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     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

     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.

     Margaret Piper was born circa 1740.
     Margaret Piper was also known as Margret.

     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.

     Jane Piper was born.

     Sarah Piper was born.

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

     Elizabeth Piper was born.

     James (?) was born.

     James Cleland married Margaret James on 14 November 1694.

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

     Hugh Cleland died in 1693.

     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

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

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

     Richard MacDonald was born in 1691 in New Castle, Delaware, USA. He died in 1730.

     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

     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

     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

     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

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

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

     Elizabeth Donnelson married James Jack.¹