Lewis Marshall Haines

Lewis Marshall Haines, b.near Rising Sun,Md.,12-10-1846; son of Eli Haines and Hannah Marshall. He served six months in the 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry near the close of the Rebellion, settled in Elkton,Md.,1869 where he is an attorney-at-law and counsel for the Penna.R.R.: descended from Richard Haines, of the county of Northampton, England, who died at sea, 1682, On the passage to America in the ship Amity, leaving a widow, Margaret, and six children, of whom Joseph, the youngest,is said to have been born at sea. He married Dorothy (Leeds ?), in New Jersey, and settled at Nottingham, on the borders of Pennsylvania and Maryland. By 2nd wife, Elizabeth Thomas, he had son Job, b.1744, who was a member of the Maryland legislature at the time of George Washington's death and attended his funeral as a member of that body. Eli,son of Job, m.Elizabeth Brown, and was the father of Eli Haines who m. Hannah Marshall. Lewis M Haines and family are members of Friends'Meeting.





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