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About John Thomas Rankin
Came to America in 1727
Fleeing Religious Persecution
In "History of the Republican Party in Ohio, "published in 1898 by Lewis Publishing company, the author, Joseph Patterson Smith, discusses the ancestry of a Richard Ranking to establish the importance of the family. Of the Rankin's, Smith offers the following;
We find that during the religious persecutions in the latter part of the sixteenth century in Scotland, and after the assassination of two brothers, the Ranking family fled to county Donegal, Ireland, in 1688. William Rankin had three sons, who came to the American's in 1720, Adam, John and Hugh, who landed at Philadelphia Pennsylvania and settled on farms in Chester County.
Adam married Miss Mary Steel, and to them were born three sons, of the remaining two brothers, who came to the America in 1720, John married Jane McElvee in Ireland there two sons were born to them, Thomas and Richard.
Richard Rankin, son of John Rankin and a brother of the Thomas mentioned emigrated from Pennsylvania to August County Virginia, at the close of the Revolutionary war, and reared five sons.
Some info here: http://books.google.com/books?id=VzUPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&s...
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John Thomas Rankin's Timeline
| 1690 |
1690
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Londonderry, County Derry, Ulster, Ireland
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| 1705 |
1705
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Ulster, Ireland
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1718
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1720
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Scotland, United Kingdom
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1720
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Londonderry, Derry And Strabane, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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1722
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Ireland
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| 1724 |
January 1724
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County Derry, Ulster, Ireland
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| 1726 |
1726
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County Derry, Ulster, Ireland
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| 1727 |
1727
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County Derry, Ulster, Ireland
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