LUKE-1 and SUSAN __?__ DILLON,  had come from Ireland into Pennsylvania and/or Maryland, and migrated to Virginia sometime around 1732.

The Hinshaw Encyclopedia of Quakers, a compilation of Quaker Records, lists LUKE and SUSAN DILLON’s children and their dates of birth, but not where they were born. Frederick County, Virginia, where DANIEL's children were born, was not settled until about 1720, [some sources say 1732] so LUKE and SUSAN DILLON must have come there sometime after that. This would mean that DANIEL and his siblings were born elsewhere. It is possible that some of the children were born in Ireland before the family emigrated to the colonies. Probably the family was in Maryland before coming to Virginia, but if and when they were in Maryland is not known at this point.

Thirdly, in his book New Garden Friends Meeting, The Christian People Called Quakers, Hiram H. Hity states:

...a1ong the Monocacy River, a tributary of the Potomac, in Maryland. Sometime before 1730, a meeting called "Monoquesy" was formed in this region, near the present village of Buckeystown....In 1732 a migration southward was undertaken by Alexander Ross and a company of Pennsylvania and Maryland Friends, who secured from the Governor and Council of Virginia one hundred thousand acres of land for a colony on Opequan Creek, another tributary of the Potomac. This led to the formation of two meetings Opequan and Providence, which were formed into Hopewell Monthly meeting in 1735.

Later in the same book he states: A number of Quakers about this period, some of whom purchased from Ross, made settlements on Apple Pie Ridge, and elsewhere not far off, among whom were the Bransons, Luptons, DILLONS and others. It is said that those who settled on Ross' lands, and the Quakers generally, were free from all depredations of the Indians, for the fame of Penn as a pacificator and as a man who always treated the aborigines with justice, paying them for their lands, etc. reached far and wide among the savages.

The Friends for many years maintained three Meetings, and for some reason they were all designated as Hopewell Meeting; the first being Hopewell on Applie pie Ridge, one at Pugh's town [Gainesboro] and one on Crooked run [east of Stephens City.] [Cartmell, Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants, pg. 215.]

Cartmell says on page 269, “Alexander Ross and his settlers were slow in securing their grant for the large tracts. The first appears November 22, 1734, for 2,373 acres. This tract lies north of Winchester.” He goes on to say, “this was part...and sub-divided into tracts or homes for the Quaker families drifting from Pennsylvania, Delaware and other points north in 1734.....including the Apple Pie Ridge section. Ross found obstacles in the form of what is generally known as the Joist Hite grant. Hite had obtained his order through John Van Meter in 1730.”