Oh, Strange New WorldNortex Press, 1986 - 321 pages Robert Looney (d.1770) and his wife Elizabeth and their family immi- grated during or before 1734 from the Isle of Man (off the Scottish coast) to Philadelphia. They moved westward through Pennsylvania and settled near what is now Hagerstown, Maryland, and in 1739/1740 moved to the Shenandoah Valley in Augusta (later Botetourt) County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry on the Isle of Man and elsewhere in Scotland. |
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PARTI Strange New World | 1 |
Map of Kings Mountain Battlefield | 3 |
To Goliad With Love | 47 |
Copyright | |
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