As part of my class from Family Tree Magazine on doing Scotch-Irish research, I identified several ancestors who are likely to have been SI. Alexander Lackey is one of them.
I reread all of this first thing in the morning after I had written....hmmmmm.....something is wrong. The Alexander Lackey who is buried in the Upper Octorara Presbyterian Church is said to be only 30. The Alexander Lackey found in Maryland married before 1724. The Alexander Lackey in the grave would have been born in 1717 and have only been 7 at the time of the marriage. I will need to do more research and sort out what really happened. If you are reading this much later, ask me what I found out.
Alexander Lackey
Alexander Lackey is said to have been buried 27 Apr 1747 in the Upper Octorara Presbyterian cemetery in Parkesburg, Chester Co PA. Upper Octorara Presbyterian Church (UOPC) was established in 1720 by a group of Scotch-Irish immigrants. Alexander is a very likely candidate for being SI.
I could not decide whether or not to add this information to my blog post about Lancaster County, PA. I decided to make it a separate blog post because Upper Octorara Presbyterian Church is not in Lancaster....although it is next door.
Settlement of the Somerset generally proceeded from the Chesapeake Bay eastward, and from old Accomack County northward. The original settlers in the first two settlements were Quakers and Anglicans; and both groups continued to grow from ongoing immigration from the northern portions of the Virginia colony. In the 1670s, Scottish and Irish Presbyterians began to immigrate to the county, some from Virginia, some from the British Isles. In December 1680, a prominent member of the county and professed Anglican, William Stevens of Rehoboth settlement, sent a request to the Presbytery of Laggan in northern Ireland to consider sending a Presbyterian minister to Somerset county; and the first Presbyterian (Reformed) minister, Reverend Francis Makemie, arrived in early 1683, quickly followed by a growing list of additional Irish Presbyterian ministers and missionaries. The towns of Rehoboth and Snow Hill along the Pocomoke River in the eastern (seaside) portion of Somerset County became Presbyterian centers in the County. The work of these Presbyterian ministers and missionaries eventually led to the organization of the Presbytery in Philadelphia in 1706, the forerunner of American Presbyterianism.
In 1689, the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 in England resulted in the exile of the Roman Catholic King James II. After conquest by invasion, the Protestant Dutch rulers William of Orange-Nassau and Mary of Orange (James II's Protestant daughter) later became King William III, (1650–1702) and Queen Mary II. The "Protestant Revolution" of 1689 in Maryland overthrew the Roman Catholic government, resulting in the reversion of Lord Baltimore's proprietary charter. The Province was converted into a Royal colony (with a later government controlled by the king and his ministers). The capital was moved from the Catholic stronghold at St. Mary's City in southern Maryland to the more central, newly renamed Annapolis on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, opposite Kent Island.
In 1692, the Provincial General Assembly established the Church of England as the "established church" of the Province. This put pressure on the Quakers and Presbyterians, who were excluded from political office for a period. Their numbers in the county began a slow decline until the American Revolution.[13]
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So with this in our mind, we would guess that the Cochran family and the Lackey family likely migrated in the time period of 1680 to 1692. Even though this isn't the time period we would expect from a Scotch-Irish family, it seems that unlike the area around Philly, the Presbyterians were actually being recruited in the Somerset, Maryland area. So I need to look at Francis Makemie and also the Presbytery of Laggan. But this actually makes it even less likely that the Alexander and Ann in Somerset are the same couple as the Alexander and Ann in Pennsylvania. I also need to see if I continue to find the Alexander and Ann in Somerset after their marriage.The World of the Nottingham Settlement [I am adding this later. This settlement is where Greensboro, NC is located now...not in Lancaster County]
On page 45 I found a footnote:
From information compiled from published transcripts and abstracts of probate records located in Ireland (table 2.1), I have found that a majority of the Settlement families probably came from the northern counties of Antrim, Derry, and Donegal in Ulster.
Lots to look at here! Is there the possibility that this information will lead me to where my Lackey family was living before I find them on the frontier in Pennsylvania? Alexander Lackey who was the son of the original immigrant did indeed move to North Carolina and was living in orange County when his daughter, Mary married Mordecai Moore.
Abstract:
Description:
About 1738 or 1739 these people settled along the Cape Fear, Black, Tar, Haw, Little, Flat and Eno Rivers. They at once built "meeting houses" and services were held by members of the community. Many years passed before they had settled ministers and organized churches.
.....in the church that bears the name of the river on the banks of which the first Eno Presbyterian Church was built
So the original church was not located where the present church stands.
The first regularly installed minister was Henry Patillo (of the New Hanover Presbytery), who served from 1765 to 1774. Patillo was also pastor at nearby Little River and Hawfields churches. The first Eno church building was made of logs; the second was a frame building. The third structure (built in 1878) was destroyed by fire in 1893. The church was then moved a few miles away to the village of Cedar Grove, and a new building was erected in 1898. Readable stones in the cemetery date from 1789. The Old Eno cemetery, at the previous location, underwent restoration in the mid-1960s. The Department of Transportation was persuaded to build a road into the site, which had become a wilderness. The cemetery was cleared, and a new bronze marker was placed to commemorate the site.
References:
A. A. Ellis and T. T. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church(1955)Herbert Snipes Turner, Church in the Old Fields (1962)
References: A. A. Ellis and T. T. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church(1955)Herbert Snipes Turner, Church in the Old Fields (1962)
There are 365 unmarked graves in the cemetery shown below:
The Great Trading Path was not only the gateway to the inte- rior for the early pioneers ; it also determined in large measure where they settled. Between 1737 and 1740 the Scotch-Irish came into the Haw old fields and staked out their home sites, some moving far- ther on and settling along the Eno River. About the same time Presbyterians from central Virginia moved farther down and formed the Nut Bush and Grassy Creek communities near the Virginia-Carolina line. These communities in the early days were often served by the same minister who preached at the Hawfields. Still others settled along this trail in the Yadkin Valley and on toward what is now Charlotte. A look at the map will show that these communities were all on a line near this old trail, which ...
Still later another settlement grew up on the Eno, and the town of Hillsboro was laid out. When this outpost became one of the seats of government along with the settlement at Salisbury, the old trading path was the natural line of communication between these two places ; and many of the famous officials of colonial times, first on horseback and then by stage coach, traveled back and forth between these two towns through the Hawfields. It was along this path, which had now become the Hillsboro-Salisbury Road, that Governor Tryon led his troops to meet the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance in the spring of 1771. ....On March 17 or 18, 1776, Daniel Boone and his company setout from Hillsboro along this road through the Hawfields on his way to the West. So we can see that the Haw Old Fields is west of Hillsborough....There is an entry in the old Bible which the Clendenin familybrought with them to America which shows that those who finally settled in Hawfields also shared in these hardships. It is all the more eloquent because there is only the simple comment: "Rose died at sea.".... The number of white people in Virginia is between sixty andseventythousand; and they are growing every day more numerous by the im- migration of the Irish, who, not succeeding so well in Pennsylvania as the more frugal and industrious Germans, sell their lands in that province to the latter, and take up new ground in the remote counties in Vir- ginia, Maryland and North Carolina. These are chiefly Presbyterians from the northern part of Ireland, who in America are generally called Scotch-Irish." 2....By 1750 one-fourth of the population of Pennsylvania wasScotch-Irish. Benjamin Franklin estimated their number to be 350,00c 24 Watson's Annals, in 1743, contained the notation, "The Proprietors, in consequence of the frequent disturbance between the Governor and Irish settlers, after the organization of York and Cumberland Counties, gave orders to their agents to sell no lands in either York or Lancaster Counties to the Irish." 25 Accordingly, by the time the migration was reaching its peak, Pennsylvania had become only a temporary stopping place in which to gather supplies and make preparations for moving farther on. From then on the great tide of migration turned southward, through the Valley of Virginia and then on into the back-country of North Carolina and as far south as northern Georgia. These pioneers followed the ancient Indian trail southward insuch numbers that it later came to be known as "The Great Wagon Road"; an early map that locates this road is preserved in the Library of Congress. The road ran from Lancaster and York in Pennsylvania to Winchester, Virginia, thence up the Shenandoah Valley, crossing the James River at Looney's Ferry and from there to the Staunton River at what is now Roanoke. It then followed this river through the Blue Ridge mountains, and turning southward it crossed the Dan River below the mouth of Mayo and went on into the Yadkin Valley. Some of the settlers who followed this road, after crossing the Dan, came farther east by the old Red House in Caswell County and on to the Great Trading Path, then followed it across the Haw River and on into the section around Salisbury. 26 It was along this road, which as yet was only an Indian trail, that the early settlers came into the Haw old fields and founded the settlements on the Eno and in Hawfields sometime between 1736 and 1741. Foote says in his Sketches of North Carolina that "As early as1740, there were scattered families on the Hico, and Eno, and Haw," but he does not give the source of his information. 27 Ian Charles C. Graham, in Colonists from Scotland, says that "Ulster immi- grants began to settle along the Eno and the Haw about the year 1738." 28 The Reverend D. I. Craig says in his "Historical Sketch of New Hope Church," "From certain facts and dates in my pos- session, I am confident that it was not later than 1741 and not earlier than 1736 when these families landed on American soil. How long they remained in Pennsylvania I do not know, but it was not a great while, perhaps only a few months." 29 Craig also says that at least some, if not all, of those who came into the Hawfields came to America in the same vessel and that they were connected by family ties in Ulster. This probably is the reason for the close connection between the group that moved on to the New Hope section some ten years later and those who re- mained in the Hawfields community. These ties were cemented by marriages between the young people of the two communities in the years that followed. The New Hope group also worshiped at the Hawfields Church until a church was erected in that com- munity. Craig says, "it was mid-winter and as they passed through Virginia some of the rivers were so completely frozen up that theyOh, WOW! There is great information about the migration from the ship to NC...I
need to revisit the site. But this is VERY interesting:
Just why these early settlers turned east after crossing the Dan River instead of following the great stream of settlers into the Yadkin valley is not known. The only possible clue may be found in the old Anderson family Bible where one reads that John An- derson and his wife, on reaching the Dan River and learning of rumors of smallpox in the Yadkin and Catawba valleys, turned east and settled at the head of the Eno River.On arriving in the Haw old fields, although it was mid-winter, the vast open spaces of gently rolling land, well watered by many small streams, displayed such charm and beauty that they decided to make them the end of their journey. Each family selected a spot along one of the many streams, beside a good spring, and staked out its claim. The lush growth of wild pea vines and tall grass, even though THE GREAT MIGRATION 33 it was winter, was sufficient to supply abundant pasturage for the various kinds of livestock they had brought with them, and the abundance of wild game supplemented the scant provisions that they had been able to bring. The first fruits they ate from the new land that spring were the wild strawberries. William Byrd wrote in his The Land of Eden, "All the woods, fields and gardens are full of strawberries, which grow excellently well in this beautiful and lovely land." 34 All of this land was still back-country, ef- fectively cut off from the settlements on the seaboard by the vast pine barrens to the east.
There is no Lackey/LeakeyLucky mentioned in the book. However, there is excellent information about the regulation that I did not copy.
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