William Rankin

William, who was an Ulster Scot, with his family and father, fled Scotland and went to Ireland to escape religious persecution. One record indicates that William may have had a total of seven children. Three of his sons came to the New World to settle in Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia. They were farmers in what is now Cumberland County. Three of his descendents - Richard, Samuel, Thomas - were early pioneer settlers of Dumplin Valley, Jefferson County, Tennessee. A tablet in the Mt. Horeb Presbyterian Church Cemetery honors them.; From RANKIN ROOTS IN EAST TENNESSEE", By Hazel Timblin Townsend

Father: Alexander Rankin Mother: Agnes Reid Married: Dorothy Black 1687 Ireland Children: 1. Adam Rankin July 16, 1688 Sterlingshire, Slirting Co ., Scotland 2. John Rankin 3. Hugh Rankin

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WILLIAM2 RANKIN (ALEXANDER1) was born 1658 in Scotland, and died 1730 in Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He married DOROTHY BLACK 1687 in Ireland. She was born 1668 in Londonderry, Londonderry, Ireland, and died 1693 in Londonderry, Londonderry, Ireland.

Children of WILLIAM RANKIN and DOROTHY BLACK are: 3. i. ADAM3 RANKIN, b. July 16, 1688, Sterlingshire, Scotland; d. May 04, 1747, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 4. ii. JOHN RANKIN, b. 1690, Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland; d. Abt. 1760, Juniata River, Lancaster, Pennsylania.

iii. HUGH RANKIN, b. 1692, Ulster, Donegal, Ireland; d. 1760, Bedford, B.

iv. ELIZABETH RANKIN, b. 1696. 5. v. ROBERT RANKIN, b. 1700

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Alexander Rankin, his son William and grandson Adam migrated to Ireland when Adam was only one year old, Adam having been born in Sterlingshire, Scotland. The Rankins took part in the siegeof Londonderry in 1690, and with other various families, defended that city when it was besieged by James II. This siege lasted for 105 days, and was finally relieved by William of Orange. Father: William Rankin Mother:Dorothy Black Married Elizabeth May (died 17 21) May 1710 Sterlingshire, Scotland Children: 1. James Rankin 1715 Sterl ingshire, Slirting Co., Scotland Married: Mary Steele Children: 1. William Rankin 1727 Fermanagh or Armagh, Ulster, Ireland 2. Jeremiah Rankin 1732 3. Ester Rankin 1733

"RANKIN ROOTS of EAST TENNESSEE"; by Hazel Townsend Tumblin; hazelt@bellsouth.net

immigrated from scotland to PA married 1792 in Ireland

• Adam Rankin born July 16, 1688. He came to America in 1720 and settled in PA. His children's mother was Mrs. Steel, his second wife. (His first wife was Elizabeth May who died shortly after arriving in the US. They were married in Ireland before 1720)

Will Transcript of Adam Rankin, in Source needed, Secondary quality. Will of ADAM RANKIN. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

By the mercies of God being in perfit understanding and composure of mind, do make this my last will and testament. And - First of all I comit my soul to God that give it (throught the merit of Christ) and my body to the dust to be desently buried. And - next I bequath to my son James Rankin five pounds Pencelvaney currancy with the place he is now in possesion of being fully given over to him and also - to my daughter Ester Rankin alis Dunwody I bequeath five pounds Pencelvaney - to my loving and dutiful wife I bequeath her full thirds of all my worldly substance, and - to my two sons William Rankin and Jeremiah Rankin all the remainder of my wordly effects (including the plantation to be equally divided between them). And - my dutiful wife and my son William Rankin to administer and also to pay all debts of the whole substance before division to be made. Sealed this 4th day of May, 1747. Adam [his X mark] Rankin (Seal)

Signed and Sealed in the presents of us James Pettigrew John McMath

ADAM3 RANKIN (WILLIAM2, ALEXANDER1) was born July 16, 1688 in Sterlingshire, Scotland, and died May 04, 1747 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He married (1) MARY STEELE. He married (2) ELIZABETH MAY1 1710. She was born 1689, and died 1721.

Children of ADAM RANKIN and ELIZABETH MAY are:

i. JOSEPH4 RANKIN, b. 1704. 6. ii. WILLIAM RANKIN, b. 1713, Ireland; d. 1792, Virginia.

Adam Rankin was the oldest of 3 brothers: Adam, John and Hugh, all sons of William Rankin of the village of Alloa, Stirlingshire, Scotland. After two of William Rankin's brothers or close cousins were killed in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rebellions against English rule in the 1689, the family fled to County Donegal, Ireland, in 1692. Forty men from the MacDonald Clan, of which the Rankins were a sept, were massacred at Glen Coe on February 13 that year and it is said the first to fall was a Duncan Rankin. Adam was just a baby, having been born on July 16, 1688.[1]The family settled in Raphoe, the same village where the Steele and Alexander families, all Scottish Presbyterians, lived.

The three Rankin brothers emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania in 1720 and settled on farms in Chester County, between Philadelphia and Delaware, near the Maryland border. Eventually their land was deemed to be in Cecil County, Maryland. Adam married first Miss Elizabeth May in 1710 in Ireland and they had a son, Jeremiah (b. 1720). After Elizabeth's death in 1721 in Pennsylvania, he married widow Mary (Steele) Alexander between 1722 and September 1724, when she is identified as his wife in Orphan's Court papers for her 3 sons by James Alexander, who died in 1717. Adam and Mary had two children: William and Esther.

Adam Rankin lived in New Munster, Cecil Co., Maryland, for the rest of his life. He wrote his Will on May 4, 1747 and died within a few months as the Will was proven on September 21, 1747. In it he mentions his "loving and dutiful wife" so she survived him.

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