[Ancestor] Coulter

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1 M James Coulter ^{1 2 3}

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           Died: Abt 1810 - Plain Grove, Lawrence Co, PA
         Buried:  - Plain Grove, Lawrence Co, PA

         Spouse: [Unk] Scott (      -      ) 1 3

         Spouse: Barbara Green (      -      ) 1 3

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Coulter

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This family is of Irish origin, the American ancestors came across the Atlantic during the latter half of the eighteenth century, several families of Coulters leaving Ireland in that period and settling in Pennsylvania and Nova Scotia, whence many of the name have moved to New England and the Middle West. The name, now [1919] largely represented in the North of Ireland, with over twelve hundred families recorded in a recent census, is an ancient one, and is also found written Colter. It first appears in Scotland in records of the twelfth century, and Coulter is the Scotch form of the Norse Kaldr, a Viking name of the eleventh century. This fact, and its occurrence as a proper name in the very north of Scotland, where many of the personal and place names are of Norse derivation, makes it seem likely that the Coulters are descendants of the Norse Vikings, who early invaded Scotland and Ireland from the north. The Scotch name Calder is without doubt of the same origin. When the English crown granted lands in Ireland for colonization in 1606 to certain men, a great many families from Scotland crossed over and became tenants on lands in Counties Down and Antrim, among them being several Coulters from Galloway. From this time the name appears constantly in Ireland, and in the eighteenth century there were several Coulters among the Presbyterian clergy in Tyrone and Down.
The earliest ancestors in America of the Coulters here under consideration were from these Irish Coulters. When they emigrated is not known. ¹

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 487.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 543.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 112.