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From: "Gerry Parchman" <>
Subject: Re: [NCScots] PARCHMAN
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:29:46 -0500
References: <20040226140043.UWJR1827.imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net>


Thanks Charles,

I know where they went. They apparently moved to Allegheny County, PA about
1769. One of the 3 sons of Nicholas (Peter) raised his family there. Two
brothers (Philip and John) went on to Robertson County and Stewart County,
Tennessee by 1789. Some descendants of Philip moved to Mississippi, where
one sold the land for Parchman Penitentiary and Farm in 1900 to the state
and was the first warden. Other Descendants of Philip went on to Texas,
where his grandson was the youngest defender (15) to die at The Alamo.

The problem is that I can't find any record of how they got to America and
where they lived before 1758. Family legends indicate both Germany and
Scotland (via Ireland) as possible origins.

Gerry Parchman


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