Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Jacob LAIRD
Jacob Laird served as lieutenant of the First company, Third battalion, Bedford County militia. He died 1792 in Huntingdon, Pa.
Africa's HISTORY OF HUNTINGDON CO.
page 415:
One of the early settlers of Porter(twp)was Jacob Laird, who had a son named William, who was born on the old Laird place, March 14, 1779, and lived on that farm until his death, March 27, 1852. When but a child his father died, and William was reared in the family of his uncle, Samuel
Isop, who lived on the same tract of land. Laird was married to Ann Drennan in 1799, and had after her death a second wife, rearing in all fifteen children. Of these, Robert A., one of the foremost citizens of the township, yet resides on the homestead. Other sons, John and William, died in Porter; Osborn in Franklin; Samuel C. in Tyrone; Thomas, David, and James removed to the West; and John S. to Bell's Mills.
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