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- 1.– ROBERT II., King of Scotland, m. Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adam Mure, Knt., of Rowalton, and had:
2.– ROBERT STEWART, Duke of Albany; Earl of Monteith and Fife; Regent of Scotland, b. 1339, d. 1419. He m. first, Lady Margaret, granddaughter of Alan, Earl of Monteith, and had:
3.– MURDACH STEWART, second Duke of Albany; Governor of Scotland, who m. Lady Isabel, daughter of Duncan, Earl of Lenox, and had:
4.– LADY ISABEL STEWART, who m. Sir Walter Buchanan, twelfth Laird of Buchanan, for whose Royal Descent see Pedigree XIII., and had:
5.– THOMAS BUCHANAN, third son, first Laird of Carbeth, who had:
6.– JOHN BUCHANAN, of Easter-Ballat, second son, who had:
7.– THOMAS BUCHANAN, third Laird of Carbeth, who had:
8.– JOHN BUCHANAN, of Gartincaber, who had:
9.– GEORGE BUCHANAN, of Blairlusk, who had:
10.– WILLIAM BUCHANAN, of County Tyrone, Ireland, who had:
11.– PATRICK BUCHANAN, of County Tyrone, Ireland. He had a brother, Robert Buchanan, who was one of the first settlers in Cumberland County, Pa. In 1743 he took up a part of an eight-hundred-acre tract of land on the Conondoguinet, near the mouth of Silver’s Run. Robert Buchanan had several brothers in Pennsylvania then: one, Walter, who lived at East Pennsborough, Cumberland Co., where Robert removed, and William, who kept an Inn in Carlisle in 1753, and another brother who resided in Hopewell Township in 1748; PATRICK BUCHANAN’S eldest son:
12.– ROBERT BUCHANAN, of County Tyrone, Ireland, had:
1.– 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.
- GEORGE BUCHANAN of Blairlusk was served heir to umquhill John Buchanan of Blairlusk, his father, 1st August, 1662. He sold Blairlusk to his brother William, went to Ireland, and settled at Deroran, Co. Tyrone, in 1674. He married, 1675, Elisabeth Mayne, and had four sons: (1) John, of County Tyrone, of whom presently; (2) William, of County Tyrone, who was father of Patrick, whose son Robert was father of General Thomas Buchanan of Cumberland, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; and Alexander Buchanan of the same place, who both left issue; (3) George, settled in Munster, from whom descend George Buchanan and Andrew Buchanan, both in 1857, of Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.; and (4) Thomas, of Ramelton, County of Donegal, of whom afterwards.
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.
- GEORGE BUCHANAN, of Blairluisk, b. 1648; sold Blairluisk 1674, to his brother William, and settled near Omagh, co. Tyrone; m. Elizabeth Mayne, and had issue,
JOHN BUCHANAN, b. 1676; m. 1703, Catherine Black, and had issue, four sons, of whom,
1. JOHN, his heir.
2. Thomas, ancestor of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States.
source: Bernard Burke, Bernard and Ashworth Peter Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, 9th Edition. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1899.
- 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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