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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Author: Lance Gregory Rose
John George Duncan, as a Private 3rd Class in the 3rd Battalion, Washington County Militia, Washington County, Pennsylvania under the command of Captain Andrew Swearingen, on 4 April 1782. John George Duncan is also recognized by the SAR as having suffered deprivation at the hands of the enemy in Washington County, Pennsylvania. John George Duncan was born in Scotland in 1740. John George Duncan, came from Scotland with his brothers, William and Alexander, all three of whom were in the war of the Revolution. After the war John George settled in Washington County, William located near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Alexander remained in Chester County, Pennsylvania. George Duncan married Isabella before in 1774 after moving to Washington County, Pennsylvania.
John George Duncan and his wife, Isabella, had at least nine children: Robert, John, Andrew, Elizabeth, Anne, Margaret, Mary, Susannah, and Isabella, all named in the estate papers recorded in Washington County, Pennsylvania. John Duncan, son of John George Duncan, sold his interest in his father’s estate along with that of his sisters to his brother Andrew, who remained in Washington County, Pennsylvania to farm the land obtained by their father, John George Duncan from William Brolin in Chartiers Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1784.
John George Duncan died in Cecil Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania between the purchase of the land on August 26, 1784 and November 22, 1784 when John Duncan, Jr. made additional land purchases and paid for them out of the proceeds from his father’s estate. George Duncan was buried in Cecil Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Isabella Duncan, his wife, died in Cecil Township, Pennsylvania around the 26thof March 1792 and is also buried in Cecil Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. children of John Duncan & Isabella had guardians appointed for them during their minority in 1792
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