Francis Sylvester Dodd --> Ireland to VA
Looking for information on Francis Sylvester Dodd. Francis was born in Ireland circa 1767 and came to America before the 1800s. He settled in Ohio County, Virginia, which later became Marshall County, Virginia (then West Virginia). He first appeared on the 1810 census of Elizabeth, Ohio County, VA (already married with 5 sons).
He married Frances Curtis (daughter of James Curtis and Mary Coffinberry) and had a handful of sons... David, Salathiel, George, James and one, possibly two, others. Francis died in 1856 and is buried at the Old Dutch Fork graveyard in Donegal (Washington County) PA. There has been much speculation of Francis in Ireland - that he studied to be a priest, was a defrocked priest, County Down, Antrim, Belfast. Nobody seems to have a pin point on factual information. I am writing this post in hopes that someone may come across it in the future and have discovered something that I haven't come across yet. I'm interested in religious denomination, obviously parents/siblings, Church, townland, county names. Also things of Francis in USA - wills, grants, etc. I do already have all census data on him, as well as some of the Marshall County tax information (1836, 1840, 1850 tax records).
Hopefully someone out there has been more successful than I in cracking Ireland's 18th century records!
Best.
Justin