Sarah Quinn

"Sketches of the life and labors of James Quinn, who was nearly half a ..." by John F. Wright

http://books.google.com/books?id=QWLUAAAAMAA

p.15 ff "My mother was Sarah Henthorn daughter of John and Fanny Henthorn. Her parents were from Ireland but she was born and raised in the state of Maryland. Her father was among the first adventurers to the Redstone country and was associated with the Beesons and others who built a fort for the protection of themselves and families on the spot where Uniontown now stands. I think they were there when Braddock met his defeat in 1755.

My mother was married young and with her husband settled near Washington then called Catfish after an old Indian captain or chief who had his camp and wigwam near or at that place. My mother's first husband died young and left her a widow with one or two small children all dead long since. My father came to that country in company with Col John Cannon the proprietor of Cannonsburg where he became acquainted with and married my mother. She lived to give birth to four sons and three daughters and on the day that her oldest son, myself. was fourteen years old closed her eyes in death. Ah never shall I forget that scene. It is still present to my mind though more than half a century has elapsed. Overwhelmed in sorrow and bathed in tears I saw her breathe her last.

My parents were raised and educated in the Church of England and I suppose thought themselves pretty good Church people. They took some pains to instruct their children in the principles of religion and morality. By repeating after my mother I had committed to memory the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, the Apostles Creed, and the Church Catechism by the time I was five or six years of age ..."

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