Person:Daniel McFarland (1)

Additional information as of 2022,a great deal of DNA testing has been done by more than a couple dozen males, in these lines...some results are.... indeed we are distantly related to Macgregor, in as much as present SNP testing demonstrates that these McFarlands and the Macgregors split off S744 at about the same time around 800 to 1000 yrs ago...there are several distinct lines of McFarland/McFarlane/McFarlin in the USA, one is the line of Daniel McFarland died 1738 Worcester and another big line is the line of Duncan McFarland and his wife Anne/Eliz Porter, who came to the USA via PA, and his deces who moved west, and down thru the Valley of Virginia, some of his deces eventually located in Orange Co NC...many males in all these lines have done DNA testing (big y, etc.) conclusively proving that these lines all descended from a common male ancestor likely to have lived in Ulster prior to 1650...in addition testing via autosomal DNA, links John McFarland of Boothbay Maine to Daniel McFarland, such does not establish just what the relationship was, only that they are biologically connected...speculation on my part, and based on several Hearth Money rolls, and Muster rolls, in Ulster going back into the 1630s would seem to indicate McFarland (and spelling variants) were a part of the plantation movement, brought in from Scotland by some wealthy plantation owner as farmers/soldiers...there is much speculation as to where in Scotland they came from...likely this will never be resolved.

Results of 111 marker DNA tests prove conclusively that Daniel McFarland (Died 1738 Worcester) was by DNA a MacGregor. The change in name probably was after the Proscription of the name by Edict of the King, the result of the Battle of Glen Fruin (1603). There are, as of 2013, 3 lines of McFarlands that are closely related by DNA: the McFarland deces of Daniel McFarland of Worcester, Mass; various McFarland/McFarlane lines in the Valley of Virginia (those deces of Duncan McFarland and Ann/Eliz Porter); and the McFarlands of Orange Co, NC (the line of William McFarland and his possible wife Keziah Pierce). For further details email me [email protected])

1.   FTDNA, in DNA Testing.

   Results of private DNA testing by FTDNA prove conclusively that by DNA Daniel McFarland was closely related to MacGregor, DNA SNP s744 is shared with them... Was he aware of this? Probably not, as he arrived in the USA in 1718,thinking that he was a McFarland. There is a reference to a 1630-1631 Muster Roll in Tyrone, for a Dunkan Mcffarlan, this could be his grandfather.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Massachusetts. Probate Court (Worcester County). Probate files, 1731–1881. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 2012)
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   Son James mcfarland living in Brunswick in the County of York ...
   Daughter margery mck_l-__g living in south carrolina ...
   Daughter margret campbell living in the kingdon of Ireland in the County Tyrone ...
   Son andrew mcfarland living in worcester ... 2 acres of land ...
   Daughter Elenour gray living in worcester ...
   Son daniel mcfarland living in worcester ...
   Son john mcfarland living in worcester ...
   Lastly my will is that my two sons andrew mcfarland and Samuell Gray be the sole Exeutour of this my last Will and Testament ...