James St.Clair Sr (1741 - 1806)

Born May 1741 in Eastern Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 8 Apr 1806 at age 64 in York, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

"Mr. St. Clair is of Scotch-Irish extraction. The St. Clair family is an old one in Scotland. Two of its members. Gen. Arthur S. and James St. Clair, cousins, were engaged in the Continental service during the Revolutionary war, the former being president of the Continental Congress in 1787 and commander in chief of the armies of the United States in 1791. The latter was great-grandfather of William A. St. Clair. His parents were natives of the North of Ireland, and he himself was born in 1741, in eastern Pennsylvania. He owned a valuable farm not more than nine miles from York and died in York county in 1806, at the age of sixty-five. His wife's maiden name was Miller. - Indiana County, Pennsylvania; her people, past and present, embracing a history of the county" ^[1]

SAR Application

U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Name: James St Clair Birth Date: 1741 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Death Date: 1806 Death Place: York, Pennsylvania SAR Membership: 83388 Role: Ancestor Application Date: 6 Mar 1958 Spouse: Sara Miller Children: James St Clair

North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000

Name: James St Clair Gender: Male Birth Date: 1741 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Death Date: 1806 Death Place: York County, PA Spouse: Sara Miller Child: James St Clair

Name: James Stclair Year: 1780 Town or Ward: Hopewell County: York Archive Rollname: 342

From Indiana Co., PA, Her People, Past and Present, Stewart, 1913, p 803: "The St. Clairs are of Scotch-Irish origin, a branch of the St. Clair family of Scotland, which was founded in the middle ages by Sir Walderne de St. Clair, a Norman knight". James St. Clair parents "were natives of the North of Ireland".

In the Revolutionary War, James served as private in Capt. Nathaniel Vansandt's company, Col. Robert Magaw's regiment, 5th battalion Pennsylvania troops.^[2]

Stewart claims he was the cousin of General Arthur St Clair, but also says his parents were from Northern Ireland.^[3] Arthur's uncles all seem to be from Scotland. Perhaps it was a more distant cousin, or just an apocryphal family story. An unsourced family tree^[4] lists James's father as from Thurso, where Arthur was born.

Name

Name: James /St Clair/ Sr^[5]

Birth

Birth:

Date: 1741

Place: Pennsylvania^[6]

Death

Death:

Date: 1806

Place: York, Pennsylvania^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ by Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp, page 272
2. ↑ North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000. Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Book. Pg 11. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61157/46155_b290452-00012/3627301
3. ↑ Stewart, J. T. "Indiana County, Pennsylvania" 1913. Pg 803. https://books.google.com/books?id=r8swAQAAMAAJ&pg=803
4. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3DM8-W54
5. ↑ Source: #S-1075514791 Page: SAR Membership Number: 83388 APID: 1,2204::877652
6. ↑ Source: #S-1075514791 Page: SAR Membership Number: 83388 APID: 1,2204::877652
7. ↑ Source: Page: SAR Membership Number: 83388

• Source: S-1075514791 Repository: itle: U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. APID: 1,2204::0
• Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Wiley, 1891, pp 152-155