Reverend James McGregor was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian minister who led a migration from the Bann Valley in Ireland, to Nutfield, New Hampshire, in 1718.
[1] There is a story that during the siege of Derry in 1689, when he was a youth, McGregor discharged a cannon announcing the relief was approaching.
[2] McGregor was educated in Glasgow, like other Irish Presbyterian ministers, and was ordained at Aghadowey in 1701, succeeding Rev.
During that autumn, an incident occurred between newly settled men from Haverhill and a party from Nutfield, headed to cut grass.
The Haverhill men, newly settled, confronted McGregor's party, attempting to deny their right to cut the grass.