BIO: Abraham MITCHELL, Native of Lancaster County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Lynn Beatty klbeatty@npgcable.com January 21, 2007, 8:10 am Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/lancaster/ _______________________________________________ Author: Josiah V. Thompson Abraham Mitchell, a signer of the Oath of Allegiance in March 1778, a resident of Cecil Co., Md, was born in Lancaster Co, Pa was highly educated & came to Cecil Co Md prior to 1767 & settled at Head of Elk, erected a handsome residence in the village & practiced medicine over Cecil & Harford Cos, Md & New Castle Co, Del & during the Revolution, he turned his home into a hospital. On Nov 19, 1792, he married Mary Thompson, a direct descendant of Augustine Herman who was the first person murdered in in America. Dr Mitchell was a land owner in Cecil Co. He had 8 children, two of whom died in infancy. He died at his home at Fair Hill Sept 30, 1817 in his 84th year. This article by Mollie Howard Ashe says John E. Finley & Samuel R. Finley were probably sons or nephews of Rev Samuel Finley who accepted a call to West Nottingham Pres Church in 1744 where he founded West Nottingham Academy still known as a good preparatory school & where two of the signers of the Dec of Ind were students viz: Benj Rush of Penna & Richard Stockton of NJ. Rev John E. Finley, above was a nephew being oldest child of Rev James Finley & it was he who married my great grandmother, Mrs Mary (Jack) Thompson to John Logan in Muron [sic] Co Ky about 1801 & was ggfather of Finley R. McNutt of Terre Haute, Ind Additional Comments: Extracted from Josiah V. Thompson Journals