Rupp reports details that may consist of a layer of romantic embellishment set over a foundation of fact: “Dr. John Young is said to have been a waif found upon a battlefield on the Isle of Bert in 1623, by a member of the well known family of Youngs of Donegal. He was adopted by them, given their name, and educated at their expense. He became a prominent physician. He m. in Ireland, Janet Crawford. In November, 1718, accompanied by his son, David, he arrived at Boston after surviving the hardships of an ocean voyage at the age of 95. He died at Worcester, Mass., June 30, 1730, at the remarkable age of 107.... [His descendant] John5[?] Young, born in Peterboro, N.Y., Mar. 8, 1765, settled in the Western Reserve in 1797, and purchased fifteen thousand acres of land for $16,085.16. On this land the city of Youngstown, Ohio, now stands.”974