CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS Being a series of historical events and narratives, in which members of this family have played a prominent part CoMPILED AlfD \YJI.ITTEN BY ItDA COCH RAN HAUGHTON 1915 THE STONEllAN PRESS om1PA:sY COLU!IIBC'S, OHIO Copyright, December. 1915 By IDA COCHRAN HAUGHTON ~r.dtration AirPAn!XvJI'A.TmLY :IMecRmlllD TO Mr :MOTBlllR ~ '!l'O '1'BB llllDlOBT 01" sus.x ;r. BoFJCR TABLE OF CONTENTS PART ONE-SCOTTISH HISTORY. PAGE DERIVATION OF THE NAME.......................................................... 11 EARJ.IF.$1' MENTION IN HISTORY.................................................. 11 THE HOUSE OF DUNDONALD........................................................ 13 DESCRIPTION OF THE COAT-OF-ARMS.......................................... 16 THE COVENANTERS AND GRAHAM OF CLAVERHOUSE......... ....... 17 ScoTTlsH CLANS .......................................................................... 18 THE RYE HOUSE Pim........ ······························............................ 19 THE STORY OF GRIZEL CocHRANE........ .........•............ ...... .......... 21 Sm JOHN CocHRANE AND HIS DESCENDANTS............................ 23 SKETCHES OF THE EIGHTH, NINTH AND TENTH EARLS............ 24 DUNDONALD'S WAR PLAN. THE SF.CB.ET REVEALED................ 26 THE TWELFTH EARL AND THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH............ 27 LE'rrERS F'RoM SCO'r.LA.ND............................................................ 29 ANOTHER DERIVATION OF THE NAME CoCHRANE...................... 42 THE GAELIC LANGUAGE................................................................ 43 THE HIGHLAND CoSTUME... .................... ............. ........... ............. 44 NOTED WOMEN OF THE CocHRANE FAMILY.............................. 45 THE FIRST SCOTCH-IRISH EMMIGRATION TO AMERICA............ 47 PART TWO-PIONEER HISTORY. WHY Dm THE SCOTCH-IRISH CoME TO AMERICA?.................. 51 MASSACRE OF THE WYOMING VALLEY........................................ 52 INDIAN COMPLAINTS ........ .... ............ .............................. ...... ...... 53 QUESTION OF BOUNDARY LINES.................................................. 54 SETTLEMENT OF THE ZANES........................................................ 54 SETTLEMENT OF WILLIAM COCHRAN IN 1772................ .... ........ 55 LAST BATTLE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.............................. 57 THE DEATH OF WILLIAM COCHRAN............................................ 57 SURVEY OF LAND OF WM. COCHRAN............................................ 59 CORRESPONDENCE WITH S. S. JACOBS........................................ 60 THE FAMILY OF WILLIAM COCHRANE........................................ 60 THE GENEALOGY OF THOMAS, THE OLDEST SON.................... 61 THE GENEALOGY OF ROBERT, THE SECOND SON.................... 67 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS-Continued ANOTHER DERIVATION OF THE NAME........................................ 68 GENEALOGY OF JAMES, THE YOUNG:ra'r SoN.............................. 72 THE IDENTITY OF Two CHILDREN, RF.SCUED F'RoM A BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS........................................................ 72 THE DESCENDANTS OF JAMES AND BETSY CocHRAN .............. 75-78 PART THREE-MISCELLANEOUS HISTORY. INTRODUCTION ································ ································ ·············· 91 SoME PENNSYLVANIA COCHRA.NS ..............................................92-97 THE .14-.AMILY OF JAMES AND NANCY McCORD CocHRAN.... 98-107 SKEl'CH OF NANCY CocHRAN................................................ 108-112 P0EM-"ON THE BANKS OF OLD WEGEE'' .......................... 113-114 GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE McCoRD FAMILY .................... 115 REMINISCENCES OF THE AUTHOR................................................ 121 THE DAVIS GENEALOGY................................................................ 130 THE GENEALOGY OF CHRISTIAN KREBS...................................... 133 POEM-"MOONLIGHT ON THE RIVER"........................................ 148 7 PREFACE S the author of these chronicles, I beg to submit to a critical public A my first literary venture, a family history and biography. Family histories in general that have come to my own notice, have been rather tiresome and uninteresting because of their extreme length, and absence of anecdote to enliven their pages. I flatter myself that my work is different, because of the free use of extracts from standard authoritit:::, and I hope this use may prove an incentive to further research, on the part of my reader; to send him back to the original sources to refresh his memory, and to make him appreciate, by comparison, his own happy lot. The authors and publishers quoted have been most kind in permitting me the use of their works, whether of copyright in force, or expired. Other sources of information have been State and County Records, the crumbling gravestones, old deeds, the voluntary contributions of the various branches of the same family trunk, the Cochrans. I have endeavored to be authentic, and to refrain from criticism or unpleasant comment, or a too close adherence to presenting rigid detaii in some cases. I have also tried to weld a chain of events, from the earliest mention in the year 1262 to the present time; most of the links being furnished by others. mine only the part to assemble them. Hoping for a favorable reception from this same critical public. I am Very truly yours, IDA CocHR.\N H.-\UGHTON. COLUMBUS, Omo, November. 1915. 8 PART ONE SCOTTISH HISTORY DERIVATION OF THE NAllE COCHRANE. (From Ancient Woodbury, by Judge William H. Cothern.) '•The name "Cochrane" is derived from two Gaelic words, which together signify "the roar of war," "the battle cry," viz.: cog., v.n., to war or to fight; whence Co-gai-che, adj., warlike: ran, genitive rain, a roar, a loud cry or shriek. It was variously spelled by the Highland Scots ; Co-gach-ran, Co-gaich-er-an, Co-gach-rain, Co-gaich-er-ain, Cog-ran, and Cog-rain, with guttural sound of first syllable of which, being afterwards represented by the proper letters of modem Gaelic, gives Cochran, or -rane, or -rain. When surnames were first assumed by men, they had a significance, and represented some characteristic of the appropriator, or some cir­ cumstance in r:elation to his personal history. From occupations comes Cook, Farmer, etc.; from complexions comes White, Brown, etc.; some came from places ; others again describe some mental or physical quality, or personal incident in the life of the possessor." The reason for taking the name of Cochrane is not known beyond the fact that they are all born fighters, and are to be found enrolled with soldiery or military from earliest mention down to the present time. Some who have not achieved distinction by means of arms, have done so by strategy and forensic ability. The name, to my way of thinking, as to its general meaning, or significance, is very appropriate to the families I have known intimately. EARLIEST MENTION IN HISTORY * "The first known of the name is \Yaldenus-de-Coveran or Cochran, a witness to the charter of date Wednesday, twenty days after the feast of St. Hilary in 1262. The next of the name on record is William of Cochran, who signed submission to King Edward the First, in the Ragman Roll of 1296. John of Cochrane, the next on record in 1346. Glasmus Goscelinus, or Casmus de Cochran, next • Scot's Peerage. Crawford. Volume Three. 11 12 CHRONICLES OF THE COCHRANS appears in 1367. He is styled Casmus de Cowran, and is succeeded by his son, William, who is probably the one who received a ratification of the barony of Cochrane from King Robert the Second, on Septem• her 22, 1389. He was succeeded by his son and heir, Robert Cochrane, who was succeeded by a son, John. In the Paisley rental book of 1460, there are various entries of the assessment of John Cochran, then living at Lincliff, whence William Cochrane of that Ilk, dated his will in 1603. It would appear, therefore, that Lincliff was their residence before the building of Cochrane Place. John Cochrane was succeeded by his son Allan in 1480. Allan left two sons, James and Robert. James succeeded in 1484; followed by Robert in 1493. Robert was succeeded by his son John, who was seized in the lands of Cochrane and Corseford in 1489. In 1500 he obtained a license under the Privy Seal, to sell or mortgage all his lands of Nether-Cochrane in Renfrewshire, and of Pitfaur in Perthshire. In 1519 he sold the barony of Easter-Cochrane, which included Nether-Cochrane, to James Beaton, Archbishop of Glasgow. Crawford mentions this deed as being among the Dundonald charters in 1710, and that it carried the seal of John Cochrane, which showed three boar's heads erased, and was circumscribed S1GILLt!~I -JoHA:-l'NIS- DE-CocHRA:'\F.. John served heir to his father, May 12. 1530. Then vVilliam Cochrane obtained a charter at Edinburg, November 30. 1556. confirming to him as the son of John, the five l\lark-lands in the barony and county of Renfrew, which his father had resigned under a reservation of life rent. To this \Villiam is attributed the building of the "Freestone Tower," which was added to the manor-house of Cochrane. which since 1460. appears to have been known as Lincliff, or Place of Cochrane. After the building of the tower. it was known as "Cochrane Castle." It was to this castle. or the old tower-house of his ancestors. that Sir John made his escape in 1685 after the Argyll insurrection." "An account of Robert Cochran. an architect and favorite of King James the Third of Scotland: ( From "Story of Scotland." John McIntosh). By perrni~sion G. P. Putnam's