Maj. William Ross and Alice "Elsie" Mateer
Husband Maj. William Ross 1
Born: 1760 - Chester Co, PA 1 Christened: Died: 1821 - Rossville, York Co, PA 2 Buried:
Father: William Ross (Abt 1725-1777) 3 Mother: Jean Nesbit ( - ) 4
Marriage: May 1790 5
Wife Alice "Elsie" Mateer 5
Born: 15 Jul 1767 5 Christened: Died: 8 Aug 1828 - Rossville, York Co, PA 5 Buried:
Father: William Mateer ( -1801) 5 6 Mother: Margaret Carothers ( - ) 5
Children
1 M James Ross 2
Born: 24 Apr 1791 2 Christened: Died: 7 Nov 1867 - Rossville, York Co, PA 7 Buried:Spouse: Margaret Ewing ( - ) 8
2 M William Ross 2
Born: 29 May 1793 - Rossville, York Co, PA 2 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Mary McClellan ( - ) 9
3 F Elizabeth Ross 2
AKA: Eliza Ross 9 Born: 1794 - Rossville, York Co, PA 2 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Benjamin Hutton ( - ) 9
4 M John [1] Ross 2
Born: 1797 2 Christened: Died: in infancy Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
5 M John [2] Ross 2
Born: 1803 2 Christened: Died: in infancy Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
6 F Margaret Ross 2
Born: Jan 1809 2 Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Maj. William Ross
He was a private in Capt. William Dodds' Company of York County Militia in 1781, and while his brother Alexander Ross was stationed with his division at York, William took his place at the camp while Alexander came home to put out his grain.
William was major of the Warrington Rangers which did service in the Indian Wars of 1794 and colonel of the First Battalion of Riflemen which he helped to organize during the Second War with England.
It was in his time that the name of the town of Warrington Square was changed to Rosstown and later to Rossville. He was appointed justice of the peace for Warrington Township for life and was sheriff of York County, and one of the earliest postmasters. Major Ross built a tannery at Rossville and a stone dwelling house on the old York Road in 1785. Near his tannery a party of Indians had their wigwams and not far away was the famous "Quaker Race Course" where the young Quaker bloods used to speed their horses as they came to and went from Warrington Meeting House. Within sight of his house were the Military Muster Grounds where the Warrington Rangers held their maneuvers.
In 1797 he bought a tract of land near Rossville from Elihu Underwood and in 1804 another tract in Harrison County, Virginia. This land, which for many years was in litigation, was on the east side of the West Fork River at the mouth of Brown's Creek, close to the town of Clarksburg.
1 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 50.
2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 57.
3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 10, 48.
4 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 10.
5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 56.
6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896).
7 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 72.
8 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 70.
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Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 73.
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