Our families were together in Pennsylvania and again in Ohio. Several intermarried and we find them on census records.

Perhaps they came from Ireland together and that may be how they all settled into Pennsylvania beginning their journey in the free world. History shows that many Irish fled to Scotland, and called themselves Scotch-Irish when they arrived in America.

Their descendents went west into many new territories. Some are buried in Quaker City - nice thought to ponder. Perhaps they were the Quakers we read about who got along so well with the Indians in the 1700s.

There was much Indian unrest back then and several tribes moved into Ohio and Kentucky; many intermarried with the whites and continued westward.

Below you will find a 1790 record on STURGEON and if you look closely you will see an Alexander Douglass....now that confuses this author...

• 1810 HUGH COCHRAN WITH 16 FAMILY MEMBERS (160 KB)
  LOCATED IN MOYAMENSING, PHILADELPHIA, PA some think that Hugh Cochran was the father of Alexander and William. In 1790 I found a Hugh in South Carolina but he is still there in 1810. They surely did have large families.
• 1860 Ohio -Elizabeth Henderson, wife of John (534 KB)
  lives near Mariah Cochran and Elzira - this must be Elizabeth Cook who married John Jr.
• 1810 Alexander Cochran in Gettysburg Township (162 KB)
  located in Adams County, PA with 14 family members and searching the census pages near him I find NO familiar names other than a Thomas Cochran with 13 family members. Names of wife and children were not added to these census records so one can only speculate unless they locate a will in the state's will book for more evidence of this man's legacy.
• 1860 Ohio - Mariah and Elzira Cochran (526 KB)
  next to Alexander Cochran and near many Henderson families - Jacob Benjamin Cochran is in California working as a Miner, likely searching for Gold with his brother John.
• 1820 JACOB COCHRAN (547 KB)
  Found in Pittsburg, Allegheny County PA this couple has only one child. So this obviously young Jacob could be the son of our Alexander.
• 1860 Ohio - Robert Henderson (511 KB)
  another Henderson family in Ohio - he is near Thomas and Elizabeth and Elzira
• 1790 Sturgeon in Dauphin PA (229 KB)
  Peter and Thomas are found here. Thomas may be the father of Sarah Sturgeon who married John Clendenning. I tried to trace the parents of Thomas and his mother Sarah Ferguson and believe that her father was a Thomas Ferguson found in the area. Alexander Douglass is on this page too!
• 1790 Alexander Cochran in Mifflin PA (147 KB)
  this shows he has 11 children in 1790 ?? This census record only shows head of household and not where he came from, so we can assume he is from Scotland or from Ireland - maybe a large family came over the sea or perhaps the other family trees online are only made up from speculation. In the 1800s there were dozens of Alexanders in census records and dozens more of the Williams so they could all possibly be related to this one Alexander. It would be very difficult for anyone to be certain of the connections to this one man.
• 1800 Molley Douglass (283 KB)
  Edgefield SC - since I ran across Alexander Douglass with the Sturgeons, I felt like finding his wife after he passed away. IF this is our Mary Molley, she has not yet married George Little - Remember that her husband went on a survey with Molley's brother John Handley to Kentucky and was murdered on the way back to Pennsylvania - she feared the Indians and left.
• 1800 Mifflin PA Alexander Cochran (346 KB)
  near James Adams
• 1860 Jacob Cochran (558 KB)
  Hamilton Township, Butte, California - Jacob is a Miner living with his brother John Henderson Cochran so now we know why the other census record showed Mariah alone this year....apparently they all went searching for Gold before moving to Iowa Territory.
• 1860 Brice Cochran (531 KB)
  Oxford, Guernsey, Ohio
• 1790 John Handley Junior (188 KB)
  Newbern District, Wayne County, North Carolina this is a large census page
• 1860 Agness and daughter Eliza Cochran (604 KB)
  both from Ireland and in Pennsylvania; are they related ? Was this Agnes a Henderson?
• 1810 George Handley (61 KB)
  Monroe Virginia, while his brothers went to Kentucky near the Little families
• 1860 Thomas Henderson (524 KB)
  on Ohio census page next to Mariah and Elzira, so he must be Uncle Thomas.
• 1810 Clendennin, John in PA (213 KB)
  hard to find Clendenning on census records but people often changed the spelling of their names - Nancy Clendenning married a William Henderson about 1797 in PA....some were found in North Carolina and I wonder if they migrated to Pennsylvania....the search continues for this line.

• Search Notes (52 KB)
  Saving a few names found on census in 1790 thru 1820 which may help us later on with this family tree.

• Family Tree

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