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Petitioners for Borough Charter - Sewickley, 1853


My 3x Great Grandfather Joseph W. Warren was a resident of Sewickley, Pennsylvania.  During my research, I found that he was referenced along with my 5x Great Grandfather, Nathan McPherson in the book "The Village of Sewickley" by Franklin Taylor Nevin, published in 1929.  Much to my delight, I was able to find an original copy from an online bookseller a few years ago.  In this book, there were a few lists of names that I wanted to share as well as the map below.

By the mid-1800's Sewickley, Pennsylvania had grown to be a large village of about 500 inhabitants and wanted to become a Borough.  On April 8, 1853, they presented to the grand jury a petition of a majority of freeholders and a majority of the legal voters that were within "the present limits of the Borough of Sewickley who are desirous of being regularly incorporated as a Borough and forming a
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