Were the Wylies listed on the Earl of Donegal from Ballymena, Ballymoney or Belfast in 1767?

Question

Families were led by Peter and James Wylie.

Answer 1

Belfast is what I have been told.

Answer 2

Thank you Robert. My sister and I are traveling to Northern Ireland next week and are attempting to track down our Wylie ancestors. James' daughter Margaret (b. ca. 1758) is our 5th great-grandmother. She married John Dick in Chester County, S.C. in 1778 and eventually migrated to Kentucky, settling along Fishing Creek in Pulaski Co., Ky. along with her sister Elizabeth and brother-in-law Robert Adams. They migrated there about 1803. John, Margaret, Elizabeth and Robert are all buried at Old Sardis Cemetery there. Peter Wylie is our 6th great uncle. We have their father as Adam Wylie (b. ca. 1685-90, d. 1754). Would you by chance have any further info regarding the family? Much appreciated. Mike Hall, Wylie descendant.

Answer 3

Ballymena appears more likely although other Wylies in the area were said to be city-folk from Belfast but did not emigrate until after the war:

https://spokt.com/hubs/933711/posts/23586424 shows one relevant Chester County map and this is an aerial video of Ballymena area https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKzfLWmSCHU.

All we, or me, are really sure is that near Ballymena, in Moylarg (or Maylorg as misspelled regularly at Ancestry.com "Public Trees" by the copiers with no insight), but Moylarg was where the noted American emigrant Presbyterian divine, Rev. Samuel Brown Wylie was claimed to have been born. Nothing more that I have seen anything close to documentation shown.

Here is the video from the original source of the name, viewable on this page and showing Larne can be reached in Ireland without a bridge to Scotland where so many claim it to be:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHTq78k7_4A

And the false belief of Larne in Scotland has at least one source around 50 years ago before the WoWiWe and such as 

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