William McGeorge and Julia Haden

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Husband William McGeorge ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1760
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         Father: William McGeorge (      -      ) 2
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       Marriage: 1792 3

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Wife Julia Haden ²

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Children

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1 M William McGeorge ^{1 3}

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           Born: 1793 - at sea, Atlantic Ocean 3
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           Died: 11 Oct 1854 - Beaver Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Nancy A. Young (1798-1886) 1 4

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2 M James McGeorge ³

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3 F Jane McGeorge ³

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         Spouse: William Jones (      -      ) 3

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4 F Sarah McGeorge ³

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         Spouse: William Young (      -      ) 3

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5 F Mary McGeorge ³

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         Spouse: Joseph Gibson (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - William McGeorge

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The story of his courtship and successful wooing has a touch of human nature that renders it of more than passing interest. Julia Haden was the daughter of a retired sea captain, who in his maritime ventures had amassed abundant wealth. Although the father of his daughter's suitor was a gentleman highly regarded in the neighborhood and was the possessor of a comfortable fortune from the successful tending of his flocks, Captain Haden was irrevocably opposed to the match, even, so the story runs, going to the lengths of offering his daughter as many gold pieces as would cover the top of a Spanish table. That the young English girl (her father's estate was just across the boundary) married William McGeorge is sufficient proof of the futility of her father's efforts to dissuade her from the course upon which she had decided. The following year they immigrated to the United States, their first child, William, being born on the way across. They settled in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, about ten miles south of the city of Pittsburgh. He never purchased land in that county, but in 1798 journeyed to Darlington township, Beaver County, and there bought a farm, although he did not make his home there until 1806. In Allegheny County he rented farms, which he cultivated with profitable success, each fall making a practice of loading a large wagon, drawn by four horses, with the products of his farm, and crossing the mountains to Philadelphia, where he sold his products, receiving in payment provisions and other articles and commodities necessary and difficult to obtain in the west. Upon his return to his home, he drove through the surrounding neighborhood with his loaded team, finding a ready market for his goods and reaping a much larger profit than had he accepted cash for his farm products. In the season when farm work was not particularly pressing he sold goods between Pittsburgh and Cleveland, carrying his wares in large saddle-bags.
He came to Beaver County in 1798, first purchasing two hundred acres of land in Darlington township, and later four hundred acres additional, later occupied by his son, James. William McGeorge was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, regular in his attendance and strict in his observance of all religious laws, especially of those regarding manual labor on the Sabbath. His children he reared in strict loyalty and obedience, and despite the many chafing regulations of conduct that he imposed upon them, held their loving regard, for there was no rule which they were compelled to obey that was not binding upon him. He donated the ground upon which the Reformed Presbyterian Church was later built, but died before it was built.

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General Notes: Wife - Julia Haden

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She attained the unusual age of ninety-seven years, although in her younger days she had been considered of frail and delicate health.

1 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 686.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 686.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 687.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 688.