Hugh Kennedy & Jane

Children of Hugh Kennedy and Jane

Hugh Kennedy

1860 PENNSYLVANIA CENSUS: WESTMORELAND COUNTY, FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP
Taken July 1860
Hugh KENEDEY, 66, Farmer, 1500/300, Ireland
Jane, 65, Ireland
John, 28, Farm Laborer, Pa.


1850 Census Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County. Pennsylvania
Taken Oct 1850
Hugh CANADA, 56, Farmer, 1200, Ireland
Jane, 56, Ireland
John, 20, Invalid
Jane, 17
Sarah, 12
Hugh, 10
Archibold, 23, Lab.



1840 Census
Fairfield Township
Westmoreland County Pennsylvania
KENNEDY, Hugh 111---1------/111---1------
KENNEDY, John --1-1-11-1---/---1--1------


1830 Census
Fairfield Township
Westmoreland County Pennsylvania
CANADAY, John 1--1-1--1----/-1---1--1----
CANADAY, Hugh 121--1-------/1-1--1--1----



When the town of Ligonier was laid out, its founder, among other things,
donated a square upon which to construct a court house, if Ligonier
Valley ever became a separate county with Ligonier as its county seat.
For nearly fifty years after, the question of forming such a county was
agitated. It was kept alive by politicians who, in order to secure votes
in that section, promised if elected, to favor a bill erecting the new
county.

In 1841, a public meeting was called at the house of John Elliott, in
West Fairfield, for the purpose of inaugurating the movement, and
expressing the sentiments of the people relative to it. The meeting was
very largely attended by prominent people from all parts of the proposed
new county. In the same week a similar meeting was held in Donegal, at
the house of Abraham Brugh. The Donegal meeting was held of Friday,
February 19, 1841.

The Fairfield meeting was called to order by electing Colonel John
Moorhead as president; Colonel Amos Ogden, William Graham, Esq., Hugh
Kennedy, John Kirker, Robert Donaldson, William Huston, Robert McDowell
and Jacob Covode vice-presidents, and Samuel P. Cummins and Andrew Graham
secretaries. The president appointed fifteen persons to draft
resolutions. Among these were John Covode, John Hill, Joseph Moorhead,
Colonel John McFarland, and others. They prepared resolutions setting
forth that the townships in the valley and Salt Lick township in Fayette
county were from eighteen to forty miles distant from county seats, and
cut off from the other parts of the counties by Chestnut Ridge, and thus
rendered very difficult for their citizens to attend court, etc., in fact
impossible to reach their county seats on Monday morning without
traveling on the Sabbath day. They had, the petition said, from nine to
twelve thousand population, which was rapidly increasing. They set forth
also that, if these townships were cut off from the counties of Fayette
and Westmoreland, the county seats, Uniontown and Greensburg, would still
be and remain about the center of their respective counties. They recite
that large petitions have been presented to the legislature asking for
the erection of the proposed county, etc. They therefore urge their
members of the legislature, Messrs. Plumer, Hill, and Johnston, to pass
the necessary legislation at once.

Jane

Archibald Kennedy

John Kennedy