Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States"...land warrant for 300 acres on Chest Creek..." "The warrant was surveyed on July 23, 1773..." However, evidence suggests that he very quickly sold this warrant, likely due to his very low financial status.
Emigration from Ireland to Pennsylvania fronteir, likely following potatoe famine of 1770, ecomonic and political turmoil of the time, and growing violence. with Mary _____
"John Downey, our Scotch-Irish immigrant ancestor, was born about 1728 in Northern Ireland within the historical province of Ulster (probably in Antrim County)."
"It should be noted that some of the immigrant ancestors of these so-called "Scotch-Irish" had little or no Scottish ancestry, having been discharged English soldiers transplanted to Ulster around 1650..."
