DNA match with me .Gashley _Ancestors - aqwn07 - Generated by Ancestral Quest_ (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mrglenn/aqwn07.htm) 92. James McConnaughey Caldwell's History of Indiana Co., 1880, p.457 also a reference. McConnaughey Family, by J.R.Bassett, 1951, DAR SOURCE: The McConnaughey Family, photocopy in poss of Margaret Lezark, Garden Valley, CA. Glenn/Gorman Research Log #3 BIOGRAPHY: Grandfather James McConaughy, with his father, David McConaughy, 2 brothers, and 1 sister, came from North of Ireland, fully stamped Scotch Irish blue stockings, and settled in Franklin Co., Penn...it was likely before the middle of the last century.... There is a striking family resemblance throughout down to the 3rd and 4th generation, as now exists, between our family and that of David McConaughey (who was sheriff of York County). As far back as I can trace my grandfather James McConaughy, he married in the McConnell family of Path Valley and lived on a farm joining the village of Fannettsburg, 12 miles from Loudon on the Philadelphia Turnpike; was married about 1778 and his oldest son David was born Nov. 13, 1779. With 5 sons he moved from there to the center of Ligonier Valley on a 400-acre tract in 1800, and where there had been a noted tavernstand on the State road opened by Gen. Forbes in 1758. This was one of the great lodging places 3 miles from the foot of Laurel Hill. Through Grandfather's place was a half-mile horse race ground and once much used as the best in all the country. I think Grandfather never kept a hotel, but farmed, built a new house and planted another orchard near the old one, with peach trees all around.... James McConaughy was a man that did not talk much of what he had done, and only about things on hand, and with striking good sense.... He was stoutly built and heavy for a man of 5 feet 8 or 9 inches tall, of large head, and face with a kind and genial expression, a heavy head of hair inclined to be a little curly, and white as wool in his latter days, always clean shaven and no whiskers. It was the Blue stocking rule to shave and blacken boots and shoes on Saturday evening. My Grandfather's farm was in Path Valley, from where he moved to Ligonier Valley. His farm there joined the village of Fannetsburg, Franklin County, and had a fine orchard near the town. A neighbor ...once told me that when Grandfather left and sold to a German, that this man would not permit anyone to go into the orchard to carry off any fruit as my Grandfather did.... When James McConnaughy came to the valley in 1800, he had five sons of ages varying from 12 to 21 years of age.... He farmed and improved that tract of land, built a new house with one of those triangle chimneys of immense size as was common in those days and is yet standing, he also enlarged the orchard, but in 10 years after when all his sons had left to do for themselves, and his age approaching 70 years and only a half-grown grandson, Thomas Moore, to do his work, his farm got badly out of repair with several fields he had cleared, covered over with fallen timber. He then traded this farm to my father for a lesser one in good farming order on the Twolick Creek in Indiana County that his father (David McConnaughey the emigrant) had once owned, and that my father had purchased after his grandfather's death about 1814. After the exchange he (Jas. McC.) moved there and spent his last days, dying [after] about 10 years, as well as did Grandmother (Isabelle McConnell Moore McConnaughy), she dying a few years before him; also as well as did his father (David the emigrant) and mother (Jane Platt McC.) on the same farm. All 4 of these parents are buried in the churchyard of Bethel Church, Homer City, Indiana Co., Penn. James McConnaughy was not only a good farmer but a skilled mechanic. A good cooper, being able to make an excellent vessel from hogshead down to bucket; also a shoe maker. In all these things he trained his boys. He was, too, a complete fence builder of rails which he made straight and level as a line. He never used tobacco but would take a dram. He was very popular among the people of Ligonier Valley, and very like in Path Valley also. Many called him 'Uncle Jimmie'. He was a Democrat and active on days of election to see that people voted right as that was the popular and prevailing party of those times.... All his sons were powerful axemen. --Extracted from "Old Time Recollections", by Dr. Francis M. McConnaughy [James] served during the Revolutionary War as a sergeant in the 1st Battalion of Cumberland County Militia, Col. James Dunlap commanding, in the Company of Capt. Noah Abraham, of Path Valley, recruited in 1777. He continued to serve in the militia after the war, since his name is on "A Reurn of he Officers of Militia in the County of Franklin Saturday, June 30, 1792", as a captain. (History of Franklin Co., Pa., 1887, pp 183-4. Penn. Archives, Series 6, vol. 4, p. 110) --Extracted from McConnaughey Genealogy