Here is a wonderful 2nd source on some of this information.
MELISSA THOMPSON ALEXANDER
ma.da(a)gte.net
edmonds, washington, usa
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Subject: Cissell information
Well, I do not have the John Webster Jones application to the PA Sons of the
Revolution, my cousin has that at the moment. But I do have his first
cousin's application, which reads the same. The scanned copy is not very
legible, so I will snail-mail you a copy of it tomorrow. Meanwhile, here is
what is listed on the applications/affidavits:
Carroll Harrison Jones b. May 18, 1898 Balto. Md.
son of John McNamara Jones b. March 25, 1860 Hollywood, MD and Nellie H.
Miller b July 24, 1857 Baltimore, MD
son of John Ireland Jones b. Sep. 19, 1829 St. Mary's Co., MD d.February 17,
1871 and Mary Jane Cecil b. February 17, 1832 St. Mary's Co. MD.
daughter of John Cecil b. 1805 St. Mary's Co., MD and M.A.C.(Caroline)
Magill
b. 1805-1810 St. Mary's Co., MD
son of John Cissell b. Oct 15, 1757 St. Mary's Co., MD and Susannah Thompson
b. c1760 St. Mary's Co., MD
son of John Cissell d. St. Mary's Co. MD (Will prob. 2/22/1793) and
Henrietta
__?__ b. St. Mary's Co., MD (married at St. Andrew's Ch., St. Mary's Co. bef
1745)
son of Arthur Cissell d. St. Mary's Co., MD (Will prob. 1737) and Mary, said
to be dau. of Ethelbert Doyne and wife Jane Sanders
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Also says that John Cissell was "Private, Third Company, Captain Barton
Lucass, January 20, 1776, Maryland Militia; Private, same company, Major
Mordecai Gist commanding "Maryland Four Hundred", at Battle of Long Island,
Aug. 27, 1776.