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Six Generations of Sturgeons (7/23/98)

Generation No. 1

1. Samuel¹ Sturgeon was born 1680 in Ireland, and died 1740 in Paxtang Twp., Dauphin Co., PA.

Notes
Samuel Sturgeon was born in ireland about 1680, and with a large family migrated to America in 1730 and settled near harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He had likely married around 1702-1705 but his wife's name is not known or whether she was alive at the time the family came to America. Samuel Sturgeon died about 1740.

When all of the traditions and records are compiled, they indicate that there were eight sons that came with Samuel: Samuel II, Jeremiah, Henry, Thomas, Peter, William, Robert and John. There were also probably some daughters.

The McCoy history contains information about Samuel II, Jeremiah, Henry and William, but very little of Thomas, Peter, Robert and John.
He says: "The Sturgeons as a clan are unsentimental, indifferent, and poor correspondents and the information necessary for a creditable history was extracted from them with much difficulty, and the John Sturgeon progeny are the worst of the tribe." He wrote that in the early 1900's. Some of them have improved in this area. Some haven't.

A quote from McCoy: "Samuel, propositus, died about sixty, and Samuel I about forty-five, while Jeremiah I and Henry I, having safely passed these points, lived well into the eighties and John I is said to have died in his 110th year.
The Sturgeon men had a well developed bump of philoprogenetiveness, and those early Sturgeons kept the stork busy. They have been farmers and millers and in later generations they have contributed many members to the medical profession. With the exceptions of Daniel, United States Senator from Penn. and Isaac Hughes of St. Louis, few of them intererested themselves of became famous as politains. They hadn't been bitten by the Irish political bug in their brief residence in Ireland."

Children of Samuel Sturgeon are:

+	2	i.	Samuel² Sturgeon, born Abt 1706 in Ireland; died March 1749/50 in Paxtang Twp., Dauphin Co., PA.
+	3	ii.	Jeremiah Sturgeon, born Abt 1708 in Ulster, Ireland; died January 01, 1795 in Paxtang Twp., Lancaster Co., PA.
	4	iii.	Thomas Sturgeon, born Abt 1710 in Ireland.
	5	iv.	Peter Sturgeon, born Abt 1712 in Ireland.
+	6	v.	Henry Sturgeon, born 1712-1714 in Ireland; died Abt 1797.
+	7	vi.	William Sturgeon, born Abt 1716 in Ireland.
	8	vii.	Robert Sturgeon, born Abt 1718 in Ireland.
	9	viii.	Sarah Sturgeon, born Abt 1720 in Ireland.
+	10	ix.	John Sturgeon, born Abt 1722 in Ireland; died Abt 1832 in Hart Co., KY.

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