R/RFHA Newsletter-September 1988

R/RFHA P. 5

The following two pages concern a Scats-Irish family from Ireland who came to Pennsylvania in the 1760's. Thanks to Louise Daniels who sent it to Alma Thomassen in 1958.

This Rollins family is supposed to have gone from England to Ireland thence the family came to what is now Pennsylvania but was then part of Virginia.

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The following is written on the front leaf of the old Rollins Bible which was printed in 1791 in Edinburg.

"This Holy Book after my death I present to my friend and nephew Dr. A. W. Rollins of Richmond Kentucky, and I hope it will be with him and unto his family through the blessing of God a fountain of living water springing up unto Eternal Life. May 12, 1828

Anthony Rollins

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

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Memorandum in the handwriting of Dr. Anthony Wayne Rollins, written about 1814, and found in the Rollins Family bible.

"Grandfather was born in the County of Tyrone and parish of Glencoe and township Billygettle about the year 170 and was married to Sarah Fulton early in life. Followed farming and was descended from honest and respectable parents who lived to a great age. He had eight children-six sons and two daughters; James, Anthony, Henry, George, Benjamin and John, Sara. Anthony married and immediately afterwards moved to America and James, Henry and Benjamin followed shortly afterwards. Benjamin joined the British Army and afterwards settled in Canada. Anthony, James and Henry settled in Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania, where the two former settled on farm. James was killed by a falling tree twenty two years since, Henry was drowned in Youghaguny River and Anthony is still living on his farm 20 miles from Pittsburgh. Henry, who was my father, had seven children. Joan remained on his father's farm in Ireland. George's settlement is not known."

The following is not in the Bible (Children of Henry and Mary Carson Rollins)

1. Sara, married Mr. Jeffrey and lived in Ohio.

2. Samuel, died 1831, Lebanon, Ohio. Had a small family.

3. Dr. John Carson, lived in New Orleans, had several children only one of whom lived to be married, Orleane, md. Rev. Jerome Twitchell.

4. Jane, md. Mr. Smith, lived near Madison, Ind. Had at least one son.

5. Mary md. Mr. John Walker, lived in Ohio; at least one daughter, Mary Rollins Walker

6. James, man of fine talents. Lawyer, unmarried, lived in Port Gibson, Mississippi.

7. Dr. Anthony Wayne, b. 1783, d. 1845, Boone Co., Mo. Attended Washington College, Washington and Jefferson College, 1800-1801. Removed to Madison Co., Ky. to attend to property interests of Uncle Anthony and to Boone Co., Mo., in 1829.

A Dimit from the Masonic Lodge in Dungannon, Ireland, was issued in 1769, so it is assumed that the three younger brothers came to America about that time.

John, who remained in Ireland, was a church warden 1788-1789, Billygettle in the parish Clonoe, Diocese of Armah (Armagh?)

The descendants of George and Benjamin are hot known, although it is believed both were Loyalists and want to Canada.

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