Some Random Miscellaneous Notes

Our Great-Grandparents: (Our meaning Janet, Michelle, Frank, and Andrew Ulle)
(Cyrus) Peter McCready (b. 1869) and Kathleen Anne (Katie A.) Fields
Our Great-Great Grandparents:
Peter McCready (b. 1821) and Eliza Jane
Our Great-Great-Great Grandparents:
Patrick McCready (undocumented, from Ireland) married in the US (~1815) Sarah (Sally)
Marmi (b.14 Nov. 1796)
[no earlier records on McCready line] Patricks approx birth 1795; death before 1840.
Parents of Sarah Marmi (our Great-Great-Great-Great Grandparents):
Peter (Pierre) Marmi ** (16 Oct 1750; Dax, Landes, France) and Rachel
Gardner (25 May 1775; Baltimore, MD)
Parents of Peter Marmi (our Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandparents):
Jean Marmi and Marguerite Salis (married 10 Feb 1750)

** Pierre Marmie was a Frenchman reported to have come to America with French
forces during the American Revolution. After the war he settled in western Pennsylvania
and in 1784 helped found the firm of Turnbull, Marmie, & Co., which eventually
included William Turnbull, John Holker, Stephen Bayard, and Isaac Craig. In addition to
operating a distillery, the firm engaged heavily in the acquisition and sale of Pittsburgh
real estate, including among their possessions the site of Fort Pitt. The partnership
dissolved in 1788, and much of the firms Pittsburgh land was advertised for sale
(Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, 5 [1922], 99107, 7 [1924], 66, 10 [1927],
206, 14 [1931], 20910, 42 [1959], 22639). By the time this letter was written, Marmie,
Turnbull, and Holker were involved in the establishment of the Alliance Ironworks,
opened in 1790 near the mouth of Jacobs Creek in Fayette County. Successful at first
the furnace produced some of the armament supplied to Anthony Waynes army in 1794
it later fell on hard times, and according to local legend Marmie, driven insane by his
misfortunes, committed suicide by throwing himself into the furnace (Historic Places,
81).
Alliance was the first iron furnace built west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Construction on the furnace actually began prior to actual ownership of the land.
On July 13, 1789, William Turnbull took possession of 301 acres of furnace land. He
also acquired two additional tracts of 301 and 219 acres respectively. In 1791

Turnbull and Marmie took ownership of an additional 223 acres in nearby Tyrone
Township.
William Turnbull had been a purchasing agent and commissary for Pennsylvania
troops during the Revolutionary War. John Holker was Consul General of France
and Agent General for the French Navy during the same period but remained in the
United States after the war. Peter Marmie was also a Frenchman from Rouen. He
worked as Holker's private secretary until 1783, when he became partners with
Holker, Turnbull, and Robert Morris. Marmie managed the furnace while the
others remained in Philadelphia.

Jeanne MARMI
Basic data:
Born around 1744
Padres:
Jean MARMI
Antoinette Valdres
Spouse and children:
Married on October 20 1768, Pradines, 46090, Lot, MidiPyrenees, France, with Jean LAFRAGETTE 1743,
Children:
Arnaud LAFRAGETTE 1768-1771
Franois LAFRAGETTE 1773-1850
Joseph LAFRAGETTE 1775-1851
Pierre LAFRAGETTE 1776
LAFRAGETTE Jean 1777-1779
Guillaume LAFRAGETTE 1782-1783
Jeanne LAFRAGETTE 1784-1785
Marie LAFRAGETTE 1786