Person:James Mitchell (91)

Possibly this James Mitchell:

http://www.horseshoe.cc/pennadutch/people/scotirish/scotrish.htm

The Mitchell family was of somewhat superior status. James Mitchell was a surveyor before he came into Donegal, and seems to have been then or soon thereafter a government official. In 1722 he was made a justice for Donegal township of Chester county, and in the same year was appointed a commissioner to survey the "Springgettsbury Manor" on the west side of the Susquehanna river. He lived a mile below Galbraith's mill, and became a large landowner. He represented Donegal of Chester county in the Assembly in 1727, and was one of the first assemblymen of Lancaster county in 1729.

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While the above information on a James Mitchell is interesting, it does not prove it's the same James Mitchell who married Margaret (Caldwell) Rodgers abt. 1751 in Bedford Co., VA. This biographical sketch for James Mitchell and Margaret (Caldwell) Rodgers documents a lot of the historical information available in Lunenberg, later Bedford Co., VA. on the early Mitchell's there.