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Catherine
Burgiss Mc Elcheran
In 1789, Catherine Burgiss married newcomer George Mc Elcheran at St. Peter's church. Perhaps she was the daughter of soldier-turned-laborer John Burgiss.
The
couple had a house on Barrack Street and held other
Albany property as well. Several of their children
were baptized in Albany churches. Their marriage
lasted more than forty years as Mc Elcheran was an
Albany schoolteacher and businessman with some ties
to Vermont.
She
lost her husband in 1831. Catherine Burgiss Mc Elcheran
died in September 1848 and was buried in the Episcopal
burial ground at the Washington Park cemetery. She
had lived more than seventy-seven years!
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Sources: The
life of Catherine Burgiss is CAP biography number
2048. This profile is derived chiefly from family
and community-based resources.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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