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Agnew and Chambers Families

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County boundaries changed and evolved over the years, so that the same location may have been in two or three counties over time.

The first place we find the Carnageys and Robert Agnew after the Revolution is Canonsburg.   Much of Western Pennsylvania was available for little or no cost to veterans, the so-called Donation and Depreciation Lands. This may account for their presence there.

By 1790, Robert had settled in Moon Township on Raredon Run.  The map below shows the Agnew property. Many of the Carnageys headed further west, to Ohio, Kentucky, and eventually Missouri.  Those that stayed in Pennsylvania moved to Georgetown on the Ohio River.

This map, published in 1876, shows several locations in our family history—Moon Township, Carrick (Baldwin Township), where John Agnew started his glassmaking business, and Oakmont, where the Agnew factory was later located. 

Maps showing Agnew in Baldwin (Carrick) 1862-1916

By 1880, the John and Mary Agnew had moved to Hulton (Oakmont) in the Eastern part of Pittsburgh as this 1903 map shows (their son John Chambers Agnew stayed in Carrick):

Location of A&DH Chambers Glass, Fifth and Bingham, Birmingham Township, Pittsburgh South Side