My understanding it that the Newville group were "McFarlane," with an e, and not McFarlands. I know this is basic genealogy 101--E vs. D, Mc vs. Mac, but this is something that causes me quite a bit of consternation. If anyone has any evidence of any of the D's (McFarlands) coming from Newville, changing their names from E to D, or anything else that sheds light on the issue, I'd love to hear of it. I'm trying to track the origin of William McFarland, who died in 1840 and is buried in Ebenezer Cemetery, Black Lick, Indiana County, PA. I know he served with the Bedford County Rangers during the Revolution, but evidence for everything before that is of dubious quality or completely lacking. Lately I've been operating under the idea that he would not have changed his spelling mid-life. Since the clan in Newville seems to universally use the E version, I have been assuming that the spelling was fairly well established by the time he was born (even though many say the guy lived to be 100, making the date of birth pretty early, but this is something that falls into the dubious category). Go D's! Loch Sloy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Regarding the McFarlands of Pennsyllvania: About ten years ago, Rev. William T. Swaim wrote a book called, Over the River. It is about the first 300 families that crossed the Susquehanna River. The names of the pioneers came from the 1733 Samuel Blunston license book. Practically all were Scot-Irish from Ulster, Ireland. McFarlands are listed, in fact a small section of land near Newville, in Cumberland County, was named McFarland by Swaim. They belonged to the Big Spring Presbyterian congregation in Newville. ------------------------------ To contact the PACUMBER list administrator, send an email to PACUMBER-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the PACUMBER mailing list, send an email to PACUMBER@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACUMBER-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of PACUMBER Digest, Vol 5, Issue 9 **************************************