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Daniel (Colonel) McFarland (son of Andrew McFarland and Rebecca Scott Gray) was born 1729 in probably in US, father came here in 1718, and died December 1817.He married Sarah Barber on Abt. 1760 in Scotland, daughter of Robert Barber and Sarah Gray.
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Immigration between 1760 and 1770from ancestry.com Gary Morris
*owned Pew No. 49 in the Old South Metting House on the Common in 1763. Was honored with various town offices from year 1756 - 1767, which was about the time he went with his family to Burlington, NJ. Then later settling in Monongahela, Amwell Twn, Washington CO., PN.
from Tammy Schenekel on Ancestry.com:
*He was a Colonel in command of Rangers in Monongahela and Ohio Counties in 1778-1780. The following is copied from an original record in the Historical Museum of "West Virginia University" at Morgantonw, West Virginia, being a pay abstract of Capt. Whitsall's company of Rnagers of Monongahela County under the command of Col. Daniel McFarland "raning in the Monongahela and Ohio counties from the twenty-second day of April to the twenty fifth of July 1778"....this in turn is copied from the Source given.Daniel commanded a company of militia rangers as a Colonel in Monongalia County in southwestern PA during the Revolution in 1778. For this service he was paid $242.50 by Colonel Hand at Fort Pitt. In 1794 he sold a little over 21 acres of his farm to the Baptists for £2.5s. where the North Ten Mile Baptist Church was built. Fort McFarland was built about 1772 in the same area.
*Jan.01, 1785 purchased of John Barber four hundred and nineteen acres on the Middle fork of ten-mile creek, and on 21st of March, 1796, purchased two hundred and eighteen acres of Daniel Axtell, which was surveyed as Pleasant Grove.
American Revolution, Rank Lieutenant Colonel, on frontier of Monongahela and Ohio counties Military Service 1778 Commanded PA Rangers
Burial: Dec 1817 Lower Ten Mile Presbyterian Cemetery, Amity PA
More About Daniel (Colonel) McFarland and Sarah Barber:
Marriage: Abt. 1760, Scotland.
Children of Daniel (Colonel) McFarland and Sarah Barber are:
  1. +Nancy McFarland, b. Abt. 1762, Prosperity, PA681, d. March 06, 1840, Piqua, OH( another date 1834)681.