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 Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:14 am Post subject: From Perthshire to New Hampshire . . . . |
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I thought I'd start a thread giving an account of the migration of my Stewart ancestors from Perthshire in the 1600s to New Hampshire in the early 1700s, quoting various old sources.
To begin, here are some excerpts from B. Frank Severance's Genealogy and Biography of the Descendants of Walter Stewart of Scotland and of John Stewart who came to America in 1718, and Settled in Londonderry, N.H., published 1905 in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
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| Quote: | FIRST GENERATION.
Comparatively little information can be found concerning Walter Stewart Ist, but it is said that he belonged to the "House of White Rose," and that his estate lay in Perthshire, Scotland. . . . |
According to genealogists of the Stewart Society who made use of information from an old Stewart-Anderson-Merrill family Bible of the 1700s, this Walter Stewart is Walter Stewart, 7th of Gartnafuaran, Perthshire, born 1620, who married Isobel Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 6th of Glenbuckie. Walter's mother was Margaret Stewart, daughter of Alexander Stewart, 1st of (or more properly, in) Ardvorlich. Walter's sons were thus descended from three of the four principal families of the Stewarts of Balquhidder. In Duncan Stewart's 1739 history and genealogy of the Stewarts, Walter is said to have had three sons: Alexander, Robert, and John.
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| Quote: | SECOND GENERATION.
Robert,2 (Walter,1) b. 1655, m. Jannette Forsythe, probably daughter of James or William Forsythe. [That's a misinterpretation of a letter written in 1819 by Joseph Stewart, who said, "My grandfather's name by my mother's side was either William or James, which I cannot tell." That is a reference to the father of Joseph's mother Elizabeth Forsyth, not Joseph's grandmother Janette Forsyth.] From History of Windham, N.H.: "He is said to have been one of the Covenanters who took part in the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in 1679, between troops of Charles II. and the Covenanters led by their ministers, in which the Covenanters were defeated with great loss. In 1685 Charles II. having died, he was immediately succeeded by his brother James II., the cruel and unrelenting foe of Scotch Presbyterians. The Covenanters were hunted like beasts of prey, and in the very heart of the mountain solitudes they were traced and slain. It was during these fierce persecutions that Robert Stewart sundered the ties of kindred and associations and became an unwilling exile. Crossing the North Channel in an open boat he fled to Ireland where many of his clan seemed to have preceded him. He settled at Londonderry, where he was soon joined by his family, but even here they were not safe from tyranny and persecution; the Papists were there. King James's officers in Ireland were mostly of the Catholic faith and determined to advance that cause. The Protestants were disarmed and placed in a defenseless condition. Being surrounded by Catholics they were not safe in life or property, their houses were burned, their cattle stolen and the Catholic soldiers roamed the country, pillaging, maiming and committing all kinds of outrages. Such tyranny of the king awakened fierce alarm in the three kingdoms, and the leading men of England invited William, Prince of Orange, who had married the eldest daughter of James II., to come over from Holland and assume the government. . . ." |
I'll skip the next few sentences, about James II's attempt to retain the throne, his war in Ireland, and the Siege of Londonderry.
| Quote: | "Peace having been restored and tolerance of religious sentiments allowed [Well, unless those sentiments were Catholic, that is -- care to guess the religion of the author of the History of Windham, N.H.?  ], we find our Robert returning to the land he loved, but never having recovered his estate." He died in Edinburgh in 1714. His widow came to America, and is supposed to have died at Colrain, Mass., at an advanced age. She was wont to relate to her descendants the thrilling incidents of her life in connection with the cruel persecutions of the Covenanters in Scotland by James II.
CHILDREN.
John,3 Robert,3 Julia Ann,3 Samuel,3 |
A couple of brief comments: Other research locates Robert in or near Carrickfergus, County Antrim, though there is the abovementioned tradition that he lived in Londonderry and was there during the siege. He and/or his family were later living in the Bann River valley, at Aghadowey in County Derry and close to County Antrim (south of Coleraine and to the east of Derry, or Londonderry, but a good distance from Carrickfergus). Also, his widow Janette is said, by an old family tradition, to be one of the first persons buried in Chandler Hill Cemetery near Colrain, Mass., though there is no grave marker. Based on the dates of birth of some of her grandchildren who remembered her telling them stories of Robert the Covenanter, Janette apparently died about 1750-1755, which means she was probably close to 100 when she died.
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| Quote: | THIRD GENERATION.
John,3 (Robert,2 Walter,1) b. in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1682. Seems to have returned in early life to seek his fortune amid the scenes of his boyhood in Ireland, where he m. Elizabeth, daughter of John Clark. The Clarks were a Scotch-Irish family. He m. 2d, Elizabeth Forsythe [who, as mentioned previously, was perhaps daughter of a William or a James Forsyth].
Although the Revolution has subjugated the Papist party, still our Scotch-Irish ancestors experienced many embarrassments. A tenth of their increase was rigorously exacted to aid in supporting a minister of the established religion. They also held their lands and tenements by lease and not as proprietors of the soil. Morrison's "Among the Scotch-Irish" quotes from an interesting sketch from which we glean the following, "On a certain September morning, in the year 1718, a cavalcade, in which were women and children, whose dress and bearing bespoke the farming class, might have been seen leaving Aghadowey, by the Derry road. In the cavalcade were a number of old-fashioned wheel cars, with low, solid wheels and broad bottoms, upon which were piled provisions, wearing apparel and household effects. Accompanying the procession, and acting as guide, philosopher, and friend, was a clergyman in the prime of life, and dressed in the simple garb of the Presbyterian ministers of that period. As the cavalcade wends its way along the road, the people are ever and anon casting regretful looks at the waving fields of golden corn, the green valleys and the wooded hills, now assuming an autumnal brown of their native parish. The cavalcade is a band of emigrants of about 100 families on their way to Londonderry, there to embark for the Western world. Their clergyman is Rev. James McGregor, minister of the Presbyterian congregation of Aghadowey to which all the families belonged, and who accompanied them to America.
"The reasons which induced this people to leave their native land and undertake a voyage across the Atlantic, which in those days was tedious and full of hardships, and to face the uncertain prospects of new settlers, was partly religious and partly agrarian. Being Presbyterians they were subjected to the unjust and insulting provisions of the Test Act, under which it was penal for a person of their persuasion to teach a school or hold the humblest office in the State. Then again, at the time of the Revolution, when a considerable part of the country lay waste, and when the whole framework of society was shattered, land had been let out on lease at very low rents to Presbyterian tenants. About 1717-1718 these leases began to fall in, and the rents were usually doubled and frequently tripled. Hence farmers became discouraged, and a number of the belonging to Aghadowey formed the design of emigrating to America, where they would be able to reap the fruits of their own industry. They landed at Boston on the 14th of October, 1718. In the spring of 1719, sixteen families proceeded to the state of New Hampshire, where they founded a town, which they called Londonderry, in patriotic recollection of the county they had left. Here, too, they organized the first Presbyterian church in New England, of which Mr. McGregor assumed the pastoral charge without ordination."
Among these emigrants, and one of the sixteen settlers, we find our John Stewart with his own and his mother's family, who have left their homes again, this time to better their fortunes in the Western world.
John Stewart was a prominent man in the Londonderry settlement. We find from Morrison's "History of Windham, N.H.," that he was one of the grantees of the town.
His farm was known as the Precept Farm or Lot and was of sixty acres. . . . |
More to come . . . .
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At this website, there is an account of the migration from Aghadowey to New England in 1718:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~savecarp/blairbook03.html
That website focuses on the Blair family, but these excerpts help to illustrate the circumstances in Ulster for all of the Scottish settlers living in Aghadowey:
| Quote: | When the siege [of Londonderry] ended, the Blairs returned to their own place, rebuilding the house, watching the weaving and caring for the great linen webs during the week, quietly walking with their children and grandchildren to the old Kirk so close to their home, on the Sabbath, where the Rev. James McGregor preached to them from the time of his first settlement in 1701 until the end of his services in 1718. But the peace of their earlier years had departed. Promises made by the crown were not kept, and the future was dark and threatening, holding no brightness for their sons and daughters who had married and had many small children dependent on them. The brothers must have been among the first who discussed the idea of leaving all the dangers that darkened around them, and settling in far away New England, and who shared in the hope that in casting their lot with a people who had encountered hardship and trial to win religious freedom and a new country for themselves, they would be going to a kindlier brotherhood.
At home, they were forced to endure many grievances. As "Dissenters" they were at liberty to follow their own form of worship, yet they were obliged to pay tithes to the Church of England. Their land was held by lease from the Crown and not in individual right; they were Protestants in the midst of a Roman Catholic population, in whose breasts smoldered the fires of revenge, which only lacked occasion to burst forth into bloody deeds. Onerous restrictions were laid on their manufacturers. Urged by these embarrassments this people sought out more favoring conditions. Their attention was turned to New England by a young man named Robert Holmes, the son of a Presbyterian minister who had lived in the region. Encouraged by his account of the civil and religious liberty enjoyed in the American colonies, several clergymen, Rev. William Boyd, Rev. James McGregor and Rev. William Cornwall, with their congregations, decided to migrate. Therefore in the spring of 1718, Rev. William Boyd was sent with an address to Governor Shute of Massachusetts Bay, which was signed by over three hundred of the people, nine of whom were ministers, and all of whom, save thirteen only, wrote their own names. (This paper is preserved in the State House in Boston.) |
Among the signers of the Shute Petition are my Stewart and Anderson ancestors.
| Quote: | The response of the Governor and his Council was so encouraging that they prepared to migrate. Rev. James McGregor assembled his flock in the fine old church which the Blairs had always attended and where they must have been present when Mr. McGregor preached the farewell sermon from Exodus, 33rd chapter, 15th verse, "If thy presence go not with me carry us not up hence", and recounted the reasons for leaving their homes. They were to avoid oppression and cruel bondage, to escape persecution and designed ruin and to withdraw from the communion of idolatry, to have opportunity of worshipping God according to the dictates of conscience and the rules of his inspired word. (From "Rambles Through Europe", by Mr. L. A. Morrison, Page 86.)
Five ships were chartered, and in these whole families embarked, including aged grandparents and helpless babes, the main port of departure being Londonderry, but the present harbor master of Larne thinks the ships touched at other ports on the way out and that one put in at Larne. These five ships anchored "at the little wharf at the foot of State (then King) Street, Boston, New England, August 4, 1718." (From the first book of town records of Londonderry, New Hampshire.) |
Severance says 14 Oct. 1718. I suspect the difference in the date is related to the switch from Old Style to New Style dating, as the English colonies of America adopted the Gregorian reform of the calendar.
| Quote: | The descriptions and statements of Aghadowey are taken from a series of letters written by Miss Mary Semple of Monthill, Larne, County Antrim, Ulster Province, Ireland, who made a personal visit to the place and talked with the aged men, who recounted tales they had received from their grandsires.
Monthill (Ireland)
28 August 1893
"Dear Mr. Blair:
I was at a place called Craigs, seven miles beyond Ballymena and unexpectedly received information which may interest you. Robert Boyd, who lives at a place called Boydstown, in the parish of Craigs, gave me a history of his own family. You may imagine my surprise when he began to tell of the Boyds being married among the Blairs of Aghadowey. He said the founder of his and many more families, was one Thomas Boyd, a native of Oxfordshire, who settled at Craigs in 1573. He married Elizabeth Douglas, a daughter of Scotch parents who had settled at Craigs also.
This Thomas received a grant of land, of which his descendants still hold a part. A son settled at Dungiven, County Derry, and was the grandfather of the Rachel Boyd who married James Blair, and own father of the Rev. Boyd who went with the emigrants to New Hampshire.
I never met a more interesting man than this Mr. Boyd. He took me around his farm, and nearly every field had a history. A small river near the house, which is called the Red Ford, so named because it was surcharged with blood the three days when Cromwell's army fought that of Philim Roe O'Huill 'till that place where the Irish leader was killed'. A large cairn marks his grave. He also showed me a spot where a church with a graveyard once stood in which many Boyds are buried. As it stood far from the public road, it was gradually neglected and is now a fair meadow.
There are apple trees in his garden which were planted by an ancestor named Montfield Lyle Boyd, some two hundred years ago; he was a soldier and fought under the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim.
I was told that one of the ships that carried the first emigrants was called The Eagle's Wing and another The Lady Sellerooke. There is an old song about the emigrants going away in the ship Lady Sellerooke that left fair Londonderry.
Yours,
Mary Semple.
In a letter dated January 1, 1900, Miss Semple writes:
"Close beside the old church at Aghadowey is the house where the Rev. James McGregor lived prior to his removal to America. The People here for the most part know their ancestry well. The traditions of each family were handed down from father to son since they came from Scotland. Before the Scotch settlers came, there were many Danes living on this coast; the Scotch married among them, therefore we all have Danish blood.
"This country of Antrim has given four presidents to your great republic: Breckenridge [?], Jackson, Johnson and Garfield. Breckenridge's ancestors lived about a half a mile from here. I have a copy of the lease of land they had in 1700. Andrew Jackson's father was born about three miles from here. I have seen the house often. Then, the ancestors of General John Gordon, late governor of Georgia, lived here. His great-great grandfather lies in our churchyard; he died in I710."
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Addendum to Miss Semple's remarks: Noted Matthew Blair
8/14/[19]53 - "Growth of American Republic" by Oxford University Press, NY 1942, Vol II states as follows:
"J. C. Breckenridge, Vice President under James Buchanan, 1857"
"J. Breckenridge, Attorney General under Thomas Jefferson, 1805"
"John Cabel Breckenridge, b. Lexington, KY, 21 Jan 1821; d. Lexington, KY, May 1875." |
More to come . . . .
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This website includes articles and essays on the background and history of the 1718 Scots-Irish migration from Aghadowey to New England, and is an excellent resource:
http://www.1718migration.org.uk/s_home.asp
Also, on page 63 of Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase & Fable, 2004, by Jo O'Donoghue and Sean McMahon, we read:
| Quote: | Bann Valley Exodus. The move by 200 Presbyterians from the villages of Macosquin and Aghadowey, Co. Derry, in 1718 to the territory north of the Merrimac River in what is now New Hampshire, USA. Led by the Rev. James McGregor of Aghadowey and the Rev. William Boyd (d.1772) of Macosquin, they settled at Nutfield, which they renamed Londonderry in honour of Ulster Protestantism's 'finest hour'. They brought with them their skills in linen manufacture, founding the colony's first mill. McGregor's last sermon concluded with these Mosaic words:
Brethren, let us depart, for God has appointed a new country for us to dwell in. It is called New England. Let us be free of these Pharaohs, these rackers of rent and screwers of tithes, and let us go into the land of Canaan. |
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My maternal grandmother was descended from two Ulster Scots families surnamed Miller and Burnside, from County Coleraine in the 1800s (they came to the U.S. because of the Potato Famine). In attempting (unsuccessfully) to trace her Ulster Scots ancestry, she purchased a book entitled The Presbytery of Coleraine, by Julia E. Mullin (Belfast, Century Services Ltd., 1979). After my grandmother's death in 1993, her genealogical files and library came to me, and in searching through that book I found that it also included information relevant to the Scots-Irish ancestry on my maternal grandfather's side, namely, the Andersons, Stewarts, Clarks, and Forsyths. Here are some excerpts, regarding the Presbyterian clergy of Aghadowey Parish in County Derry:
Pages 6-7:
| Quote: | Mr [William] Jacque was succeeded in Aghadowey by Mr Thomas Boyd in 1660. He also was born in Scotland, but he graduated at Glasgow. Mr Boyd was ejected in 1661 but continued to work in the district, where later a Presbyterian church was built. In 1671 he was Clerk of the Route Presbytery. He was in Derry throughout the Siege [of Londonderry] but later came back to Aghadowey. During part of this later period he also had charge of Macosquin for in 1694 the Aghadowey people objected at the Synod to their minister having to "divide his labours 'twixt them and Maccasquy". Mr Boyd remained in Aghadowey where he died about 1699. He left a widow and the Rev Wm Boyd of Macosquin was probably his son.
The next minister of Aghadowey was the Rev James McGregor. He was the son of Captain McGregor of Magilligan. As a youth he had been in Derry during the siege and is said to have discharged the gun announcing the approach of the relief vessels. After being educated at Glasgow University he was ordained in Aghadowey on 25 June 1701. He married Marion, daughter of David Cargill, an Aghadowey elder, in 1706. The Route Minutes of 1701-6 show that the congregation were slow to provide a farm (and thus somewhere to live) for their minister and the Presbytery considered it "not consistent with ye credit of ye gospel, for a minister to go from house to house". Eventually in 1705 the congregation purchased a farm which they ploughed and sowed for him and had obtained timber for building him a house. As well as stipend Mr McGregor was entitled to 20 bolls of corn yearly. An old session book of Aghadowey, preserved in the [Presbyterian] Historical Society, gives details of church affairs both during Mr McGregor's ministry and for some years afterwards. An entry in 1703 mentioned building and seating the meeting house but there is no indication as to whether this refers to a completely new church or merely enlarging the existing one. There also was a session house, called the little house, and both it and the church were thatched. In 1730 it cost 8/- to thatch the church and there is reference to glazing in the same year. In 1740 the church was again thatched for there is a quaint entry in the old session book "All ye rest was given for straw etc so there is nothing in treasure". In 1754 there is a reference to roughcasting the church. The church prior to the present church was in Carnrallagh and there is a tradition that an earlier church was in Ardreagh, but it is impossible to say which church was referred to in the session book.
Mr McGregor, accompanied by some of his congregation, emigrated to America, arriving in Boston on 4 August 1718. Following a difficult winter they were granted 100 square miles of land in New England and they called their settlement Londonderry. Here Mr McGregor was their minister until his sudden death from fever on 5 March 1729. He was survived by a widow and seven of their children. One son David was the first minister of West Parish, Londonderry N.H. (the second church to be formed in Londonderry) Mrs McGregor, the widow, married the Rev Matthew Clerk, who had been minister of Kilrea before he emigrated to Londonderry. |
I wonder if Gordon could help us identify "Captain McGregor of Magilligan" and to which branch of Clan Gregor our Rev. James McGregor of Aghadowey and Londonderry belonged. Rev. McGregor is not one of my ancestors, though he has many, many living descendants, and I don't know if he had any genealogical connection to the Stewarts of Balquhidder, but his flock included the family of Robert Stewart, 2nd son of Walter Stewart, 7th of Gartnafuaran, and I'm curious to learn more about Rev. McGregor.
By the way, I understand that "Aghadowey" means "Duffy's Field."
Next, from this book's account of the Presbytery of Kilrea, pages 119-120:
| Quote: | The next minister [i.e. the second minister, succeeding Rev. William Gilchrist] was not ordained until 1697; he was Matthew Clark, a local man who was born in 1659. He had been present at the siege of Derry as a lieutenant and had received a bullet wound on the right temple, which never thoroughly healed so he wore a black patch over it. After the siege he studied for the ministry although over 30 years of age and then was ordained to Kilrea. The early Route Minutes cover part of his ministry. He was clerk of the Presbytery so the handwriting of the Minutes is his, though he was absent from the first meetings in 1701 as he had broken his arm. These minutes are mainly concerned with arrears of stipend and the repair of ministers' houses. Various excuses and promises are made by the congregation of Kilrea -- in August 1702 they will repair the minister's house and meeting house as soon as the harvest is over; in October 1702 the badness of the weather hindered them in repairing the house and in August 1703 they will pay up stipend when they sell their butter. At one time the Presbytery considered declaring mr Clark transportable if matters did not improve. Apparently at this time when all congregations were in difficulties Kilrea was in a particularly difficult position for the congregation was formed out of four parishes (Kilrea, Tamlaght O'Crilly, Desertoghill and Errigal -- i.e. it covered the Garvagh area as well as Kilrea) and not all the parishes were willing to contribute their share, in particular the district where Sam Campbell (the elder mentioned earlier) dwelt was deficient in payment due to his negligence and his habit of encouraging strife and quarrels in his district. Confound those dratted Campbells!!!  By February 1704 the minister's house is at last "thatcht" and board have been supplied to floor the cellar, but over a year's stipend was owing. In January 1705 the Presbytery deposed Sam Campbell from the eldership on various grounds but mainly because he stirred up strife, made things difficult for the previous minister (Mr Gilchrist) and the present minister (Mr Clark) and because he initiated unnecessary debates to prevent any business being done in session meetings. Efforts were then made to try to collect stipend and the Presbytery was asked if corn could be taken from the people at 1/- per boll more than market price and whether they could prosecute by law those who would not pay or deprive them of church privileges. The Presbytery answered that they could not take corn above market price, but could sue defaulters and that the Presbytery was already determined that those who could pay but did not should be deprived of church privileges. When the Minutes end in 1706 a year and a half of stipend was still owed.
Mr Clark resigned on 29 April 1729 and emigrated to America, although aged 70. He went to Londonderry in New Hampshire, where he found that his friend the Rev. J. McGregor (formerly of Aghadowey) had died a few weeks earlier, so he officiated as minister of Londonderry until his death on 25 January 1735. He married, as his third wife, Mr McGregor's widow (nee Marion Cargill of Aghadowey). |
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Here's some more about Rev. James McGregor. First, some excerpts from Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research: A Guide, by Margaret Dickson Falley, 1981, pp 396-397, 399.
| Quote: | McGREGOR, JAMES: Born near Magilligan, 1677; educated Glasgow 1697; licensed Route Presbytery, 1700; ordained Aghadowey, 25 June 1701, able to preach in Irish. He married a daughter of David Cargill, R.E., Aghadowey. Resigned 1718, and emigrated with a section of his congregation to America. Prior to their departure Mr. McGregor preached a sermon recounting the reasons for their removal. They were "to avoid oppression and cruel bondage; to shun persecution and designed ruin; to withdraw from the communion of idolators; to have an opportunity of worshipping God according to the dictates of conscience and the rules of the inspired Word." His first text after landing was Isaiah, 32, 2. Officiated at Dracut, Mass., 1718-1719; Nutfiled (Londonderry), New Hampshire, 1719-1729. Died 5 March 1729. Rev. Matthew Clark (q.v.) married his widow. Rev. David McGregor (1710-1777), Western Londonderry (1737-1777), was a son. References. The "American Fasti" (p. 15) states: As a youth was in Derry during the siege; it was he who discharged the gun announcing the approach of the relief vessels; ordained Aghadowey, 25 June 1701; tried by General Synod for intemperance, 1704, but the case "not proven"; able to preach in Irish; in 1719 trouble arose in his congregation and when Committee appointed to investigate arrive, it was reported he had gone to America; a number of families went with him; he settled at Haverhill, New Hampshire, calling it Londonderry; his congregation was regarded as the first Presbyterian congregation in New England; died 5 March 1729, aged 52. Rev. David McGregor, Londonderry, U.S.A., 1737-1777, was a son. . . .
. . . His father was Captain McGregor of Magilligan, said to have been a Cromwellian officer. The son, James, served in the Siege of Londonderry. His sister, Elspeth, married Captain Lachlan McCurdy of Magilligan. |
Then there is a McGregor Family Tree, found here:
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/NIR-DERRY/2007-01/1168037672
| Quote: | McGREGOR FAMILY TREE
This is constructed from information in Parker's History of Londonderry, Young's Fighters of Derry, the Burnside family tree (T.2707 P.R.O.N.I.), and a letter from Professor F. J. Simmons (a descendant). This tree includes the noted Rev. James McGregor, minister of Aghadowey, who emigrated to Boston in 1718 with a number of his congregation and founded there the town of Nutfield, New Hampshire, now called Londonderry, NH.
A certain Captain McGregor of Magilligan had family:
1. Elisabeth married Captain Lachan McCurdy.
2. Alexander of Maynock, who had a daughter:
A. Mary, married Bingham and had a daughter:
(a) Sarah Bingham married Samuel Burnside (1729-1805).
3. Rev. James McGregor (1677-1729) married October, 1706, in Londonderry, Ireland, Marion, daughter of David Cargill and had family:
A. Robert.
B. Daniel.
C. Rev. David McGregor (1709-1777), minister of the West Parish, Londonderry, married Mary Boyd (an orphan brought up by his mother) and had family:
(a) David, died in infancy.
(b) Colonel Robert, married Elizabeth, daughter of General George Reid, and was A.D.C. to General Stark.
They had nine children: David, George, Mary Ann (married 1832 Rev. John R. Adams of West Parish, Londonderry), Maria, Eliza, Robert, James, John, Daniel.
(c) David.
(d) James, had store in Londonderry, and had six children:
Daniel, James, Stephen, Jane, Mary, Nancy.
(e) Elizabeth.
(f) Margaret, married James Rogers.
(g) Mary Anne, married James Hopkins.
(h) Jane, married Robert Hunter.
(i) Mary, married Robert Means of Amherst.
D. Jane.
E. Alexander, married and had daughter: (a) Susannah (1742-1817), married 1762 Thomas Burnside (1735-1798). A grandson was Ambrose Everett Burnside, a Major-General [for the Union] in the American Civil War.
F. Mary, married James Paul of Londonderry and had daughter:
(a) Mary, married John Wier. This is the line of descent of Professor F. J.
Simmons.
G. Elizabeth.
H. Margaret.
I. John.
J. James. |
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