BIO: Samuel AINSWORTH, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 194.
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  AINSWORTH, SAMUEL, son of John Ainsworth and his wife Margaret Mayes, 
who was born November 11, 1765, in Hanover township.  His grandfather, 
of the same name, with his wife Margaret Young, were settlers in 
Hanover in 1736.  In 1756 the family were driven out by the Indians and 
one of the children captured.  The latter was never retaken.  Samuel 
was brought up on his father's farm in Hanover, receiving a year's 
education in Philadelphia in addition to that acquired in the schools 
of the neighborhood.  After the organization of the county he became 
quite prominent, and twice elected to the Legislature.  He died while 
in attendance on this body, in Philadelphia, in February, 1798.  Mr. 
Ainsworth married, May 10, 1792, by Rev. James Snodgrass, Margaret 
McEwen, daughter of Richard McEwen; born 1770, in Hanover; died October 
29, 1867, near Lancaster, Ohio.