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Facts and Events
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- ↑ Charles W. Dahlinger. A Place of Great Historic Interest Pittsburgh's First Burying-ground. (Pittsburgh 1919)
Vol. 2. No. 4. Page 219, October 1919.
Chapter II. - The Pioneers of Pittsburgh - Page 219 - There were many notable graves in the Presbyterian churchyard. Mrs. Sarah Sample died in November, 1801, aged 58 years. She was the widow of Captain Samuel Sample who conducted the tavern at the northeast corner of Water and Ferry streets where Washington lodged in 1770, while on his way to the Kanawha Country, and who, as Washington related in his journal, kept "a very good house of public entertainment." In the Revolution Captain Samuel Sample was deputy quartermaster general in General Mclntosh's campaign against the Indians, in 1778-1779.
- Butterfield, Consul Willshire. History of the Girtys : being a concise account of the Girty brothers, Thomas, Simon, James and George, and of their half-brother, John Turner: also of the part taken by them in Lord Dunmore's War, in the western border war of the Revolution, and in the Indian war of 1790-95 : with a recital of the principal events in the West during these wars, drawn from authentic sources, largely original. (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1890)
Pages 46, 330, 331.
Page 46 - But little is known of Thomas Girty at this period. At a term of the West Augusta court held at Pittsburgh on the 16th of January, 1776, he was compelled to enter into bond to keep the peace, he having been charged with threats against, and an assault upon, the wife of one Samuel Sample.
Page 330, 331 - Some time previous to 1792, Thomas, with his family, moved across the Alleghany river, never returning to Pittsburgh to live. On the 22nd of May of that year, a white woman was captured by the Indians at Reed's block-house, twenty-five miles from Pittsburgh. During her captivity, which was brief (as she soon escaped), she was asked by one of her savage captors if she knew Thomas Girty; she said she did. The Indian then said that he (Girty) lived near Pittsburgh; that he was a good man, but not so good as his brother (Simon); but that his wife was a bad woman - she tells lies on the Indians, and is a friend to America. It is thus that the loyalty of the wife of Thomas was made known, strange to say, by a savage. He had heard the account of her probably from the lips of Simon; doubtless it was true. Except the forgoing, nothing has be preserved of Mrs. Thomas Girty. Her life-career is wholly unknown. Thomas died on Girty's Run. He had raised there and in Pittsburgh a respectable family. Two children - John and Nancy - The father breathed his last on the 3d of November 1820.
- Kellogg, Louise Phelps. Frontier Retreat On The Upper Ohio, 1779-1781. (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1994)
Pages 224, 393, 394, 1917.
Page 224 - Alexander Fowler came to America 1768 as Lieutenant in the Eighteenth British Infantry, also known as the Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922). About the year 1769-1770 the regiment was stationed at Fort Pitt, and in 1771-1772 at Fort Chartres in Illinois. There, Fowler was for a time commandant of the post at Kaskaskia. Sometime before the Revolution, Lieutenant Fowler retired from the army and became a permanent resident of Pittsburgh. He embraced the patriot cause, acting as auditor of military accounts and deputy judge-advocate for the Western Department. Fowler died soon after the close of the war. One of his daughters became the wife of Samuel Sample, the well-known inn-keeper of Pittsburg.
Page 393, 394 – Brodhead Accused – Gen. George Washington to Alexander Fowler. Washington Papers. Draft. – Head Quarters New Windsor – 5th May 1781.
- ↑ Welchley, Mark H. Pittsburgh, Pa., gazette genealogical gleanings. (s.n.], 1983).
Mrs. Sarah Semple, died Monday las in her 59th year, consort of Mr. Samuel Semple of Pittsburgh - appeared 4 Dec 1801
- Holland, Wl J., editor, and J. B., associate editor Hatcher. Annals Of The Carnegie Museum: Publications of the Carnegie Museum. (Board Of Trustees Of The Carnegie Institute, 1901-)
Page 109, 110, 249, 266.
The Court met according to Court in Course at the house of Mr. Andrew Heath October 27, 1777. Ordered that the Court be adjourned to the new Court House.
Page 109 - On the Petition of Sarah Sample setting forth that Ann McClean hath detained a Servant Girl, Ann Brook, to the great Damage of the said Petitioner. Ordered that a Subpoena do issue to summon the said Ann to the next Court.
Page 110 - Ordered that Ann Brook a Servant to Sarah Sample be and remain with her mother Ann McClain until next Court
At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County August 24th 1778.
Page 249 - Ann Brook being bound over to answer the Stealing two pounds of Coffee from Sarah Sample appeared before the Court when no evidence appearing, Ordered that the same be dismissed.
Page 266 - At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County September 29, 1778 - Ordered that Anne McClain be sommoned to show cause why her Daughter Anne Jefferess, Should not be Bound to Samuel Semple, agreable to the Tenner of a Contract Between the said Ann and Sarah Semple wife of the said Samuel in the year 1770.
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