William Rodgers was Born in the Town of Mountpleasant in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania on the eight day of Febuary in the year eighteen hundred and six my Fathers name was John Rodgers my Mothers Maden name was Elisabeth McCarnathan my father & mother ware married in Philadelphia both natives of Ireland my fathers famly was consisted of five Children three Boys and two Girls (namly) James, Micheal, William, Elisa and Mary Cathran Elisa died when young perhaps she was from six to eight years old she is berried in the grave yard at Mountpleasant, brother Micheal is dead some few years ago was a Printer by Trade and died in the state of Kentucky some fifteen or twenty years ago/

Brother James and sister Cathran I believe are still living James lives in Elisabeth Westmoreland County Pa Sister Cathran was married to a Mr. Thomas Chapman hir husband is ded she lives in Quincey Illinoise I lived with Father and Mother in Mountpleasant untill I was eighteen or ninteen years old we then moved from Mntpleasant to Blairsville Indiana County Pa. lived their five years, then moved to the Conamaugh Salt Works in said County whare I started a store lived their one year then moved to Brookville in Jefferson County Pa. in the fore Part of Decemb eighteen hundred and thirty at that time thy ware but 4 or 5 houses in Brookville Continued on store keeping a few years after I came to Brookville The first office which I held after I came to Jefferson County ware Judge of Election of Rose Township in the year 1832 Brookville then being/in Rose Township. The next office I held was Town Councel of the After Brookville had become a Borrough, in the year Thirty four I was Appointed Post Master of Brookville and attended to that office eight years during the Administration of Presidant General Jackson and Martin Vanburan in the year 1837 I was Appointed by the Commisioners of said County Treasurer of Jefferson County and seved two years. I have been Elected and seved as Constable of the Borrough of Brookville for 10 or 12 years also have held many township offices in Rose Township I have lived in the Borrough of Brookville and Rose Township ever since I first came to Jefferson County Pa

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