Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Burket, Peter ???? - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

PETER BURKET
a native of York county, came to Sinking valley about the time of the
revolution, settling on the farm afterwards owned by his grandson, Ephraim
Burket.  Of his five sons, Jacob moved to Jefferson county, where he died at
the age of ninety-one years.  He was the father of Peter Burket, of Warrior's
Mark township.  A sister married David Mong.  Peter, the second son of Peter,
sr., died on the homestead in the valley; Samuel lived and died in the
Tuckahoe valley; John, a tanner, resided for a time on the Martin Funk place,
removing to Centre county; David became a resident of Shirleysburg.  The
Burkets  of Huntingdon and Blair counties are descendants of the above
families.

Additional Comments:
Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Bonnie Millican, Akron, Ohio.

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