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- BIRTH: Family Group Record _ Main Record Section (Archives), family group sheet of Andrew English (1752) and Rachel Moore.
In an affadavit of the Revolutionary War pension file of Andrew Englis - W23015 (FHL film #970929) dated 5 Sep 1820, Rachel was age 50 years old July last which makes her birth month and year July 1770.
MARRIAGE: Revolutionary War pension file of Andrew Englis - W23015 (FHL film #970929). According to an affidavit dated 29 January 1839 by Rachel English, "she was married to ...Andrew Englis on the 26th day of November seventeen-hundred and eighty-six."
In another affidavit dated 29 May 1839 by Andrew Moore (a brother to Rachel) he states, "That he this deponent was present at the solemnization of the marriage between the said Andrew English and the said Rachel English which ceremony was performed by the Reverend Mr. How sometime in the fall of the year 1787 at Oquago on the Susquehannah River (now Windsor in the county of Broome, New York)." In another affidavit by Andrew Moore dated 1
July 1839 he states: "he recollects the marriage of his sister Rachel to Andrew English... in the fall of the year 1787 and as he believes in the month of November. The said marriage was had at the house of this deponents Father's on the farm in the said town of Windsor where this deponent now resides. . . . he knows that the said marriage took place the second year after his fathers family removed on the Susquehannah River from near Schenectady in New York."
PLACE OF MARRIAGE: Ouaguago also spelled Oquago and located along the Susquehanna River. It later became part of Windsor. In 1786 it was in Montgomery County, but the area is now in Broome County, New York.
DEATH: Revolutionary War pension file of Andrew Englis - W23015 (FHL film # 970929). Rachel English's death date is recorded as 31 Mar 1847 in affidavit dated 20 Mar 1851. "Rachel English, widow of Andrew Englis, . . . died 31 Mar 1847 leaving her surviving nine children . . ."
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Bassett Family Association Database
1770 - 1847 (76 years)