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- GENERAL THOMAS BUCHANAN, b. County Tyrone, 1747-48, d. at Newville, Pa., 13 October, 1823. Previous to the American Revolution he removed from Ireland to Pennsylvania, and at the outbreak of the war enlisted, in Cumberland County, Pa., in Colonel William Thompson’s Battalion of Riflemen, in the company of Captain James Chambers. He was commissioned third lieutenant in this battalion, 25 June, 1775, and captain, 10 October, 1777, in the First Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line. Captain Buchanan resigned from the army 26 September, 1779, and in 1789 became Sheriff of Cumberland (now Franklin) County, Pa. He m. Miss McFarlane, and had:
I.–ROBERT BUCHANAN, d. 31 May, 1833.
II.–ELIZABETH BUCHANAN, d. 25 August, 1863.
III.–MRS. NANCY SNODGRASS, d. 23 April, 1859.
IV.–WILLIAM BUCHANAN, d. 7 July, 1843.
V.–EZEKIEL BUCHANAN, d. 31 August, 1831.
VI –SARAH, d. 17 August, 1872, wife of Clement McFarland.
VII.–MARY BUCHANAN, of Shippensburg, Pa., d. aged 104 years.
VIII.–JANE BUCHANAN, of Shippensburg, Pa., d. aged 100 years.
source: Browning, Charles Henry. Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to the Legitimate Issue of Kings, 2nd Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Porter and Coates, 1891.
- From the third cadet of the Carbeth stem came John of Blairluisk, whose first son, George, relinquishing his Scottish honors, emigrated to Ireland, and settled in Tyrone county. Of his four sons, John and William erected families in the county of Tyrone, George in Munster, and Thomas in Donegal. William was succeeded by his son Patrick, who in his turn was succeeded by Robert, the ancestor of the Pennsylvania stock centered in Meadville. Robert had two sons – Thomas, late a military celebrity in Cumberland county, Penn., and Alexander.
source: Buchanan, Arthur William Patrick. The Buchanan Book: The Life of Alexander Buchanan, Q.C., of Montreal, Followed by an Account of the Family of Buchanan. Montreal, Canada: privately printed, 1911.
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