John Logan, the founder of the Washington family, was descended from a long line of Scotch barons deriving their name, Celtic in orgin, from the ancestrial home, Logan, in Ayrshire. He came from the north of Ireland with the Gordons, Kassons, Keigwins, Parkes, Wylies and other Scotch Presbyerians, under the leadership of Reverand Samuel Dorrance, a graduate of the University of Glasgow. Their party, after experiencing a great many unusual difficulties, came from Marblehead Harbor and Boston to Connecticut, and buying up the Volunteer grants at Voluntown, forming the nucleus of the Presbyerian church Ekonk hill.
From 'A National Register of the Society, Sons of the American Revolution' - page 7.
From 'A National Register of the Society, Sons of the American Revolution' - page 7.
John Logan, the founder of the Washington family, was descended from a long line of Scotch barons deriving their name, Celtic in orgin, from the ancestrial home, Logan, in Ayrshire. He came from the north of Ireland with the Gordons, Kassons, Keigwins, Parkes, Wylies and other Scotch Presbyerians, under the leadership of Reverand Samuel Dorrance, a graduate of the University of Glasgow. Their party, after experiencing a great many unusual difficulties, came from Marblehead Harbor and Boston to Connecticut, and buying up the Volunteer grants at Voluntown, forming the nucleus of the Presbyerian church Ekonk hill.
From 'A National Register of the Society, Sons of the American Revolution' - page 7.
From 'A National Register of the Society, Sons of the American Revolution' - page 7.
Inscription
This Monument is erected
to the memory of
Mr. JOHN LOGAN
who died December 2d, 1777
In the 78th year of his age.
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