BIO: Samuel FLEMING, 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, pages 188-189. 
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  FLEMING, SAMUEL, was born October 30, 1761, in Cecil county, Md., 
died August 3, 1851, in Harrisburg, Dauphin county, Pa.  Removed with 
his father's family to Western Pennsylvania, where he served as justice 
of the peace and surveyor for Washington county; was captain of a 
ranging company on the frontiers to protect them from the Indian 
marauders from the Ohio; was one of the local committee to treat with 
the insurgents during the Whiskey Insurrection.  In 1812 he removed to 
West Hanover township, Dauphin county, where he resided until a few 
years before his death.  Mr. Fleming married, September 24, 1789, Sarah 
Becket, born 1771; d. January 21, 1831, in Hanover township, Dauphin 
county, Pa.