Family:Robert McComb and Unknown Spouse (1)

From "Cross Creek Twp. (pp. 721-742) History of Washington County, Pennsylvania" http://www.chartiers.com/crumrine/twp-crosscreek.html

David and Robert McComb were brothers, who emigrated from their home in Scotland to America, and both took part in the Revolutionary war. They came into this township as soon as they left the service, and their father, Robert McComb, Sr., who came with them, purchased four hundred acres of land, which he divided equally, giving each son two hundred acres. Robert McComb, Sr., died in 1794, in Cross Creek township. Robert McComb, Jr., lived upon the farm his father gave him until his death in 1827. About the year 1795 he built a fulling-mill on Cross Creek, upon the site of which the Wilson grist-mill now stands. The "Western Telegraphe" of May 6, 1796, contains his advertisement announcing that he had "erected a fulling-mill on Cross Creek, one mile from James Monsey's mill." His farm is now owned by the heirs of John Manson. David McComb also spent his days upon the property his father purchased for him, dying there in 1837 at the age of seventy-eight years.