Tirlaugh Groome O’Quin of Tyrone, Northern Ireland

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In the Cuinn/Quinn Surname Project there are a total number of 392 individual genetic samples and these assertions are based on the results. 63% match Neill O’Cuinn via yDNA. Of which, I do not have the M222 SNP but near perfect match everywhere else, ruling out the male line to Conn as my EKA.  Not necessarily, my DNA shows a nearly 90% match to Neill, without the SNP marker values required. As such, I can be 100% certain that Tirlogh Groome O’Quin, Daniel and Daniell O’Quin, Murtogh O’Quin and the two more are of the same family which is of Neill.

It is my opinion that although they were relieved of all known possession and status, there would certainly have been a war chest or treasury containing silver and gold coins of wide variety. This is how they and many, certainly not all were able to reach the Americas quickly and set up for themselves new land opportunities of the Virginias and Carolinas. 

Known as the Middle Colony of Virginia, Nansemond now an extinct jurisdiction that was located south of the James River in the Virginia Colony and in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States, from 1646 until 1974. It is expected that these areas lie within the Jamestown settlements general area extending into the surrounds as you can plainly see is the case for Tirlaugh Groome O’Quin. 

Beginning April 26, 1684, we find a grant in the Colonial and State records of Virginia a grant to Bryan Oquin for 550 acres of land whereas the land being granted was approved and contracted for the transportation of 11 persons into the Virginia Colony are mentioned under this patent.

Source – Virginia State Library, Patent Nook 7, 1679-89, Reel 7, page 391.

Then on June 16, 1714, another 200 acres in Nansemond County, Colony of Virginia was deeded to Samuel Parker, the brother-in-law to Daniel Oquin.

Source - English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records. Louis de Cognets, Jr.

On July 11, 1719 Thurlo Oquin received a patent for 227 acres. In the Upper Parish of Nansemond County adjoining Daniel Oquin's line.

Source - Nugent's "Cavaliers and Pioneers", page 215.

In 1653, the Virginia Assembly granted Roger Green and 100 residents of Nansemond County, Colony of Virginia 10,000 acres on the Roanoke River, west of the Chowan River. In 1662, George Durant purchased lands from the Native peoples in this region. However, when it was determined that the Albemarle settlements were not lawful in the Carolina proprietary grant of 1663, a new charter was granted in 1665 which included them. A government was instituted in the region of Albemarle Sound in 1664 and within a decade, settlements extended from the Chowan River to Currituck Sound, known as Albemarle County.

The Chowan River (cho-WAHHN) is a blackwater river formed with the merging of Virginia's Blackwater and Nottoway rivers near the state line between Virginia and North Carolina. According to the USGS a variant name is Choan River.

Flowing for approximately 50 miles (80 km) before ending in the Albemarle Sound on North Carolina's coast, the river drains about 4,800 square miles (12,000 km2) of land in North Carolina and Virginia. Flowing through mostly swamp land with occasional high ground, the Chowan River grows to nearly two miles wide (3 km) at its opening to the Albemarle Sound. The river offers excellent fishing for catfish and largemouth bass. While tidal, the variation in tide heights in the Chowan River are normally less than one foot (30 cm) between high and low tide. The average depth is 16 feet and the maximum depth is 40 feet around Holiday Island.

The Chowan River Bridge, also known as the Eden House bridge, on US Route 17 marks the border between the Chowan River and Albemarle Sound.[3] Edenhouse Point, a cape named after former North Carolina governor Charles Eden, is located at the southern end of the bridge.

Significant tributaries include Bonds Creek, the Meherrin River, Bennett's Creek (which connects the Chowan River with Merchant's Millpond State Park), and the Wiccacon River.

July 14, 1721 Daniel Oquin is a witness to a land sale between Samuel Williams of Chowan Precinct in Edenton, Chowan, Province of North Carolina by James Feyle of Nansemond County, Virginia

Source - Chowan Co. N.C. Deed Book F, page 69

July 12, 1722 William Eason of Albemarle County, Province of North Carolina conveys to Tarlow Oquin, late of Nansemond County, Virginia Colony for the love I bear my loving friend 320 acres, joining a Marsh and James Blount’s part of a Patent to the said William Eason in 1721.

Source - Chowan County, North Carolina Deed Book #1, entry #1503, page. 296.

18 November 1722, Daniel Oquin acquires 640 acres in Chowan precinct on joining Andrew Barrow and his own land. Witnessed by William Reed, Christopher Gale, Robert Sanderson, James Lovick and Thomas Pollack.

Source - Province of North Carolina Patent Book #3, patent #1996, page 115

For a complete listing, including at least 70 more entries, we find Daniel Oquin obtaining large amounts of land either by grant or outright purchase in both the Colony of Virginia and Province of North Carolina. For a detailed list, you are encouraged to read the manuscript titled; O’Quinn Cousins by the Dozens by John Kenneth O' Quinn, Sr. The manuscript is filled with the deeds that are necessary to link back to the particular geography if you are searching for a Quinn ancestor.

With DNA evidence associated with Quinn of Tyrone, you may visit the The Cuinn/Quinn DNA Surname Project, Muintir O'Cuinn and look at how the project identifies and categorized the male yDNA. If you have taken your test outside of Family Tree DNA, you may be able to create a free account, import your information and begin to understand more about Genetic Genealogy and how it works.

https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Quinn?iframe=ycolorized 

For those that have no access to Y-chromosomal information via a verified male ancestor, or relative from the same male line, Ancestry DNA is your best bet for getting tons of immediate genetic relatives. However, if you desire an anthropologic view of your X-chromosome, you should definitely have that done at Family Tree DNA, as it is not offered by Ancestry DNA, although they attempt to make predictions that are not reliable in my humble opinion.

Turlo, Tarlor, Tarlow, Tirlough with Daniel Quin and Bryant Quin of the O’Quin and O’Neil lines are also of Tyrone. Hugh Quin of South Carolina and the western North Carolina mountains is also of the same genetic line. This line was a wealthy line that controls all of Northern Ireland today. This means that when searching for historical records, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England should be your first choices. Secondary locations are Ireland, France and Spain depending on how far back your are researching.

Indeed, they are also of the Thomond Pedigrees.