The Kinnears and their kin; a memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy, with revolutionary and civil and Spanish war records; including manuscript of RevDavid Kinnear (1840) . wil-derness, a better home than their old settled region couldgive them. Gordon says: Scarcity of com, generallyprevalent from discouragement of industry, amounted in1728 and the following year almost to a famine, especiallyin Ulster. Emigrations to America, which have since in-creased, drew above 3000 people annually from Ulsteralone. Dr. Boulter, afterwards Archbishop of Armagh,who labored strenuously in 17
The Kinnears and their kin; a memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy, with revolutionary and civil and Spanish war records; including manuscript of RevDavid Kinnear (1840) . wil-derness, a better home than their old settled region couldgive them. Gordon says: Scarcity of com, generallyprevalent from discouragement of industry, amounted in1728 and the following year almost to a famine, especiallyin Ulster. Emigrations to America, which have since in-creased, drew above 3000 people annually from Ulsteralone. Dr. Boulter, afterwards Archbishop of Armagh,who labored strenuously in 1728 to divert the horrors offamine in Ireland, wTote to the English ministry March 7,1728, that there were seven ships then lying at Belfast thatare carrying off 1000 passengers; most of them canneither get victuals nor work at home. He also says: XVlll PREFACE. 3100 men, women and children went from Ireland toAmerica in 1727, and 4200 in three years, all principal seats of these emigrations were Pennsyl-vania and the middle states. The above is taken from anarticle in the New England Hist, and Gen. Register forJuly, 1858, by the Hon. William Willis of Portland, KINNEAR THE BARON KINNEAR (Alexander Smith Kinnear),of Spurness, Orkney, in the United Kingdom, one of theSenators of the College of Justice, Hon. (Edinburg),Advocate Scotch bar 1856, Dean of the Faculty of advo-cates 1881-2, Q. C. 1881, a Lord of Session (Scotland) from2 Jan., 1882, b. 3 Nov., 1833; created a peer 5 Feb., 1897. • Lineage—Thomas Kinnear, a cadet of a family long set-tled in Fife, became a banker in Edinburgh, and was fatherof George Kinnear, merchant in Edinburg, eldest son, whom. Fearne, dau. of John Gardiner, M. D., president of RoyColl. of Physicians, Edinburg, and was father of JohnGardiner Kinnear, of Glasgow, second son; m. Mary, Alexander Smith, of Edinburg, banker, and had, withother issue, an eldest surviving son, Alexander Smith, 1st, baron. Creation—5 F
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