Anyone have anything on McCarthy's down the other end of the county?? My Johanna McCarthy was in Bristol. ~Dolly ----- Original Message ----- From: <KATNKEV5458@aol.com> To: <PABUCKS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 10:40 PM Subject: [PABUCKS-L] McCarty/McCarthy in Bucks county PA > source: The McCarthys in Early American History > BY: Michael J. O'Brien > 1921 > > Bucks County seems to have attracted many of the Irish immigrants arriving > via the Delaware River during the first quarter of the eighteenth century, > and in the early records of that section of the State their names are found > in goodly numbers. At a place called Haycock Run about twelve miles north of > Doylestown, the County seat of Bucks County, there were a number of McCartys, > evidently relatives, who came from Ireland between the years 1730 and 1737, > and some of their descendants are since mentioned among the conspicuous > families of the County. The earliest reference to a person of the name in > this region is in the New Jersey Archives under date of October 25, 1733, > when a marriage license was issued in New Jersey to "Daniel McCarty of Bucks > County and Olive Titus." The place where the license was issued is not stated > in the Archives, but in all probability it was in Warren County, directly > across the Delaware River from Bucks. > > By a deed dated March 11, 1737 Thomas and Richard Penn, for a > consideration of 38 pounds and "a yearly rental of one-half penny per acre," > conveyed 250 acres of land in Nockamixon Township, Bucks County, to Edward > McCarty, and in describing the boundaries of the tract the deed mentions "the > lands of John Durham and Thomas McCarty," which indicates that the latter was > already a settler in this place. There is another deed on record in Bucks > County covering a second tract of 250 acres, sold by the Penns to Edward > McCarty on April 19, 1738, and in the same record there is a deed dated March > 3, 1738, from Thomas and Richard Penn to Silas McCarthy for 215 acres in > Nockamixon Township, and the tax lists show that he and his son, Carroll > McCarthy, settled on these lands. Silas McCarthy is mentioned five times down > to 1749 in the Pennsylvania Archives among "Warrantees of Land in Bucks > County." > > > ==== PABUCKS Mailing List ==== > Contact Listowner ar judjack@rocketmail.com > Bucks Co Surnames http://www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/surnamepageA.html > List Rules http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~myplace/mailing.html > Bucks Co. PAGenWeb page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks > Bucks Co at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~buckscounty > Genealogy of Pa http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6508/ >