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From: "Margaret Barnes" <>
Subject: Re: Cappagh
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 23:43:04 +0100
References: <E13SOVp-0007aP-00@montu.kynd.net>


Cappagh Church of Ireland and graveyard is about 2 miles north of Omagh. I
have looked in the book of grave inscriptions but there arte no Drummond
entries. The inscriptions cover the period from 1775 and include all graves
where there is at least one inscription earlier than 1900.

Margaret
----- Original Message -----
From: Templet-Drummond <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 7:50 PM
Subject: Drummonds


> Looking for the exact location of "Cappa" (Cappagh?) in Ireland, the birth
> place of Patrick Drummond born June 11, 1694, son of Alexander Drummond
of
> Presbyterian faith and Scottish descent. Patrick, along with his father
and
> family of 12 others, came to America (New England) in 1729, with the Rev.
> Robert Rutherford and , perhaps, with Col. David Dunbar, as his chaplain,
> who intended to settle Scotch Irish families in the New England area along
> the Kennebec River. The Rev. Robert Rutherford was born in 1688, probably
> in the north of Ireland. He was ordained in Aughmacart by the presbytery
of
> Monaghan, March 23, 1714. A supplication from the people in that
locality
> had been presented to the Synod of Ulster, met at Antrim in 1713, and Mr.
> Rutherford was ordained over the new congregration. In 1718 , he attended
> the Synod of Ulster in Belfast as a member of the presbytery of Sangford,
> and again in 1720, when upon petition, he was transferred to the
presbytery
> of Munster.. He resigned in 1728 and emigrated to New England in 1729,
> apparently taking members of his congregation with him including the
> Drummonds.
>
>


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