of Champaign County, Ohio · documented from the public record
The family in the record
John Colwell d. 1829
parentsJohn Colwell
John Colwell⚭ Electa Hand
childrenPeter E. Colwell
Their story
What the record says
Native of New Jersey, of Scotch-Irish descent.
Reared and married in New Jersey.
Removed to Pennsylvania, then Hamilton County, Ohio, and afterward to Champaign County, settling about ten miles east of Urbana in Rush Township.
Killed by a falling tree about July 29, 1829.
His father also bore the name John Colwell.
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