John Montgomery (1708-1778) married Martha Montgomery (1709-1799) on board ship from Londonderry, northern Ireland in the Spring of 1734. They settled in Paxtang Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They were supposedly cousins. Their son John Montgomery Jr. married Elizabeth Rush whose children William and Margaret Montgomery ended up in Montgomery County, TX. My lineage is: John Montgomery/Martha Montgomery James Montgomery/Anna Woods John Montgomery/Mary Clark Rev. John Harvey Montgomery/Hannah Emelyn Moore Charles Gamewell Montgomery/Georgia Lavenia Woods Harvey Woods Montgomery/Minnie Maud Deland Curtis Harold Montgomery/Winifred Now. I have determined that John Montgomery (1708-1778) could not have had Alexander Montgomery as a father, nor was he related as first cousin to Gen. Richard Montgomery. I have raked over the lineage of Gen. Richard Montgomery extensively and I cannot find a missing "John Montgomery" for the time period of 1700-1715. The other problem is the names of John and Martha's children. If you look at the names of the children of this lineage, you find the same names repeated over and over again down through the generations. For John to have been in General Richard Montgomery's lineage, I would expect to see some children named, "David", "Joseph", "Agnes Nancy", or "Martha" somewhere in past generations. I do not see this. I have consulted about five family historians of the John Montgomery/Martha Montgomery (cousins) lineage (either by book or email) and no one has found a family Bible or any records (wills, deeds or other documents) that show the parents of John and Martha. Has anyone on this list actually seen some document that shows who the parents of John and Martha Montgomery were?