Many biographical and genealogical sketches of Giles County ancestors have been collected and presented here. They derive from a great variety of sources, such as books, periodicals, vital records, war records, etc. Combined, these sketches reveal the history of Giles County, Tennessee. This edition has been revised with new content added. I hope this publication is valuable to all of those with roots connected to Giles County.
William Duncan was born in 1630 in Scotland. He married Susan Haldane who was born in 1635 in Scotland. His son William Duncan was born in 1659 in Scotland. He married Margaret McMurdo, who was born in about 1720 in Virginia. Their son William Robert married Ruth Rawley or Raleigh in 1722. Their son Benjamin Duncan was born in 1752 in Virginia. He married Mary Davis who was born around 1756 in 1776. They had 8 children. Their daughter Juanna (Juda/Judy) was born in 1788. She had 12 children. Her son Thomas R. was born in 1829. He married Reeny Low who was born in 1824 in 1843. Their son Wilson L. who was born in 1849. He married Sarah "Salley" Patterson who was born in 1855 in 1871. Their son Paul was born in 1922, He married Mattie Evoit Kirby in 1943. They had 2 children. Their daughter Margorie Marie was born in 1944. He married Thomas Crisp who was born in 1944 in 1966 and divorced him in 1980. She then married Phillip Wayne Byrd in 1983.
Malcolm Blue (1700-1766) married Sarah Smith and the family immigrated in 1748 from Scotland to Cumberland County, North Carolina. Other Blue families immigrated later from Scotland to North Carolina and elsewhere. Descendants lived throughout the United States. Includes ancestors in Scotland.
The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.
Meyer addresses himself principally to two questions. Why did many thousands of Scottish Highlanders emigrate to America in the eighteenth century, and why did the majority of them rally to the defense of the Crown. . . . Offers the most complete and intelligent analysis of them that has so far appeared.--William and Mary Quarterly Using a variety of original sources -- official papers, travel documents, diaries, and newspapers -- Duane Meyer presents an impressively complete reconstruction of the settlement of the Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migration, their life in America, and their curious political allegiance to George III.
The great 18th-century Scottish immigration to the Carolinas was a response, in large part, to the failure of the Jacobite rebellion in 1715, a phenomenon which set in motion a chain emigration of Scottish Lowlanders, followed by one of Highlanders. Publication of David Dobson's Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830, Volume 1 in 1986 was the first attempt to build a comprehensive list of Scottish settlers in that region. Since 1986, Mr. Dobson has gathered an overwhelming amount of new information on early Scottish immigrants to North and South Carolina based on his research in Scotland, England, and the U.S., but especially at the National Archives in Scotland. This sequel to the 1986 volume encases those findings. In all, the compiler has found evidence on nearly 1,000 Scots not mentioned in the original work and, for the most part, not found in his other publications on Scottish emigration. As one might expect from such a disparate body of sources, the descriptions of these Scots vary considerably, though there is a solid foundation of genealogical detail: age, place and date of birth, and often names of parents, names of spouses and children, occupation, place of residence, and date of emigration from Scotland. This is an important addition to the literature of Scottish immigration to colonial America, and, given the difficulty of identifying the participants in this extraordinary emigration, one worth waiting for.
