Information gleaned from: Our Young Family in America, Compiled by Prof. Edward Hudson Young, Durham, NC. Published by: Sanborn & Ruth Young, Los Gatos, CA Ruth Young Orb, Chicago, IL Helen Young Hardy, Barrington, IL and the Compiler Printed at: Durham, NC, USA, 1947 Much of this information has been documented via the will of John Young, NJ Archives, 1st Series, Vol. XXXV, and the research of the individuals so named. The original Young's, 8 brothers and sisters, came from Scotland to America in the early 1720s, from earliest documents, apparently Quakers to Penn's Colony. Many of them ended up in NJ. The notes gleaned have to do, primarily, those who settled and/or passed through Fallowfield Twp. in the early years toward the Ohio's. There were a few Young's who stayed behind. #14 - Nathaniel Mitchell Young, pg. 24 - "Axe Man", very popular with Indians. Founder of Jersey Settlement in OH; b. in Morris Co. NJ, named after maternal grandfather James Mitchell who came to NJ about 1683 from Scotland. Nathaniel d. Feb. 18, 1828, age 57, 10 months, 28 days; Mary his wife, d. July 15, 1830, age 58, 11 months, 28 days, Wayne Cemetery. 1st permanent settler in Knox County, OH, 1803. Jacob Young, his brother, and Abraham and Simeon Lyon, joined him in Spring of 1804. Other relatives (Lewis & Bryant) followed. N. M. Young, bought property from Ebenezer & Mary Drake back in Mendham, NJ, 500 acres of wilderness in the US Military Tract (1796), Adams County, later Ross County, then Fairfield County and finally Knox County, (land originally sold to Benjamin I. Moore of NJ) - bought/patented at Chillicothe Land Office, first of the "Jersey Settlement". Owl Creek, S. Fork of Vernon River, 3 miles W. of Fredericktown, very near Kerr's Mill. (a relation) Noah Young, cousin, and son in law to Nathanial. Nathanial m. Mary Lewis in NJ, first children b. 1794, Anne, Elizabeth b. Jun. 9, 1795; James Lewis b. Aug. 3, 1797; Hannah b. Mar. 13, 1799 pg. 31 shows Jacob Young, appointed Associate Judge, War of 1812, also Capt. in military. Noah, was a Corporal. Miller and DeWitt were family alliances. Jac. Young m. Euphemia Beers, pg. 31-32. #16 - Mary Young, pg. 33, b. Oct. 26, 1777 in Morris County, NJ, d. Sep. 25, 1823 at Fredericktown, OH, Wayne Cemetery, near Lucerne, OH. Dalrymple, Carrol, Lewis - family alliances.