Samuel Cochran and Esther Johns

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Husband Samuel Cochran ^{1 2}

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           Born: 24 Aug 1750 - Chester Co, PA 2
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           Died: 2 Jul 1837 2
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         Father: John Cochran (      -      ) 2
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       Marriage:  - Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA

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   Other Spouse: Agnes Robinson (      -      ) 2

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Wife Esther Johns ¹

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            AKA: Esther John 2
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           Died: 8 Oct 1802 2
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         Father: Daniel Johns (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 M Samuel Cochran, Jr. ^{1 2}

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2 M James Cochran ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1781
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           Died: Aug 1875 1
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 M John Cochran ^{1 2}

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4 M Thomas Cochran ^{1 2}

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5 M Isaac Cochran ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Rosanna Sample (      -Abt 1836) 3
           Marr: Abt 1815 - Westmoreland Co, PA

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6 M Mordecai Cochran ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 Oct 1797 - Tyrone Twp, Fayette Co, PA 2
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           Died: 29 Dec 1880 1 2
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         Spouse: Susanna Welch (      -1874) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Cochran

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He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and lived until manhood in the eastern part of the state. His profession was that of a surveyor, and he served in the war of the Revolution. At the close of the war he removed to Chambersburg, where he married. When he came to western Pennsylvania he lived for a time on the Washington Bottoms, in Perry township, Fayette County. After a while he purchased land in Tyrone township, of Capt. Joseph Huston, three hundred acres, on which he built a log cabin, the usual style of a home at that day. In 1811 he built a large stone house on the place, where he dwelt the remainder of his days. By will the property of Samuel Cochran passed to two of his sons, Mordecai and James, the homestead part falling to Mordecai. [HFC 1882, 788]

He came to America from the north of Ireland and settled near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He moved into Fayette County when Isaac, his son, was quite young.

In 1774 he moved with his father to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where he purchased a farm of two hundred acres on June 8. He later became a soldier in the Revolutionary War, enlisting in the Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion, in the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, under the command of Captain Samuel Hay, entering the ranks at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Samuel Cochran fought in the battles of Three Rivers, Paoli, Brandywine, Germantown and Stony Point, spending the winter with the hardy and tried patriots under General Washington, at Valley Forge in 1777-78. Returning to Chambersburg at the close of the war, he spent some time readjusting his life. For a time after 1789, he lived in Fayette County, in "Washington Bottoms," near what later became Perryopolis. But this residence was brief, and he moved in 1790 to Tyrone, where he purchased from Captain Joseph Huston a farm of three hundred acres. There he remained, an efficient farmer and a practical surveyor. He was, all his life, a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church.

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 788.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 243.

3 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 805.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 244.