James Chambers and Jane Miller

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Husband James Chambers ^{1 2}

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            AKA: James Chalmers,2 Thomas Chambers 3
           Born:  - Fifeshire, Scotland
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           Died: Abt 1844 - Hanover Twp, Beaver Co, PA
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       Marriage: 

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Wife Jane Miller ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1763
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Jan 1830 or 2 Jan 1834 1 2
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         Father: Samuel Miller (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Nancy [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 M Thomas Chambers ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Allegheny Co, PA
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2 M Samuel Chambers ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1793 - Allegheny Co, PA
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           Died: 3 Jan 1871 - Hanover Twp, Beaver Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Isabella Hall (Abt 1797-1865) 1

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3 M James Chambers ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
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           Died:  - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
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4 F Nancy Chambers ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
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           Died:  - West Virginia
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         Spouse: William Scott (      -      ) 2

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5 M John Chambers ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
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           Died:  - Richland Co, OH
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6 F Jane Chambers ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
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         Buried:  - Mill Creek Hill Cemetery, Beaver Co, PA

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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7 F Margaret Chambers ^{2 3 4}

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           Born: Abt 1803
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           Died: 25 Jul 1833 or 1834 2 3
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         Spouse: John Buchanan (1798-1830) 5 6

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8 M William Chambers ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
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           Died: while young
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9 M [Infant] Chambers ²

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           Born: 
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           Died: in infancy
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10 M [Infant] Chambers ²

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           Born: 
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           Died: in infancy
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General Notes: Husband - James Chambers

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The progenitor of the family in this country, he was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, and the old family name was Chalmers. He came to America as a British soldier with Cornwallis, and served in the British army three years. Having become imbued with the spirit of freedom he deserted and enlisted in the colonial militia. After the war he went to Florence, Washington County, Pennsylvania, with Miles Wilson, and finally married in Allegheny County. In 1797 they came to Hanover township, in Beaver County, where he purchased of Samuel Swearingen, Sr., 150 acres of land for £76, 17s. He died there at the age of seventy-eight years and his wife died aged sixty-seven years.

He was a soldier in the army of Cornwallis, and fought in the British army throughout the Revolution, and was present at the final surrender at Yorktown. While he had done the duty of a good soldier and had obeyed every order of his superiors, his heart had not been in sympathy with the side for which he was fighting, and he resolved to stay in America, to cast his lot with his former foes, and to endeavor to blot out whatever wrong he may have committed by an allegiance false to his convictions by earnest co-operation with his fellows in the erection of the new government that should follow English rule. In the army of the King he had been enrolled as James Chalmers, the form of his name in his native land, but to escape detection until the troops had sailed for England he changed the spelling to the form now used by the family, Chambers. His desertion was discovered but he successfully evaded his comrades and soon after came to Hanover township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Here he purchased two hundred and forty acres of land, cleared it, erected suitable buildings, and there resided until his death.
He possessed all of the intensity of purpose that characterizes those of Scotch blood and ever lived to atone for the injury he did the cause of Independence by taking up arms against it as a hireling. So great were his efforts toward the public good and so unselfish his devotion to public trusts that even the most bitter of his neighbors came to realize and appreciate the depth of sincerity of his repentance, and received him into their midst upon equal footing with the most loyal of patriots.

Both he and his wife were buried in the old Mill Creek Burying Ground, years later his remains and those of his wife and son, William, were moved to the Mill Creek Hill Cemetery.

A native of Scotland, he came to America as a Scottish soldier in Cornwall's Army. Mr. Chambers settled in Hanover township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in 1789.

1 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 835.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 844.

3 Editor, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 393.

4 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 830, 835.

5 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 830.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 843.