Sarah Jane Death(DeAth)married Jeremiah Willison. Sometime between 1755 and 1757 Jeremiah and Sarah, moved from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, riding on a single horse to Fort Cumberland, where George Washington was in charge. Jeremiah and Sarah spent their early married life in the fort. The fort was abandoned in 1765. But before that, and once the area had become more civilized and free of attacks from French Canadians and Native Americans, they moved to Broadhog's Addition, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. They raised 7 children; Richard, William, Charles, Nancy, Rachel, Elish, Jeremiah, John, Mary Ann. Most of their children settled east of Cumberland in and near Flintstone. Washington later returned to Cumberland as President in 1794 to review troops that had been assembled to thwart the Whiskey Rebellion.
Jeremiah was a 1st. Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, under the command of Captain Griffith Johnson, Maryland Militia, 3rd. Western Battalion, Washington County, organized August 28, 1776.
Jeremiah was the crier in the first Allegany County Court, with its first proceedings on April 25, 1791. (bio added by aritha buss)
Sarah died sometime around 1813
Jeremiah was a 1st. Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, under the command of Captain Griffith Johnson, Maryland Militia, 3rd. Western Battalion, Washington County, organized August 28, 1776.
Jeremiah was the crier in the first Allegany County Court, with its first proceedings on April 25, 1791. (bio added by aritha buss)
Sarah died sometime around 1813
Sarah Jane Death(DeAth)married Jeremiah Willison. Sometime between 1755 and 1757 Jeremiah and Sarah, moved from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, riding on a single horse to Fort Cumberland, where George Washington was in charge. Jeremiah and Sarah spent their early married life in the fort. The fort was abandoned in 1765. But before that, and once the area had become more civilized and free of attacks from French Canadians and Native Americans, they moved to Broadhog's Addition, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. They raised 7 children; Richard, William, Charles, Nancy, Rachel, Elish, Jeremiah, John, Mary Ann. Most of their children settled east of Cumberland in and near Flintstone. Washington later returned to Cumberland as President in 1794 to review troops that had been assembled to thwart the Whiskey Rebellion.
Jeremiah was a 1st. Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, under the command of Captain Griffith Johnson, Maryland Militia, 3rd. Western Battalion, Washington County, organized August 28, 1776.
Jeremiah was the crier in the first Allegany County Court, with its first proceedings on April 25, 1791. (bio added by aritha buss)
Sarah died sometime around 1813
Jeremiah was a 1st. Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, under the command of Captain Griffith Johnson, Maryland Militia, 3rd. Western Battalion, Washington County, organized August 28, 1776.
Jeremiah was the crier in the first Allegany County Court, with its first proceedings on April 25, 1791. (bio added by aritha buss)
Sarah died sometime around 1813
