William Ross

b May1760, , Chester, Pennsylvania
d 1821, , , , Rossville

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William Ross
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William Ross
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Jean Nesbit
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Children

1	<	James Ross
2		William Ross
3		Elizabeth Ross
4		John Ross
5		John Ross
6		Margaret Ross

Notes

During the Revolutionary War William was a private in Capt. William Dodds' Company of York County Militia in 1781, and while his brother Alexander Ross was stationed with his division at York, William took his place at the camp while Alexander came home to put out his grain.

William was a major of the Warrington Rangers which did service in the Indian Wars of 1794 and colonel of the First Battalion of Rifelmen which he helped to organize during the Second War with England.

It was in his time that the name of the town of Warrington Square was changed to Rosstown and later to Rossville.

He was appointed justice of the peace for Warrington Township for life and was sheriff of York Co., and one of the earliest postmasters. Major Ross built a tannery at Rossville and a stone dwelling house on the old York Road in

Source: 'A Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart families of Pennsylvania', Blanche T. Hartman, 1929, p 56. McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 53.

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