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101 26th August, 1769. William Preston's bond (with Robert Breckinridge, John Mills, David Robinson, Wm. Campbell, George Skillern, John Taylor, Patrick Campbell) as executor of James Patton.

source: Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800, Volume 3, Lyman Chalkley. Rosslyn, VA: The Commonwealth Company, 1912.

 
Campbell, Patrick (I11726)
 
102 27th February, 1749. Same to Robert Campbell, 53 acres in Beverley Manor; corner to Manor and patent line; John Rusk's line; delivered: Joseph Tees, November, 1754.

source: Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800, Volume 3, Lyman Chalkley. Rosslyn, VA: The Commonwealth Company, 1912.

 
Campbell, Robert (I6171)
 
103 2ndly Rev. Barnabas Smith in 1645. Rector of North Witham in the county of Lincoln. who died about 1656.

source: Genealogical Memoranda Relating to the Family of Newton. London, UK: Taylor and Company, 1871. 
Smith, Rev. Barnabas (I4)
 
104 3 Aug 1860 - The value of his personal estate was $1,000 at this time (source: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860 United States Census, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, California, National Archives Microfilm Roll M653_65, Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009)

 
Campbell, William M. (I1972)
 
105 4 JULY 1637

SYMON SMYTH versus JACOB SEAGERS.

Witnesses:–

James de Raet of the parish of St. Katherine, Coleman, London, broker, aged 48. Signature.

Phillip Careles of the parish of St. Margaret, Lothbury, London, broker, aged 54. Signature.

Concerning goods on board the Caulkman, sunk in the Thames.

That de Raet was admitted a broker by the court of Aldermen. He sold for James Baker of London, merchant, Danske rye to . . . Powell, a baker in Southwark. That he was requested by Lucas Jacobs to depose on to the price of Danske rye. Certain rye was consigned to William Booth, servant to John Trimmell of London, merchant, by William Davies of Dansick, merchant, a free broker of London, and was sold to . . . Marshall, a fishmonger.

Potash and buckrams and other goods belonged to John son of plaintiff, Thomas Wieth, Michael Clyatt his servant and . . . Mantell. [See No. 238, etc.] (fol. 231-3)

source: Shilton, Dorothy O. and Richard Holworthy, eds. High Court of Admiralty Examinations 1637-1638. New York, NY: Publications of the Anglo-American Records Foundation, 1932.

 
Powell, William (I4)
 
106 5 JULY 1637

SYMON SMYTH versus JACOB SEAGERS.

Witnesses:–

John Jourdayne of the parish of All Hallows the less, London, dyer, aged 45. Signature.

William Powell of St. Saviour, Southwark, co. Surrey, baker, aged 52. Signature.

That Jourdayne delivered English rye to be grinded which was sold, according to . . . Chambers, a miller, at 18s to 20s a quarter. That English rye is as good, and worth as much, as Danske rye.

That Powell bought of James de Baker 500 quarters of “outlandish rye at 20s a quarter, and sold 400 quarters to Lucas Jacobs for a miller at 24s a quarter. [See No. 264] (fol. 234-5)

source: Shilton, Dorothy O. and Richard Holworthy, eds. High Court of Admiralty Examinations 1637-1638. New York, NY: Publications of the Anglo-American Records Foundation, 1932.

 
Powell, William (I4)
 
107 8 Aug 1860 - The value of his real estate was $4,657 at this time

source: National Archives and Records Administration. 1860 United States Census, Township 9, Range 7 East, Saline County, Illinois, National Archives Microfilm M653_223; 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.

8 Aug 1860 - The value of his personal estate was $1,600 at this time

source: National Archives and Records Administration. 1860 United States Census, Township 9, Range 7 East, Saline County, Illinois, National Archives Microfilm M653_223; 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.

 
Guard, Chalon (I3332)
 
108 A FAIRLY large proportion of the branches of the McCurdy family residing in America trace back to this Daniel. Several books of McCurdy genealogies have been written. Among them is Historical Genealogy of the McCurdy Family, already referred to. The student of this valuable little work will encounter “Uncle” Neil, and other uncles and aunts so mentioned; and occasionally these terms have been here retained for cross-reference.

Daniel, who probably became heir of the “Cairn,” Ballintoy, was born in 1677, and died in 1747. He married Margaret Laughlin, probably of a Scottish refugee family. The had at least six children: (1) Cecilia, born about 1694, died 1779; (2) Patrick, born 1700, died 1798; (3) Daniel, born 1702; (4) James, born 1706; (5) Margaret, born 1710, died 1810; (6) Neil, born 1711, died 1808. There are some wonderfully long ages here, and the dates appear correct, except that (1) Cecilia may have been born and died ten years later, living between 1704 and 1789, making her birth follow Daniel and precede James.

source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930. 
McCurdy, Daniel (I42)
 
109 A PIONEER WOMAN:

Death of Mrs. Eliza Hobson – Sketch of Her Career.

Mrs. Eliza Hobson, who departed this life in this city, December 14, 1893, was born in Newark, England, in 1805. She was the daughter of Thomas Turner, a gentleman of means, and was tenderly reared and educated. At the age of 21 she was married to Miles Eyre, a member of a famous cutlery firm. She came from England to St. Louis, Mo., in 1842. Mr. Eyre had preceded his family and established himself in business there, but he caught the Oregon fever, and with his family joined the immigration of 1843. He was drowned at the second crossing of Snake river. This was a severe blow to Mrs. Eyre, who was left with four children and with only limited means, as all of Mr. Eyre’s available funds were in paper money in a belt around his waist. His body was never recovered. After searching as long as they could, they were compelled to push on, as the rest of the train had gone ahead. They wintered at Whitman’s. in the spring of 1844, Dr. McLoughlin, hearing of them through Captain Grant, of Fort Hall, who knew Mr. Eyre in St. Louis, sent three batteaux to bring them to Fort Vancouver, where everything was done for their comfort. Mrs. Eyre afterward located in the Waldo hills, where she lived until 1848, when she and her family went to California. In 1849, in company with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Sinclair, she returned East. Mr. Sinclair died the day before they arrived in New Orleans. After residing with her daughter in Boston for about a year, she, in company with her two sons and youngest daughter, again crossed the plains to Oregon in 1850. Some years later she was married to Mr. William Hobson, of Clatsop, who died in 1879. Five children survive her, Mrs. Mary Sinclair-Davis, of Boston, Mass.; Thomas T. Eyre, of Myers, Fla.; Mrs. Eliza Shepherd, of Portland, Or.; Mrs. C. F. Ray, of Ray’s Landing; and John S. Campbell, a son of her second husband (she having been married three times), also of Ray’s Landing, Or. There are many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. After enduring all the hardships incident to pioneer life, Mrs. Hobson lived to see Oregon one of the finest states, and Portland, which was only a forest when she first ascended the Willamette river, the metropolis of the Northwest. Possessed of more than ordinary intelligence, and thoroughly imbued with a sweetness of disposition and regard for others, Mrs. Hobson endeared herself to all with whom she was associated, and was greatly beloved by her own family, who sincerely mourn her loss. Of her it can truly be said, “She hath done what she could.”

source: Obituary of Eliza Hobson. Portland, OR: The Sunday Oregonian, 31 Dec 1893, p. 9. 
Turner, Eliza (I293)
 
110 A recent letter (1886) from Mr. Patrick McCurdy of the Cairn, Ballintoy, co. Antrim says:

“My ancestors came from Buteshire in Scotland during the reign of Charles II. – the date of their leaving Scotland might be 1666. The story of their voyage to and arrival in Ireland (as handed down to us) is very affecting. . . They landed at Ballintoy, five brothers, four of whom settled in Co. Antrim.

Patrick, or (as the Scotch then pronounced it) Pethric, settled in the Cairn. He had four sons, named, respectively, David, William, John and Daniel.

Daniel was father to my grandfather, who was also named Daniel, and was born about 1750. My father's name was Patrick.

John McCurdy of Ahoghill must have been cousin to my grandfather's father, and of the same generation.

I am now working up to seventy years of age, so that I am amongst the eldest of the living McCurdys.

The same address as given above will find my brother Archy McCurdy, my cousin John McCurdy and myself. We are on the very ground on which our great forefathers trod.”

source: Salisbury, Edward Eldbridge and Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury. Family Histories and Genealogies: A Series of Genealogical and Biographical Monographs on the Families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, Lord, Lynde, Digby, Newdigate, Hoo, Willoughby, Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, Johnson, Diodati, Lee and Marvin, and Notes on the Families of Buchanan, Parmelee, Boardman, Lay, Locke, Cole, DeWolf, Drake, Bond and Swayne, Dunbar and Clarke, and a Notice of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite, with Twenty-nine Pedigree-charts and Two Charts of Combined Descents, Volume 1. Privately printed, 1892.

 
McCurdy, Petheric (I1)
 
111 A recent letter (1886) from Mr. Patrick McCurdy of the Cairn, Ballintoy, co. Antrim says:

“My ancestors came from Buteshire in Scotland during the reign of Charles II. – the date of their leaving Scotland might be 1666. The story of their voyage to and arrival in Ireland (as handed down to us) is very affecting. . . They landed at Ballintoy, five brothers, four of whom settled in Co. Antrim.

Patrick, or (as the Scotch then pronounced it) Pethric, settled in the Cairn. He had four sons, named, respectively, David, William, John and Daniel.

Daniel was father to my grandfather, who was also named Daniel, and was born about 1750. My father's name was Patrick.

John McCurdy of Ahoghill must have been cousin to my grandfather's father, and of the same generation.

I am now working up to seventy years of age, so that I am amongst the eldest of the living McCurdys.

The same address as given above will find my brother Archy McCurdy, my cousin John McCurdy and myself. We are on the very ground on which our great forefathers trod.”

source: Salisbury, Edward Eldbridge and Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury. Family Histories and Genealogies: A Series of Genealogical and Biographical Monographs on the Families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, Lord, Lynde, Digby, Newdigate, Hoo, Willoughby, Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, Johnson, Diodati, Lee and Marvin, and Notes on the Families of Buchanan, Parmelee, Boardman, Lay, Locke, Cole, DeWolf, Drake, Bond and Swayne, Dunbar and Clarke, and a Notice of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite, with Twenty-nine Pedigree-charts and Two Charts of Combined Descents, Volume 1. Privately printed, 1892. 
McCurdy, Daniel (I9)
 
112 A recent letter (1886) from Mr. Patrick McCurdy of the Cairn, Ballintoy, co. Antrim says:

“My ancestors came from Buteshire in Scotland during the reign of Charles II. – the date of their leaving Scotland might be 1666. The story of their voyage to and arrival in Ireland (as handed down to us) is very affecting. . . They landed at Ballintoy, five brothers, four of whom settled in Co. Antrim.

Patrick, or (as the Scotch then pronounced it) Pethric, settled in the Cairn. He had four sons, named, respectively, David, William, John and Daniel.

Daniel was father to my grandfather, who was also named Daniel, and was born about 1750. My father's name was Patrick.

John McCurdy of Ahoghill must have been cousin to my grandfather's father, and of the same generation.

I am now working up to seventy years of age, so that I am amongst the eldest of the living McCurdys.

The same address as given above will find my brother Archy McCurdy, my cousin John McCurdy and myself. We are on the very ground on which our great forefathers trod.”

source: Salisbury, Edward Eldbridge and Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury. Family Histories and Genealogies: A Series of Genealogical and Biographical Monographs on the Families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, Lord, Lynde, Digby, Newdigate, Hoo, Willoughby, Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, Johnson, Diodati, Lee and Marvin, and Notes on the Families of Buchanan, Parmelee, Boardman, Lay, Locke, Cole, DeWolf, Drake, Bond and Swayne, Dunbar and Clarke, and a Notice of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite, with Twenty-nine Pedigree-charts and Two Charts of Combined Descents, Volume 1. Privately printed, 1892. 
McCurdy, Patrick (I11)
 
113 A second American stock, representative of the Carbeth lords, descends from George of Munster, is located at Louisville, Ky., and was, in 1857, represented by two brothers, George and Andrew; while from Thomas of Donegal was descended the late President of the United States, James Buchanan; a namesake, James Buchanan, recently British Consul at the port of New York, was descended from John of Tyrone. Belonging to this branch also are the Buchanans of Northern New York; Thomas, who married a kinswoman, a Livingstone; their son George, who was the father of the well-known authoress, Mrs. Gildersleeve Longstreet, of New York city.

source: Buchanan, Arthur William Patrick. The Buchanan Book: The Life of Alexander Buchanan, Q.C., of Montreal, Followed by an Account of the Family of Buchanan. Montreal, Canada: privately printed, 1911. 
Buchanan, 15th President of the United States President James (I130)
 
114 A second American stock, representative of the Carbeth lords, descends from George of Munster, is located at Louisville, Ky., and was, in 1857, represented by two brothers, George and Andrew; while from Thomas of Donegal was descended the late President of the United States, James Buchanan; a namesake, James Buchanan, recently British Consul at the port of New York, was descended from John of Tyrone. Belonging to this branch also are the Buchanans of Northern New York; Thomas, who married a kinswoman, a Livingstone; their son George, who was the father of the well-known authoress, Mrs. Gildersleeve Longstreet, of New York city.

source: Buchanan, Arthur William Patrick. The Buchanan Book: The Life of Alexander Buchanan, Q.C., of Montreal, Followed by an Account of the Family of Buchanan. Montreal, Canada: privately printed, 1911. 
Buchanan, Thomas (I173)
 
115 A second American stock, representative of the Carbeth lords, descends from George of Munster, is located at Louisville, Ky., and was, in 1857, represented by two brothers, George and Andrew; while from Thomas of Donegal was descended the late President of the United States, James Buchanan; a namesake, James Buchanan, recently British Consul at the port of New York, was descended from John of Tyrone. Belonging to this branch also are the Buchanans of Northern New York; Thomas, who married a kinswoman, a Livingstone; their son George, who was the father of the well-known authoress, Mrs. Gildersleeve Longstreet, of New York city.

source: Buchanan, Arthur William Patrick. The Buchanan Book: The Life of Alexander Buchanan, Q.C., of Montreal, Followed by an Account of the Family of Buchanan. Montreal, Canada: privately printed, 1911. 
Buchanan, George (I183)
 
116 A second American stock, representative of the Carbeth lords, descends from George of Munster, is located at Louisville, Ky., and was, in 1857, represented by two brothers, George and Andrew; while from Thomas of Donegal was descended the late President of the United States, James Buchanan; a namesake, James Buchanan, recently British Consul at the port of New York, was descended from John of Tyrone. Belonging to this branch also are the Buchanans of Northern New York; Thomas, who married a kinswoman, a Livingstone; their son George, who was the father of the well-known authoress, Mrs. Gildersleeve Longstreet, of New York city.

source: Buchanan, Arthur William Patrick. The Buchanan Book: The Life of Alexander Buchanan, Q.C., of Montreal, Followed by an Account of the Family of Buchanan. Montreal, Canada: privately printed, 1911. 
Buchanan, Abby (I184)
 
117 A sister of David and Edward married James Cummings, son of the Rev. Charles Cummings, and was the mother of Colonel Arthur Campbell Cummings, of Abingdon.

source: Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition. Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902. 
Campbell, Ms. (I11743)
 
118 ADAM – Salusbury, or de Salzburg, as per the Wynnstay manuscript; married Joyce, daughter of Sir William Dampell; entered England with William the Conqueror.

source: Salisbury, Elon Galusha. The Salisburian: Historical, Biographical and Genealogical Records of the House of Salisbury, Originally of Massachusetts, Later of Phelps, New York, Volume 1. Phelps, NY: The Flintside Press, 1921. 
Salisbury, Sir Adam Guelph (I495)
 
119 AFFIDAVIT MADE BY SIR ISAAC NEWTON, BEFORE A MASTER IN CHANCERY, IN PROOF OF AND ACCOMPANYING HIS PEDIGREE.

Sir Isaac Newton, of St. James's parish in the county of Middlesex Knight, and Master and Worker of Her Majesty's Mint, voluntarily maketh Oath that this Deponent hath a deed of feoffment of John Newton, who was (as he hath reason to believe) his great grandfather's father dated the 19th day of December, in the fourth yeare of Queene Elizabeth in the yeare 1562, wherein by the name of John Newton of Westby in the County of Lincoln he settled his Estate in Wilstrope, in the parish of Colsterworth in the said County, on his five sons, Richard, George, Robert, Symon and William Newton, and their heirs successively; Which said John Newton, by agreement of time, and being called of Westby, he verily believes to have been the same person with one John Newton, whom he finds by an attested extract of the register of Basingthorp cum Westby aforesaid, to have been buried in that Church on the 22nd day of December, Anno Dom. 1563, being the yeare after the said feoffment, and likewise to have been the same person mentioned in a Visitation of Lincolnshire made in or about the year 1634, now remaining in the Herald's Colledge in London, there called John Newton first son of John Newton of Westby aforesaid, and Brother of Thomas Newton, Richard Newton, and William Newton, of Gunnerby, great grandfather of Sir John Newton, of Hather in the said County, Baronet; he having by tradition from his kindred ever since he can remember, reckoned himselfe next of kin (among the Newtons) to Sir John Newton's family, and having also, about fifty-four or fifty-five years ago, heard his grandmother Ascough (with whom he lived at Wylstrope aforesaid alias Woolstrope, till he was about eleven years old, and who at that time frequently conversed with the Deponent's great Uncle Richard Newton) say, that he, this Deponent, was or had been next heir att law to Mr Newton, of Hather, until the birth of Mr Newton's children, who were then two or three infants, and that he and they were cousins two or three times removed, or words to that purpose, and he, this Deponent, believing that his said Grandmother, upon the marriage of her daughter with his father, might learn the kindred, and that his grandfather Newton, to promote the marriage, might be forward to speak of itt, representing himself cousin once removed, and next heir to said Mr Newton att, that time six or seven years under age, afterwards father to Sir John Newton. And further this Deponent saith, that Richard Newton first above mentioned is great grandfather and first son of the second John Newton, enjoyed the said estate at Woolstrope, according to the said Settlement, as appears by a deed in this Deponent's possession, of settlement of the said estate on this Deponent's father and mother, dated the 30th day of December, in the 15th yeare of King Charles the First, 1639, made by Robert Newton, the eldest son of the said Richard, and this, Deponent's grandfather, wherein are these words (and which formerly descended and came unto the said Robert Newton after the death of Richard Newton, father to the said Robert Newton), and this Deponent saith, that he finds by an attested copy of the register of Colsterworth cum Woolstrope aforesaid, that one Richard Newton was buried there the 30th day of April 1588 whom he believes to be the same Richard, his grandfather's father. And the said Robert Newton he finds to have been buried at Colsterworth aforesaid by the said extract, on the 20th day of September 1641 leaving issue three sons, first, Isaac Newton mentioned, in the said deed of settlement of the 15th of King Charles the First, and whom he finds by Colsterworth register to have been baptized the 21st of December 1606; secondly, Robert Newton, baptized likewise the 27th of September, 1607, who lived afterwards at Counthorp in the same county, and whose issue are still living: and thirdly, Richard Newton baptized likewise there the 9th of April 1609, who lived at Colsterworth, and left issue still remaining there. And further this Deponent saith, that the said Isaac, this Deponent's father married Hannah daughter of James Ascough of Market Overton in the County of Rutland, Gentleman, and that he was buried at Colsterworth aforesaid, on the 6th day of October, 1642, seized of the said estate of Woolstrope, which is descended to, and now is enjoyed by, this Deponent his only child, who was born the 25th of December, and baptized the 1st day of January in the said yeare 1642. This deponent's mother, Hannah Ascough remarried to Barnabas Smith, Rector of North Witham in Lincolnshire, by whom she had issue Mary, Benjamin, and Hannah, each of which have issue remaining.

In witness whereof this Deponent hath hereunto put his hand and seale, this two and twentieth day of November, Anno Dom. 1705.

Isaac Newton [seal]

Jurat 22nd die Novembris, 1705.
Coram me Mag’ro Cancell. S. Keck.

source: Genealogical Memoranda Relating to the Family of Newton. London, UK: Taylor and Company, 1871.

 
Newton, Sir Isaac (I1)
 
120 Alexander C., of The Oaks, Morden, Manitoba, b. 1834; m. 1863, Anna Sophia, dau. of Daniel Wilson, and has issue.

source: Bernard Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, 9th Edition. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1899. 
Buchanan, Alexander Carlisle (I44)
 
121 Alexander Hamilton, died 21st November 1587, aged eight months.

source: Johnston, George Harvey. The Heraldry of the Hamiltons with Notes on All the Males of the Family, Descriptions of the Arms, Plates and Pedigrees. Edinburgh, UK: W. and A.K. Johnston, 1909. 
Hamilton, Alexander (I50)
 
122 ALEXANDER – Son of Adam Salisbury; married Maria de Warrens, of a very great Norman house.

source: Salisbury, Elon Galusha. The Salisburian: Historical, Biographical and Genealogical Records of the House of Salisbury, Originally of Massachusetts, Later of Phelps, New York, Volume 1. Phelps, NY: The Flintside Press, 1921. 
Salisbury, Sir Alexander (I494)
 
123 Alexander, b. 1786, d.s.p. 1840.

source: Bernard Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, 9th Edition. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1899. 
Buchanan, Esquire Alexander Carlisle Esq. (I36)
 
124 Alexander, merchant in Norfolk, Virginia, and afterwards in Glasgow, m. Susan, daughter of Archibald CAMPBELL, of Knockbuy, and had, Sir Colin, de jure seventh Baronet.

source: Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry, Volume 2. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1895.
 
Campbell, Alexander (I125)
 
125 Alexander, of Strondour, m. Jean, daughter of CAMPBELL, of Otter, and had a son, Archibald, of Strondour, m. Margaret, daughter of Donald MCNEILL, of Creas, and had issue,

source: Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry, Volume 2. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1895. 
Campbell, Alexander (I118)
 
126 ALICE NEWTON, baptized 31 January, and buried 7 February, 1603-4.

source: Foster, Charles Wilmer. "Sir Isaac Newton's Family," Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton, Volume 39, Parts 1-2. Associated Architectural Societies, 1928. 
Newton, Alice (I13)
 
127 Alice, m. to Sir Thomas Talbot de Bashall, Knt. co. York, and was mother of EDMUND TALBOT, Esq. of Bashall, ancestor of the TALBOTS DE BASHALL. (See that descent, under LLOYD OF PLYMOG.)

source: Burke, John and Bernard Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2. London, UK: Henry Colburn, 1847. 
Tempest, Alice (I595)
 
128 ALICIA MALLORY, b. 12 June, 1660, who m. at Mobberley, in 1691, the Rev. George Mallory, vicar of Maynooth, Kildare, and had issue an only son,

THE REV. GEORGE MALLORY, rector of Mobberley, who m. Sarah, dau. of John Plumb, Esq., of Liverpool, and by her had (with four daus., viz., Maria, Sarah, Alice, and Elizabeth) a son and successor,

THE REV. THOMAS MALLORY, L.L.B., rector of Mobberley, and vicar of Huyton, Lancashire, b. 28 Nov. 1727, who m. Barbara, dau. of George Ffarington, Esq. of Shawe Hall, co. Lancaster, and by her had issue an only son,

THE REV. JOHN HOLDSWORTH MALLORY, rector of Mobberley, and one of the Fellows of the Collegiate Church of Manchester, and a magistrate for Chester, who m. Julia, dau. of John Crowder, Esq. of Brotherton, co. York, by whom he had issue an only child,

JULIA, m. to the REV. GEORGE LEIGH, who has since assumed the surname of Mallory.

source: Burke, John and Bernard Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2. London, UK: Henry Colburn, 1847. 
Mallory, Alicia (I434)
 
129 Alswn, or Alison, who m. Grono ap Hwfa, of Hafod-y-wern, co. Denbigh, of the tribe of Tudor Trevor, Lord of Hereford.

source: Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Twenty-Seventh Edition. London, UK: Harrison, 1865. 
ap Ievan, Alswn (I539)
 
130 Ancestor to Wynn of Pennarth, Bodville of Bodville, Madryn, and Bodwan, Wynn of Bodfuan and Glynllifon, Bodurda of Bodurda, Wynn of Pant Du, in Llanllyfni, Vaughan of Talhenbont, and Nyffryn, and Beaumaris, Wynn of Trefan, White of Friars and Neugwl, Owen of Ynyfkain, Vaughan of Abercain, Prydderch of Tregaian, Parry of Tygwyn, in Piftill, &c. &c.

source: Pennant, Thomas. A Tour in Wales. MDCCLXX. London, UK: Henry Hughes, 1778.

 
ap Ieuan, Madog (I13636)
 
131 Andrew, the fifth child of James and Jerusha McCurdy, was born in 1702. He married Mary McGill. They had three children: Samuel, Jane, and Andrew, Junr. Samuel had at least one child, Alexander, who married Peggy Weir. The children of Alexander and Peggy were Donald, Angus, John, Betty, and Rose. The oldest, Donald, married Esther McCurdy, a granddaughter of Archibald McCurdy, the son of Patrick and Mary (Laughlin) McCurdy. Andrew, Junr., married Bridget Donahue, and these had as children John, Bridget, Alexander, Rayedin, and Daniel, the first and last of whom went to America.

source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930. 
McCurdy, Andrew (I37)
 
132 Anglican worship was resumed at the cathedral after Henry Bridgeman, a son of the late bishop, became dean in June 1660. Four of the surviving pre-war prebendaries resumed their duties, and were joined in July 1660 by Thomas Mallory, a son of the late dean. Their puritan colleague John Ley had moved away and died in 1662. Only three of the petty canons returned to their posts, leaving the prebendaries with heavier duties.[62] The first two Restoration bishops, Brian Walton and Henry Ferne, died within a few months of each other before spring 1662.[63] By January 1661 a new diocesan chancellor had been appointed, and the bishop's consistory court revived.[64]

source: G. C. F. Forster, "Early Modern Chester," A History of the County of Chester, Volume 5: The City of Chester, in the Victoria History of the Counties of England, made available online by the Institute of Historical Research, Malet Street, University of London, London, UK, http://www.cheshirepast.net/earlymod_files/modframes1_files/mod.htm

 
Mallory, Rev. Thomas (I140)
 
133 Ann married Archibald Roane, who was first a teacher at Liberty Hall Academy, Rockbridge, and successively Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, Governor of the State, and Judge again. He died at Nashville in 1831, about seventy-one years of age.

source: Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition. Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902. 
Campbell, Ann (I11738)
 
134 Anne daughter of ... Kellum in the county of Lincoln [... Kelham of Ropsley].

source: Genealogical Memoranda Relating to the Family of Newton. London, UK: Taylor and Company, 1871. 
Kelham, Anne (I48)
 
135 ANNE NEWTON, baptized 6 May, 1615 ; probably buried 13 July, 1616.

source: Foster, Charles Wilmer. "Sir Isaac Newton's Family," Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton, Volume 39, Parts 1-2. Associated Architectural Societies, 1928. 
Newton, Anne (I18)
 
136 ANNE NEWTON, born shortly before her mother’s death, and baptized 11 September, 1642, to whom Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac’s father, three weeks later, left a legacy of 'seaven pounds of currant English money.’ She was dead in December, 1659, when her father made his will.

source: Foster, Charles Wilmer. "Sir Isaac Newton's Family," Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton, Volume 39, Parts 1-2. Associated Architectural Societies, 1928. 
Newton, Anne (I31)
 
137 ANOTHER PIONEER GONE.

The old pioneers of Oregon, those who have by their energy and indomitable perseverance cleared the trackless forests and prepared a place for coming generations in so goodly a county as ours, are fast passing away. It is but a short time since that Father Waller was called from this earth. Father Stratton soon followed, and now it becomes our painful duty to chronicle the death of another good man. On Thursday night, July 31st, at 11 o’clock, at his residence in Salem, James Campbell died at the advanced age of 66 years. Mr. Campbell was born in Greenville, Kentucky, on the 6th day of April in the year of 1807. From this place at an early age he moved to Boone county, Missouri, where he lived until the year 1846. In that year he started across the plains for Oregon, which State he reached some time in 1847. He settled near Salem, where he remained until the year 1859 when he moved to Puget Sound. After a residence in Puget Sound of seven years he returned to Oregon, settled near Salem where he lived until the time of his death.

The funeral will take place to-day at 11 o’clock from the Pleasant Grove Church on Mill creek. “Uncle Jimmy,” as he was affectionately called was respected and beloved by those who knew him best, and all feel that a good man has left us."

source: "Another Pioneer Gone." Salem, OR: The Daily Oregon Statesman, 5 Aug 1873. 
Campbell, James C. (I250)
 
138 Another son, John Campbell, born in 1621; married, in 1655, Grace, daughter of Peter Hay, and had issue:

i. Dugald, whose descendants settled in Rockbridge County, Virginia.

ii. Robert, born in 1665; married in 1696. His descendants settled in Orange (now Augusta) County, Virginia, in 1740.

iii. John, born in 1666; died in 1734; emigrated to America in 1726, and settled in Donegal, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but soon moved with several of his family to that part of Orange County, Virginia, which in 1738 was formed into Augusta County. Had issue: i. Patrick, born in 1690; “a strong churchman;” removed to Virginia in 1738, and was the father of General William Campbell, the hero of King’s Mountain (after whom the county of Campbell, formed in 1784 from Bedford, was named), born in 1745, and was killed in September, 1781; married Elizabeth, the sister of the orator Patrick Henry, and she married secondly, General William Russell, of the Revolution, born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1758, and died in Fayette County, Kentucky, July 3, 1825. ii. John, born in 1692; a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church at York, Pennsylvania; died in 1764; married, and had issue; James, born in 1731, removed to Virginia in 1760; Ellen Frances, and John, born in 1740; died in 1797; one of the most eminent lawyers of Pennsylvania; married Ellen Parker, and their descendants in the names of Lyon, Chambers, and others, are quite numerous. The late Parker Campbell, banker of Richmond, Virginia, was a son. iii. Robert, migrated to Virginia; had issue five children, of whom four daughters survived. iv. William, died in youth. v. James, died in England. vi. David, married, in 1735, Mary Hamilton (who came to America in the same ship as him), and, about the year 1772, settled at the “Royal Oak,” in the valley of the Holstein (now rendered Holston), about one mile west of Marion, the county seat of Smyth County He left issue seven sons: i. John, born April 20, 1741. ii. Colonel Arthur, born in 1742; hero of Indian wars; married a sister of General William Campbell; removed in 1804 to Yellow Creek, Knox County, Kentucky, where he died in 1815. He had two sons, who died in the war of 1812 – Colonel James Campbell, at Mobile, and Colonel John B. Campbell, who fell at Chippewa, where he commanded the right wing of the army under General Winfield Scott. iii. James; iv. William; v. David, first clerk of Washington County, which office he held until March 17, 1779, when he was succeeded by his brother John. Removing to Tennessee, he became distinguished in its annals. vi. Robert, Colonel, and Indian fighter, born in 1755; displayed great bravery in many conflicts with the Cherokees, and subsequently at the battle of King’s Mountain; nearly forty years a magistrate of Washington County, and in 1825 removed to Tennessee; died near Knoxville in February, 1832. vii. Patrick.

source: Brock, Robert Alonzo and Virgil A. Lewis. Virginia and Virginians: Eminent Virginians, Executives of the Colony of Virginia from Sir Thomas Smyth to Lord Dunmore. Executives of the State of Virginia from Patrick Henry to Fitzhugh Lee. Sketches of Gens. Ambrose Powell Hill, Robert E. Lee, Thos. Jonathan Jackson, Commodore Maury; History of Virginia, from Settlement of Jamestown to Close of the Civil War. Richmond, VA: H. H. Hardesty, 1888.

 
Campbell, John (I11567)
 
139 ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, of Auchinbreck and Kilmichael, m. a daughter of CAMPBELL. of Ardkinglas. and had issue.

I. DUGALD, of whom presently.
II. DUNCAN, of Castlewene and Auchinbreck, heir to his brother.
III. Donald, first of the family of Kilmory.
IV. Archibald, from whom the families of Danna and Kilberry.

source: Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry, Volume 2. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1895. 
Campbell, Donald (I8131)
 
140 ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, of Auchinbreck and Kilmichael, m. a daughter of CAMPBELL. of Ardkinglas. and had issue.

I. DUGALD, of whom presently.
II. DUNCAN, of Castlewene and Auchinbreck, heir to his brother.
III. Donald, first of the family of Kilmory.
IV. Archibald, from whom the families of Danna and Kilberry.

source: Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry, Volume 2. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1895. 
Campbell, Archibald 3rd Lord of Auchinbreck and Kilmichael (I8133)
 
141 ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, of Auchinbreck and Kilmichael, m. a daughter of CAMPBELL. of Ardkinglas. and had issue.

I. DUGALD, of whom presently.
II. DUNCAN, of Castlewene and Auchinbreck, heir to his brother.
III. Donald, first of the family of Kilmory.
IV. Archibald, from whom the families of Danna and Kilberry.

The eldest son, DUGALD CAMPBELL, of Kilmichael, m. Fynewald, daughter of Sir James MACDONALD, of Dunyveg, and the Glen (afterwards wife of John STEWART, sheriff of Bute), but d. s. p.

source: Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry, Volume 2. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1895. 
Campbell, Dugald (I8180)
 
142 Arms: Or, a lion rampant gules collared argent.
Crest: A nag’s head couped gules.



The Virginia Mallorys descend from the ancient family of that name of Studley Royal, Yorkshire. The manor of Studley Royal came into the family through the marriage of William Mallory of Hutton Conyers (whose will, proved 24 April, 1475, is preserved at York) with Dionisia, co-heiress with her sister Isabel, and daughter of William Tempest of Studley, who died 4 Jan., 1444. William Mallory was the representative of an ancient family who possessed Hutton Conyers, Yorkshire, by the marriage of Sir Christopher Mallory (son of Sir Thomas and a daughter of Lord Zouch) with Joan, daughter and heiress of Robert Conyers, whose ancestor, Robert Conyers, possessed it in 1246.

A very full account of the Mallorys of Studley can be found in Walbran’s, “Memoir of the Lords of Studley in Yorkshire.”

source: Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Heraldica: Being a Registry of Virginia Gentry Entitled to Coat Armor, with Genealogical Notes of the Families. New York, NY: The Genealogical Association, 1908. 
Mallory, Sir Thomas (I11086)
 
143 Arms–Or, a lion, rampant, gu., collared, arg., a canton, az.
Crest–A horse’s head, couped, gu.
Seat–Mobberley Hall.

source: Burke, John and Bernard Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2. London, UK: Henry Colburn, 1847.

 
Mallory, Rev. Thomas (I140)
 
144 Arthur Campbell, second son of David, died about 1811, in his sixty-ninth year.

source: Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition. Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902.
 
Campbell, Col. Arthur (I11664)
 
145 As the reader has already learned, Mr. Buchanan had two very promising younger brothers, one of whom died five years before he went abroad, and the other was living and in apparently good health when he left the country. The elder of these two, William Speer Buchanan, died at Chambersburg in his 22d year, on the nineteenth of December, 1827, a few months after his admission to the bar. He had graduated at Princeton in 1822, and studied his profession at Chambersburg and at the law school in Litchfield, Connecticut. His father died while he was still at Princeton: and a letter from his mother to his brother James, written in 1821, which lies before me, gives indications of his early character.

MRS. BUCHANAN TO HER SON JAMES.
July 3d, 1821.

MY DEAR JAMES:–. . . . . A letter from William came to hand on the 11th of June, in which he expressed considerable anxiety to return home, that he might once again see his father and receive his last benediction; but upon receiving the melancholy information of his death, his desire of coming home is subsided. I am highly gratified by the reception from him of a letter of the 18th, in which is exhibited a resignation to and acquiescence in the will of Providence, together with appropriate sentiments on that melancholy occasion, far beyond his years. For this I bless the Giver of every good and perfect gift. Hoping you may be ever the care of an indulgent Providence, and all your conduct regulated by His unerring wisdom, I subscribe myself your affectionate

MOTHER.

source: Curtis, George Ticknor. Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States, Volume 1. New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1883.

 
Buchanan, William Speer (I131)
 
146 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES ON EDUCATION.

House Committee on Education: Augustin H. Shepperd, Stokes; Charles Fisher, Rowan; James Graham, Rutherford; Nathaniel Gordon, Wilkes; Robert Jeter, Granville; Thomas Clancy, Hillsborough; T. N. Mann, Nash; Lawrence Cherry, Martin; Henry Elliott, Chowan; E. E. Graham, Newbern; Stephen Smith, Wayne; Richard Wooten, Columbus; George Blair, Jr., Edenton; S. Sidbery, New Hanover; Duncan McLaurin, Richmond; John Gilchrist, Robeson.

--House Journal, 1822.

Source Information: Coon, Charles L. (Charles Lee), 1868-1927. Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission. The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Volume I. Raleigh, North Carolina: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1908. 196. Documenting the American South. UNC University Library, Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 1, 2005. http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/coon976/coon976.html

Friday, Dec. 23, 1830.--Mr. O'Brien, from the select committee to whom was referred the memorial in relation to the Oxford Military Academy, reported a resolution in favor of Daniel H. Bingham, authorizing a loan out of the literary fund of $3,000; which was read the first time and passed.

--House Journal, 1830-31, p. 235.

Loan fails.

Saturday, Jan. 1, 1831.--The resolution in favor of Daniel H. Bingham was read the second time, amended, and, on Mr. Blair's1

1 George Blair, Chowan.

Source Information: Coon, Charles L. (Charles Lee), 1868-1927. Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission. The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Volume I. Raleigh, North Carolina: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1908. 471. Documenting the American South. UNC University Library, Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 1, 2005. http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/coon976/coon976.html 
Blair, George Jr. (I1259)
 
147 AUTOBIOGRAPHY, when it exists, usually furnishes the most interesting and reliable information of at least the early life of any man. Among the papers of Mr. Buchanan, there remains a fragment of an autobiography, without date, written however, it is supposed, many years before his death. This sketch for it is only a sketch, ends with the year 1816, when he was at the age of twenty-five. I shall quote from it, in connection with the events of this part of his life, adding such further elucidations of its text as the other materials within my reach enable me to give.

The following is the account which Mr. Buchanan gives of his birth and parentage:

“My father, James Buchanan, was a native of the county Donegal, in the kingdom of Ireland. His family was respectable; but their pecuniary circumstances were limited. He emigrated to the United States before the date of the Definitive Treaty of Peace with Great Britain; having sailed from_______in the brig Providence, bound for Philadelphia, in 1783. He was then in the twenty-second year of his age. Immediately after his arrival in Philadelphia, he proceeded to the house of his maternal uncle, Mr. Joshua Russel, in York county. After spending a short time there, he became an assistant in the store of Mr. John Tom, at Stony Batter, a country place at the foot of the North Mountain, then in Cumberland (now in Franklin county.)

He commenced business for himself, at the same place, about the beginning of the year 1788; and on the 16th of April, in the same year, was married to Elizabeth Speer. My father was a man of practical judgment, and of great industry and perseverance. He had received a good English education, and had that kind of knowledge of mankind which prevented him from being ever deceived in his business. With these qualifications, with the facility of obtaining goods on credit at Baltimore at that early period, and with the advantages of his position, it being one of a very few spots where the people of the western counties came with pack horses loaded with wheat to purchase and carry home salt and other necessaries, his circumstances soon improved. He bought the Dunwoodie farm for £1500 in 1794, and had previously purchased the property on which he resided at the Cove Gap.

I was born at this place on the 23d of April, 1791, being my father's second child. My father moved from the Cove Gap to Mercersburg, a distance of between three and four miles, in the autumn of 1796, and began business in Mercersburg in the autumn of 1798. For some years before his death, which occurred on the 11th of June, 1821, he had quite a large mercantile business, and devoted much of his time and attention to superintending his farm, of which he was very fond. He was a man of great native force of character. He was not only respected, but beloved by everybody who approached him. In his youth, he held the commission of a justice of the peace; but finding himself so overrun with the business of this office as to interfere with his private affairs, he resigned his commission. A short time before his death, he again received a commission of the peace from Governor Hiester. He was a kind father, a sincere friend, and an honest and religious man.

My mother, considering her limited opportunities in early life, was a remarkable woman. The daughter of a country farmer, engaged in household employment from early life until after my father's death, she yet found time to read much, and to reflect deeply on what she read. She had a great fondness for poetry, and could repeat with ease all the passages in her favorite authors which struck her fancy. These were Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, and Thomson. I do not think, at least until a late period of her life, she had ever read a criticism on any one of these authors, and yet such was the correctness of her natural taste that she had selected for herself, and could repeat every passage in them which has been admired.

She was a sincere and devoted Christian from the time of my earliest recollection, and had read much on the subject of theology; and what she read once, she remembered forever. For her sons, as they successively grew up, she was a delightful and instructive companion. She would argue with them, and often gain the victory; ridicule them in any folly or eccentricity; excite their ambition, by presenting to them in glowing colors men who had been useful to their country or their kind, as objects of imitation, and enter into all their joys and sorrows. Her early habits of laborious industry, she could not be induced to forego– whilst she had anything to do. My father did everything he could to prevent her from laboring in her domestic concerns, but it was all in vain. I have often during the vacations at school or college, sat in the room with her, and whilst she was (entirely from her own choice) busily engaged in homely domestic employments, have spent hours pleasantly and instructively in conversing with her. She was a woman of great firmness of character and bore the afflictions of her later life with Christian philosophy. After my father's death, she lost her two sons, William and George Washington, two young men of great promise, and a favorite daughter. These afflictions withdrew her affections gradually more and more from the things of this world–and she died on the 14th of May, 1833, at Greensburg, in the calm but firm assurance that she was going home to her Father and her God. It was chiefly to her influence that her sons were indebted for a liberal education. Under Providence, I attribute any little distinction which I may have acquired in the world to the blessing which He conferred upon me in granting me such a mother.”

The parents of Mr. Buchanan were both of Scotch-Irish descent, and Presbyterians. At what time this branch of the Buchanan family emigrated from Scotland to Ireland is not known; but John Buchanan, the grandfather of the President, who was a farmer in the county of Donegal in Ireland, married Jane Russel, about the middle of the last century. She was a daughter of Samuel Russel, who was also a farmer of Scotch-Presbyterian descent in the same county. James Buchanan, their son, and father of the President, was brought up by his mother's relatives. Elizabeth Speer, the President's mother, was the only daughter of James Speer, who was also of Scotch-Presbyterian ancestry, and who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1756. James Speer and his wife (Mary Patterson) settled at on a farm ten miles from Lancaster, and afterwards at the of the South Mountain between Chambersburg and Gettysburg. It is told in some memoranda which now lie before me. that in 1779, James Speer left the “Covenanted Church,” on account of difficulties with Mr. Dobbins, his pastor, and was afterwards admitted to full communion in the Presbyterian congregation under the care of the Rev. John Black. This incident sufficiently indicates the kind of religious atmosphere in which Mrs. Buchanan grew up; and the letters of both parents to their son, from which I shall have occasion to quote frequently afford abundant evidence of that deep and peculiar piety which characterized the sincere Christians of their denomination. They were married on the 16th of April, 1788, when Mrs. Buchanan was just twenty-one, and her husband twenty-seven. Eleven children were born to them between 1789 and 1811. James, the future President, was born April 23d, 1791.

source: Curtis, George Ticknor. Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States, Volume 1. New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1883.

 
Buchanan, James (I129)
 
148 AUTOBIOGRAPHY, when it exists, usually furnishes the most interesting and reliable information of at least the early life of any man. Among the papers of Mr. Buchanan, there remains a fragment of an autobiography, without date, written however, it is supposed, many years before his death. This sketch for it is only a sketch, ends with the year 1816, when he was at the age of twenty-five. I shall quote from it, in connection with the events of this part of his life, adding such further elucidations of its text as the other materials within my reach enable me to give.

The following is the account which Mr. Buchanan gives of his birth and parentage:

“My father, James Buchanan, was a native of the county Donegal, in the kingdom of Ireland. His family was respectable; but their pecuniary circumstances were limited. He emigrated to the United States before the date of the Definitive Treaty of Peace with Great Britain; having sailed from_______in the brig Providence, bound for Philadelphia, in 1783. He was then in the twenty-second year of his age. Immediately after his arrival in Philadelphia, he proceeded to the house of his maternal uncle, Mr. Joshua Russel, in York county. After spending a short time there, he became an assistant in the store of Mr. John Tom, at Stony Batter, a country place at the foot of the North Mountain, then in Cumberland (now in Franklin county.)

He commenced business for himself, at the same place, about the beginning of the year 1788; and on the 16th of April, in the same year, was married to Elizabeth Speer. My father was a man of practical judgment, and of great industry and perseverance. He had received a good English education, and had that kind of knowledge of mankind which prevented him from being ever deceived in his business. With these qualifications, with the facility of obtaining goods on credit at Baltimore at that early period, and with the advantages of his position, it being one of a very few spots where the people of the western counties came with pack horses loaded with wheat to purchase and carry home salt and other necessaries, his circumstances soon improved. He bought the Dunwoodie farm for £1500 in 1794, and had previously purchased the property on which he resided at the Cove Gap.

I was born at this place on the 23d of April, 1791, being my father's second child. My father moved from the Cove Gap to Mercersburg, a distance of between three and four miles, in the autumn of 1796, and began business in Mercersburg in the autumn of 1798. For some years before his death, which occurred on the 11th of June, 1821, he had quite a large mercantile business, and devoted much of his time and attention to superintending his farm, of which he was very fond. He was a man of great native force of character. He was not only respected, but beloved by everybody who approached him. In his youth, he held the commission of a justice of the peace; but finding himself so overrun with the business of this office as to interfere with his private affairs, he resigned his commission. A short time before his death, he again received a commission of the peace from Governor Hiester. He was a kind father, a sincere friend, and an honest and religious man.

My mother, considering her limited opportunities in early life, was a remarkable woman. The daughter of a country farmer, engaged in household employment from early life until after my father's death, she yet found time to read much, and to reflect deeply on what she read. She had a great fondness for poetry, and could repeat with ease all the passages in her favorite authors which struck her fancy. These were Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, and Thomson. I do not think, at least until a late period of her life, she had ever read a criticism on any one of these authors, and yet such was the correctness of her natural taste that she had selected for herself, and could repeat every passage in them which has been admired.

She was a sincere and devoted Christian from the time of my earliest recollection, and had read much on the subject of theology; and what she read once, she remembered forever. For her sons, as they successively grew up, she was a delightful and instructive companion. She would argue with them, and often gain the victory; ridicule them in any folly or eccentricity; excite their ambition, by presenting to them in glowing colors men who had been useful to their country or their kind, as objects of imitation, and enter into all their joys and sorrows. Her early habits of laborious industry, she could not be induced to forego– whilst she had anything to do. My father did everything he could to prevent her from laboring in her domestic concerns, but it was all in vain. I have often during the vacations at school or college, sat in the room with her, and whilst she was (entirely from her own choice) busily engaged in homely domestic employments, have spent hours pleasantly and instructively in conversing with her. She was a woman of great firmness of character and bore the afflictions of her later life with Christian philosophy. After my father's death, she lost her two sons, William and George Washington, two young men of great promise, and a favorite daughter. These afflictions withdrew her affections gradually more and more from the things of this world–and she died on the 14th of May, 1833, at Greensburg, in the calm but firm assurance that she was going home to her Father and her God. It was chiefly to her influence that her sons were indebted for a liberal education. Under Providence, I attribute any little distinction which I may have acquired in the world to the blessing which He conferred upon me in granting me such a mother.”

The parents of Mr. Buchanan were both of Scotch-Irish descent, and Presbyterians. At what time this branch of the Buchanan family emigrated from Scotland to Ireland is not known; but John Buchanan, the grandfather of the President, who was a farmer in the county of Donegal in Ireland, married Jane Russel, about the middle of the last century. She was a daughter of Samuel Russel, who was also a farmer of Scotch-Presbyterian descent in the same county. James Buchanan, their son, and father of the President, was brought up by his mother's relatives. Elizabeth Speer, the President's mother, was the only daughter of James Speer, who was also of Scotch-Presbyterian ancestry, and who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1756. James Speer and his wife (Mary Patterson) settled at on a farm ten miles from Lancaster, and afterwards at the of the South Mountain between Chambersburg and Gettysburg. It is told in some memoranda which now lie before me. that in 1779, James Speer left the “Covenanted Church,” on account of difficulties with Mr. Dobbins, his pastor, and was afterwards admitted to full communion in the Presbyterian congregation under the care of the Rev. John Black. This incident sufficiently indicates the kind of religious atmosphere in which Mrs. Buchanan grew up; and the letters of both parents to their son, from which I shall have occasion to quote frequently afford abundant evidence of that deep and peculiar piety which characterized the sincere Christians of their denomination. They were married on the 16th of April, 1788, when Mrs. Buchanan was just twenty-one, and her husband twenty-seven. Eleven children were born to them between 1789 and 1811. James, the future President, was born April 23d, 1791.

source: Curtis, George Ticknor. Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States, Volume 1. New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1883.

 
Buchanan, 15th President of the United States President James (I130)
 
149 Besides the grants of land given above, Col. Higginson had two others, a partnership with Abraham Moone for 2,000 acres on the south side of the Potomac, Sept. 20, 1654, and one of “Colonel Humphrey Higginson, of the Council of State, and his son Thomas Higginson,” for 800 acres on the south side of Pianketank, in Gloucester county, Sept. 20, 1654. The son probably died within a few years, for he is not mentioned in his father's will. Col. Higginson died at Ratcliffe, in Stepney parish, London, in 1665-1660. He left a brother Capt. Christopher Higginson, Virginia, who has numerous descendants. See William and Mary Quarterly V, p. 186.

source: Taylor, Lyon Gardiner. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume 1. New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915. 
Higginson, Thomas (I683)
 
150 BUCHANAN OF EDENFEL

COL. LEWIS MANSERGH BUCHANAN, C.B., of Edenfel and Lisnamallard, co. Tyrone, b. 31 Dec. 1836; Hon. Col. and late Lieut.-Col. commanding 4th Batt. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, formerly an Officer of the 88th Connaught Rangers, in which regt. he served through the Indian Mutiny; m. 1st 1862, Eleanor Margaret, dau. of the late William Whitla, of Lisburn, which lady d. 1877, and 2ndly, 1878, Wilhelmina, dau. of George A. Molony, R.M.; and has issue,

1. JOHN BLACKER, b. 26 April, 1863; m. 1894, Mary, eldest dau. of Rev. A. Harland, of Harefield, Middlesex.
2. Lewis Ernest, b. 4 Sept. 1868.
3. Mansergh George Reginald, b. 7 Sept. 1870.
4. Calvert James Stronge, b. 10 July 1872.
1. Ethel Elizabeth, m. William P. Grubb.
2. Mary Jane Eleanor, m. Effingham MacDowel, M.D.
3. Alice Lilian.
4. Eleanora Agnes.

Arms – Quarterly: 1st and 4th or, a lion rampant sa. within a double tressure flory counter flory gu.; 2nd and 3rd sa. on a chevron arg. between three bears’ heads of the second muzzled gu. a cinquefoil of the first. Crest – A hand holding up a ducal cap purpure lined erm. tufted on the top with a rose gu. within two branches of laurel disposed orleways ppr.

Seats – Edenfel and Lisnamallard, Omagh, co. Tyrone.

source: Bernard Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, 9th Edition. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1899. 
Buchanan, Col. Lewis Mansergh C.B. (I45)
 

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