Jacob Colvin and Mary Swearingen

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Husband Jacob Colvin ^{1 2 3}

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Wife Mary Swearingen ^{3 4 5}

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         Father: Samuel Swearingen (Abt 1732/1740-      ) 1 5 6 7 8
         Mother: Catherine Condell (      -      ) 3 6

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Children

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Swearingen

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She was killed by Indians in 1789, being shot from her place behind her husband while riding horse-back, with one of her children in her arms.

On account of her beautiful hair, the Indians fancied her and wanted her to be the wife of a chief. She and her husband and child were returning home from a visit to her parents, both on the same horse, when the Indians fired on them with the intention, as it was subsequently ascertained, of killing Colvin and capturing his wife. Both were wounded and fell from the horse. The Indians then rushed up, and although Colvin endeavored to save his wife and child, he was compelled to flee. Securing aid he soon returned, but found his wife and child dead. [BDHRFC, 945]

1 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 895.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 885.

3 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 945.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 885, 907.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 160.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 907.

7 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 944.

8 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 8.