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201	GENERAL THOMAS BUCHANAN, b. County Tyrone, 1747-48, d. at Newville, Pa., 13 October, 1823. Previous to the American Revolution he removed from Ireland to Pennsylvania, and at the outbreak of the war enlisted, in Cumberland County, Pa., in Colonel William Thompson’s Battalion of Riflemen, in the company of Captain James Chambers. He was commissioned third lieutenant in this battalion, 25 June, 1775, and captain, 10 October, 1777, in the First Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line. Captain Buchanan resigned from the army 26 September, 1779, and in 1789 became Sheriff of Cumberland (now Franklin) County, Pa. He m. Miss McFarlane, and had: I.–ROBERT BUCHANAN, d. 31 May, 1833. II.–ELIZABETH BUCHANAN, d. 25 August, 1863. III.–MRS. NANCY SNODGRASS, d. 23 April, 1859. IV.–WILLIAM BUCHANAN, d. 7 July, 1843. V.–EZEKIEL BUCHANAN, d. 31 August, 1831. VI –SARAH, d. 17 August, 1872, wife of Clement McFarland. VII.–MARY BUCHANAN, of Shippensburg, Pa., d. aged 104 years. VIII.–JANE BUCHANAN, of Shippensburg, Pa., d. aged 100 years. source: Browning, Charles Henry. Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to the Legitimate Issue of Kings, 2nd Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Porter and Coates, 1891.	Buchanan, Gen. Thomas (I145)
202	General William Campbell, the hero of King’s Mountain (after whom the county of Campbell, formed in 1784 from Bedford, was named), born in 1745, and was killed in September, 1781; married Elizabeth, the sister of the orator Patrick Henry, and she married secondly, General William Russell, of the Revolution, born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1758, and died in Fayette County, Kentucky, July 3, 1825. 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, Gen. William (I11684)
203	GEORGE BUCHANAN of Blairlusk was served heir to umquhill John Buchanan of Blairlusk, his father, 1st August, 1662. He sold Blairlusk to his brother William, went to Ireland, and settled at Deroran, Co. Tyrone, in 1674. He married, 1675, Elisabeth Mayne, and had four sons: (1) John, of County Tyrone, of whom presently; (2) William, of County Tyrone, who was father of Patrick, whose son Robert was father of General Thomas Buchanan of Cumberland, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; and Alexander Buchanan of the same place, who both left issue; (3) George, settled in Munster, from whom descend George Buchanan and Andrew Buchanan, both in 1857, of Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.; and (4) Thomas, of Ramelton, County of Donegal, of whom afterwards. source: Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from Early Times: An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow, UK: James Maclehose and Sons, 1896.	Buchanan, George 2nd Laird of Blairlusk (I6)
204	GEORGE BUCHANAN, in Gartincaber, married Elizabeth Leckie, daughter of Walter Leckie of Disheour. He acquired part of the lands of Blairlusk. On 3rd June 1629 there is a sasine in favour of George Buchanan, in Gartincaber, Elizabeth Leckye (Leckie), his spouse, and John Buchanan, their son, of the just and equal half of the five merk land of Blairlosky, alias Blairlosk, extending to a 33s. 4d. land of old extent, formerly occupied by John Buchanan, elder, in Blairlosk, and now by the said George and Elizabeth, spouses, and their sub-tenants, proceeding on a feu charter by John Haldane of Gleneagles. Walter Buchanan of Drummikill is bailie for John Haldane, and James Lecky, portioner of Wester Cattir, John Buchanan, portioner of Blairlosk, and John Buchanan, son of John Buchanan, formerly in Drumfade, now in Blairlosk, are witnesses. George Buchanan had four sons and a daughter: (1) John of Blairlusk; (2) George, who had a son Thomas Buchanan, in Creitchael, in Buchanan parish; (3) Thomas of Gartincaber; (4) Andrew; and a daughter, married Andrew Buchanan of Gartacharne. source: Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from Early Times: An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow, UK: James Maclehose and Sons, 1896.	Buchanan, George (I1)
205	GEORGE BUCHANAN, of Blairluisk, b. 1648; sold Blairluisk 1674, to his brother William, and settled near Omagh, co. Tyrone; m. Elizabeth Mayne, and had issue, JOHN BUCHANAN, b. 1676; m. 1703, Catherine Black, and had issue, four sons, of whom, 1. JOHN, his heir. 2. Thomas, ancestor of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States. 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, George 2nd Laird of Blairlusk (I6)
206	GEORGE BUCHANAN, of Gartincaber, b. 1578; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Walter Leckie, of Dishcour, and had issue, 1. JOHN, of whom presently. 2. George (descendants in America) 3. Thomas, of Gartincaber. 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, George (I1)
207	George W. Buchanan, died s.p., aged twenty-five source: Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from Early Times: An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow, UK: James Maclehose and Sons, 1896.	Buchanan, George W. (I132)
208	George, b. 1782; d.s.p. 1869. 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, George Esq. (I34)
209	GEORGE, FOURTH LORD STRABANE, died 14th April 1668. He married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Christopher Fagan of Feltrim, Co. Dublin, and had:- (a) Claud. (b) Charles. 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, George 4th Lord Strabane (I64)
210	George, of Keston Towers, Kent, b. 1827; m. 1860, Gertrude, dau. of George Armitage, D.L., of Nunthorpe, co. York (see that family), and d.s.p. 1897. 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, George Esq. (I40)
211	GEORGE, THIRD EARL OF ABERCORN, died unmarried at Padua. 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, George 3rd Earl of Abercorn (I42)
212	GOVERNOR WILLIAM B. CAMPBELL William B. Campbell was born in Sumner County, on Mansker's Creek, February 1, 1807; was reared on a farm; completed his education at Abingdon, Va., under his uncle, Governor David B. Campbell, with whom he studied law; commenced practice at Carthage in 1829. In 1831 was elected by the Legislature Attorney General for the Fifth District. He resigned the same year and moved to Sparta; returned to Carthage in 1835 and was elected a member of the Legislature. He married Miss Fannie I. Owen. In 1836 he was elected Captain of a company for the Creek War. During the seven months he was in command of his company he fully sustained the reputation for courage and skill of his distinguished ancestors and other members of the Campbell family at King’s Mountain and elsewhere. In 1837 he defeated William Trousdale for Congress, and again defeated him in 1839; re-elected in 1841 without opposition, and at the end of his term retired tc private life and the practice of law. Soon afterwards he was made Major General of militia. When the war with Mexico began he was elected Colonel of the First Tennessee. In that war he won distinction, as did his regiment at Monterey, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo and other engagements. The regiment was called the “Bloody First,” and well it merited the title. Soon after the return of the troops from Mexico Colonel Campbell was by unanimous vote elected to succeed Judge Abram Caruthers as Circuit Judge. In 1851 he was nominated by acclamation as the Whig candidate for Governor. In this election he was again opposed by William Trousdale, and again defeated him. At the end of his term he refused renomination. In 1853 he moved from Carthage to Lebanon and accepted the presidency of the Bank of Middle Tennessee. In 1861 he canvassed the State in opposition to secession. On July 23, 1862, he was commissioned a Brigadier General in the Union Army, which office he resigned two months later. In 1865 he was elected to Congress, but was not permitted to take his seat until in June, 1866. He died at Lebanon August 19, 1867. For two centuries the Campbell family has been prominent in Virginia and Tennessee. They participated in the early Indian wars, the French and Indian war, Dunmore's war, and in the Revolution. In the battle of King's Mountain were eight members of the family, one of whom was the commander-in-chief. In the War of 1812, in the Mexican War, and in the Civil War they were conspicuous for their bravery. Governor Campbell left seven children. The eldest, William B., died unmarried just after leaving college. The eldest daughter Mary O., married D. C. Kelly. They left one son, David C. Kelly, who married Jane Cowan of Hendersonville, Sumner County. The second daughter, Margaret H. Campbell, married James S. Pilcher, an attorney at law, practicing at Nashville. They have three children: Stuart, Campbell and Frances Pilcher. The third daughter, Fannie A. Campbell, married J. M. Bonner, a Nashville lawyer; they have three children: Campbell, Moses and Mary Bonner. The three living sons of Governor Campbell are: Joseph A., who married Alice Hall; they have three daughters, Frances, Mary and Jessie B. Campbell. They live near Lebanon, at “Campbells,” the old homestead that has been in the family for many years. Owen Campbell married Susie Towson. They live on a farm four miles from Lebanon. The youngest child of Governor Campbell – Lemuel R. Campbell – married Johnnie Marshall. They have three sons: William B., Matthew M. and Russell Campbell. Lemuel R. Campbell is a lawyer, practicing in Nashville, but resides on his farm, four miles from the city. 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, Gov. William Bowen (I7433)
213	Gravestone Inscription Ex Candore Decus. In the Vault beneath lie the Remains of Francis Whyte, Esq., only son of Thomas Whyte of Redhills in this County Esqr. gt. grandson of Francis Whyte Chief Secretary of State to Lord Deputy Grandison, who in Queen Elizabeth's Reign removed from Tuddington in Bedfordshire, The ancient seat of his family. No man during the Course of a long life better deserved the character which he bore of being one of the most honourable and independent gentlemen in this county. Dying unmarried in 1778 he left his Estate to his nephew, only son of his Sister Ann, by John Whyte of Rathgonan in the County of Limerick son of Col John Whtye by Celena his wife dau & Co. heiress with her sister Helen Viscountess Kenmare of Sir Thomas Browne of Hospitall. source: Fund for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Report for the Year 1888. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Memorials Association, 1890.	Whyte, Col. Francis Esq. (I5)
214	Gravestone Inscription Here lie the Reliques of Thomas Whyte, of Redhills, Esq.., Who in the year 1738 and the 55th of his age Resigned his Soul to God. Whose main care and concern in this Life was to conciliate the favour of God and man by a regular discharge of moral and religious duty a man of Candour of Soul and benevolence of heart of simple manners and ingenuous mind, Sacred to Friendship and to Truth Sincere, More fond of the Ornament of Virtue and the Native Beauty of Holiness Than of the Pomp and Grandeur of a vain licentious World Strictly faithful to the Conjugal Vow. An affectionate Parent, a humane Neighbour, and a kind master, In respect to whose Memory this Monument is Erected by Sarah Whyte, daughter of the late James Naper of Loughcrew Esqr. and Relict of the Deceased, as being the last Proof she can give of her tender Regard for A Loving Husband. source: Fund for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Report for the Year 1888. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Memorials Association, 1890.	Whyte, Thomas Esq. (I1)
215	Gravestone Inscription Here lieth the Body of WILLIAM CALDBECK Esqr who departed this life the 6th day of September 1803 aged 70 years ANNE CALDBECK his wife died 21st June 1821 Aged 96 years. JOHN FREDERICK their son died 24th June 1848, Aged 84 years. source: Irish Memorials Association. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Volume 6. Dublin, Ireland: Ponsonby and Gibbs University Press, 1906.	Caldbeck, William Esq. (I16)
216	Gravestone Inscription Here lieth the Body of WILLIAM CALDBECK Esqr who departed this life the 6th day of September 1803 aged 70 years ANNE CALDBECK his wife died 21st June 1821 Aged 96 years. JOHN FREDERICK their son died 24th June 1848, Aged 84 years. source: Irish Memorials Association. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Volume 6. Dublin, Ireland: Ponsonby and Gibbs University Press, 1906.	Keatinge, Anne (I17)
217	Gravestone Inscription Here lieth the Body of WILLIAM CALDBECK Esqr who departed this life the 6th day of September 1803 aged 70 years ANNE CALDBECK his wife died 21st June 1821 Aged 96 years. JOHN FREDERICK their son died 24th June 1848, Aged 84 years. source: Irish Memorials Association. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Volume 6. Dublin, Ireland: Ponsonby and Gibbs University Press, 1906.	Caldbeck, John Frederick Esq. (I19)
218	Gravestone Inscription Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Sarah White Relict of Thomas White Esq. of Redhills Who departed this life on the 17th day of January 1754 and lieth here interred. She was daughter of James Napier of Loughcrew in the County of Meath, Esqr. who was 2nd son of James Napier, Esqr. by Anne Petty his wife sister to Sr Wiliam Petty. Filius Moerens Posuit. source: Fund for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Report for the Year 1888. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Memorials Association, 1890.	Napier, Sarah (I2)
219	Gravestone Inscription Underneath are deposited the remains of William E. Caldbeck Esqre and five of his infant children. He departed this life the 29th of May 1791 aged 58 years Also the body of his son-in-law Joseph Carson Esqre Who departed this life April 3rd 1802 aged 55 years Also the body of John Cooke who departed this life April 20 1804 Also the body of Francis Caldbeck who departed this life Nov. 4th 1823 and in the same grave are Interred the mortal remains of Dora relict of the above William E. Caldbeck and Mother of the above John Cooke she departed this life the 2nd of July 1831 aged 82 years. source: Irish Memorials Association. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Volume 6. Dublin, Ireland: Ponsonby and Gibbs University Press, 1906.	Caldbeck, William Eaton Esq. (I10)
220	Gravestone Inscription Underneath are deposited the remains of William E. Caldbeck Esqre and five of his infant children. He departed this life the 29th of May 1791 aged 58 years Also the body of his son-in-law Joseph Carson Esqre Who departed this life April 3rd 1802 aged 55 years Also the body of John Cooke who departed this life April 20 1804 Also the body of Francis Caldbeck who departed this life Nov. 4th 1823 and in the same grave are Interred the mortal remains of Dora relict of the above William E. Caldbeck and Mother of the above John Cooke she departed this life the 2nd of July 1831 aged 82 years. source: Irish Memorials Association. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Volume 6. Dublin, Ireland: Ponsonby and Gibbs University Press, 1906.	Graham, Dora (I11)
221	Gravestone Inscription Underneath are deposited the remains of William E. Caldbeck Esqre and five of his infant children. He departed this life the 29th of May 1791 aged 58 years Also the body of his son-in-law Joseph Carson Esqre Who departed this life April 3rd 1802 aged 55 years Also the body of John Cooke who departed this life April 20 1804 Also the body of Francis Caldbeck who departed this life Nov. 4th 1823 and in the same grave are Interred the mortal remains of Dora relict of the above William E. Caldbeck and Mother of the above John Cooke she departed this life the 2nd of July 1831 aged 82 years. source: Irish Memorials Association. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Volume 6. Dublin, Ireland: Ponsonby and Gibbs University Press, 1906.	Caldbeck, Francis Cope Esq. (I12)
222	Gravestone Inscription Underneath are deposited the remains of William E. Caldbeck Esqre and five of his infant children. He departed this life the 29th of May 1791 aged 58 years Also the body of his son-in-law Joseph Carson Esqre Who departed this life April 3rd 1802 aged 55 years Also the body of John Cooke who departed this life April 20 1804 Also the body of Francis Caldbeck who departed this life Nov. 4th 1823 and in the same grave are Interred the mortal remains of Dora relict of the above William E. Caldbeck and Mother of the above John Cooke she departed this life the 2nd of July 1831 aged 82 years. source: Irish Memorials Association. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Volume 6. Dublin, Ireland: Ponsonby and Gibbs University Press, 1906.	Cooke, Joseph (I66)
223	Gravestone Inscription Underneath are deposited the remains of William E. Caldbeck Esqre and five of his infant children. He departed this life the 29th of May 1791 aged 58 years Also the body of his son-in-law Joseph Carson Esqre Who departed this life April 3rd 1802 aged 55 years Also the body of John Cooke who departed this life April 20 1804 Also the body of Francis Caldbeck who departed this life Nov. 4th 1823 and in the same grave are Interred the mortal remains of Dora relict of the above William E. Caldbeck and Mother of the above John Cooke she departed this life the 2nd of July 1831 aged 82 years. source: Irish Memorials Association. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Volume 6. Dublin, Ireland: Ponsonby and Gibbs University Press, 1906.	Carson, Joseph Esq. (I61)
224	Harry went abroad and was not heard of again. source: Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1904.	Caldbeck, Harry (I21)
225	Henry Hamilton, died 15th March 1585, aged three months. source: Johnston, George Harvey. The Heraldry of the Hamiltons with Notes on All the Males of the Family, Descriptions of the Arms, Plates and Pedigrees. Edinburgh, UK: W. and A.K. Johnston, 1909.	Hamilton, Henry (I49)
226	Henry, 3rd dragoon guards, b. 28 Sept. 1783; m. Dec. 1809, Elizabeth Melesina, dau. of Ven. George Fleury, D.D., archdeacon of Waterford. She d. 29 Jan. 1853. He d. 27 Feb. 1843, had issue (see BURKE's Landed Gentry). 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, Henry (I52)
227	Henry, slain at the house of Art O’Neill, of the Fews, 1498, he had a son Felim. source: Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, New Edition. London, UK: Harrison, 1866.	O'Neill, Henry (I61)
228	HUGH O’NEILL, Earl of Tyrone, was chiefly educated at the Court of Queen ELIZABETH, where he learnt, from the English statesmen Burghley, Leicester, and Hatton, that knowledge of political craft which marked his entire career. Eventually, throwing off his allegiance to the English Sovereign, “the Arch Rebel,” as he was styled, disclaimed the title of Earl of Tyrone (which had been confirmed to him by charter, 10 May, 1587) and proclaimed himself the O’Neill. He conquered every army sent against him by ELIZABETH; until after the siege of Kinsale in 1603, he found his cause hopeless and surrendered to Lord Mountjoy, by whom he was received into protection. Subsequently, in 1607, he fled to France, and thence proceeded Louvain, and finally to Rome where he was maintained on a monthly allowance granted by PAUL V. and the King of Spain. He m. 1st, a dau. of Sir Brian McPhelim from whom was legitimately divorced; 2ndly, Judith, dau. of Manus Donnell, and sister of the celebrated Red Hugh O Donnell, by her had issue, I. HUGH, Baron of Dungannon, d. at Rome, 1609, unin. II. HENRY, a colonel of an Irish regiment, in the archduke's service, killed in Spain. III. JOHN, called El Condé de Tyrone, in Spain, in which kingdom he had attained the rank of lieutenant-general, killed in Catalonia. IV. BRYAN or BERNARD, page to the archduke, murdered at Brussels, 1617. V. Con, a prisoner in the Tower of London, 1617. I. Mary, m. to Sir Bryan McMahon, Knt. of Monaghan. II. –, m. to Donnel Ballagh O Cahan. III. Sarah, m. to Arthur Magennis, Viscount Iveagh. IV. Margaret, m. to Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarrett. He m. 3rdly, Mabel, sister of Sir Henry Bagenall, marshal of the Queen's forces in Ireland, to whom he was m. by Jones, bishop of Meath, 1591, she d. s. p.; and 4thly, the dau. of the Lord Iveagh, who accompanied him to Rome where she died. This lady is described by Peter Lombard, archbishop of Armagh, thus: “Aetate quidem juniorem, sed educatione, prudentiâ, pietate maturam; de Reg. Hib. P. 383. Tyrone d. at Rome, blind and old, 20 July, 1616, and was buried with great pomp in the church of San Pietro Montorio, where the tombs of O’Donnell and O’Neill, Baron of Dungannon, are objects of attraction to English and Irish sojourners in the Eternal City. The tomb of the Earl of Tyrone is no longer in existence, but happily the inscription it bore is still preserved in the Book of Obits, of San Pietro's monastery, and runs thus: D.O.M. Hic Quiescunt Ossa Hugonis Principis O’Neill. It would appear that this brief epitaph was suggested by that on the tomb of Tasso in the neighbouring church of St. Onofiro. Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, was attainted in 1612. Arms – Arg., a sinister hand affronté and couped, gu. source: Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, New Edition. London, UK: Harrison, 1866.	O'Neill, Hugh Earl of Tyrone (I1)
229	In 1765, John, the eldest son of David Campbell and Mary Hamilton, explored the southwest, and purchased lands on the headwaters of the Holston, where soon after, the family settled itself. source: Peyton, John Lewis. History of Augusta County, Virginia. Staunton, VA: Samuel M. Yost and Son, 1882.	Campbell, Lt. John (I11661)
230	In 1804 Captain David Campbell, the subject of this sketch, married a second time. By this marriage he had three children, but only one lived to maturity - Margaret Lavinia Campbell, a most noble, lovely Christian woman, and one of great intellectual attainments. She married the Rev. John Kelly. 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 Lavinia (I11410)
231	In 1841 the dormant baronetcy was assumed by JOHN EYTOUN CAMPBELL, of Eildalloig (son of Dugald Campbell, deputy keeper of the Privy Seal of Ireland), as descended from Duncan Campbell, vicar of Kilfinan, fifth or sixth son of Donald Campbell, of Kilmory, great-granduncle of the first Baronet. source: Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry, Volume 2. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1895.	Campbell, Rev. Duncan (I8129)
232	In a letter written by the late Hon. John McCurdy of Shippensburg, PA., dated February 12th, 1877, may be found the following extract: “If you take a general atlas and turn to the map of Ireland, you will find the Giant’s Causeway on the extreme northern coast of County Antrim. West of the Causeway, and east of the river Bann, you will find a small stream which runs due north, and empties into the ocean near the Causeway. This stream is called the Bush River. On this river, about one mile from its mouth, there is a village containing about 1,000 inhabitants. The name of this place is Bushmills. Just outside of the town, about a quarter of a mile distant, there is a farm called “Clouther.’ On this farm I was born. A short distance east of Bush River, about a mile nearly south of Bushmills, there is a farm called the ‘Caven,’ the southern boundary of which is within a hundred years of Billy Church, where very many of the McCurdys are buried. This ‘Caven’ farm is said to be the one on which the McCurdys settled when they emigrated from Scotland. There my great-grandfather Samuel [son of John, son of Petheric.-Ed.], and my grandfather Alexander, lived and died. My Uncle James held it from the time of my grandfather’s death in 1828, until 1874, when he died. Until very recently I thought this property was held by the family in fee simple; but I have discovered that they held it on life-leases. Two of my cousins hold either the whole or a part of it now. Ahoghil, from which your great-grandfather came, is about six or seven miles from the ‘Caven.’” source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.	McCurdy, Hon. John (I144)
233	In the later part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Duncan Campbell, son of Dugal Campbell of Inverary, and an officer in the English army, went from Scotland to Ireland. In the year 1612 forfeitures of large estates were declared in Ulster, some of the forfeited lands being bought by Duncan Campbell. In 1726, John Campbell and Mary Campbell, two of his descendants emigrated to America. John Campbell, with his wife and children, first settled in Pennsylvania, moving from Lancaster County, about 1730, to Virginia. Mary Campbell, his sister, married Moses White, from which marriage many families of the southern and western part of the country are descended. source: Lee, Henry James. History of the Campbell Family. New York: R. L. Polk and Company, 1920.	Campbell, John (I6198)
234	In the later part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Duncan Campbell, son of Dugal Campbell of Inverary, and an officer in the English army, went from Scotland to Ireland. In the year 1612 forfeitures of large estates were declared in Ulster, some of the forfeited lands being bought by Duncan Campbell. In 1726, John Campbell and Mary Campbell, two of his descendants emigrated to America. John Campbell, with his wife and children, first settled in Pennsylvania, moving from Lancaster County, about 1730, to Virginia. Mary Campbell, his sister, married Moses White, from which marriage many families of the southern and western part of the country are descended. source: Lee, Henry James. History of the Campbell Family. New York: R. L. Polk and Company, 1920.	Campbell, Mary (I6200)
235	In the later part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Duncan Campbell, son of Dugal Campbell of Inverary, and an officer in the English army, went from Scotland to Ireland. In the year 1612 forfeitures of large estates were declared in Ulster, some of the forfeited lands being bought by Duncan Campbell. In 1726, John Campbell and Mary Campbell, two of his descendants emigrated to America. John Campbell, with his wife and children, first settled in Pennsylvania, moving from Lancaster County, about 1730, to Virginia. Mary Campbell, his sister, married Moses White, from which marriage many families of the southern and western part of the country are descended. source: Lee, Henry James. History of the Campbell Family. New York: R. L. Polk and Company, 1920.	Campbell, Duncan (I11569)
236	In the year 1751, the Rev. Samuel Davies, then residing in Hanover, Virginia, made an excursion for preaching, to the Roanoke. In the course of his journeyings, he became acquainted with Henry Pattillo, then a young man desirous of commencing his studies in preparation for the gospel ministry, and invited him to come and commence his course with him in Hanover. This invitation Mr. Pattillo at first declined, as he had engaged to go to Pennsylvania with another young man, and commence his studies under the care and tuition of the Rev. Mr. John Thomson, who was at this time in Carolina on a mission to the new settlements. In the year 1744, in compliance with a “representation from many people in North Carolina - showing their desolate condition, and requesting the Synod to take their condition into consideration, and petitioning that we would appoint one of our number to correspond with them,- Mr. Thomson, of Donegal Presbytery, was appointed by the Synod to correspond with them. He was this time on a visit to these petitioners, and others in Carolina. source: Henry Foote, William. Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers. New York: Robert Carter, 1846, p. 213.	Thomson, Rev. John (I1)
237	James Blacker, d.s.p. 1852. 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, James Blacker (I42)
238	JAMES BUCHANAN removed to America in 1783, and settled near Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1821. He married Elizabeth Speer, in Adams County, Pennsylvania and had four sons and a daughter: (1) James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States of America, died s.p.; (2) William Speer Buchanan, died s.p., aged twenty-two; (3) George W. Buchanan, died s.p., aged twenty-five; (4) Rev. Edward Young Buchanan, D.D., married, and had issue; and (5) Jane Buchanan (Mrs. Lane) had issue. source: Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from Early Times: An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow, UK: James Maclehose and Sons, 1896.	Buchanan, James (I129)
239	James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States of America, died s.p. source: Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from Early Times: An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow, UK: James Maclehose and Sons, 1896.	Buchanan, President James (I130)
240	JAMES BUCHANAN, the fifteenth President of the United States, was born near Mercersburg, in Franklin County, Pa., April 23, 1791. He was a son of James Buchanan and Elizabeth Speer. James Buchanan the elder was a native of County Donegal, Ireland, and emigrated to America in 1783, settling in Franklin County. About 1798 the family removed to the village of Mercersburg. Here young Buchanan attended school, and laid the foundation of an education which in after-years carried him to an eminence he then little dreamed of. He entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle, in 1805, and graduated with high honors in 1809. After studying law in the office of James Hopkins, at Lancaster, for three years, he was admitted to the bar in 1812. While at college he gave evidence of a remarkable mind, and he had been admitted to the bar but a little time when his talent and learning placed him in a prominent position and inducted him into a lucrative practice. In 1812 he enlisted in the service of the republic in the war with Great Britain, serving in the company of Capt. Henry Shippen. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1814 serving in the lower house and re elected in 1815 He was elected to Congress from his district in 1820. In politics he was at first a Federalist, but in 1828 he became a Democrat, and supported Gen. Jackson for the Presidency. He served almost continuously as a Congressman from 1820 till 1831, when he retired voluntarily and was appointed by President Jackson as Minister to Russia. He negotiated and concluded the first commercial treaty between the United States and Russia, opening the latter's ports to our commerce. He returned to the United States in 1833, and was made senator from his native State, serving from 1834 to 1845. He was appointed Secretary of State by James K. Polk in 1845, and filled that important position till 1849. After a retirement of four years he was appointed Minister to the Court of St. James in 1853. In 1856 he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for President in opposition to John C. Fremont, Republican, and Millard Fillmore, American. Mr. Buchanan was elected, receiving one hundred and seventy-four electoral votes, and was inaugurated March 4, 1857. Though from a State in which no slavery existed, Mr. Buchanan was hostile to those who opposed its extension, and was also an extreme advocate of the sovereignty of individual States. In a message to Congress in December, 1860, he blamed the people of the North for the disruption of the Union, and affirmed that the Executive had no power or right to prevent the secession of a State. The principal events of his legislative career were his advocacy of the recognition of the independence of Texas, and afterwards his support at the time of its admittance as a State; his service as chairman of the Congressional Committee on Foreign Relations; his advocacy of the “Sub-Treasury Act;” his opposition to the Fiscal Bank bill and support of an independent treasury. In 1861 he retired to his residence at Wheatland, and resided there until his death. In 1866 he published “Mr. Buchanan's Administration,” a book designed to defend the acts of his administration as President. His course as the President of the United States, while condemned by the great majority of the people of the Northern States, was evidently directed by his views upon the questions at issue, and in the light of future revelations will probably be reviewed with less severe judgment. He died at Wheatland, June 1, 1868. source: Ellis, Franklin and Samuel Evans. History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia, PA: Everts and Peck, 1883.	Buchanan, President James (I130)
241	JAMES CAMPBELL, born 1756; died, June 10th, 1781. Married: probably 1779, Margaret McMichael; died Sept. 7th, 1825, buried at Carlisle, Pa. After James Campbell's death his widow married 1st, Aug. 19th, 1782, Lambert VanDyke, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Davis) VanDyke of Buffalo Valley. The service was performed by Rev. John Elder of Paxtang Church. By her second husband Margaret (McMichael) Campbell had six sons all of whom married and whose progeny are scattered well over the United States. Dr. Henry VanDyke is perhaps the most widely known of her descendants. In the genealogy of George Douglas VanDyke of Milwaukee. Wis., Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. 1, p. 256, mention of Margaret McMichael's first marriage to James Campbell is omitted by mistake. The present writer called Mr. George VanDyke's attention to the fact and in his letter of reply he expressed his regret and stated that he would have the error rectified in any future edition of the work. After the death of Lambert VanDyke, his widow married a third husband in 1795, Benjamin Thompson of Carlisle, Pa. James Campbell was a soldier of the Revolution and died at the early age of twenty-five, from wounds received in battle. Family tradition says that he was an officer. A James Campbell was ensign in the Officers Seventh Battalion, Col. John Boyd, 1777. The name appears many times on Pennsylvania Revolutionary rolls with no means of identification beyond the counties from which the men enlisted. After having searched printed records in vain for a notice of James Campbell's death, the writer made a trip to Derry graveyard and discovered that several mistakes had been made in copying the inscriptions for publication. Three inscriptions of different James Campbells were found to be incorrect in Mr. Egle's compilation of them. In one case he has the date of death as Aug. 20th, 1734, and the age as 78, whereas on the tombstone it is May 20th, and the age 75 years. I found a small stone inscribed “In memory of James Campbell, who departed this life June 10th, 1781, aged twenty-five years.” Egle had given the date as June 10th, 1783, ten months after James Campbell's widow had married her second husband. As his parents were married in 1755, and we from the statement of his daughter that he did not die until she was about a year old, this date on the tombstone fits in exactly with facts we know, and beyond question the grave of our James. Children: Eleanor, born June 26th, 1780. source: Douglas, Bessie P. The Families of Joshua Williams of Chester County, PA, and John McKeehan of Cumberland County, PA, with Some Allied Families. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Press, 1928.	Campbell, James (I11757)
242	JAMES CAMPBELL, born, 1689 in Ireland; died May 31st; 1771 at Derry (now Hershey), Pa. Married: 1st, . . . . . . . . 2d, Agnes . . . . . . . ., born, 1707; died, April d, 1757; buried beside her husband. 3d, Mrs. Rosanna Vernon, a widow with at least two children March 2d, 1737, James Campbell is on a list of warrantees of land in Derry Twp. for 300 acres. On the same date 279 acres of land in Derry Twp. were “surveyed to” James Campbell. Egle's History of Dauphin County, Pa., p. 39: James and John Campbell were among the signers of a “humble petition of the inhabitants of the townships of Paxtang, Derry and Hanover, Lancaster County,” to the Governor of the Province, dated July 22d, 1754, showing “that your petitioners being settled on or near the river Susquehanna apprehend themselves in great danger from the French and French Indians. . . . We, your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Honour would take our distressed condition into consideration and make such provision for us as may prevent ourselves and families from being destroyed and ruined by such a cruel enemy.” This was during the French and Indian War and old documents show that murders and scalpings by the Indians were of almost daily occurrence in 1756 and 1757, and had it not been for the bravery and military ability of Rev. John Elder the “Fighting Parson,” Captain of the Paxton Rangers and later Colonel under the provincial Government, the terrorized inhabitants in all likelihood would have fled the frontier. James Campbell was survived by his wife Rosanna, and in his will mentioned his step-daughter Jean Edmundson; James Vernon, son of his step-son Harry Vernon; Robert Cross's children; sister Martha Cary, then in Ireland; sister Elizabeth Long, then in Ireland; his sons John and Patrick; and James Campbell, son of his son Patrick. Rev. John Roan was witness to the will. James Campbell is buried in old Derry churchyard and the inscription on his tombstone has been published numerous times as an example of the lugubrious in epitaphs. It cannot be omitted here. “Under this stone lies entombed James Campbell's Dust you see Who was as healthy and as strong As many that may be But now by Death whom all devours Is laid upon this cell With crawling worms and reptiles base He is obliged to dwell. You that these lines do look upon May also call to mind That Death will be your certain fate Therefore improve your time.” Children: Patrick, John, and others. source: Douglas, Bessie P. The Families of Joshua Williams of Chester County, PA, and John McKeehan of Cumberland County, PA, with Some Allied Families. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Press, 1928.	Campbell, James (I11483)
243	James Campbell, third son, lost his eye-sight from small-pox, and died at fifty years of age. source: Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition. Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902.	Campbell, James (I11734)
244	JAMES MASTER OF PAISLEY, born 1575; died v.p. 23rd March 1618. On 5th April 1603 he was created LORD OF ABERCORN, and on 10th July 1606 he was advanced to EARL OF ABERCORN, Baron of Paisley, Hamilton, Mountcastell, and Kilpatrick. He married Marion, daughter of Thomas, fifth Lord Boyd, who died 26th August 1632, and had issue:- (a) James (b) Claud (c) Sir William Hamilton, died s.p. 25th June 1681. he was created a BARONET of Nova Scotia in 1627. Before 1st April 1656 he married Jean, daughter of Alexander Colquhoun of Luss, and widow of Alan, fifth Lord Cathcart, and of Sir Duncan Campbell, Bt. of Auchinbreck. (d) Sir George (e) Sir Alexander Hamilton of Holborn, London, died before 4th May 1669. He married Elizabeth Bedingfield, and had a son:- (1) Alexander Hamilton, who was created a Count of the Empire. He was father of:- (a) Julius Hamilton, Count of the Empire, who married Countess Maria Ernestina of Staremberg. She died 1724, leaving three sons. Arms on Seal, 1603.- Three cinquefoils with a label of three points in chief. CREST: An oak tree traversed by a frame saw. SUPPORTERS: Two antelopes. MOTTO: "Through" (Laing). 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, Sir James 1st Earl of Abercorn (I10)
245	JAMES McCURDY, the eldest son of Petheric and Margaret (Stewart) McCurdy, was born in 1668. He married, when about twenty-one years old, Jerusha Murray, said to be a cousin of the Earl of Mar. He settled in the neighbourhood of Bushmills, County Antrim. In a letter written by the late Hon. John McCurdy of Shippensburg, PA., dated February 12th, 1877, may be found the following extract: “If you take a general atlas and turn to the map of Ireland, you will find the Giant’s Causeway on the extreme northern coast of County Antrim. West of the Causeway, and east of the river Bann, you will find a small stream which runs due north, and empties into the ocean near the Causeway. This stream is called the Bush River. On this river, about one mile from its mouth, there is a village containing about 1,000 inhabitants. The name of this place is Bushmills. Just outside of the town, about a quarter of a mile distant, there is a farm called “Clouther.’ On this farm I was born. A short distance east of Bush River, about a mile nearly south of Bushmills, there is a farm called the ‘Caven,’ the southern boundary of which is within a hundred years of Billy Church, where very many of the McCurdys are buried. This ‘Caven’ farm is said to be the one on which the McCurdys settled when they emigrated from Scotland. There my great-grandfather Samuel [son of John, son of Petheric.–Ed.], and my grandfather Alexander, lived and died. My Uncle James held it from the time of my grandfather’s death in 1828, until 1874, when he died. Until very recently I thought this property was held by the family in fee simple; but I have discovered that they held it on life-leases. Two of my cousins hold either the whole or a part of it now. Ahoghil, from which your great-grandfather came, is about six or seven miles from the ‘Caven.’” James and Jerusha McCurdy had eight children, namely John, Elizabeth, Margaret, Daniel, Andrew, Mary, Robert, and David. source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.	McCurdy, James (I3)
246	James, b. 1772, was H.B.M. Consul General in America (1817 to 1844) where his descendants still remain. 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, James (I32)
247	James, Lord Paisley, died v.p. He married 28th April 1653, Catherine, daughter of William Lenthall of Burford, and had 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, James Lord Paisley (I40)
248	James, of Trinta, b. 17 Aug. 1739; m. 1762, Dora Beresford, only dau. and heiress of Henry McCullagh, of Ballyarten, co. Derry, and had issue. 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, James (I40)
249	JAMES, SECOND EARL OF ABERCORN, born about 1603; died about 1670. On 18th October 1616 he was created a Peer of Ireland as LORD HAMILTON, BARON OF STRABANE, but he resigned this title in favour of his brother, Claud (No. 24), 11th November 1633. He married, about 1632, Catherine, daughter and heiress of Gervase, Lord Clifton of Leighton Bromeswold, and widow of Esme, Duke of Lennox. She died September 1637, having had issue:- (a) James, Lord Paisley, died v.p. He married 28th April 1653, Catherine, daughter of William Lenthall of Burford, and had a daughter. (b) Colonel William Hamilton, killed in Germany in his father's lifetime, s.p. (c) 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, James 2nd Earl of Abercorn (I17)
250	James, the fourth child of Daniel and Margaret (Laughlin) McCurdy, was born in 1706. In Historical Genealogy, p. 73, he is erroneously spoken of as son of John. He married Polly Cook, and came to America about 1726. He first located on the James River, Vt.; but later, 1731, moved to Pennsylvania. They had four sons: Archibald, the ancestor of the Virginia branch, who married Hannah Watson; James, who went to Franklin County, Pa.; Hugh, who also went to Franklin County; and Robert, who went to Adams County, Pa. source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.	McCurdy, James (I47)

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GENERAL THOMAS BUCHANAN, b. County Tyrone, 1747-48, d. at Newville, Pa., 13 October, 1823. Previous to the American Revolution he removed from Ireland to Pennsylvania, and at the outbreak of the war enlisted, in Cumberland County, Pa., in Colonel William Thompson’s Battalion of Riflemen, in the company of Captain James Chambers. He was commissioned third lieutenant in this battalion, 25 June, 1775, and captain, 10 October, 1777, in the First Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line. Captain Buchanan resigned from the army 26 September, 1779, and in 1789 became Sheriff of Cumberland (now Franklin) County, Pa. He m. Miss McFarlane, and had:

I.–ROBERT BUCHANAN, d. 31 May, 1833.
II.–ELIZABETH BUCHANAN, d. 25 August, 1863.
III.–MRS. NANCY SNODGRASS, d. 23 April, 1859.
IV.–WILLIAM BUCHANAN, d. 7 July, 1843.
V.–EZEKIEL BUCHANAN, d. 31 August, 1831.
VI –SARAH, d. 17 August, 1872, wife of Clement McFarland.
VII.–MARY BUCHANAN, of Shippensburg, Pa., d. aged 104 years.
VIII.–JANE BUCHANAN, of Shippensburg, Pa., d. aged 100 years.

source: Browning, Charles Henry. Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to the Legitimate Issue of Kings, 2nd Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Porter and Coates, 1891.

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General William Campbell, the hero of King’s Mountain (after whom the county of Campbell, formed in 1784 from Bedford, was named), born in 1745, and was killed in September, 1781; married Elizabeth, the sister of the orator Patrick Henry, and she married secondly, General William Russell, of the Revolution, born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1758, and died in Fayette County, Kentucky, July 3, 1825.

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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GEORGE BUCHANAN of Blairlusk was served heir to umquhill John Buchanan of Blairlusk, his father, 1st August, 1662. He sold Blairlusk to his brother William, went to Ireland, and settled at Deroran, Co. Tyrone, in 1674. He married, 1675, Elisabeth Mayne, and had four sons: (1) John, of County Tyrone, of whom presently; (2) William, of County Tyrone, who was father of Patrick, whose son Robert was father of General Thomas Buchanan of Cumberland, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; and Alexander Buchanan of the same place, who both left issue; (3) George, settled in Munster, from whom descend George Buchanan and Andrew Buchanan, both in 1857, of Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.; and (4) Thomas, of Ramelton, County of Donegal, of whom afterwards.

source: Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from Early Times: An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow, UK: James Maclehose and Sons, 1896.

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GEORGE BUCHANAN, in Gartincaber, married Elizabeth Leckie, daughter of Walter Leckie of Disheour. He acquired part of the lands of Blairlusk. On 3rd June 1629 there is a sasine in favour of George Buchanan, in Gartincaber, Elizabeth Leckye (Leckie), his spouse, and John Buchanan, their son, of the just and equal half of the five merk land of Blairlosky, alias Blairlosk, extending to a 33s. 4d. land of old extent, formerly occupied by John Buchanan, elder, in Blairlosk, and now by the said George and Elizabeth, spouses, and their sub-tenants, proceeding on a feu charter by John Haldane of Gleneagles. Walter Buchanan of Drummikill is bailie for John Haldane, and James Lecky, portioner of Wester Cattir, John Buchanan, portioner of Blairlosk, and John Buchanan, son of John Buchanan, formerly in Drumfade, now in Blairlosk, are witnesses. George Buchanan had four sons and a daughter: (1) John of Blairlusk; (2) George, who had a son Thomas Buchanan, in Creitchael, in Buchanan parish; (3) Thomas of Gartincaber; (4) Andrew; and a daughter, married Andrew Buchanan of Gartacharne.

source: Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from Early Times: An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow, UK: James Maclehose and Sons, 1896.

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GEORGE BUCHANAN, of Blairluisk, b. 1648; sold Blairluisk 1674, to his brother William, and settled near Omagh, co. Tyrone; m. Elizabeth Mayne, and had issue,

JOHN BUCHANAN, b. 1676; m. 1703, Catherine Black, and had issue, four sons, of whom,

1. JOHN, his heir.
2. Thomas, ancestor of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States.

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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GEORGE BUCHANAN, of Gartincaber, b. 1578; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Walter Leckie, of Dishcour, and had issue,

1. JOHN, of whom presently.
2. George (descendants in America)
3. Thomas, of Gartincaber.

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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George W. Buchanan, died s.p., aged twenty-five

source: Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from Early Times: An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow, UK: James Maclehose and Sons, 1896.

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George, b. 1782; d.s.p. 1869.

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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GEORGE, FOURTH LORD STRABANE, died 14th April 1668. He married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Christopher Fagan of Feltrim, Co. Dublin, and had:-

(a) Claud.
(b) Charles.

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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George, of Keston Towers, Kent, b. 1827; m. 1860, Gertrude, dau. of George Armitage, D.L., of Nunthorpe, co. York (see that family), and d.s.p. 1897.

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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GEORGE, THIRD EARL OF ABERCORN, died unmarried at Padua.

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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GOVERNOR WILLIAM B. CAMPBELL

William B. Campbell was born in Sumner County, on Mansker's Creek, February 1, 1807; was reared on a farm; completed his education at Abingdon, Va., under his uncle, Governor David B. Campbell, with whom he studied law; commenced practice at Carthage in 1829. In 1831 was elected by the Legislature Attorney General for the Fifth District. He resigned the same year and moved to Sparta; returned to Carthage in 1835 and was elected a member of the Legislature. He married Miss Fannie I. Owen. In 1836 he was elected Captain of a company for the Creek War. During the seven months he was in command of his company he fully sustained the reputation for courage and skill of his distinguished ancestors and other members of the Campbell family at King’s Mountain and elsewhere. In 1837 he defeated William Trousdale for Congress, and again defeated him in 1839; re-elected in 1841 without opposition, and at the end of his term retired tc private life and the practice of law. Soon afterwards he was made Major General of militia. When the war with Mexico began he was elected Colonel of the First Tennessee. In that war he won distinction, as did his regiment at Monterey, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo and other engagements. The regiment was called the “Bloody First,” and well it merited the title. Soon after the return of the troops from Mexico Colonel Campbell was by unanimous vote elected to succeed Judge Abram Caruthers as Circuit Judge. In 1851 he was nominated by acclamation as the Whig candidate for Governor. In this election he was again opposed by William Trousdale, and again defeated him. At the end of his term he refused renomination. In 1853 he moved from Carthage to Lebanon and accepted the presidency of the Bank of Middle Tennessee. In 1861 he canvassed the State in opposition to secession. On July 23, 1862, he was commissioned a Brigadier General in the Union Army, which office he resigned two months later. In 1865 he was elected to Congress, but was not permitted to take his seat until in June, 1866. He died at Lebanon August 19, 1867.

For two centuries the Campbell family has been prominent in Virginia and Tennessee. They participated in the early Indian wars, the French and Indian war, Dunmore's war, and in the Revolution. In the battle of King's Mountain were eight members of the family, one of whom was the commander-in-chief. In the War of 1812, in the Mexican War, and in the Civil War they were conspicuous for their bravery.

Governor Campbell left seven children. The eldest, William B., died unmarried just after leaving college. The eldest daughter Mary O., married D. C. Kelly. They left one son, David C. Kelly, who married Jane Cowan of Hendersonville, Sumner County. The second daughter, Margaret H. Campbell, married James S. Pilcher, an attorney at law, practicing at Nashville. They have three children: Stuart, Campbell and Frances Pilcher. The third daughter, Fannie A. Campbell, married J. M. Bonner, a Nashville lawyer; they have three children: Campbell, Moses and Mary Bonner. The three living sons of Governor Campbell are: Joseph A., who married Alice Hall; they have three daughters, Frances, Mary and Jessie B. Campbell. They live near Lebanon, at “Campbells,” the old homestead that has been in the family for many years. Owen Campbell married Susie Towson. They live on a farm four miles from Lebanon. The youngest child of Governor Campbell – Lemuel R. Campbell – married Johnnie Marshall. They have three sons: William B., Matthew M. and Russell Campbell. Lemuel R. Campbell is a lawyer, practicing in Nashville, but resides on his farm, four miles from the city.

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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Gravestone Inscription

Ex Candore Decus.
In the Vault beneath lie the Remains of
Francis Whyte, Esq., only son of Thomas Whyte
of Redhills in this County Esqr. gt. grandson
of Francis Whyte
Chief Secretary of State to
Lord Deputy Grandison, who in Queen
Elizabeth's Reign removed from
Tuddington in Bedfordshire,
The ancient seat of his family. No man during the
Course of a long life better deserved the character
which he bore of being one of the most honourable
and independent gentlemen in this county. Dying
unmarried in 1778 he left his Estate to his nephew, only
son of his Sister
Ann, by John Whyte of Rathgonan
in the County of Limerick son of Col
John Whtye by Celena his wife
dau & Co. heiress with her sister
Helen Viscountess Kenmare
of Sir Thomas Browne of
Hospitall.

source: Fund for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Report for the Year 1888. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Memorials Association, 1890.

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Gravestone Inscription

Here lie the Reliques of Thomas Whyte, of Redhills, Esq..,
Who in the year 1738 and the 55th of his age
Resigned his Soul to God. Whose main care
and concern in this Life was to conciliate the favour of God and man
by a regular discharge of moral and religious duty
a man of Candour of Soul and benevolence of heart
of simple manners and ingenuous mind,
Sacred to Friendship and to Truth Sincere,
More fond of the Ornament of Virtue and the Native Beauty of Holiness
Than of the Pomp and Grandeur of a vain licentious World
Strictly faithful to the Conjugal Vow.
An affectionate Parent, a humane Neighbour, and a kind master,
In respect to whose Memory this Monument is Erected by
Sarah Whyte, daughter of the late James Naper of Loughcrew
Esqr. and Relict of the Deceased, as being the last
Proof she can give of her tender Regard for
A Loving Husband.

source: Fund for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Report for the Year 1888. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Memorials Association, 1890.

Whyte, Thomas Esq. (I1)

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Gravestone Inscription

Here lieth the Body of WILLIAM CALDBECK Esqr who departed this life the 6th day of September 1803 aged 70 years

ANNE CALDBECK his wife died 21st June 1821 Aged 96 years. JOHN FREDERICK their son died 24th June 1848, Aged 84 years.

source: Irish Memorials Association. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Volume 6. Dublin, Ireland: Ponsonby and Gibbs University Press, 1906.

Caldbeck, William Esq. (I16)

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Keatinge, Anne (I17)

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Caldbeck, John Frederick Esq. (I19)

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Gravestone Inscription

Sacred to the Memory
of Mrs. Sarah White
Relict of Thomas White Esq.
of Redhills
Who departed this life
on the 17th day of January 1754
and lieth here interred.
She was daughter of James Napier
of Loughcrew in the County of Meath, Esqr.
who was 2nd son of James Napier, Esqr.
by Anne Petty his wife
sister to Sr Wiliam Petty.
Filius Moerens Posuit.

source: Fund for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Report for the Year 1888. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Memorials Association, 1890.

Napier, Sarah (I2)

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Gravestone Inscription

Underneath are deposited the remains of
William E. Caldbeck Esqre
and five of his infant children.
He departed
this life the 29th of May 1791 aged 58 years
Also the body of his son-in-law Joseph Carson Esqre
Who departed this life April 3rd 1802 aged 55 years
Also the body of John Cooke who departed
this life April 20 1804
Also the body of Francis Caldbeck who
departed this life Nov. 4th 1823
and in the same grave are Interred the mortal remains of
Dora
relict of the above William E. Caldbeck and
Mother of the above John Cooke she departed this
life the 2nd of July 1831 aged 82 years.

source: Irish Memorials Association. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Volume 6. Dublin, Ireland: Ponsonby and Gibbs University Press, 1906.

Caldbeck, William Eaton Esq. (I10)

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Graham, Dora (I11)

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Caldbeck, Francis Cope Esq. (I12)

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Cooke, Joseph (I66)

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Carson, Joseph Esq. (I61)

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Harry went abroad and was not heard of again.

source: Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1904.

Caldbeck, Harry (I21)

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Henry Hamilton, died 15th March 1585, aged three months.

source: Johnston, George Harvey. The Heraldry of the Hamiltons with Notes on All the Males of the Family, Descriptions of the Arms, Plates and Pedigrees. Edinburgh, UK: W. and A.K. Johnston, 1909.

Hamilton, Henry (I49)

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Henry, 3rd dragoon guards, b. 28 Sept. 1783; m. Dec. 1809, Elizabeth Melesina, dau. of Ven. George Fleury, D.D., archdeacon of Waterford. She d. 29 Jan. 1853. He d. 27 Feb. 1843, had issue (see BURKE's Landed Gentry).

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, Henry (I52)

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Henry, slain at the house of Art O’Neill, of the Fews, 1498, he had a son Felim.

source: Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, New Edition. London, UK: Harrison, 1866.

O'Neill, Henry (I61)

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HUGH O’NEILL, Earl of Tyrone, was chiefly educated at the Court of Queen ELIZABETH, where he learnt, from the English statesmen Burghley, Leicester, and Hatton, that knowledge of political craft which marked his entire career. Eventually, throwing off his allegiance to the English Sovereign, “the Arch Rebel,” as he was styled, disclaimed the title of Earl of Tyrone (which had been confirmed to him by charter, 10 May, 1587) and proclaimed himself the O’Neill. He conquered every army sent against him by ELIZABETH; until after the siege of Kinsale in 1603, he found his cause hopeless and surrendered to Lord Mountjoy, by whom he was received into protection. Subsequently, in 1607, he fled to France, and thence proceeded Louvain, and finally to Rome where he was maintained on a monthly allowance granted by PAUL V. and the King of Spain. He m. 1st, a dau. of Sir Brian McPhelim from whom was legitimately divorced; 2ndly, Judith, dau. of Manus Donnell, and sister of the celebrated Red Hugh O Donnell, by her had issue,

I. HUGH, Baron of Dungannon, d. at Rome, 1609, unin.
II. HENRY, a colonel of an Irish regiment, in the archduke's service, killed in Spain.
III. JOHN, called El Condé de Tyrone, in Spain, in which kingdom he had attained the rank of lieutenant-general, killed in Catalonia.
IV. BRYAN or BERNARD, page to the archduke, murdered at Brussels, 1617.
V. Con, a prisoner in the Tower of London, 1617.
I. Mary, m. to Sir Bryan McMahon, Knt. of Monaghan.
II. –, m. to Donnel Ballagh O Cahan.
III. Sarah, m. to Arthur Magennis, Viscount Iveagh.
IV. Margaret, m. to Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarrett.

He m. 3rdly, Mabel, sister of Sir Henry Bagenall, marshal of the Queen's forces in Ireland, to whom he was m. by Jones, bishop of Meath, 1591, she d. s. p.; and 4thly, the dau. of the Lord Iveagh, who accompanied him to Rome where she died. This lady is described by Peter Lombard, archbishop of Armagh, thus: “Aetate quidem juniorem, sed educatione, prudentiâ, pietate maturam; de Reg. Hib. P. 383. Tyrone d. at Rome, blind and old, 20 July, 1616, and was buried with great pomp in the church of San Pietro Montorio, where the tombs of O’Donnell and O’Neill, Baron of Dungannon, are objects of attraction to English and Irish sojourners in the Eternal City. The tomb of the Earl of Tyrone is no longer in existence, but happily the inscription it bore is still preserved in the Book of Obits, of San Pietro's monastery, and runs thus:

D.O.M.
Hic Quiescunt Ossa
Hugonis Principis O’Neill.

It would appear that this brief epitaph was suggested by that on the tomb of Tasso in the neighbouring church of St. Onofiro. Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, was attainted in 1612.
Arms – Arg., a sinister hand affronté and couped, gu.

source: Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, New Edition. London, UK: Harrison, 1866.

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In 1765, John, the eldest son of David Campbell and Mary Hamilton, explored the southwest, and purchased lands on the headwaters of the Holston, where soon after, the family settled itself.

source: Peyton, John Lewis. History of Augusta County, Virginia. Staunton, VA: Samuel M. Yost and Son, 1882.

Campbell, Lt. John (I11661)

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In 1804 Captain David Campbell, the subject of this sketch, married a second time. By this marriage he had three children, but only one lived to maturity - Margaret Lavinia Campbell, a most noble, lovely Christian woman, and one of great intellectual attainments. She married the Rev. John Kelly.

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 Lavinia (I11410)

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In 1841 the dormant baronetcy was assumed by JOHN EYTOUN CAMPBELL, of Eildalloig (son of Dugald Campbell, deputy keeper of the Privy Seal of Ireland), as descended from Duncan Campbell, vicar of Kilfinan, fifth or sixth son of Donald Campbell, of Kilmory, great-granduncle of the first Baronet.

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

Campbell, Rev. Duncan (I8129)

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In a letter written by the late Hon. John McCurdy of Shippensburg, PA., dated February 12th, 1877, may be found the following extract: “If you take a general atlas and turn to the map of Ireland, you will find the Giant’s Causeway on the extreme northern coast of County Antrim. West of the Causeway, and east of the river Bann, you will find a small stream which runs due north, and empties into the ocean near the Causeway. This stream is called the Bush River. On this river, about one mile from its mouth, there is a village containing about 1,000 inhabitants. The name of this place is Bushmills. Just outside of the town, about a quarter of a mile distant, there is a farm called “Clouther.’ On this farm I was born. A short distance east of Bush River, about a mile nearly south of Bushmills, there is a farm called the ‘Caven,’ the southern boundary of which is within a hundred years of Billy Church, where very many of the McCurdys are buried. This ‘Caven’ farm is said to be the one on which the McCurdys settled when they emigrated from Scotland. There my great-grandfather Samuel [son of John, son of Petheric.-Ed.], and my grandfather Alexander, lived and died. My Uncle James held it from the time of my grandfather’s death in 1828, until 1874, when he died. Until very recently I thought this property was held by the family in fee simple; but I have discovered that they held it on life-leases. Two of my cousins hold either the whole or a part of it now. Ahoghil, from which your great-grandfather came, is about six or seven miles from the ‘Caven.’”

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

McCurdy, Hon. John (I144)

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In the later part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Duncan Campbell, son of Dugal Campbell of Inverary, and an officer in the English army, went from Scotland to Ireland. In the year 1612 forfeitures of large estates were declared in Ulster, some of the forfeited lands being bought by Duncan Campbell. In 1726, John Campbell and Mary Campbell, two of his descendants emigrated to America. John Campbell, with his wife and children, first settled in Pennsylvania, moving from Lancaster County, about 1730, to Virginia. Mary Campbell, his sister, married Moses White, from which marriage many families of the southern and western part of the country are descended.

source: Lee, Henry James. History of the Campbell Family. New York: R. L. Polk and Company, 1920.

Campbell, John (I6198)

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Campbell, Mary (I6200)

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Campbell, Duncan (I11569)

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In the year 1751, the Rev. Samuel Davies, then residing in Hanover, Virginia, made an excursion for preaching, to the Roanoke. In the course of his journeyings, he became acquainted with Henry Pattillo, then a young man desirous of commencing his studies in preparation for the gospel ministry, and invited him to come and commence his course with him in Hanover. This invitation Mr. Pattillo at first declined, as he had engaged to go to Pennsylvania with another young man, and commence his studies under the care and tuition of the Rev. Mr. John Thomson, who was at this time in Carolina on a mission to the new settlements.

In the year 1744, in compliance with a “representation from many people in North Carolina - showing their desolate condition, and requesting the Synod to take their condition into consideration, and petitioning that we would appoint one of our number to correspond with them,- Mr. Thomson, of Donegal Presbytery, was appointed by the Synod to correspond with them. He was this time on a visit to these petitioners, and others in Carolina.

source: Henry Foote, William. Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers. New York: Robert Carter, 1846, p. 213.

Thomson, Rev. John (I1)

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James Blacker, d.s.p. 1852.

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, James Blacker (I42)

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JAMES BUCHANAN removed to America in 1783, and settled near Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1821. He married Elizabeth Speer, in Adams County, Pennsylvania and had four sons and a daughter: (1) James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States of America, died s.p.; (2) William Speer Buchanan, died s.p., aged twenty-two; (3) George W. Buchanan, died s.p., aged twenty-five; (4) Rev. Edward Young Buchanan, D.D., married, and had issue; and (5) Jane Buchanan (Mrs. Lane) had issue.

source: Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from Early Times: An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow, UK: James Maclehose and Sons, 1896.

Buchanan, James (I129)

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James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States of America, died s.p.

source: Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from Early Times: An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow, UK: James Maclehose and Sons, 1896.

Buchanan, President James (I130)

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JAMES BUCHANAN, the fifteenth President of the United States, was born near Mercersburg, in Franklin County, Pa., April 23, 1791. He was a son of James Buchanan and Elizabeth Speer. James Buchanan the elder was a native of County Donegal, Ireland, and emigrated to America in 1783, settling in Franklin County. About 1798 the family removed to the village of Mercersburg. Here young Buchanan attended school, and laid the foundation of an education which in after-years carried him to an eminence he then little dreamed of. He entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle, in 1805, and graduated with high honors in 1809. After studying law in the office of James Hopkins, at Lancaster, for three years, he was admitted to the bar in 1812. While at college he gave evidence of a remarkable mind, and he had been admitted to the bar but a little time when his talent and learning placed him in a prominent position and inducted him into a lucrative practice. In 1812 he enlisted in the service of the republic in the war with Great Britain, serving in the company of Capt. Henry Shippen. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1814 serving in the lower house and re elected in 1815 He was elected to Congress from his district in 1820. In politics he was at first a Federalist, but in 1828 he became a Democrat, and supported Gen. Jackson for the Presidency. He served almost continuously as a Congressman from 1820 till 1831, when he retired voluntarily and was appointed by President Jackson as Minister to Russia. He negotiated and concluded the first commercial treaty between the United States and Russia, opening the latter's ports to our commerce. He returned to the United States in 1833, and was made senator from his native State, serving from 1834 to 1845. He was appointed Secretary of State by James K. Polk in 1845, and filled that important position till 1849. After a retirement of four years he was appointed Minister to the Court of St. James in 1853. In 1856 he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for President in opposition to John C. Fremont, Republican, and Millard Fillmore, American. Mr. Buchanan was elected, receiving one hundred and seventy-four electoral votes, and was inaugurated March 4, 1857. Though from a State in which no slavery existed, Mr. Buchanan was hostile to those who opposed its extension, and was also an extreme advocate of the sovereignty of individual States. In a message to Congress in December, 1860, he blamed the people of the North for the disruption of the Union, and affirmed that the Executive had no power or right to prevent the secession of a State. The principal events of his legislative career were his advocacy of the recognition of the independence of Texas, and afterwards his support at the time of its admittance as a State; his service as chairman of the Congressional Committee on Foreign Relations; his advocacy of the “Sub-Treasury Act;” his opposition to the Fiscal Bank bill and support of an independent treasury. In 1861 he retired to his residence at Wheatland, and resided there until his death. In 1866 he published “Mr. Buchanan's Administration,” a book designed to defend the acts of his administration as President. His course as the President of the United States, while condemned by the great majority of the people of the Northern States, was evidently directed by his views upon the questions at issue, and in the light of future revelations will probably be reviewed with less severe judgment. He died at Wheatland, June 1, 1868.

source: Ellis, Franklin and Samuel Evans. History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia, PA: Everts and Peck, 1883.

Buchanan, President James (I130)

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JAMES CAMPBELL, born 1756; died, June 10th, 1781.

Married: probably 1779, Margaret McMichael; died Sept. 7th, 1825, buried at Carlisle, Pa.

After James Campbell's death his widow married 1st, Aug. 19th, 1782, Lambert VanDyke, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Davis) VanDyke of Buffalo Valley. The service was performed by Rev. John Elder of Paxtang Church. By her second husband Margaret (McMichael) Campbell had six sons all of whom married and whose progeny are scattered well over the United States. Dr. Henry VanDyke is perhaps the most widely known of her descendants. In the genealogy of George Douglas VanDyke of Milwaukee. Wis., Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. 1, p. 256, mention of Margaret McMichael's first marriage to James Campbell is omitted by mistake. The present writer called Mr. George VanDyke's attention to the fact and in his letter of reply he expressed his regret and stated that he would have the error rectified in any future edition of the work.

After the death of Lambert VanDyke, his widow married a third husband in 1795, Benjamin Thompson of Carlisle, Pa.

James Campbell was a soldier of the Revolution and died at the early age of twenty-five, from wounds received in battle. Family tradition says that he was an officer. A James Campbell was ensign in the Officers Seventh Battalion, Col. John Boyd, 1777. The name appears many times on Pennsylvania Revolutionary rolls with no means of identification beyond the counties from which the men enlisted.

After having searched printed records in vain for a notice of James Campbell's death, the writer made a trip to Derry graveyard and discovered that several mistakes had been made in copying the inscriptions for publication. Three inscriptions of different James Campbells were found to be incorrect in Mr. Egle's compilation of them. In one case he has the date of death as Aug. 20th, 1734, and the age as 78, whereas on the tombstone it is May 20th, and the age 75 years. I found a small stone inscribed “In memory of James Campbell, who departed this life June 10th, 1781, aged twenty-five years.” Egle had given the date as June 10th, 1783, ten months after James Campbell's widow had married her second husband. As his parents were married in 1755, and we from the statement of his daughter that he did not die until she was about a year old, this date on the tombstone fits in exactly with facts we know, and beyond question the grave of our James.

Children:

Eleanor, born June 26th, 1780.

source: Douglas, Bessie P. The Families of Joshua Williams of Chester County, PA, and John McKeehan of Cumberland County, PA, with Some Allied Families. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Press, 1928.

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JAMES CAMPBELL, born, 1689 in Ireland; died May 31st; 1771 at Derry (now Hershey), Pa.

Married: 1st, . . . . . . . .

2d, Agnes . . . . . . . ., born, 1707; died, April d, 1757; buried beside her husband.

3d, Mrs. Rosanna Vernon, a widow with at least two children

March 2d, 1737, James Campbell is on a list of warrantees of land in Derry Twp. for 300 acres. On the same date 279 acres of land in Derry Twp. were “surveyed to” James Campbell.

Egle's History of Dauphin County, Pa., p. 39: James and John Campbell were among the signers of a “humble petition of the inhabitants of the townships of Paxtang, Derry and Hanover, Lancaster County,” to the Governor of the Province, dated July 22d, 1754, showing “that your petitioners being settled on or near the river Susquehanna apprehend themselves in great danger from the French and French Indians. . . . We, your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Honour would take our distressed condition into consideration and make such provision for us as may prevent ourselves and families from being destroyed and ruined by such a cruel enemy.” This was during the French and Indian War and old documents show that murders and scalpings by the Indians were of almost daily occurrence in 1756 and 1757, and had it not been for the bravery and military ability of Rev. John Elder the “Fighting Parson,” Captain of the Paxton Rangers and later Colonel under the provincial Government, the terrorized inhabitants in all likelihood would have fled the frontier.

James Campbell was survived by his wife Rosanna, and in his will mentioned his step-daughter Jean Edmundson; James Vernon, son of his step-son Harry Vernon; Robert Cross's children; sister Martha Cary, then in Ireland; sister Elizabeth Long, then in Ireland; his sons John and Patrick; and James Campbell, son of his son Patrick. Rev. John Roan was witness to the will.

James Campbell is buried in old Derry churchyard and the inscription on his tombstone has been published numerous times as an example of the lugubrious in epitaphs. It cannot be omitted here.

“Under this stone lies entombed
James Campbell's Dust you see
Who was as healthy and as strong
As many that may be
But now by Death whom all devours
Is laid upon this cell
With crawling worms and reptiles base
He is obliged to dwell.
You that these lines do look upon
May also call to mind
That Death will be your certain fate
Therefore improve your time.”

Children:

Patrick,
John,
and others.

source: Douglas, Bessie P. The Families of Joshua Williams of Chester County, PA, and John McKeehan of Cumberland County, PA, with Some Allied Families. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Press, 1928.

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James Campbell, third son, lost his eye-sight from small-pox, and died at fifty years of age.

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

Campbell, James (I11734)

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JAMES MASTER OF PAISLEY, born 1575; died v.p. 23rd March 1618. On 5th April 1603 he was created LORD OF ABERCORN, and on 10th July 1606 he was advanced to EARL OF ABERCORN, Baron of Paisley, Hamilton, Mountcastell, and Kilpatrick. He married Marion, daughter of Thomas, fifth Lord Boyd, who died 26th August 1632, and had issue:-

(a) James
(b) Claud
(c) Sir William Hamilton, died s.p. 25th June 1681. he was created a BARONET of Nova Scotia in 1627. Before 1st April 1656 he married Jean, daughter of Alexander Colquhoun of Luss, and widow of Alan, fifth Lord Cathcart, and of Sir Duncan Campbell, Bt. of Auchinbreck.
(d) Sir George
(e) Sir Alexander Hamilton of Holborn, London, died before 4th May 1669. He married Elizabeth Bedingfield, and had a son:-
(1) Alexander Hamilton, who was created a Count of the Empire. He was father of:-
(a) Julius Hamilton, Count of the Empire, who married Countess Maria Ernestina of Staremberg. She died 1724, leaving three sons.

Arms on Seal, 1603.- Three cinquefoils with a label of three points in chief. CREST: An oak tree traversed by a frame saw. SUPPORTERS: Two antelopes. MOTTO: "Through" (Laing).

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, Sir James 1st Earl of Abercorn (I10)

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JAMES McCURDY, the eldest son of Petheric and Margaret (Stewart) McCurdy, was born in 1668. He married, when about twenty-one years old, Jerusha Murray, said to be a cousin of the Earl of Mar. He settled in the neighbourhood of Bushmills, County Antrim.

In a letter written by the late Hon. John McCurdy of Shippensburg, PA., dated February 12th, 1877, may be found the following extract: “If you take a general atlas and turn to the map of Ireland, you will find the Giant’s Causeway on the extreme northern coast of County Antrim. West of the Causeway, and east of the river Bann, you will find a small stream which runs due north, and empties into the ocean near the Causeway. This stream is called the Bush River. On this river, about one mile from its mouth, there is a village containing about 1,000 inhabitants. The name of this place is Bushmills. Just outside of the town, about a quarter of a mile distant, there is a farm called “Clouther.’ On this farm I was born. A short distance east of Bush River, about a mile nearly south of Bushmills, there is a farm called the ‘Caven,’ the southern boundary of which is within a hundred years of Billy Church, where very many of the McCurdys are buried. This ‘Caven’ farm is said to be the one on which the McCurdys settled when they emigrated from Scotland. There my great-grandfather Samuel [son of John, son of Petheric.–Ed.], and my grandfather Alexander, lived and died. My Uncle James held it from the time of my grandfather’s death in 1828, until 1874, when he died. Until very recently I thought this property was held by the family in fee simple; but I have discovered that they held it on life-leases. Two of my cousins hold either the whole or a part of it now. Ahoghil, from which your great-grandfather came, is about six or seven miles from the ‘Caven.’”

James and Jerusha McCurdy had eight children, namely John, Elizabeth, Margaret, Daniel, Andrew, Mary, Robert, and David.

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

McCurdy, James (I3)

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James, b. 1772, was H.B.M. Consul General in America (1817 to 1844) where his descendants still remain.

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, James (I32)

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James, Lord Paisley, died v.p. He married 28th April 1653, Catherine, daughter of William Lenthall of Burford, and had 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, James Lord Paisley (I40)

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James, of Trinta, b. 17 Aug. 1739; m. 1762, Dora Beresford, only dau. and heiress of Henry McCullagh, of Ballyarten, co. Derry, and had issue.

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, James (I40)

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JAMES, SECOND EARL OF ABERCORN, born about 1603; died about 1670. On 18th October 1616 he was created a Peer of Ireland as LORD HAMILTON, BARON OF STRABANE, but he resigned this title in favour of his brother, Claud (No. 24), 11th November 1633. He married, about 1632, Catherine, daughter and heiress of Gervase, Lord Clifton of Leighton Bromeswold, and widow of Esme, Duke of Lennox. She died September 1637, having had issue:-

(a) James, Lord Paisley, died v.p. He married 28th April 1653, Catherine, daughter of William Lenthall of Burford, and had a daughter.

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

(c) 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, James 2nd Earl of Abercorn (I17)

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James, the fourth child of Daniel and Margaret (Laughlin) McCurdy, was born in 1706. In Historical Genealogy, p. 73, he is erroneously spoken of as son of John. He married Polly Cook, and came to America about 1726. He first located on the James River, Vt.; but later, 1731, moved to Pennsylvania. They had four sons: Archibald, the ancestor of the Virginia branch, who married Hannah Watson; James, who went to Franklin County, Pa.; Hugh, who also went to Franklin County; and Robert, who went to Adams County, Pa.

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

McCurdy, James (I47)

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