Here is some recent info I've been given: "The very early English residence of the Elliotts was in Somersetshire, from whence many of them went to Scotland and the home area in Scotland was in the vicinity of Jedburgh.

Settling in the same district were families of Shaw, Crozier, Armstrong and Nixon. However, the muster rolls for Fermanagh show that many of these families were in the Ulster plantation in Northern Ireland in 1661.

JOHN ELLIOTT of Path Valley was born about 1715 in the north of Ireland. Family tradition says he came from Fincastle, in the Templecarn Parish, partly in County Donegal and partly in County Fermanagh. It is possible that he was first married to a HOGAN, but in America, his wife was PATIENCE QUIGLEY.

Again tradition says that with John and his family, came George Elliott, and if this is true, GEORGE ELLIOTT settled in Rockbridge county, Virginia, and was later known as Captian George Elliott. It is thought that the relationship was that of cousins.

JOHN ELLIOTT's brothers and sisters in the Path Valley (Penna, Cumberland/Franklin County)-this information from the will of:

BENJAMIN ELLIOTT of Ddublin Township, Bedford Co., Feb. 17, 1796 - Gen. Soc., Vol. 10, P. 165
JAMES ELLIOTT, merchant in Carlisle - son John in Ireland
MATTHEW ELLIOTT of Letterly in Ireland (possibly son Matthew did not come to America)
ELIZABETH ELLIOTT - husband Col. Benjamin Burd
MARGARET ELLIOTT - husband William Ramsey
ANDREW ELLIOTT of East Caln Twp.- dau. MARTHA ELLIOTT BOGGS ROBINSON was the mother of the first white child born north of the Allegheny - Gen. William Robinson. The first log home of Martha and James Robinson is pictured on the seal used by Allegheny when it was a separate city.

When JOHN ELLIOTT first came to America, his home was near that of his brother ANDREW in East Caln Township - then Chester County.

"My JOHN" had 11 children by perhaps 3 wives. One of those children was Col. Robert Elliott, killed by Indians in 1794. He was married to Ann Duncan of Hagerstown, Md. They had TEN children, of whom one was my GGGgrandfather, Commodore Jesse Duncan Elliott, who had 6 children, Washington Lafayette Elliott, Maj. Gen. was my GGG; his son William Graham Elliott "begat" my grandfather, Col. Jesse Duncan Elliott, whose son Lt. Jesse Duncan Elliott was killed with my mother during WWII. I was their only child and my son is Duncan Elliott Barger, 34. I also have 2 daughters.

Barbara Elliott Adams, Austin, Texas BAbride@aol.com

Hello Barbara

Greetings from the north of England!

Excellent to see the details of your Jesse Duncan Elliott line.

Have just checked the Townland Index for Ireland and find Fincashel is in Templecarn parish Co Donegal. This is almost certainly your Fincastle. There is no Letterly, but Letterilly is in Inishkeel parish, perhaps 20 miles or so to the north, so that could fit.

My Elliotts are from Castlefin in Donaghmore parish, Co Donegal, about 40 miles east of Templecarn - there from 1660 or earlier, and still farming the same land. Boggs is principally a Londonderry name and the family are still in the area. I have a tentative connection to Robinsons through the Holmeses. My Elliotts married into a Duncan family Co Donegal c 1810. Suspect a connection with your line but inconclusive at this stage. Quigley is a relatively common Donegal name. Am actively researching in the main Irish archives and have a lot more work to do on the Elliotts and their connection.

I will email you. Would like to think we are cousins!

Hope other Donegal Elliotts will make contact.

Hello Barbara

Many apologies for the delay in responding to your message - have been away from home minus computer, and hence only just seen it. Excellent to hear from you. Best thing will be for me to email you. Irish research is exceptionally difficult at these early dates, but I am gradually hunting out the records.

Have been going through "Irish Genealogical abstracts from the Londonderry Journal 1772-1784" and found that Charles Quigley was an independent freeman of Derry in 1775 - Quigley is a Gaelic Irish name as you probably know, and I think that it was fairly unusual for a "native " Irishman to be a freeman. Cos Donegal Derry and Sligo seem to have been the headquarters of the Quigleys, and there appears to have been a distinct sept of the name on the Innishowen peninsular to west of Derry and on the north Donegal coast.

John and Mary Quigley are listed in Derry in 1618. More interestingly Torlagh O'Quigley [as the name should properly be written] paid Hearth Tax in 1665 in Donaghmore parish, Co Donegal, along with John and James Elliott of my line.

My email address simon_elliott@btinternet.com

All for now, Simon

Simon Elliott