Can someone help me locate pre-1840 info for John Stewart and wife Mary Jane Anderson?
He b. abt.. 1820 in Delaware County, and she 1824-28 in Erie County, both Pa. The first three of their 12 children born in Pa. by 1840 McKeesport, Allegheny Co. US Census. Ancestry keeps pointing me to a "ghost town" named Fruittown in Centre County, near present-day Conyers Lake, but my research yields no details other than a John Stewart in old cemetery thereabouts. John's fsther may have been John Alexander Stewart, b. Ireland; possible half-sister married to a James Watson in 1850 McKeesport Census on same residential street.
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Looking at a map of counties for 1820 Pennsylvania shows Delaware near Philadelphia, Allegheny near Pittsburg, Erie way to the north, and Centre in the middle of the state. At some point, the families of John and Mary Jane must have lived near each other. Do you find them in the 1840 census in McKeesport?
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