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I am searching for any Jamison's (all spellings), who came from Scotland to the Ulster provinces of Ireland to America, possibly coming in Boston harbor in the early 1700's with the Ulster-Scot Immigrants.
I have very little to go on, but am searching for my 5th grt. grandfather's parents. For some uncanny reason that I can't explain, gut instinct whatever, I feel that his family has ties to the Jameson/Jamison family.
My 5th grt. grandfather was James MOODY b.Aug. 9, 1755 in Londonderry, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire son of "Jameson" MOODY and Martha_______.
I guess "Jameson" to have been born c1727 but possibly several years before that.
While searching the IGI records on the LDS site I found a listing (with No Sources listed), for a Martha JAMISON who was christened in MA (doesn't say where), on Oct. 1, 1721, daughter of Robert and Dorothy ______ JAMISON.
This Martha fits perfectly to the Martha that married "Jameson" Moody. For some reason he may have used his wife's maiden name for his own first name...this has always bothered me because I can find no other record of any "Jameson" Moody's anywhere.
Jameson and Martha also had daughters Janet and Elinor Moody. They also may have gone to Truro, Nova Scotia as so many of the Ulster-Scot families did when leaving Londonderry, NH before the Rev. War broke out.
My James Moody appears out of nowhere in 1774 Buxton, York Co., Maine to marry my 5th grt. grandmother Elizabeth DONALD and then they disappear again. My feeling is that they might have gone to Nova Scotia.
In 1785, 11 years after they married Elizabeth Moody shows up back in the same Congregational Church in Buxton that she and James were married in where she is requesting to be re-baptized into this church and to have 3 children, Sarah, James and Joseph Moody all baptized into this church as well.
If James parents were living in Nova Scotia then he would have been familiar with it and this might have been where they were living at the time.
At any rate, he apparently deserted his family and she came home with the 3 kids back to Maine.
James Moody (b.1755) married a 2nd time to Sarah BAKER in Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia and they had 9 children.
Another record from the IGI's on the LDS site has what appears to be this same Robert Jamison whose wife was listed as "Dorothy" in the MA christening record. It states that Robert Jamison was b. in or from Ulster, Ireland and died July 13, 1771 (doesn't say where) and that he married a "Jane" around 1722 in Ireland. Still another entry in the IGI has Robert JAMISON b. 1698 Leith, Midlothian, Scotland who married "Jean" Blackburn in 1728 of Bucks Co., PA and he died July 3, 1771 in Bucks Co., PA. Awfully similar to the couple listed in Ulster, Ireland.
Since many of the Ulster-Scots landed at Boston, MA and then proceeded to PA and other places, I thought that this ~might~ be one and the same Robert Jamison.
If it is, his daughter Martha appears to be from a 1st wife named Dorothy. Or there might be no connection at all and this is just purely a coincidence.
That is why I'm posting this here in hopes that someone might be able to straighten me out.
Thank you for anything at all.
I can be found more quickly at the Moody page here if you leave a message and I don't respond soon try there.
Thanks again.
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