Thomas and Henry Lytle's mother was Elizabeth Clark. There are two views.
The original one:
And the revised one:
In the first view, Thomas and Henry are descended from the McCords directly,
by blood. In the second view, they are related to McCords only through their
adoptive father, John Means. In either case, Thomas and Henry Lytle were
raised from a very early age by a John Means, and were lucky to retain their
Lytle name.
Here is the McCord Ancestry:
The McCord family is currently traced back to one James McCord, born perhaps
about 1620, in Scotland, though possibly a bit later. Tradition holds that he
died in the battle of Killicrankie Pass, Scotland. A sword attributed to him
was shown in New York in the 1920's. James was claimed to be from the Isle of
Skye, and chieftan of Clan MacCord. His wife was Jean. This all needs further
research.
The next tradition is that James' son, John, was born about 1660, and was in
the siege of Derry (now Londonderry, Northern Ireland) with King William's men
in 1689, and was in many other battles. John's wife was Mary McDougal. John
became clan chieftan at the death of his father. They moved to Ireland about
1688 as part of the great Ulster Plantation, when Scots and Englishmen were sent
to oust Irish landowners. These McCords settled in Stewartstown, County Tyrone.
John then had seven sons. They all came to America around 1720. The
sons were David, John, William, Robert, Samuel, Benjamin, and James. James
lived from 1689 to 1781 and was a Presbyterian preacher in New York state.
There were numerous William McCords. Two appear quite early in Pennsylvania.
One William died in 1739, in what was Chester County. Lancaster County was
derived from this, and later other counties from Lancaster. Another William
died in 1761 in Lancaster County. His age can be roughly calculated from the
ages of his children and grandchildren. He appears to be just the right age
to be the son of John, and one of the seven brothers. The William who died in
1739 may be an uncle or older cousin.
When William died in in 1761, his will of the previous year was proven. It
appears that he had five daughters and no sons:
The Montgomerys, Alexanders, Means and Lytles all show up in Randolph
County, North Carolina. Not all went there. Some went to Ohio, and some
of those in North Carolina later moved on to Greene County, Tennesee.
A couple of cousins in the next generation married each other. Thomas
Lytle and his cousins Stephen and William Alexander all married daughters
of Thomas King, and were adjacent landowners in Randolph County. All of these
families are claimed to be Scots Irish, and their appearance in early
Presbyterian churches in Pennsylvania supports this.