Walter Buchanan (abt. 1720 - abt. 1788)

Born about 1720 in Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland

Descendants

Died about 1788 at about age 68 in York Co., Pennsylvania

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Biography

Walter was one of five brothers who came to America from Ulster, Ireland. He settled at Marsh Creek, Pennsylvania in September, 1739, and married Mary Rooney, aka Roney. Walter's will was probated 13 Dec. 1788. His father was William Buchanan of Ulster.^[1]

In 1739-40, as the Dutch then were rapidly coming, William Penn laid out, in what is now Adams county, a reservation for himself and family, and called it the “Manor of Masque,” after the title of an old English estate belonging to some of his distant relatives. He had laid out “manors” before this in the eastern part of the State. Penn sent surveyors to run out the “Manor of Masque” and the order for the survey, bearing date June 18, 1741. The area was about 30,000 acres. http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/history/area/chapter-v.txt

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Wharton and His Descendants (1750-1823) by Edith McIntosh Hall (1985)