In a message dated 12/5/01 7:35:59 AM Pacific Standard Time, blong@ismi.net writes: > George Oswell Buchanan (born 1763) and family. > > The beginning of this Buchanan line in America:            The clan Buchanan is still in existence in Scotland and our ancestor Alexander Buchanan was an active member of that clan. He attended their conclaves regularly which fact greatly displeased his wife (Margaret Oswell) by his long absence from their home, mostly a fortnight.            Mary Price, their grand-daughter told me that she had often heard her grandmother tell of how she had to stay alone at home for so long with her children and that she had complained to the Seneschal ( Constable ) who would only say that "No evil would come from his going" and even to her dying day she held a grudge against him and also the clan.            He continued to wear his "kilts" after he came to this country which also displeased her, because she thought that he should be an American now has he had adopted the United States as his home. But no amount of argument could induce him to take them off. He was a Free Mason having joined them in Scotland and he attended the lodge regular in New York and this fact also have his wife worry. This Mary ( Buchanan ) Price also told me that he was a very tall and straight man and fine looking and had black hair and dark blue eyes. He was of a very jovial disposition and would not let trouble bother him.           Alexander Buchanan ( of the Clan Buchanan ) was born near Dumfirmline, Fifeshire, Scotland in 1736. He married Margaret Oswell in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1758 and settled there. Their children went to school in Edinburgh. They lived at that place until 1777 when they sailed from Glasgow, Scotland for New York, U.S.A., with a family of four children, Peter, Mary, George Oswell, Alexander Jr. They located on a farm in Montgomery Co. near Sherry Valley in Otsego Co., N.Y.           He was successful and obtained a large tract of land and his children all settled near him. They both lived to be very old and when they died they were buried near their farm in New York. He was a very religious man of Presbyterian belief and also a Free Mason having joined them in Scotland.            After their death their children began to separate, Peter with his son, William, went to Pennsylvania and after a few years Peter died. His son, William, then about 21 years old came back to New York to settle up some estate and then went back to Pennsylvania.  They never heard from him again only that he was killed a short time after his return to his home, by a tree falling on him while preparing new ground for the plow. This was about 1800 when he was back to New York.             Mary, the daughter , married and settled near Nassau, New York and lived all the rest of her life in Rensselaer Co.              Alexander Jr. married in New York and left for the Southern United States. He had several children who scattered through the South and I have been unable to located them for sure.             George Oswell Buchanan, ( third child of Alexander Buchanan ) was born in 1763 near Edinburgh, Scotland. He attend school in Edinburgh until he was 14years old. He came with his parents in 1777 to America. He lived at home until hie marriage to Elizabeth Worden ( daughter of Christopher Worden ) He purchased a fine farm near Fonda, N.Y. in Montgomery Co.. His father helping him to buy it and for many years he continued in that occupation with great success. He then formed a partnership with a man ( Dill ) to buy cattle, mortgaging his farm to obtain the money. This proved a failure and it left him a financial ruin. In 1800 he moved to Herkimer Co., N.Y. and after a few years he moved to Febius Onondaga, Co. N.Y.              After several years of hard work to restore his fortune he left New York for Blue Rock, Ohio, in Muskingum Co. ,where he had a son George Worden Buchanan. Jan., 24, 1840 he moved to Joy, Ohio on Federal Creek and located just below the mill on the east side of the creek. In 1850 he moved to near Waterford, Ohio to live with his son Jeffery Wilcox Buchanan where they both died and was buried three miles and one-half southwest of Waterford, Ohio in the cemetery. Their graves are marked by a marble slabs with these inscriptions: George O. Buchanan, died Dec. 16, 1855 in his 92 year and Elizabeth Buchanan died Nov. 24, 1855 in her 84 year. They had ten children, Christopher, Hugh, John, George Worden, Jeffrey Wilcox, Alexander Hamilton, Richard Oswell, Margaret, Elizabeth, Mary.               Jeffery Wilcox Buchanan ( fifth child of George Oswell Buchanan ) was born April 15,1798 near Fonda, Montgomery Co., New York. When about 18 years old he came to Marietta, Ohio and worked on a floating grist mill on the Muskingum River at Devols Dam near Marietta, Ohio. While there he formed the acquaintance of Rachel Prouty of that place. They were married Feb 7, 1819. He located near that place in Union Township until in 1825 when he moved to near Jamestown, Athens Co., Ohio, on Federal Creek. He worked at the stone mason trade until he accumulated enough money to buy a farm which he sold in 1848 and received in gold. He then moved to Waterford, Ohio in 1848 and kept a general store for three years. Then he bought land three miles southwest of there which he sold in 1857 and bought the old homestead where he spent the remainder of his days. It was a piece of unimproved land of one-hundred acres two miles south of Waterford, Ohio, where his parents were buried. They had nine children, Cyrenius, Walter McIntyre, Czarina, Lucinda, Elizabeth, Cyntha Diantha, George Washington, Louisa Ann, Charles.