Samuel HOLLIDAY & Sarah CAMPBELL

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Samuel HOLLIDAY
Sarah CAMPBELL

Husband: Samuel HOLLIDAY
Birth: ca. 1738, co. Tyrone, NIRL
Death: 1792, Mifflin Co., PA
Migration: 1745, immigrated to PA
Occupation: owner of grist mill and saw mill, among other things
Father: John HOLLIDAY
Mother: Jean BLAIR

Marriage: 12 Dec 1769, Mercersburg, Cumberland [now Franklin] Co., PA

Wife: Sarah CAMPBELL
Birth: 3 Aug 1744, Lancaster [then Cumberland, now Franklin] Co., PA
Occupation: homemaker
Father: Michael CAMPBELL (1720-1767), IRL > Cumberland [now Franklin] Co., PA
Mother: Rebecca V. BROWN (c1724-1778)

Children — born in Cumberland [now Mifflin] Co., PA:

1. John HOLLIDAY; d. 1812
2. James HOLLIDAY; d. by 1820
3. Adam HOLLIDAY, d. Jan 1801
4. Michael HOLLIDAY
5. Rebecca HOLLIDAY; m. Andrew BRATTON II
6. Jane HOLLIDAY; m. Thomas PROVINES
7. Samuel HOLLIDAY, b. 12 Sep 1787

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Sources (n.b., Cumberland Co. was formed on 1750 from Lancaster Co.; Franklin Co. was formed in 1784 from Cumberland Co.; Mifflin Co. was formed in 1789 from Cumberland and Northumberland Cos.):

1. Marriage Record:

2. F. [Franklin] Ellis & A.N. Hungerford, eds. 1886. History of That Part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys Embraced in the Counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Everts, Peck & Richards, Philadelphia (excerpts online at the Mifflin County PAGenWeb site):

CHAPTER X.
THE BOROUGH OF McVEYTOWN.

p. 600 The settlement of this place was begun by Samuel Holliday in 1755...
Samuel, Adam, John and William Holliday, and two sisters, Elizabeth and Nancy... emigrated to this country about 1745...
At the time of their settlement all the surrounding region of territory was in Cumberland County...
Samuel Holliday erected...

p. 601 ...a grist-mill... on the Juniata River, at the mouth of Mattawana Creek...
The township of Derry was erected in July, 1767, and embraced all of what is now Mifflin County. The first assessment of the township was made in 1768, and at that time the only grist-mill and saw-mill assessed in the township (now Mifflin County) was the property of Samuel Holliday...
He married Sarah Campbell, who survived him. They had seven children — John, James, Adam, Michael, Samuel, Rebecca and Jane...
The mills were sold to Samuel HOLLIDAY, a son... June 1, 1813... The grist-mill was abandoned... and a new one was erected by Samuel Holliday... In 1867 it was owned by C. & C.P. Dull... until its destruction by fire, June 1, 1870.

More of interest in the chapter...

3. Armstrong Ancestry of the Jansen Daughters (online at webpages.charter.net/gjansen/armstron.htm). An ancestry of Sarah CAMPBELL in a format I find inscrutable, despite the explanation.

4. Public Member Trees (online at Ancestry.com).

5. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).

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