John Ross and Margaret Small

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Husband John Ross ¹

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           Born: 1685 - Scotland 1
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         Father: John Ross (      -      ) 1
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       Marriage: 1722 2

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Wife Margaret Small ²

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Children

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1 M Thomas Ross ²

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2 F Margaret Ross ²

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         Spouse: [Unk] McKitchen (      -      ) 2

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3 F Mary Ross ²

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         Spouse: [Unk] Hutchison (      -      ) 2

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4 F Sallie Ross ²

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         Spouse: James Moss (      -      ) 2

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5 F Jane Ross ²

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         Spouse: Rev. John McMillan (      -      ) 2

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6 M John Ross ²

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           Born: 1747 2
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         Spouse: Margaret Young (1751-1808) 2
           Marr: 1774 2

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General Notes: Husband - John Ross

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His father removed from Scotland with his wife and family of five children, in 1689, to the city of Derry, Ireland; the next year he took part in the battle of the Boyne. His son John, who was four years old when the family moved from Scotland, left Ireland in 1706 to escape the British press-gangs capturing young men for the army. He took passage in the ship "Northern Light," which was wrecked off the shoals of Cape May about the first of August, and he saved nothing but his clothes. Traveling up the Jersey shore, opposite New Castle, Delaware, he pledged his silver knee buckles for his ferriage across the Delaware river. Then he came into Pennsylvania, staying with William Miller, to whom he had letters from Ireland. Here he taught school for two years, on the point of Infearion (or Lough Kinamon), later called Avondale, until he received a remittance from Ireland which enabled him to purchase the farm called Ross Common, in Londongrove township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, from Josephine and Catherine Hedg, the first settlers, in 1708. [HAC 1914, 313]

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Small

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from New London (later Franklin) township

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 312.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 313.