George MIRANDA (MERANDA)

• General Notes
  • (1) George was the oldest son of Isaac Miranda. He was probably a convert to Christianity. In the 1739's he carried on his father's business of Indian trading in western Pennsylvania. He was known to have been on the upper Ohio River Valley and Allegheny River as early as 1736. In his father's "Will" he was heir to land in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
    On 9 July 1737, George was married in Swede's Church in Philadelphia to Ann Magdalen Many.
    Archives from New Jersey Library record that he died interstate before May 1792 and that Ann Magdalen Miranda was appointed administratrix.
    George Miranda, son of Isaac Miranda, was reported on the Wabash River in the year 1748. He, it is further said, joined Peter Chartier, a half breed, as the only traders to sign a petition dated 1748 which, with the names of 94 Indians, was submitted to the governor requesting that liquor not be sold to the Indians. This was at Chartier's village north of the Forks of the Ohio River in todays western Pennsylvania. During the time of the above mentioned conflict it is said George accepted a French commission, at least for a while, to be commandant of the French outpost on the Wabash.
    Ann and George had two children: Mary, who died 5 June 1740 and Jeremiah, who died 30 July 1742.
    Since records show that George had four other children, he was evidently married previously. Four sons were: Samuel, John, James, and Abraham. (cet ??) 

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