McLaughlin's Valley: 2005-07-10

Happy Birthday

Happy 156^th Birthday to Madora Gilmore McLaughlin!!!

They Sure Liked the Name Hugh, Didn't They? Part 2

See previous post with Hughs 1 through 4 here.

Hugh McLaughlin #5 was born about 1765 to 1770^{1, 2, 3}. According to the Augusta (Virginia) Parish Vestry Book, a six-year-old Hugh McLaughlin was apprenticed to John Herdman to become a cooper in 1774⁴. If this is the same Hugh this would place his birthdate about 1767 or 1768. Hugh first appears in the Bath County, Virginia, area records on 8 July 1790 when he is taxed⁵. He appears along with Daniel, James, Hugh, and John McLaughlin. If this is his first titheable year, this would place his birthdate 1768-1769. He married Jane/Jean Wiley on 14 October 1792 in Bath County, Virginia⁶. He became constable in Bath about the year 1802^{7, 8}. He moved his family to Randolph County, Virginia, about 1817, and many of his children continued on into Ohio and Indiana^{9, 10}. He may have had as many as 12 children¹¹.

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Footnotes
¹Bureau of the Census, "Bath County, VA, Census of Population; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M252, roll 66) Third Census of the United States, 1810." Repository: National Archives, Washington, DC.

²Bureau of the Census, "Randolph County, VA, Census of Population; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M33, roll 130) Forth Census of the United States, 1820." Repository: National Archives, Washington, DC.

³Auditor of Public Accounts, "Augusta County [Virginia] Personal Property Tax Books." Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond. Microfilm Publication: Reel 110.

⁴Gill Jr., Harold B. Apprentices of Virginia 1623-1800. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1989. Repository: Ancestry.com

⁵Auditor of Public Accounts, "Augusta County [Virginia] Personal Property Tax Books." Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond. Microfilm Publication: Reel 110.

⁶Methany, Constance Corley and Eliza Warwick Wise, Bath County Marriage Bonds and Ministers' Returns, 1791-1853 (Baltimore, Gateway Press for the Bath County Historical Society, 2nd Printing, 1998). Repository: Joan Kay; Huntingtown, MD.

⁷Auditor of Public Accounts., "Personal Property Tax Books Bath County [VA], 1791-1816." Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond. Microfilm Publication: Reel 31.

⁸Bruns, Jean Randolph, Abstracts of the Wills and Inventories of Bath County, VA: 1791-1842 (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing, 1995). Repository: Joan Kay; Huntingtown, MD.

⁹Auditor of Public Accounts, "Personal Propety Tax Books, Bath County, Virginia, 1817-1839." Microfilm Publication. Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond.

¹⁰Bureau of the Census, "Randolph County, VA, Census of Population; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M33, roll 130) Forth Census of the United States, 1820." Repository: National Archives, Washington, DC.

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