This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JhU.2ACEB/3259 Message Board Post: I have been tracing my ancestor Peter Elliot for quite awhile. He is born in 1636. He appears in Darby Twp., Chester County, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania long before the English Quakers come over, he is a large land owner right smack in the middle of a Swedish Settlement, yet papers say he was known to be a Scotchman. Did the Scottish come over to America in the early 1600's? Does anyone have any knowledge of this, of any ships, etc.? This news of him supposedly being a Scotchman is new to me, has anyone else heard this before?

Of course there was no Darby twp or even Chester Co before Penn arrived in 1682ish. Are you sure your dates are right? To find land ownership you would look at warrants granted by Penn and mostly his sons. I'm not sure when PA became known as a Commonwealth, as it was usually called a colony until 1775. The PA Archives (a group of about 100 books) gives early land records, taxes, disputes, etc. The Colonial Records are indexed so you should check there. As far as Scots arriving in Americ. Dodson has written many books on the Scots arriving here, one of which was for the early ones along the Chesapeake. As for the Swedes who came in early 1600s into what is now New Castle Co, DE they did go up the Delaware and then the Schuylkill Rivers to settle and so would have also been in now Chester Co. Dr. Peter Craig's book on the Swedes in 1693 might have a reference to any Scots among them. Cathy ----- Original Message ----- From: by way of Yvonne O. Bowers <Mistyhawk12@worldnet.att.net> To: <ELLIOTT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 7:09 PM Subject: [ELLIOTT] Peter Elliott, 1636, Carcushooke > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JhU.2ACEB/3259 > > Message Board Post: > > I have been tracing my ancestor Peter Elliot for quite awhile. He is > born in 1636. He appears in Darby Twp., Chester County, Commonwealth > of Pennsylvania long before the English Quakers come over, he is a > large land owner right smack in the middle of a Swedish Settlement, > yet papers say he was known to be a Scotchman. Did the Scottish come > over to America in the early 1600's? Does anyone have any knowledge > of this, of any ships, etc.? This news of him supposedly being a > Scotchman is new to me, has anyone else heard this before? > > > ==== ELLIOTT Mailing List ==== > Visit the ELLIOT/ELLIOTT Most Wanted Web Site: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/elliott.html > >