He enlisted as a private and was orderly sergeant when discharged. He was with Washington at Valley Forge fought under him at Brandywine and participated in all the conflict in N.Y., Pa., N.J., and Virginia. This feat is recorded in history as one of the most daring and as showing a high standard of courage equal to, if not superior to., any achievement of that heroic war. Anthony Wayne's command was one of the select detail of 120 men who, with unloaded muskets and fixed bayonets, stormed and captured Stony Point. On the breaking out of the Revolution he enlisted in the lst Pa. John Kelso, the oldest of the family, was born in 1755. Robb, while attending a meeting of synod at Newville visited the old home of Mark Kerr and drank water out of the spring of which he had heard his mother Jane Kelso Robb talk so much and praise so highly.) To better their worldly condition and secure homes for their families, present and prospective they removed to the then far West and located in Allegheny Co., Pa. Robb, Esq., a great grandson of George Kelso: His father, Mark. The parents both died previously to 1790 for the two Daughters made their home at that time with their uncle, Mark Kerr, their parents evidently being dead and the old homestead broken up (This fact we learned from John S. They had five children John, George, Jane, Elizabeth and Mark. is not certainly known nor is the maiden name of his wife although we believe it was Jane Kerr, which we infer from facts which will be developed further on. the clan such as the earl of Kelso (who was a prominent actor in the early history of Scotland) or did the originator of the clan take the name of the town and thus transmit it to his descendants? Be that as it may, this we know certainly: that George Kelso of Kelso, Scotland, emigrated to the United States, then American Colonies of Great Britain, about the year 1750, located first in Bucks County ,Pa., afterward removing to Cumberland Co., near Newville, where he made his permanent home whether he married in Scotland or after locating in Pa. How it got the name is not certainly known. The date of the founding is uncertain, dating back at least to the twenfth century. border of Scotland and on the banks of the Tweed is located the ancient town of Kelso. This typed copy made by Kenyon Stevenson, Aug 1947.Ĭopied into html file by Thomas G. Borland Sr in 1908 to be read at the Kelso reunion held at McNay's Grove, Boyce Station.Ĭopied by Sarah Wallace Kelso in May 1920. Sketch of George Kelso's Life and Chronology of His Descendants