Book Description

James N. Erwin or Irvine (1709-1770), a son of Alexander Erwin/Irvine (the 16th Laird of Drum), was born in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. James immigrated to Ulster Province in northern Ireland, where he married Agnes Patterson about 1738. They then immigrated (with a visit to Scotland) to Chester County, Pennsylvania by 1740, and moved about 1751 to Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, California, Oregon and elsewhere. Some descendants became Mormons, livingin Louisiana, Utah, Oregon and elsewhere. The tale of contents lists the "slave inventory of the James Goodbee family" in South Carolina in the early 1700s. Includes ancestry and genealogical data in Scotland to about 940 A.D