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Birth: 1716 in Scotland, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 1760 in Near Schuykill River, Pennsylvania, USA
Father: Gavin Mitchell b: 1700 in Scotland
Mother: Margaret Isabel Campbell b: 2 Jun 1690 in Edinburgh, Argyllshire, Scotland
Occupation:Minister
Marriage: 1) Cynthia Lillias Morton b: 10 May 1713 in Loudon, Ayrshire, Scotland
Married: 1730, Pennsylvania
Children: NB: POB of Children not consistent with POD of father.
- Elizabeth Mitchell b: Nov 1740 in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA
- Mary Sarah Mitchell b: 1742 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
- Samuel Mitchell b: 1744 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
- John Stewart Mitchell b: 1744 in Augusta, Virginia, USA
- Andrew Mitchell b: 1756 in Sermans Valley, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA
From Source:Stutzman, 1992 fide Carol Snoddy Byler.com, with some rearrangement:
Andrew Mitchell was the son of John and Lilias (Morton) Mitchell who were married in Scotland and migrated to Pennsylvania where the father died in 1760. The widow brought her children south to the North Carolina piedmont where she was remarried. Rowan County court allowed Andrew Mitchell in October 1768 to be the "surety" on a guardianship bond for his brothers (Rowan County Court Minutes). This indicates that Andrew was born before 1748.
On February 21, 1775, Andrew Mitchell made bond in Rowan County, North Carolina, for his marriage to "Margret Snoddy", a daughter of Samuel Snoddy who was co-bondsman (Rowan Co, NC Marriage Book). That young woman had another thought. On the night before the proposed wedding, perhaps with the connivance of her mother, she ran off with another man [Joseph McCorkle]. Their daughter told her daughter, Mrs. Hars, that "there was no interruption in the wedding festivities. Another sister filled Margaret's place." That bride was the "daughter Sarah Mitchel" named in [John Mitchell's] will.
In 1778 Andrew Mitchell entered a claim in the North Carolina Land Office for 630 acres in Rowan County "on Both Sides of Hunting Creek." That land lies today in the northeast corner of Iredell County, North Carolina. In subsequent years, Mitchell added to that acreage.
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