Person:James Naesmyth (3)

James, 1692-5/19/1767, married 1714, Elizabeth McKeen, daughter of Justice James McKeen and Janet Cochrane. They came to America 8/4/1718, landed at Boston and settled at Londonderry, N. H. He was one of the original proprietors with father-in-law McKeen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londonderry,_New_Hampshire

"Londonderry lies in an area that was first known as "Nutfield" because of the dense woods with nut trees. The town was settled in 1718 by Scots-Irish settlers, many of whom had left their homes in Londonderry in the Province of Ulster in the north of Ireland, and arrived in Boston in 1718 to start a new life without religious wars and persecution. In 1722, the town was chartered and given the name "Londonderry".[3][4]
Early Ulster Scots settlers spread out into surrounding villages, bringing Scottish and Irish names like Antrim, Derry and Dunbarton. Londonderry was the second largest town in early colonial times, and Derry, Windham and a portion of Manchester were formed from it."

http://www.londonderryhistory.org/townhist

"Those who first composed the settlement, were the following sixteen men with their families, namely: --

James McKeen, John Barnett, Archibald Clendenin, John Mitchell, James Sterrett, James Anderson, Randal Alexander, James Gregg, James Clark, James Nesmith, Allen Anderson, Robert Weir, John Morrison, Samuel Allison, Thomas Steele, and John Stuart. These pioeers of the settlement were most of them men in middle life, robust, persevering, and adventurous, well-suited to encounter the toils and endure the hardships of such an undertaking. Most of them attained to advanced age. They lived to see their descendants settled arund them, and the forest into which they had penetrated converted into a fruitful field. The average age of theirteen of the number, of whose age alone we have any record, was seventy-nine years; six attained to nearly ninety, and two surpassed it. John Morrison, the oldest of this company, lived to the advanced age of ninety-seven years."