James Harsha (1715 - 1765)

Born 1715 in Ballybay, County Monaghan, Ireland

Husband of Esther (Reid) Harsha — married 1736 in Monaghan, Ireland

Descendants

Died 16 Apr 1765 at about age 50 in Stillwater, Saratoga, New York

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Biography

James was born in 1715. He passed away in 1765.

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Y DNA, Origins, and Deeper Ancestry

As of July 2020, there has been at least one descendant of James Harsha to take a Y DNA test, which has established Y12895 as the terminal haplogroup for this line. By testing to this haplogroup, this indicates this line is also a branch of haplogroup BY3368. Haplogroup BY3368 has a number of advance-tested individuals (Big Y tests), which strongly suggest this line is linked to SW Scotland as early as the 12th century. For additional information, please see the BY3368 and Subclades Y DNA Project.

Note that the earliest records available via the Scotlands People site, show an Archibald Harshaw in both Lanark and Glasgow, between 1629 and 1666.

Sources

• 1913, Genealogy of the MacClaughry family; a Scoto-Irish family, originally from Galloway, Scotland, appearing in Ireland about 1600, and emigrants to New York in 1765., p. 60.