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General References


Dunaway, Wayland F. The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981.

"Scotch-Irish Settlements in Pennsylvania: First Phase"

... The first Scotch Irish group settlements in Pennsylvania were made in the western part of Chester County, in Lancaster County, and in the southern part of Dauphin County, ...all embraced in Chester County until 1729. The earliest of these settlements were effected atFagg's Manor, New London, and Octorara, in the western part of present Center County, beginning in 1710 ....

"The Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish of the Dispersion"

...main sources of this emigration southward were the Cumberland Valley and the Scotch-Irish centers in the present Pennsylvania counties of Chester, Lancaster, York, and Dauphin ... In 1736 Governor Gooch made a grant of 500,000 acres to Benjamin Borden on condition that he should settle one hundred families on it before receiving title ... condition was met by Borden, who received title to the land in the fall of 1736. Some of the settlement under this grant, part of which was in Augusta County and the remainder in Rockbridge, was induced immigration direct from Ulster to meet the conditions under which the patent was issued. The main body of settlers in Rockbridge county, however, was that of the Scotch-Irish from Pennsylvania, whence a continuous stream poured until the Revolution ....


Fulton, Eleanore J. and Mylin, Barbara K. An Index tothe Will Books and Intestate Records of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1729-1850. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994, p. v.

"Scotch Irish Presbyterians soon followed. Simultaneously with the building of their homes they arranged for a palce of worship. There is tradition of a Presbyterian society at chest Level in Drumore township, in 1711, and evidence of an organization there as early as 1717. Donegal Church was in existence in 1720, possibly even as early as 1714; Pequea in 1724; and Middle Octorara in Bart township in 1727 ...."


Bolton, Charles Knowles. Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981.

p. 252: "It is said by Parker that sixteen men with their families ... The sixteen men were: ... Archibald Clendenin, and Miriam his wife. Their children are given in the birth records as early as 1720."

p. 281: "The purchasers of land for the joint church at Lower Brandywine in 1720 were John Kirkpatrick, James Houston, ...The surnames of the members of the Upper Octorara Church before the middle of the eighteenth century were: ... Boggs, ... Glendenning ...."


Whitley, Edythe Rucker. Tennessee Genealogical Records; Records of Early Settlers from State and County Archives. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981.

p, 169: Notes on Old Burial Grounds and Tombstone Inscriptions - "Note: The Frazor Graveyard is located on the Long Hollow Pike from Gallatin to Nashville just a short way from Shackle Island near Drakes Creek, where it crosses the pike. Some of the prominent settlers buried in this graveyard bear the names of Clendenning, Maurry, and Shaw."