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- "Daniel McFarland came from Province of Ulster, Ireland,in 1718. For nearly a century, the McFarlands had resided there, having removed thither from Argyleshire, Scotland.
"Daniel and his brother Duncan came over in company with a long list of Scotch-Presbyterian immigrants, they having taken passage in five ships which sailed into Boston Harbor August 4, 1718.
"Daniel and other members of his family, including a son Andrew, then 28 years of age, lived some years in the town of Marblehead, Massachusetts, before setting in Worcester.
"The senior Daniel McFarland, who came to Worcester, was accompanied thither by his sons Andrew, Daniel and John, and daughter Elinor, who married Samuel Gray..."
-- Descendants of Daniel McFarland, compiled by Henry B. Crane, Worcester Society of Antiquity, 1907.
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