Scotch Irish Migration of Presbyterians to Chester County

This list was found in SCOTCH IRISH PIONEERS IN ULSTER AND AMERICA, Charles Knowels Bolton (1910) pages 271 and 272.

The Scotch Irish migration of Presbyterians to Chester County began in 1719 and thus came long after the English-Irish migration of Quakers which had begun in 1682. These Presbyterians became of sufficient influence in Chester County in 1722 to obtain the name Donegal for their township. Chief among them at this time were:

• James Galbraith, Senior and his sons Andrew, James and John

• Robert Wilkins and his sons Thomas, William, Peter and John

• Gordon Howard and his sons Thomas and Joseph

• George Stuart and his son John

• Peter Allen

• James Roddy

• James and Alexander Hutchinson

• John and Robert Spear

• Hugh, Henry and Moses White

• Robert McFarland and his sons Robert and James

• James Paterson

• Richard Allison

• Patrick Campbell

• Robert Middleton

• Thomas Bayly

• Jonas Davenport

• James and Samuel Smith

• James Kyle

• James and Thomas Mitchell

• John and Benjamin Sterrett

• Joseph Work

• Ephraim Lytle

• David McClure

• Samuel Fulton

• Alexander McKean

• Robert and Arthur Buchannan

• James Cunninham

• William Maybee

• William Hay

• Henry Bailey

• John Taylor

• William Bryan

• John and Malcom Karr

• Edward Dougherty

• John and Hugh Scott

This page updated on April 6, 2009