I have just posted my annotation of a 1955 news article about Peggy ban DONALDSON. I would take it with a grain of salt. After all, she was in her early 40s when she is alleged to have been a dispatch rider for the United Irishmen in the late 1700s. That's not all. One night, when riding home (on her white horse from Ballybay bought with an inheritance from an elderly aunt) she was accosted by four soldiers. She laid them flat by grabbing a musket from one of them and decking them all with the butt end. Great fun. Anyway, I am still patching together all the various family tendrils around the events of the late 1700s. The Monaghan-Armagh-Down connections do make sense. If anyone can help me find the elderly aunt from Killinchy who may have died in 1796 (and may have had the last name: DONALDSON, MOFFATT, PATTERSON; McCLURE or COPELAND) - I would be supremely grateful. For the article, see: http://www.thesilverbowl.com/documents/newsclippings/1955Peggy-ban-DONALDSON.html Also, I am still trying to figure out who Oswald LAWSON was - likely a United Irishmen sympathizer who made the move to America at a time that suited his judicial health. He was the recipient of two letters from William DONALDSON (brother of Peggy ban) in 1811 and 1812. SEE: http://www.thesilverbowl.com/letters/1811_Donaldson_to_Lawson.htm http://www.thesilverbowl.com/letters/1812_Donaldson_to_Lawson.htm Greta fun. Enjoy, Sharon Sharon Oddie Brown Roberts Creek, BC, Canada History Project: http://www.thesilverbowl.com/ Family Tree: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=silverbowl