John Cochran

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Husband John Cochran ^{1 2 3}

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1 M Samuel Cochran ^{1 3 4 5 6}

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           Born: 24 Jul or 24 Aug 1750 - Chester Co, PA 1 2 3
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           Died: 2 Jul 1837 - ? Fayette Co, PA 1 3
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         Spouse: Esther Johns (      -1802) 4 6
           Marr: Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA

         Spouse: Agnes Robinson (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - John Cochran

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The first of the Cochran name in America settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania, early in the eighteenth century. Subsequent ancestors moved to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, just before the Revolutionary War, where they settled. John Cochran is the first of the family on record, and he, a Scotch-Irish gentleman, a Presbyterian from the North of Ireland, moved to Chester County in 1745.

He came to the American colonies about 1745 and settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he married into the Sanford family, of English origin. Of their children all save one, Samuel, died without issue.

He came from Ireland to Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1745.

1 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 152.

2 Editor, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 532.

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

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

5 Editor, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 996.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 245.