Christiana Beatty

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Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association ..., Volume 11 By New York State Historical Association. Meeting

THE ANNUAL ADDRESS—THE SCOTCH-IRISH IN AMERICA AND IN NEW YORK

HENRY M. MACCRACKEN, D. D., LL. D., Emeritus-Chancellor, New York University, New York City, N. Y.

The first Scotch-Irish families in this state had come earlier than 1700. Some of them to New York city, where they supplied the audience for Francis Makemie in 1707. Many to Orange county, where they organized Goshen church in 1720. Many to the Wallkill in Orange and Ulster counties, where they founded churches before 1730. Hither in 1731 came a second colony from the province south of Ulster, among them Charles Clinton and his sister, Mrs. Christina Clinton Beatty. Their mother was daughter of a soldier of Cromwell. The former was honored in two sons, who were generals in the Revolution, while one of these, and also a grandson became governors of the state of New York. Mrs. Beatty was the ancestress of two noted Presbyterian clergymen, one of whom, Charles Clinton Beatty, was the founder of a school in which my mother was one of the first pupils, and afterwards until her marriage a devoted teacher. No name was held before me as an example in my boyhood and youth like that of Charles Clinton Beatty, descended from the Scotch-Irish lady of the Wallkill.