Regarding Sandra's pondering of Irish ships, I found a site with a list of ships departing Irish ports: http://www.genealogybranches.com/irishpassengerlists/ships.html That details about 70 ships that sailed from Ireland in 1732-1749. It has links to a few passenger lists. Following the links there also you can find a reference to what looks like a list of about 2000 indentured servants in that era. "BOOK: Emigrants from Ireland to America, 1735-1743: <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806313315/theangeljessica> A Transcription of the Report of the Irish House of Commons into Enforced Emigration to America by Frances McDonnell; GPC 1992 Lists about 2,000 felons and vagabonds who were forcibly transported from Ireland from 1735 to 1743." Also there is an overview of various waves of Irish migration here that claims that the 1717-20 migrations included nearly 100 ships sailing from northern Ireland and claims thousands cam as servants: <http://www.irishgenealogy.com/surnames/migration-scotch-irish.htm> I found these while searching for the Ship Donegal, also noted as Dunnegall in some records, which may not have even sailed from Ireland. Based on the account of one passenger, John Hamilton, the Hamiltons and Potters on this ship I am seeking were not likely to have been indentured. Does anyone have any documentation of this ship Dunnegall or Donegal and passengers in 1741 or any other date? The acounts in Potter's bio offer a specific arrival date: ".. James Potter ... was born on the banks of the River Foyle in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1729. When James was age 12, the family moved to this contry, arriving on the ship "Dunnegall" at New Castle, Delaware on 25 Sep 1741. John Potter was accompanied by his sister Isabella, wife of John Hamilton (19). Isabella died shortly after arrival and her daughter Catherine was taken in by John Potter. Catherine later married James Chambers. James later commanded the "First Pensylvania Line." Multiple accounts of Col. James Potter place him arriving on this ship Dunnegall. I think one account suggests it was a few years earlier. I think I once found at least one other person claimed to have been on this ship but I currently can't find any record of ship passenger lists or of the ship at all aside from in Gen. James Potter bios. There is an Earl of Donegal ship list for passge to South Carolina in 1767 found here: <http://www.geocities.com/earlofdonegal/LIST.htm> John Hamilton apparently went to settle in western PA and I have some accounts of his owning a large farm and employing many slaves or indentured servants. That story seems a bit flawed in the claim that it was a plantation with many slaves, given the location in western PA, but is somewhat supported by a township named after the Fernaugh farm. Given that any Hamiltons I've come acorss generally seem to be well off the claim from some notes at the Lancaster Historical Society that the farm probably employed indentured servants makes more sense.