FORBES, Rachel

• Name	FORBES, Rachel
  CENSUS	1800	Donegal Township, Westmoreland Co., PA   [1]
  	Census lists in Abel Fisher's household: one "Free White Males 45 and Upwards," who must be Abel himself - he would have just turned 45 in 1800; two "Free White Females over 16 and under 26," and three "Free White Females 45 and upwards." Can only speculate that the women include wife Rachel Forbes and perhaps his mother Rachel Hoowe, sisters Elizabeth and Rachel Fisher, and a niece or other relation. Rachel Fisher did not marry Jacob Stewart until after the death of his first wife sometime after 1801.
  		1800 US Census: Donegal Township, Westmoreland Co., PA, Roll 41, p 1040
  CENSUS	1810	Donegal Township, Westmoreland Co., PA   [2]
  	Abel's house is packed with eight people in this census. Difficult to even speculate on the identity of many of these. The census lists: one "Free White Males under 10" - presumably a nephew; one "Free White Males over 45" -Abel himself; one "Free White Females under 10" - likely a niece; one "Free White Females 10 to 15" - another niece; one "Free White Female 16 to 25" - another niece; and three "Free White Females 45 and over." One of these is presumably Abel's wife Rachel Forbes. Candidates for the other two females include Abel's mother Rachel Hoowe Fisher, although she would have been in her nineties in 1810; sister Elizabeth, little is known about her; or a Stewart or McDowell relation, Abel's sister Rachel presumably having married Jacob Stewart by this time and sister Hannah definitely married to Samuel McDowell around 1790. Note that the previous census also had three women over 45 living with Abel. At least one of the older women in this census is probably the mother of the children listed in the census. There is no record of Abel having children.
  		1810 US Census: Donegal Township, Westmoreland Co., Roll 51, p 875
  Person ID	I346	Main
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2010

  
  

  Family	FISHER Abel,   b. 19 Apr 1756, Cape May, Cape May Co., NJ d. 18 Aug 1838, Ligonier, Westmoreland Co., PA (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	Y  [3]
  Family ID	F339	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2007

  
  

• Event Map		CENSUS - 1800 - Donegal Township, Westmoreland Co., PA CENSUS - 1810 - Donegal Township, Westmoreland Co., PA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S228] Census: 1800 U.S. - Donegal Township, Westmoreland Co., PA, (Ancestry,com), 1800, Roll: 41; Page: 1040; Image: 227; Family History Library Film: 363344 (Reliability: 1). [S229] Census: 1810 U.S. - Donegal Township, Westmoreland Co., PA , (Ancestry,com), 1810, Roll 51; Page: 875; Family History Number: 0193677; Image: 00221 (Reliability: 1). [SR1] Wilfred Jordan, editor, Colonial and Revolutionary Families of PA, ((New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1942), 568-576), 573, 974.8 D2c 1978. (Reliability: 2). Abel...married Rachel Forbes.