In addition to John B. and me, the Reverend John Heart/Hart has many American descendants. John Heart/Hart's daughter Agnes married theThis could be my line as well, as Samuel Dunlap, Jr., of Lancaster County, SC (later of Humphries and Haywood Counties, TN) and his first wife Mary Craighead are candidates for the parents of my documented ancestor Jane (b. c. 1775), the wife of James
Reverend Robert Craighead, also a minister from Scotland who served in Ireland. He, too, was a graduate of St. Andrews. Robert Craighead's
daughter Katherine married the Reverend William Homes. Homes was a
minister on Martha's Vineyard from 1715 until his death in 1746.
Several of the Homes children married into early Martha's Vineyard
families, and son Robert Homes married a sister of Benjamin Franklin.
While William Homes and his family did not settle in the New World
until after 1700, William had taught on Martha's Vineyard in the late
1680s before returning to Scotland to earn his degree in Edinburgh. Katherine's brother, Thomas Craighead was also a minister. He arrived
in Boston in 1714 with the Homes family and settled in Pennsylvania. I
think that author Jean Craighead George, who died yesterday at age 92,
is a descendant of Thomas Craighead.
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