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Introduction
This is a preliminary listing of persons believed to be among the original settlers of Borden's Grant. No contemporary list of these settlers seems to have survived, and we are forced to build the list more or less from scratch based on early court records. HIldebrand's 1960 map shows the land ownership of persons whom had obtained land from Benjamin Borden Sr., prior to the latter's death in 1743.
Waddell's List
From Source:Waddell, 1886:397
- Ephraim McDowell
- Peggy Millhollen
- James Bell
- William McCausland,
- William Sawyers,
- Robert Campbell,
- Samuel Woods,
- John Mathews
- Sampson Mathews
- George Mathews
- Richard Woods,
- John Hays
- Charles Hays
- Samuel Walker.
Hildebrand's Map (1964)
The following lists the settlers shown on Hildebrands Map of Borden's Grant. These settlers all obtained land from Benjamin Borden Sr, prior to his death in 1753.
Settlers are primarily grouped by major watersheds. Where it makes sense, some settlers are grouped with settlers in an adjacent watershed [1]Note that some settlers owned land in multiple watersheds. In some cases different settlers shared the same name, and appeared in the same or different watersheds.
Walkers and Hays Creek |
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James Buchanan |
John Buchanan |
Widow Smiley |
John Wallace |
Robert Regan |
Archibald Reagh |
William Reagh |
John Wallace |
James Harris |
James Coulter |
John Robinson |
John Wilson |
William Robinson |
John Stewart |
James Robinson |
Mathew Robinson |
William Wardlaw |
Walter McChesney |
Robert Stewart |
John Wilson |
Robert Culton |
JOhn Walker |
Robert McElrath |
Joseph Culton |
Alexander Walker |
James Robinson |
John Walker Jr |
Robert Culton |
James Walker |
Andrew Hays |
John Walker |
John Hays |
James Moore |
Charles Hays |
William Guinn |
Robert Telford |
James Hamilton |
John Dunlap |
Samuel Dunlap |
North River
| Archibald Buchanan |
William Porter |
John McCown |
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Moffets and Upper Hays |
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Samuel McCutcheon |
James Lusk |
John Shields Jr |
John Shields |
James Martin |
Charles Berry |
Samuel Nesbit |
Andrew Kinnier |
David Hays |
Elizabeth Hunter |
William Berry |
John Patterson |
David Kerr |
Francis Beatty |
Alexander McNutt |
John Logan |
James Trimble |
William Adams |
John Fulton |
Thomas Beard |
John Logan |
John Hanley |
Joseph Kennedy |
Samuel Hazard |
John Montgomery |
Robert Lusk |
John Lusk |
William Wardlaw |
David Wallace |
Robert Gay |
John Patterson |
George Henderson |
Charles Dohany |
James Wardlaw |
Francis McCune |
Joseph Kennedy |
James Cooper |
James eaton |
John Lowry |
John Dunlap |
Robert Lowry |
Robert Sproul |
James Henry |
Andrew Steele |
John Sproul |
William Wilson |
James Wilson |
Robert Edmiston |
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North East Section |
James Houston |
Robert Weir |
Patrick Hays |
William Pollock |
Thomas Hill |
Samuel Dunlap |
Richard Cousart |
William Porter |
William Canless |
William Loughridge (Loughbridge) |
John Moore |
George Henderson |
Andrew Moore |
Alexander Moore |
David Moore |
John Weir |
Joseph Weir |
William Cowden |
Mathew Edmiston |
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