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- We return now to THOMAS BUCHANAN of Ramelton, County Donegal, fourth son of George Buchanan of Blairlusk. He had a son:
BUCHANAN who was father of
JAMES BUCHANAN removed to America in 1783, and settled near Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1821. He married Elizabeth Speer, in Adams County, Pennsylvania and had four sons and a daughter: (1) James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States of America, died s.p.; (2) William Speer Buchanan, died s.p., aged twenty-two; (3) George W. Buchanan, died s.p., aged twenty-five; (4) Rev. Edward Young Buchanan, D.D., married, and had issue; and (5) Jane Buchanan (Mrs. Lane) had issue.
JOHN BUCHANAN of Ramelton, married Jane, daughter of Samuel Russell, and had a son James.
source: Smith, John Guthrie. Strathendrick and its Inhabitants from Early Times: An Account of the Parishes of Fintry, Balfron, Killearn, Drymen, Buchanan, and Kilmaronock. Glasgow, UK: James Maclehose and Sons, 1896.
- 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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1674 - 1748 (~ 74 years)
