REFERENCES CONSULTED IN THE COMPILATION OF THIS GENEALOGY. Pennsylvania Archives, 2d Series, edited by William H. Eggle, M. D. History of Warren County, Pennsylvania, edited by J. S. Schenck. Lineage Books of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Pennsylvania Magazine. History of Chautauqua County, by W. A. Furguson & Co., Boston, Mass. History of Connecticut, by Hollister. Women of Methodism, by Stephen Abel. Fradenburg's History of Methodism. Early History of Western Pennsylvania, from Posts Journal. Bishop Matthew Simpson's Cyclopoedia of Methodism. Stephen's History of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Historical Atlas of Warren County, by J. A. Howden. Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War, by J. T. McAllister. Foote's Sketches of Virginia, Second Series. Annals of Augusta County, with Supplement, by Jos. A. Waddell. History of Augusta County, Virginia, by J. Lewis Peyton. Virginia County Records, Spotsylvania County, edited by William Armstrong Crozier, F. R. S. Ancient Windsor Connecticut, by Henry R. Stiles, A. M., M. D. Virginia Cousins, by G. Brown Goode. Virginia Genealogies, by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, M. A. A. M. Genealogical Gleanings in England, by Henry F. Waters, American Ancestry (Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers). William and Mary College Quarterly. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Historic Families of Kentucky, by T. M. Greene. Colonial Virginia Register, compiled by William G. and Mary Newton Stanard. The Cabells and Their Kin, by Alexander Brown, D. C. L. Ancestry of John Barber White, compiled by Almira Larkin White. Descendants of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland, by E. S. White. The Journal of American History. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vermont Historical Gazetteer, edited by Abby Maria Heminway. Kinnears and Their Kin, compiled by Emma Siggins White and Martha Humphreys Maltby. Genealogy of The Kemble Family. The Founding of Harmon's Station, by William Elsey Connelley. Old files of the Forest Republican. Trenton Canada Courier. Sligo Independent (Ireland). Tidioute News; Warren; Pleasantville; Youngsville and Titusville-Newspapers. Pension Records, Washington, D. C. Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, by Hoyt. Oil City Derrick, Souvenir Edition Franklin Centennial, Sept. 5, 1895. Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. Edited by John W. Jordon, LL D. Librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The names of other authors appear where data is quoted. PREFACE The search for material for this, my third family history, covers a period of over fifteen years of conscientious research work in this country, and in Ireland and Scotland. Much valuable data was accumulated thereby and, as I never expect to publish another genealogical work, in order to preserve the material so laboriously collected, I decided to include in this volume all the records compiled by me not contained in my former works. While it represents several seemingly distinct families, they are all related, either by blood or marriage, to some branch of the Siggins family. The records herein contained will be found useful in establishing the American origin of many Pennsylvania families, as the information given is substantiated by the appended list of reference works consulted. The most trustworthy proof of the relationship of our emigrant ancestress, Sarah Hood Siggins to Admiral Samuel Hood is contained in letters left by Judge John Siggins, of Tidioute, Pennsylvania, and Francis Siggins Baird, a daughter of Sarah Hood, elsewhere published in the present work. Mrs. E. Harriet Howe, born in 1844, distinctly remembers hearing her uncle Isaac Siggins tell of the same incidents related in John Siggins' letter. John B. White of Kansas City, born in 1847, often heard Henry Kinnear tell the same story of Sarah Hood's relationship to Admiral Hood. Mrs. Sarah Hood Siggins lived for a number of years before her death, in the home of her son Alexander Siggins who had married Henry Kinnear's sister, Margaret. The Kinnear and Siggins families owned adjoining farms in Brokenstraw Township, Pennsylvania. John Siggins, born in 1839, says, "When I was a boy Aunt Mary Siggins (born in 1805) a maiden sister of my father, talked a great deal to me about her relatives across |