Emigration from Ireland to Pennsylvania fronteir, likely following potatoe famine of 1770, ecomonic and political turmoil of the time, and growing violence.
"The 300 acre land warrant suggests that there were six in his family when he immigrated (four chidren and wife Mary?) based on 'Headrights' of 50 acres/person for immigrant families who paid for their own passage."
"John Downey, Sr's will listed his wife, Mary ?, who died in Black Lick Township after 1807, and his children: John D., Margaret, William, Peter, Samuel, James, and David...."
