> One of the families who settled in the Irish Tract was not Scotch-Irish, but > of English origin. Joseph Coles Carpenter and his brother Solomon and > nephew Zophar were among the settlers of the area around Covington, on > Jacksons River. Joseph and Solomon's mother had been a Coles and their > grandmother was a Wright. > Peter Wright was also a settler of the Covington area but I do not know from > whence he originated. > The Carpenters originally came to New England and one branch settled in > Rehoboth, MA and the other in Providence, RI. Eventually some of them, > including Joseph's ancestors, settled on Long Island, NY. Joseph later > moved to Westchester co, NY and from there he emigrated down to Virginia in > 1746. > My question to the list is this: does anyone know if others from the New > York area came south to settle in the predominantly Scotch-Irish tract? It > doesn't seem likely that members of one family came all the way to Virginia > without other allied families and/or neighbors. Another question would be > why? We read of the intensive recruitment of the Scotch-Irish who had > settled in the province of Pennsylvania and those who remained in Ulster to > populate the Beverley Manor and Borden Tract but did COL James Patton and > William Beverley and Benjamin Borden look elsewhere also or did some few > folks just decide independently to present themselves in Virginia and > purchase land? > There also seems to have been some families who maintained branches in > neighboring Amherst/Nelson counties, all of which was first Albemarle > county, among them being the Woods, the Robertsons and the Manns. I am sure > there must have been others. These three families lived on branches of the > Rockfish river in present day Nelson county and a look at the map shows it > to be not too far east from the Staunton area. > I would appreciate hearing from anyone who knows of other families which > would have emigrated from New York, especially in conjunction with the > Carpenters. Thanks. > Mary Mann Rollis >