Edward Crouch and Rachel Bailey

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Husband Edward Crouch ^{1 2 3 4 5}

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           Born: 9 Nov 1764 - Walnut Hill, Paxtang Twp, Dauphin Co, PA 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Jan 1827 4
         Buried:  - Paxtang Church Cemetery, Paxtang, Dauphin Co, PA

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         Father: Col. James Crouch (Abt 1728-1794) 1 2 4
         Mother: Hannah Brown (1727-1787) 2 4

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Margaret Potter (1775-1795/1797) 1 3 4 5

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Wife Rachel Bailey ⁴

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           Born: 16 Apr 1782 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Mar 1857 4
         Buried:  - Paxtang Church Cemetery, Paxtang, Dauphin Co, PA

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Edward Crouch

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He was a merchant by occupation. At the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the army of the Revolution, and commanded a company in the Whiskey Insurrection, in 1794. He served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1804 to 1806, and was a Presidential elector in 1813. Governor Snyder appointed him one of the associate judges of Dauphin County, April 16, 1813, but he resigned upon his election to the Thirteenth United States Congress.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 477.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 174.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 110.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 145.

5 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 314.