David McNair

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Husband David McNair ¹

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1 M David McNair, Jr. ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Ann Dunning (      -      ) 1 2
           Marr: Sep 1756 - Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA 1

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2 M John McNair ¹

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         Spouse: Ann [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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3 M Alexander McNair ¹

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General Notes: Husband - David McNair

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In Scotland the McNairs belonged to a gathering of clans of which the Earls of Lennox were the hereditary chieftains. Their gathering place was at the head of Loch Lomond.
A John McNair was driven by religious persecution to leave his home on the banks of the river Dee and to go to Donegal County, Ireland, in 1690; from there his son, John, with his family and accompanied by his mother, came to Philadelphia in 1730. His cousin, David McNair, soon followed him to America and setttled in Derry Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1732. This is proved by David's signature to a will dated December 26, 1732, which will is recorded in Lancaster County Court House.
David McNair, the emigrant, took out a warrant for 200 acres of land in 1737, and for 100 acres more five years later. He was a "Covenanter" and his name is mentioned in the diary of the Reverend John Culbertson, the first Covenanter preacher in America. The Covenanter Society was located at Paxtang, about thirteen miles east of the present site of Harrisburg. When Mr. Culbertson first visited the Society in 1751 he preached and was entertained in David McNair's house.
With his two older sons David, Sr., moved west into the recently erected Cumberland County, (1750), and again acquired large tracts of land.

1 Elizabeth M. Davison and Ellen B. McKee, Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and Vicinity (Wilkinsburg, PA: The Group for Historical Research, 1940), Pg 36.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 176.