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From: "Sandra Ferguson" <>
Subject: Seceder emigration
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:03:54 -0500
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How really interesting.....thanks for sending the info. My own Seceders
arrived, we think, in the time of one of the great influx from Ireland, ca
1740-50s....don't know exactly. In your own research, have you determined
that groups traveled and emigrated together, stayed together and established
their own church in the colonies? I've found very close ties between the
members of my family's church in York Co....all the children of our family
are named for either members of the congregation or actual family
members...same goes for the grandchildren, too; it seems to me that very
strong bonds would be formed with folks that you had actually emigrated to
the New World along side. I've had no luck tracing my own Smiths beyond
PA, but wondered if tracing some of the other members of the congregation
might not "get me" to the right place in Ireland?
When searching for my Smiths (who had moved to Ohio from somewhere in
PA) I found them impossible to track down with nothing more to go on than
1700s PA.....but, believing that their children were named for specific
people, John McDonald Smith and Andrew Finley Smith, for example, I looked
for men with these names, figuring if I found the "namesakes", I'd find the
Smiths....and find them all I did; in the same Seceder congregation in York
Co. Researching "laterally" can work, and I wondered what you thought
about looking for these other members on passenger lists, etc, in the hopes
that the Smiths were from the same area in Ireland. Do you think it
possible that they all traveled/emigrated together?
I know so few actual particulars of the Scots-Irish emigration...was
there any special area of Ulster that they had settled in, after leaving
Scotland?

S.
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