SAMUEL MOORHEAD/CRAIG/BOYD
WESTMORELAND CO; PA
Samuel
Moorhead married Agnes Nancy Craig, daughter of Samuel and JANE
BOYD
Craig. Samuel's son John was the owner of three woolen mills, a
number
of tanneries, and about thirty farms, also raised stock, driving
cattle
to Philadelphia. He was an associate Judge of Westmoreland
County.
Judge John Moorhead married Margaret Hill, daughter of Rev.
George
Hill. They had the following children: Elizabeth, Nancy, Sarah,
Betsey,
Jane, Margaret, Lucinda, Mary W., Samuel, and John.
The Craigs
came from Scotland in 1684, settling in New Jersey. Andrew,
born
in 1662, died in 1739 was the first generation to immigrate. His
son,
John, born 1695, died in 1778, had a son, Samuel, born in early
1700's,
married ELIZABETH MCDONALD first, and second, JANE BOYD and
started
to Western Pennsylvania from New Jersey in 1766. In 1769, Samuel
Craig
bought a tract of land on the eastern side of the Loyalhanna, of
three
hundred acres.
Source:
200 Years of History in New Alexandria, Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania
By The Bicentennial History Committee Published by the New
Alexandria
Bicentennial Committee in Cooperation with the Community of
New
Alexandria, Pennsylvania
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