Folks, I found a Richard Fulton in 1738 near Newville, current Cumberland Co, PA mentioned in an online copy of history book on Franklin Co. More importantly, he is mentioned in the context of a group of people, including the Chambers family. So I have also included some additional information on the Chambers family because it provides a basic outline of a migration path (Co Antrim, Ire > Fishing Creek, Lancaster Co, PA > Newville, now Cumberland Co, PA.) Why am I interested in this ? Because Fishing Creek, PA is about 6 miles from the birthplace of Robert Fulton of steamboat fame. By understanding the movement of the folks in that neighborhood, I hope to glean information about the residents of the neighborhood of Robert Fulton's birthplace that may shed light on his ancestors. " In the settlement commenced by James Chambers near Newville, then known as Big Spring, a group of inhabitants, so numerous as to form and support a religious society as early as 1738, was found, consisting of David Ralston, Robert Patterson, James McKehan, John Carson, John Erwin, Richard Fulton, Samuel McCullough and Samuel Boyd. Robert Chambers, brother of the preceding, as well as of Benjamin, who located at Falling Spring, formed a prosperous settlement near Middle Spring, about two miles north of Shippensburg." Visit the source listed below if you are interested in learning more about the migration in that area. Source: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/data/pa+index+833840301+F Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Joyce Moore HISTORY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA, ILLUSTRATED, CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1887, Chicago: JOHN MORRIS COMPANY, PRINTERS 118 and 120 Monroe Street. *************************************************************************** Subject: Re: Significance of Lancaster, PA? Resent-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:28:44 -0800 (PST) Resent-From: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:51:09 -0800 From: linda Merle <merle@fea.net> To: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com Hi Ron , >The question: Why did they go to Lancaster, PA? Yes, Lancaster Co was a major destination for Ulster Scots. One of the original proprieters was a Benjamin Chambers (1684) and I think an Irish Quaker. From there they spread out, especially as Germans entered the area. They did not like the German settlers (though most us now have some German <grin>). Here is a typical example -- the fellow that possibly enlisted my ANDERSONs (also from Lancaster CO), from Sharon Bryant" <SharonBryant@worldnet.att.net> "One of the earliest settlements in the Cumberland Valley was that made by Benjamin Chambers, who in 1730 located at Falling Spring in the vicinity of the present town of Chamberburg, which was named after him. With three brothers he emigrated at the age of seventeen from County antrim, Ireland, and settled on Fishing Creek in Lancaster County. Four years later, Benjamin, the youngest of the four brothers, crossed the Susquehanna and settled at Falling spring, having secured four hundred acres under a Blunston license. Here he erected a sawmill and a grist mill and farmed a large plantation, becoming a very substantial citizen. In 1764 he laid out the town of Chambersburg, which was to become the county seat of Franklin County. Other Scotch-Irishmen located in the same vicinity, becoming numerous enough to organize Falling Spring Presbyterian Church in 1738." Source for paragraph: Gerrard, "Chambersburg in the Colony and the Revolution." ****************************************************************** One more piece of the puzzle.... Roberta R. (Fulton) Hirth Harriman, New York 10926 FULTON web page at: http://www.frontiernet.net/~elisa96/hirth/fulton.htm