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Hugh GASTON

Hugh GASTON

Male 1764 - 1839  (75 years)

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  • Name Hugh GASTON 
    Born 18 Jan 1764  Somerset Co, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 24 Jun 1839  East Liverpool, Columbiana Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    • "History of the Upper Ohio Valley" (p. 146) reports death date as about 1837, but great-grandson Frederick Waage Gaston's SAR application shows it as 1839.
    Buried Columbiana Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Birth place appears in "History of the Upper Ohio Valley" (p. 146) as Ireland, which is considered incorrect, as grandfather Hugh Gaston emigrated from there in about 1720. Anna Reger Gaston reports it unequivocally as Somerset Co, NJ. Hugh Gaston resided in Bedminster Twp, Somerset Co, NJ in 1787. According to Hanna's "Ohio Valley Genealogies," p. 44, in about 1795-1799, Hugh moved to Washington County & Lycoming County, and then to western Pennsylvania & Ohio. But the date of his departure from New Jersey is considered suspect, since the birthplace of his older children, born before 1795, is shown in census records not as New Jersey, but as Pennsylvania. Hugh Gaston and Grace Gaston were second cousins, as both were great-grandchildren of John Gaston (b. 1645 in Scotland). [2]
    Person ID I3511  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 3 Jul 2000 

    Father Joseph GASTON,   b. CA 1725,   d. 1775, Mt. Bethel Twp, Northampton Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 50 years) 
    Mother Isabel SIMONTON,   d. Aft 1792 
    Family ID F1235  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Grace GASTON,   b. 25 Nov 1764,   d. 14 Mar 1838  (Age 73 years) 
    Married 14 Mar 1789  Somerset Co, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4] 
    Children 
     1. Joseph GASTON,   b. 24 Dec 1789, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. James William GASTON,   b. 20 Jan 1793,   d. 13 Mar 1872  (Age 79 years)
     3. Robert GASTON,   b. 23 Feb 1794,   d. 4 Jun 1801  (Age 7 years)
     4. Elizabeth GASTON,   b. 7 Sep 1797,   d. 14 Jan 1816  (Age 18 years)
     5. Hugh GASTON,   b. 9 Apr 1804, Columbiana Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Mar 1857  (Age 52 years)
    Family ID F1238  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsDied - 24 Jun 1839 - East Liverpool, Columbiana Co, OH Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S517] Gaston Family Lines of Somerset, "Somerset County Historical Quarterly," Somerville, NJ, Vol. 5 (1916), Anna Reger Gaston, (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~windmill/html/somersev.html).

    2. [S504] Ohio Valley Genealogies, Charles A. Hanna, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900)), p. 44.

    3. [S602] Jane Carson Topoly, Fort Washington, MD 20744, (http://www.reocities.com/heartland/8904/).

    4. [S569] Peter J. Topoly & Jane Carson Topoly, Fort Washington, MD 20744-2535, (http://topolyp.com/JanesNames/).