Capt. Samuel Small

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Husband Capt. Samuel Small ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 Dec 1773 - northern Ireland 2 3
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Children

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1 F Mary Small ^{2 4}

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         Spouse: Ransol Smith (      -      ) 2

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2 M Samuel H. Small ^{2 4 5}

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           Born: 30 Jan 1810 - York Co, PA 2
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           Died: 26 Jan 1878 4 6
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         Spouse: Melissa P. Collins (1815-1862) 4 6
           Marr: 1837 6

         Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth Jameson (1823-1896) 5
           Marr: 1866 3 6

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3 M Moses H. Small ^{1 2}

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           Born: 16 Jan 1813 - York Co, PA 2 3
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           Died: Aft 1879
         Buried:  - Plum Church Cemetery

         Spouse: Sarah Collins (      -      ) 2 3
           Marr: 1850 2 3

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4 F Jane Small ^{2 4}

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         Spouse: Stephen Collins (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Samuel Small

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He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Coming to America about 1800, he lived in York County, Pennsylvania, until the War of 1812, in which he served as a captain, having organized a company to go to Erie. He brought his company through Venango County on its way to join Commodore Perry, hearing of the famous battle en route. Cap-tain Small was so favorably impressed with this region that when he returned to York County he obtained a yoke of oxen and in 1816 brought his wife and four children out in a wagon, having decided to settle on a tract which he admired, lying along Sugar creek. He bought a tract comprising from three hundred and sev-enty-five to four hundred acres, and made a location on it between Sugar creek and Lake creek, spending the remainder of his life in the improvement of this property, where he died at the age of sixty-five years. The coun-try was new, game of all kinds abounded, and Indians were even yet seen in the vicinity, but he and his family labored industriously to make a home and succeeded in raising the value of their property even under the adverse conditions then existing. Captain Small was a carpenter by trade, and built many houses and other structures in the new settlement, where mechanics were scarce and in great de-mand. He was a Freemason, belonging to a lodge in Philadelphia. [CAB, 524]

In 1811 Samuel Small moved to Jackson Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and family of four children, and acquired a tract of 375 acres where his sons remained, the daughters removing west. Samuel Small was a native of Ireland, and lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, before settling in Venango. [CAB, 383]

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 603, 604.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 524.

3 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 604.

4 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 603.

5 E. O. Jameson, The Jamesons in America, 1647 - 1900 (Boston, MA: The Rumford Press, 1901), Pg 112.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 525.