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Israel BURKETT

HUSBAND:
[F968]. Israel BURKETT.
Born (about 1723-S7)(in 1750) in Wuerttemberg, Germany; possibly the son of (Israel?) BURKETT [F1936]..

He married Catherine [F969] (S6) in 1770. He married Anna Maria BARBARA.(S5,S7) about 1745. [Check these carefully. We have always had Catherine as his wife. Was he married twice, or is one a mistake?]

Christened in 1776. [Was the christening in preparation to emigrate?]

He emigrated to America (during the Revolutionary War-S4)(about 1747-1748)(in 1751 in the ship Edinburgh from Rotterdam, Captain James Russell). He settled in District Township, Berks Township, Pennsylvania.

He crossed the Alleghenys in 1776. He opened a sawmill Quemahonig. He died (about 1785)(in 1805-S7) in Stony Creek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. (S4,S7). Burial: Daly Cemetery, Shade Twp, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.(S7).

WIFE (2):
[F969]. Catherine.
Born in 1750 in Germany.(S4). She married Israel BURKETT [F968] in 1770. She died in Pennsylvania.(S4).

WIFE (1):
Anna Maria BARBARA.


CHILDREN of Israel BURKETT [F968] and Catherine [F969]:
  1. F484]. George BURKETT Sr.. Born in Germany/Born in Pennsylvania on 16 August 1755 St. Joseph's Luthern, District Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. He married Catherine SWOVELIN [F485]. He served in the Revolutionary War in 1776 in the Bedford County Militia.
  2. Cristopher "Stophel" Burkett. b. 1747 in Wuerttemberg, Germany
  3. Jacob Burkett b. 8 May 1748 in Reading, Berks Co, Pennsylvania
  4. Catherine Burkett b. 1749
  5. Mary Burkett
  6. Margaret Burkett
  7. Barbara Burkett


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