1. | Macomb, Catherine was born on 30 Oct 1787 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States (daughter of Macomb, William and Dring, Sarah); died on 19 Sep 1822 in Georgetown, District of Columbia, United States; was buried in Congressional Cemetery, District of Columbia, United States. Other Events:
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2. | Macomb, William was born on 14 Nov 1751 in Dunturky, Anrim, Ireland (son of Macomb, John and Gordon, Jane, son of Macomb, John and Gordon, Jane); died on 16 Apr 1796 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. Other Events:
Notes: To these sons, Alexander, born, July 27, 1748, and William, born, November 14, 1751, the reader may now be introduced. Both were born in Ireland at the parental seat of Dunturky, which lies in County Antrim, a few miles north of Belfast. Both spent the years of their youth in Albany and were in the dawn of their early manhood when they came to Detroit. The misfortune which had attended their father in the old home was quickly reversed by them in the new one. They engaged in business and despite their youth and want of experience throve so amazingly that by the opening of the Revolution they were numbered among the leading merchants of Detroit. The war that began on the seaboard in 1775 worked to their individual advantage, for Detroit was the center of British governmental authority and military activity in the West, and enormous sums of money were soon being spent upon activities incidental to the prosecution of the war. Alexander and William Macomb became the fiscal agents of the government in Detroit, and from this employment and their private business enormous profits were reaped. By the close of the war, when they were still in their early thirties, no one stood higher than they in the official and commercial life of Detroit. In the Burton Historical Collection are five large books of record of the firm of Macomb, Edgar and Macomb (William Edgar was admitted as a partner during the war, and before its close had William married Dring, Sarah in 1778 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. Sarah was born in 1753 in Ireland; died on 20 May 1849. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
3. | Dring, Sarah was born in 1753 in Ireland; died on 20 May 1849. Other Events:
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4. | Macomb, John was born in 1719 in Ireland; died in in New York City, New York, United States. Other Events:
John married Gordon, Jane. Jane was born in 1721 in Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
5. | Gordon, Jane was born in 1721 in Ireland. Other Events:
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