Ancestral File Number : 8XC8-3X

This James Ewing is the ancestor of Laura Dingle Ewing who has written a book about her line called "Our Ewing Family" Copyright c 1978 by Spindletop Museum, Lamar University

Children birth dates from
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Ancestors of Marion I McLaughlin
by Marion McLaughlin

Re: Part 2:Bethbirei Cemetery
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James Ewing
Born in Cumberland Co., Pa.
Sep 21, 1782
Oct 18, 1860

Mary wife of James Ewing,
Born in Burk Co., N.C.
Feb 4, 1798
Died Jul 11, 1828

Rachel Virginia dau of Felix & Rachel Ewing
Jan 9, 1827
Sep 11, 1842

Mary J. wife of J.B. Wilkes,
dau of J.D. & E. Ewing
Apr 1, 1835
Aug 16, 1856
Age 21 yrs, 4mos 15days

Mrs Collie M. wife of L Fuller
dau of James D. & Elizabeth Ewing
Sep 3, 1837
Apr 6, 1862

Martha C. Ewing
1838-1913

John A. Ewing
1818-1893

Thomas S. Ewing
Feb 28, 1872
Oct 4, 1913

Mary Haynes wife of T.S. Ewing
Jul 12, 1877
Apr 23, 1909

Jane Ewing
Jan 30, 1781
Sept 7, 1855

Andrew T. Ewing
Aug 9, 1810
Aug 18, 1834
Age 24 yrs 9 days

David A. Ewing
Died Apr 14, 1833
Age 20 years

John L. Son of Wm, D. & R. Ewing
Died Aug 31, 1833
Age 4 mos.

Jane E. Appleby Consort of S.B. Appleby
dau of George & Jane E. Ewing
Jul 31, 1811
Jun 2, 1846
Age 35 yrs 10mos

Margaret H. Consort of Milton H. Dysart
dau of Wm. D. & Rebecca Ewing
Died May 29, 1836
Age 18 yrs 11mos 1day

George Ewing
Mar 30, 1775
May 9, 1842
Age 67 yrs, 1mo, 10days

Ann E. Consort of W.D. Ewing
Died 13---,1867
Age 67 years

Rebeckah, Consort of W.D. Ewing
Jan 17, 1791
Jun 4, 1847

W. D. Ewing
Oct 12, 1791
May 1, 1872
Age 85 yrs, 20days

S.D. Ewing
Dec 8, 1819
Apr 3, 1883

Jane E. wife of
Dr. S. D. Ewing
Jul 12, 1825
Aug 8, 1886

Wilber T. Ewing
Apr 6, 1885
Nov 2, 1911

Argyle A. Ewing
Jun 4, 1840
Jul 30, 1892

Alberta Ewing
Sep 7, 1843
Nov 21, 1926

Samuel Ewing (2 graves enclosure by Iron fence)

Hattie Liggett Ewing
Jul 13, 1880
Sep 3, 1957

Samuel J. Ewing
Oct 26, 1877
Mar 26, 1945

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Birth: 
1736
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 
1806
York County
Pennsylvania, USA

Vice President of Pennsylvania (Lieutenant Governor)1782-1783.

James Ewing was born in 1736 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the son of Thomas Ewing and Susanna Howard. Thomas Ewing was an Ulster-Scottish immigrant and had served in the Assembly when James was young. James married Patience Wright.

In 1755 young Ewing joined General Edward Braddock's expedition into western Pennsylvania, and in 1758 he served as a lieutenant in the Pennsylvania militia.

Ewing represented York County in the General Assembly from 1771 through 1776. In early 1776 he was one of the few Assemblymen calling for an immediate break with Great Britain. It was, in part, his enthusiasm for Independence that led to his general's commission on July 4.

On July 4, 1776, Ewing was commissioned a brigadier general in the Pennsylvania militia. Characterized by historian David Hackett Fischer as a "hard-driving Scotch-Irish border chieftain", Ewing commanded a brigade of five regiments at the time of Washington's crossing of the Delaware on December 25, 1776, in a surprise attack on the Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey. Ewing's force, positioned directly across from Trenton, was unable to cross the river because of the ice. Although Ewing has sometimes been criticized by historians for failing to join Washington on the other side of the river, Fischer argues that no one could have crossed the river at that point that night. Washington did not blame General Ewing, writing that "the Quantity of Ice was so great, that tho' he did every thing in his power to effect it, he could not get over."

Following Independence Ewing aligned himself with wealthy business interests, as a Republican and Anti-Constitutionalist (the latter movement being opposed to the unicameral legislature of Pennsylvania's 1776 Constitution), and later as a Federalist. In 1781 he won a seat on the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. On November 7, 1782, Ewing was elected Vice-President of Pennsylvania, earning thirty nine votes to the thirty four won by the incumbent, James Potter. (The position of Vice-President is analogous to the modern office of Lieutenant Governor.) He was unanimously reelected on November 6, 1783, and served until November 6, 1784, when he was succeeded by James Irvine. At one day short of two years, his vice-presidential term was one of the longest in the history of that short-lived office.

In 1784 Ewing served a one-year term in the General Assembly.

As Vice-President of Pennsylvania Ewing served as a ex officio member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.[2] In 1783 he also served as a trustee of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In 1789 he chaired a committee seeking to improve navigation on the Susquehanna River.

In 1795 he returned to elected office, as a Federalist member of the State Senate. He was reelected in 1799.

James Ewing died at his home near York, Pennsylvania, in 1806.

 
 
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