Family:Unknown Dunlap and Unknown (2)

Note: Records in Augusta County, Virginia establish that Capt. James Dunlap and Charles Dunlap were brothers that migrated from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania to Augusta County, Virginia abt. 1752/3. Capt. James Dunlap was killed by Indians in 1758.

Other possible Dunlap relatives were Andrew Dunlap and possibly Arthur Dunlap (needs research) who were also in the Cumberland County area. There were Indian Traders, Andrew and Arthur Dunlap that were mentioned as settling in Pennsylvania between 1740-1750, as follows:

The first traders in this county were some Indian traders, and adventurers from the Conococheague and Conodoguinette settlements. Some of the more daring acted as pioneers and settled at Path Valley, some at Aughwick, and others in the Big Cove, within the present limits of the county. These settled between 1740 and 1750. The principal pioneers in Path Valley, or Tuscarora Valley, were Abraham Slach, James Blair, Moses Moore, Arthur Dunlap, Alexander McCartie, David Lewis, Adam McCartie, Felix Doyle, Andrew Dunlap, Robert Wilson, Jacob Pyatt, Jacob Pyatt, jr. William Ramage, Reynolds Alexander, Samuel Patterson, Robert Baker, John Armstrong, John Potts. Those at Aughwick, Peter Falconer, Nicholas De Long, Samuel Perry, John Charleton and others. ["History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania," pp. 514-518].

The government called upon the magistrates of Cumberland county to redress the wrongs of the Indians by expelling the settlers. Accordingly, in May, 1750, Richard Peters, the Secretary of the Governor, attended by Benjamin Chambers, William Maxwell, William Allison, John Finley and others, magistrates of the county of Cumberland, went over to Path Valley, where they found many settlements. They had Abraham Slack, James Blair, Moses Moore, Arthur Dunlap, Alex. M'Cartie, David Lewis, Adam M'Cartie, Felix Doyle, Andrew Dunlap, Robert Wilson, Jacob Pyatt, William Ramage, Reynold Alexander, Samuel Patterson, John Armstrong, John Potts and others brought before them, who were all convicted, and put under bonds to remove at once out of the valley with their families, servants and effects, and to appear at court at Carlisle and answer such charges as might be made against them. Their houses, cabins, and other improvements were then all burned to the ground, by order of the magistrates. After the purchase of the land from the Indians some of these men returned and located lands in the valley , and their descendants are there yet. [ "Historical sketch of Franklin County, Pennsylvania", by I. H. M'Cauley, pg. 190].