[Ancestor] Garvin

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Husband [Ancestor] Garvin

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1 M Benjamin Garvin ²

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            AKA: David Garvin Sr. 1
           Born:  - Rockingham Co, VA
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           Died:  - ? Cranberry Twp, Butler Co, PA
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         Spouse: [Unk] McFarland (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Garvin

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The Garvin ancestors came from Scotland. The reign of Charles II of Scotland; which lasted from 1650 to 1668, was one of marked cruelty to the Covenanters. All those who were not killed were forced to flee for their lives or renounce their religion. In 1684, during what was called "The Killing Time," David Garvin and his wife Elizabeth, and their young sons, John and James, fled from their home near Dumbarton in Scotland to a colony of Covenanters that had been established in the northern part of Ireland near Londonderry. After the death of their father in 1735 four of his children, David, James, Elizabeth and Thomas Garvin, emigrated to America. Whittier tells the story in one of his poems, published in 1888, of Mary Garvin, who was stolen from her parents by the Indians and returned to them twenty years later.
David Garvin, one of the brothers of Mary Garvin, and the great-grandfather of David Garvin Bastian, moved to Virginia and owned a number of slaves. One of the emigrant Garvins had a daughter by the name of Margaret. Her husband and five of their children were massacred by the Indians. She and one daughter were taken captive and carried into Canada. After some years of captivity, they were ransomed and returned to their friends and died and were buried in Pennsylvania. ³

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1165.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 228.

3 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1246.