Joseph Parkison and Margaret Weaver

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Husband Joseph Parkison ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1739 - near Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 4
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         Father: William Parkinson (      -      ) 7 8
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       Marriage:  - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA

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• Family History: Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910).
To read a brief sketch of the Parkinson family, click here.

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Wife Margaret Weaver ^{9 10}

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1 M James Parkison ^{9 11}

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2 M David Parkison ^{9 11}

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3 M William Parkison ^{9 11}

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4 F Mary Parkison ^{9 11 13}

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            AKA: [Unk] Parkerson 12
           Born: Abt 1781
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         Spouse: Maj. James Warne (1779-      ) 11 12 13 15
           Marr: 1805 9 11 16

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Parkison

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Between the years 1768 and 1770 five Parkison brothers-Joseph, Benjamin, Thomas, James and William-came from Virginia to the Monongahela Valley in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

... we have learned from the venerable Capt. Ira H. Butler (who obtained his information from Joseph Parkison himself) that the Parkisons before removing to this [Washington] county had been members of the Conococheague settlement. As our readers will learn by scanning maps and historical works, the "Conococheague settlement" was a very early one, and the English, Scotch, and German emigrants who first located there supposed that their settlement lay wholly within the domains of Lord Baltimore. However, by a subsequent arrangement between the proprietors of the two provinces (an arrangement though not at all satisfactory to a majority of those who were thus transferred from the rule of Lord Baltimore's officers to those of the Penns'), the present line between the States of Pennsylvania and Maryland was finally established considerably to the southward of the line called for in Lord Baltimore's grant, and thus the original Conococheague settlement is embraced by what is now known as Washington County, Maryland, formed from Frederick in 1776, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, formed from Cumberland in 1784. The Parkisons were of English or Scotch descent. [HWC 1882, 566]

It is tradition as well as a well authenticated fact that the Parkinsons came from the old Conococheague Settlement, a very early one, composed of the English, Scotch and German emigrants who first located there supposing their settlement lay wholly within the domains of Lord Baltimore. However, by a subsequent arrangement between the proprietors of the two provinces, the territory in which the Parkinsons found themselves was within the boundaries belonging to the Penns.
(They) removed from their home in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, near Carlisle, about 1769 or 1770, to the mouth of Pigeon Creek, on the west bank of the Monongahela River, where Monongahela City is now located. The five brothers took up some 5,000 acres of lands among them in Washington County along the waters of Pigeon and Mingo Creeks from 1769 to 1791. [TCHWWC, 530]

It is family tradition that Joseph Parkinson first came to Fort Pitt as an Indian trader, and was at Fort Pitt in 1769, when the lands along the Monongahela River in the vicinity of where Monongahela City stands were first begun to be taken up by the early settlers of that region, among the first of whom were the Parkinsons.

He built the first ferry at Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, from whence the first name given the place, which afterward became so famous in connection with the Whisky Insurrection, namely, Parkison's Ferry, the first United States postoffice in this region. He was a very prominent citizen, serving as a justice of the peace for many years. But he made his place in the history of Washington County by laying out and founding the town of William's Port (later Monongahela City), in the year 1796. The Parkisons were Virginians, and came of English ancestry.

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Weaver

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She was a true representative of the stock known as the "the Pennsylvania Dutch," and her reputation as a most excellent landlady was widely extended.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 566
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2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1339
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3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 530, 937.

4 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 532
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5 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 573
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6 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 89
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7 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 834.

8 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 530.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1339.

10 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 532, 937.

11 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 937.

12 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 940.

13 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 569, 600.

14 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1349.

15 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1336, 1349
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16 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 601.