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5. Religion Affiliation: Anglican
Leonard Digges participated in Wyatt's rebellion against Mary.
From what little I know of it, the rebellion was as much against
Spanish interference as against Catholicism, and I have found no
statement whatever about Digges' motivation.
6. Scientific Disciplines - Primary: Mathematics, Crt Secondary:
Opt, Astronomy
Subordinate: It Is Difficult To Establish Digges'S Scientific
Productions precisely because it was mostly published by his
son, Thomas Digges, with his own work mixed in. However,
Tectonicon, 1556, a surveying manual emphasizing practical
mathematics, was all his.
Thomas Digges published Pantometria (surveying and cartography),
1571, and Stratioticos (military engineering), 1579, both as
essentially his father's work. In Pantometria, Thomas Digges
described his father's skill in optics.
Digges' Prognostication, first published in 1553, apparently to
earn money after his estate was attainted for treason, and then
reprinted frequently until 1605, was an almanac with, among
other things, astronomical information, for example on how to
determine the hour at night from the stars, and information
about instruments for observation.
7. Means of Support - Primary: Personal Means; Secondary:
Publishing
Inherited wealth from his ancient and considerable family,
enough to give him ample means and leisure.
He was attainted for treason as a result of Wyatt's rebellion,
lost his estate, and in the last years of his life apparently
tried to support himself partly through publication. Digges
dedicated Prognostication of Right Good Effect, 1555, to Lord
Clinton, later the Earl of Lincoln, who apparently saved Digges
from execution for his participation in Wyatt's rebellion under
Mary.
9. Technological Involvement Types: Cartography, Navigation,
Military Engineering, Instruments, Architecture. Applied
mathematics to surveying, navigation and gunnery. He was known
as an architect and as a master of fortification. He invented
the instrument now called the theodolite.
Informal Connections: Friendship with Dee, and influence on his
son, Thomas Digges.
Sources:
Dictionary of National Biography (repr., London: Oxford
University Press, 1949-1950), 5, 975. Much information has been
learned since this was written; it is not entirely reliable.
Biographia Britannica, 2nd ed. (London, 1778-93), 5, 238.
Anthony à Wood, Athenae oxonienses (Fasti oxonienses is
attached, with separate pagination, to the Athenae), 4 vols.
(London, 1813-20), 1, 414-15. E.G.R. Taylor, Mathematical
practioners of Tudor and Stuart England, (Cambridge, 1954), pp.
166-7. QA27. G7T28 Edmond R. Kiely, Surveying Instruments, (New
York, 1947).
Louise Diehl Patterson, "Leonard and Thomas Digges. Biographical
Notes," Isis, 42 (1951), 120-1.
Francis R. Johnson, "Thomas Digges," Times Literary Supplement,
5 April 1934, p. 244.
E.F. Bosanquet, "Leonard Digges and his Books," Proceedings of
the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1 (1922-6), 247-52.
_____, "English Printed Almanacks and Prognostications:
Corrigenda and Addenda," The Library, 4th ser., 8 (1928),
456-77.
Not Available and Not Consulted
A.W. Richeson, English Land Measuring to 1800, (Cambridge, MA.,
1967). Despite the number of items in the bibliography, there is
a paucity of information about the important Digges family."
Compiled by:
Richard S. Westfall
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Indiana University
Src:
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/digges_leo.htm
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or died 1571
_JOHN "The Elder" DIGGES _ | (1426 - ....) _JOHN "The Younger" DIGGES _| | (1440 - ....) | | |_JOANNA BRUYNE ___________ | (1420 - ....) _JAMES DIGGES _______| | (1470 - 1540) | | | __________________________ | | | | |_JOANNA CLIFTON ____________| | (1450 - ....) | | |__________________________ | | |--LEONARD DIGGES of Wooten Court | (1520 - 1559) | __________________________ | | | ____________________________| | | | | | |__________________________ | | |_PHILIPPA ENGHAM ____| (1470 - ....) | | __________________________ | | |____________________________| | |__________________________
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His father Robert who m Jennet were from Northern Ireland and
migrated into Lancaster PA. Samuel Evans, the noted historian of
PA writes in Notes and Queries, 3rd seried, Vol 2 by Wm Henry
Egle, "Robert McFarland settled along Little Chickies creek, in
Donegal township, Lancaster county, about one mile south of Mt.
Joy borough, in the year 1720". This is where I believe that the
misunderstanding occurs. He was in Donegal PA, not Scotland. In
Charles K. Bolton's book, Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and
America he states, "The Scotch Irish migration of Presbyterians
to Chester County began in 1719 and thus came long after the
English-Irish migration of Quakers which had begun in 1682.
These Presbyterians became of sufficient influence in Chester
County in 1722 to obtain the name Donegal for their township.
Chief among them at this time were. James Galbraith, etc., etc",
and the list goes on down to "
Robert McFarland and his sons Robert and James."
****Above note from Mary [email protected]*******
--Following notes provided by Robert B. Neil, Warrensburg, TN--
Sir John Mc Farland, of Arroguah, Scotland, was born in the
highlands of Scotland in 1708. He was the last of the chieftans
for his clan. In 1728 he married Mary Montgomery who was born in
1712. After the battle of Culloden, about 1746, Sir John fled to
America from Argyleshire. He was the first of his family to come
to America. The Duke of Argyle seized his estate in Scotland but
it is still in the possession of his descendants.
He settled in the Shenandoah valley of VA and also lived in
Bedford and Augusta counties, VA. Sir John was an elder in the
Presbyterian Church, the old stone church in Bedford County he
attended is still standing. William Callaway's List of Loyal
Americans gives the name of Sir John Mc Farland taking the oath
of Allegiance to the state of VA, September 1777, as follows:
"I do swear that I renounce and refuse all allegiance to George
III, King of Great Britain, and that I will be faithful and bear
true allegiance to the Commonwealth of VA as a free and
independent state, that I will discover and make known to some
to some one... all treasons or traitorious conspiracies which I
know or shall hereafter know to be formed against this or any of
the United States of America. So help me God.".
Sir John was too old for military service, but was an ardent
patriot and had several sons who fought for America's freedom,
and one son, James McFarland, was killed by the Indians. Sir
John Mc Farland died in Bedford County VA around 1784."
"327 acres on Sally Run in Montgomery County, VA to John Finley,
November 1773
(DB 1:142). There is also a sale from John McFarland, Sr. of
Russell Parish, Bedford County to John McFarland, Jr., of
Montgomery County, 367 acres on Reedy Creek (Montgomery DB
A:234). In addition, a Robert McFarland received 166 acres on
Reed Creek, 16 December 1773 (VA State Library, Record of
Plotts, reel 33, Book A, p. 79).
Appeared in 1749 as a petitioner to open a road from Zachariah
Calhouns, on Reed Creek to Buffalo Lick and then to Woods River
below mouth of Little River, towards forks of Meadow Creek
between Woods River and South fork of Roanoke. (Chalkley, vol.
1:434). On 23 May 1750, he was named a surveyor for this project
along with Joseph Crockett; tithables named included John
McFarland, John Downing, Wm. Sayers, Robert McFarlin (Chalkley
vol. 1:40; Augusta County OB 2:371).
In 1750, Jno. McFarland, Constable, appeared on list of
delinquents (Chalkley vol. 2:415).
On 4 May 1763, John McFarland and Mary, of Bedford County sold
106 acres, patent on branch of Reed Creek to Hugh Montgomery for
52.10 pounds (Chalkley vol. 3:401; Augusta County DB 11:329).
On 29 October 1767, John and Mary of Bedford sold 98 acres on a
branch of Reed Creek to James Holles for 40 pounds (Chalkley
vol. 3:461; Augusta County DB 14:88)."
Children:
2 Robert McFarland b: 17 APR 1730 d: AFT 1788 + Martha
(McFarland)
2 Nancy McFarland b: 26 NOV 1731 + Andrew Evans b: 26 NOV 1731
2 James McFarland b: 10 FEB 1732/1733 d: 7 JUL 1755
2 Rachel McFarland b: 17 MAR 1736/1737 + John Hunter
2 John McFarland b: 4 FEB 1738/1739 d: ABT 1809 + Mary Kinder d:
BEF 1820
2 Arthur McFarland b: 19 JAN 1740/1741
2 Mary McFarland b: 14 FEB 1742/1743 d: 29 MAY 1821 + James
Hunter b: 17 APR 1740 d: 30 JAN 1821
2 Joseph McFarland b: 30 MAR 1745 d: BEF 1780
2 Benjamin McFarland b: 16 APR 1747 d: 9 MAY 1823 + Mary
Blackburn b: JUL 1758 d: 14 OCT 1820
Father: Robert McFarland b: in prob Ireland
Mother: Jennett
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_John MORTON Sr.__________________+ | (1650 - 1722) m 1682 _Joseph or Josiah MORTON _| | (1684 - 1752) | | |_Joane (Deborah) HUGHES (WIDOW) __ | (1662 - ....) m 1682 _Joseph MORTON ______| | (1709 - 1782) m 1730| | | __________________________________ | | | | |_Elizabeth DAVIS _________| | (1690 - ....) | | |__________________________________ | | |--Elizabeth MORTON | (1754 - 1828) | _Robert "Potato Hole" WOODSON Sr._+ | | (1634 - 1707) m 1657 | _Richard WOODSON _________| | | (1662 - 1716) m 1689 | | | |_Elizabeth FERRIS ________________+ | | (1636 - 1689) m 1657 |_Agnes WOODSON ______| (1710 - 1802) m 1730| | _John SMITH "the Immigrant"_______ | | (1638 - 1692) |_Anne SMITH ______________| (1662 - 1746) m 1689 | |__________________________________
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