Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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John Maclay and Jane Dickson


Husband John Maclay 1 2 

           Born: 10 May 1734 - Ireland 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Oct 1804 - Maclay's Mill, Franklin Co, PA 3
         Buried: 


         Father: Charles Maclay (1703-1753) 2 4 5 6
         Mother: Eleanor Query (1707-1789) 2 4 5


       Marriage: 17 Dec 1755 3

Wife Jane Dickson 1 3 

           Born: 20 Dec 1734 - Ireland 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 3 Apr 1812 - Maclay's Mill, Franklin Co, PA 3
         Buried: 


         Father: David Dickson (1705-1784) 3
         Mother: Catharine Greenlee (1711-1798) 3


Children
1 F Nancy Maclay 3 

           Born: 1756 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 1761 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

2 M Charles Maclay 1 3 7 

           Born: 23 May 1757 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 4 Jan 1815 - Urbana, Champaign Co, OH 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Susanna Linn (1765-      ) 1 3 7
           Marr: 18 Jun 1788 3

3 F Catharine Maclay 1 3 

           Born: 28 Jul 1760 - Lurgan Twp, Franklin Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 20 Aug 1837 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: William Irwin (      -      ) 1 3
           Marr: 28 Dec 1783 3

4 M David Maclay 1 3 

           Born: 30 Nov 1762 - Lurgan Twp, Franklin Co, PA 8
     Christened: 
           Died: 9 Feb 1839 8
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Eleanor Maclay (1777-1802) 1 9
           Marr: 8 Sep 1795 8 10

         Spouse: Eleanor Herron (1784-1825) 1 11
           Marr: 2 Oct 1806 12

5 M Hon. William Maclay 1 3 13 

           Born: 22 Mar 1765 - Maclay's Mill, Franklin Co, PA 12
     Christened: 
           Died: 4 Jan 1825 - Fannettsburg, Franklin Co, PA 10 12
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Margaret "Peggy" Culbertson (1773-1834) 1 13 14
           Marr: 22 Dec 1789 10 12 13

6 M Samuel Maclay 1 3 

           Born: 16 Nov 1767 - Lurgan Twp, Franklin Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 5 Feb 1843 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Margaret Snodgrass (      -1871) 1 3

7 F Eleanor Maclay 1 15 

           Born: 5 Feb 1769 - Lurgan Twp, Franklin Co, PA 15
     Christened: 
           Died: 1826 15
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Capt. David McKnight (      -      ) 1 15

8 F Jane Maclay 1 15 

           Born: 7 Sep 1774 15
     Christened: 
           Died: 9 Jul 1799 15
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

9 M John Maclay 1 15 16 

           Born: 9 Nov 1776 - Maclay's Mill, Franklin Co, PA 17
     Christened: 
           Died: 22 Dec 1852 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 17
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Hannah Reynolds (1788-1848) 1 18
           Marr: 13 Apr 1809 17

General Notes: Husband - John Maclay


He was brought up on the homestead of his father in what is now Lurgan township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, to which he succeeded. He built the first mill on the Conedoguinet, within the limits of the county, and subsequently a saw-mill and distillery. He also built a substantial log dwelling-house, that was a great improvement upon the early cabin of the pioneer. It was of hewn logs dovetailed together, while doors and windows were made safe against Indian attacks by heavy bolts.
He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Cumberland County, April 6, 1771, and for Franklin County, Nov. 2, 1785. He was an earnest patriot in the Revolution, and was one of the delegates from Cumberland County to the Provincial Conference that met at Carpenters' Hall, June 18, 1776, and declared the existing government in Pennsylvania incompetent, calling a convention to meet in Philadelphia, July 15, 1776, to frame a new Constitution. Mr. Maclay showed the unselfishness of his patriotism by accepting the humbler station in the darkest hour of the Continental cause, and marching as a private soldier in Capt. Joseph Brady's company, in the emergency service in 1778.
After the organization of the county of Franklin, Pennsylvania, he not only served as one of the Justices of the county courts until the adoption of the Constitution of 1790, but he twice represented the county in the Pennsylvania Legislature-the first time in 1791-2, and again in 1793-4.
For many years he was a ruling elder in the Middle Spring Presbyterian Church, and he was one of the subscribers to the old stone church, built in 1781.

He was appointed a provincial magistrate in 1760, and a member of the provincial conference held in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, June 18, 1776. Afterward served as a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly for several terms. His ability is attested by the fact that he, one of the settlers in the extreme western part of Cumberland County, was chosen by the people of the more thickly populated eastern portion of the county to represent them also in that conference, which declared that they, on behalf of the people of Pennsylvania, were 'willing to concur in a vote of Congress declaring the United Colonies free and independent States.' Mr. Maclay's bearing on this occasion probably had much to do with his success in after life, in being appointed to positions of trust and honor. He was much respected for his religious views and manifested his great interest in the affairs of the church by officiating for a long time as a ruling elder in Dr. Cooper's church at Middle Spring.

He died at his home, April 4, 1804. [HFC 1887, 822]

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Sources

1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 822.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 145.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 146.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 518.

5 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 821.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1469.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 368.

8 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 150.

9 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 149.

10 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 825.

11 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 66.

12 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 151.

13 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 191.

14 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 130, 151.

15 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 147.

16 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 80.

17 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 152.

18 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 103, 152.

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