---------- > Date: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 09:50:46 > From: [email protected] > To: SI > Subject: Re: Some who came with the Rev William Martin > > There's a lot of interest in this group! How about > this..... I have space on Rootsweb I am not using. > I'll donate my space (and a modicum of primitive > web design skill) if someone is interested in taking > on a "Rev Martin" project. We can use all the best > sources and put on the webpage the brief history of > this group and the names of those who came. We can > then add their descendent lines as we locate them. > As well as lines back in Ulster as we locate THEM! > This would make it much easier for collateral lines > to "connect". AND maybe in June of 2000 you can have > a big reunion at the North of Ireland Family History > Society Conference!(if you do, can I come??) > > Also though my ancestors, for instance, didn't come > with the Rev Martin (not Martian as I first wrote), > I suspect their cousins DID. In any case my > Covenantors came later from the same area and many > have the same surnames. So tracing them back in > Ulster will yeild more family links. > > Also since the South Carolina settlers were closely > linked with the Covenantors in Lancaster CO, PA > and New York -- we can build via links slowly a > vast interlocking network of migrating Scotch Irish. > > For some this can be key -- plugging the ancestor > into the right group. These Covenantors were a clannish > lot on both sides of the ocean. > > When I was back home for Thanksgiving, we visited > with the Rev. Reid Stewart, who is an expert on Covenantors. > His library caused me to salivate wildly. He'd spent > several years in Scotland and has collected multiple > volume sets of Covenantor histories in Scotland. He's > got transcriptions of early records in PRONI. What I > wouldn't do for a day in his library...why, I can't > think of anything I wouldn't do short of murder.... > Anyhow, he told me that the first meeting of the > Reformed Presbyterian presbytery meet in the barn of > my Covenantor ancestor in Newburgh, New York > Robert Beatty -- descendent of John Beatty who > arrived in 1729). In that barn was the Rev. John > Black (brother of my ancestor Robert Black who was > in South Carolina) and several other relations. > Possibly the Rev. Martin -- anyone know? > > I am too busy to do this on my own but with a little > help out there....we can begin re-uniting all the > families that left with the Rev. Martin -- on both > sides of the ocean. > > What do you think?? > > Linda Merle > >