Sharon, just on the back of these 2 posts.... Hugh Swan had next property to Wm Montgomery... Can I ask if there is any information on Hugh Swan in the book, did he sell up to return to Killead? Any family names? Only if you have time to check!! Thanks Dave _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "Scotch-Irish Merchants in Colonial America," pp. 127-128, I discuss a Hugh Swan, merchant. He was sued in August 1763 by Isaac Whitelock and > Benjamin Davis as "Hugh Swan of Paxton Township, Lancaster County,Pennsylvania, shopkeeper." At the next session of Lancaster County Court, James > Simm brought an action for debt against "Hugh Swan of Lancaster County, otherwise called Hugh Swan of Killead Parish, County of Antrim, linen draper." > Swan settled these and a series of similar cases by payment in full. In 1771 as "Hugh Swan, storekeeper of Hanover Township," he mortgaged property > there. He returned to Killead and appears in various advertisements in the Belfast Newsetter (e.g. May 24, 1774 and April 11, 1775) as a linen merchant > and owner of a bleach green. Obviously one of yours. ___________________________________________________________ William Montgomery, Sr., Died in Carolina July, 1796--- Looking at mix of names in WILL is interesting BAILEY/BUCHANAN/MCKNIGHT (most interesting to me is his neighbour!) Will of November, 1796; mentions; * wife Hannah, * son William, * eldest daughter * Frances BUCHANAN, * second daughter Elizabeth BAILEY, * daughter Hannah McKnight * daughter Mary, * son John, * son David, * daughter Rebecca and her child Jean. and Mentions Francis Buchanan.