This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hamilton, Agnew, Dunn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hlT.2ACEB/3662.2.1.1 Message Board Post: In 1729, Col. Hance HAMILTON landed at New Castle, Delaware, with others from Northern Ireland. By 1739, some of these emigrants were at Manor of Maske, located on Marsh Creek in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania. The agent of the record holder of the property came after 1741 to drive away these Squatters or make them pay for the use of the land of the rocky hills. There may have been AGNEWs who emigrated with Hance HAMILTON and were at Marsh Creek. Would the Dunn family have been neighbours ? Would your James DUNN have received a land grant for 350 acres in 1774 for 350 acres on Dunkins / Duncans Creek / Turkey Creek, Colleton County, South Carolina - Dunn's Swamp ?