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From: "Kathryn Payne" <>
Subject: Re: [PaOldC] a bit about Rev Thomas Craighead and Rev Adam Boyd
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:21:36 -0400
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For anyone interest in the Craighead family and doesn't already know this,
they can find the book about them at:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/

Just type Craighead in the Surname field. The book was written by James
Geddes Craighead. It can be downloaded to a persons computer for easier
reading.

Kathryn
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From: "Anna B" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 2:27 PM
Subject: [PaOldC] a bit about Rev Thomas Craighead and Rev Adam Boyd


> Excerpted from Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America, by Charles
> Knowles Bolton, reprint 1977 by GPC:
>
> In Oct 1714, "Rev Thomas Craighead arrived in Boston with his
> brother-in-law Rev William Homes and their families from Londonderry" (on
> the ship "Thomas and Jane", William Wilson, master.) William Homes's son
> Robert married Benjamin Franklin's sister Mary in Boston; he was a ship's
> captain on ships bringing settlers to America.
> Both ministers were educated in Scotland in early 1690s.
> Rev Craighead served for a number of years in Freetown Bristol County Mass
> before, in 1723, moving to 'the Jerseys' where he served for a time in
> Delaware prior to a further move, in 1733, to Lancester County, Penna. He
> was pastor at Pequea Oct 1733 to Sept 1736.
> His family included his wife Margaret and children:
> Thomas, m Margaret, dau of George Brown of Londonderry
> Andrew, d without marrying
> Alexander - a minister
> John of Cumberland Co Penna
> Jane, m 23/10/1725, Rev Adam Boyd(first pastor of Upper Octorara Church in
> Lancaster Co Penna)
>
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