Robert Jamison and Elizabeth Gaff

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Husband Robert Jamison ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: Robert Jameson 4
           Born: 1755 - Ireland 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 24 Aug 1825 - Westmoreland Co, PA 5
         Buried:  - Middle Church Cemetery, near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: Francis Jamison (      -      ) 1 2 3 6
         Mother: Margaret [Unk] (      -      ) 4

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Elizabeth Gaff ^{2 4}

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           Born: 1746 - Ireland 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 1830 or 1831 2 5
         Buried:  - Middle Church Cemetery, near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA

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Children

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1 F Margaret Jameson ⁵

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         Spouse: Samuel Milligan (      -      ) 5

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2 M James Jameson ⁵

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            AKA: James Jamison 7 8
           Born: 24 Apr 1775 - Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland Co, PA 5
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           Died:  - Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland Co, PA
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Elizabeth Lloyd (1791-      ) 5

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3 M Francis Jameson ⁵

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           Died: while young
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4 F Jane Jameson ⁵

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         Spouse: George Anderson (      -      ) 5

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5 M William Gaff Jameson ⁵

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         Spouse: Elizabeth Workman (      -      ) 5

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6 F Elizabeth Jameson ⁵

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           Born: 20 Apr 1789 5
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7 M Robert Jameson ⁵

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            AKA: Robert Jamison 9
           Born: 30 Jan 1791 - near Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland Co, PA 5 9
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           Died: 26 Dec 1886 5 9
         Buried:  - Pleasant Unity Presbyterian Cemetery, Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: Jane Workman (1794-1881) 5 9
           Marr: 1816 or 1817 5 9

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Jamison

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With his brother, John, he came to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in about 1769. Each of the brothers took patent to about three hundred acres of land. Robert Jamison's grant was in Unity Township, and his homestead was still in possession of his descendants over a century later. John Jamison located in Hempfield Township.

The family landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and proceeded west to the Cove or Connoshaque, near Mercersburg, Franklin County. In 1769, the land office being opened for Westmoreland County, the two older brothers, John and Robert, went there to settle. Robert took land near Pleasant Unity, which was improved and planted with corn the first summer, and a cabin built. In the fall they stored their corn in the cabin, took their horses and went home. The next spring they returned with one of their sisters to keep house for them. In three years they had enough land cleared and cabins built to make homes for themselves and their parents. The old people had their cabin on their son, Robert Jameson's farm. The land being rapidly taken up, John Jameson, the oldest son, established himself on a farm two miles further north. The children were all married except Marmaduke, the third son, who passed his summers on a farm in Mercer County, and having stored his gathered crops he took his horses and drove to Westmoreland County and spent the winter months in the families of his brothers. [JIA, 111]

He lived on the same farm for fifty-six years, which was divided among his three sons, James, William Gaff, and Robert. The latter, who was the youngest, received the middle portion, on which had stood the original cabin.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Gaff

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Her father died just before just before the family landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, leaving his wife with five children, "A stranger and a widow in a strange land."

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 37.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 419.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 147.

4 E. O. Jameson, The Jamesons in America, 1647 - 1900 (Boston, MA: The Rumford Press, 1901), Pg 111.

5 E. O. Jameson, The Jamesons in America, 1647 - 1900 (Boston, MA: The Rumford Press, 1901), Pg 112.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 5.

7 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1105.

8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 875.

9 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 420.