James Torrance and Unknown

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Husband James Torrance ¹

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           Born: 15 Feb 1744 - Ireland 2
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           Died: 12 May 1826 3
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         Father: [Father] Torrance (      -      )
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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Wife Unknown

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Children

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1 M Hugh Torrance ³

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           Born: 29 Jun 1770 - Cumberland Co, PA 3
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           Died: 7 Sep 1843 3
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         Spouse: [Unk] McKee (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - James Torrance

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Some of his (half) siblings preceeded him to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and about 1770 to 1772 he followed with his wife and one small child.

His half-brother, Barnett Cunningham, and he emigrated from Peach Bottom Valley, on the Susquehanna, the former in the spring of 1770, the latter within two years of that date. They secured for seventeen years, by what was known as a "tomahawk right," and then for eight years more by a surveyor's warrant, and afterwards, in 1795, by patent, lands, part of which were in possession of their families for more than eighty years thereafter. The price paid by Mr. Cunningham for three hundred and sixteen acres, with "an allowance of one-sixteenth for roads," was twelve pounds six shillings,-nearly seventeen cents per acre. "They left the old settlements for the new," says one who wrote of it in the 1860s, "in full membership in the Presbyterian Church, but had no opportunity of hearing the gospel preached or its ordinances dispensed until Dr. Power visited them in 1774."

He and his half-brother, Barnett Cunningham, were both natives of Ireland, emigrating from that country to Peach Bottom Valley, on the Susquehanna River, and from there to Tyrone township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He came about 1772, making a tomahawk improvement, as did Cunningham, for which he received a patent in 1795. During the years of 1789-97 and 1800, James Torrance officiated as township auditor, and his name appears on the books as late as 1808. His family was quite large.

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 791.

2 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 796.

3 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 797.

4 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 785.