A pamphlet published in Philadelphia in 1764 is a scurrilous attack on James Bickham, chief magistrate of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who is charged, among other things, with encouraging the Paxton Boys to masacre the Conestoga Indians lodged for their own safety in the Lancaster work house. Bickham was a prominent merchant, county justice, and warden of St. James Episcopal Church in Lancaster. The pamphlet has various genealogical details that are difficult to verify. Bickham was apparently from County Tyrone, where his father was clerk of either Cappagh or Drumragh parish. James accompanied his father in collecting tithes. He married "Jemy" or "Semy" Blythe's daughter. Blythe kept a public house in Omagh and, according to the pamphlet, a bawdy house as well. They went to America, accompanied by his wife's sister, whom Bickham promptly sold as an indentured servant to an Indian trader thereby getting enough capital to start as a peddler himself. Has anyone run across people named Bickham or Blythe in or near Omagh in the 18th century? There is a throwaway line that Bickham (by now in Pennsylvania) "even told lies to gentlemen like William McCausland." William McCausland lived in Leacock Township, Lancaster County. He was from Omagh and had property in nearby Cappagh Parish, where these McCauslands were established. His son John was back in Omagh in 1756 and, according to tradition, returned with the plans for Second Omagh used to build Old Leacock Presbyterian Church and several skilled workmen from Omagh as well employed in building it. The elder or younger McCausland could well be the source for the specific information about Bickhams and Blythes in Omagh. Can anyone cast any more light on these people? Richard MacMaster