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I AM THE GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDSON OF JACOB TUSSEY WHO CAME FROM SWANZEE WALES TO PENNSYLVANIA WITH HIS BROTHER.
THEY WERE GRANTED A PARCEL OF LAND BY THE KING OF ENGLAND FOR SURVEYING WORK. IT IS KNOWM TODAY AS TUSSEY MOUNTAIN.
JACOB AND HIS BROTHER HAD A FALLING OUT AND SOLD THE LAND AND WENT THEIR SEPERATE WAYS. THE BROTHER WENT TO UPSTATE NEW YORK AND CHANGED THE SPELLING FROM TUSSEE, TO TUSSY, JACOB WENT OT TENNESSEE AND CHANGED THE SPELLING TO TUSSEY. HE HAD A SON NAMED JOHN WHO WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE CIVIL WAR,(I HAVE HIS DISCHARGE PAPERS AND PAPER WORK FROM WHEN HE GOT INJURED IN THE WAR FROM A FALL FROM HIS JUMPING A DITCH WHICH CAUSED PERMANET DAMAGE TO HIS DIGESTIVE ORGANS).
HE HAD A SON, JACOB LAWSON TUSSEY WHO WAS MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, WHO SETTLED IN MCKEE, KENTUCKY IN JACKSON COUNTY.
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