Samuel Ayres and Margaret Richmond

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Husband Samuel Ayres ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1695 - County Antrim, Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: 1747 - Deep Run, Bucks Co, PA 1
         Buried: 

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         Father: [Ancestor] Ayres (      -      )
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 1719 - County Antrim, Ireland

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Wife Margaret Richmond ¹

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           Born: 1697 - County Antrim, Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: 1746 - Philadelphia, PA 1
         Buried: 

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Children

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1 M William Ayres ^{2 3}

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           Born: 1720 - County Antrim, Ireland 1
     Christened: 
           Died: Winter, 1784-1785 - near Old Fort Hunter, Dauphin Co, PA
         Buried:  - Dauphin Cemetery, Dauphin, Dauphin Co, PA

         Spouse: Margaret "Mary" Kean (1726-1784) 3
           Marr: 1748 - Philadelphia (later Moreland Twp, Montgomery) Co, PA

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2 M John Ayres ¹

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           Born: 1722 - County Antrim, Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: while young
         Buried: 

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3 F Margaret Ayres ¹

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           Born: 1728 - County Antrim, Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1810 - Philadelphia, PA
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John Moore (1724-Abt 1800) 1
           Marr: 1748 - Philadelphia, PA

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4 F Mary Ayres ¹

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           Born: 1729 - County Antrim, Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John Kean (1728-1801) 1 4 5 6
           Marr: 1757 - Philadelphia, PA

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5 F Elizabeth Ayres ¹

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           Born: 1731 - County Antrim, Ireland 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 Dec 1818 - Moreland Twp, Montgomery Co, PA 7
         Buried:  - Abington Church Cemetery

         Spouse: Anthony McNeill (1723-1791) 1
           Marr: 1752 - Montgomery Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Ayres

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Of the county Antrim, Province of Ulster, Ireland, he was born of Scottish Covenanter ancestors. He arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with his wife and daughters, in 1745. The voyage across the ocean was protracted, causing much suffering for want of water. After the death of his wife he moved to the Scotch-Irish settlement at Deep Run, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he later died.

He brought his family to America about 1744, landing in Philadelphia. Following the Scotch-Irish path, he went to "Deep Run church," now in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he died. His family retraced its steps to within a dozen miles of Philadelphia, and settled permanenty at what later was called Beth-ayres station, on the route to New York (so named by Franklin Ayres Comly, president N. P. R. R., a descendant.)

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 47.

2 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 387.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 47, 257.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 510.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 189.

6 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 30.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 48.