Robert McGrew and Isabella [Unk]

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Husband Robert McGrew ¹

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           Born: Abt 1675 - Scotland or Ireland
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         Buried:  - Chestnut Hill Cemetery, near Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Co, PA

       Marriage:  - County Tyrone, Ireland

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Wife Isabella [Unk] ¹

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           Born: 
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         Buried:  - Chestnut Hill Cemetery, near Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Co, PA

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Children

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1 M John McGrew ²

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           Born: Abt 1700 - County Tyrone, Ireland
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           Died: Abt 1775
         Buried:  - Chestnut Hill Cemetery, near Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Co, PA

         Spouse: Elizabeth [Unk] (      -      ) 2
           Marr: Abt 1721 - County Tyrone, Ireland 3

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2 M Finley McGrew ³

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: Abt 1766 - Adams Co, PA
         Buried:  - Friends Burying Ground, Menallen Twp, Adams Co, PA

         Spouse: Elizabeth Laurin (      -      ) 4

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3 M William McGrew ³

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4 M Alexander McGrew ³

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5 M James McGrew ³

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           Born:  - Ireland
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         Buried:  - Friends Burying Ground, Menallen Twp, Adams Co, PA

         Spouse: Mary Finley (      -Bef 1767) 5
           Marr: 1736 5

         Spouse: Mary Ridgway (      -      ) 6

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General Notes: Husband - Robert McGrew

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Robert and his wife, Isabella, came to the colony of Pennsylvania from County Tyrone, Ireland, about 1726-27. With them came their five sons and two grandchildren, Archibald and Catherine (children of John McGrew). It is probable that this family came first to New Castle in Delaware before actually settling in Adams County, Pennsylvania.
Their first home, it appears, must have been within the limits of what would now be Lancaster County, but that with the granting of the licenses to settle across the Susquehanna in what is now Adams County. Robert McGrew took advantage of the opening of this land and, with his sons, settled in Adams County. (Lancaster County was formed in 1729, York in 1749, and Adams in 1800.)
The family were Episcopalian when they came to America, but two sons intermarried with Quaker wives, and they followed the Quaker form of devotion, which led to the inference that the family were Quaker immigrants. The Quaker Church they attended originally, about 1790, was the Westland Monthly Meeting at West Brownville, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Afterwards the Sewickley Monthly Meeting was established in Westmoreland County, and when that was discontinued the records were "laid down" at Salem, 0hio.

The following is a sketch from the History of the McGrew Family, prepared for the McGrew Reunion to he held at Olympia Park, near McKeesport, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1912, by James C. McGrew, of Kingwood, Virginia: There is no doubt that the McGrews who migrated from Ireland to America about 1726 were native Scots or descendants of Scotch immigrants, who left Scotland to avoid (as Quakers) religious persecution. The name 'McGrew' is Celtic, and should be spelled 'MacGrew' as many other names are spelled." He wrote further that he had often heard his father say that his grandfather came to America wearing a blue Scotch bonnet, doubtless a Glengarry cap, still worn in Scotland. The McGrews of Scotland belonged to the Buchanan Clan.

The following was written by Samuel McGrew. of Sewickley Township. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1844:
"On the state of their wealth at the time of their emigration, history is silent, but I infer from the fact that they gave the Township in which they settled in Adams County, the name of the County from which they came in Ireland, that is, Tyrone, that they were of some note at the time of their emigration." [BF, 276]

1 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 276.

2 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 31.

3 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 277.

4 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 278.

5 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 279.

6 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 280.