Samuel Moorhead and Elizabeth Sprowls

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Husband Samuel Moorhead ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Samuel Moorehead 3
           Born: 1745 - Scotland 4
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           Died: 1805 - Washington Co, PA 4
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       Marriage: Abt 1776

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Wife Elizabeth Sprowls ⁵

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            AKA: Elizabeth Sproul 3 4
           Born:  - eastern Pennsylvania
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         Father: Hugh Sprowls (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )

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Children

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1 M John Moorhead ^{3 4}

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           Born: 1785 - Cecil Twp, Washington Co, PA 4
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           Died: 1861 4
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         Spouse: Sarah Buchanan (      -1828) 3 4
           Marr: 1810 4

         Spouse: Priscilla Aiken (      -1871) 4
           Marr: 1837 4

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2 M James Moorhead ⁴

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           Born:  - Cecil Twp, Washington Co, PA
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3 M Francis Moorhead ⁴

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           Born:  - Cecil Twp, Washington Co, PA
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4 M David Moorhead ⁴

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           Born:  - Cecil Twp, Washington Co, PA
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5 M William Moorhead ⁴

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           Born:  - Cecil Twp, Washington Co, PA
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6 M Robert Moorhead ⁴

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           Born:  - Cecil Twp, Washington Co, PA
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7 F Elizabeth Moorhead ⁴

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           Born:  - Cecil Twp, Washington Co, PA
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         Spouse: [Unk] McLaughlin (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Moorhead

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He was born in Scotland, and when about twenty-one years of age left his native land for a home in America. He first located in eastern Pennsylvania, moving to Cecil township, Washington County, in 1775.
After marriage he and his wife located on a timber-covered farm in Cecil township (later occupied by the W. P. Rend Coal Co.), where at night they, in connection with other settlers of the neighborhood, were obliged to resort to blockhouses, in dread of the Indians. They finally removed to another farm and erected a one-story cabin, built of round logs with the bark on, and here their children were born. He took an active part in the Whiskey Insurrection, and other questions of the day. He was one of a number of neighbors who went turn about over the mountains from eastern Pennsylvania, to carry salt in sacks on horseback, riding one horse and leading two, and carrying as much salt in one trip as would last the company one year, and he was a prominent actor in the many scenes of danger so common to frontiersmen.

He was a native of Scotland, and supposed to have been a descendant of the old Moore family of that country. He came to America, and first located in Wilmington, [Delaware,?] but soon afterward left his tools and an unfinished cellar to investigate lands further west. He settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and died there at an old age.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Sprowls

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She died when she was ninety-two years of age.

She died at the residence of her son John, aged nearly 100 years, having been blind for seven years before her death.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 702.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 314.

3 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 874.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 317.

5 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 703.