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The Scotch-Irish in America Nashville, Tenn.: Barbee & Smith, Agents. |
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Page 232 Painted Post, Steuben County, N.Y. 1892. Born January 5, 1834, at Painted Post; son of Francis E. and Sophia McCall Erwin; grandson of Samuel Erwin; great-grand-son of Arthur Erwin, who came from the county of Antrim, Ireland; settled at Erwin, Bucks County, Pa., and married Mary Kennedy, daughter of William Kennedy, who came from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1730; Arthur Erwin was a large landholder in Bucks County, Pa., and owned thrirty thousand acres in Steuben County, N.Y.; was a Colonel in the Revolutionary army, and served under Gen. Israel Putnam; Sophia McCall's ancestors were from Scotland; being Presbyterians, became involved in the religious troubles of 1668, and escaped to Ulster, in Ireland; in six months afterward sailed, with other persecuted Covenanters, to New Jersey; afterward drifted to Massachusetts, and settled in Marshfield; farmer. |
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Page 249 Bath, Steuben County, N.Y. First year. Born at Painted Post, Steuben County, N.Y., January 14, 1816; son of Ansel and Ann McCall; lawyer. |