Hi Brian I really enjoyed your story on Capt. William Beatty. Any idea where I might find someone who has access to Rev. John Mackenzie's Narrative on the Siege? An entry for a kinsman, W. J. Mitchell JP, that I found in a Biographical History for York County, Toronto, includes the somewhat grand statement (after proclaiming that his father, James Mitchell, lived till almost 100 years old) that: "The family trace their ancestry back to a more remote date, their name being mentioned by Mackenzie in his narrative of the famous siege of Derry, on the side of the defenders." Needless to say, I'm hoping this might shed some light on my 17th Century MITCHELL's. Sincerely David Mitchell Cape Town South Africa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Orr" <brian@orrnamestudy.com> To: <Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 7:40 PM Subject: BEATTY > For those interested in BEATTY, the following extract is from History of > the Siege of Londonderry by Rev John Graham. p 249. > > Captain William Beatty, a distinguished officer at the siege of Derry. He > was in the custom and almost daily habit of going out cf the city with > small parties, and seldom returned without doing some execution on the > enemy, or bringing in some small prey. In the latter end of June, Captain > Beatty was seized with a violent flux which rendered him useless to the > garrison, so he took protection from the enemy and went to his residence > at Moneymore, to try if he could recover his health. Mr. Mackenzie, the > Presbyterian minister of Cookstown, who went with his congregation to > defend this city on this memorable occasion. and who published a > well-known narrative of the siege afterwards, says. that Captain William > Beatty had been in all the encounters and skirmishes with the enemy > before he left the city, and ever behaved himself with great integrity and > valour. He was the grandfather of the late Archdeacon Beatty, of Maydown, > in the county of Longford; grandfather of Ross Beatty, of Clones Esq, and > father of Mr. James Beatty, a respectable merchant of Newry sixty years > ago, who was never known to cross the Boyne Water, without alighting from > his horse and returning solemn thanks to God for the great deliverance of > this country, by the signal victorv gained by King William, on the banks > of that river. > > > > Brian >