Baird, Thomas

THOMAS BAIRD, a native of Franklin, county, Pennsylvania, and a surveyor by profession, purchased a tract of land where his grandsons now live in Clinton township, for which he paid six hundred dollars, and settled upon this land about 1796. He served in Captain McManigal’s company in the war of 1812, and was one of the pioneer justices of the peace of this part of the county. He married Martha McKee, a sister of Judge McKee, who bore him the following children: John; James; William; Thomas; Hugh; Susan, married to John VanDyke; Mary; Elizabeth, who married Doctor Coulter, and Matilda, wife of Gibson Vincent. Thomas Baird died in 1864 at the age of eighty-six.