Volume 20 , Issue 2

Benjamin Franklin Connection

Back in May, 2011, I ran across a ancestry connection to the infamous Benjamin Franklin ( Not a direct relationship). The Benjamin Franklin connection appears on my father's side of the family with the Craighead, Holmes (Homes) and McGill's.

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Rev. Alexander Holmes Craighead (1705-1766)

Rev. Alexander Holmes Craighead (1705-1766) was the great grandfather of Samuel Geddes Craighead. Samuel married my 3rd great grand aunt, Nancy McGill (1814-1898). Craighead was also spelled "Creaghead." Alexander Craighead emigrated from Ireland as a child, arriving in Boston during the first week of October, 1714 or 1715, with his parents on the ship Thomas & Jan (William Wilson, Master) to Boston.

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THOMAS CRAIGHEAD (1664-1739)

Thomas Craighead (1664-1739) was born and educated in Scotland. He received his degree as a physician from Edinburgh in 1691, and in about 1701, married Margaret Homes (1664-1738), the daughter of a "Scottish Laird", in Scotland.

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Rev. Robert Craighead (1633-1711)

When Rev. Robert Craighead was born in 1633 in Scotland, his father, Thomas, was 26 and his mother, Janet, was 33. He married Margaret Agnes Hart in 1658. They had three children in 12 years. He died on August 22, 1711, having lived a long life of 78 years.

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1730's - The First Great Awakening

A powerful Protestant religious revival swept across the New England colonies and through Georgia starting in the 1730s, later named the First Great Awakening.

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