John Cochran and Sarah Lattimore

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Husband John Cochran ¹

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           Born: 1761 1
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           Died: 1 May 1836 - Mill Creek, Erie Co, PA 1
         Buried: 

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         Father: George Cochran (Abt 1736-1786) 1 2 3
         Mother: Anna Henry (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Sarah Lattimore ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: Abt 1840
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Children

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1 M George Cochran ^{1 4}

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           Born: 4 Feb 1792 4
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           Died: Dec 1827 - Mill Creek, Erie Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M Robert Cochran ^{1 4}

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           Born: 10 Aug 1798 - Milton, Northumberland Co, PA 4
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           Died: 9 Dec 1869 - Erie Co, PA 1 4
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         Spouse: Eliza Justice (      -1863) 1 4
           Marr: 20 Oct 1822 4

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General Notes: Husband - John Cochran

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He spent his earliest years in Chester County, Pennsylvania, among his father's friends, where he received a good education and studied surveying. In 1792 he removed to Northumberland (later Union) County, from thence going to Erie County in 1796 as deputy surveyor under Thomas Rees, who was the first State surveyor appointed by the Land Department of the Commonwealth for that county. Mr. Cochran surveyed and laid out the Erie and Waterford Reservations with tracts and farms in 1796-7. He purchased tracts 30 and 70 of the Erie reserve, and removed his family there in 1799. In 1800 he built a rude saw and grist mill on Mill creek, where Dinsmore's (later Stewart's) mill was later located. Gov. McKean appointed Mr. Cochran deputy surveyor of Erie County, July 9, 1801, and subsequently, July 5, 1803, one of the associates judges of the county. He was appointed by Governor Snyder secretary of the Land Office in 1809; removed to Lancaster with his family, and afterwards to Harrisburg. He held the office nine years, when he returned to his home in Mill Creek, near Erie. He lived on this farm until his death. [CBEDC, 95]

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 95.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 158.

3 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 397.

4 Editor, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Pg 876.