Our bishops; a sketch of the origin and growth of the church of the United brethren in Christ as shown in the lives of its distinguished leaders . family, were compelled to leave Scotland on ac-count of political troubles. They fled to the north ofIreland, in order to keep out of the way of King-James II. They remained in Ireland about threeyears, when he emigrated to this country, landed atPhiladelphia, at which place he made his home forsome time. He next moved to Donegal Meeting-house, in Lancaster, thence to Carlisle, Shippensburg,and finally, in 1737, settled on the farm, near ,
Our bishops; a sketch of the origin and growth of the church of the United brethren in Christ as shown in the lives of its distinguished leaders . family, were compelled to leave Scotland on ac-count of political troubles. They fled to the north ofIreland, in order to keep out of the way of King-James II. They remained in Ireland about threeyears, when he emigrated to this country, landed atPhiladelphia, at which place he made his home forsome time. He next moved to Donegal Meeting-house, in Lancaster, thence to Carlisle, Shippensburg,and finally, in 1737, settled on the farm, near , now owned by the bishops cousin, D. Dickson. He had seven sons. William, thegrandfather of our subject, was born at this place. Atthe age of seven years he was captured by the Indians,many of whom were about here at this time. He waskept by them eleven weeks, most of the time in a caveon an adjoining farm, and was finally returned by akind old squaw, who had been receiving favors fromthe family. This same squaw also warned them of amassacre which the Indians were planning. Theytook advantage of this warning and fled to Carlisle, 498. o0-x^-<^-;^2^-^^-^-^_ ife 4 .// TWENTY-FIKST BISHOP UNITED BKETHKEI^IN CHRIP ^99 where they remained about three years and then re-turned to their former home. The grandfather was asergeant in Colonel Boquets comtoand, and served tothe end of the campaign. He was with Major Dun-woodie at the massacre,,aqd was one of the three thatescaped to Fort London. The remainder, with themajor/were all killed ^nd scalped. He also joined acompany that was raised in the county at the begin-ning of the War of Independence, and held the posi-tion of ensign, declining several offers of promotion,till the close of the war. He had four brothers in thearmy ; one was killed at the battle of Monmouth, oneat Brandywine, one by the Indians, and one died onhis way home from the army. William, the grandfather, was married, August 1,1767, to Nancy Dunlap. Not much
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