hunter, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and lived there the rest of his life, where three succeeding generations of his descendants lived and died, and their remains sleep in a private cemetery. He owned nearly a thousand acres of land in one tract, was wealthy, and while a practical farmer, yet devoted some time to fancy and theoretical farming. He was one of the three largest landholders in the eastern part of the State, and was a strict Presbyterian and a strong Jacksonian democrat.

He served in the revolutionary war under the direct command of Washington, from whom he afterward received many letters, which were kept in the family for many years.

He had six children with his second wife.

1 John Gibson, History of York County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886), Pg 592.

2 Samuel T. Wiley & W. Scott Garner, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Gresham Publishing Co., 1892), Pg 443.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 115.

4 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 424.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 84.

6 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 53.

7 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 501.