I found a e-mail message that I saved back in 2002, copied from the Delaware County mail list. The message was authored by Gregory Cooke and contains information related to Scottish settlers in Delaware County, NY. That e-mail message is copied here, just below the following paragraph. My 4th great-grandfather, John McClelland (1754-1821) was of Scottish descent and migrated from Orange Co., NY to Harpersfield, Montgomery Co., NY in 1785. John was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and married Anna Marie WELLER (1760-1842) in Orange County prior to migration. Later, the family of John and Anna WELLER McClelland settled in Bradford Co., Pennsylvania, circa 1810. ------------------- Subj:[NYDELAWA-L] Re-Scots in Delaware County Date:10/30/2002 6:28:56 PM Eastern Standard Time From: _asbsc@mail.a-znet.com_ (mailto:asbsc@mail.a-znet.com) (Gregory Cooke) To: _NYDELAWA-L@rootsweb.com_ (mailto:NYDELAWA-L@rootsweb.com) While researching the history of the town of Kortright and the Kortright Patent, I found a lot of information on the Scotish settlers and the fact that they were enticed by Lawrence Kortright and his very liberal land purchase policies and his very flowery ads for the sale of his lands. His patent was 22,000 acres between the Susquehannah and Delaware Rivers. His advertisement of 1786, after the Revolutionary War indicated that about 70 farms had some improvement on them, before hostile actions of the British and their indian allies drove the settlers out. Some returned after the war and resettled their lands. One history indicated that Harpersfield was largely settled by English and that Kortright was largely settled by Scotish and Irish people. It indicated that in early September of 1773 a large group of members of the McDonald clan and others chartered the ship "Pearl" and emigrated from Glengarry to America.The history indicated that The New York Glazetteer for Thursday, October 21,1773 carried an acticle about the arrival of the "Pearl" and that it carried a great number of passengers from the highlands of Scotland who were in great health and had ready money to each purchase a freehold.On November 4, 1773, the Glazetter noted that they embarked on a sloop for Albany and from there they communicated with Sir William Johnson about possible tracts of land. The histories mentioned many families and their areas of settlement and indicated that a large group of them settled on the headwaters of Betty Brook, which is now generally the area of Kortright Center, I beleve. I found a wealth of early Delaware County history at Fonda in Montgomery County, because Delaware was not yet a county at the time a lot of this Kortright Patent land sales and settlement occured. I am looking there because I have narrowed my branch of the Kortright Smiths, by process of elimination down to very likely having been with the group. As they were in Kortright and on Betty Brook, before the other Smiths came in from Columbia County and other areas and I'm searching and searching for some kind of proof of it. So far to no avail. The Montgomery County Department of Archives and History at Fonda has a very good genealogy library and they will do research for a reasonable fee for those who can't get to the facility. You can contact them at _histarch@superior.net_ (mailto:histarch@superior.net) or go to the Montgomery County genweb site for a tie in to them. (Gregory Cooke) Paul E. Newell Ellicott City, MD ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.