Joseph Thorne and Jane Walker

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Husband Joseph Thorne ¹

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         Father: [Ancestor] Thorne (      -      )
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Wife Jane Walker ¹

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Children

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1 M Joseph Thorne ¹

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2 M John Thorne ¹

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           Born: 1768 or 1770 2
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3 M Robert Thorne ¹

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            AKA: Joseph Thorn 3
           Born: 1779 1
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           Died: 1872 1
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         Spouse: Prudence Mathews (      -      ) 1

         Spouse: Rachel Duncan Baird (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Thorne

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He was buried in a hollowed-out log on the hilltop near Lick Hill, Butler County, Pennsylvania. He probably came to Butler County from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the two counties being separated at one point only by the Allegheny River. Butler County was formed in 1800 from Allegheny County, in which county there were no Thornes in 1790, according to the United States Census taken that year. The Joseph Thorn, who was, in 1790, head of a family in Salem Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was probably the same Joseph Thorne who settled later in Butler County.
It is a matter of record that many of the early settlers of Salem Township were of Massachusetts ancestry, and it seems a reasonable supposition that the Thorn family recorded herein was of such a lineage. In the family of William Thorne, from Dorsetshire, England, who was in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1638, the name Joseph occurs, not only among his children, but in each generation of his descendants up to recent years.

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General Notes: Wife - Jane Walker

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She was possibly a relative of Lewis Walker, who was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and removed to Butler County, Pennsylvania, before the Revolutionary War.

1 Frederic A. Godcharles, LL.D., Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 21 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1934), Pg 267.

2 Frederic A. Godcharles, LL.D., Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 21 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1934), Pg 268.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1020.