Robert Killough

Robert Killough
Birthdate:	1681
Birthplace:	Antrim, Antrim, Ireland
Death:	1737 (55-56) Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA
Immediate Family:	Husband of Margaret Finley Father of John Killough

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OBJE: _META <metadataxml><content><line>·The well-known itch to move manifested itself in 1803.  Captain Samuel K
CONC illough, now a resident of Clarke County, Georgia, requested and was granted a permit to travel through the territory of Tennessee to the north.  He took his brothers, Allen and Isaac, with him.  They got their permits at Southwes
CONC t Point (now Kingston) Tennessee, from the local Indian agent.  The brothers were searching for suitable lands for their families.  One hundred miles to the west, near Stone River, they found fertile soil in Rutherford County, Ten
CONC nessee.  It was a verdant land abounding in bluegrass and cedar.  The brothers hastened home.Upon their retur
CONC n they learned that the great land lotteries of Georgia were about to commence.  The drawing was to be the next year so the impatient men tarried a while longer.  It is known that the Killoughs registered for land; however, the re
CONC sults must have been disappointing.  In 1805, en masse, the clan left for Tennessee.  After that year few if any Killoughs are found in Georgia.Samuel 1763·<s
CONC pan style="font: 7pt 'times new roman'">         The eldest son of Isaac "the pla
CONC nter," Samuel Killough, had additional duty after service in the Revolution.  With John Ramey he was an Indian spy, ranging over wide areas and living in the wilderness, only occasionally coming into civilization.  Afte
CONC r this duty Samuel was created a Captain of the Jackson County militia and was given a tax district.Samuel 1763 Issac 1748 Franc
CONC es 1737<ul><li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-ss: list .5in">Moving to Georgia over the question of slave
CONC ry</li><li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-ss: list .5in">1784 , Carolinas to Georgia </font&
CONC gt;</li><li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-ss: list .5in">Francis Killough and his family shared one distinction from t
CONC he other Killoughs: they followed the Covenantor form of the Presbyterian religion.  The best estimate in this age would be that nine of ten Presbyterians followed the regular form of worship.  In the Killough family the divisio
CONC n was about the same.  The Covenantors belief could be summed up as a stricter view of the Bible.  The difference resulted in a wholesale division of friends and families.  Rival churches were created and often sat acros
CONC s the road from one another as the controversy spread.  One of the  major issues in the dispute concerned slavery.  The Covenantors lined up with the Congregationalists and opposed the practice.  The regular Pres
CONC byterians accepted the situation as a universal condition.  In general the Killoughs accepted the latter view whether they owned slaves or not.</li></ul>&l
CONC t;font face="Times New Roman">Although it would be many years before the slavery question would erupt in the Civil War, it was a matter of very real moment to the citizens of this era.  The Covenantors came to realize that they lived i
CONC n a part of America perfectly suited to the plantation economy.  Outnumbered and disillusioned, they sold their farms and started the trek north to the small farm and industry environment of the north.  Apparently Francis Killoug
CONC h died somewhere en route for his widow and children appear on the tax roll of Bourbon County, Kentucky, in 1791.  By the year 1800 most of the Covenantor Killoughs had collected across the river in Ohio.About the same time that the Covenantors were drifting north, another band of Killoughs departed from the Carolinas.  They were after the fertile lands of nor
CONC theastern Georgia.  They took their slaves with them to expand their operation.  In 1784 Isaac Killough, who called himself "the planter," deeded 257 acres on Turkey Creek in the Camden District of Chester County
CONC , South Carolina, to Daniel Williams.  Isaac and Mary's oldest son Samuel had been drafted into the army in South Carolina and had continued to serve with the American forces until the surrender of Cornwallis.  After thi
CONC s event, in the fall of 1782, the family migrated to Wilkes County, Georgia.  There in 1787 Isaac took a land grant of 300 acres on "the waters of Long Creek." http://kalloch.org/frame_custom4.htm<s...
CONC ; Allen Samuel <ul><li style="line-height: normal; ma
CONC rgin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-ss: list .5in">Move to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania</li><li style="line-height: nor
CONC mal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-ss: list .5in">1734-1735 , Cumberland County, Pennsylvania </li><li style="line-height: n
CONC ormal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-ss: list .5in">Samuel Blunston drove over from Lancaster and duly read the proclamation which had originated in London.  After hearin
CONC g the proposal the Killoughs discussed the offer and its merits.  The new price was fair and Robert Killough signed the roll at once.  Robert gathered the family together and left at once to prepare for the journey.  Joh
CONC n Killough was more cautious.  Finally convinced, John appeared at Donegal on October 31, 1734, and signed.  Samuel Blunston issued John the standard license.  In a short time John was on the way to join his brother Rober
CONC t and the rest of the family.</li></ul>Robert was granted one hundred acres on the north side of Conedoguinet Creek, which is i
CONC n Cumberland County today.  Robert's neighbor was Daniel Williams who had settled the past summer.  Robert and his sons worked fast to complete the home before the winter of 1734-45 set in and covered the fields and hill
CONC s with snow.  During November they finished the cabin and had a roof before the first bad cold days.As the Killoughs crossed the str
CONC ong currents of the Susquehannah, they brought with them seeds, farm implements and furniture, packed in Lancaster County's famous "Conestoga wagons.  The women and small children rode in the wagons while the men and boy
CONC s drove the cattle.  Having arrived at the Conoduiguinet, they surveyed the small, clear freshwater creek and the virgin soil of the meadows.  The creek was narrow, no more than thirty feet across, but full rich and rapid.&nbs
CONC p; After a short walk one could see the blurred outline of the Allegheny Mountains miles away but looking much closer.  Beyond there was the unknown world of 1734.  Indians and game populated the short, deep, mountainous valleys.&
CONC lt;/font>With the help of the Williams family the cabin had been finished in two days after the fashion of hasty construction.  Then, the wor
CONC k done, the first order of the day was a jug of cider or whiskey to make merry.  Logs cut from the forests, rough hewn and fitted into place, became the walls.  Often the floor was merely packed earth.  A single door swun
CONC g lopsidedly on leather hinges.  A loophole or two let in the winter sunshine.  The rear wall was composed of a large stone chimney.  Up in the loft beyond the ladder was the children's bedroom.  Within e
CONC asy reach the faithful rifle hung in the chimney corner.  On the table lay the single book of the house, the Bible, King James version, in Gaelic.Winter came and passed.  With spring John Killough and his brood arrived from Donegal.  They also crossed the Conedoguinet and settled on the north bank.  Pioneer fashion, the head of the family set up hi
CONC s sons with farms of their own.  Robert helped his sons Allen, John and David get a start.  Allen Killough built along a ridge by the "Allegheny path."  His brother David built next to him in May of 1735
CONC .  On May 20, 1735, David acquired the standard one hundred acres between Allen on the west an John Parker's farm on the east.  The second son, John, stayed at home until March 23, 1737, then joined David in taking two hun
CONC dred acres on Andrew Mackee's Run on "the South side of the Allegheny Path, among the Barrens."On June 20, 1736, Jo
CONC hn Killough gained a new neighbor, John McFarland, who took a patent on two hundred acres.  John assisted his two bachelor sons, Samuel and John Killough, to acquire farms of their own.  On March 23, 1737, the boys took up work o
CONC n some property at Abram's Branch of the Conedoguinet.  Their two hundred acres were held in common title.  The soil was fertile but not so much so as the land to the east.  The boys' farm had more than it
CONC s share of rock.  Many a plow was bent discovering subsurface stone.John Killough 1689   
CONC Robert Killough 1681 <ul><li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-ss: list .5in"> </li
CONC ></ul>  Passage to America</font&gt
CONC ; <ul><li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-ss: list .5in">January or February 1718 , Ireland to America </f
CONC ont></li><li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-ss: list .5in">In January or February of 1718 three English ships lande
CONC d in Belfast to pick up passengers.  One hundred Ulster families were divided among the three vessels.  Two brothers, John and Robert Killough and their families, boarded the William, a new large craft with on
CONC e hundred guns and three decks.  The boat touched Cork and then turned west for Boston.  A winter crossing of the Atlantic in that age must have been an experience of great rigor and hardship.  After landing in the New Wo
CONC rld the Ulstermen (Ulster is the place in Ireland from which they came) dispersed to Rhode Island, New Hampshire and the western part of Massachusetts.  The Killoughs joined the immigrants that elected to go to Worcester.  No doub
CONC t the new "Americans" were exhausted physically and mentally after their ordeal; nevertheless, the Worcester contingent set out for the forty mile trek inland to the little village on the then frontier of Massachusetts.</font&g
CONC t;</li></ul>The Killoughs were literate and well-to-do by the standards of the other families.  Cotton Mather had directed them to Wo
CONC rcester as a buffer against the Indians.  When the new arrivals came at last to the tiny village the welcome they expected was missing.  The local inhabitants offered insults and abuse as a greeting to the weary little company, la
CONC den with blankets, tools, flaxwheels and bay cradles.  Those who made the march recalled that they went largely on foot over a sandy path through woodland and meadow, stopping at night at the garrison houses which dotted the route.</fon
CONC t>The leader of the new families from North Ireland was James McClellan.  His lieutenants were James Hamilton, Alexander McConkey, John Killou
CONC gh and Robert Lothridge.  Their minister was Rev. Edward FitzGerald of Londonderry.In 1718 Worcester had 58 dwellings and 200 people
CONC .  In the fall of 1718 the Presbyterians started to build a church.  Deacon Daniel Haywood, a Congregationalist, led a group of his churchmen in building the new structure.  This reminded the new neighbors that Presbyteri
CONC ans were still very much in the minority.  Disheartened, Rev. FitzGerald led 40 families to Rutland, Massachusetts, to start anew.Jo
CONC hn Killough stayed in Worcester determined to make the best of the situation.  Robert Killough took his family to the town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where an earlier group had gone.  From these two men are descended the grea
CONC t majority of those who bear the name Killough.John and his wife Jean had two sons during the years that they lived in Massachusetts.&nbs
CONC p; The first was named Samuel, born December 8, 1718.  The second son, born May 3, 1720, was named John after his father and grandfather.The Scotch-Irish who remained in Worcester had to attend the Congregational Church, or "orthodox church" as they called it, if they desired to attend church at all.  When they arrived the church had no Ulster member
CONC s on the seating committee and no pews were granted to the new settlers.  By 1724 the situation had changed.  In that year it is recorded that in the foreseat of the church they had placed John Gray, John Duncan and Matthew Grey.&
CONC amp;nbsp; In the fifth bench sat James Hamilton, Alexander McConkey and John Killough, as well as Robert Lothridge.  All of those named were Scots.In time the Presbyterians recognized that at best they would always be a minority in New England.  With the exception of Rhode Island the English Congregationalists held control of the entire northeast.  The majori
CONC ty sect had no use for the newcomers and were blind to the advantages of the Scots as a frontier people.  The historian, O. Hamilton Hand, admitted "by intolerance the citizens of Worcester drove from her borders many who would ha
CONC ve been among the most valuable of her early inhabitants."The Killoughs were among those who left New England.  They joine
CONC d their fellow Presbyterians on the migration to Pennsylvania where they were to find a better sort of religious toleration.  The records show that the families moved southwest through Connecticut and then by sea to Pennsylvania.</font&
CONC gt;This is taken from http://kalloch.org/frame_custom4.htm&nbsp; Historical Background of the Killough Family by Stephen P. Killough</
CONC font>Isaac Killough 1740 <ul><li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-ss: list .5in"><span&gt
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OBJE: _META <metadataxml><content><line>The earliest mention of any variant of the name Killough found by     professional genealogists of the Ulster Historic Foundation, and other   &
CONC nbsp; genealogists hired, shows that there was a John Kellogh on Sir Thomas     Phillips' 3000 acre estate in Kenaught Barony near Limavady, Co.     Londonderry, Irelan
CONC d, in 1611-1616.  This was the only privately owned     estate in what, since 1922, is known as Northern Ireland.  Phillips, a     Scots soldier of fortune, h
CONC ad received this estate for his service in     Ulster when he raised a "company of foot" in 1600.  We can only surmise     why John was there as a se
CONC rvitor, a person receiving land in exchange     for military service.  He might have came to Ulster from Scotland with     waves of the McDonalds during the age of Eli
CONC zabeth I and somehow linked     up with Phillips.  Hundreds of unemployed Clan Donald men swarmed into     Ulster from Scotland about 1600 as mercenaries for the Iris
CONC h nobles.     John Kellog, possessing a "sword and pike," on Sir Thomas Phillips'     estate in 1631 appears on a list of all protestant men fit to be
CONC ar arms     in the local militia.  Nothing more is known of him.     The second John Killough to show up in records appears on the 1659 census &
CONC nbsp;   of Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.  He did not come to Ireland with     Cromwell's troops in 1649; he was born in Ireland in 1630.  He joined &nbs
CONC p;   them and was later paid in Irish land in Louth.  In 1654, this John had     married Mary Hyde.  By about 1660, John and Mary, with son John (the  &nb
CONC sp;  third), left County Louth, which was Catholic, to go north to the Bann     River valley in Ulster.  He probably sold his debenture to acquire cash     fo
CONC r new land and a business.  Here they would be close to their     coreligionists.  John Killough of Drogheda died in Antrim about 1715.     Their so
CONC n John (the third), born in Louth in 1657, married Anne McNeil     and had at least three children, Robert, John (the fourth) and James.     They were living in the County Antr
CONC im area. These and possibly other of     their children and other Killoughs coming from Scotland account for the     Killoughs found in Ireland presently. &a
CONC mp;nbsp;   In the early 1700's, due to laws affecting religion in Ulster, the     marriages of the Presbyterian Ulster Scots became invalid, their churches   &
CONC amp;nbsp; became illegal, their ministers could not preach or hold office, and they     had to be buried by Episcopal prelates.  A severe drought and a smallpox     ep
CONC idemic swept the land.  At the urging of their ministers and     accompanied by them, their congregations emigrated to Maine and New     Hampshire.  Three boa
CONC tloads of them left Coleraine early in 1718.  Robert     and his wife, Margaret Finley, their sons, Finley (Finlay), David, John     and possibly Allen, along with Rob
CONC ert's brother John and wife, Jean Young,     departed on the "William" and arrived in Boston August 4, 1718.  The     captain of this ship wa
CONC s Archibald Hunter from Coleraine.  The families     on this ship had attended the Macosquin Church and followed their     minister, Rev. Thomas Craighead, to America.
CONC   Rev. Craighead made other     trips to America to bring Scottish Presbyterians.     Their brother James remained in County Antrim and is believed to be the
CONC     ancestor of the Killoughs who lived at Gortahar, some of whom came to     Canada in 1834.  Due to lack of old records, many Killoughs living in &nbsp
CONC ;   Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland do not now know their direct     ancestry or their relationship to one another.  They still have close   &amp
CONC ;nbsp; ties to Scotland.     Since land had not been determined for them and the Boston Calvinists     would not tolerate them, they were forced to move to Worchester
CONC ,     Massachusetts, and then about ten miles northwest to Rutland,     Massachusetts. In time, Robert is found in Portsmouth, New Hampshire,   &
CONC nbsp; involved in the oil and sturgeon trade until his business mysteriously     burned down.     The John Young family came to Portsmouth and worked in the fishing&l
CONC t;br>    industry also.  The lack of land and attitude of the people toward them     made living in Massachusetts or New Hampshire a poor choice.  The Youngs<br&
CONC gt;    and Robert Killough's family traveled through Connecticut and down to     Philadelphia by sea to await developments so to learn where they could  &n
CONC bsp;  settle.  It depended on the Indian situation, what grants could be     secured, etc.  There the Youngs participated in the drawing of lots for   &nb
CONC sp; land in the Warren, Maine, area.  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts     included Maine at that time.  Their daughter Mary married Robert's son   &nbsp
CONC ; Finley,  who was only about 14 when their first child, David, was born     in Philadelphia in 1725.  His wife was eleven years his senior.  This   &nbsp
CONC ; may explain why he and his wife went north in 1735, to what was then     still the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with the Youngs instead of     staying with the Killough fam
CONC ily.  For several generations none of the     Maine Kellochs named their children after Finley's father Robert,     indicating it likely that a family disput
CONC e was associated with this move.     Robert's brother John's two sons, Samuel and John "of Sherman's Creek"     were born i
CONC n Massachusetts.  Later, Mary, Ann, and Allen were born to     John and Jean Killough.  The Presbyterians who remained in Worcester     had to attend the Cong
CONC regational church if they attended church any.     They finally realized they would never be granted the religious liberty     they wanted if they continued to stay in Worceste
CONC r.  John eventually     followed Robert to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and then on to     Cumberland County.     Th
CONC e Killough contingent established themselves near a series of springs     in what is now Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.  Big Springs, now the     town of Newville, w
CONC as the center of this community.  The earliest     burials clustered around an old oak tree in the southeast portion of     the yard near the first log church they bui
CONC lt in 1737.  In one of these     graves lies Robert the immigrant.  The Rev. Thomas Craighead, the same     one who organized the Bann migration, became the m
CONC inister.  He dropped     dead in the pulpit shouting, "Farewell!  Farewell!"  By the late 1760's     the Killoughs pushed o
CONC n to new frontiers of civilization in the     midwestern and southern states.  The rest of the story follows. From the book:  THE KILLOUGH/KELLOUGH FAMILY I
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OBJE: _META <metadataxml><content><line>In January or February of 1718 three English ships landed in Belfast to pick up passengers.  One hundred Ulster families were divided among the three vessels.  Two brothers, John and Robert Kil
CONC lough and their families, boarded the William, a new large craft with one hundred guns and three decks.  The boat touched Cork and then turned west for Boston.  A winter crossing of the Atlantic in that age mu
CONC st have been an experience of great rigor and hardship.  After landing in the New World the Ulstermen (Ulster is the place in Ireland from which they came) dispersed to Rhode Island, New Hampshire and the western part of Massachusetts.&amp
CONC ;nbsp; The Killoughs joined the immigrants that elected to go to Worcester.  No doubt the new "Americans" were exhausted physically and mentally after their ordeal; nevertheless, the Worcester contingent set out for the f
CONC orty mile trek inland to the little village on the then frontier of Massachusetts.The Killoughs were literate and well-to-do by the standards of the other families.  Cotton Mather had directed them to Worcester as a buff
CONC er against the Indians.  When the new arrivals came at last to the tiny village the welcome they expected was missing.  The local inhabitants offered insults and abuse as a greeting to the weary little company, laden with blankets
CONC , tools, flaxwheels and bay cradles.  Those who made the march recalled that they went largely on foot over a sandy path through woodland and meadow, stopping at night at the garrison houses which dotted the route.The le
CONC ader of the new families from North Ireland was James McClellan.  His lieutenants were James Hamilton, Alexander McConkey, John Killough and Robert Lothridge.  Their minister was Rev. Edward FitzGerald of Londonderry.&lt
CONC ;p>In 1718 Worcester had 58 dwellings and 200 people.  In the fall of 1718 the Presbyterians started to build a church.  Deacon Daniel Haywood, a Congregationalist, led a group of his churchmen in building the new structure.&am
CONC p;nbsp; This reminded the new neighbors that Presbyterians were still very much in the minority.  Disheartened, Rev. FitzGerald led 40 families to Rutland, Massachusetts, to start anew.John Killough stayed in Worcester d
CONC etermined to make the best of the situation.  Robert Killough took his family to the town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where an earlier group had gone.  From these two men are descended the great majority of those who bear the na
CONC me Killough.John and his wife Jean had two sons during the years that they lived in Massachusetts.  The first was named Samuel, born December 8, 1718.  The second son, born May 3, 1720, was named John after hi
CONC s father and grandfather.The Scotch-Irish who remained in Worcester had to attend the Congregational Church, or "orthodox church" as they called it, if they desired to attend church at all.  When they a
CONC rrived the church had no Ulster members on the seating committee and no pews were granted to the new settlers.  By 1724 the situation had changed.  In that year it is recorded that in the foreseat of the church they had placed Joh
CONC n Gray, John Duncan and Matthew Grey.  In the fifth bench sat James Hamilton, Alexander McConkey and John Killough, as well as Robert Lothridge.  All of those named were Scots.In time the Presbyterians recognize
CONC d that at best they would always be a minority in New England.  With the exception of Rhode Island the English Congregationalists held control of the entire northeast.  The majority sect had no use for the newcomers and were blin
CONC d to the advantages of the Scots as a frontier people.  The historian, O. Hamilton Hand, admitted "by intolerance the citizens of Worcester drove from her borders many who would have been among the most valuable of her early inhab
CONC itants."The Killoughs were among those who left New England.  They joined their fellow Presbyterians on the migration to Pennsylvania where they were to find a better sort of religious toleration.  Th
CONC e records show that the families moved southwest through Connecticut and then by sea to Pennsylvania.This is taken from http://kalloch.org/frame_custom4.htm&nbsp; Historical Background of the Killough Family by Stephen P. Kil
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OBJE: _META <metadataxml><content><line>Samuel Blunston drove over from Lancaster and duly read the proclamation which had originated in London.  After hearing the proposal the Killoughs discussed the offer and its merits.  The new p
CONC rice was fair and Robert Killough signed the roll at once.  Robert gathered the family together and left at once to prepare for the journey.  John Killough was more cautious.  Finally convinced, John appeared at Donegal o
CONC n October 31, 1734, and signed.  Samuel Blunston issued John the standard license.  In a short time John was on the way to join his brother Robert and the rest of the family.Robert was granted one hundred acre
CONC s on the north side of Conedoguinet Creek, which is in Cumberland County today.  Robert's neighbor was Daniel Williams who had settled the past summer.  Robert and his sons worked fast to complete the home before the winte
CONC r of 1734-45 set in and covered the fields and hills with snow.  During November they finished the cabin and had a roof before the first bad cold days.As the Killoughs crossed the strong currents of the Susquehannah, the
CONC y brought with them seeds, farm implements and furniture, packed in Lancaster County's famous "Conestoga wagons.  The women and small children rode in the wagons while the men and boys drove the cattle.  Having ar
CONC rived at the Conoduiguinet, they surveyed the small, clear freshwater creek and the virgin soil of the meadows.  The creek was narrow, no more than thirty feet across, but full rich and rapid.  After a short walk one could see th
CONC e blurred outline of the Allegheny Mountains miles away but looking much closer.  Beyond there was the unknown world of 1734.  Indians and game populated the short, deep, mountainous valleys.With the help of th
CONC e Williams family the cabin had been finished in two days after the fashion of hasty construction.  Then, the work done, the first order of the day was a jug of cider or whiskey to make merry.  Logs cut from the forests, rough hew
CONC n and fitted into place, became the walls.  Often the floor was merely packed earth.  A single door swung lopsidedly on leather hinges.  A loophole or two let in the winter sunshine.  The rear wall was composed o
CONC f a large stone chimney.  Up in the loft beyond the ladder was the children's bedroom.  Within easy reach the faithful rifle hung in the chimney corner.  On the table lay the single book of the house, the Bible, K
CONC ing James version, in Gaelic.Winter came and passed.  With spring John Killough and his brood arrived from Donegal.  They also crossed the Conedoguinet and settled on the north bank.  Pioneer fashion, t
CONC he head of the family set up his sons with farms of their own.  Robert helped his sons Allen, John and David get a start.  Allen Killough built along a ridge by the "Allegheny path."  His brother David b
CONC uilt next to him in May of 1735.  On May 20, 1735, David acquired the standard one hundred acres between Allen on the west an John Parker's farm on the east.  The second son, John, stayed at home until March 23, 1737, the
CONC n joined David in taking two hundred acres on Andrew Mackee's Run on "the South side of the Allegheny Path, among the Barrens."On June 20, 1736, John Killough gained a new neighbor, John McFarland, who t
CONC ook a patent on two hundred acres.  John assisted his two bachelor sons, Samuel and John Killough, to acquire farms of their own.  On March 23, 1737, the boys took up work on some property at Abram's Branch of the Conedogu
CONC inet.  Their two hundred acres were held in common title.  The soil was fertile but not so much so as the land to the east.  The boys' farm had more than its share of rock.  Many a plow was bent discoveri
CONC ng subsurface stone.</line></content></metadataxml>
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CONC nbsp; genealogists hired, shows that there was a John Kellogh on Sir Thomas     Phillips' 3000 acre estate in Kenaught Barony near Limavady, Co.     Londonderry, Irelan
CONC d, in 1611-1616.  This was the only privately owned     estate in what, since 1922, is known as Northern Ireland.  Phillips, a     Scots soldier of fortune, h
CONC ad received this estate for his service in     Ulster when he raised a "company of foot" in 1600.  We can only surmise     why John was there as a se
CONC rvitor, a person receiving land in exchange     for military service.  He might have came to Ulster from Scotland with     waves of the McDonalds during the age of Eli
CONC zabeth I and somehow linked     up with Phillips.  Hundreds of unemployed Clan Donald men swarmed into     Ulster from Scotland about 1600 as mercenaries for the Iris
CONC h nobles.     John Kellog, possessing a "sword and pike," on Sir Thomas Phillips'     estate in 1631 appears on a list of all protestant men fit to be
CONC ar arms     in the local militia.  Nothing more is known of him.     The second John Killough to show up in records appears on the 1659 census &
CONC nbsp;   of Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.  He did not come to Ireland with     Cromwell's troops in 1649; he was born in Ireland in 1630.  He joined &nbs
CONC p;   them and was later paid in Irish land in Louth.  In 1654, this John had     married Mary Hyde.  By about 1660, John and Mary, with son John (the  &nb
CONC sp;  third), left County Louth, which was Catholic, to go north to the Bann     River valley in Ulster.  He probably sold his debenture to acquire cash     fo
CONC r new land and a business.  Here they would be close to their     coreligionists.  John Killough of Drogheda died in Antrim about 1715.     Their so
CONC n John (the third), born in Louth in 1657, married Anne McNeil     and had at least three children, Robert, John (the fourth) and James.     They were living in the County Antr
CONC im area. These and possibly other of     their children and other Killoughs coming from Scotland account for the     Killoughs found in Ireland presently. &a
CONC mp;nbsp;   In the early 1700's, due to laws affecting religion in Ulster, the     marriages of the Presbyterian Ulster Scots became invalid, their churches   &
CONC amp;nbsp; became illegal, their ministers could not preach or hold office, and they     had to be buried by Episcopal prelates.  A severe drought and a smallpox     ep
CONC idemic swept the land.  At the urging of their ministers and     accompanied by them, their congregations emigrated to Maine and New     Hampshire.  Three boa
CONC tloads of them left Coleraine early in 1718.  Robert     and his wife, Margaret Finley, their sons, Finley (Finlay), David, John     and possibly Allen, along with Rob
CONC ert's brother John and wife, Jean Young,     departed on the "William" and arrived in Boston August 4, 1718.  The     captain of this ship wa
CONC s Archibald Hunter from Coleraine.  The families     on this ship had attended the Macosquin Church and followed their     minister, Rev. Thomas Craighead, to America.
CONC   Rev. Craighead made other     trips to America to bring Scottish Presbyterians.     Their brother James remained in County Antrim and is believed to be the
CONC     ancestor of the Killoughs who lived at Gortahar, some of whom came to     Canada in 1834.  Due to lack of old records, many Killoughs living in &nbsp
CONC ;   Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland do not now know their direct     ancestry or their relationship to one another.  They still have close   &amp
CONC ;nbsp; ties to Scotland.     Since land had not been determined for them and the Boston Calvinists     would not tolerate them, they were forced to move to Worchester
CONC ,     Massachusetts, and then about ten miles northwest to Rutland,     Massachusetts. In time, Robert is found in Portsmouth, New Hampshire,   &
CONC nbsp; involved in the oil and sturgeon trade until his business mysteriously     burned down.     The John Young family came to Portsmouth and worked in the fishing&l
CONC t;br>    industry also.  The lack of land and attitude of the people toward them     made living in Massachusetts or New Hampshire a poor choice.  The Youngs<br&
CONC gt;    and Robert Killough's family traveled through Connecticut and down to     Philadelphia by sea to await developments so to learn where they could  &n
CONC bsp;  settle.  It depended on the Indian situation, what grants could be     secured, etc.  There the Youngs participated in the drawing of lots for   &nb
CONC sp; land in the Warren, Maine, area.  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts     included Maine at that time.  Their daughter Mary married Robert's son   &nbsp
CONC ; Finley,  who was only about 14 when their first child, David, was born     in Philadelphia in 1725.  His wife was eleven years his senior.  This   &nbsp
CONC ; may explain why he and his wife went north in 1735, to what was then     still the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with the Youngs instead of     staying with the Killough fam
CONC ily.  For several generations none of the     Maine Kellochs named their children after Finley's father Robert,     indicating it likely that a family disput
CONC e was associated with this move.     Robert's brother John's two sons, Samuel and John "of Sherman's Creek"     were born i
CONC n Massachusetts.  Later, Mary, Ann, and Allen were born to     John and Jean Killough.  The Presbyterians who remained in Worcester     had to attend the Cong
CONC regational church if they attended church any.     They finally realized they would never be granted the religious liberty     they wanted if they continued to stay in Worceste
CONC r.  John eventually     followed Robert to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and then on to     Cumberland County.     Th
CONC e Killough contingent established themselves near a series of springs     in what is now Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.  Big Springs, now the     town of Newville, w
CONC as the center of this community.  The earliest     burials clustered around an old oak tree in the southeast portion of     the yard near the first log church they bui
CONC lt in 1737.  In one of these     graves lies Robert the immigrant.  The Rev. Thomas Craighead, the same     one who organized the Bann migration, became the m
CONC inister.  He dropped     dead in the pulpit shouting, "Farewell!  Farewell!"  By the late 1760's     the Killoughs pushed o
CONC n to new frontiers of civilization in the     midwestern and southern states.  The rest of the story follows. From the book:  THE KILLOUGH/KELLOUGH FAMILY I
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1681	1681	Birth of Robert Killough Antrim, Antrim, Ireland
1712	1712	Birth of John Killough Antrim, Northern Ireland
1737	1737 Age 56	Death of Robert Killough at Cumberland, Pennsylvania... Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA
????		resided Carnageeragh, Kilraghts, Antrim, Ireland

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