Notes for Thomas DUNCAN, IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR
Immigrated 1740 to PA from Ulster, Northern Ireland. There was a famine that year which killed 400,000 people, prompting a mass emigration.
At death, owned 127 acres in Lancaster Co., PA. The family was apparently of some means, unlike many other Scots-Irish, who were dirt poor.
Presbyterian.
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Revised: 27 Dec 2004 by Bonnie L Schermer