OVERVIEW
The following is primarily based on Huston, 1912:25. Additional data is taken from Ancestry family trees, though at the moment few people seem to have been researching this individual.
Christopher is said to have been born in northern Ireland, about the year 1720. He married Susannah Wilson, probably around 1738, based on the DOB's of his children. One of his children is believed by some to have been born in Penn Township, Lancaster Co in 1740, implying that Christpher and Susannah were living in that area at the time of their marriage. By 1744 the couple had settled in Silver Springs, East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland Co, PA, where Christopher obtained a land warrant for 150 acres on the 30th of October. Survey records show that a Samuel Huston also obtained a tract of land of 200 acres (surveyed for 240 acres) in this same area (Silver Springs, East Pennsboro Township) nine years later (1752). Samuel would seem to be too old to be a child of Christopher and Susannah; if he's related to them, as seems likely, he may be a brother.
In 1784 Christopher served as the county tax collector for East Pennsboro. He made out his will on April 26, 1773, dying sometime in December, 1784, the will being probated December 14 of that year. His wife, Susannah, is said to have reached the age of 80 at her death, but we have not found a record of her year of birth or death. Both Christopher and Susannah are said to be buried in the Pine Hill Graveyard. Christopher identifies several children in his will:
- Christopher = Nancy Smith
- Sarah = James McKinstry (identified in will as his son-in-law
- William
- James
- John = Margaret, daughter of Samuel and Isabella (Sharon) Huston (presumably a cousin)
He also identifies a granddaughter Janet Smith, implying that there was another daughter who perhaps married a brother of Christopher's wife, Nancy Smith.
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Ancestry
x is the son/daughter of Unknown (?-?) and Unknown (?-?).
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