Thank you Linda. I've checked Ancestry records, found nothing. John & Sarah Fulton Cook emigrated from Ireland and we know from The Journal of Alexander Chesney (whose grandmother was sister to Sarah) that John died in PA, then Sarah & children went into Union SC by 1772 (her Land Grant given to Irish Protestants). Their daughter Elizabeth had married William Hodge Jr. in PA before 1759. Found a Land Warrant for William Hodge Sr. for 100 acres in March 1746 in Reading Township (Lancaster) and his handwritten Will of 1767 states he was a resident of Reading at death. Closest to him in distance and time I find John Cook's Warrant for 100 acres in Aug. 1749 on Patapsce-York Rd. over Susquehanna. In Neal Otto Hively's Original Land Records Vol. 5 (if anyone needs a lookup) I find this property in Shrewsbury Township, Lancaster. It is said that the Widows Cook & Hodge & their families traveled together to SC and because of the marriage between their children I assume they lived in close proximity. We don't know if John & Sarah's children were born in Ireland or PA (or some of both) but their names were Thomas, Hugh, John, Robert, James, Sarah and the aforementioned Elizabeth. As to Rev. War records, Thomas was a Patriot & his record shows nothing. John, Hugh & James were Loyalists but I only have John's record from the Brits which shows that he emigrated in 1749, nothing else useful. Thanks much for your lookup efforts - you are a most impressive group of folks! Martha ps My best friend of 32 years died last night so if I don't respond to you immediately, I will. ----- Original Message ----- From: <lmerle@comcast.net> To: <scotch-irish@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [S-I] PA marriage records! > Hi Martha, most of the ones that survive have been published in a series > of periodicals. Then republished in large volumes. You check the large > volumes. They are fried into CDs. I believe I got one collection. There > are three volumes of Pennsylvania vital records at Ancestry too. > > If you post the name I'll see if I can check my CDs. (Translation: We'll > find out if my current PC reads my old CDs <grin>). > > There are no township or county records. These will be church records. No > state church in PA so no records like in Massachusetts, Maryland, lowland > areas of Virginia with functional parishes (unlike where our ancestors > lived...). > > If that turns up nothing, then you can check at the county level to see if > the county archive has records that were not aggregated in the various > collections. You can also check the state level at the Pennysylvania > Archive website. I do not believe their collection is on line (but they > are always surprising me). > > The names may also be in the diaries of itinerating preachers. Generally > there wasn't always a church, just a group of people who were serviced > once a year or less by a traveling minister. So...in this case, where > would they record the event? They had no time travel machine to warp > forward to the point where church registers (and a church) existed. So the > minister's diary might be the only place. These are often aggregated, > above. If you want to spend a few lifetimes, you can embark on a crusade > by checking Presbyterian repositories. Don't think if you do the one in > Philly you're through. Nope, several groups of Presbyterians would never > deposit there. If you know the denomination, you can determine who > 'serviced' them. Recall if there were 3 types of Presbyterians: normal (I > guess 'orthodox' is a better term <grin>), Reformed/Covenantors, and > Associate Reformed. Often in the early days they all met in the same place > but of course knew the other two groups were hell bound. A! > nd so wouldn't send records to their archive. It's usually more efficient > to stick with published sources, taking careful records of what you have > and haven't searched, for a very long time, before spending vacations in > musty archives. For one thing, you don't know when the church may have > deposited the records. The Presbyterians groups joined and split > frequently. You may have to visit six or more -- to start! > > The later it is and the further from the frontier the better off you are. > > Desperate to avoid embarrassment, Ulster Scots married in German churches. > People living in New York, likewise employed the handy Dutch Reformed > church. Heading first for a aggregation of records means you'll hit them > all (unless they got married in Maryland!). Ones close to Philly, full of > churches, might be found in any of them. > > It isn't an easy life searching for colonial vital records in > Pennsylvania, as you can see. > > Most Scotch Irish, esp. in the early years, are not likely to have any > record of a marriage. All a few centuries of persecution makes one a bit > paranoid and caused them to fall out of the habit of recording vital > records. > > Where you can find info on the marriage, if you can't find a marriage > record, is military pension records (state and federal - if Revolutionary > War), for starters. > > Post the names and we'lll check out our private collections of CDs, books, > etc. > > Linda Merle > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martha Davis" <marthadavis1@mindspring.com> > To: scotch-irish@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 5:36:13 PM > Subject: [S-I] PA marriage records! > > To all you PA researchers - can anyone tell me how to find 1700s PA > marriage records (if they exist), specifically for Shrewsbury Township > which > was in Lancaster Co., now York? 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