Virginia (Tubbs) Peterson

Thanks for that lead to Erastus Bainbridge. Though I'm not directly related to Alla McMath's kin (possibly via Ulster, Ireland...still working that evidence) in PA, though my McMath came over roughly the same time as his son (I think mine was 1741~1753, and Alla's son came over in 1751...heck whose to say they didn't come over together). Anyway, mine stayed in PA a couple years, then at some point moved through VA on his way to GA and set up shop land speculation. So with Erastus, I checked out Mary (McMath) Bainbridge and her father and that character information included the "Great Flight" of 1778. According to a non-WikiTree site, historically the "Great Flight of 1778" was when the French aristocracy was sending money to the American colonies to invest in land purchases based off a map by Thomas Hutchins, who went to London to get his map produced, went to Paris to see Ben Franklin (then the American Colonial Ambassador to France) who convinced him to go back to London to spy. By then Ben had his map made and it was a hit with the French who already had expeditions there (Canada, Mississippi up/down/etc.) and Hutchins helped motivate them to not only invest money but weapons, gear, etc. because if the Americans won against England, they'd have land to head over and occupy...as you'd know it, the idea of "revolution" stuck in France so many a French aristocrat come over, but along with all that land speculation was a big deal (British where hiring enterprising folks who had already been tromping all over Appilacia, western Pennsylvania, etc.). So this got me excited because my McMath had moved south prior to Revolutionary War's start (1776) and may very well came over either from Scotland direct (Boston) or via Ireland (Alla McMath's progeny) to Philidelphia (1751-ish)...I thought earlier it may have been 1741-43-ish because of the Jacobite purges by Cromwellian Parliamentarians trying to get rabble-rousers out of Scotland and Ireland...but what's to say my McMath wasn't already in Ireland and came over at the same time as Alla? People are more likely to move together than by themselves, especially an oppressed people. If we could just find a ship's log of 1751 that details who was on the ship, it would make life so much easier.