Margaret Macpherson

After the death of her parents , she lived with her uncle , Reynold Keen , and is mentioned in a letter of Colonel Henry Haller to Thomas Wharton , Jr. , President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania , as claiming " a negro girl ” in Mr. Keen's household at Reading , when her uncle's property was sold as elsewhere stated . [2] At about eighteen years of age , she m . William Macpherson , son of Captain John Mac pherson , a native of Edinburgh , Scotland , of the noted clan of Clunie , who emigrated to America and took up his abode in Philadelphia

Miss Margaret Stout was a young woman who had not a particle of sympathy with those who, during the "occupancy" showed so much favor to the British officers, and which tended to make Philadelphia, during the winter of 1777-8, the gayest city in America. Although at the time of her marriage the struggle for independence was almost over, yet she was not slow in rendering that assistance to those who needed help in the darkest hours of the Revolution. Having been left a competency by her parents, she became noted for her great charity, and at the time of her death her loss was one [p.120] greatly to be lamented. She died in Philadelphia December 25, 1797, and was buried in Gloria Dei churchyard, Wicacoa, Philadelphia.

References

• The Descendants of Jöran Kyn of New Sweden. By Gregory Bernard Keen. Page 152. <GoogleBooks>
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stout-7125
• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Dec 1 2020, 1:06:24 UTC