Samuel FARQUHAR

1772 - 1839  (66 years)

• Birth	22 Nov 1772	Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting, Frederick Co., MD   [1, 2]
  	1772, 9m, 22d
  Note	Notes for SAMUEL FARQUHAR: As told by Franklin Smith Farquhar Uncle Samuel had gone to Ohio, to visit his brother William who had migrated there from Maryland. Returning, Samuel came by the way of the present site of Oil City. He found oil flowing from the ground. Securing some in a bottle he brought it home as a curiosity to show to the neighbors; eventually to use some of it in an old oil-wick lamp. It proved a success as illuminating fluid. Uncle Samuel was a giant of a man. He was over six feet tall, weighed 250 pounds and was strong as an ox. He could lift a 500-pound weight over his head with ease. On one occasion, while on a return trip for Philadelphia, (to which place they had gone to haul their produce) the outfit was held up by highwaymen. In the onslaught that followed, her Uncle Samuel picked up the leader of the gang and hurled him over the hillside. The victim struck a tree and broke his neck. The rest of the highwaymen fled.
  Death	May 1839	Columbiana Co., OH   [1, 3]

  
  

  Father	Allen FARQUHAR,   b. Abt 1720, IRELAND d. 12 Dec 1800, PA (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Sarah Jane MOORE,   b. 1733   d. 4 Jul 1829 (Age 96 years)
  Family ID	F438	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Leah DAVIS
  Marriage	1797  [1]
  Family ID	F29	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 22 Nov 1772 - Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting, Frederick Co., MD Death - May 1839 - Columbiana Co., OH  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S99] Walter Moore Family File, 99. [S97] American Quaker Genealogy, (Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1936), Vol VI, p.490, 97. [S98] Descendants of Allen Farquhar, 98.