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Note: John Young removed from Cumberland county Pa, to Mercer county, PA in about 1804. He was a private in Capt. Abraham Smith's comapany. Col William Lorine's (?)regiment, 6th battalion, PA Inf., Revolutionary War, enlisted Feb 4, 1776

MILITARY: Revolutionary War

Slaveholder Name Young, John, Sr.
City or Township Lurgan Township
Occupation
Notes: Revolutionary War soldier, his family later moved to Mercer County. John Young Sr. died in 1826. His will, probated in 1826, lists and provides for the slave Peg.

1. Slave Name Pegg
Slave Age 17
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1763 (calculated)
Slave Description "Wench"
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes The will of John Young, Sr., provides for Peg: "In the last sentence of John Sr.'s will, he said "I do will that Peg the old wench is to be supported out of my farm left to John and David". Peg apparently stayed with John Jr. in Mercer County, as she is listed with his family in the 1850 census. According to descendants, she is buried with the family in Mercer County.

In addition, the household of John Young, Jr. may have been used as a station on the Underground Railroad: "John Young Jr. (who had Margaret at his house in the census) and James Kilgore (who's wife was Elizabeth Stewart, the sister of my 4x great grandfather, John Young Stewart) both had an Underground Railroad station in their cellars, 6 miles apart! There is a written account by the daughter of Elizabeth Stewart and James Kilgore. She remembers seeing the slaves come in the middle of the night, her mother cooking for them and dressing their wounds. They would sleep on the floor in straw to rest and then be sent on their way. One night she remembers 13 of them coming at once! I wonder what part Peg played in this!" (Correspondence, Laurel Anderson to George Nagle, 15 March, 2003)

Evidence of Underground Railroad activity in the John Young, Jr. household is supported by his chairing of a committee to draft an anti-slavery resolution following an anti-slavery lecture by the Rev. Nathaniel West in 1835. This resulted in the formation in 1835 of the Mercer County chapter of the Anti-Slavery Society. A decade later, Young, along with James Kilgore and Robert Stewart, was active in the anti-slavery Liberty party. (Correspondence, Laurel Anderson to George Nagle, 15 August, 2003; "History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania," by Brown, Runk & Co., Chicago, 1888. Pages 290-292.)

Date of Record 1780

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1. Slave Name Priss
Slave Age ?
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth ?
Slave Description "Negro Wench"
Slave Status Not determined
Slave Notes Mother of Sam, a male Negro child, born January 20, 1791.
Date of Record May 02, 1791
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914

2. Slave Name Sam
Slave Age -
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1791--January 20
Slave Description "Negro"
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes Son of Priss, a Negro slave of John Young.
Date of Record May 02, 1791
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914

Source: (Name)
Title: GEDCOM File : ~ATF1.ged
Note: ABBR GEDCOM File : ~ATF1.ged
Data:
Text: 4 DEC 2002

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Kilgore, Samuel (Cyrus) (b. 1826, d. 1909)

Note: 1870: Census shows wife Ann Maria, John, 13, Cyrus, 11, Maretta, 9, Lucy,7, Tabitha 3, John J, 74, Tabitha, 75 (?), Latitia, 25(?)

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Irwin, Venango County, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Irwin, Venango, Pennsylvania

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Irwin, Venango, Pennsylvania

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