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101	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)
102	Bought two copies of the book Ingenious and Diverting Letters of a Lady's Travels into Spain; Describing the Devotions, Nunneries, Humour, Customs, Laws, Militia, Trade, Diet, and Recreations of that People from James Dalton Booksellers in Dublin source: La Mothe, Marie Catherine. Ingenious and Diverting Letters of a Lady's Travels into Spain; Describing the Devotions, Nunneries, Humour, Customs, Laws, Militia, Trade, Diet, and Recreations of that People. Dublin, Ireland: James Dalton, 1738.	Caldbeck, Samuel Gent. (I69)
103	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)
104	BUCHANAN – April 4, at Lisnamallard, Omagh, Elizabeth Eleanor, the youngest daughter of the late John Buchanan, of Lisnamallard, in her 77th year. source: Obituary of Elizabeth Eleanor Buchanan. Belfast, UK: The Belfast Newsletter, 5 Apr 1906, p. 1.	Buchanan, Elizabeth Eleanor (I158)
105	Buchanan – December 30, at Omagh, John Blacker Buchanan, Esq., for many years Deputy-Clerk of the Peace for County Tyrone, and agent to the Earl of Charlemont. source: Obituary of John Blacker Buchanan. Belfast, UK: The Belfast Newsletter, 2 Jan 1862, p. 2.	Buchanan, John Blacker Esq. (I39)
106	Calbeck Saml. of city of Dublin mercht. & Eliza Phillips of parish of Rathfarnham Diocese of Dublin spinster Augt 17th 1738 source: Ancestry.com. Dublin, Ireland, Ireland, Abstracts of Wills and Marriages, 1620-1923 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2023.	Caldbeck, Samuel Gent. (I69)
107	CALDBECK, SAMUEL, 5th s. of Samuel, Rathdowney, Queen's Co., and Martha Eaton; over 16, ed. Dublin; afft. father. E 1805. source: Keane, Edward, P. Beryl Phair, and Thomas U. Sadleir. King's Inn Admission Papers 1607-1867. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1982.	Caldbeck, Samuel (I114)
108	CALDBECK, WILLIAM EATON, Esq., of Eaton Brae, co. Dublin. Only son of Thomas Fulton Caldbeck, Esq., of Eaton Brae, who d. 1891, by Charlotte, youngest dau. of the late William Stewart, Esq., M.D., of Lisburn: b.1853; m. 1890 Sara, dau. of Sergt. J. Watkins, late R.A., and has issue two daus. Mr. Caldbeck is M.A. of Trin. Coll., Dublin, and a J.P. for co. Dublin.– Eaton Brae, Shankill, co. Dublin; R. London Yacht Club, w.; University Club, Dublin. source: Walford, Edward. The County Families of the United Kingdom, or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. London, UK: Chatto and Windus, 1893.	Caldbeck, William Eaton Esq. (I28)
109	CALDBECK, WILLIAM, 3rd s. of Samuel, Rathdowney, Queen's Co., merchant, and Martha Eaton; over 16; ed. Dublin; afft. father. T 1794. Bond 1799. source: Keane, Edward, P. Beryl Phair, and Thomas U. Sadleir. King's Inn Admission Papers 1607-1867. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1982.	Caldbeck, William (I117)
110	CAMPBELL - In this city, March 16, John S. Campbell, aged 72 years, late of Manzanita, Or. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 19, at 2 P. M. from the residence funeral chapel of Miler & Tracey. Interment Riverview cemetery. source: Obituary of John S. Campbell. Portland, OR: The Morning Oregonian, 18 Mar 1921, p. 14.	Campbell, John S. (I294)
111	Captain Campbell was the son of Patrick Campbell, and his mother was Miss Steele. His grandfather was also Patrick Campbell, a brother of Charles Campbell, who was the father of Gen. William Campbell of King's Mountain fame. source: Des Cognets, Anna Russell. William Russell and His Descendants. Lexington, KY: Samuel F. Wilson, 1884.	Campbell, Col. William (I89)
112	Captain David Campbell's great grandfather, Alexander Campbell, lived in Argyleshire, Scotland; the name of his wife is unknown. He had a son, William Campbell, who married Mary Byars. They went from Scotland to Ireland during the religious persecutions in that country, hoping to find a place where they could worship God in their chosen way, but were disappointed and discontented in Ireland, and finally decided to emigrate to the English colonies in America. They settled in Virginia. Others of the same name and clan, and relations, settled first in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, remained some years and then removed to Augusta County, Virginia, about the year 1730. William Campbell and his wife, Mary Byars, had seven children. The eldest, David Campbell, married Jane Conyngham, a granddaughter of Colonel Patrick Conyngham, whose family lived in Ireland on the river Boyne. The head of the house was Sir Albert Conyngham. Colonel Patrick Conyngham commanded a regiment at the battle of Boyne, 1690. source: Pilcher, Margaret Campbell. “Sketch of Captain David Campbell.” The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 2. Nashville, TN: Goodpasture Book Company, 1903.	Campbell, William (I1991)
113	Captain David Campbell, who was born in 1753, married his cousin, Margaret Campbell, daughter of White David and his wife, Mary Hamilton. On July 29, 1799, Captain David Campbell lost his wife, by whom he had eight children, four of whom died in childhood. Jane married Colonel Wright, of the United States army. They left no issue. Mary married her cousin, David Campbell, afterwards Governor of Virginia. They had no children. John entered the regular army and served until the close of the War of 1812, when he retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He left no children. The youngest son, David, was born on March 4, 1781. He married Catherine Bowen, daughter of Captain William Bowen and granddaughter of General William Russell. Captain David Campbell, after the death of his wife, Margaret, married a second time and by this wife had one child, Margaret Lavinia, who married Rev. John Kelly. In 1823 Captain David Campbell removed to Middle Tennessee and lived for a time in Sumner County; then bought a farm in Wilson County, where he died August 18, 1832. source: Cisco, Jay Guy. Historic Sumner County, Tennessee with Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Cage and Douglass Families, and Genealogical Notes of Other Sumner County Families. Nashville, TN: Polk-Keelin Printing Company, 1909.	Campbell, Capt. David (I1988)
114	Carson Joseph of Dome St. Dublin Mercht. and Nancey Caldbeck of Parish of St. Bridgett Spinster 8th June 1797 source: National Archives of Ireland. Ireland, Abstracts of Wills and Marriages, 1620-1923 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2023.	Carson, Joseph Esq. (I61)
115	Carson Joseph of Dome St. Dublin Mercht. and Nancey Caldbeck of Parish of St. Bridgett Spinster 8th June 1797 source: National Archives of Ireland. Ireland, Abstracts of Wills and Marriages, 1620-1923 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2023.	Caldbeck, Nancy (I60)
116	Catherine, m. 1st James Nesbitt; and 2ndly Benjamin Fenton. source: Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1910.	McClintock, Catherine (I64)
117	Certain of the commons, setting forth that the committee for better supplying the city with pipe water, to whom the accounts of messieurs Richard Cave supervisor, and Samuel Caldbeck, lately deceased, and Francis Gladwell, collectors of the pipe water revenue, have made their report of the 26th day of June last, as follows. 'We the committee appointed for better supplying the city with pipe water, have examined the accounts of Mr. Richard Cave, supervisor, Mr. Samuel Caldbeck, lately deceased, Mr. Francis Gladwell, collectors of the pipe water revenue, for the year ending 1st November, 1769, the said accounts being laid before us in a regular and exact manner gave us great satisfaction in examining thereof, the supervisor furnished us with a charge against the collectors, which Mr. Francis Gladwell as to his part admitted to be right. 'We find that the rent and arrears received by Mr. Gladwell amount to £1,629, 3s. 10d. for concealed branches £10, making in the whole £1,639, 3s. 10d. Mr. Caldbeck being lately dead, and no person having appeared to discharge the charge made against him by the supervisor amounting to £1,598, 16s. 6d., and for concealed branches £8., making in the whole £1,606, 16s. 6d. We are therefore of opinion they must lie over until some one administers to the said Caldbeck's effects. 'Mr. Cave informed us that he is of opinion and does believe, that said Caldbeck has paid unto the treasurer nearly or all out the balance of the last year's account, and likewise informed us that said Caldbeck had received for the rent of pipe water due 1st November, 1769, £705 13s. 4d., of which he believes due the treasurer has been paid £504 1s., so that a balance as it now appears to Mr. Cave is due to the city by the representatives of said Caldbeck a sum of £165 11s. 8d., after allowing him £35 5s. 8d., being for poundage, and 15s., for a concealed branch, for the recovery of which we have directed the city agent to sue under the direction of Mr. Recorder. 'All which is submitted to your honours this 26th June, 1770.' And they praying, to confirm said report and make the same an act of assembly: it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an act of assembly. source: Mulholland, Rosa. Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin in the Possession of the Municipal Corporation of that City, Volume 12. Dublin, Ireland: J. Dollard, 1905.	Caldbeck, Samuel Gent. (I69)
118	Charles Campbell, son of Patrick, died in Augusta in 1767. He was the father of General William Campbell, of King's Mountain fame. In his will, dated August 4, 1761, proved in court and admitted to record March 17, 1767, he speaks of himself as a resident of Beverley's Manor. He appointed his wife, Margaret, sole executrix, provided for her support, left 1,000 acres of land on the Holston to his son William, and lands in the same section to his daughters. The inventory of the estate shows a larger amount of personal property than was common at that time. source: Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition. Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902.	Campbell, Capt. Charles (I11659)
119	CHARLES, FIFTH EARL OF ABERCORN, died June 1701. He married Catherine, only child of James, Lord Paisley, who died 24th May 1723, leaving a daughter. 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, Charles 5th Earl of Abercorn (I68)
120	Christian: We have traced this family back to Gilbert Christian, a native of Scotland, who settled in the North of Ireland, A.D. 1702, and there married Margaret Richardson, by whom he had children: that Gilbert was ,we find, the great-great-grandfather of J. R. Christian, living in 1877, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States, America; subject to whose correction we write this notice of his family. And, we find, that Duncan Campbell of Inverary, Scotland, whose wife was Mary McCoy, and who settled in Ireland at the time of the “Plantation of Ulster,” by King James II., of England, was one of Mr. Christian's maternal ancestors. This Duncan lived near Londonderry, where his son Patrick Campbell purchased some land. Patrick's youngest son, John, when far advanced in life, migrated to America, A.D. 1726: from him and his numerous children and other kindred have descended a large progeny, spread over the Southern States of the American Union. source: O’Hart, John. Irish Pedigrees: or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, Volume 1, 5th Edition. Dublin, Ireland: Jack Duffy and Company, 1892.	Campbell, John (I6198)
121	Christian: We have traced this family back to Gilbert Christian, a native of Scotland, who settled in the North of Ireland, A.D. 1702, and there married Margaret Richardson, by whom he had children: that Gilbert was ,we find, the great-great-grandfather of J. R. Christian, living in 1877, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States, America; subject to whose correction we write this notice of his family. And, we find, that Duncan Campbell of Inverary, Scotland, whose wife was Mary McCoy, and who settled in Ireland at the time of the “Plantation of Ulster,” by King James II., of England, was one of Mr. Christian's maternal ancestors. This Duncan lived near Londonderry, where his son Patrick Campbell purchased some land. Patrick's youngest son, John, when far advanced in life, migrated to America, A.D. 1726: from him and his numerous children and other kindred have descended a large progeny, spread over the Southern States of the American Union. source: O’Hart, John. Irish Pedigrees: or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, Volume 1, 5th Edition. Dublin, Ireland: Jack Duffy and Company, 1892.	Campbell, Duncan (I11569)
122	Christian: We have traced this family back to Gilbert Christian, a native of Scotland, who settled in the North of Ireland, A.D. 1702, and there married Margaret Richardson, by whom he had children: that Gilbert was ,we find, the great-great-grandfather of J. R. Christian, living in 1877, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States, America; subject to whose correction we write this notice of his family. And, we find, that Duncan Campbell of Inverary, Scotland, whose wife was Mary McCoy, and who settled in Ireland at the time of the “Plantation of Ulster,” by King James II., of England, was one of Mr. Christian's maternal ancestors. This Duncan lived near Londonderry, where his son Patrick Campbell purchased some land. Patrick's youngest son, John, when far advanced in life, migrated to America, A.D. 1726: from him and his numerous children and other kindred have descended a large progeny, spread over the Southern States of the American Union. source: O’Hart, John. Irish Pedigrees: or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, Volume 1, 5th Edition. Dublin, Ireland: Jack Duffy and Company, 1892.	Campbell, Patrick (I11571)
123	CLAUD HAMILTON, fifth son of James, second Earl of Arran, born about 1543; died 1621. He commanded the vanguard of Queen Mary's army at Langside, 13th May 1568. On 24th July 1587 he was created LORD PAISLEY. He married 1st August 1574, Margaret, daughter of George, fifth Lord Seton, who died in March 1616. They had issue:- (a) James (b) Henry Hamilton, died 15th March 1585, aged three months. (c) Alexander Hamilton, died 21st November 1587, aged eight months. (d) Sir John Hamilton. Married Johanna, daughter of Levimus Everard, who afterwards married three other husbands. (e) Sir Claud (f) Sir George Hamilton of Greenlaw, Co. Tyrone, and Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, died before 1657. He married, first, Isobel Leslie, daughter of James, Master of Rothes. He also married Mary Butler, daughter of Walter, eleventh Earl of Ormonde. He had a son:- (1) James Hamilton, died unmarried. His Will proved 2nd February 1658-59. Arms.- Gules, three cinquefoils argent, a label of four points (?or) (Workman's MS.). Arms an addition to Lindsay's MS. of 1542.- Gules, three cinquefoils argent, a label of three points or. [Plate II., fig. 8.] CREST: A tree proper traversed by a frame saw or. SUPPORTERS: Two antelopes argent, horned and unguled or. The label was dropped after extinction of elder line. 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, Claud Lord Paisley (I45)
124	CLAUD HAMILTON, second son of first Earl of Abercorn, on his brother's resignation became LORD STRABANE 7th May 1633; died 14th June 1638. He married, 28th November 1632, Jean Gordon, daughter of George, first Marquis of Huntly, and had issue:- (a) James (b) George 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, Claud 2nd Lord Strabane (I19)
125	CLAUD, FIFTH LORD STRABANE, baptised Dublin 13th September 1659. Succeeded his kinsman as FOURTH EARL OF ABERCORN. He was killed 1690, and was succeeded by his brother:- CHARLES, FIFTH EARL OF ABERCORN, died June 1701. 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, Claud 4th Earl of Abercorn (I67)
126	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. 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, Col. Arthur (I11664)
127	Colonel William Hamilton, killed in Germany in his father's lifetime, s.p. 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, Col. William (I41)
128	DANIEL McCURDY, “the Refugee,” the fifth and youngest of the brothers, was born about 1650. He had four sons (with no historic knowledge of any daughters), and they located around Ahoghill and County Derry. It may be noted that in the reprint of Historical Genealogy, published by W. D. McCurdy, at the foot of page twenty-one is a statement regarding the children of DAVID. This is probably a misprint for DANIEL, this latter word appearing in the original version of D. E. McCurdy. To these four sons, then, of DANIEL may be assigned the approximate birth-dates: James, born in 1678; Samuel, born in 1682; Thomas, born in 1686; and Daniel, born in 1690. This James moved to America as a young man, and was one of the early settlers of Londonderry, N.H. Of his children, Robert, born about 1705, became a prominent citizen, and served as a Selectman of the town for 1741-45. The children of Robert (order of birth unknown) were: John, born in 1746, died in 1824, who fought in the Revolution and moved to New Boston, N.H. John married Nancy Cochrane, but was married a second time. The other children of Robert were Mary, married Peter Cochrane; Janette, married Henry Parkinson; a daughter who married a Mr. Story; and Elizabeth, who married Daniel Short. source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.	McCurdy, Daniel (I61)
129	Daniel of Carsoig, m. Janet, daughter of Patrick CAMPBELL, of Kilduskland. 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, Daniel (I124)
130	Daniel, the fourth child of James and Jerusha McCurdy, was born in 1698. He married Rachel McGill (a sister of his brother Andrew’s wife Mary). He is sometimes known as of “Caramore.” This seems to be in a manner synonymous with the “Cabry.” Possibly the latter is a more local name than the former, perhaps the name of a farm. Robert, the youngest son of this Daniel, is also described as of the “Cabry”; and the conclusion is permissible that Robert took over the farm lease of the Cabry when his father became ill. We know that from a letter he wrote his son Alexander, then in Nova Scotia, he was in poor health in 1763, and addressed his letter from Bellyhelly. Daniel and Rachel (McGill) McCurdy had four children, namely ALEXANDER, known as “the Pioneer,” born 1734; Peggy, born about 1736; David and Robert. Of these, Alexander, “the Pioneer,” moved to Nova Scotia with his sister Peggy in 1762. With them is begun the history of the Nova Scotia branch of the McCurdy family, taken up in a separate volume already alluded to. source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.	McCurdy, Daniel (I35)
131	Daniel, the third child of Daniel and Margaret (Laughlin) McCurdy, was born in 1702. He married Jennet Jackson. They had five children: Jackson, Patrick, Daniel, Archibald, and Jennie. The second of these children, Patrick, had seven children: Catherine, Jennie, Mary, Archibald, Daniel, John, and Patrick. Of these, it is supposed that Archibald and John moved to Sherbrooke, in the Eastern Townships, Canada; and if so, John had two sons, George and William, and three daughters. This latter George had three sons: John, William, and George, and five daughters; while his brother William had two sons, George of Lennoxville and William Henry of Los Angeles; and three daughters, Mrs. Rand, Mrs. J. R. Campbell, and Jean of Summerland, B.C. Archibald, the other emigrant to Canada, had three sons, James, David, and John, and three daughters. James had two sons, Robert and Archibald, and three daughters. His brother David never married; but brother John had four daughters. The youngest of these seven children of Patrick, also Patrick, remained in Ireland on the “Cairn,” Ballintoy. He was born about 1816. source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.	McCurdy, Daniel (I6)
132	DARTREY, COUNTY OF MONAGHAN, IRELAND.– EARL OF DARTREY. DARTREY, the seat of the Earl of Dartrey, is situated in the County of Monaghan. The present house was rebuilt on the site of the old mansion in the year 1846, and commands an extensive view over a large sheet of water, forming one of a wide-spreading chain of lakes. The sloping lawn between the house and lake is beautifully laid out in terraced gardens, the brilliancy of which, contrasting with the sombre tints of the fine trees on either side, gives a peculiar richness to the view. An important feature in the grounds is formed by a wooded island, nearly two miles in circumference, in the centre of which, approached by a magnificent avenue of beech trees, stands a building containing a fine marble monument, executed by Wilton in 1770, in memory of Lady Anne Dawson. The approaches to the house, running along the shores of the lakes, form a very beautiful drive several miles in extent. The family of Lord Dartrey came originally from Yorkshire, removing to Ireland in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. THOMAS DAWSON, of Armagh, was father of JOHN DAWSON, Esq., whose son, WALTER DAWSON, Esq., died in 1704, leaving two sons, the elder of whom, WALTER DAWSON, Esq., married Frances, daughter of Richard Dawson, Esq., an officer in Cromwell's army, with whom he obtained the estate of Dawson's Grove, in the County of Monaghan. He was succeeded at his decease by his only surviving son, RICHARD DAWSON, Esq., of Dawson's Grove, an eminent Banker and Alderman of the City of Dublin, and M.P. for the County of Monaghan. This gentleman married, in 1723, Elizabeth, daughter of the Most Rev. John Vesey, D.D., Archbishop of Tuam, by whom he left, dying in 1766, THOMAS DAWSON, Esq., who was elevated to the peerage of Ireland May 28th., 1770, as BARON DARTREY, and advanced to the dignity of VISCOUNT CREMORNE, June 9th., 1785. He married, first, the Lady Anne Fermor, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Pomfret, by whom, who died in 1769, he had a son and daughter, both of whom died in youth. His lordship married, secondly, May 8th., 1770, Philadelphia Hannah, only daughter of Thomas Freame, Esq., of Philadelphia, by whom he had another only son and daughter, who also died young. He was further created, March 7th., 1797, BARON CREMORNE, with remainder to his nephew, Richard Dawson, Esq., and his heirs male. At his death, March 1st., 1813, the Viscountcy of Cremorne expired, but the Barony of the same devolved on his great-nephew, RICHARD THOMAS DAWSON, second Baron Cremorne, born 1788, who married, March 10th., 1815, Anne Elizabeth Emily, third daughter of John Whaley, Esq., of Whaley Abbey, in the county of Wicklow, and left at his decease, in 1827, RICHARD DAWSON, third Baron Cremorne, of Dartrey, K.P., formerly a Lord in Waiting on the Queen, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Monaghan, born September 7th., 1817, created BARON DARTREY, September 20th., 1847, and EARL OF DARTREY, July 12th., 1866. He married, July 12th., 1841, Augusta, daughter of Edward Stanley, Esq., and Lady Mary Stanley, daughter of the Earl of Lauderdale, and had with other children, VESEY DAWSON, LORD CREMORNE, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards and M.P. for the County of Monaghan, born April 22nd., 1842. source: Morris, Francis Orpen. A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland: with Descriptive and Historical Letterpress, Volume 3. London, UK: William Mackenzie, 1880.	Dawson, Thomas 1st Viscount Cremorne (I85)
133	David and Jane Conyngham Campbell had four children. William married Mary Ellison, and was prominent in the Indian and Revolutionary wars. His two brothers-in-law, Captain William Ellison, who married Mary Campbell, and Major John Morrison, who married Martha Campbell, were also patriotic defenders of their liberty in the same war. David, the subject of this sketch, was the youngest child. He was born in Augusta County, Virginia, August, 1753. Three months previous to his birth his father died, and his mother died when he was but six years of age. His brother William, being the eldest, according to the old English common law which was in force at that time, inherited the whole of his father's property, which consisted entirely of landed estates and slaves, so young David was forced to depend upon his own resources very early in life, and bravely he solved the problem of making his living. He had accumulated some means by the time he was twenty years of age, which he invested in a small farm in Washington County, Virginia, to which he moved. This was near Abingdon. Soon after settling on his farm he met his cousin, Margaret Campbell (daughter of his mother's half sister, Mary Hamilton, and David Campbell, a distant relation). They became attached to one another and were married in 1774, she being about 21 years of age at the time of her marriage. source: Pilcher, Margaret Campbell. “Sketch of Captain David Campbell.” The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 2. Nashville, TN: Goodpasture Book Company, 1903.	Campbell, Capt. William (I1982)
134	David and Jane Conyngham Campbell had four children. William married Mary Ellison, and was prominent in the Indian and Revolutionary wars. His two brothers-in-law, Captain William Ellison, who married Mary Campbell, and Major John Morrison, who married Martha Campbell, were also patriotic defenders of their liberty in the same war. David, the subject of this sketch, was the youngest child. He was born in Augusta County, Virginia, August, 1753. Three months previous to his birth his father died, and his mother died when he was but six years of age. source: Pilcher, Margaret Campbell. “Sketch of Captain David Campbell.” The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 2. Nashville, TN: Goodpasture Book Company, 1903.	Campbell, Capt. David (I1988)
135	David and Jane Conyngham Campbell had four children. William married Mary Ellison, and was prominent in the Indian and Revolutionary wars. His two brothers-in-law, Captain William Ellison, who married Mary Campbell, and Major John Morrison, who married Martha Campbell, were also patriotic defenders of their liberty in the same war. source: Pilcher, Margaret Campbell. “Sketch of Captain David Campbell.” The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 2. Nashville, TN: Goodpasture Book Company, 1903.	Allison, Capt. William (I3326)
136	David and Jane Conyngham Campbell had four children. William married Mary Ellison, and was prominent in the Indian and Revolutionary wars. His two brothers-in-law, Captain William Ellison, who married Mary Campbell, and Major John Morrison, who married Martha Campbell, were also patriotic defenders of their liberty in the same war. source: Pilcher, Margaret Campbell. “Sketch of Captain David Campbell.” The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 2. Nashville, TN: Goodpasture Book Company, 1903.	Morrison, Maj. John (I3327)
137	David Campbell (called "Black David," because of his dark hair, eyes and complexion, and to, distinguish him from his cousin, "White David" Campbell, who was very fair, with yellow hair and blue eyes) was born about 1710. He married Jane Conyngham, a half-sister of Mary Hamilton (White David Campbell's wife). David Campbell and his wife, Jane Conyngham, came from Ireland with their parents. They settled in the Colony of Virginia, it is thought, first in Culpepper County. Later, they removed to Augusta County, Virginia, which was at that time a frontier settlement. To this section of Virginia had emigrated a large number of Scotch-Irish, a brave, independent, liberty-loving race of people, who were faithful friends and the best of citizens. They gave to our country many of her greatest men. David Campbell, born in 1710, died in November, 1753, and Jane Conyngham, his wife, died in August, 1759. They had four children, namely: William, Mary, Martha and David Campbell. source: Pilcher, Margaret Campbell. Historical Sketches of the Campbell, Pilcher and Kindred Families, including the Bowen, Russell, Owen, Grant, Goodwin, Amis, Carothers, Hope, Taliaferro, and Powell Families. Nashville, TN, Marshall and Bruce Company, 1911.	Campbell, David (I1984)
138	David Campbell, fifth son of David, was a lawyer and removed to Tennessee. He was first the Federal Judge in the Territory, and then one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State. His death occurred in 1812, in the sixty-second year of his age. He had been appointed Federal Judge of the Territory which afterwards formed the State of Alabama, but died before he removed his family to the new country. source: Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition. Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902.	Campbell, Maj. David (I11665)
139	David Campbell, son of John and brother of Patrick and Robert, married, in Augusta, Mary Hamilton, and had seven sons and six daughters, all of whom, except a son who died young, emigrated to the Holston. The sons were John, Arthur, James, William, David, Robert and Patrick; and the daughters Margaret, Mary, Martha, Sarah, Ann, and sixth not named. source: Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition. Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902.	Campbell, David (I3330)
140	DAVID McCURDY, the second son of Petheric, "the Refugee," was probably born in 1670. There is a tradition that his children were all girls. With no knowledge of the names of their husbands, the gates are closed against further research. source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.	McCurdy, David (I4)
141	DAVID McCURDY, “the Refugee,” the second of the brothers, was born about 1642. Nothing is known of him. It may be, after all, that he perished, as there seems to be some tradition, during or as the result of the perilous flight by sea from Scotland. source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.	McCurdy, David (I58)
142	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. 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, Maj. David (I11665)
143	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. 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, David (I3330)
144	David, the eighth and youngest child of James and Jerusha McCurdy, was born in Cavan Parish, in 1709. When a young man he came to America, and settled in Westmoreland County, Pa., where he married Susan Madden. They had five sons: John, David, William, Robert, and Samuel. He and his five sons fought in the Revolutionary War, and he himself was frequently with Washington. His son John married Mary Fox, and they had twelve children: Elijah, who went to the South; Ebenezer; Rev. Elisha, born in 1763, “A Presbyterian minister, and his memory still lives”; John, born 1770; James, an Elder for over fifty years; David, lived in Ohio; Dr. Allen Fox; Lucinda; Lucy; Mary; Rebecca; and Nancy. David, the Old Veteran, died in 1833, at the extreme age of 124 years. source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.	McCurdy, David (I40)
145	David, the subject of this sketch, was the youngest child. He was born in Augusta County, Virginia, August, 1753. Three months previous to his birth his father died, and his mother died when he was but six years of age. His brother William, being the eldest, according to the old English common law which was in force at that time, inherited the whole of his father's property, which consisted entirely of landed estates and slaves, so young David was forced to depend upon his own resources very early in life, and bravely he solved the problem of making his living. He had accumulated some means by the time he was twenty years of age, which he invested in a small farm in Washington County, Virginia, to which he moved. This was near Abingdon. Soon after settling on his farm he met his cousin, Margaret Campbell (daughter of his mother's half sister, Mary Hamilton, and David Campbell, a distant relation). They became attached to one another and were married in 1774, she being about 21 years of age at the time of her marriage. Her father, David Campbell, was an officer in the Virginia army in 1759, when his young son, Arthur, was taken prisoner by the Indians and escaped after three years captivity in Canada. (See old family manuscripts and also Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. VII, No. 2, October, 1899.) She had several brothers who were distinguished in the war of 1776, Margaret Campbell was keeping house at the “Royal Oak,” the family seat of her two brothers, Colonel John and Colonel Arthur Campbell, at the time of her marriage. source: Pilcher, Margaret Campbell. “Sketch of Captain David Campbell.” The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 2. Nashville, TN: Goodpasture Book Company, 1903.	Campbell, Margaret (I1989)
146	David, the third child of Daniel and Rachel McCurdy, was born about 1737. He married Grace Kennedy. They had five children: David, who went to America; Alexander; Mary, who died young; Rachel, who went to America: and Cecilia, who died young. This Alexander, the second child, married Cecilia Kennedy. Their daughter Mary married John Annesley, the parents of Mrs. Mary Burris. source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.	McCurdy, David (I69)
147	David, was called “Black David” because of his dark hair and complexion, and to distinguish him from his distant cousin, “White David,” who was fair, with yellow hair and blue eyes. These two married half sisters. Black David, who was born in 1710, married Jane Cunnyngham. They came from Ireland with their parents and settled in Virginia, it is thought, first in Culpepper County; later they removed to Augusta County, which at this time was the extreme frontier. They had four children: William, Mary, Martha and David. source: Cisco, Jay Guy. Historic Sumner County, Tennessee with Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Cage and Douglass Families, and Genealogical Notes of Other Sumner County Families. Nashville, TN: Polk-Keelin Printing Company, 1909.	Campbell, David (I1984)
148	Death Notice of Margaret Caldbeck DIED.- Miss Margaret Caldbeck, daughter of Samuel Caldbeck, of Ratdowney, in the Queen’s county, Esq. source: Death notice of Margaret Caldbeck,The Public Register, or Freeman’s Journal, Dublin, Ireland, 14 Jul 1792, p. 3.	Caldbeck, Margaret (I118)
149	DEATHS. April 20, at Baliacolla Cottage, aged 95 years, William Caldbeck, Esq, for many years Clerk of the Peace for the Queen’s County. source: Obituary of William Caldbeck. Dublin, Ireland: The Freeman’s Journal, 24 Apr 1862, p. 4.	Caldbeck, William (I117)
150	DIED On the 15th inst. At Glenelg Cottage, near Omagh, Alex. Buchanan, Esq. source: Death notice of Alexander Buchanan. Belfast, UK: The Belfast Newsletter, 21 Feb 1840, p. 2.	Buchanan, Alexander Carlisle Esq. (I36)

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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.

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Bought two copies of the book Ingenious and Diverting Letters of a Lady's Travels into Spain; Describing the Devotions, Nunneries, Humour, Customs, Laws, Militia, Trade, Diet, and Recreations of that People from James Dalton Booksellers in Dublin

source: La Mothe, Marie Catherine. Ingenious and Diverting Letters of a Lady's Travels into Spain; Describing the Devotions, Nunneries, Humour, Customs, Laws, Militia, Trade, Diet, and Recreations of that People. Dublin, Ireland: James Dalton, 1738.

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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.

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BUCHANAN – April 4, at Lisnamallard, Omagh, Elizabeth Eleanor, the youngest daughter of the late John Buchanan, of Lisnamallard, in her 77th year.

source: Obituary of Elizabeth Eleanor Buchanan. Belfast, UK: The Belfast Newsletter, 5 Apr 1906, p. 1.

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Buchanan – December 30, at Omagh, John Blacker Buchanan, Esq., for many years Deputy-Clerk of the Peace for County Tyrone, and agent to the Earl of Charlemont.

source: Obituary of John Blacker Buchanan. Belfast, UK: The Belfast Newsletter, 2 Jan 1862, p. 2.

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Calbeck Saml. of city of Dublin mercht. & Eliza Phillips of parish of Rathfarnham Diocese of Dublin spinster Augt 17th 1738

source: Ancestry.com. Dublin, Ireland, Ireland, Abstracts of Wills and Marriages, 1620-1923 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2023.

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CALDBECK, SAMUEL, 5th s. of Samuel, Rathdowney, Queen's Co., and Martha Eaton; over 16, ed. Dublin; afft. father. E 1805.

source: Keane, Edward, P. Beryl Phair, and Thomas U. Sadleir. King's Inn Admission Papers 1607-1867. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1982.

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CALDBECK, WILLIAM EATON, Esq., of Eaton Brae, co. Dublin.

Only son of Thomas Fulton Caldbeck, Esq., of Eaton Brae, who d. 1891, by Charlotte, youngest dau. of the late William Stewart, Esq., M.D., of Lisburn: b.1853; m. 1890 Sara, dau. of Sergt. J. Watkins, late R.A., and has issue two daus. Mr. Caldbeck is M.A. of Trin. Coll., Dublin, and a J.P. for co. Dublin.– Eaton Brae, Shankill, co. Dublin; R. London Yacht Club, w.; University Club, Dublin.

source: Walford, Edward. The County Families of the United Kingdom, or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. London, UK: Chatto and Windus, 1893.

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CALDBECK, WILLIAM, 3rd s. of Samuel, Rathdowney, Queen's Co., merchant, and Martha Eaton; over 16; ed. Dublin; afft. father. T 1794. Bond 1799.

source: Keane, Edward, P. Beryl Phair, and Thomas U. Sadleir. King's Inn Admission Papers 1607-1867. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1982.

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CAMPBELL - In this city, March 16, John S. Campbell, aged 72 years, late of Manzanita, Or. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 19, at 2 P. M. from the residence funeral chapel of Miler & Tracey. Interment Riverview cemetery.

source: Obituary of John S. Campbell. Portland, OR: The Morning Oregonian, 18 Mar 1921, p. 14.

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Captain Campbell was the son of Patrick Campbell, and his mother was Miss Steele. His grandfather was also Patrick Campbell, a brother of Charles Campbell, who was the father of Gen. William Campbell of King's Mountain fame.

source: Des Cognets, Anna Russell. William Russell and His Descendants. Lexington, KY: Samuel F. Wilson, 1884.

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Captain David Campbell's great grandfather, Alexander Campbell, lived in Argyleshire, Scotland; the name of his wife is unknown. He had a son, William Campbell, who married Mary Byars. They went from Scotland to Ireland during the religious persecutions in that country, hoping to find a place where they could worship God in their chosen way, but were disappointed and discontented in Ireland, and finally decided to emigrate to the English colonies in America. They settled in Virginia. Others of the same name and clan, and relations, settled first in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, remained some years and then removed to Augusta County, Virginia, about the year 1730.

William Campbell and his wife, Mary Byars, had seven children. The eldest, David Campbell, married Jane Conyngham, a granddaughter of Colonel Patrick Conyngham, whose family lived in Ireland on the river Boyne. The head of the house was Sir Albert Conyngham. Colonel Patrick Conyngham commanded a regiment at the battle of Boyne, 1690.

source: Pilcher, Margaret Campbell. “Sketch of Captain David Campbell.” The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 2. Nashville, TN: Goodpasture Book Company, 1903.

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Captain David Campbell, who was born in 1753, married his cousin, Margaret Campbell, daughter of White David and his wife, Mary Hamilton. On July 29, 1799, Captain David Campbell lost his wife, by whom he had eight children, four of whom died in childhood. Jane married Colonel Wright, of the United States army. They left no issue. Mary married her cousin, David Campbell, afterwards Governor of Virginia. They had no children. John entered the regular army and served until the close of the War of 1812, when he retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He left no children. The youngest son, David, was born on March 4, 1781. He married Catherine Bowen, daughter of Captain William Bowen and granddaughter of General William Russell. Captain David Campbell, after the death of his wife, Margaret, married a second time and by this wife had one child, Margaret Lavinia, who married Rev. John Kelly. In 1823 Captain David Campbell removed to Middle Tennessee and lived for a time in Sumner County; then bought a farm in Wilson County, where he died August 18, 1832.

source: Cisco, Jay Guy. Historic Sumner County, Tennessee with Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Cage and Douglass Families, and Genealogical Notes of Other Sumner County Families. Nashville, TN: Polk-Keelin Printing Company, 1909.

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Carson Joseph of Dome St. Dublin Mercht. and Nancey Caldbeck of Parish of St. Bridgett Spinster 8th June 1797

source: National Archives of Ireland. Ireland, Abstracts of Wills and Marriages, 1620-1923 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2023.

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Catherine, m. 1st James Nesbitt; and 2ndly Benjamin Fenton.

source: Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1910.

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Certain of the commons, setting forth that the committee for better supplying the city with pipe water, to whom the accounts of messieurs Richard Cave supervisor, and Samuel Caldbeck, lately deceased, and Francis Gladwell, collectors of the pipe water revenue, have made their report of the 26th day of June last, as follows.

'We the committee appointed for better supplying the city with pipe water, have examined the accounts of Mr. Richard Cave, supervisor, Mr. Samuel Caldbeck, lately deceased, Mr. Francis Gladwell, collectors of the pipe water revenue, for the year ending 1st November, 1769, the said accounts being laid before us in a regular and exact manner gave us great satisfaction in examining thereof, the supervisor furnished us with a charge against the collectors, which Mr. Francis Gladwell as to his part admitted to be right.

'We find that the rent and arrears received by Mr. Gladwell amount to £1,629, 3s. 10d. for concealed branches £10, making in the whole £1,639, 3s. 10d. Mr. Caldbeck being lately dead, and no person having appeared to discharge the charge made against him by the supervisor amounting to £1,598, 16s. 6d., and for concealed branches £8., making in the whole £1,606, 16s. 6d. We are therefore of opinion they must lie over until some one administers to the said Caldbeck's effects.

'Mr. Cave informed us that he is of opinion and does believe, that said Caldbeck has paid unto the treasurer nearly or all out the balance of the last year's account, and likewise informed us that said Caldbeck had received for the rent of pipe water due 1st November, 1769, £705 13s. 4d., of which he believes due the treasurer has been paid £504 1s., so that a balance as it now appears to Mr. Cave is due to the city by the representatives of said Caldbeck a sum of £165 11s. 8d., after allowing him £35 5s. 8d., being for poundage, and 15s., for a concealed branch, for the recovery of which we have directed the city agent to sue under the direction of Mr. Recorder.

'All which is submitted to your honours this 26th June, 1770.'

And they praying, to confirm said report and make the same an act of assembly: it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an act of assembly.

source: Mulholland, Rosa. Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin in the Possession of the Municipal Corporation of that City, Volume 12. Dublin, Ireland: J. Dollard, 1905.

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Charles Campbell, son of Patrick, died in Augusta in 1767. He was the father of General William Campbell, of King's Mountain fame. In his will, dated August 4, 1761, proved in court and admitted to record March 17, 1767, he speaks of himself as a resident of Beverley's Manor. He appointed his wife, Margaret, sole executrix, provided for her support, left 1,000 acres of land on the Holston to his son William, and lands in the same section to his daughters. The inventory of the estate shows a larger amount of personal property than was common at that time.

source: Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition. Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902.

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CHARLES, FIFTH EARL OF ABERCORN, died June 1701. He married Catherine, only child of James, Lord Paisley, who died 24th May 1723, leaving a daughter.

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.

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Christian: We have traced this family back to Gilbert Christian, a native of Scotland, who settled in the North of Ireland, A.D. 1702, and there married Margaret Richardson, by whom he had children: that Gilbert was ,we find, the great-great-grandfather of J. R. Christian, living in 1877, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States, America; subject to whose correction we write this notice of his family. And, we find, that Duncan Campbell of Inverary, Scotland, whose wife was Mary McCoy, and who settled in Ireland at the time of the “Plantation of Ulster,” by King James II., of England, was one of Mr. Christian's maternal ancestors. This Duncan lived near Londonderry, where his son Patrick Campbell purchased some land. Patrick's youngest son, John, when far advanced in life, migrated to America, A.D. 1726: from him and his numerous children and other kindred have descended a large progeny, spread over the Southern States of the American Union.

source: O’Hart, John. Irish Pedigrees: or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, Volume 1, 5th Edition. Dublin, Ireland: Jack Duffy and Company, 1892.

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CLAUD HAMILTON, fifth son of James, second Earl of Arran, born about 1543; died 1621. He commanded the vanguard of Queen Mary's army at Langside, 13th May 1568. On 24th July 1587 he was created LORD PAISLEY. He married 1st August 1574, Margaret, daughter of George, fifth Lord Seton, who died in March 1616. They had issue:-

(a) James
(b) Henry Hamilton, died 15th March 1585, aged three months.
(c) Alexander Hamilton, died 21st November 1587, aged eight months.
(d) Sir John Hamilton. Married Johanna, daughter of Levimus Everard, who afterwards married three other husbands.
(e) Sir Claud
(f) Sir George Hamilton of Greenlaw, Co. Tyrone, and Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, died before 1657. He married, first, Isobel Leslie, daughter of James, Master of Rothes. He also married Mary Butler, daughter of Walter, eleventh Earl of Ormonde. He had a son:- (1) James Hamilton, died unmarried. His Will proved 2nd February 1658-59.

Arms.- Gules, three cinquefoils argent, a label of four points (?or) (Workman's MS.).

Arms an addition to Lindsay's MS. of 1542.- Gules, three cinquefoils argent, a label of three points or. [Plate II., fig. 8.] CREST: A tree proper traversed by a frame saw or. SUPPORTERS: Two antelopes argent, horned and unguled or. The label was dropped after extinction of elder line.

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.

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CLAUD HAMILTON, second son of first Earl of Abercorn, on his brother's resignation became LORD STRABANE 7th May 1633; died 14th June 1638. He married, 28th November 1632, Jean Gordon, daughter of George, first Marquis of Huntly, and had issue:-

(a) James
(b) George

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.

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CLAUD, FIFTH LORD STRABANE, baptised Dublin 13th September 1659. Succeeded his kinsman as FOURTH EARL OF ABERCORN. He was killed 1690, and was succeeded by his brother:- CHARLES, FIFTH EARL OF ABERCORN, died June 1701.

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.

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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.

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.

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Colonel William Hamilton, killed in Germany in his father's lifetime, s.p.

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.

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DANIEL McCURDY, “the Refugee,” the fifth and youngest of the brothers, was born about 1650. He had four sons (with no historic knowledge of any daughters), and they located around Ahoghill and County Derry. It may be noted that in the reprint of Historical Genealogy, published by W. D. McCurdy, at the foot of page twenty-one is a statement regarding the children of DAVID. This is probably a misprint for DANIEL, this latter word appearing in the original version of D. E. McCurdy. To these four sons, then, of DANIEL may be assigned the approximate birth-dates: James, born in 1678; Samuel, born in 1682; Thomas, born in 1686; and Daniel, born in 1690. This James moved to America as a young man, and was one of the early settlers of Londonderry, N.H. Of his children, Robert, born about 1705, became a prominent citizen, and served as a Selectman of the town for 1741-45. The children of Robert (order of birth unknown) were: John, born in 1746, died in 1824, who fought in the Revolution and moved to New Boston, N.H. John married Nancy Cochrane, but was married a second time. The other children of Robert were Mary, married Peter Cochrane; Janette, married Henry Parkinson; a daughter who married a Mr. Story; and Elizabeth, who married Daniel Short.

source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.

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Daniel of Carsoig, m. Janet, daughter of Patrick CAMPBELL, of Kilduskland.

source: Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry, Volume 2. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1895.

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Daniel, the fourth child of James and Jerusha McCurdy, was born in 1698. He married Rachel McGill (a sister of his brother Andrew’s wife Mary). He is sometimes known as of “Caramore.” This seems to be in a manner synonymous with the “Cabry.” Possibly the latter is a more local name than the former, perhaps the name of a farm. Robert, the youngest son of this Daniel, is also described as of the “Cabry”; and the conclusion is permissible that Robert took over the farm lease of the Cabry when his father became ill. We know that from a letter he wrote his son Alexander, then in Nova Scotia, he was in poor health in 1763, and addressed his letter from Bellyhelly. Daniel and Rachel (McGill) McCurdy had four children, namely ALEXANDER, known as “the Pioneer,” born 1734; Peggy, born about 1736; David and Robert. Of these, Alexander, “the Pioneer,” moved to Nova Scotia with his sister Peggy in 1762. With them is begun the history of the Nova Scotia branch of the McCurdy family, taken up in a separate volume already alluded to.

source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.

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Daniel, the third child of Daniel and Margaret (Laughlin) McCurdy, was born in 1702. He married Jennet Jackson. They had five children: Jackson, Patrick, Daniel, Archibald, and Jennie. The second of these children, Patrick, had seven children: Catherine, Jennie, Mary, Archibald, Daniel, John, and Patrick. Of these, it is supposed that Archibald and John moved to Sherbrooke, in the Eastern Townships, Canada; and if so, John had two sons, George and William, and three daughters. This latter George had three sons: John, William, and George, and five daughters; while his brother William had two sons, George of Lennoxville and William Henry of Los Angeles; and three daughters, Mrs. Rand, Mrs. J. R. Campbell, and Jean of Summerland, B.C. Archibald, the other emigrant to Canada, had three sons, James, David, and John, and three daughters. James had two sons, Robert and Archibald, and three daughters. His brother David never married; but brother John had four daughters. The youngest of these seven children of Patrick, also Patrick, remained in Ireland on the “Cairn,” Ballintoy. He was born about 1816.

source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.

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DARTREY, COUNTY OF MONAGHAN, IRELAND.– EARL OF DARTREY.

DARTREY, the seat of the Earl of Dartrey, is situated in the County of Monaghan. The present house was rebuilt on the site of the old mansion in the year 1846, and commands an extensive view over a large sheet of water, forming one of a wide-spreading chain of lakes.

The sloping lawn between the house and lake is beautifully laid out in terraced gardens, the brilliancy of which, contrasting with the sombre tints of the fine trees on either side, gives a peculiar richness to the view.

An important feature in the grounds is formed by a wooded island, nearly two miles in circumference, in the centre of which, approached by a magnificent avenue of beech trees, stands a building containing a fine marble monument, executed by Wilton in 1770, in memory of Lady Anne Dawson.

The approaches to the house, running along the shores of the lakes, form a very beautiful drive several miles in extent.

The family of Lord Dartrey came originally from Yorkshire, removing to Ireland in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

THOMAS DAWSON, of Armagh, was father of

JOHN DAWSON, Esq., whose son,

WALTER DAWSON, Esq., died in 1704, leaving two sons, the elder of whom,

WALTER DAWSON, Esq., married Frances, daughter of Richard Dawson, Esq., an officer in Cromwell's army, with whom he obtained the estate of Dawson's Grove, in the County of Monaghan. He was succeeded at his decease by his only surviving son,

RICHARD DAWSON, Esq., of Dawson's Grove, an eminent Banker and Alderman of the City of Dublin, and M.P. for the County of Monaghan. This gentleman married, in 1723, Elizabeth, daughter of the Most Rev. John Vesey, D.D., Archbishop of Tuam, by whom he left, dying in 1766,

THOMAS DAWSON, Esq., who was elevated to the peerage of Ireland May 28th., 1770, as BARON DARTREY, and advanced to the dignity of VISCOUNT CREMORNE, June 9th., 1785. He married, first, the Lady Anne Fermor, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Pomfret, by whom, who died in 1769, he had a son and daughter, both of whom died in youth. His lordship married, secondly, May 8th., 1770, Philadelphia Hannah, only daughter of Thomas Freame, Esq., of Philadelphia, by whom he had another only son and daughter, who also died young. He was further created, March 7th., 1797, BARON CREMORNE, with remainder to his nephew, Richard Dawson, Esq., and his heirs male. At his death, March 1st., 1813, the Viscountcy of Cremorne expired, but the Barony of the same devolved on his great-nephew,

RICHARD THOMAS DAWSON, second Baron Cremorne, born 1788, who married, March 10th., 1815, Anne Elizabeth Emily, third daughter of John Whaley, Esq., of Whaley Abbey, in the county of Wicklow, and left at his decease, in 1827,

RICHARD DAWSON, third Baron Cremorne, of Dartrey, K.P., formerly a Lord in Waiting on the Queen, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Monaghan, born September 7th., 1817, created BARON DARTREY, September 20th., 1847, and EARL OF DARTREY, July 12th., 1866. He married, July 12th., 1841, Augusta, daughter of Edward Stanley, Esq., and Lady Mary Stanley, daughter of the Earl of Lauderdale, and had with other children,

VESEY DAWSON, LORD CREMORNE, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards and M.P. for the County of Monaghan, born April 22nd., 1842.

source: Morris, Francis Orpen. A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland: with Descriptive and Historical Letterpress, Volume 3. London, UK: William Mackenzie, 1880.

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David and Jane Conyngham Campbell had four children. William married Mary Ellison, and was prominent in the Indian and Revolutionary wars. His two brothers-in-law, Captain William Ellison, who married Mary Campbell, and Major John Morrison, who married Martha Campbell, were also patriotic defenders of their liberty in the same war.

David, the subject of this sketch, was the youngest child. He was born in Augusta County, Virginia, August, 1753. Three months previous to his birth his father died, and his mother died when he was but six years of age.

His brother William, being the eldest, according to the old English common law which was in force at that time, inherited the whole of his father's property, which consisted entirely of landed estates and slaves, so young David was forced to depend upon his own resources very early in life, and bravely he solved the problem of making his living. He had accumulated some means by the time he was twenty years of age, which he invested in a small farm in Washington County, Virginia, to which he moved. This was near Abingdon. Soon after settling on his farm he met his cousin, Margaret Campbell (daughter of his mother's half sister, Mary Hamilton, and David Campbell, a distant relation). They became attached to one another and were married in 1774, she being about 21 years of age at the time of her marriage.

source: Pilcher, Margaret Campbell. “Sketch of Captain David Campbell.” The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 2. Nashville, TN: Goodpasture Book Company, 1903.

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David Campbell (called "Black David," because of his dark hair, eyes and complexion, and to, distinguish him from his cousin, "White David" Campbell, who was very fair, with yellow hair and blue eyes) was born about 1710. He married Jane Conyngham, a half-sister of Mary Hamilton (White David Campbell's wife). David Campbell and his wife, Jane Conyngham, came from Ireland with their parents. They settled in the Colony of Virginia, it is thought, first in Culpepper County. Later, they removed to Augusta County, Virginia, which was at that time a frontier settlement. To this section of Virginia had emigrated a large number of Scotch-Irish, a brave, independent, liberty-loving race of people, who were faithful friends and the best of citizens. They gave to our country many of her greatest men.

David Campbell, born in 1710, died in November, 1753, and Jane Conyngham, his wife, died in August, 1759. They had four children, namely: William, Mary, Martha and David Campbell.

source: Pilcher, Margaret Campbell. Historical Sketches of the Campbell, Pilcher and Kindred Families, including the Bowen, Russell, Owen, Grant, Goodwin, Amis, Carothers, Hope, Taliaferro, and Powell Families. Nashville, TN, Marshall and Bruce Company, 1911.

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David Campbell, fifth son of David, was a lawyer and removed to Tennessee. He was first the Federal Judge in the Territory, and then one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State. His death occurred in 1812, in the sixty-second year of his age. He had been appointed Federal Judge of the Territory which afterwards formed the State of Alabama, but died before he removed his family to the new country.

source: Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition. Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902.

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David Campbell, son of John and brother of Patrick and Robert, married, in Augusta, Mary Hamilton, and had seven sons and six daughters, all of whom, except a son who died young, emigrated to the Holston. The sons were John, Arthur, James, William, David, Robert and Patrick; and the daughters Margaret, Mary, Martha, Sarah, Ann, and sixth not named.

source: Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition. Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902.

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DAVID McCURDY, the second son of Petheric, "the Refugee," was probably born in 1670. There is a tradition that his children were all girls. With no knowledge of the names of their husbands, the gates are closed against further research.

source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.

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DAVID McCURDY, “the Refugee,” the second of the brothers, was born about 1642. Nothing is known of him. It may be, after all, that he perished, as there seems to be some tradition, during or as the result of the perilous flight by sea from Scotland.

source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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David, the eighth and youngest child of James and Jerusha McCurdy, was born in Cavan Parish, in 1709. When a young man he came to America, and settled in Westmoreland County, Pa., where he married Susan Madden. They had five sons: John, David, William, Robert, and Samuel. He and his five sons fought in the Revolutionary War, and he himself was frequently with Washington. His son John married Mary Fox, and they had twelve children: Elijah, who went to the South; Ebenezer; Rev. Elisha, born in 1763, “A Presbyterian minister, and his memory still lives”; John, born 1770; James, an Elder for over fifty years; David, lived in Ohio; Dr. Allen Fox; Lucinda; Lucy; Mary; Rebecca; and Nancy.

David, the Old Veteran, died in 1833, at the extreme age of 124 years.

source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.

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David, the subject of this sketch, was the youngest child. He was born in Augusta County, Virginia, August, 1753. Three months previous to his birth his father died, and his mother died when he was but six years of age.

His brother William, being the eldest, according to the old English common law which was in force at that time, inherited the whole of his father's property, which consisted entirely of landed estates and slaves, so young David was forced to depend upon his own resources very early in life, and bravely he solved the problem of making his living. He had accumulated some means by the time he was twenty years of age, which he invested in a small farm in Washington County, Virginia, to which he moved. This was near Abingdon. Soon after settling on his farm he met his cousin, Margaret Campbell (daughter of his mother's half sister, Mary Hamilton, and David Campbell, a distant relation). They became attached to one another and were married in 1774, she being about 21 years of age at the time of her marriage.

Her father, David Campbell, was an officer in the Virginia army in 1759, when his young son, Arthur, was taken prisoner by the Indians and escaped after three years captivity in Canada. (See old family manuscripts and also Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. VII, No. 2, October, 1899.) She had several brothers who were distinguished in the war of 1776, Margaret Campbell was keeping house at the “Royal Oak,” the family seat of her two brothers, Colonel John and Colonel Arthur Campbell, at the time of her marriage.

source: Pilcher, Margaret Campbell. “Sketch of Captain David Campbell.” The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 2. Nashville, TN: Goodpasture Book Company, 1903.

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David, the third child of Daniel and Rachel McCurdy, was born about 1737. He married Grace Kennedy. They had five children: David, who went to America; Alexander; Mary, who died young; Rachel, who went to America: and Cecilia, who died young. This Alexander, the second child, married Cecilia Kennedy. Their daughter Mary married John Annesley, the parents of Mrs. Mary Burris.

source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.

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David, was called “Black David” because of his dark hair and complexion, and to distinguish him from his distant cousin, “White David,” who was fair, with yellow hair and blue eyes. These two married half sisters. Black David, who was born in 1710, married Jane Cunnyngham. They came from Ireland with their parents and settled in Virginia, it is thought, first in Culpepper County; later they removed to Augusta County, which at this time was the extreme frontier. They had four children: William, Mary, Martha and David.

source: Cisco, Jay Guy. Historic Sumner County, Tennessee with Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Cage and Douglass Families, and Genealogical Notes of Other Sumner County Families. Nashville, TN: Polk-Keelin Printing Company, 1909.

Campbell, David (I1984)

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Death Notice of Margaret Caldbeck

DIED.- Miss Margaret Caldbeck, daughter of Samuel Caldbeck, of Ratdowney, in the Queen’s county, Esq.

source: Death notice of Margaret Caldbeck,The Public Register, or Freeman’s Journal, Dublin, Ireland, 14 Jul 1792, p. 3.

Caldbeck, Margaret (I118)

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DEATHS.

April 20, at Baliacolla Cottage, aged 95 years, William Caldbeck, Esq, for many years Clerk of the Peace for the Queen’s County.

source: Obituary of William Caldbeck. Dublin, Ireland: The Freeman’s Journal, 24 Apr 1862, p. 4.

Caldbeck, William (I117)

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DIED

On the 15th inst. At Glenelg Cottage, near Omagh, Alex. Buchanan, Esq.

source: Death notice of Alexander Buchanan. Belfast, UK: The Belfast Newsletter, 21 Feb 1840, p. 2.

Buchanan, Alexander Carlisle Esq. (I36)

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