This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dunn Agnew Hamilton McCain Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hlT.2ACEB/3662.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: re: 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. There may have been AGNEWs who emigrated with Hance HAMILTON and were at Marsh Creek. Would the Dunn family have been neighbours ? ............................................................................... Jack, I am not sure if Dunns and Agnews emigrated from near "Hamilton's Bawn" co. Down, N. Ireland, but someone may recognize times and places in connection with a Dunn family. James Hamilton left a will in 1748 in Lancaster Co., Pa. Hance Hamilton was named as brother and executor. The date of arrival of Hance Hamilton and the 140 families (incl. McCains) was 24 August 1729. That's the date that the "Diligence of Glasgow" arrived, and though no passenger list has been found, they have confirmed that a number of the families among the 140 were on that ship. This, then, would be the date, and the ship, that the McCains almost certainly arrived on (since they were supposedly among the 140 families). In one document John Hamilton "County of Londondery now aboard The Diligence of Glasgow" made his will on 30 Jun 1729 (apparently while still on the ship). He died, apparently, after the ship arrived at New Castle, Delaware because on 22 September 1729, an inventory was made of his estate. At the time he was of "Penns/Pena(?) Neck, which may be where the families were located in the first few months after their arrival. Hance Hamilton, Sr., was accompanied on this migration by three brothers: James (d. 1748, above), John (who might have been the signer of the Marsh Creek protest), and William. Perhaps Capt. Hance Hamilton was from “Hamilton’s Bawn” co. Down, N. Ireland ?