Person:Adam Ewing (1)

Isabella Ewing and Manasseh Coyle married in 1785, so Adam Ewing must have died before 1785 (see Reference 2). Since he died when he was about 20 (see Reference 1), he must have been born before 1765.

1. ↑ Ewing, Joseph Lyons. Sketches of the Families of Thomas Ewing and Mary Maskell, William Ewing and Eleanor Thompson, James Ewing and Eleanor Rhea and Their Descendants: with Historical Data and Reminiscences. (Stratford, New Jersey: The Stratford Commercial Job Printery, 1910).

   William Ewing emigrated from Ireland some time before the national struggle for independence, and settled on the Connautcacheuge Creek in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He was a native of Ireland, a grenadier, or member of the king's bodyguard. This guard consisted of a company of men, every one of whom was distinguished for his great stature. … His wife's maiden name was Eleanor Thompson. Their marriage must have occurred as early as 1759 or 1760, for we have record that their third child, John, died on January 27th, 1842, at the age of seventy-seven years. They were the parents of six children, viz.: Adam, Isabella, John, James, Robert, and Alexander.
   ...
   When about twenty years of age, ADAM, [William Ewing and Eleanor Thompson's] first born was killed by the Indians, who fired on him as he was going down the Allegheny River in a canoe at some point below Kittanning.

2. ↑ Appendix J, in Ewing, Joseph Lyons. Sketches of the Families of Thomas Ewing and Mary Maskell, William Ewing and Eleanor Thompson, James Ewing and Eleanor Rhea and Their Descendants: with Historical Data and Reminiscences. (Stratford, New Jersey: The Stratford Commercial Job Printery, 1910)
   116-117.

   Isabella [Ewing] was once talking with her husband [Manasseh Coyle] about her brother, Adam Ewing, and wondering what had become of him, and he had been absent for some years, Manasseh explained that a man of that name had escaped from the Indians with him, and while they were going down the river in a canoe an Indian from ambush shot Ewing and he fell overboard and was drowned.