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John Fife
The following, regarding John Fife, was extracted from the book, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men (Boyd Crumrine, editor):

     There were many families of the name of Fife, who settled early in what is now Allegheny County.  John Fife came to this township, and on the 22d of February, 1799, purchased four hundred acres of land of Patrick Jordan, adjoining land of Reuben Waits [see John Waits].  He had seven sons, William Andrew, Robert, John, James, Thomas, and Nathaniel.  The latter went West.  William, Robert, Thomas, and James, all settled on the homestead.  William and Thomas are still living there; the others are dead.

Crumrine, Boyd (ed.), History of Washington County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men (Philadelphia:  L. H. Everts & Company, 1882).