Beginning of the Kithcarts in America:
John Kithcart b 1737 in County Antrim, Ireland (note proximity to Scotland)
d 10/26/1812 in Fayette Co. PA. John married Sara White (b 1740,died March 4, 1798)
John and Sara had three children: Mary Kithcart b 1766 (no
children), Thomas Kithcart b 10-20-1768 (no children), and Joseph Kithcart
b 11/25/1770 (had 10 children)
The Kithcart Ancestry
"It is a tradition among the Kithcarts that the name was originally "Cathcart". When their ancestor John, came to America and settled in Fayette County, PA, is title of grant of land was by mistake recorded as "Kithcart" in the books of Virginia, which at that early day claimed jurisdiction over that part of Western Pennsylvania, and in order to hold the title, the family took the name of "Kithcart."
My father says there was no relationship existing between the Kithcarts and old Uncle David Cathcart, although they lived only nine miles apart and visited each other.
The Kithcart homestead was in that part of Fayette county east of the Younghiogheny River, near the old Mount Cernon Furnace, six miles from Connellsville, on the road to Mt. Pleasant, or near the road. Here John Kithcart died October 26, 1812. His wife Sara White, had died before him on March 4 1798."
They emigrated to America in early times, but it is not known at what
time they removed West of the mountains, nor where their children were
born.
The above from Thomas Sherrard 1890
Enlarged map showing Country Antrim in upper right corner
Map of Ireland