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About Silas McCarty
"Silas McCarty... took up 350 acres of land in what later became Haycock Township [Pennsylvania]... adjoining the Logan Tract on the west, the Bryan tract on the south, and the Jacob Strawn tract on the east. The patent for this tract of land from John, Thomas, and Richard Penn is dated January 3, 1737/38, but he was probably located there under a proprietary warrent some years prior to that date." In his will he left "his wife Sarah his plantation for life, then to all his children, his son Carrell excepted. To his son Carrell he gave 100 acres off the end of his plantation. To the congretation of Baptists he devised a plot of one acre on the east side of his plantation 'where a Meeting House stands.' This was near the village long known as Strawntown, where a much neglected Baptist burying ground is still in existence."
Source: Clarence V. Roberts, Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks
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McCarty's property was half a mile west of Applebachsville, according to W.W.H. Davis, History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Emigrated to America from Ireland c. 1720; his name appears on a map of Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1724, which is the earliest evidence of his residence in the United States.
McCarty family crest shows a stag and right arm extended upward, holding a lizard.
Motto: "The Strong Hand To Victory"
Extensive research by David Bailey on Silas McCarty and Sarah Carrell and their descendants may be found here:
< http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pasulliv/settlers/settlers45/sett...>
An excerpt from that work, with a proposed hypothesis of how Silas arrived in the USA:
"In 1720 there were more than a million Presbyterians in Ulster being persecuted by the much larger Catholic population. By mid-century more than half of that population had migrated to America. John Fiske, in The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, tells us that "the great majority (of Presbyterians) came to Pennsylvania and occupied the mountain country west of the Susquehanna." In Wayland F. Dunaway's The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania, we are told that "A characteristic Scotch-Irish settlement was effected in present Bucks County, beginning about 1720 and still receiving additions in 1740. Scotch-Irish settlements were made in Tinicum and Bedminster Townships and in Deep Run, Plumstead, and New Britain Townships..." These are all very familiar names in early McCarty family history. It is possible that Silas, and perhaps a brother, arrived directly in Pennsylvania on this wave of migration.
Accept the following only as a possibility:
The members of Clancarty were papists (Catholics). Given that the McCarty family is descended from that clan, there can be no doubt about that fact. Clancarty fought long and hard in defense of James the Second. With the coming of William of Orange, all of their land and monies were seized.
Members of the clan were then faced with a choice: remain papists no matter what, convert to Protestantism, or flee the country. Many did remain papists; many chose to run to France with King James; still others decided to convert and begrudgingly follow the Church of England. Conversion, however, presented a new problem: the scorn of the remaining papists. The McCartys (Clancarty no longer existed, thanks to William of Orange) would have had to leave their traditional home country and escape to Ulster where a large "Williamite" settlement was in existence. Interestingly enough, Ulster held a huge Scottish population (over 50,000) at the time. The family would there have come under the influence of Presbyterianism. Silas McCarty was possibly born there in Ulster about 1700 to, by then, Presbyterian parents. By 1720 things were sufficiently unpleasant for the Protestants that Silas left the country, possibly with his brother, Roland. They went first to Scotland, where Presbyterians were most welcome. A couple of years later, when emigrations from Scotland were in full swing, they sailed to America. They probably landed first in Boston, then traveled down the coast and up the Delaware River to Philadelphia. Silas and Roland went their separate ways, Roland to New Jersey, Silas directly to Bucks County. "
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Silas McCarty's Timeline
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1700
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Ireland
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| 1723 |
September 15, 1723
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Haycock township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
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| 1727 |
June 16, 1727
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Haycock Township, Bucks County, PA, United States
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| 1731 |
October 5, 1731
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Bucks, PA
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| 1733 |
October 11, 1733
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Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1735 |
October 30, 1735
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Hayscock, Bucks Co., Pa
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| 1737 |
December 6, 1737
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Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1740 |
February 29, 1740
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Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1741 |
February 12, 1741
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Haycock, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
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