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Philip Main and Clory Ann Rough |
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Phillip MAIN Mane was born in Oct 1747 in Gloucester Co, NJ, US. He served in the military in Aug 1776 in Virginia, US. He enlisted in Capt Andrew Waggoner's Company, of the 12th Virginia Regiment of foot, commanded by Colonel James Wood. He enlisted at George's Creek on the Monongahala River. He served four years as private, being transferred, in 1779, to Major Clark's Company of the same regiment. Throughout the northern campaign, he participated in the battles of Brandywine, Elizabethtown and Germantown and suffered through the winter at Valley Forge. On 3 Oct 1777, at Germantown, in an assault upon a stone house which was used by the British as their headquarters (the Judge Chew Mansion, still standing), his right eye was struck by a musket ball and destroyed. On account of this injury, he was granted a small pension forty-two years afterwards (3 June 1819). He died on 19 Apr 1835 in North Sewickley Twp, Beaver Co, PA, US. Phillip MAIN Mane and Clory Ann ROUGH were married about 1776 in Pennsylvania, US. After the Revolution he settled and raised his family of seven children on a 200 acre farm which he had acquired in North Sewickley Township, near Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Some of his children married there into the neighboring family of Andrew Nye. Four of his sons served in the army in the War of 1812. They lived in Monongahela Valley, VA, US about 1777. Philip Main, progenitor of the Pike County Mains, was born in Gloucester County, New Jersey, as recorded in the application for a pension. When the Revolutionary War began, he was 29 years old, had married by then Clory Ann Rough and was living west of the Allegheny Mountains, in the Monongahela Valley, on George's Creek, near Uniontown (Virginia then, but now part of Pennsylvania). Clory Ann ROUGH was born in 1762 in Pennsylvania, US. She died after 1810 in Pennsylvania, US. Phillip MAIN Mane and Clory Ann ROUGH had the following children: +2 i. Nicholas MAIN, born on 26 Sep 1783, North Sewickley Twp, Beaver Co, PA, US; married Nancy NYE, on 9 Dec 1802, Beaver Co, PA, US; died in 1874, Hardin Twp, Pike Co, IL, US. +3 ii. Solomon MAIN +4 iii. Katherine "Aunt Katy" MAIN Catherine, born between 1800 and 1803, Beaver Co, PA, US; married Thomas JOHNSTON, Beaver Co, PA, US; died in 1887, Pike Co, IL, US. 5 iv. John MAIN was born in 1803 in Beaver Co, PA, US. |
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MAYENNE ~ MAINE ~ MAINS ~ D’MAYENNE ~ DU MAINE The name ‘Main’ has Western European origins. The root or primary French origin is of geographic nature, in particular from the region of Maine, France (du Maine)—Magne, great, large, rich, powerful, the same as magnus in Latin. The loose Scotch/English version is of Norman origin (French), yet is occupational or status in nature. Scottish: from a reduced form of the Scandinavian personal name Magnus. Scottish: topographic name for a farmer who farmed the main farm on an estate. |
