SarahVoganElderPrisoner
Descendants of George ELDER and Sarah VOGAN match our "Franklin Co PA"
DNA group.
In DAR.ORG database, new Patriot entry:
ELDER, SARAH VOGAN
Ancestor #: A209023
PENNSYLVANIA Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE
birth 1-26-1741 LANCASTER CO PENNSYLVANIA
death: (ANTE) 9-2-1799 BEDFORD CO PENNSYLVANIA
Service Source:
MCHENRY, REBEL PRISONERS AT QUEBEC, 1778-1783, P 29
Service Description: 1) PRISONER
1) County: BEDFORD CO - State: PENNSYLVANIA
(with husband George as additional Patriot)
Reference to the book:
"Rebel prisoners at Quebec, 1778-1783:
Being a list of American prisoners held by the British
during the Revolutionary War" [Paperback]
by Chris McHenry (Compiler)
Amazon.com $95.99
Received Page 29 copied by Evelyn Davis, Anderson DAR chapter,
from Anderson Public Library in
Anderson, Madison County, Indiana.
at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nancyelder/ed/SarahVoganElderPrisoner.pdf
Other Refs:
Charles
E Claghorn "Women Patriots of the American Revolution: a biographical
dictionary" (Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, Inc) 1991 Page 295 "ELDER,
SARAH -- She was captured by Indians in 1780 and taken to Montreal."
(MR).
U J Jones "History of the early settlement of the Juniata
Valley: Embracing an Account of the Early Pioneers and the Trials and
Privations Incident to the Settlement of the Valley . . ." With notes
and extensions compiled as a glossary from the memoirs of early
settlers, the pension statements of revolutionary war soldiers, and
other source material, by Floyd G. Hoenstine (Harrisburg: The Telegraph
Press) c 1940 Pages 160-166 Chapter 13 `Raystown Branch
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More about George ELDER, Rev. War Soldier of Bedford Co PA
at PA ARCHIVES webpages:
http://www.fold3.com/page/111581261_george_elder_rev_war_soldier_died/
Info from descendants in Ohio and Indiana:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nancyelder/ed/MartinMorrowCoOH.htm