PA Probate Allegheny County Last Viewed

Pennsylvania, Probate Records, 1683-1994AlleghenyEstate index 1788-1971 surname M, first names D-J:

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Sieur Charles de Langlade

Augustin Grignon's recollections included the following regarding his grandfather, Sieur Charles de Langlade:

Also Braddock Fort Cumberland Information

Whites in Proceedngs Index

 Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994  Allegheny Estate index 1788-1971 surname W...:

Whites in Proceedngs Index

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"M" White index

 Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994  Allegheny Estate index 1788-1971 surname W...:

"M" White index

An Account Book -- Fort Pitt

 

Notes and Documents: An Account Book of Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan at Fort Pitt, 1765-1767
Lawrance S. Thurman:

Colonel Eye's Journal

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Enemies Of The Pennsylvania Government

Washington County, Pennsylvania (LOC)

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The Johnstown Flood

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The Johnstown Flood occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River... . (Source)

Fort Duquesne And French Soldier

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Fort Duquesne and vicinity.

Death Of Two Lieutenants In The War Of 1812

Lieut. John McCullough of Ohio 

Aid To Gen. Harrison,

Killed While Conferring

With The General

And

Lieut. Robert Walker

Of Pennsylvania,

Killed By Indians Near

Fort Miami

Were Buried Here

Will Of Jacob Jones

Pennsylvania Probate Records...Washington Wills 1781-1814...:

Jacob Jones

Probate Record# 1-54

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Excerpt of Will:

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"M" McFadyens In The Allegheny Estate Index

Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994  Allegheny Estate index 1788-1971 surname M, first names K-R (McFadyen, "M" page):

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McFadden Index

John Pershing, A Member Of The Lost Battalion

*Frederick Pershing (1724-1794) was a Huguenot from Alsace and immigrated to America in 1749. He moved to Western Pennsylvania in 1769 and settled on land in what is now Westmoreland County. *Ancestor of General John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing

An Area Of Western Pennsylvania

His [Frederick's] younger brother John joined him in shortly after he moved to Westmoreland. John was a member of Captain Stokely's Company during the Revolutionary War and was killed during the Lochry Expedition in 1781.   [Indiana Library/Archives, Pershing family papers S0842]

The article by another Pershing descendant, **Edgar J. Pershing, in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. XVI, Sept., 1928, No. 3, told the story of Lochry's Expedition in the Lost Battalion of the Revolutionary War, PA.  **Edgar J. Pershing also wrote The Pershing Family In America... .

John Pershing perished in the ambush of Lochry and his soldiers; he left no descendants. 

Loughrey's Defeat

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Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Map (LOC)
...rendezvoused at Carnahan's Blockhouse, eleven miles west of Hannastown....

Morans In Allegtheny Index

 Pennsylvania, Probate Records, 1683-1994 Allegheny Estate index 1788-1971 surname M...:

Morans on Page 2111  Image 867

Battlefield Near The Ohio

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General John F. Reynolds Died At Gettysburg

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John F. Reynolds' Memorial at Wikitree.

Elizabeth Myers Estate From Allegheny County

Elizabeth Myers Estate From Allegheny County, Pennsylvania:

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DKT   Volume  Page   No . Term   Year

Record Death  15   53    197 -- 1902

Letters Adm.  BD  72 334

Inv. and Appr. IN  24 420  #392

1st and Final Acct  Ac  92 444  20 May 1903

Audit  Au  26 320  20 May 1903

James White's Will

(Not Jim's James White)

Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994  Allegheny Wills 1845-1854 and 1888 vol 6-7

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Book/Page: 6-591 (Image 336)

20 March 1849

James White of Moon Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Son, Peter White

Ann Haslip, Daughter

Son, Jacob White

Christina Hesson, Daughter

Margaret Hesson, Daughter

James White (___ LN?), Grandson

To Peter White, farm on which his father lives

There is Property in Beaver County

Henry and Christina Hesson mentioned in Hesson deed of Washington County, Ohio

From New Jersey To The Redstone Settlement

From the Records of New Jersey:


Lib. 35, p. 83; File 1893H.
1790, Mar. 3. Holmes, John, of Middle Precinct, Cape May Co.; will of.

"...To natural son, John Holmes...part of 2 tracts of land of 711 acres, in Redstone Settlement, Fayette Co., Penn. Should any of said sons die before 21, their portion to be divided between the surviving sons. Daughter, Elizabeth, 2,000 Spanish milled dollars with principal and interest when 20. Mother, Isabella Holmes, 600 Spanish milled dollars, to be sent to Ireland. Nephew, John Holmes, (son of brother, James Holmes, dec'd), lands and meadows in Galloway and Great Egg Harbour Twsps., Gloucester Co. Wife, Elizabeth, 1/6 of the remainder of estate; and my children, Robert, William, James, John and the expected child, each 1/6 part. Executors — wife, Elizabeth, brother, Nathaniel Holmes and son, Robert Holmes. Witnesses — Silas Swain, Christopher Ludlam, Stephen Buck. Proved Jan. 26, 1791.