I. FIRST GENERATION: JOSEPH CROSS

The following is from the composition book recorded by Hannah J. McAffee Ralston about 1935.1

"THE CROSS FAMILY of COUNTY LONDONDERRY, IRELAND

"Joseph Cross left wife and son John there to come to America. She heard a few times from him, but learned he joined the armies of the Colonies, and was wounded at Charleston, SC. and concluded he died from this cause." (Revolutionary War.)

Children:

+1) John, born about 1763 in Ireland and died 1824 in Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York.2 There is an entry in the September 22, 1824 issue of the Ontario Repository, a newspaper, stating 'John Cross died, about 60 years of age, at Victor.' No other information shown.3

  1. Sources:
  2. Source (36), page 3.
  3. Source (36), page 4.
  4. Source (58).
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