These are excerpts from the book below and there are mentions of some Franklin County families which were sent to me by a friend Gordon Crooks “Scotch-Irish Merchants in Colonial America” By Richard K. MacMaster Ulster Historical Foundation 2009 My understanding of what he wrote: The Jackson family leased an estate from the clothworkers. They raised the annual rent to their farmers after May 1717. Aghadowey Presbyterian minister, Rev. James McGregor encouraged his congregation to move to America. Crop failure in the late 1720s caused more emigration. By 1730 food was available again in Ireland and few left that year. The 1660 Navigation Acts- Sugar and Tobacco could be sent from America to Ireland. America could only send goods through English ports. By the 1680s woolens from Ireland were competing with Englands. Parliament excluded Irish woolens, but Irish linen making was encouraged. To get Irish linen in America it had to go to England first. This was lifted in 1705. The Irish needed profitable shipping, the linen was needed in America. The Irish had been getting flaxseed from Holland. Later American flaxseed was imported to Ireland, then the ships would return to America with passengers and redemptioners. When they returned with flaxseed more families were able to buy passage to America the next year. Emigration was part of life in Ulster. Many left for New Castle, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania every year. Pennsylvania taxed Irish servants imported there, More came into New Castle then. In 1740 there was famine in Ireland, Philadelphia sent ships with grain. Hugh Davey and Samuel Carsan offered servants coming on the Ship “Mary Ann” from Belfast. This ship had a very bad crossing, taking 3 months. Not enough food, 20 people died and they had to stop in New York for provisions before ending up in Philadelphia. John Erwin from Coleraine brought Irish Linnens to Philadelphia. His partner at times was Thomas Robinson who brought servants. The Ulster-born merchants had connections in the American backcountry. There were advertisements in Ireland for people to come to Wilmington and Cape Fear in North Carolina. Governor Arthur Dobbs of North Carolina was from Carrickfergus and had John Gordon, a Belfast merchant, find passengers to remove to North Carolina. John Torrans in 1758 moved to Charleston, South Carolina. Patrick Allison moved from Lancaster to Somerset County, Maryland. His daughter married David Caldwell……much more on the Allisons. Rev. James Anderson was a minister in Lancaster County.(pg. 109) William Buchanan was in Marsh Creek, then Carlisle in 1752, later Gettysburg. He was an Innkeeper. He mentions George Croghan, John Armstrong etc. as commissioners to help with a road for Braddock. He talks about Big Cove in 1755. William Buchanan was in business with Barnabas Hughes, and Thomas Smallman an Indian trader. Apparantly George Croghan was Smallman’s cousin and backed him. He talks about James Fullton who depended on getting flaxseed and flour to take to Ireland. George Erwin was one of the merchants in York. Fullton had customers in many places including Rocky Spring (Chambersburg) and “Conigogigg” (Mercersburg). (Pg. 118).He mentions David Rhea and others including John Allison . (Pg. 119). James and Randle Mitchell from Glenarm, Co. Antrim, Ireland supplied goods to merchants, and the merchants sent flaxseed to them. Charles Hamilton (Lancaster) married a Mitchell niece. (Pg. 121) Archibald McAllister from Ulster settled at Big Spring in Cumbberland County in 1732. His son was Richard McAllister laid out Hanover, Pa. ___________________________________ (My James (Mc)Keirel was in the area in 1774. John Dean had come to the Tuscarora and talked to James about moving to Little Trough Creek ( near present Calvin area of Huntingdon Co., Pa.) where John had settled in October 1772. James did move in the spring of 1774, and started building. James had a cabin and half a barn and threshing floor, and ten acres had been cleared. He was taxed in 1776 in Hopewell Township for 100 acres of land. The other James McCarroll of York, son of John bought in 1774 James McAllister’s mill which was later called McCarroll’s Mill, it was where Letterkenny Resevoir is now. KITTOCHTINNY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS states James McAllister's mill was sold to James McCarrell, of York county, for 500 pounds in 1774.) _________________________________________ James Srerrett & Son were in Baltimore, which I had gotten info on them at The Maryland Historical Society Library when trying to figure out who Reuben Sterret was, beside son of Margaret McCardle from Thomas McDowell’s 1806 Will. I see many other names I recognize. One is William Beatty, Merchant of Belfast. He talks about the John Stevenson family from Londonderry who were in Baltimore about 1745. (Pg. 203) I had looked at them also trying to figure out my William Stevens whose father was born in Ireland and my William was born in 1816 in Pennsylvania. Daniel McHenry was from Ballymena , moved to Philadelphia by 1772, and then to Baltimore with his family. He was an importer of dry goods. (Pg. 213) I looked at the original books at the Md. Hist. Soc. Library before. And then there is James McHenry and Fort McHenry in Baltimore. Hugh Thompson a nephew of Thomas Ewing came to Baltimore in 1784.(Pg. 223) There is more on the Thompsons on page 236. He mentions George Anderson and William Beath of Newry. On page 237. Archibald Stewart of Ballintoy arrived in Providence, Rhode Island in April 1763 bringing Linen cloth. (Pg. 243) He talked about Joseph M’Min family who was in Hopewell Twp., Cumberland county, and how during the Indian war went back to Ulster. (Pg. 271) He mentions the Ship “Newry Assistance” bringing servants in 1769. Pg. 274) ________________________________ York County Will Abstracts 1749-1819 *ERWIN, Joseph. Reading Township. May 16, 1771 February 11, 1772 Executor: John Erwin. Wife: Mary Erwin. Children: John, James, and *Sarah. (I believe this is John Fails/ Fields wife, Sarah and mother of my Margaret Mc(Keirel)) _______________________________ These other Erwins were found in the same county as our Joseph Erwin. ERWIN, William. Cumberland Township. November 16, 1774 December 9, 1774 Executor: John Stosach. Wife: Rachel Erwin. Children: Arthur, Archibald, and Mary. _____________________________________ ERWIN, Arthur. Fairview Township. December 8, 1804 February 24, 1806 Executors: Joseph Person and Margaret Erwin. Children: Arthur and Margaret. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography - Google Books Result by Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1895 - 7.150 [Joseph Erwin, the writer of the following narrative, was the second son of ... a later date in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and Steuben County, New York. ... Earlier today I found "The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography" 1895 Joseph Erwin wrote about his life when he came to America in 1768 on the ship "Newry Assistance" from where he was born,Cromlin Parish, Co. Antrim, Ireland with his father Arthur Erwin. His mother died on ship.His father then married Mary Kennedy. He went to live with Thomas Irwin store merchant in Philadelphia. He was later apprenticed and became an importer. He mentioned his Uncle William Erwin Esquire (brother of Arthur) living in Dyerstown. Joseph Erwin also mentioned his oldest brother John died March 1782. Now, my Joseph Erwin's Will and the two others with Wills in York Co. are the people in the Biography. Uncle William and Arthur, sons John, Joseph ( whose biography it was). Since, my Joseph seems to be the same age as William, could they be brothers or *cousins? James Wilson in Lancaster County was a middleman for buying indentured servants. (Pg. 278) I don’t think this is the same James Wilson, but I had looked at the Wilsons before. Rev. John Cuthberston was sent to America in 1751 to Minister to the Reformed Presbyterians (Covenanters) as a Missionary. In his Diary he recorded that the Licking Creek and The Cove Society, also called “Timber Ridge” was near the Cumberland (now Franklin Co.) line, about 10 miles west from Mercersburg. He records Covenanters were there by 1748. His first record was August 26, 1751. November 18, 1751 he rode to James Wilsons on Lickencreek. The Wilsons had children baptized on November 19, 1751. In the Fall of 1779, Rev. John Cuthbertson took a Ministry trip to the Monongahela area about twenty miles southeast of Pittsburg. James Wilson and his son Zaccheus left Burnt Cabins in Bedford Co. (now Fulton Co.) Pa. and settled near Pittsburg in 1769. The following year they moved to the Forks of the Yough. Rev. Cuthbertson mentions them in his Diary in 1779. Major James Wilson, was married to Isabel Barr, and fought in Westmoreland County and a number of Barrs and other neighbors from Fort Loudon are buried in the Barr Cemetery in Westmoreland County. The Continental Congress decided to not import from Great Britain. The last of the flaxseed ships sailed in 1775 and the trade came to an end. to MARKETPLACE Going Green: Your Yahoo! 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