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This Valentine Peyton was born in Westmoreland County to the former Anne Thornton and her planter husband, Henry Peyton (b.1656). He was named to honor his great-uncle, Col. Valentine Peyton (1627-1665), who had served in the British Royal Army after graduating from Trinity College in 1647, then emigrated to the Virginia colony by 1652 when he patented 1000 acres on Aquia Creek for ...
Lee was born on December 13, 1730, probably at Stratford Hall Plantation, Westmoreland County, Virginia to Thomas Lee and his wife Hannah Harrison Ludwell. [1] Born into the First Families of Virginia (as described below), he was the couple's third son and the second to survive into adulthood.
Westmoreland County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, located in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 354,663. [1] The county seat is Greensburg and the most populous community is Hempfield Township. [2] It is named after Westmorland, a historic county of England ...
Early in 1787, the family moved to Fayette County, and both his parents died that year. Todd was raised by one Duncan McLean. His official schooling was limited to one and a half years, but he read extensively at night. [4] Todd served as county commissioner 1815–1819, during which time he read law under John Bouvier.
Like his father, he first traded in New England, and after his father's death, in Virginia. There, he served on the Governor's Council (1687-1691) and for many years in the House of Burgesses, representing Northumberland County and later Westmoreland County. [1]
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After 14 years, the City of Philadelphia will reexamine the case of Ellen Greenberg, a teacher whose 2011 death was ruled a suicide after she was found with nearly two dozen stab wounds and ...
The Darr Mine disaster at Van Meter, Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, near Smithton, killed 239 men and boys on December 19, 1907. [1] It ranks as the worst coal mining disaster in Pennsylvanian history. [2]