Lieutenant Colonel James Piper

M, b. circa 1735, d. after 27 August 1776
FatherJames Piper1 b. 1698, d. May 1772
MotherMargaret Cleland b. 28 Nov 1697, d. May 1772
Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, Brooklyn, New York
     Lieutenant Colonel James Piper was born circa 1735 in the North of Ireland.2 He married Lucinda Long. Lieutenant Colonel James Piper died after 27 August 1776 at a Prisoner of War Ship in Long Island, New York, USA.2 He was memorialized by the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Brooklyn, New York.3
     He immigrated circa 1750 with his father's family to Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA.2 He lived in Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA.4 He enlisted in the First Rifles, Continental Regiment, Pennsylvania Line, and was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel, March 13, 1776.
James Piper was commanding the First Battalion of Miles' Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment and was engaged at the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776.
He was wounded and fell into the hands of the British. The date of his death is not known, as he was one of the victims of the inhuman treatment accorded the prisoners on the British prison ships in New York harbor.2

Family: Lucinda Long b. c 1736

Citations

  1. [S37] James Piper, Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1992, Cumberland, Wills, Vol A-C, 1750-1779,. Hereinafter cited as Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1992.
  2. [S207] Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs, Volume II, 1911). Hereinafter cited as Colonial and Revolutionary Families.
  3. [S34] Find A Grave, online findagrave.com, 49612316. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
  4. [S195] Capt. William Piper, Harrisburg Telegraph, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 17 April 1897. Hereinafter cited as Harrisburg Telegraph.

Lieutenant Samuel Piper

M, b. 1739, d. 1822
FatherJames Piper1 b. 1698, d. May 1772
MotherMargaret Cleland b. 28 Nov 1697, d. May 1772
     Lieutenant Samuel Piper was born in 1739 in Down, Down, Ireland. He married Jane Elder, daughter of Samuel Elder and Martha (?). Lieutenant Samuel Piper died in 1822. He was buried at Newville Cemetery in Newville, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA.2
     He was a Lieutenant of Mooney's New Hampshire Militia Regiment.

Family: Jane Elder b. c 1749, d. 1839

Citations

  1. [S37] James Piper, Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1992, Cumberland, Wills, Vol A-C, 1750-1779,. Hereinafter cited as Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1992.
  2. [S34] Find A Grave, online findagrave.com, Memorial ID 42071688. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
  3. [S34] Find A Grave, online findagrave.com, Memorial ID 74174897.

Margaret Piper

F, b. circa 1740
FatherJames Piper1 b. 1698, d. May 1772
MotherMargaret Cleland b. 28 Nov 1697, d. May 1772
     Margaret Piper was born circa 1740.
     Margaret Piper was also known as Margret.

Citations

  1. [S37] James Piper, Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1992, Cumberland, Wills, Vol A-C, 1750-1779,. Hereinafter cited as Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1992.

Lucinda Long1

F, b. circa 1736
     Lucinda Long was born circa 1736. She married Lieutenant Colonel James Piper, son of James Piper and Margaret Cleland.
     Lucinda Long lived in 1791 in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA.

Family: Lieutenant Colonel James Piper b. c 1735, d. a 27 Aug 1776

Citations

  1. [S207] Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs, Volume II, 1911). Hereinafter cited as Colonial and Revolutionary Families.

Jane Piper

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FatherJames Piper1 b. 1698, d. May 1772
MotherMargaret Cleland b. 28 Nov 1697, d. May 1772
     Jane Piper was born.

Citations

  1. [S37] James Piper, Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1992, Cumberland, Wills, Vol A-C, 1750-1779,. Hereinafter cited as Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1992.

Sarah Piper

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FatherJames Piper1 b. 1698, d. May 1772
MotherMargaret Cleland b. 28 Nov 1697, d. May 1772
     Sarah Piper was born.

Citations

  1. [S37] James Piper, Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1992, Cumberland, Wills, Vol A-C, 1750-1779,. Hereinafter cited as Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1992.

William Piper

M, b. 31 October 1735, d. 7 January 1798
FatherJames Piper1 b. 1698, d. May 1772
MotherMargaret Cleland b. 28 Nov 1697, d. May 1772
     William Piper was born on 31 October 1735 in Ireland.2 He married Sarah McDowell, daughter of William McDowell and Mary Maxwell, on 29 December 1759.2 William Piper died on 7 January 1798 in Peters Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA, at age 62.2
     On 20 July 1763, William Piper was commissioned a Captain in the Second Battalion, Pennsylvania Regiment and served under Colonel Bouquet in the campaign of 1764, and received for his service in the French and Indian Wars two tracts of land. He moved his family from Shippensburg to the larger tract of land including the mouth of Delaware Run where they built a log house on the site of the current village of Dewart.
In the 1775 account of Rev. Phillip V. Fithian, an Irish missionary, it was called "Warrior Run". The reverend preached at the site of the unfinished Warrior Run meeting house, which was burned by Indians on 28 July 1779.
It is not known how long Captain Piper remained on the farm, but it was believed
...that they fled with other settlers in the big runaway of June 1778, to escape the fury of the Indians, and his improvements were probably burned, as the savages swept the valley as with the besom of destruction. It is likely that their flight continued until they reached protection among friends at Shippensburg and there remained."

Note: besom is a synonym for broom.3 He was appointed Collector of the Excise in November 1779.

Family: Sarah McDowell b. 30 Nov 1738, d. 5 Sep 1805

Citations

  1. [S37] James Piper, Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1992, Cumberland, Wills, Vol A-C, 1750-1779,. Hereinafter cited as Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1992.
  2. [S196] Biographical Annals of Franklin County (Chicago, Illinois: The Genealogical Publishing Company, 1905), p. 84. Hereinafter cited as Biographical Annals of Franklin County.
  3. [S195] Capt. William Piper, Harrisburg Telegraph, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 17 April 1897. Hereinafter cited as Harrisburg Telegraph.

Elizabeth Piper

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FatherJames Piper1 b. 1698, d. May 1772
MotherMargaret Cleland b. 28 Nov 1697, d. May 1772
     Elizabeth Piper was born.

Family:

Citations

  1. [S37] James Piper, Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1992, Cumberland, Wills, Vol A-C, 1750-1779,. Hereinafter cited as Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1992.

James (?)

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MotherElizabeth Piper
     James (?) was born.

James Cleland

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FatherHugh Cleland d. 1693
     James Cleland married Margaret James on 14 November 1694.

Family: Margaret James

Margaret James

F
     Margaret James married James Cleland, son of Hugh Cleland, on 14 November 1694.

Family: James Cleland

Hugh Cleland

M, d. 1693
     Hugh Cleland died in 1693.

Family:

Jane Elder

F, b. circa 1749, d. 1839
FatherSamuel Elder b. 1729
MotherMartha (?)
     Jane Elder was born circa 1749. She married Lieutenant Samuel Piper, son of James Piper and Margaret Cleland. Jane Elder died in 1839.1 She was buried at Newville Cemetery in Newville, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA.2

Family: Lieutenant Samuel Piper b. 1739, d. 1822

Citations

  1. [S38] James Piper https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42071560/…
  2. [S34] Find A Grave, online findagrave.com, Memorial ID 42071719. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
  3. [S34] Find A Grave, online findagrave.com, Memorial ID 74174897.

John Piper1

M, b. circa 1629
     John Piper was born circa 1629 in Cornard Magna, Suffolk, England.1

Family:

Citations

  1. [S30] Piper Z Diagrams. Believed to have been prepared by Alexander Ross Piper as part of a Sons of the American Revolution application. Hereinafter cited as Piper Z Diagrams.

(?) Clark

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     (?) Clark married Thomas Ross, son of Thomas Ross and Kazia Wilkinson.

Family: Thomas Ross b. 23 Feb 1739, d. c 1814

Reverend William Wickenden

M

Family:

Christopher Smith1

M

Family:

Citations

  1. [S28] W. W. H. Davis, The History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Doylestown, Pa: Democrat Book and Job Office Print, 1876), Vol III, p. 171 Hereinafter cited as The History of Bucks County.

Sandra (?)

F
Sandra Reed, 2005

Family: Tony Reed

Samantha Roberts

F
Samantha Saucier

Richard MacDonald

M, b. 1691, d. 1730
FatherBryan Mac Donald1 b. 1645, d. Feb 1707
MotherMary Combs
     Richard MacDonald was born in 1691 in New Castle, Delaware, USA. He died in 1730.

Citations

  1. [S1] Charles E Donnell, A Genealogy of Donnell, Langford and Other Families (Plainview. TX: Self, 1949), p. 8. Hereinafter cited as Donnell-Langford.

James Donnell

M, b. 1739, d. 1784
FatherThomas MacDonnell b. c 1715, d. 1775
     James Donnell was born in 1739 in Hopewell, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA.1 He married Catherine Gibson, daughter of Samuel Gibson, in 1764. James Donnell died in 1784 in Kentucky, USA. He and Catherine Gibson were buried together in the Fall of 1784 at North Bank of the Licking River in Bourbon, Kentucky, USA.2
     James Donnell immigrated in 1767 to Botetourt, Virginia, USA, then to Westmoreland, Pennsylvania in 1775; then to Kentucky in 1784, where he and his wife died in an epidemic.3

Family: Catherine Gibson d. 1784

Citations

  1. [S241] Emma A and James Arthur Donnell, The Donnells and their Macdonald Ancestors, A History and Genealogy, 157 to 1927 A. D. (Greenfield, Indiana: William Mitchell, 1928), p. 49. Hereinafter cited as The Donnells. Available for download at archive.org.
  2. [S241] Emma A and James Arthur Donnell, The Donnells, p. 56.
  3. [S241] Emma A and James Arthur Donnell, The Donnells, p. 75.

Catherine Gibson

F, d. 1784
FatherSamuel Gibson1
     Catherine Gibson married James Donnell, son of Thomas MacDonnell, in 1764. Catherine Gibson died in 1784 in Kentucky, USA. She and James Donnell were buried together in the Fall of 1784 at North Bank of the Licking River in Bourbon, Kentucky, USA.2

Family: James Donnell b. 1739, d. 1784

Citations

  1. [S241] Emma A and James Arthur Donnell, The Donnells and their Macdonald Ancestors, A History and Genealogy, 157 to 1927 A. D. (Greenfield, Indiana: William Mitchell, 1928), p. 49. Hereinafter cited as The Donnells. Available for download at archive.org.
  2. [S241] Emma A and James Arthur Donnell, The Donnells, p. 56.

Thomas Donnell

M, b. 11 June 1765, d. December 1833
FatherJames Donnell b. 1739, d. 1784
MotherCatherine Gibson d. 1784
     Thomas Donnell was born on 11 June 1765 in Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA.1 He married Nancy Barr on 16 June 1789.2 Thomas Donnell died in December 1833 in Decatur, Indiana, USA, at age 68.
     After his parents died in the epidemic of 1784, he was the head of the family.1 Lore has it that Nancy's father dds not approve of their marriage and Thomas and Nancy rode off, never to see her family again.2

Family: Nancy Barr d. Apr 1833

Citations

  1. [S241] Emma A and James Arthur Donnell, The Donnells and their Macdonald Ancestors, A History and Genealogy, 157 to 1927 A. D. (Greenfield, Indiana: William Mitchell, 1928), p. 76. Hereinafter cited as The Donnells. Available for download at archive.org.
  2. [S241] Emma A and James Arthur Donnell, The Donnells, p. 77.

Elizabeth Donnell

F, b. 1767
FatherJames Donnell b. 1739, d. 1784
MotherCatherine Gibson d. 1784
     Elizabeth Donnell married James McCoy in Hinkston Station, Kentucky, USA.1 Elizabeth Donnell married John Donnelson.1 Elizabeth Donnell was born in 1767 in Big Spring, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA.1

Citations

  1. [S281] Emma A Donnell and Arthur Donnell, The Donnells and their Macdonald Ancestors, A History and Genealogy (Greenfield, Indiana: Wm Mitchell Printing Company), Digitized by the Internet Archive, 2018, p.75. Hereinafter cited as The Donnells and their Macdonald Ancestors.

James McCoy

M
     James McCoy married Elizabeth Donnell, daughter of James Donnell and Catherine Gibson, in Hinkston Station, Kentucky, USA.1

Family: Elizabeth Donnell b. 1767

Citations

  1. [S281] Emma A Donnell and Arthur Donnell, The Donnells and their Macdonald Ancestors, A History and Genealogy (Greenfield, Indiana: Wm Mitchell Printing Company), Digitized by the Internet Archive, 2018, p.75. Hereinafter cited as The Donnells and their Macdonald Ancestors.

James McCoy

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FatherJames McCoy
MotherElizabeth Donnell1 b. 1767

Citations

  1. [S281] Emma A Donnell and Arthur Donnell, The Donnells and their Macdonald Ancestors, A History and Genealogy (Greenfield, Indiana: Wm Mitchell Printing Company), Digitized by the Internet Archive, 2018, p.75. Hereinafter cited as The Donnells and their Macdonald Ancestors.

John Donnelson

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     John Donnelson married Elizabeth Donnell, daughter of James Donnell and Catherine Gibson.1

Citations

  1. [S281] Emma A Donnell and Arthur Donnell, The Donnells and their Macdonald Ancestors, A History and Genealogy (Greenfield, Indiana: Wm Mitchell Printing Company), Digitized by the Internet Archive, 2018, p.75. Hereinafter cited as The Donnells and their Macdonald Ancestors.

Mary Donnelson

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FatherJohn Donnelson
MotherElizabeth Donnell b. 1767

Margaret Donnelson

F
FatherJohn Donnelson
MotherElizabeth Donnell b. 1767

Elizabeth Donnelson

F
FatherJohn Donnelson
MotherElizabeth Donnell b. 1767
     Elizabeth Donnelson married James Jack.1

Citations

  1. [S281] Emma A Donnell and Arthur Donnell, The Donnells and their Macdonald Ancestors, A History and Genealogy (Greenfield, Indiana: Wm Mitchell Printing Company), Digitized by the Internet Archive, 2018, p.75. Hereinafter cited as The Donnells and their Macdonald Ancestors.