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1753 |
Cople Parish, Westmoreland Co., Virginia Colony  |
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15 Oct 1845 |
Franklin, Simpson Co., KY |
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Green Lawn Cemetery, Simpson County, Kentucky |
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Nancy Ann Greene/Green | F7105 |
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14 Mar 1778 |
Fauquier County, Virginia |
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Tabitha Williams | F7704 |
| Married |
1 Mar 1817 |
Logan Co., Kentucky |
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1772 |
Copal Parish, Westmoreland Co., Virginia Colony |
| Died |
1849 |
Columbia, Boone, Missouri |
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John Montieth Robinson | F7743 |
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- 12 Rev. (Capt.) WILLIAM MCCLANAHAN (Wm.2 Thos.1), b. Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia, 23 Feb. 1733, apparently 3rd child, married, after her father's death in 1752 Mary Marshall, ante.
Following the Marshall family to Goose Creek, Hamilton (now Leeds) Parish, Fauquier County, Virginia, he made this indenture: CONYERS TO MCCLANAHAME: (spelled this way throughout this document) This indenture made this 25th day of November in the 4th year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France & Ireland, King Defender of the Faith: between John Conyers of the parish of Hamilton and County of Fauquier of the one part and William McClanahame of the same parish and county of the other part.
Witnesseth that the said John Conyers for and in consideration of the sum of Fifty Pounds to himself in hand paid (the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge himself to be fully satisfied and paid) hath demised, granted, and assigned 184 acres of land Scituate (??) and lying in the above County and bounded as followeth, viz: beginning at three white oaks on the eastern side of Carter?s Run (ca. 8 miles west of Warrentown, MLM), 40 poles below Pickett?s Mill, thence north 26 East and 11 poles to a pine marked for a corner to the dividing line between John Conyers and Samuel Conyers, thence with the dividing line South 3 degrees S.E. and 320 poles to a marked pine in the old line of the said tract, thence with the said line South 23 degrees, 35 poles to a marked pine, thence South 51 West 110 poles to a white oak, then South 70-1/2 west 110 poles crossing a branch to two pines, thence south 3 chains, west 72 poles to a corner of Carter?s Run, thence up the several meanders of the said Run to the beginning.
Together with all houses, orchards, woods, waters, and appurtenances whatsoever to the said land belonging or in anywise appertaining. To have and to hold unto the said William McClanahame, his heirs and assigns from the Day of the date hereof until the full and term of one year thence next coming shall be fully completed and ended. Yielding and paying the fee rent of one year Indian corn upon the feast day of the Nativity of our Lord Christ only if the same be demanded to the intent that by virtue of these presents and of the Statute for transferring uses into possession of the said McClanahame may be in actual possession of the said 184 acres of land and premises and be thereby enabled to accept a grant of the revision and inheritance thereof. In witness whereof the parties to these presents Indentures have interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year above written.
In Presence of: Thomas McClanahame John Conyers, L.S.
Samuel Conyers
William (his ?x? mark) Pritchett
At a Court continued and held for Fauquier County this 25th day of Nov. 1763, this indenture is as proved sale, act and dues of the said John Conyers by the oaths of Thomas McClanahame, Samuel Conyers, and William Pritchett, witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste: J. Brooke, Clerk
From Bk. 2 (1763-1767), pg 98/9; Hamilton Parish; from John & Alice Conners
Married:
- Children of Rev. Wm. McClanahan and Mary Marshall:
Elvira Stallard;
Thomas Marshall McClanahan;
William McClannahan;
Nancy Basye;
Peter John McClanahan;
John Marshall McClanahan and
Mary Triplett
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- [S127] Geni, https://www.geni.com/people/Mary-McClanahan/3162137.
Mary McClanahan (Marshall)
Also Known As: "Molly", "Sophronia"
Birthdate: April 28, 1737
Birthplace: Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Province of Virginia
Death: January 22, 1809
Greenville District, South Carolina (Natural Causes)
Place of Burial: Greenville, Greenville County, SC
Daughter of Capt. John Marshall "of the Forest" and Elizabeth Martha Markham
Wife of Rev. William McClanahan
Mother of Elvira Stallard; Thomas Marshall McClanahan; William McClannahan; Nancy Basye; Peter John McClanahan; John Marshall McClanahan and Mary Triplett
Sister of Mary Neal (Marsy) Wiseman; Ann Smith; Elizabeth Martin; Col. Thomas Marshall; John Marshall; Rev. William Marshall; Abraham Markham Marshall; Sarah Marshall Lovell and Margaret Snelling
- [S244] Colonial Families, https://worldfamilies.net/blog/31558.
On 21:04pm, November 26th, 2013 David McClanahan said:
Re: McClanahan Family Pedigrees
Thomas McClanahan, d c1683 Northumberland Co VA, m Dorthy Mooney, d, c 1717
+William McClanahan, d c1771 Westmoreland Co VA, m Martha Smith
++Rev. William McClanahan, b 1732, d 1802 Greenville Co SC, m Mary Marshall, b 1738, d 1809
+++Thomas Marshall McClanahan b 1753 Westmoreland Co VA, d 15 Oct 1845 Bourbon Co KY, m 12 Mar 1778 Anne Green d 1816
++++Alexander McClanahan b 1785 VA, d 1855 Smith Co TN, m 1813 Sarah Clymer b 1795 d 1865
+++++James H McClanahan b 1826 KY, m 2 Jan 1851 Mary Elizabeth Woodmore b 1820 VA d 25 Jan 1882 Trousdale Co, TN
++++++Bailey Peyton McClanahan b 6 jan 1854, Trousdale Co TN, d 25 Mar 1926, m 1874 Lillian Eller b 15 Oct 1859 TN d 5 Mar 1882 TN
+++++++James Bailey McClanahan b 24 Dec 1878 Trousdale Co TN, d 7 Dec 1953 Trousdale Co TN, m 1900 Mary Wright b 30 Mar 1880 TN, d 10 May 1939 Trousdale Co TN.
My kit number is B6951 and I am currently awaiting my yDNA upgrade results.
- [S100] Internet Source, http://judge-ed-butler.sarsat.org/Genealogy/REVLTCOLWILLIAMMCCLANAHAN.htm.
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF REV./LT. COL. WILLIAM McCLANAHAN And the Culpeper Minutemen by JUDGE EDWARD F. BUTLER, SR.
Rev. / Lt. Colonel William McClanahan and his son Thomas, are both Patriot Ancestors of Judge Ed Butler.
"Reverend William McClanahan born in Westmoreland County Virginia Colony, about 1738, married in 1758, Mary Marshall. He raised a company of Baptist Volunteers in Culpeper County during the Revolution and they were called 'the fighting Baptists'. Their family removed to Greenville District, South Carolina. He had a son Thomas McClanahan, who was a noted Indian fighter. His will was made May 15, 1802 and date of proof not given, but he died 1802". ( Historical Atlas of Westmoreland County, Virginia , David W. Eaton, The Dietz Press, Richmond, 1942, p. 38, FHL, Salt Lake City, microfilm #323777).
There are many deeds on record in Culpeper Co., VA; Bouborn Co., KY and Greenville Co., SC to and from William McClanahan.
RELIGIOUS INTOLERENCE IN VIRGINIA
During the 1760's most of the colonists in Virginia were of the Anglican faith, as they had been in England. Only the Anglican Church was legal in Virginia at that time. There was a rise of the Baptist Church in Fauquier Co., VA. Among the Baptist ministers was Rev. William McClanahan. He served as assistant to John Pickett at Carter's Run Baptist Church in Fauquier County. Episcopal ministers would go to Baptist services and take notes of the comments from the pulpit. These notes were used to obtain arrest warrants against the Baptist ministers. William Mc Clanahan was arrested on 21 August 1773 along with Nathaniel Saunders, pastor of Mountain Run in Orange Co. The charges were that they did "Teach & Preach Contrary to the Laws & usages of the Kingdom of Great Britain, raising Sedition & Stirring up Strife amongst his Majestie's Liege People" (The original warrant is located at the Baptist Historical Society). The author has a reproduction of that warrant framed in his study.
"This stalwart preacher, Rev. William McClanahan, had led a somewhat tumultuous career in his youth, becoming locally famous for his physical power and his fondness for the displaying of it: a sort of 'holy terror'; a sort of Daniel Morgan type to the youths who were 'seeking trouble' or spoiling for a fight. But he 'got religion', and soon it was being said that he had become a Baptist preacher for the fun he would have in quelling the disturbance at Baptist meetings.
"The fervent young sons of the Established Church often when 'out on a spree', indulging in the sport of breaking up such meetings and hazing the meek young preacher of that creed.
"Howbeit his first appearance in the sacred desk is said to have been peculiar. Three older preachers held a protracted meeting and touched up the Episcopalians until mischief became rife. Preacher number one had not proceeded far one day when he was preemptively commanded by a voice in the audience to 'drop that subject and take up something else'. Number two and number three successively defied the oppressors and shared the same fate. Then the athletic William McClanahan towered above the pulpit, divested of all cumbersome apparel, in fighting trim, and said, "Now suppose you try that on me'. Whereupon it was said silence and attention pervaded the audience while he pitched into the Established Church and severely scored the rowdies and "Imps of Satan", whom it permitted to represent its fairness and decency on such occasions". (Kentucky Memories of Uncle Sam Williams, edited and commentary by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., privately published in Chattanooga, TN, 1978, p.17)
The outcome of the arrest is unclear. From 1770 to 1775 the Virginia House of Burgesses put aside petitions filed by Baptists and other "Protestant dissenters". The issue was minimized somewhat by the winds of war blowing throughout the Colonies. When the Third Virginia Convention met in Richmond in 1775 to recruit soldiers, they decided to seize upon the religious fervor. The Baptists requested that they be allowed "free Liberty to preach to the troops at convenient Times without molestation or abuse". The Convention resolved that military officers "permit dissenting clergymen to celebrate divine worship, and to preach to the soldiers, or exhort from time to time". This newfound tolerance led to the formation of Revolutionary companies of soldiers based upon their faith. In Culpeper County, Capt. William McClanahan, raised one of the eight companies of Culpeper Minutemen. In 1844 Capt. Philip Slaughter recalled that "at first he (McClanahan) regularly preached to his men (Culpeper, A Virginia County's History through 1920 , E.M. Scheel, Culpeper Hist. Soc., 1982, p.51).
Another writer claimed that the presence of William Mc Clanahan stopped the violence: "At their meetings the mob was pretty quiet, chiefly owing to the presence of Mr. Mc ______, who is a robust man and has been a mighty buffer." (Kentucky Memoirs, Id at p. 18, citing Materials Towards a History of the Baptists in the Province of Virginia , by Morgan Edwards, from the Furman Manuscript).
In 1780, William Mc Clanahan supplied 5 bushels of wheat to the Continental Army, during the Revolutionary War (Virginia Publick Claims, Culpeper County , compiled by Janice L. Abercrombie and Richard Slatten, Iberian Press, Athens, Ga., p. 29). When the Culpeper Co., VA Court met on 7 Nov 1780 to consider the claims of citizens who had provided supplies to the army, William McClanahan was paid 72 Pounds for rye supplied to the army and 234 Pounds and 12 Shillings for wheat (id at p. 62). Another certificate for payment in the amount of 122 Pounds was given for rye provided after 23 Nov 1780 (id at p. 63). In 1781 he supplied the army with 250 pounds of beef (id at p.2). In July 1781 he turned over 300 additional pounds of beef for the troops (id at p. 60).
THE CULPEPER MINUTE MEN
The largest battalion of Minute Men was composed of men from the Culpeper District, which included the Counties of Culpeper, Orange and Fauquier. Culpeper raised five companies, including that of William "Mc Clenachan" (An 18th Century Perspective: Culpeper County, compiled by M.S. Jones, Culpeper Hist. Soc[1976], p.15).
By Sept 1775 some 300 Minute Men had already been raised, including William Mc Clanahan's Company. Maj. Thomas Marshall (who later was promoted to Colonel), William's brother in law was third in command of the Battalion. "The whole regiment appeared according to orders in hunting shirts made of strong, brown, linen, dyed the color of the leaves of the trees, and on the breast of each hunting shirt was worked in large white letters the words 'Liberty or Death!' and all that could procure for love or money bucks' tails in the hats. Each man had a leather belt around his shoulders, with a tomahawk and scalping knife" (Id a p. 55).
In September, 1775, Col. Patrick Henry ordered the Minute Men to Williamsburg, a march of about 150 miles. One Minute Man observed the reaction of the people of Williamsburg to these new guardians:
Many people hearing we were from the backwoods . . . and seeing our dress, were as much afraid of us for a few days as if we had been indians (sic); but finding that we were orderly and attentive in guarding the city, they treated us with great respect. We took great pride in demeaning ourselves as patriots and gentlemen (An 18th Century Perspective, Id at p. 16).
The flag they used is well known. In the center is a coiled snake ready to strike. Beneath the snake are the words: "Don't tread on me!" Along each side were the immortal words of Colonel Patrick Henry, the Commander in Chief of Virginia's provisional army: "Liberty or Death". The top of the flag contained the words: "The Culpeper Minute Men" (Ibid ). The author has a reproduction of that flag in his study.
The Minute Men were ill equipped. Fewer than half had rifles. Those who were armed carried "fowling-pieces and squirrel-guns". Nevertheless, they succeeded in repulsing the British invasion of Norfolk on New Year's Day 1776. Because of a shortage of arms the Minute Men were required to give up their weapons to the Continental Army. They were all discharged by Spring (Id at p. 57).
Immediately after the peace treaty was signed in Paris in 1783, William McClanahan was one of the first thirty justices to swear allegiance to the United States (Id at pp. 62-63).
The Commonwealth of Virginia awarded a Treasury Warrant for 500 acres of land in the Kentucky Territory to William McClanahan. The patent was dated 17 May 1795. This transaction is memorialized in two additional deeds among family members. William conveyed 200 acres of that land on the East side of Cedar Creek in County of Nelson to Thomas McClanahan on 9 Sept. 1799. Thomas and his wife Nancy (nee Green) sold this 200 acres to Matthew Rogers of Nelson Co., KY for 58 Pounds on 11 Nov 1800 (Tyler's Quarterly Magazine, Vol, XIII , p 278).
A THUMBNAIL SKETCH OF LT. COL. WILLIAM MC CLANAHAN
"William Mc Clanahan was one of the more colorful men in the eight companies of eighty-four men each, formed in Culpeper for the Continental service. A Baptist minister as well as soldier, Capt. McClanahan raised one of these companies and served as Captain. His recruits were principally from his own denomination, and he preached to his men between other duties.
"Woodford B. Hackley, a native of Jeffersonton, Culpeper County, and a distinguished historian, states that Capt. McClanahan was the 'only captain, to my certain knowledge, definitely documented' who participated in the Williamsburg - Great Bridge campaign of 1775. He describes him as a 'powerful man physically, a giant of a fellow. "According to Dr. Hackley, much of the time during the Revolution a William Mc Clanahan served as a local justice (or magistrate) in the Little Fork area. He presumes this was the William McClanahan who was a Culpeper Minute Men Captain. Capt. McClanahan lived on Big Indian Run in the Little Fork. "McClanahan, the first Baptist preacher in the lower counties of the Northern Neck (Virginia) prior to 1770, was one of the boldest and most enterprising of the early Protestant dissenters of Virginia. One of the 37 constituent members of Carter's Run Baptist Church, Fauquier County, he halted a mob that was engaged in the destruction of that church in 1770 while the church was unoccupied. In 1773, a warrant was issued for the arrest of McClanahan and Nathaniel Saunders, who, as Protestant dissenters, were charged with teaching and preaching 'contrary to the laws and usages of the King of Great Britain, raising sedition and stirring up strife among His Majestie's liege people" (An 18th Century Perspective, Id at p. 63; an editorial note signed by Mary Stevens Jones, citing the following sources: Green's Notes on Culpeper and St. Mark's Parish ; Dr. Hackley's letter; Semple's History of the Rise and Progress of Baptists in Virginia; Ryland's The Baptists of Virginia; Moore & Lumpkin's Meaningful Moments in Virginia Baptist Life ).
On 21 Jan 1784 William McClanahan of Greenville Co., SC had surveyed 200 acres of land in Kentucky on the Cedar Creek watercourse (The Genealogy and History of Thomas and Dorthy Mooney McClanahan, Early Virginia Immigrants From Ireland, compiled by M.L. McClanahan, p. 58).
On 3 Sep 1794 William McClanahan of Greenville Co., SC deeded land to Thomas McClanahan, his son, of Bourbon Co., KY for 26 Pounds. The land was bounded by land owned by Thomas McClanahan on the north, Peter Moore on the west, and John Green on the right (Bourbon Co., KY Deed Book C , p. 108; reproduced in Tyler's Quarterly Mag., Vol. XIII , pp. 283-284).
The following petition of October 27, 1790, is of interest since it lists the citizenry of Bourbon County, Kentucky soon after the founding of the new county seat:
To the Honourable and general Assembly at the Town of Richmond in the State of Virginia;
The petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants of the County of Bourbon Humbly prays your Honours to Grant your Petitioners and Inspection for Tobacco on Stoner at the Town of Hopewell and your Petitioners in are in Duty your Humble Servts."
signed Thos. McClanahan and others.
The earliest record of the land on which Paris, Kentucky, stands was uncovered in an old suit over a military grant to one Walter Stewart for service as a sergeant in his Majesty's 44th Regiment of foot and agreeable to the Royal Proclamation of 1763, for 200 acres in Fincastle (later Bourbon) County. Col. John Floyd, who was the principal surveyor of the Transylvania Company and delegate to the Assembly that met at Boonsborough May 24, 1775, to make laws for the infant colony, acting as deputy surveyor to William Preston of Fincastle, surveyed this grant for Stewart in 1776. He made his first location immediately in front of what is now the entrance to the old Duncan Home (Burr House) on a tree in the then wilderness. Overlapping land was preempted by John Reed of Maryland, James Galloway, and Samuel Lyon, who claimed as heir of Daniel Lyon.
Lawrence Protzman (also spelled Sprotzman, Prutzman, etc.) bought a part of Reed's preemption and laid it off into town lots, calling the town Hopewell. In accordance with a request of Protzman the Virginia Assembly passed the following Act October, 1789:
"Be it enacted, That two hundred and fifty acres of land, at the Court House in Bourbon county, as are laid off into town lots and streets by Lawrence Protzman, the proprietor thereof, shall be established a town by the name of Hopewell, and that Notley Conn, Charles Smith Jr., John Edwards, James Garrard, Edward Waller, Thomas West, James Lanier, James Littell and James Duncan, gentlemen, are hereby constituted trustees thereof."
This was three years before Kentucky became a state and the great county of Bourbon embraced within her vast boundary thirty-three later Kentucky counties. Hence the little town of Hopewell (changed to Paris in 1790) was the county seat of the fifth county formed in the western territory.
- [S126] United States Archives, https://archive.org/stream/genealogicaland00slaugoog/genealogicaland00slaugoog_djvu.txt.
Elizabeth Marshall, Apr. 17, 1779; children: Thos., Wm., Jno.. Mary, m.
'McClanahan, Markham, Margaret, m. Snelling; grandchildren: Thos. Smith
and Wm. Lovell. May 17, 1779.
- [S140] Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, https://www.reynoldspatova.org/browsemedia.php?mediasearch=TheVAMagazine+of+History+VolXIX-No1pp+807-9Thomas+McClanahan.pdf&mediatypeID=&tngpage=&tree=reynolds1&tnggallery=.
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Thomas McClanahan Corrections
Pittsylvania County Militia Officers 1775
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