The book is out today:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891072

Note that this is a new edition of a book originally published in
1990. I have added 108 pages of data, consisting mostly of family
trees submitted by other branches of the Graham Family.

Whereas the original book had 610 pages, this new edition has 718
pages.

I must thank Philip James Graham for giving me permission to reprint
this book and also thank Pam McCallum of Scituate, Massachusetts for
reformating the book for me so that it is available in the more
convenient size of 6 x 9 rather than the original size of 8 3/8 x 11.

Although this book contains the names and family trees of 6,897
descendants, this is a drop in the bucket compared to the actual
number, which must be around 20,000 to 30,000 descendants of David
Graham living in the United States today.

Sam Sloan

On Mar 26, 2:03 pm, (Sam Sloan) wrote:
Publisher's Foreword

This book is a genealogical database and family history of 6,897
members of the Graham Family, consisting of David Graham and his three
children who arrived in Charleston South Carolina on the ship
Pennsylvania Farmer in 1772, and their descendants.

The Graham Family was no slouch in the area of reproduction and the
6,897 descendants listed in this book are a drop in the bucket
compared to the actual number, because the main typist and compiler,
Katharine Kell, stopped typing in most cases when the daughters
married and had children who did not carry the Graham name.

Katharine Kell died on October 23, 1992 at age 69. She was my Fourth
Cousin. Her co-author, Philip James Graham, is my Fourth Cousin One
Generation Removed, which means that he is one-half generation further
away.

I know this because I have my own genealogical database in my computer
which calculates these things. I am a newcomer to this field, having
only started in 1991, but my family tree database in my computer has
13,589 names in it, and most of the names in this book are not
included.

This book was originally self-published in 1990. Although the cost of
printing was more than $4,000, the book was distributed free of charge
or in some cases sold to family members. I did not find out about the
existence of this book until about 1998. By then, there were no more
available.

Since I mention this book several times in my genealogical database
online, I constantly receive requests from distant relatives for
copies of this book, and I have to inform them that there are none
available.

In 2006, I asked the surviving author, Philip James Graham, my Fourth
Cousin, for permission to reprint this book. He readily agreed and
sent me the original camera-ready copy. However, the size and weight
of the original book is too big for easy distribution, so I wanted to
reduce it to a manageable size. I could not figure out how to do it.
Fortunately, Pamela McCallum of Scituate, Massachusetts came to the
rescue and agreed to scan the entire book for me and to reduce the
margins so that it would fit in a 6 x 9 book, which is the preferred
size for many books. Pamela McCallum did a wonderful job. I could
never have done it myself or, if I had tried to do it, it would have
taken me several months. As you will see, she even made the gutter
margins wider than the outside margins, which are vitally important to
open and read a soft-cover book of 630 pages.

As the introduction states, this book is the result of more than 15
years of research by the two authors. They originally started their
research independently of each other, and eventually they found each
other, and decided to collaborate.

The book was published in 1990. It was self published through the
services of a local bookbinder in Birmingham, Michigan, where
Katharine Kell, who had typed the manuscript, lived.

It was self published on 8 3/8 x 11 paper, which seems to be a
standard size for Family History Books of this nature. The bill from
the printer came to more than $4,000 which, I believe, was probably
paid by Mrs. Kell.

Mrs. Kell died on October 23, 1992 at age 69. Her husband, Joseph Cass
Kell, died on January 24, 1993 at age 80.

Thus, it fell to the co-author, Philip James Graham, who was born
December 4, 1954, to become the guardian of this manuscript.

In 1991, I started my own independent research, not into my own family
but into the family of President Thomas Jefferson because I was
writing a book called "The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson".
Although I am not a member of the LDS, in 1991 I traveled to Salt Lake
City to learn their techniques for gathering genealogical data. I
bought the first edition of their Personal Ancestral File or "PAF"
program that had just come out and I started gathering and entering
data on the family tree of Thomas Jefferson. As an aside I put my own
very limited Family Tree on disk. I knew little about my own family
history. I only knew the names of three of my grandparents, one of
whom was Mary Graham (1879-1956).

I sent a floppy disk with my data on it to the LDS in Salt Lake City,
Utah, with about 1200 names on it of relatives of Thomas Jefferson and
about 12 names on it of my own relatives. As a result, everybody in my
database was assigned an Ancestral File Number by the LDS.

Required reading for anybody interested in this book is "Scotch-Irish
migration to South Carolina, 1772: (Rev. William Martin and his five
shiploads of settlers)" by Jean Stephenson ISBN 0806348321 . That book
provides passenger lists for five boatloads of settlers led by Rev.
William Martin. There were approximately 1,100 members of the group,
all of whom attended Rev. Martin's Church in Atrium, Northern Ireland.
They were all fleeing the turmoil and fighting that had taken place
between the Catholics and the Protestants in Northern Ireland (not
unlike the fighting that is still taking place today) and they had
been promised free land in South Carolina.

Most of the Graham Family did not stay long in South Carolina. Being
farmers, they started moving Westward. My own branch moved to
Kentucky, then to Indiana, then to Iowa, where my Grandmother Graham
was born.

A question that often comes up concerns a number of famous people
named Graham who remained the area and did not go West. These include
The Reverend Billy Graham (born November 17, 1918) , United States
Senator from Florida Robert Graham(born November 9, 1936), who was
briefly a presidential candidate, and Editor and Owner of the
Washington Post Philip L.Graham(1915-1963), among many others.

I have never been able to prove that any of these people are our
relatives. On the other hand, I cannot prove that they are not our
relatives either. One person who has written me believes that there
were two Graham Brothers in Ireland. One brother, David Graham, was
the ancestor of all of us poor Grahams, whereas the other brother was
the ancestor of all those rich Grahams. Due to the difficulties in
obtaining any original family records from Northern Ireland, it has
not proven possible to prove or disprove any of this. Numerous
relatives have gone over there and searched, and none have found
anything.

This book by Katharine Kell also contains an important article about
the history of Scot Irish Immigration, explaining how the Scots
arrived in Ireland in the first place. After King Henry VIII changed
the official religion of the Church of England, so that he could
divorce his wife rather than chopping her head off as had been his
custom, Ireland remained Catholic. England had conquered but could not
control Ireland, but they were able to push the Catholics out of
Northern Ireland and settle Scots there to replace them. This resulted
in wars which have continued to this day. However, the Scots
eventually rebelled under English Rule, rebellions broke out and those
who chose not to fight but quit moved to America. This explains the
boatloads of 1100 settlers that arrived in Charleston South Carolina
in 1772.

This also explains how I got here, being one of those Scot-Irish.

The five ships that came in 1772 were among the last to arrive in this
way, because right after that the American Revolutionary War broke
out. For many years thereafter, no more ships from Ireland were
allowed to sail from Ireland to America, until the Titanic.

TheGrahamFamily joined with zest into the American Revolutionary War
because they hated the British. A little remembered fact is that
fighting continued in South Carolina even after Cornwallis had
surrendered in Virginia.DavidGrahamand his two sons joined in the
fighting (on the American side).

A problem has arisen for those descendants who want to join the
"Daughters of the American Revolution". The rosters of the names of
the soldiers fighting include David Grimbs and Andrew Grimbs. Also,
the rosters of the ships arriving in 1772 list David Grimbs and
Andrew Grimbs. The problem has been to prove that David Grimbs and
Andrew Grimbs are the same persons as David Graham and Andrew Graham
who are our relatives. This book contains documentary proof that these
are the same persons and, as I understand it, the DAR will now accept
us as members.

Another problem is that Andrew Graham, son of David Graham, had the
same bad habit as I have, which is getting married. Andrew Graham had
either three or four marriages and either two or three of his wives
were named Margaret. These include Margaret Coulter, Mary Chesnut,
Margaret Phillips and another wife just named Margaret. Andrew Graham
had many children and ever since researchers have been debating the
subject of which child came from which wife. The stakes in this are
high, because at stake here is the right TO CLAIM MEMBERSHIP IN THE
BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY.

This of course is very important because everybody wants to be a
member of the British Royal Family, of course, and this has led to
endless debates on this subject.

This issue arises because the mother of Margaret Coulter was Mary
Stuart who, it is claimed, was a descendant of the Stuart Family, one
of the Royal Families of England, through one of the concubines of
either King James IV (1473-1513) or King James V (1512-1542) of
Scotland.

King James IV and King James V of Scotland had another bad habit,
which is having lots of mistresses, numbering around twenty each, and
having lots of ******* kids. Both of these kings had short lives and
died in battle, but left things to remember them by. Mary Stuart is
said to have been descended from one of them, but nobody has been able
to establish which one, or even if the relationship is true at all.

This may explain why that infamous right-wing columnist Ann Coulter is
such a *******.

Seriously, being the ******* child of a King of England or Scotland
still makes one a member of the British Royal Family in spite of the
illegitimacy.

Sam Sloan