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Author: VeniceFL
Surnames: Caldwell
Classification: queries
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I'm not too clear that you asked me personally or someone else in the thread, but
I'll answer. Alexander Caldwell was almost certainly from southeastern Pennsylvania,
which was a large Scots-Irish area. He married Esther (or Hester) Rush, who was from
Cumberland (later Franklin) County PA and near Chambersburg. Her father Robert was killed
there by Indians in 1757, when Esther was a little girl. Alexander and Esther lived,
however, in (W) VA, near the PA border in Frederick (later Berkeley) County, where they
first purchased property in 1765.
There were numerous Caldwell families in the SE PA area and I haven't yet identified
Alexander's parent family among them, or found that he was an immigrant himself. Could
be either. An unsupported rumor has it that Esther's parents were from Derry,
Londonderry, North Ireland, and that is not too unlikely, because many of the Scots-Irish
who came over at that time were from there.
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