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Peter Barrackman was born ca. 1744 in Germany. He served in the French and Indian Wars in Maryland in 1767. He married Elizabeth Antis in Virginia. She may had been his second wife. The family was living at Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania, by 1776 and he ran a ferry service on the river near Fort Pitt during the Revolutionary War. The family migrated to Knox County, Indiana, in the 1780s. He died there in 1790. Focuses on the descendants of his sons, Abraham, Henry and John. Descendants listed lived in Indiana, Illinois, and elsewhere.
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Previously published by Magna Carta, Baltimore. Published as a set by Genealogical Publishing with the two vols. of the Genealogies in the Library of Congress, and the two vols. of the Supplement. Set ISBN is 0806316691.
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