Robert Welch and Mary Caldwell

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Husband Robert Welch ¹

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           Born: 1751 - ? Pennsylvania 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 22 Feb 1809 1
         Buried:  - Buffalo Presbyterian Cemetery, Buffalo, Hopewell Twp, Washington Co, PA

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         Father: James Welch (Abt 1700-1754) 2
         Mother: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary Caldwell ¹

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           Born: 1754 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 3 Feb 1832 2
         Buried:  - Buffalo Presbyterian Cemetery, Buffalo, Hopewell Twp, Washington Co, PA

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Children

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1 M George Welch ⁴

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           Born: Abt 1780 - ? Cecil Co, MD
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1805
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M William Welch ⁴

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           Born: 
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         Spouse: Mary Sinclair (      -      ) 4

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3 M Robert Welch ^{4 5 6}

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           Born: 6 Dec 1786 - Maryland
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Dawson (1787-      ) 4 7
           Marr: 16 Oct 1806 8

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4 F Jane Welch ⁴

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         Spouse: Dr. John Dawson (      -      ) 4

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5 F Mary Welch ⁴

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         Spouse: Thomas Stewart (      -      ) 4 9 10

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6 F Nancy Welch ⁴

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           Born: 
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           Died: 1868 11
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         Spouse: John Cassil (      -1847) 4
           Marr: Abt 1806

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7 F Eleanor Welch ⁴

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         Spouse: Rev. James Foster (      -      ) 4

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8 M James M. Welch ⁴

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           Born: 
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           Died: when about twenty-eight years old
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9 M John Welch ^{12 13}

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           Born: 12 Jan 1800 - near McConnell's Mill, Washington Co, PA 12 13
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Nov 1870 12 13
 Cause of Death: Dysentery
         Buried:  - Cross Roads U. P. Cemetery, Washington Co, PA

         Spouse: Elizabeth Woodburn (1801/1802-1873) 12 14
           Marr: Abt 1821

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Welch

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He was probably born in the settlement of Paxtang on the east bank of the Susquehanna river, above the present state capital of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg. Some time after his father's death in the year 1754, he removed to Port Deposit, which is in Cecil County, Maryland, at the mouth of the Susquehanna. In early times this was a considerable shipping point. The carrying of grains, furs, produce and lumber from the up-river settlements by flat-boat or raft was an important industry. It appears that his mother had married a second time, becoming the wife of James Merchant, of Baltimore. This may have had something to do also with the movement of Robert to the south.
When Robert Welch and his young wife emigrated to the new lands west of the Alleghenies in Pennsylvania, he was accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Mary Merchant, or Marchant, as the name was called in the broad Scotch-Irish vernacular of the neighbourhood. This was between 1773 and 1784.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Caldwell

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from Cecil Co, MD

1 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 167.

2 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 178.

3 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 167, 179.

4 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 168.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 601, 921, 1207.

6 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 562.

7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1207.

8 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 169.

9 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1364.

10 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 978.

11 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 171.

12 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 601.

13 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 162.

14 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 162, 187.