Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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[Ancestor] Logan




Husband [Ancestor] Logan

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1 M James Logan 1 2

           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died:  - Chester Co, PA
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         Spouse: Nancy Gloster (      -      ) 3



General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Logan


The Logans herein reviewed descend from James Logan, who sprang from the ancient Logan family of Scotland, and is believed to have been a grandson or a great-grandson of Logan, of Restalrigg, who in the year 1600 conspired with the Earl of Gowrie to kidnap James VI., of Scotland, later James I., of England, for which complicity, discovered after his death, his estate was confiscated, and "his name, memory and dignity abolished, his Arms cancelled, so that his posterity be excluded from any offices, honors, lands, tenements, etc." The barony of Restalrigg, Scotland, originally was vested in the Leith family, and in the reign of King Robert, the Bruce, came into the Logan family by the marriage of an heiress of the Leiths with a Logan. Sir Robert Logan, of this family, accompanied Sir James Douglass to the Holy Land with the heart of the royal Bruce, was slain with Douglass by the Saracens in Andalusia, Spain, in 1630. In 1398 Robert Logan, of Restalrigg, was admiral of Scotland, among his other honors. He married a daughter of Robert II., of Scotland, and bore the Logan arms, granted in commemoration of the heroic services and death of Sir Robert Logan, before mentioned.
The Logan arms : Three passion nails piercing a man's heart.
Sir Robert Logan, son of Admiral Logan, married Geilless, daughter of the fourth Lord Eaton, and a descendant, another Sir Robert Logan, married, about 1650, Agnes, daughter of Patrick Lord Gray. Another Logan, of Restalrigg, in the sixteenth century, married Elizabeth Magill, and the attainted Logan, of Restalrigg, married a daughter of Patrick Home, of Fastcastle, in Berwickshire. They had at least four sons, Robert, who succeeded his father and was held to answer for his sire's sin; George, John and Archibald.

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Sources


1 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 70, 129.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 224.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 225.


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