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This page contains information relating to the Houston-Porter-Walker-Cowan and other allied families in Old Chester County, PA, and surrounding area. This area includes portions of modern day Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. Research on these family lines is related in part to the family history of John Walker III of the so called "Wigton Walker line" who married Ann Houston c1734. Members of this family appear together in southwestern Virginia after 1770. In most cases we are unable to explicitly trace these families prior to their appearance in Southwest Virginia. The exceptions to this are the Walkers and the Houston's whose immediate antecedants can be explicitly traced to this area, documentation for which is presented elsewhere [need links]. More problematic are the Porter's and Cowan's. In both cases there is reasonable evidence to suggest that they settled in the Old Chester area prior to c1726. However, explicit evidence linking the Cowans and Porters who married into the line of John Walker III is absent. The main project page is Project Notes for Families related to the Wigton Walkers in Old Chester County

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