Individual Details
John D. McClellan Sr.
(Bef 1715 - 1776 - 1780)
Events
| Birth | Bef 1715 |  | |||
| Marriage | Bef 1735 | Martha Ann | | ||
| Residence | Bef 1761 | Bedford County, Virginia, British America | |  | |
| Property | 5 May 1761 | purchased 60 acres of land for 65 pounds from Charles Milligan of Orange County, North Carolina, - the head of Looney's Creek, known as "Big Meadows,", Augusta County, Virginia, British America | | | |
| Property | 19 Aug 1761 | purchased 297 acres on a branch of the James River, on Looney's Mill Creek, from Charles Millican of Orange County, North Carolina - Augusta County, Virginia, British America | | | |
| Property | 1765 | property on the south side of the "waters of the James and Catawbo" rivers, according to a processioning list | | ||
| Property-shared | 12 Oct 1765 | (Edward Sharp) Edward Sharp purchased two tracts of land on the head of Looney's Mill Creek, in an area known as "Big Meadow," from John McClellan (his father-in-law). One was a 60 acre tract purchased for 30 pounds, and the second was an 84 acre tract purchased for 45 pounds; - Augusta County, Virginia, British America | | | |
| Emigration | Bef 1766 | northern Ireland to Virginia | | ||
| Property-shared | 1767 | (William McClellan) purchased 30 acres of land adjoining property owned by John McClellan (William's father) - Looney's Creek, Augusta County, Virginia, British America | | ||
| Property | 19 Sep 1767 | property adjoining 80 acres of land owned by his son William McClelland - Looney Creek, Augusta County, Virginia, British America | | | |
| Property | 25 Jun 1769 | John McClellan witnessed the execution of John Buchanan's will on 25 June 1769 concerning lands - Reed Creek called Anchor and Hope, and New River, Augusta County, Virginia, British America | | | |
| Will-shared | 2 May 1770 | (Edward Sharp) Botetourt County, Virginia, British America | | | |
| Emigration-shared | 1771 | (Jane McClellan) to the Holston River Valley, in another area of Botetourt County, in the area that is now Sullivan County, Tennessee (formerly Washington County, Virginia/Sullivan County, North Carolina), the vicinity of Buchanan, Botetourt, Virginia, British America | | | |
| Departure | Oct 1775 | In late October 1775, John McClelland and his family, including Abraham McClelland and Sarah McClelland, who afterwards seems to have married Joseph Wilson, and Alexander McClelland, whose daughter, Mary, afterwards married Richard Wilson, Robert Patterson, William McConnell, Francis McConnell, Sr., Francis McConnell, Jr., Andrew McConnell, David Perry, and Stephen Lowry, late in October, 1775, left the neighborhood of Pittsburgh for Kentucky, taking their movable property in canoes and driving nine horses and fourteen head of cattle by land, the first importation of either into Northern Kentucky. Four of the above-named, to wit: John McClelland, William McConnell, Francis McConnell, Jr., and David Perry, as we have seen, had been to Kentucky in the spring and summer before. - Reportedly lived in vicinity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, British America | | ||
| Arrival | Nov 1775 | In November 1775, McClelland's party reached Salt Lick Creek, in what is now Lewis County, near the site of the present town of Vanceburg. Here they parted company, Patterson, Lowry, William McConnell, and David Perry, under the piloting of Perry, striking across the country with the animals, while John McClelland and the others went down the Ohio river to the mouth of the Kentucky, and then up that stream to Leestown (one mile below Frankfort). The land party went up Salt Lick to its head, crossed Cabin Creek, passing the Stone Lick (Orangeburg, Mason County), and May's Lick, to the Lower Blue Licks, where they met with Simon Kenton and Thomas Williams, who then knew of no other white persons in the country; thence they traveled across Licking River, and several branches of the Elkhorn to Leestown, which point they reached ahead of those who were traveling by the water route. As soon as the canoes arrived, Patterson, Perry, Lowry and William McConnell joined forces with John McClelland and the others of his party and the whole company marched to the Royal Spring, where they proceeded to build a large cabin, in which they made their home until April, 1776. - (what is now Royal Springs, Kentucky), Royal Springs, Fincastle County, Virginia, British America | | | |
| Residence | Dec 1775 - Apr 1776 | Upon arriving in Royal Springs, McClelland and his travelling party erected a large cabin, in which they made their home until April 1776 (Collins History of Kentucky, Vol. II, p.178). - (now Royal Springs, Kentucky), Royal Springs, Fincastle County, Virginia, British America | | | |
| Military | May 1776 or Jun 1776 | because of Indian hostilities, a battalion of militia of the inhabitants on the north side of the Kentucky river was formed and officers elected, who were duly commissioned by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Some of the families from the south of Kentucky River, from Kinkston's settlement on Licking, and from Drennon's Lick, united with the John McClelland's family and their associates in building a fort at the Royal Spring, which was known by the name of McClelland's Fort or Station (American Pioneer, Vol. II, p.544) - Royal Springs, Virginia, British America | | ||
| Residence | Jan 1777 | McClelland's Station was broken up by the attack of Pluggy and his warriors in January 1777. - McClelland's Station, Royal Springs, Virginia, British America | | ||
| Death | 1776 - 1780 | The date of his death is estimated as being between 1776, when he entered 1,400 acres of land in Scott County, Virginia, and 1780, when his son Abraham acted as executor of those lands. This case is listed in court records. - Scott County, Virginia, United States (?) | | | |
| Alt name | John McClalan | | |||
| Alt name | John McClellon | | |||
| Alt name | John McClelland | ||||
| Alt name | John McCleland |
Families
| Spouse | Martha Ann (1718 - ) |
| Child | John McClelland Jr. ( - ) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Alexander McClelland ( - ) |
| Child | Mary Ann McClellan (1735 - 1840) |
| Child | Abraham McClellan (1743 - ) |
| Child | Jane McClellan (1740 - 1778) |
| Child | William McClellan (1746 - ) |
Notes
Birth
http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:James_Allison_(44)Marriage
http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:James_Allison_(44)Residence
A record mentioned by Pulizos suggests that McClellan was a resident of Bedford County, Virginia (Pulizos, 1).Property
Original text: "Page 279.--5th May, 1761. Charles Milligan, of Orange County, North Carolina, to John McClalan, of Bedford County, Virginia, ₤65, 60 acres by patent 3d November, 1750, and conveyed to Charles by James Patton, 18th November, 1752, on head of Lunie's Creek. Delivered: Francis Smith, 1st October, 1767" [Deed Book No. 9].Property
Original text: "Page 523.--19th August, 1761. Charles Millican, of Orange County, North Carolina, by John Buchanan, to John McClellon, £__, 297 acres on a branch of James River, on Looney's Mill Creek. Delivered: Francis Smith, 1st October, 1767" [Deed Book No. 8].Property
"Processioning" was the periodic review and agreement of property lines between settler's lands. Processioning Lists are useful in determining the general area of a settlers lands and their neighbors at specific time periods.From Vol. 2 - (1765: Processioners on Waters of James and Catawbo, on South side, report, viz:) Page 409.--For John Smith, for Jno. McFerrin, for Jno. McClellan; for Jno. Allcorn, where he now lives; for David Mitchell; for Wm. Rowland, on Patrick's Run; for Alex. Evans; for John Crawford, where he now lives; for John Adams.
Property-shared
The "divide" was originally patented on 3 November 1750, conveyed by James Patton to Charles Milligan; and conveyed by Milligan to McClelland on 17 November 1752. Witnesses to the 1765 transaction from McClelland to Sharp were An[drew?] Bird, Arthur Campell, David Looney (Sharp's brother in-law), and John Buchanan. Buchanan and Campbell acknowledged the deed before the Augusta County Court on October 15, 1765. David Looney acknowledged it the next day.The wording of the source statement is somewhat confusing and may offer differing interpretations of its meaning: "Edward Sharp from John McClelland, 30 pounds, 60 acres from Charles Milligan, head of Looney's Mill Creek. Au. D. Bk. 12, 369; 84 acres, patented 1763, at Big Meadows. Au. D. Bk. 12, 372."
The 60 acre tract was originally patented by Charles Milligan on 23 May 1763, part of Zachary Lewis' order of Council. Au. Bk. 12, 369, 372. Witnesses to the 1765 transaction from McClelland to Sharp were An[drew?] Bird, Arthur Campell, David Looney (Sharp's brother in-law), and John Buchanan (See MDC, Vol. I, p. 252 and Vol. II, p. 406 for more about this lease).
Both the 60 acre and 84 acre tracts purchased by Edward Sharp from John McClellan in 1765 were purchased by McClellan, along with another 297 acre tract, only four years prior in 1761. Earlier record of John McClellan selling land to a Robert Walter shows he was of Bedford County (Pulizos, 1).
Emigration
Secondary source: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_McClelland_%284%29Property
Original text: "Page 77 - William McClellon, 80 acres, Looney Creek. Adjoining John McClellon. September 19, 1767." [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 29].Property
Original text: "Page 369.--25th June, 1769. John Buchanan's will--Lands on Reed Creek called Anchor and Hope, and 500 acres on New River where Adam Harman lived; to sons, James, William, and John (all under 30); to wife and children, tract where Walter Stewart lives; to daughter, Mary Boyd, wife to Andrew Boyd; to three youngest daughters; to George ?Wilson; to relative, James Buchanan, merchan in this county. Excecutors, Col. Andrew Lewis, Col. Wm. Preston, and nephew Wm. Campbell. Teste: John Smith, Robt. Breckinridge, Wm. Thompson, Jno. McClellan. Proved, 16th August, 1769. Preston and Campbell qualify; and 23rd February, 1818, the will not having been recorded a certified copy is now ordered to be spread on record. [Will Book No. XII]Will-shared
The will names his wife Jane and three children as heirs, and his father in-law John McClellan and brother in-law William McClellan as executors. Edward's sons Anthony and John are specifically called out in the will, stating that it was his desire that their share of the estate be used to secure land at the mouth of Reidey [sic] (i.e., Reedy) Creek upon the Holston (in present day Tennessee) for each. Subscribers of the will were Samuel Walker (thought to be father or brother of William McClellan's wife Barbara), William Latherdall, and John Kerr. All three of these men were likely close neighbors. The will was officially recorded on 12 June 1770.Boozy Creek is approximately 180 miles farther down the Appalachian mountain range, west/southwest of Buchanan, VA, and approximately 10 miles east/northeast of present Kingsport, TN. Boozy Creek is located in the area of the Holston River Valley, situated between the North Fork Holston River and South Fork Holston River. The creek empties into Reeds Creek, which itself empties into the South Fork Holston River at Kingsport, TN (Google Maps).
Emigration-shared
Jane McClellan and her (new) husband John Kerr are believed to have relocated to the area of Washington County, Virginia, and Sullivan County, Tennessee (formerly North Carolina), along with her father (John McClellan), sister Mary (McClellan) Looney (wife of David Looney), and Alexander Brackenridge. At the time Botetourt County, Virginia covered all of this area (Pulizos 2).I believe this area to be the lands in the Holston River Valley that Edward Sharp had previously scouted and/or purchased prior to his death, including that which comprised the mill he established on what is now Boozy Creek (formerly Sharp Creek). This is particularly relevant, as Jane McClellan and John Kerr reportedly took over operation of this mill, with it eventually becoming known as Kerr's mill.
Arrival
**It is unclear whether the information in this record is the same family as Jane McClelland, wife of Edward Sharp.John McClelland and his family, including Abraham McClelland and Sarah McClelland, who afterwards seems to have married Joseph Wilson, and Alexander McClelland, whose daughter, Mary, afterwards married Richard Wilson, Robert Patterson, William McConnell, Francis McConnell, Sr., Francis McConnell, Jr., Andrew McConnell, David Perry, and Stephen Lowry, late in October, 1775, left the neighborhood of Pittsburgh for Kentucky, taking their movable property in canoes and driving nine horses and fourteen head of cattle by land, the first importation of either into Northern Kentucky.
Residence
Of those who helped in this undertaking from Hinkston's, were John and James Haggin. In November or December, 1775, it appears that Benjamin McClelland, John McCracken, Stephen Lowry, John Lowry, and James Sterrett came to the Elkhorn country from Western Pennsylvania. These men undoubtedly made McClelland's Station their headquarters or stopping place from time to time, although they were engaged in "improving" at a distance from the Royal Spring, from January, 1776, until late in the same year.Death
Secondary source: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_McClelland_%284%29"COUNTY: Scott
CASE: J & D Bradford vs. Abraham McClelland, et al.
DATE: May Term 1799
CASE TYPE: Land
ON: John Floys, assignee of Abraham McClelland, PEW 1409; William Hogan by James Hogan Jr; James Hogan Sr.(N); James Forbes(N); John Dobbins(N); Daniel Boone(W); John & DanielBradford, assignees of Wm Hogan 1000 acres PE
OGI: Abraham McClelland, HAL of John McClelland, 1,400 acres in 1780 PE (entered in 1776 by John McClelland.)
Endnotes
1. Jo Ann Pulizos, Sharp Family History (N.p.: n.p., June 1986), 1.
2. Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the original court records of Augusta County, 1745-1800 (3 vols.) (Augusta County, Virginia: The Commonwealth Printing Company, 1912), 369; ebook, Google.com, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books/about/Chronicles_of_the_Scotch_Irish_settlemen.html?id=wk8PAAAAYAAJ : Downloaded 31 December 2012.
3. Jo Ann Pulizos, Sharp Family History (N.p.: n.p., June 1986), 1.
4. Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the original court records of Augusta County, 1745-1800 (3 vols.) (Augusta County, Virginia: The Commonwealth Printing Company, 1912), 376; ebook, Google.com, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books/about/Chronicles_of_the_Scotch_Irish_settlemen.html?id=wk8PAAAAYAAJ : Downloaded 10 March 2012; http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_McClelland_%284%29.
5. Jo Ann Pulizos, Sharp Family History (N.p.: n.p., June 1986), 1.
6. Frederick Bittle Kegley, Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest: The Roanoke of Colonial Days, 1740-1783, (Google eBook) (Roanoke, Virginia; Reprinted in Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1938; Reprinted 2003), 305, 350 and 499; ebook, Google, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books?id=Bp0nOrLrPlYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false : Electronically accessed 2 January 2012.
7. Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the original court records of Augusta County, 1745-1800 (3 vols.) (Augusta County, Virginia: The Commonwealth Printing Company, 1912), 436; ebook, Google.com, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books/about/Chronicles_of_the_Scotch_Irish_settlemen.html?id=wk8PAAAAYAAJ : Downloaded 31 December 2012.
8. Madge Looney Crane, Most Distinguished Characters on the American Frontier: Children of Robert (b. 1692-1702, d. 1770) and Elizabeth Looney of Augusta (now Botetourt) County, Virginia, and some of their descendants (Waterford, OH (RR 1, Box 193, Waterford 45786): M. L. Crane, 1998–2008), 393.
9. Jo Ann Pulizos, Sharp Family History (N.p.: n.p., June 1986), 1.
10. Jo Ann Pulizos, Sharp Family History (N.p.: n.p., June 1986), 2.
11. Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the original court records of Augusta County, 1745-1800 (3 vols.) (Augusta County, Virginia: The Commonwealth Printing Company, 1912), 29; ebook, Google.com, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books/about/Chronicles_of_the_Scotch_Irish_settlemen.html?id=wk8PAAAAYAAJ : accessed 31 December 2012; from Abstracct of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor.
12. Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the original court records of Augusta County, 1745-1800 (3 vols.) (Augusta County, Virginia: The Commonwealth Printing Company, 1912), 248; ebook, Google.com, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books/about/Chronicles_of_the_Scotch_Irish_settlemen.html?id=wk8PAAAAYAAJ : Downloaded 31 December 2012.
13. Frederick Bittle Kegley, Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest: The Roanoke of Colonial Days, 1740-1783, (Google eBook) (Roanoke, Virginia; Reprinted in Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1938; Reprinted 2003), 499; ebook, Google, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books?id=Bp0nOrLrPlYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false : Electronically accessed 2 January 2012.
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15. Anne Lowry Worrell, Early Marriages, Wills and some Revolutionary War Records – Botetourt County, Virginia (Hillsville, Virginia: Anne Lowry Worrell, 1958), 63.
16. Botetourt County, Virginia, Will Book A 1, Last Will and Testament of Edward Sharp, 12 June 1770; Virginia State Library, Richmond, VA.
17. Jo Ann Pulizos, Sharp Family History (N.p.: n.p., June 1986), 3.
18. Samuel M. Wilson, McClelland and His Men (Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Associates, 1956), 12.
19. Samuel M. Wilson, McClelland and His Men (Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Associates, 1956), 12.
20. Samuel M. Wilson, McClelland and His Men (Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Associates, 1956), 12.
21. Samuel M. Wilson, McClelland and His Men (Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Associates, 1956), 12.
22. Samuel M. Wilson, McClelland and His Men (Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Associates, 1956), 12.
23. Stewart, Michael R. (inquiry@cousinsearchnetwork.com), CousinSearchNetwork, John McClelland (http://research.cousinsearchnetwork.com/11511.html : Downloaded 4 March 2012), .
24. Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the original court records of Augusta County, 1745-1800 (3 vols.) (Augusta County, Virginia: The Commonwealth Printing Company, 1912), 369; ebook, Google.com, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books/about/Chronicles_of_the_Scotch_Irish_settlemen.html?id=wk8PAAAAYAAJ : Downloaded 31 December 2012.
25. Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the original court records of Augusta County, 1745-1800 (3 vols.) (Augusta County, Virginia: The Commonwealth Printing Company, 1912), 376; ebook, Google.com, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books/about/Chronicles_of_the_Scotch_Irish_settlemen.html?id=wk8PAAAAYAAJ : Downloaded 31 December 2012.