Samuel McMath was born in Scotland about the year 1743. He was a soldier in the American Revolution in the Bedford County, Pennsylvania militia.  He is listed in the "History of Huntingdon County, PA" as

"Among the pioneer settlers of what is now Tell Township, we find the following who located here previous to 1800. Samuel McMath came to this township in the year 1780 and located in the valley near the mouth of Trough Spring Branch Creek, where several of his descendants still reside. John McMath, son of Samuel, located at the Ridge." (p. 365)

Tell Township is composed primarily of farm land (even today) but Samuel seemed to be very active in township affairs.  He is listed in the History of Huntingdon County as holding the following offices:

Samuel it is believed married Ella Baxter of Dublin, Ireland.  Rumor has it that Samuel is a son of Daniel McMath who came to the US from Ayrshire, Scotland and settled in Chester County, PA.  According to Daniel Cary McMath who proposed this theory to my great-aunt Elizabeth in the 1940's, Daniel came to the US in 1756 with two sons, William and Daniel.  He left his other two sons, Samuel and John, with his brother Thomas in Ireland.  Samuel eventually joining his father in Pennsylvania but John remaining in Ireland.  According to Daniel Cary McMath, several of John's sons came to the US with at least one settling in Pennsylvania.  The youngest of Daniel's sons, James, was born in Pennsylvania and it is believed that Daniel and all of his sons in the US were soldiers of the Revolution.

Samuel and Ella McMath had the following children:  Nancy, Jane, Samuel, Jr., Margaret, Elizabeth, Mary, and John.  Nancy married Hugh McMullen and took their family to Dearborn County, IN.  Jane married James Lauthers and is buried at the Upper Tuscarora Presbyterian Church in Waterloo, PA.  Samuel, Jr. married Jane Likely and moved with his family to Dearborn County, IN where he died, after which his family appears to have moved to Millington, Kendall County, IL.  Margaret was unmarried. Elizabeth married John Kennedy and they moved with Nancy and her husband Hugh and possibly Samuel, Jr.'s family to Dearborn County, IN.  Mary McMath married William Magee and they lived in Path Valley, Franklin County, PA.  John, my ancestor, was the youngest child and he inherited the Samuel Sr.'s farm.  No mention is made in Samuel's will about Ella so it appears that she died before Samuel did in August of 1825.