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1. | Samuel STRAYHORN was born 25 Dec 1794, East Buffalo, Northumberland (now Union), Pennsylvania (son of Nathaniel STRAYHORN and Olympia/Olympas JODON); died 16 May 1884, Hartley, Northumberland (now Union), Pennslylvania; was buried Hartleton Union Church Cemetery. Samuel — Elizabeth LNU. Elizabeth was born 1795; died 11 Dec 1867, Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania; was buried Hartleton Union Church Cemetery. [Group Sheet] Children:
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2. | Nathaniel STRAYHORN was born 1765, Antrim, Ireland (son of Robert STRAYHORN and FNU LNU); died 9 Apr 1840, Union, Pennsylvania; was buried Buffalo Crossroads Presbyterian Cemetery, Union, Pennsylvania. Notes: 1775 April arrived from Ireland Nathaniel married Olympia/Olympas JODON 13 Jun 1792, St. Paul's P.E. Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Olympia/Olympas was born Abt 1764; died 09 Dec 1847, East Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania; was buried Buffalo Crossroads Presbyterian Cemetery, Union, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] |
3. | Olympia/Olympas JODON was born Abt 1764; died 09 Dec 1847, East Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania; was buried Buffalo Crossroads Presbyterian Cemetery, Union, Pennsylvania.
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4. | Robert STRAYHORN was born Abt 1733, Ayrshire, Scotland; died Aft 1820, Chester, Pennsylvania. Other Events:
Notes: According to the Biographical History of Chester and Delaware Counties by Cope and Ashmeade (the copy I have seen was entitled Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties -Ed) published in 1901, Vol 2, page 394, "Robert Strahorn was a Scottish dissenter, who left his native land in order to escape religious persecution, and landed in America in April 1775, about the time of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. He enlisted three times in the Continental Army, serving through the entire war, and never receiving a wound. He participated in some of the most memorable events which marked the struggle for independence, and was a sharer in many of the greatest of the hardships which fell to the lot of the devoted patriot army. He accompanied Washington when the latter, on that never-to-be-forgotten Christmas night, crossed the Delaware in order to surprise the Hessians at Trenton, and he shared all the sufferings of the winter at Valley Forge. Robert brought his two sons, Nathaniel and Samuel with him to America in 1775." (Most arrival records recorded males over sixteen years old, so Margaret was likely not recorded -Ed.) Robert — FNU LNU. [Group Sheet] |
5. | FNU LNU Notes: She was definitely not Margaret Ross. Notes: No birth records, thus no mother(s), have been found for Samuel and Nathaniel Strayhorn, and the birth record for Margaret does not name her parents.
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