McLaughlin's Valley

Happy Birthday!

2006-04-01T21:09:00.000-05:00

Happy Birthday to Cornelius McLaughlin

Prince William County McLaughlins #2

2006-03-23T16:02:00.000-05:00

Joan,

Do you think either of these belong to our McGlaughlins? I think I've exhausted the possibilities at my library. Also checked Fauquier Co., Fairfax and Alexandria.

Prince William County Order Book, 1761-1762
p.101
p.185 Prince William County Court 7th of July 1762.
Northey v Laughlin. Samuel Northey, Plaintiff v Daniel Laughlin, Defendant. In Debt. This day came the Plaintiff by Francis Dade, his Attorney, who entered himself Security for the costs of this suit and the Defendant in custody of the Sheriff comes and saith that he cannot deny the action of the Plaintiff nor also but that he owes to the Plaintiff the sum of seven pounds, fourteen shillings and five pence current money of Virginia. It is therefore considered that Plaintiff recover against Defendant the sum of seven pounds, fourteen shillings and five pence current money of Virginia with lawfull Interest thereon after the rate of five per centum per annum from the tenth day of May one thousand seven hundred and fifty three untill the same is fully paid and the cost.

Newsletter of the Prince William County Genealogical Society, Vol. 3, No. 8, February 1985. [unpublished]
Residents of Western Dettingen Parish, 1747. "[The following register was transcribed from a microfilm copy, on the same reel with the earliest surviving vital records of Prince William County...]"... " [The list reports all tithable inhabitants of the region between Bull Run and Cedar Run (the lower part of which is now considered part of the Occoquan River), in 1747. It is a rather full record, in geographic order, of the families living in what is now western Prince William County, lacking the names of children under age 17 and of adult white women, who were not charged with the tithable tax.]"
"James McGlolin [=McGloghlin?] Senr., James McGlolin, Dinah--3"

Sheila

Prince William County McLaughlins

2006-03-21T17:24:00.000-05:00

Great news on the search for the 18th Century Eastern Virginia McLaughlins. Sheila from Virginia found these tidbits:

Prince William County Minutes Book
Page 291. Minute Book 1752-1753 (Oct. 22, 1753)
A power of Attorney from Hugh McLaughlin to Alexander Lothian was proved by oaths of William Andrews and Alexander King witnesses thereto and admitted to record.

Page 222. Order Book 1754-1755 (April 22, 1755)
William Lashbrooke exhibited on account against the estate of James McLaughlin deceased to which he made oath and the same being examined by the Court was allowed and admitted to record.

Click here for James and Mary McLaughlin, Prince William County, VA, Family Summary, and here for the "They Sure Liked the Name Hugh Didn't They?" Post.

Happy Birthday!

2005-12-24T17:59:00.000-05:00

Happy 84th Birthday to James Lee Gray McLaughlin!

Born on Christmas Eve of 1921 in Stony Bottom, West Virginia, to C. Cornelius M. McLaughlin and Laura Agnes Jane Higgins McLaughlin.

Comments

2005-12-03T13:04:00.000-05:00

I've read your comments on the (un)readability of the original document images and I've begun transcriptions. Please follow the link here for John McLaughlin's Deposition for Hugh McLaughlin, 1806, Bath County, Virginia.

Sorting It All Out #4

2005-12-01T19:43:00.000-05:00

William McLaughlin, born abt 1807, Bath County, Virginia, moved to Braxton County, WV

26 Nov 2005, Kay writes:

"Dear Joan, I tried to reply to your posting on the Pocahantas website but for some reason it wouldn't bring up the window for me, so finally after 6 tries I decided to email you instead. I'm so excited, think you may have solved our dilemma about William. What we know is that he was born sometime between aprox 1807 and 1810 according to census records. One source says 1808 and says that he married Mary Jane Hall ( born 1827, daughter of Elijah Hall and Nancy Connolly Hall). Their children were born starting in 1853. Mary Jane may have been a second marriage for him, considering the age difference, but don't know. They were apparently married in Braxton Co (according to one source) and lived there, but we can't find a marriage record for them so far. Their children included 4 girls and 1 boy. The girls were listed as Almeda/ Alminda born 1853, Arrilla/Arvilla born 1855 (she is my great grandmother), Alevilda/Alwilda Jane (think she went by Jane) born July 13, 1858, and Edna born in 1862. The son is named James William McLaughlin and was born Sept. 14, 1865. We have been unable to find any descendants of any of these children. It took us a long time to track down Arrilla/Arvilla, but finally found her birth record, other info, also a deed that she and the other children signed apparently for William's property after his death. In the Elisha Hall book it said that Arrilla married a Robert Paintriff, but we finally established that the Arrilla McLaughlin who married Paintriff was a younger McLaughlin girl who was a neice to our Arrilla. Our Arrilla married George W. Hall, and we have been unable to establish if there is any connection between George W. Hall and Mary Jane Hall (wife of William McLaughlin). I believe from what I've found that they are two different lines of Halls (there are three lines in that area) but so far I've been unable to prove who William McLaughlin belongs to or who George W. Hall's father (Jonathan Hall) belongs to. All the info I had seemed to point to there being a connection between William and James McLaughlin. They lived not to far from each other, one named son William, other named son James, their wives had family ties, so on. Now can you take a look at this website link if you have time and see if this gives you any new info. It's the one that I'd been looking at. Doesn't show William at all, but lists two wives for John, and the children you mentioned plus others. Seems fairly well documented. If you are interested I can send you a picture of the deed for William that the children signed. It confirmed that his daughter married a Hall instead of Paintriff cause she signed her last name as Hall. I'd love to have a copy of the info you have mentioning William if you have a picture of it. This spring I got to go to WV and walked around on the property where William and Mary Jane lived. In the one census they lived next door to George and Arrilla and my grandfather was just a little guy in that census. My Uncle knew the general area that his Dad had lived in when he was young, but was tickled to know where the actual place was at. Mary Jane's brothers lived in the same area, so there was a section of several miles that was at one time part of the Hall families property. William and Mary Jane may have planted an orchard on their place, because there was an old orchard still there in the late forties. We think we have found were William is buried, but not positive, just seems likely that it is him because of where he lived and the connection with the Rose family whose cemetery he is in. He originally brought the property from Mr. Rose, and they were neighbors for many years. Well, better close, would love to have any info you can give me on the William you mentioned. Talk to you later, Kay"
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26 Nov 2005, Joan replies:

"Kay,

Hi! Good to hear from you. I sure do think we have found each other. I never knew where William went to. You mentioned James marrying Nottingham. Then you mentioned James living in close proximity to William. Was he married to Nottingham at that time? How did you trace them to Pocahontas? This is so exciting to me because I never knew what happened to them, and I kind of wrote them off. That's a shame, but I didn't know what else to do.

What I can do is this, send me your address, and I will copy what I have (or at least what I have that is coherent) and mail it to you. My scanner is down (and I just hate doing that anyway). I also have a website you might like to visit, though it doesn't have a whole lot right now on that John McLaughlin (William's likely father), but I have other things you might be interested in. I also recently had a novel published about the McLaughlin's, you might be interested in that, it includes John the father of William (only not until the very end). I am also working on another novel now about the nephews of William, Samuel Higgins (son of Nancy) and James McLaughlin (son of John) who went to the Civil War together. They are also two of my great-grandfathers.

My web address is www.mclaughlinsvalley.blogspot.com

Thanks!
Joan"

Sorting It All Out

2005-11-30T17:38:00.000-05:00

The first in a series of "back-and-forths" where other researchers and I try to get a handle on the elusive McLaughlins. Hope you find something here to help in your search!

--Joan
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25 Nov 2005, Sheila writes:

"My husband is a descendent of Daniel McGlaughlin and Rebeccah "Ketty" Cleek of Bath County. I've been looking at all the records for McGlaughlin in the Bath/Pocahontas/Rockbridge area and was wondering why you didn't mention the following patents for John McGlaughlin. These are all available online at: http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas30&local_base=CLAS30

McGlaughlin, John, Jr. 1 August 1809. Bath County: 50 acres adjoining said McGlaughlin’s land on the rocky run. (same date as Daniel McGlaughlin took out a patent)
McGlaughlin, John, Jr. September 1816. Bath county: 100 acres on the waters of Jacksons River joining to the land of Jacob Castle.

The fact that these patents are made to John McGlaughlin, Jr. I'm assuming there was a John McGlaughlin Sr., [Family Group Record of John McLaughlin, Sr., here] even though I can't find any other records for him. The 1809 and 1816 patents can't be for John's son as he was too young.

I've also got an issue regarding John's son Daniel being the husband of Mary Carpenter, married 1823.

Daniel McGlaughlin Sr. didn't leave a will but his "estate" was delinquent in Bath County in 1838, but not in 1837, so he must have died 1837-1838. This man had at least one son the same age as Daniel McGlaughlin, son of John McGlaughlin. In the 1810 census Daniel Sr. has a son age (10-15) and in the 1820 census (15-under 26).In the 1830 census both Daniel McGlaughlin Jr. and Daniel McGlaughlin Sr. are enumerated, and junior is age 30-40 with a son age 5-10, etc, so he was already married. This is the same Daniel McGlaughlin found in the 1840 census in Pocahontas Co. in 1840 with a son age 15-20, etc.

The 1830 census has John McGlaughlin [Family Group Record, here] with 3 sons age 30-40 living with him, and sons James & Hugh McGlaughlin are enumerated separately. This accounts for five of his sons, and if Robert died before the 1830 census he would not be here. Thus I think the Daniel McGlaughlin (Jr.) is actually the son of Daniel McGlaughlin, and that he is the one who married Mary Carpenter and went to Pocahontas County. I am also incluined to think that John and Daniel were brothers and were sons of John McGlaughlin Sr., especially since they both patented on the same date August 1, 1809.

I would be happy to get your thoughts on this and will share any documents, etc. that I have on this family.

Sheila"
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25 Nov 2005, Joan replied:

"Hi Shiela, nice to hear from you. I noticed you said you had an issue with Daniel who married Mary Carpenter? What was that? It piqued my interest.

Anyway, you covered a lot of ground in your email, so I'll let you know what I've pieced together and then you can tell me where you are with it. In Bath in the 1790s were a few McLaughlins. John #1 was fairly young, born in 1764. There were James and Hugh who I think were brothers. Hugh was born in about 1757. Then there was a younger Hugh born around 1767. Then there was Daniel (#1), whom you mentioned, born maybe around the same time, 1765 or so. I do not know who their parents were, except perhaps James and Hugh who may have been the sons of a Hugh McLaughlin that died about 1772 from Pendleton County. There was another James and an Edward, but I'm not sure about their relationship to the rest.

There is also a younger generation, siblings John (who is the John, Jr. you mentioned in the land records, and also my ggg-grandfather), William, Hugh, Nancy, and Jane/Jenny, from Bath. This whole group moved on to Pocahontas County, now in WV, in the 1820s or so. I do not know who their parents are, though I've been working on it for years.

Daniel #1 had a son named Jacob, who as far as I can tell was his only son. Jacob married a girl in Pocahontas County, and I can't think of her name off the top of my head, but he moved off at some point, to where I don't know. Daniel was married to Katherine "Ketty" Cleek, I don't have any idea where the Rebecca comes in at. John #1 was the father of Daniel #2, who married a Carpenter and moved on to Pocahontas. John #1's oldest daughter, Nancy, married Mary Carpenter's brother, John, moved to Pocahontas, too, and was my ggg-grandmother [Family Group Record here].

Let me know how this fits with your research and what else I can add. Hope I didn't miss any of your questions.

How is your husband descended from Daniel, by the way?

Joan M. Kay"

Sorting It All Out #2

2005-11-30T16:22:00.000-05:00

26 Nov 2005, Sheila writes:

"Thanks for your quick response to my email. Let me tackle one issue at a time. I'm going to put them in separate emails - believe it may be less confusing.

Daniel #1 who married Ketty Cleek.

Bath County Marriage Bonds and Ministers Returns 1787-1853p. 10February 12, 1795. Marriage Bond. Daniel McGlaughlen and Ketty Cleek. Surety John McGlaughlen. Keaty consents for herself. Witness, John McGlaughlen and Prac (?) James No Date for Marriage Return. Daniel McGlaughlen and Ketty Cleek by George Guthrie [Guthrie was a Baptist Minister]Although this record doesn't mention Ketty's father by name an earlier record does mention Jacob Cleek as the father of Margaret - with same minister. 4June 8, 1792. Marriage Bond. Benjamin Potter and Margaret Cleek. Surety Michael Cleek, Jacob Cleek certifies that Margaret of age. Witness William Givens.June 12, 1792. Ministers Return. Benjamin Potts and Mary Cleek by George Guthrie

Also p.24 August 19, 1801. Marriage Bond. William Hartman and Sophia Cleek. Surety John Cleek, Jacob Cleek consents for daughter Sophia. [no minister's return]

The name Rebeccah comes from Jacob Cleek's will:Abstracts of the Wills and Inventories of Bath County, VA, 1791-1842, by Jean Randolph Burns, 1995p. 66 (page 9) Will of Jacob Cleek (X) – dated Dec. 13, 1812 Wit: Robert Given, John McGlaughlin, Samuel Given, John Bery and Samuel Given Jr.Probated July 1813 CourtExec: son Petter Beq: to beloved wife Cristenah all movable estate and my part of the salt petre cove [saltpetre cave]To sons Micel, John and Matthias $2 each To daughters Rebeccah McGlaughlin, Peggy Pots and Eve Fuller $2 eachTo grandsons John, Jacob, William, Henry and Isaac Hartman and son-in-law William Hartman $1 each

p. 34 (page 267) Inventory – Jacob Cleek. Submitted July 22, 1803 by Robert and Samuel Given and Samuel Gay to John Berry. 111 ½ lb. gunpowder, rifle gun, clothing, 33 lb saltpeter, furniture, kitchen utensils, corn, wheat, 7 gal. whiskey, horses 4, tools, bonds of William Buckanan and George Gaul.

I really chuckle over the 7 gallons of whiskey - hope they had a good wake. I've also done some research on the "salt petre" caves in Bath County, which is very interesting.
Enough for now on the McGlaughlin-Cleek relationship. Will send more later.

Sheila"
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26 Nov 2005, Sheila writes:

"These are the land patents I found that pertain to the McGlaughlins in Bath and Pocahontas Counties. In regards to Pocahontas Co. I only pulled the ones for Daniel, as that is our ancestor's name - there may be more for other McGlaughlins.

The earliest patent is for "Nany McGlaughlin". It refers to this person as "him" and "his" in the text, but that could be an error. Do you know who this person is or have any suspects in mind?

There are two patents in Hampshire County on the South Branch of the Potomac dated 1788 [for Benjamin Reeves] & 1794, [for David Hunter] that refer to Daniel McGloughlin, but the Hampshire McGlaughlins seem to be an entirely different branch of the family so I haven't included them. There is also a Rockbridge patent for Robert McCullock, 1795, on Kerrs Cr. & Colliers Cr. adjoining land of Henry McLaughlin, but I can't connect this one to the Bath Co. McGlaughlins either. I found an Edward McGlaughlin in the 1783 Rockbridge tax record but no Henry.Will send more in next email

Sheila
____________________________McGlaughlin, Daniel. [Daniel #1]5 January 1803. Bath County.100 acres on the east side of Back Creek adjoining the land of Samel Neal and his own.

McGlaughlin, Nany. 15 August 1801. Location: Bath County.100 acres on the east side of Back Creek. [male – referred to as “his heirs” in patent. Doesn’t appear in any other records.]

McGlaughlin, Hugh.22 November 1805. Location: Bath County.75 acres in Willsons Valley adjoining John Wilson and Thos. Hughart.

McGlaughlin, Hugh. 22 November 1805. Bath County.100 acres adjoining John Wilson and Thomas Hughart.

McGlaughlin, John, Jr. 1 August 1809. Bath County.50 acres adjoining said McGlaughlin’s land on the rocky run.

McGlaughlin, John, Jr.2 September 1816. Bath county.100 acres on the waters of Jacksons River joining to the land of Jacob Castle.

Dixon, William. 17 September 1810. Bath County.55 acres on the east side of Jacksons River, adjoining the land of Thomas McCartney, and John McGlaughlin.

McGlaughlin, Daniel. 1 August 1809. Bath County.0 acres on Rocky run a branch of Jacksons River adjoining his own and Peter Cleecks land.

McLaughlin, John.17 September 1810. Bath County100 acres on the waters of Jacksons River, adjoining the land of William Dixon, and Andrew McCartney.

Wiley, Agness. [Who is this?]30 January 1811."late Agness McGlaughlin"Bath County.100 acres on the east side of Back Creek.

Lightner, Adam. [Daniel #1]26 October 1819. Bath County.40 acres adjoins his own land and the land of Daniel McGlaughlin on Back Creek.

McGlaughlin, Daniel.30 June 1846. Pocahontas County.83 acres on Back Alleghany on both sides of Moses Moore’s Spring.

McGlaughlin, Daniel.1 November 1850. Pocahontas County.94 acres on West side of Greenbrier River.

McGlaughlin, David.1 September 1853. Pocahontas County.68 acres on waters of Coal River and Moses spring run.

McGlaughlin, Daniel.1 October 1853. Pocahontas County.160 acres on east side of Deer Creek.

McGlaughlin, Daniel.3 June 1856. Pocahontas County.16 acres oa waters of Deer Creek.

____________I don't know if these are related.

North Mountain is by Deerfield, west of and between Buffalo Gap and Jennings Gap, quite a bit east of Jackson's River and Red Hole.

McLaughlin, Edward J.7 June 1827. Rockbridge County.200 acres on the north east side of North Mountain.

McLaughlin, Edward J.14 September 1830. Rockbridge County.73 1/4 acres on waters of the north fork of James River."

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26 Nov 2005, Joan replies:

[In a message dated 11/26/2005 11:46:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, Sheila writes:
The earliest patent is for "Nany McGlaughlin". It refers to this person as "him" and "his" in the text, but that could be an error. Do you know who this person is or have any suspects in mind?]

Nany McGlaughlin is Agnes "Nancy" Gwin McLaughlin Wiley. Her father was David Gwin and she was first married to Hugh McLaughlin who served in the Revolutionary War. He died in 1798. She bought property under the designation "the late Agness McLaughlin" and then I think as a Wiley, too, after she married James Wiley in 1810, but I could be wrong (I don't have my land records out right now). She had one daughter as far as I know with Hugh McLaughlin, a daughter named Jane who married a Kirkpatrick and moved to [Iowa]. She had more children with James Wiley, one of which was a daughter who married John McLaughlin's (who lived on Jackson River) son John. I don't know if you saw my website, but a novel I wrote that was published this year is about Hugh and Nancy, as well as about Daniel and a few other family members. It is fiction, though it is based on all of the research I have compiled.

Thank you for reminding me about where the name Rebecca came in at, I had completely forgotten about that will as I have misplaced the Bath County Will Book that I own. I wonder, which was her first name, if one was her middle name, or what? I assume that Ketty was a nickname for Katherine, but that's all I can figure.

Speaking of names, the one witness you have with the name of Prac (?) James, is Isaac James. That took me a little while to figure out, but I like clues like that, who's close enough to sign a bond, or be a witness or what have you.

Well, on to your next email.

Joan"

Sorting It All Out #3

2005-11-30T15:34:00.000-05:00

26 Nov 2005, Sheila writes:

"Hi again,

In your email you say that the John McGlaughlin Jr. in the land patents - dated 1801 and 1816 - is the son of John #1 b. in 1764. If I'm correct John #1 is the person who left the will in 1838 naming his son Daniel as executor. However, there is a problem in assigning the land patents for John Jr. to John #2. From what I've gleaned John #2 wasn't born until 1801 so he can't be the John Jr. in the patents. This is why there has to be another John McGlaughlin.

In the 1810 Bath Co. Census there are two John McGlaughlins: one is over age 45 and the other is age 26 through 44, but they're not designated Jr. or Sr. John #1 seems to be the older one in the 1810 census, b. in 1764, he would have been age 46, and the ages of the children fit. Then who is the younger John? Is he the one they call "Jr." in the land patents?

John Mcglaughlin Bath, VA 1810
2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
John Mcglaughlin Bath, VA 1810 [John #1? There should be 4 sons: Daniel, Hugh, John. James.]2 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 0

In the 1820 census there are still two John McGlaughlins in Bath County, but John #1 now has seven boys, and none of them are under age 10.

John McGlaughlin, Bath 1820 [John #1?] 0 2 1 4 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 7
John McGlaughlin Bath, 1820 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3
[This John McGlaughlin appears to be in Pocahontas Co. in 1830, age 40-50, which can't be right if he's age 45 & older in 1820. The number of sons fit, but the number of daughters don't, no does the age of his wife, age 40-50.]
1830 census, Pocahontas Co.
John McGlaughlin 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

Any help you can give me on figuring this out would be much appreciated - too many anomolies for my poor aging brain. Perhaps I'm making mountains out of mole hills.'ll tackle Daniel #1 in another email.

Regards, Sheila"

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26 Nov 2005, Joan replies:

"[In a message dated 11/26/2005 11:47:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, Sheila writes:
In your email you say that the John McGlaughlin Jr. in the land patents - dated 1801 and 1816 - is the son of John #1 b. in 1764. ]

No, I'm sorry if I confused you. John McGlaughlin, Jr., that bought that property was not the son of John McGlaughlin born in 1764. John #1 did have a son named John, born about 1801 who married Sally Wiley (daughter of Nany McGlaughlin Wiley) that I mentioned in my previous email.

As for your census figures, let me try to help you match them up:

John #1, born about 1764 and living all his adult life in Bath/Highland, had the following children (all birth years are approximate, unless I have an exact date):
Nancy, 1788 (married Carpenter, moved to Pocahontas)
Jane, 1791 (married Benson)
Peggy, 1794 (married Carpenter, moved to Pocahontas)
Abigail (married Galford, moved to Poc.)
Mary (married Beverage)
Daniel, 1796 (married Carpenter, moved to Poc)
Hugh, 17 Aug 1798 (married Grimes, then Sharp, moved to Poc)
John, 1801, (Married Wiley, stayed in Highland)
James, 1806 (married Sprowle)
Samuel, 1810 (Married Wright, died young, son HP moved to Poc, son Robert stayed in Highland and died in Civil War)
Robert, 1811 (died young adult)

John #2, born about 1781
Elizabeth (married Ratcliffe)
Nancy (married Higgins, died young)
William, 1807 (moved off to unknown parts) [Has since been found in Braxton County, WV.]
James, 1812 (moved off) [Braxton County]
John, 1817 (married Carpenter, daughter of Nancy McLaughlin above, died young)
(Also in his household in 1810 was most likely his [possible] younger brother, born in 1801, (Squire) Hugh McLaughlin, died in Pocahontas about 1870.)

You said: ------ John McGlaughlin Bath, 18202 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3[This John McGlaughlin appears to be in Pocahontas Co. in 1830, age 40-50, which can't be right if he's age 45 & older in 1820. The number of sons fit, but the number of daughters don't, no does the age of his wife, age 40-50.]

When I have a chance I'll look this over, but there were only two John McLaughlins at that time in Bath. They both had sons named John, but they were both young enough not to make a difference. The younger John did move to Pocahontas. Don't put too much stock in census records, they are only an approximate marker or a clue, if you take them too literally they'll make you crazy, because they are so wrong, so often.

Joan"

Transcription of John McLaughlin Deposition, Greer vs Given, #1806-001, page 1 and 2

2005-11-26T17:10:00.000-05:00

John McLaughlin Deposition:

Agreeable to an order from Bath County September Court- 1806 [illegible] William Dinwiddie [illegible] for the County of Bath have proceeded to take the following deposition

Bath County to wit

John McLaughlin being first duly sworn on the holy Evangelical of allmighty god deposeth and sayeth that some time before the month of May of 1800 the sd deponant was in conversation with Hugh Mcglaughlin who told him the sd dponant he the sd Hugh had a note on John Greer and Thomas Wilson for the sum of seven pounds some odd pence which the sd Greer and Wilson had paid him for but if the [sic] Did not look sharp he would make them pay it over again and the deponant further sayeth that some time in the month of may 1800 bing [sic] at the house of the sd Hugh Mcgloughlin and the sd hugh [sic] looking over some papers this deponant took up one of the papers and on reading the contents of the same he found it to be a note given by the above mentioned Greer and Wilson to the sd Hugh Mcglaughlin for the sum of seven pounds some pence [illeg] Deponant further sayeth that he asked the sd hugh [sic] meglaughlin if that was the note he hard [sic] him speak of Before and he said it was the same note and the sd Hugh McLaughlin then [illeg] said that Jonathan pullin [sic] had a note on him the sd hugh [sic] for the [illeg] of a gun which the sd greer [sic] and Wilson was to [illeg] from sd pullin [sic] which if the [illeg] that note was paid and that it was the last payment of the seven pounds some pence note and that he the sd mcglaughlin had asked greer and wilson for the note pullin had on him which the [illeg] to [illeg] and that sd greer and wilson Did not give him the sd Megloghlin the note pullin had on him but said that it was lost or misplaced so that it Could not Be found at that time and that he the sd Hugh Megloughlin would keep the seven pounds some pence note untill he got the note pullin had on him the sd Hugh McGloughlin for he did not know wheather [sic] it was lost or wheather [illeg] had traded it away [question] by the [Defendant] do you know wheather the note you Read was the one you the [illeg] was Commenced on Between the [Plaintiff] and [Defendant] or not answer I do not know wheather it was or not quest by the [Plaintiff] did you Ever hear any person say the note you Read was the one Robert Given [illeg] to Hugh mcglaughlin Brought suit on against John greer answer on friday 19th of this instant I heard Robert given say he [illeg] it was the same note I the deponant had read that the suit was founded on qust by the [Defendant] what did given say [illeg] him to [illeg] that was the note answer he [assigned] no Reasons neither Did I ask him for any and the Deponant further sayeth not [signed] John Mcglaughlin
taken and and [sic] sworn to Before us at the house of James Hicklin in Bath County
September 27th 1806

[signed] WDinwiddie
[signed] Jas Hicklin

Research and Relaxation in Pocahontas County, WV

2005-08-04T17:00:00.000-05:00

The Greenbrier River, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. North and south views from the bridge on Sitlington Road, in Sitlington/Dunmore.

Here we rented a cottage for the week. Sitting outside, listening to the water rushing and rippling over stones in the Greenbrier on a 50 degree night in July was heaven to this girl from Maryland, where the average July night brings only mosquitoes on its soggy 80 degree air. Don't get me wrong, I love Maryland... just not so much these sticky summer nights. Come on October.

After a cool rain, we traveled along Back Mountain Road, Pocahontas County, looking for my great-grandparents graveyard.

This winding road traverses one of the most naturally beautiful little valleys I've ever seen. Never did find the cemetery...

Off on Vacation

2005-07-22T14:48:00.000-05:00

We're off on vacation! Yipeeee! Some of it will be a working vacation, doing research for my new book, so wish me luck, and hopefully I'll have lots to post when I return.

Evidence

2005-07-17T21:44:00.000-05:00

Every so often another researcher that I'm sharing information with asks (or I ask them), Do you have a direct link between this father and this daughter? or, Okay, but where's the proof? When I have to tell them no, I have no direct proof of a person's parentage, or maiden name, or whatever, I feel I've disappointed them greatly (or they've disappointed me... I don't know which feels worse, really.)

In the immortal words of Bill Clinton, I feel their pain. I, too, long for that elusive birth certificate marked so clearly "30 March 1774, a boy, named Charles for his well-loved paternal Uncle, was born to parents John McLaughlin and Mary McLaughlin, nee Smith, of County Itllneverhappen"

In much of pre-1850 America, give or take a decade or two, "proof" documents, containing concrete direct evidence from primary sources, are all too often hard to come by. So while I still hope for that document, I have to accept the fact, gracefully and with good humor, that I probably will never find it. Instead I have set my cap for well-researched, carefully formed "Proof Arguments". These can be prepared to explain why you believe a certain questionable document qualifies as proof, when you are torn between two conflicting documents, or for presenting an argument as to why you believe a situation to be fact, though you have no direct proof.

Every so often I'll post one of the Proof Arguments here that I've worked on, though they are always a work-in-progress. The format I've used has proven the most useful to me, though it certainly can be changed to include anything a researcher thinks is necessary or helpful to their argument.

Here's the first:

PROOF ARGUMENT

Hugh McLaughlin, Revolutionary War Soldier¹ of Augusta County, Virginia², husband of Agnes Gwin³, (Soldier) is apprenticed fourteen-year-old son of Hugh McLaughlin, Augusta County, Virginia, 1772⁴ (Apprentice)

By Joan M. Kay

 Exhaustive search of records has shown no other candidate. Considered: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Quality of evidence: +6

 The year of birth for each Hugh closely matches. Considered: Apprentice was born approximately 1757. Soldier enlisted in 1777, which would place him at 19 to 20 years old, an expected, reasonable age. Also considered: Perhaps he was an older enlistee? Result: Soldier married Agnes “Nancy” Gwin in 1789, which would then place Apprentice at 32. Chances are not great that a man much older than 32 would marry a 19-year-old woman, though not out of the question. Also considered: Soldier died in 1798⁵; Apprentice would then be 42, a relatively early death. Quality of evidence: +5

 Apprentice was bound out to become a currier (curing/dressing skins). Soldier had in his inventory at his death “tools for dressing skins.” Considered: These could be common tools of the day. Result: A check of the inventories for Bath County for 50 years from 1791 showed only one other set of currier’s tools⁶. Quality of evidence: +8

 Apprentice had a brother named James. Soldier lived close to James McLaughlin in Bath County according to Personal Property Tax Books⁷ (they were regularly taxed on the same day, indicating close proximity). Considered: James was a common name. Quality of evidence: +4

 I have no negative evidence.

Records examined:

Census Records; Virginia Counties. National Archives, Washington, DC.

Court Records; Augusta County, Virginia. Library of Virginia, Richmond.

Court Records; Bath County, Virginia. Library of Virginia, Richmond.

Land Records, including grants, deed books, and taxes; Virginia Counties. Library of Virginia, Richmond.

Personal Property Tax Records; Virginia Counties. Library of Virginia, Richmond.

Revolutionary War Records, including indexes of soldiers, service records, pension and bounty land warrant applications. National Archives, Washington, DC.

Voting Records; Bath County, Virginia. Ordered from and viewed at (LDS) Family History Center, Lexington Park, Maryland.

My Conclusion:

Hugh McLaughlin is both Apprentice and Soldier.

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Footnotes:

¹"Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War" National Archives Publication. Entry for Hugh McGlaughlin. Microfilm Publication: M881 roll 69, Gist's Regiment. Repository: National Archives, Washington, DC.

²"Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, 1800 to 1900" National Archives Publication. Entry for the soldier Hugh McGlaughlin. Microfilm Publication: M804 roll 1684. Repository: National Archives, Washington, DC.

³Ibid

⁴Augusta County, Virginia. Order Book XIV, p 329. (17 Mar 1772, at issue, Hugh McLaughlin, orphan.) Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond.

⁵Bath County, Virginia. Wills Book 1, p 125-126. (15 Oct 1798, at issue, Hugh McGloughlin Estate Appraisal). Repository: Bath County, Virginia, Courthouse; Warm Springs, VA.

⁶Bruns, Jean Randolph. Abstracts of the Wills and Inventories of Bath County,Virginia, 1791-1842, (Baltimore, Clearfield Company, 1995) Repository: Joan M. 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.

Happy Birthday

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Happy 13^th Birthday, Russell James McLaughlin Kay!!!

Happy Birthday

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

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

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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.

¹¹ibid

Revolutionary War Pension Application, filed by Agnes (Nancy) Gwin McLaughlin Wiley, for Hugh McLaughlin, Dec'd, pages 1-5, of 9

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Thank you to Gerald McLaughlin

Revolutionary War Pension Application, filed by Agnes (Nancy) Gwin McLaughlin Wiley, for Hugh McLaughlin, Dec'd, pages 6-9, of 9

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McLaughlin Headstone Photos, Pocahontas County, West Virginia

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Charles Cornelius M. McLaughlin, 1876-1944

Stony Bottom, West Virginia

Madora Sabina Virginia Gilmore McLaughlin, 1849-1917

Sitlington Road, Dunmore, West Virginia

James N. McLaughlin, 1841-1896

Sitlington Road, Dunmore, West Virginia

McLaughlin Headstone Photos, Highland County, Virginia, 2

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Courtesy of Susan Baldwin

Esther E. McLaughlin, 1904-1909

John L. McLaughlin, 1850-1924

Sarah McLaughlin, 1849

William A. McLaughlin, 1915-1916

William A. McLaughlin, 1867

McLaughlin Headstone Photos, Highland County, VA

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Courtesy of Susan Baldwin

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Edith McLaughlin Radcliffe, 1894-1949

Elbert K. McLaughlin, 1902-1903

Ewen A McLaughlin, born 1846

Ada Ethel McLaughlin Vance, 1875-1952

John Carpenter Will, Pocahontas County, (W)VA, 1862

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John Carpenter (Husband of Nancy McLaughlin) Will, Part 1

Part 2

Robert McLaughlin, b abt 1796, Bath County, VA: Family Timeline

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McLaughlin Timeline 1796 to 1861

By David McLaughlin

• 1796 - Bath County, Virginia. Robert McLaughlin is born. (Appox. year based on age from 7 Oct 1850 Census and Bounty Land Warrant Application.) Charles McLaughlin stated that Robert was born in 1791*, according to *History of Grundy County, MO 1908. Page 859.
• 30 April 1803 - United States purchases Louisiana Territory from France.
• 1810 - Western Virginia protests unequal representation in Virginia legislature.
• 18 June 1812 - United States declares war on Great Britain.
• August 1812 - The governor of Virginia called up the militia in preparation for the defense of the Commonwealth.
• February 1813 - The first of British Naval forces arrive off the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay. Using the Lynnhaven Bay as an anchorage, the British are able to effectively limit shipping into and out of the bay. This anchorage allowed easy access to the main shipping channels into and out of the Chesapeake Bay.
• 22 June 1813 - Battle of Craney Island is fought near Norfolk, Virginia.
• 3 July 1813 - Norfolk, Virginia. The 35th U. S. Infantry, along with a number of local militia companies were ordered to reinforce Lambert's Point and Sewell's Point area of then Norfolk county. This was in response to the British burning and looting of Hampton, Virginia.
• 13 August 1813 - City of Richmond, Virginia. Robert enlisted in company commanded by Captain Walker of the 35th Regiment U. S. Infantry commanded by Colonel Gooden for a term of one year. (Based on Bounty Land Warrant application 19 Feb. 1851.)
• 23 August 1813 - Richmond, Virginia. Robert is shown to have enlisted on this date. (Based on War of 1812 rolls Records of Men Enlisted in the U. S. Army Prior to the Peace Est. May 17, 1815.)
• 31 December 1813 - Robert was present for duty with Captain Walker's 35th Regiment. (Based on War of 1812 rolls Records of Men Enlisted in the U. S. Army Prior to the Peace Est. May 17, 1815.)
• 22 or 23 February 1814 - Norfolk, Virginia. Robert is shown again enlisting in 35th U. S. Infantry Captain Walker, height 5' 61/2" Age 18 born Bath County, VA. for term of one year (based on War of 1812 rolls Records of Men Enlisted in the U. S. Army Prior to the Peace Est. May 17, 1815.)
• 6 March 1814 -Fort Barbour, Norfolk, Virginia. Robert is absent from muster roll and was detached to Fort Barbour. (Based on War of 1812 rolls Records of Men Enlisted in the U. S. Army Prior to the Peace Est. May 17, 1815.)
• 20 March 1814 - Norfolk, Virginia. Robert is discharged from 35th U.S. Infantry for being a minor. This would place his birth date sometime after March 20, 1796. (Based on War of 1812 rolls Records of Men Enlisted in the U. S. Army Prior to the Peace Est. May 17, 1815.) Robert stated on his bounty land warrant application that he had been honorably discharged at Norfolk, but lost his discharge later by accidentally throwing it into a fire in Bath County, Virginia.
• 31 March 1814 - Petersburg, Virginia. Robert is listed on regimental return of 35th U.S. Infantry. (Based on War of 1812 rolls Records of Men Enlisted in the U. S. Army Prior to the Peace Est. May 17, 1815.)
• 1 May 1814 - Robert is listed on muster roll of 35th U. S. Infantry. (Based on War of 1812 rolls Records of Men Enlisted in the U. S. Army Prior to the Peace Est. May 17, 1815.)
• 24-25 August 1814 - British capture Washington, DC, and set fire to White House and Capitol.
• 28 August 1814 - British capture Alexandria, Virginia.
• 22 December 1814? (1815 on bounty land application) - Franklin, Pendleton County, Virginia. Robert enlisted in company commanded by Captain John Bodkin's (Botkins) in the Regiment of Militia Commanded by Major Green for a term of six months to only serve two months. Hugh McLaughlin is also enlisted as a private the same regiment.
• 24 December 1814 - Treaty of Ghent is signed, officially ending the War of 1812.
• 13 February 1815 - Pendleton County, Virginia. Robert is shown to have commenced his service as a Private, Capt. John Botkin's Co. of Riflemen, from 46 Reg't Virginia Militia.
• 1 March 1815 - Moorefield, Hardy County, Virginia. Robert was honorably discharged as a minuteman.
• 7 April 1815 - Robert's service expired as a Private, Capt. John Botkin's Company of Riflemen, from 46 Reg't Virginia Militia.
• 10 April 1815 - Robert appears on Company Pay Roll for term of service charged, 1 month, 23 days. Pay was 8 dollars per month. Actually paid $14.43.
• 8 March 1816 - Robert appears on a muster roll compiled for Capt. John Botkin's Company of Riflemen, from 46 Reg't Virginia Militia after the war.
• 11 December 1816 - Indiana becomes the 19th state.
• 1818 - Cumberland Road (or National Road) completed from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia.
• 1819 - The Panic of 1819 began and was the first major financial crisis in the United States. It featured widespread foreclosures, bank failures, unemployment, and a slump in agriculture and manufacturing. It marked the end of the economic expansion that had followed the War of 1812.
• 10 August 1821 - Missouri becomes the 24th state.
• 21 December 1821 - Pocahontas County created from Bath, Pendleton, and Randolph counties in Virginia.
• 26 October 1825 - The Erie Canal opens -passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
• 1829 - Virginia counties west of the Allegheny Mountains protest constitution that favors the slave-holding counties.
• 4 March 1829 - Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as seventh president.
• 1830 - Separation of western Virginia from eastern Virginia is proposed by The Wheeling Gazette.
• 29 January 1830 - Saint Joseph and Elkhart Counties were created in Indiana.
• 1832 - The Michigan road was cut through Indiana in 1832. It extended from Madison, on the Ohio River, to Michigan City, on Lake Michigan, a distance of 258 miles. The Vistula road, running from Toledo to South Bend, Indiana was put in order about the same time. The opening of these roads had its influence upon the settlement of the country, and emigrants from Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, found their way hither in great numbers, in the year 1832, and the succeeding two or three years.
• 6 April 1832 - The Black Hawk War begins in Illinois.
• 1 July 1835 - Robert marries Lucinda Shaw, age 16, in Saint Joseph County, Indiana.
• 1837 - Allen W. McLaughlin is born in Saint Joseph County, Indiana.
• 4 March 1837 - Martin Van Buren is inaugurated as the eighth president.
• 10 May 1837 - Panic of 1837 begins in New York City, results in a six-year depression nationwide, with failure of banks and record unemployment levels.
• 27 September 1838 - Andrew Jackson McLaughlin is born in Saint Joseph County, Indiana.
• 1840 - Penn Twp, Saint Joseph County, Indiana. Census taken. Robert is shown along with 1 male (Andrew) child less than 5 yrs., 1 male (Allen) child between 5-10 yrs., and 1 female (Lucinda) between 20-30 yrs of age.
• 1841- Benton McLaughlin is born in Saint Joseph County, Indiana.
• 15 January 1844 - The University of Notre Dame in Saint Joseph County, Indiana, receives its charter from the State of Indiana.
• 7 March 1844 - Phidelia (Phedelia) McLaughlin is born in Saint Joseph County, Indiana.
• 25 April 1846 - The Mexican War begins with open conflict along Texas border.
• 28 December 1846 - Iowa becomes the 29th state.
• 26 March 1847 - Charles F. McLaughlin is born in Saint Joseph County, Indiana.
• 24 January 1848 - Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
• 2 February 1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed ending the Mexican War.
• 3 March 1849 - The United States Department of the Interior is established.
• January 1850 - Garrison McLaughlin is born in Saint Joseph County, Indiana.
• 28 September 1850 - United States Act of September 28, 1850 grants bounty lands for military service in the War of 1812, War with Mexico, and Indian Wars.
• 7 October 1850 - Saint Joseph County, Indiana. Census taken. Robert is listed as being head of house, age 54, a farmer, born in Va, and could not read or write. He is also listed along with wife Lucinda age 31, born in Ohio and could not read or write. Children listed Allen 15 (farmer), Andrew 13, Benton 9, Phidelia 6, Charles 3, and Garrison 9/12. All children were born in Indiana. Allen, Andrew, and Benton had been to school within the year.
• 1851 - The Sioux Cession removed the final Native American Indian claim to land in Iowa, in the far north central and far northwest sections of the state.
• 19 February 1851 - Saint Joseph County, Indiana. Robert, age 54, appeared before the county to apply for a bounty land warrant for his service in the War of 1812.
• 24 February 1851 - St. Joseph County Clerk John T. Lindsey notarizes Robert’s application.
• 23 June 1851 - Application has another process date on note card for file# 106.858.
• 3 September 1851 - William W. McLaughlin is born in Saint Joseph County, Indiana.
• 11 March 1852 - Robert's application arrived at the Adjutant Office.
• 2 July 1852 - Washington, D. C. Treasury Department' reviews Robert's application file# 106.858.
• 21 July 1852 - Washington, D. C. Treasury Department authorizes that a warrant for 160 acres be issued and notice sent to Justice Of The Peace Theodore S. Cowles Mishawaka, Ind.
• 31 July 1852 - Official Department of the Interior Bounty Land Warrant Certificate No. 19.830 for 160 acres is issued Robert McLaughlin.
• Late 1852 - McLaughlin family moves to Iowa. (Based on History of Grundy County, MO 1908.)
• 26 September 1853 - Lee County, Iowa. Robert sells his Bounty Land Warrant Certificate to Joseph Rambo, with Robert L. and Matilda Fleming as witnesses of the sale.
• 1 October 1853 - Lee County, Iowa County Clerk S. A. James, notarizes Certificate sale.
• 22 October 1853 - Lee County, Iowa. Laura Jane McLaughlin is born.
• 24 October 1853 - Fairfield, Iowa. Joseph Rambo turns in the warrant certificate at the Fairfield Land Office.
• 1854 - Fairfield, Iowa. First state fair held.
• Winter 1854 - Robert McLaughlin dies.
• 1 January 1855 - Washington, D. C. President Franklin Pierce signed over 160 acres to Joseph Rambo on Certificate #3910. Patented Certificate# 19.830. Lee County, Iowa: SE no.12, TWP no. 67N, Range No.16W, 160 acres.
• 31 May 1855 - Joseph Rambo land records were compiled and filed away.
• Between 1855 and 1856 - Lee County, Iowa. Lucinda Shaw marries David I. Coon.
• 1856 - Lee County, Iowa. David and Lucinda Coon appear with children in 1856 Special Census for Lee County.
• Late 1856 - David Coon and family move to Mercer County, Missouri settling on a farm.
• 1857 - Mercer County, Missouri. Angelia Coon is born.
• 23 November 1859 - Mercer County, Missouri. Henry Coon is born.
• 18 June 1860 - Washington Twp., Mercer County, Missouri. Census is taken. David Coon is listed Age 53, Farmer; property valued at $400; born Virginia. Lucinda age 43, born Ohio and cannot read or write. Children listed Andrew J. McLaughlin 22 Farmer Indiana, Phidelia McLaughlin 16 Indiana, Charles McLaughlin 13 Indiana, W. A. Coon 11 Iowa, W. W. McLaughlin 7 Indiana, L. J. McLaughlin 6 Iowa, Angelia Coon 3 Missouri, and Henry Coon 6/12 Missouri. Phidelia, Charles, and W. A. had all been to school within the year.
• 12 April 1861 - The Civil War begins. Confederate forces attack Ft. Sumter in Charleston, S.C., marking the start of the war.
• 16 September 1861 - Middleburg, Missouri. David Coon and Andrew J. McLaughlin enlisted at the rank of Privates in the Mercer County Battalion Six Month Militia Company B under command of Loveland.
• 25 October 1861- David Coon sent home from Militia on account of disability.
• 31 December 1861- Andrew J. McLaughlin was sick in hospital on previous muster taken of Militia Company.

Charles McLaughlin, Bedford County, Virginia: Family Summary

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Charles McLaughlin was born before the 1730s. If he is the son of James and Mary McLaughlin of Bull Run (Manassas), Prince William County (then Stafford County), Virginia, he was born before 1727¹. By the 1750s, Charles was living in Bedford County, Virginia. He was appointed surveyor in the Court Orders of Bedford, listed as Charles Laughlin². Also appearing at the time was a James McLaughlin under “Tithes for Road,” page 146. (See James McLaughlin, Stafford/Prince William County, Virginia³.) Charles appeared again in the 1750s as Charles McLawlin, licensed for an ordinary. He continued to be the proprietor of the ordinary into the 1760s.

The land records of Bedford show that Charles purchased 204 acres on the north branch of Otter River from Alexander Boyle in 1769, Liber and Folio being 3 and 253 respectively⁴. Other purchases in the area were: from George Miller, also in 1769; 238 acres from Henry Kay in 1773; and 300 acres, North Branch of Otter River from William Carson in 1778. He sold 100 acres on Lick Run to John McLaughlin in 1779.

His son, Charles, fought in Dunmore’s War of 1774⁵, sometimes called the first battle of the Revolution, in Western Virginia. Charles, Junior, also fought in the Revolution, along with his brother, William. Their mother is unknown but was still living at the time of the war⁶.

In 1782, Charles McLaughlin appeared in the Personal Property Tax Books of Bedford, alone. He owned two horses and two head of cattle. He disappeared from the tax records after 1787⁷.

His children were:

i. Charles
ii. William (b 19 Dec 1757, d before 5 Jun 1843)
iii. John
iv. others?
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Footnotes:
¹Sparacio, Ruth. Deed Abstracts of Stafford County, Virginia, 1722-1728, 1755-1765. McLean, VA : R. and S. Sparacio. 1987. F232.S86. Entry for James Mackglohen. Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond
²Bedford County, General Index to County Court Order Books, I-N, 1754-1904. Microfilm, Pos. Reel 52. Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond.
³List of Titheables, 1747; Prince William County; Microfilm, LVA Pos Reel 33. Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond.
⁴Bedford County, General Index to Deeds, Grantees, E-M, 1754-1930. Microfilm, Pos. Reel 23. Repository: Library of Virginia.
⁵Thwaites, Reuben G. Documentary History of Dunmore’s War. Genealogical Publishing : Baltimore, 2002. Repository: Joan M. Kay, Huntingtown, MD.
⁶Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900. Application of William McLaughlin, 1832. National Archives Microfilm Publication: M804 roll 1693. Repository: National Archives, Washington, DC
⁷Auditor of Public Accounts. “Personal Property Tax Books, Bedford County [Virginia], 1782-1805” LVA Microfilm Publication, Reel 34. Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond.

James and Mary McLaughlin, Stafford/Prince William County, Virginia, Family Summary

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James McLaughlin (McGloughlin¹) was granted 225 acres in Prince William County (then Stafford County), Virginia, in 1725². The land was located between Broad Run and Bull Run, perhaps near present-day Manassas, Virginia. (See parish and county information here.) James also appeared in the Stafford County, Virginia, land records in 1727 when he entered into a deed agreement³. Also listed on the deed were a son, Charles, and James’ wife, Mary. They were tobacco farmers in Overwharton Parish, Virginia⁴.

James, Senior, then appears in the personal property tax lists of Prince William County, Virginia, (formerly Stafford) in 1747, appearing with a James, Jr., presumably his son. The tithes being collected were from homes “Between Leeder Run and Bool Run in Ditigin Parish”⁵. There were three titheables total in the record for that year⁶.

The children of James and Mary McLaughlin:
i. Charles
ii. James
iii. Others?

Pedigree of James and Mary McLaughlin:
James, father unknown, mother unknown.
Mary, father unknown, mother unknown.

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Footnotes:
¹The variation of the name appearing in this land grant.
²Northern Neck Grants A, 1722-1726; p 185, Microfilm, Reel 290. Library of Virginia, Richmond.
³Sparacio, Ruth. Deed Abstracts of Stafford County, Virginia, 1722-1728, 1755-1765. McLean, VA : R. and S. Sparacio. 1987. F232.S86. Entry for James Mackglohen. Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond.
⁴King, George Harrison Sanford. The Register of Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia. Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1986. p 159. Repository: Joan M. Kay, Huntingtown, MD
⁵Bull Run; Dettingen Parish.
⁶List of Titheables, 1747; Prince William County; Microfilm, Pos Reel 33. Library of Virginia, Richmond.

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

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by Joan M. Kay

I've seen where the rumor may have started 60 or 70 years ago.

On a research trip a few years back, there it was, in some genealogical quarterly, the assertion in a query letter, that Hugh McLaughlin (Bath County, Virginia), husband of Jane Wiley, was a Revolutionary War soldier who was also an orphaned fourteen-year-old in 1772.

A good deduction, but it's just not true, and many researchers have figured that out. But a whole slew of them haven't yet. So the rumor goes and grows. And who knows, I may have even passed it around myself when I first started researching.

That's because there are so darn many Hugh McLaughlins, pardon my French.

Let's get them straight so we know who we're supposed to be researching.

There's:

Hugh #1 turned up on the Virginia Coast in 1743¹, running from the Navy's HMS Cruizer. He was also impressed onto the ship in Virginia, so he may have been a resident of a coastal or shipping town. I don't know what happened to him after that. (My novel has him running to the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains to become Hugh #2. Fiction, I know. It's a novel--I had fun with it.)

Hugh #2 who in 1757 had connections to or lived in Pendleton County, (W)VA²; and either died or ran away from his family in 1772^3,4, Augusta County, Virginia, leaving the children Hugh (jr) and James.

Hugh #3 was the son of Hugh #2. He was born around 1757^{3, 4}; apprenticed to be a currier^{3, 4}; joined the Revolutionary War in 1777⁵, held prisoner where he learned to become a tailor, lived in Bath County, Virginia, working for tailor Wilson. He married Agnes (Nancy) Gwin in 1789. He died in 1798^6,7. He had currier's tools (or "tools for dressing skins") in his "estate" inventory⁷. Seems common enough. But a scouring of the inventories of a span of 50 years in Bath County showed only one other deceased owning currier's tools⁸.

Hugh #4 was most likely from Bedford County, Virginia, or surrounding area, judging from his enlistment in the Revolutionary War. He died in the war in 1777⁹.

Then there's:

Hugh, born around 1767
Hugh, born in 1798
Hugh, 1801
Hugh, son of William, Pocahontas County, WV
Hugh from Greenbrier County, WV
and then, of course,
"H.P."

All of which I'll get to next time.

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Footnotes:
¹British Admiralty. PRO (Public Records Office) Class ADM 36/681, HMS Cruizer, 1742-1743. Repository: The National Archives (PRO), Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU [UK]. [Tel: +44 (0) 20 8876 3444]

²Morton, Oren F. A History of Pendleton County, WV Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co, 1974; p 37. Repository: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Call no 975.491 H2M 1974 FHL US/CAN. [Viewed in 2002 at the National Archives, Washington, DC]

³Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia; Volume I, Order Book XIV, pp 166. Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore. Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond.

⁴Augusta County, Virginia. Order Book XIV, p 329. (17 Mar 1772, at issue, Hugh McLaughlin, orphan.) Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond.

⁵"Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War" National Archives Publication. Entry for Hugh McGlaughlin. Microfilm Publication: M881 roll 69, Gist's Regiment. Repository: National Archives, Washington, DC.

⁶"Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, 1800 to 1900" National Archives Publication. Entry for the soldier Hugh McGlaughlin. Microfilm Publication: M804 roll 1684. Repository: National Archives, Washington, DC.

⁷Bath County, Virginia. Wills Book 1, p 125-126. (15 Oct 1798, at issue, Hugh McGloughlin Estate Appraisal). Repository: Bath County, Virginia, Courthouse; Warm Springs, VA.

⁸ Bruns, Jean Randolph. Abstracts of the Wills and Inventories of Bath County,Virginia, 1791-1842, (Baltimore, Clearfield Company, 1995) Repository: Joan M. Kay, Huntingtown, MD

⁹"Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War" National Archives Publication. Entry for Hugh McLaughlin. Microfilm Publication: M881 roll 906, (E-O) Virginia 1^st Regiment. Repository: National Archives, Washington, DC.

Hugh McLaughlin, (b between 1765-1770) Promissory Note, Signature

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On Genealogy—Lessons in Finding Your Past:

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Documentation, Proof, and Keeping It All Straight

by Joan M. Kay
from The Kaitlyn Mae Book Blog

This is a "do as I say, not as I do" post, folks.

For you could see by taking a browse through my family group records, a great many of my facts have not been documented clearly. Or well. Or at all. I've very often been lazy as a summer pond when I'm researching.

But no longer.

I used to tell my husband proudly and while tapping my head, "I've got it all up here." I soon learned, when I once wanted to tell a fellow researcher about a mystery woman I'd found living in Rockingham County, Virginia, circa 1760, and had not written down the citation for the property tax list I found her on, that my head can not hold everything, or even a lot of things. It's also not a good way to build a database of, oh, a few thousand family members. (And, yes, your research will eventually grow to include at least that many people. And they all come with documents, some with file-folder-bursting amounts.)

So we need to get the facts straight. And documented.

The Family Group Sheet

Family Group Sheet or Record, download available at Ancestry.com

The Family Group Sheet is where you will record vital information on your families and individuals: names and variation, birthdates and places, marriages, death dates and places, etc. It is a standard in genealogy. You will often hear from someone, willing to swap information or share their research, mention the "Sheet." As in, "I have a Sheet on Margaret McLaughlin. I'll send it to you." So to get with the In crowd, get a good Sheet, use it religiously.

You will need one for each set of parents in your tree if you're not using a genealogy computer program. (I swear by the Legacy program, though some genealogists don't like to use any software at all.) If you use Legacy, or some other program, you still need plenty of blank Family Group Sheet copies for your research trips. Once you return home, this will make it simple for you to enter the information you've found into your database.

Document

Source Summary, download available at Ancestry.com.

I like this form, though your citation information will take up a few lines for each document, because you will want to record more than is asked for on this sheet. Another great form to download is at Ancestors: Charts and Records, a PBS site.

In general, for each fact you find, you want to note: author of document (example, Auditor of Public Accounts); name or title of document ("Personal Property Tax Books, Bath County [Virginia], 1791-1816"); call number or microfilm canister number (LVA Reel 31); page or image number (XX); repository (Library of Virginia, Richmond); and researchers's annotation (optional and always bracketed[ ]) ["Record in good condition, readable, except for missing year 18XX).] For:

Auditor of Public Accounts. "Personal Property Tax Books Bath County [Virginia], 1791-1816." LVA Reel 31. Image XX. Library of Virginia, Richmond. [Record in good condition, readable, except for missing year 18XX.]

Your intention here is to tell other researchers (and yourself down the road) exactly where to find the information you have compiled. Just ask yourself while taking notes, Could another researcher easily find this specific document from what I have written here?

Keep the Source Summary for your family group in a file marked only for that particular family group, along with an up-to-date Family Group Sheet.

Oh, and by the way, buy these file folders in bulk. You're going to need them for the next Lesson.

McLaughlin Family Novel--Excerpt

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GOD’S MOUNTAIN, MCLAUGHLIN’S VALLEY
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COPYRIGHT © 2005 JOAN M. KAY

PROLOGUE

Virginia Coast
September 6, 1743

Five men, on foot and dripping seawater, scrambled through an unkempt autumn garden, an acre or two away from a small bayside plantation. A familiar port town, quiet in the still night, spread out to the north.

Before their escape from the Navy’s H.M.S. Cruizer, in the groaning below-decks, the men had solemnly agreed on stealth and silence. But now a few couldn’t hold back anxious laughter as they carelessly crushed tender orange mums under their bare feet and dipped muddy hands in a carved stone fountain.

Only one dared a look back to the inlet, trickling in over a sandbar from the ocean-sized Chesapeake Bay. Hugh McLaughlin, son of James, a tobacco planter from Bull Run in Virginia, had been snatched by the Navy’s press gang a year earlier while at the wharf shipping hogsheads of his father’s tobacco. He now balanced his weight on a low brick wall and patiently scanned the water. The other four men crossed the bricks and climbed a terraced hill, leading to a dark stand of trees.

All was quiet between them and the shore, where waves slowly lapped.

But beyond the shoreline, under a misty rising moon, a sloop rocked gently in the murky water, just far enough away that the swaying could not be heard over their own exertions.

Once dragged from riverside taverns, crowded wharfs, and merchant vessels to serve the king, there were stolen men among their number, eagerly joined in the running by the disillusioned, the beaten, the scurvied. His Majesty’s Sloop the Cruizer had held them tenuously, desperate to deliver a life of adventure and honor, but instead merely giving sustenance to the essence within the men that demanded all that God provided but earthly lords drained away. And the men ran to grasp God’s gifts. Of the soil, of the sea, of their spirit. They sought no less than their own liberty and security.

But the captain would want them back. Not even a pirate vessel, her belly pregnant with a king’s ransom, would be closer guarded than a deck full of seasoned and cynical sailors with the fever of liberty. Experienced seamen, they were as valuable cargo to the Navy as the great guns pointed outward from the colonies’ coasts, guarding into the night against French invasion. And still, they made good their escape.

For Hugh, this run was born of their last orders. The Cruizer’s anchors would soon be retrieved and her sails would snap in the wind, to blow them eastward to Spithead, England, after escorting one last ship into the Virginia capes.

Leaving. Back across the choppy, frigid Atlantic to England.

No, Captain.

Hugh thought of hot, loud, colorful Barbados where he had sailed to this summer, and then of the warm, salty breezes of the Chesapeake. No. He would not leave America, would not cross the unforgiving Atlantic. And so Hugh threw in his lot with George Anderson, Richard Welch, John Bond, and John Mayou—all running and in this escape together.

He turned and followed the rest of the men, leaving his home in Tidewater behind.

Soon he crossed Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to settle in the howling wilderness beyond, in search of liberty and security, far out of the Navy’s long reach.

John McLaughlin Deposition for Hugh McLaughlin, Greer vs Given, 1806, Bath County Court

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Chancery Causes; Bath County, Virginia. Greer vs Given. LVA Microfilm Reel 99; Image 0496. Library of Virginia, Richmond. [Index #1806-001, original case #J113, local reel 078]

UPDATE 1: I will work on a transcription of this document. Please leave a comment below about the readability of these images on your screen.

Supreme Court Decision

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From the Institute for Justice

Homeowners Lose Eminent Domain Case

Institute for Justice Warns: Supreme Court Leaves Homeowners Vulnerable To Tax-Hungry Bureaucrats & Land-Hungry Developers

..."Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms.” Justice O'Connor, Supreme Court Decision, 23 June 2005, Kelo et al v. City of New London, 04-108

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Okay, I know it seems off the subject for a McLaughlin family genealogy blog, but this decision is a blow to the stability of families and family histories everywhere. Please visit the Institute for Justice website.

Will of John McLaughlin, Bath County, Virginia, 1838.

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Marriage Certificate of John McLaughlin and Anne Wiley, Augusta County, Virginia, 1790

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On Genealogy—Lessons in Finding Your Past

2005-06-20T12:03:00.000-05:00

by Joan M. Kay
from The Kaitlyn Mae Book Blog

Your ancestors made history.

Wherever your folks hail from—Virginia, Jamaica, England, China—they were the very fabric of that culture. They belong in a history book, somewhere, somehow. For figures such as George Washington or Napoleon Bonaparte, scholarly biographies are easy to come by and are worthwhile reading for any student of history. But what about your ancestors? In which book do you read about their contributions to history? Unless you are a descendent of, say, Patrick Henry or Thomas Jefferson, you won’t find one.

You must research and display your family’s history yourself. This can be done in the form of a novel, or alternatively, a (non-fiction) thesis, or study of a town or county where your family lived. Your non-fiction work will prove invaluable to many future generations of family historians, while your fiction will provide pleasure to history lovers everywhere, though will be thoroughly distrusted by other fact-searchers, and rightfully so.

On the fiction side, if you’ve read or seen Alex Haley’s Roots, you’re familiar with the concept of putting obscure ancestors into history and letting them roam free there. It’s a fascinating hobby. And for the late Alex Haley, an extremely lucrative one—though the rest of us might just have to settle for fascinating, which is more than fine with me.

To that end, I break genealogy down into two labors of love, first assembling your family tree and then—using fiction or non-fiction as you prefer—placing the family members in history.

The latter is my current passion, though the former, a family tree, is where we must start.

As an Afterword to my novel, God’s Mountain, McLaughlin’s Valley, I show how family research led to the creation of two of MY most beloved characters in history, Hugh McLaughlin and Nancy Gwin.

Never heard of them? Until 1999, neither had I.

I’ve been tracing my McLaughlin ancestors for over a decade now and a lot of those years I have literally been at it as a full-time job, researching for the novel based on my Revolutionary War ancestors. Quite a bunch they were, enough to convince me to write a novel, something I had no experience in. But we muddled along together and finally managed to get the amazing story of Hugh and Nancy McLaughlin out there. It’s the story that won my heart; that I had found, piece by piece, long forgotten on courthouse shelves and archivists’ microfilm.

Your Ancestors—They’ve apparently gone missing… So how do you find them?

Primary Sources

The U.S. Census—your most basic search, and sometimes your most fruitful.

For research on American ancestors, your first stop in genealogy should be census records. Microfilmed reproductions of the U.S. Census (taken every ten years since 1790) are stored at the National Archives in Washington, DC; at Archives repositories across the country; through inter-library loan at your local public library (ask your librarian for help; she’s a gem, I assure you), through LDS Family History Libraries, and online genealogy services, such as Ancestry.com, which offers an invaluable search engine to locate your ancestors in the census records, though you must pay a fee to access their online census images.

Privacy laws govern the availability of census records. They are not available to researchers until more than 70 years after the enumeration, so the most recent records you may research are from 1930. If you have information on your ancestors from before 1930, you’re in excellent shape to begin your search. If you can, always begin with 1930. Don’t skip back to 1870 because your great-aunt May swears that your great-great grandfather Alphonse lived in New York, New York then—find out for yourself. (If you’ve yet to reach your pre-1930 ancestors, I’ll deal with your particular stumbling block in a future column.)

Different challenges and opportunities come along with each decade’s census. The enumerations of 1790, 1800, and 1890 are generally unavailable for many areas; 1810 to 1840 include the names of only heads of households, not individual family members. All you will find in these years on dependents is an age range (0-5 years, 6-10 years, etc.) and a designation of male or female. Beginning in 1850 each family member was enumerated separately, with name, age, race, relation to head-of-household, etc. Records are broken into counties and usually several counties within the same state will appear on each roll of microfilm produced by the National Archives.

In research for my current novel-in-progress, about the Civil War, I am relying heavily on census records from 1860 in Pocahontas County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Useful to me in the 1860 records is the listing of occupation, schooling, and worth of personal and real property of each citizen. You may also find there the boundaries of neighborhoods, which is particularly useful because, historically, many families stuck close together, and the mother of the Smith family next door to your Jones relations may actually be that long-lost aunt you’ve been trying to find. Even unrelated but close neighbors hold clues to your family’s history. For example, neighbors very often emigrated together in groups. If your family were to suddenly disappear from an area and prove hard to find elsewhere, a quick search of their previous close neighbors may give you a clue to where they have moved, or moved from.

So, using a “family group sheet” to keep your records on (download available at http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/familysheet.htm) and starting with the 1930 enumeration, document carefully (roll numbers, page numbers, repository, etc) each fact that you find there, working backward in time through the US Census Records as far as they will allow. I’ll check back in on you soon—with more Lessons for your search.

God’s Mountain, McLaughlin’s Valley - Joan M Kay.

Hugh McLaughlin never knew he changed the world.

His story begins when, as a young man, Hugh loses his father, is forced into servitude, and in order to regain his freedom, marches into the Revolutionary War.

Join Hugh and the Continental Army at Valley Forge; accompany him through the ordeals of war as he is surrounded by death, infected with smallpox, wounded and finally taken prisoner. Witness how these experiences shape the character of a man.

But this story encompasses more than the Revolutionary War; it delves into the personal wars tormenting each of the major characters. When Hugh returns home to the mountains of western Virginia, he falls in love with Nancy Gwin, the daughter of a wealthy planter. They marry against her family's objections and for the next decade, Hugh and Nancy battle through the estrangement of her family and prejudice from their neighbors. Finally, the full power of his life and spirit is discovered.

This is a story you can get lost in.

2005, 5½x8½, paper, 340 pp. $33.00 K3280 ISBN: 078843280X

Books are also available from the author at 30% off and at Amazon.com

John Carpenter and Nancy McLaughlin, Married 1810, Bath County, Virginia

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Family Group Record for John CARPENTER

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Husband: John CARPENTER
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AKA:
Born: Abt 1784(1)
Died: Between 4 Jul and Oct 1862 - Pocahontas County, (W)VA(2)
Buried:
Father: Joseph CARPENTER (Abt 1746- )
Mother: Martha WILEY ( - )
Married: 27 Dec 1810 Place: Bath County, VA(3)
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Wife: Nancy McLAUGHLIN
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AKA:
Born: Abt 1788 - Bath County, VA(1)
Died: After Oct 1862 (4)
Buried:
Father: John McLAUGHLIN (1764-1838)
Mother: Anne WILEY (1769-Aft 1841)
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Children
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1 M John M. CARPENTER
Born: 1816(6)
Died: 1862
Buried:
Spouse: Rachel Alcinda ( - )
Marr. Date:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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2 F Margaret CARPENTER (7)
Born: Abt 1818 - Pocahontas County, (W)VA(1, 8)
Died: 19 Oct 1876 (8)
Buried:
Spouse: Never Married
Marr. Date:
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3 M William W. CARPENTER
Born: 1821 (6, 9)
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Minerva (Abt 1832- )(9)
Marr. Date:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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Events
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1. Occupation (9) , Farmer, 1880 - Green Bank, West Virginia, USA
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4 F Sidney CARPENTER (10, 11)
Born: Aug 1822 (12)
Died: After Jun 1900 (13)
Buried:
Spouse: John McLAUGHLIN (1817-Bet 1841)(14)
Marr. Date: 20 Jul 1840 - Pocahontas County, (W)VA(15, 16)
Spouse: Thomas H. GALFORD (Abt 1819-Bef 1900)
Marr. Date: 26 Feb 1856 - Thorny Creek, Pocahontas County, WV (17, 18)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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Events
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1. Residence(13) , Lived on farm with only living son, Randolph, Jun 1900 -
Green Bank, West Virginia, USA
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5 M Hugh M. CARPENTER
Born: 1825(6, 19)
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Margaret M. (1825- )
Marr. Date:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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Events
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1. Military Service, 19 th Virginia, Civil War
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6 M Peter W. CARPENTER
Born: Abt 1827 (20, 21)
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Sarah (Abt 1839- )(21)
Marr. Date:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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7 F Mary J. CARPENTER
Born: 1828-1829(9)
Died:
Buried:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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Events
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1. Residence(9) , Lived with brother, William Carpenter, 1880 - Green Bank, West
Virginia, USA
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General Notes (Husband)
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Testee: Carpenter, John

Witness: Hugh McLaughlin Sr.

Hugh McLaughlin Jr.

Jacob McLaughlin

Devesee:

John Carpenter-son

Hugh M. Carpenter-son

Wm. W. Carpenter-son

Margaret A. Carpenter-daughter

Mary J. Carpenter-daughter

John Lewis-grandson

7/4/1861 Probated10/1862

Will Book 3

Last Modified: 11 May 2004

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Source Citations
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1. John Carpenter 1860 Census.

2. Clerk of the County Court, Pocahontas County Will Books, Will of John
Carpenter; Book 3, Page 291; 4 July 1862. Probated Oct 1862. Repository:
Pocahontas County Courthouse, 900 C Tenth Street, Marlinton, WV 24954.

3. Methany, 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 M. Kay.

4. Clerk of the County Court, Pocahontas County Will Books. Repository:
Pocahontas County Courthouse, 900 C Tenth Street, Marlinton, WV 24954.

5. Bruns, Jean Randolph, Abstracts of the Wills and Inventories of Bath County,
Virginia, 1791-1842, (Baltimore, Clearfield Company, 1995), Will of John
McGlaughlin; Page 186. Repository: Joan M. Kay.

6. Virginia, Commissioner of the Revenue, "Personal Property Tax Lists
[Pocahontas County, VA], 1822-1850". Repository: Family History Library,
Salt Lake City, Utah, Call Number:FHL US/CAN Film [1905686 Item 1].

7. Pocahontas Death Records.

8. Pocahontas County Death Notices. Reporter P.H. Carpenter, brother.

9. Bureau of the Census, "Pocahontas County, WV, Census of Population; Tenth
Census of the United States, 1880", Entry for the Family of William
Carpenter; written pg 176 D, printed page 6, Enumeration District 116, Green
Bank, WV. Repository: National Archives , Washington, DC, Call
Number:Microfilm Publication M244, roll.

10. Entry for the family of James McGlaughlin; p. 6, line 28, Enumeration
District 116, Pocahontas County, WV Census of Population; (National Archives
Microfilm Publication , roll ) Tenth Census of the United States, 1880

11. Pocahontas County, WV, Clerk, "Pocahontas County, West Virginia, Marriage
Book No. 3".

12. Entry for the family of Randolph Galford; sheet 7 B., line 67, Pocahontas
County, Virginia Census of Population; (National Archives Microfilm
Publication M242, roll ) Census of the United States, 1900; Records of the
Bureau of the Census, Record Group.

13. Bureau of the Census, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, Census of
Population; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M242, roll );
Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900;, Entry for the family of Randolf
Galford; house #107, sheet 7 B, line 70. Repository: National Archives ,
Washington, DC.

14. Price, William T., Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County, West Virginia,
(Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, 1990). Repository: Joan M. Kay.

15. County Clerk's Office, "Pocahontas County Marriage Books", John McLaughlin
to Sidney Carpenter, 20 July 1840; Book 1, Page 27. Repository: Pocahontas
County Courthouse, 900 C Tenth Street, Marlinton, WV 24954.

16. Personal collection of vital records, Marriage Certificate, John McLaughlin
to Sidney Carpenter, 20 July 1840. Repository: Joan M. Kay.

17. County Clerk's Office, "Pocahontas County Marriage Books", Thomas A.
Galford to Sidney McLaughlin, 26 February 1856; Book 3, Page 2, Line 72.
Repository: Pocahontas County Courthouse, 900 C Tenth Street, Marlinton, WV
24954.

18. Personal collection of vital records, Certificate of Marriage, Thomas A.
Galford to Sidney McLaughlin, 26 February 1856. Repository: Joan M. Kay.

19. Bureau of the Census, "Pocahontas County, WV, Census of Population; Tenth
Census of the United States, 1880", Entry for the Family of Hugh M.
Carpenter; written pg , Enumeration District 116, Green Bank, WV.
Repository: National Archives , Washington, DC, Call Number:Microfilm
Publication M244, roll.

20. Entry for the family of John Carpenter; p. 289, line 10-12; p. 290, line
1-6; Pocahontas County, VA Census of Population; (National Archives
Microfilm Publication M432, roll 969) Seventh Census of the United States,
1850; Records of the Bureau of the Census.

21. Bureau of the Census, "Pocahontas County, WV, Census of Population; Tenth
Census of the United States, 1880", Entry for the Family of Peter W.
Carpenter; written pg , Enumeration District 116, Green Bank, WV.
Repository: National Archives , Washington, DC, Call Number:Microfilm Publication M244, roll

John McLaughlin and Anne Wiley, married 1790, Augusta County, Virginia

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Family Group Record for John McLAUGHLIN
(Rockingham County, Virginia, 1764)
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Husband: John McLAUGHLIN
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AKA:
Born: 26 May 1764 - Augusta (Later Rockingham) Co, VA(1)
Died: 19 Mar 1838 - Bath County (Later Highland), VA(2, 3)
Buried:
Father: Uknown McLAUGHLIN ( - )
Mother:
Married: 9 Nov 1790 Place: Augusta County, VA(4)
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Events
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1. Land(5)
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Wife: Anne WILEY
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AKA:
Born: 1769(2)
Died: After 1841(2)
Buried:
Father: Robert WILEY (1740-1812)
Mother: Margaret HESTER (1745-1810)(6)
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Children
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1 F Nancy McLAUGHLIN
Born: Abt 1788 - Bath County, VA(7)
Died: After Oct 1862(8)
Buried:
Child-Par.Rel.: Father: Proved,(9) Mother: Unproved
Spouse: John CARPENTER (Abt 1784- )
Marr. Date: 27 Dec 1810 - Bath County, VA(10)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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2 F Jane McLAUGHLIN
Born: Abt 1791
Died:
Buried:
Child-Par.Rel.: Father: (9)
Spouse: Alexander BENSON ( - )
Marr. Date: 1 Jun 1809 - Bath County, VA(11)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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3 F Margaret McLAUGHLIN
Born: 1794 - Bath County, VA(12)
Died: 15 May 1856 - Pocahontas County, (W)VA
Buried:
Child-Par.Rel.: Father: (9)
Spouse: William CARPENTER (1791- )
Marr. Date: 12 Aug 1823 - Bath County, VA(10)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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4 F Abigail McLAUGHLIN
Born:
Died:
Buried:
Child-Par.Rel.: Father: (9)
Spouse: Thomas GALFORD ( - )
Marr. Date: 14 Apr 1822(10)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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5 F Mary McLAUGHLIN
Born:
Died:
Buried:
Child-Par.Rel.: Father: (9)
Spouse: William BEVERAGE ( - )
Marr. Date: 12 Dec 1832 - Bath County, VA(10)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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6 M Daniel McLAUGHLIN
Born: 1796-1797 - Bath County (Later Highland), VA(13, 14)
Died:
Buried:
Child-Par.Rel.: Father: (9)
Spouse: Mary CARPENTER (1798- )
Marr. Date: 13 Dec 1823 - Bath County, VA(10)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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7 M Hugh McLAUGHLIN
Born: 17 Aug 1798 - Bath County (Later Highland), VA(15)
Died: 20 Apr 1866(15)
Buried: - Minnehaha Springs Cemetery; Huntersville, Pocahontas County,
WV(15)
Child-Par.Rel.: Father: (9)
Spouse: Sally GRIMES ( - )
Marr. Date: Dec 1823 - Pocahontas County, (W)VA(16)
Spouse: Elizabeth SHARP (1804- )
Marr. Date:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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8 M John McLAUGHLIN Jr.
Born: Abt 1801 - Bath County (Later Highland), VA(13)
Died:
Buried:
Child-Par.Rel.: Father: (9)
Spouse: Sally WILEY (Aft 1810- )
Marr. Date: 27 Jul 1843 - Bath County, VA(10)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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9 M James McLAUGHLIN
Born: Abt 1806 - Bath County (Later Highland), VA(13)
Died:
Buried:
Child-Par.Rel.: Father: (9)
Spouse: Kitty SPROWLE ( - )
Marr. Date: 25 May 1826 - Bath County, VA(10)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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10 M Samuel McLAUGHLIN
Born: Abt 1810 - Bath County (Later Highland), VA(13)
Died: 1845 - Bath County, VA(17)
Buried:
Child-Par.Rel.: Father: (9)
Spouse: Elizabeth WRIGHT (Abt 1807- )
Marr. Date: 12 Oct 1834 - Bath County, VA(18)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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11 M Robert McLAUGHLIN
Born: Abt 1811 - Bath County (Later Highland), VA(13)
Died: Abt 1830
Buried:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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General Notes (Husband)
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Notes (Married)
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Married by Moses Henkle, Methodist Minister

Last Modified: 14 May 2004

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Source Citations
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1. McLaughlin, John. Revolutionary War Pension Application, Bath County Court,
11 Jun 1833. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M804, Roll );
National Archives, Washington, DC.

2. McLaughlin, Anne Wiley - widow; Pension Hearing, Bath County Court of
Chancery; 1 Apr 1841. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M804, Roll
); National Archives, Washington, DC.

3. Bruns, Jean Randolph, Abstracts of the Wills and Inventories of Bath County,
Virginia, 1791-1842, (Baltimore, Clearfield Company, 1995), Will of John
McGlaughlin, Page 186. Repository: Joan M. Kay

4. Minister’s Return, Marriage of John McLaughlin to Ann Wiley, contained in
John McLaughlin Rev. War Pension Application. , Bath County Court, 11 Jun
1833. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M804, Roll );
National Archives, Washington, DC.

5. Virginia State Land Office, "Virginia Land Grants", John McLaughlin land
grant; No. 61, 1810-1811, p 198 (Reel 127). Repository: Library of
Virginia, Richmond, VA, Call Number:Grants A-Z, 1-124, reels 42-190;
Virginia State Land Office. Grants 125-, reels 369-. Land Grant Record 17
Sep 1810, John McLaughlin, 100 Acres Bath,

John Tyler, Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of VA,

To all to whom these presents shall come greeting. Know ye that by virtue of
fair exchange...Treasury warrant, number 1946 [issued] the [ ] day of
January Eighteen Hundred and Eight there is granted by the said
Commonwealth, unto John McGlaughlin a certain tract or parcel of Land;
containing One hundred acres by survey bearing date the fifteenth of April
eighteen hundred and nine, lying in the county of Bath, on the water of
Jackson's River adjoining the land of William Dixson and Andrew McCartney
and bounded as followeth to wit: Beginning at a chestnut and spanish oak,
Dixson's line, and with the same north 35 degrees west, twenty two poles to
two white oaks, said Dixson's corner, there leaving his line, south seventy
five degrees west, one hundred and six poles to a red oak on McCartney's
line, then leaving the same, south thirty degrees west, and spanish oak;
south forty five degrees east, one hundred and twenty poles to a white oak
on a ridge; east seventy one poles to three white oaks in the saw pit draft
and thence north five degrees west, one hundred and thirty four poles to the
beginning; with its appurtenances; to have and to hold the said tract or
parcel of Land with its appurtenances, to the said John McGlaughlin and his
heirs for ever. In witness whereof the said John Tyler, Esquire, Governor of
the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his hand and causes the [ ]
seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the seventeenth
day of September in the year of our lord One Thousand Eight Hundreen and Ten
and of the Commonwealth the Thirty Fifth.

Signed

Jn. Tyler.

6. From genealogy.com not verified.

7. John Carpenter 1860 Census.

8. Clerk of the County Court, Pocahontas County Will Books. Repository:
Pocahontas County Courthouse, 900 C Tenth Street, Marlinton, WV 24954.

9. Bruns, Jean Randolph, Abstracts of the Wills and Inventories of Bath County,
Virginia, 1791-1842, (Baltimore, Clearfield Company, 1995), Will of John
McGlaughlin; Page 186. Repository: Joan M. Kay

10. Methany, 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 M.
Kay.

11. Date of application in county court.

12. Pocahontas County Death Records. Repository: Pocahontas County
Courthouse, 900 C Tenth Street, Marlinton, WV 24954.

13. Auditor of Public Accounts, "Personal Propety Tax Books, Bath County,
Virginia, 1817-1839". Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA, Call
Number:Microfilm.

14. Bureau of the Census, Pocahontas County, VA Census of Population; (National
Archives Microfilm Publication M432, roll 969) Seventh Census of the United
States, 1850, Entry for family of Daniel McLaughlin, p , dwelling 318.
Repository: National Archives , Washington, DC.

15. Minnehaha Springs Cemetery; Huntersville, Pocahontas County, WV, Stone
inscription, Hugh McLaughlin. Died April 20, 1866 / Aged 67 Years 8 Mos 3
Days.

16. County Clerk's Office, "Pocahontas County Marriage Books". Repository:
Pocahontas County Courthouse, 900 C Tenth Street, Marlinton, WV 24954.

17. Clerk of the Court, Bath County, VA, Wills, Inventory of estate of Samuel
McGlaughlin, Book 5, page 178. Repository: Bath County Courthouse, Warm
Springs, VA.

18. Methany, 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), pg 80. Repository:
Joan M. Kay. 12 Oct 1834: Minister's Return by R. Slaven.

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He Fought For Our Independence, Now Who Will Fight For Him?

"This is a story you can get lost in..." For Excerpt click here

From the "Back of the Book"

Hugh McLaughlin never knew he changed the world.

His story begins when, as a young man, Hugh loses his father, is forced into servitude, and in order to regain his freedom, marches into the Revolutionary War.

Join Hugh and the Continental Army at Valley Forge; accompany him through the ordeals of war as he is surrounded by death, infected with smallpox, wounded and finally taken prisoner. Witness how these experiences shape the character of a man...
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God's Mountain, McLaughlin's Valley

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But this story encompasses more than the Revolutionary War; it delves into the personal wars tormenting each of the major characters. When Hugh returns home to the mountains of western Virginia, he falls in love with Nancy Gwin, the daughter of a wealthy planter. They marry against her family's objections and for the next decade, Hugh and Nancy battle through the estrangement of her family and prejudice from their neighbors. Finally, the full power of his life and spirit is discovered.

This is a story you can get lost in.

2005, 5½x8½, paper, 340 pp. $33.00 K3280 ISBN: 078843280X

Excerpt from McLaughlin Novel

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I took my father for granted. I think most children do, so it’s not that shameful. But it is a shame—one I regret more every day.

Although to my benefit, I did listen patiently, sometimes painfully, to all of his stories. And he had a lot of them.

My father, James Lee Gray McLaughlin, loved to stretch the truth, the harmless type of stretching. He spoke of the Philippines in WWII in an easy way—nothing too heavy—but, of course, we kids had seen all the graphic pictures of the war hidden in his top dresser drawer under the neatly folded handkerchiefs. Nothing easy and light was portrayed in those dog-eared, yellowed photographs.

He also told us tale after tale about growing up during the depression in coal mining and logging country. Nothing new to kids of the kids of the depression: “I had no shoes. Well, to be fair, sometimes I had a left one and my brother had the right. We walked ten miles to school, seven days a week, in the snow, each with the one shoe, uphill…” Well, you know.

But he never once mentioned the names “Hugh and Nancy McLaughlin.” I found those names more than ten years after my father’s passing, and about 150 years after Nancy McLaughlin’s passing. But at the same time that Hugh and Nancy charmed me beyond belief, caused me to write this book, and kindled an interest in family history that I’m sure will never be sated, I felt profoundly sad that my father would never know them.

On my first step upon the path to finding Hugh and Nancy I pulled out and dusted off the endless snippets of family lore, most of it tall-tale built on tall-tale. My great-grandparents were immigrants, so my Uncle Pete claimed. Wrong. They fled the famine. Wrong. The McLaughlins were once kings in Ireland. Well, that one’s right, surprisingly enough. But still, not much help there. At that time, my interest in family history was still just mild curiosity.

It wasn’t until I finally dug my fingers into the oldest, coldest, hardest facts that I was fascinated. Of course, my more practical side just said, A nicely drawn and framed family tree makes a really nice Christmas gift.

Still, I was inspired by the humanity of these faceless names that make up a formal pedigree when I came across this passage in a Pocahontas County, West Virginia, history book, first printed in 1901:

He [John McLaughlin (1764-1838)] pointed out a spot overlooking his dwelling that is well nigh inaccessible, and gave positive orders to have his body buried there. He seemed to abhor the idea of being trampled upon… A more unique burial scene was never witnessed in that region. The pallbearers on their knees and holding to the bushes and rocks with one hand and the coffin handles with the other, and the procession following on all fours, composed a scene the like of which may never be witnessed while the world stands. Here an illustration of the ruling passion strong in death.¹

I had found my fourth great-grandfather, John McLaughlin. He’s still there, in Highland County, Virginia, overlooking his property, keeping watch.

I learned that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and a close contemporary to Hugh McLaughlin. Another John (Jock) McLaughlin (ca. 1780-1845), also a great-grandfather, was a major of militia. My father’s love of American history was not wasted on me.

I continued searching, and before long, a year had passed.

I spent so much time in research that I became completely absorbed in the lives I saw unfolding in front of me. Each new piece of evidence was an integral part of someone’s life and I held it in my hands. What would it mean, I thought, if I were to stuff it in a file folder and just move on to the next challenge?

There was no satisfaction in that. I wanted to write it all down, to tell the story, and that’s what I began to do.

I first wrote this book with only the facts, no assumptions, with the intention of breathing life into men and women whose habits, speech, laughter and tears have all been lost to time. Trying to revive people who, in their own way, played a part in the creation of these great United States, who touched and tasted and lived our history. I found I couldn’t do them justice.

Wait, I thought, what about fiction? It’s been done before. But wouldn’t it be wrong to put a book out there, mostly based on my own wild opinions, about people I’ve come to care for so much?

I continued my research.

“They ran away to be married.” When I read that comment in the ancient, smeared court record I was struggling to decipher, I wanted to jump and whoop and tell someone, “I knew it!” But it was 1 A.M. Sadly, I had to wait until people woke to spread the news. But, while I sat there alone I tried to put myself back in 1789, the year Hugh and Nancy “ran away.” What would cause a couple in that era to travel out of their own region--which was surrounded by rugged mountains and rivers every which way--and away from their families, just to get married? Parental objection? Societal objection? Probably both. I was assuming again.

But as I put more pieces of the puzzle together, I found that time after time my assumptions were right. That’s when I realized I could not leave this story written in the bare-bones (boring) fashion I’d started out with. But I was torn.

I could have told you that I felt strongly that they ran away together, and they did. And I know that her father absolutely did not approve and I believe I can tell you why. But I didn’t have proof (and still don’t) so I couldn’t include it. Unless I wanted to spend half of your time and mine explaining, “This could have… This may have… This probably…” ad nauseam. I thought then of just packing away the mounds of paper, full of names and dates and court documents.

But I couldn’t do it. I didn’t want to abandon these generations of spirited people, all of who, even if some in only the smallest way, contributed to my father’s spirit--and my own. I found their own spirits aren’t dead; their hopes, their fears and their love continue today in the countless people whose lives they’ve changed or created. They reach out across the years, the decades and the centuries and touch you. And maybe even encourage you to write a book.

And that’s the only way to know them, from the feelings they bring to you. That’s something that cannot be shared through a name and birth and death dates on an otherwise blank sheet of paper.

It’s the feeling I had, standing alone in my great-grandparents’ private graveyard for the first time, two states and three hundred miles from my home. Standing reverently away from the sunken old burial sites--to which, one hundred years before, mourners had quietly and solemnly entrusted their loved ones. One stone’s etching grabbed my heart: We’ve Lost Our Little Sister.

I lost myself there to imagination. It wasn’t hard to do. The day was still and clear and very bright. Not a car passed, and not a house was in sight. Delicate summer wildflowers wound themselves into the old barbed wire fence. Sadly ironic in afterthought, I picked a lily for baby Lillie’s grave.

The entire view is mountainous: Just gentle slope after gentle slope. This is the scene that greeted them every day. Soft peaks lost in the mists on a rainy summer morning or blazing with bright yellows and reds on a cool fall afternoon. And all still here for us to witness.

Glorious. Peaceful. God’s Mountain.

That’s when I heard the low, very ghostly sound of the century-old train whistle echo down the river. The same, far-away train has serenaded that tranquil spot since my great-grandfather, James N. McLaughlin, was laid to rest.

I felt transported.

That’s the power I want to return to them. The power to make us feel, even though they have been physically gone for one hundred--or two hundred--years.

Because I can’t take everyone for an afternoon in the mountains for the same experience, I wanted to recreate it all for you. In their time. So, I compromised.

Consequently, this is a work of fiction. Fiction fleshing out the bones of exhaustively researched and documented facts. Some characters are solely products of my imagination—call them “composite characters” perhaps—but I would never put real people into situations they could not have encountered and I’ve tried to be faithful to every known fact. I have taken it upon myself in the novel, however, to determine family relationships, motives and whatever it is that fits in the void of missing years.

To any residents or historians of the beautiful counties I have written about—I hope you can please forgive any liberties I have taken with geography, etc., whether inadvertent or intentional.

This is one more humble contribution to my family’s heritage. I am my father’s daughter, spinning lore and telling tales. Just carrying on a well-loved family tradition.

—J.M.K.

^[1] Price, William T. Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County. Heritage: Bowie, Maryland, 1990

Blurb from "The Kaitlyn Mae Book Blog"

www.patfish.blogspot.com

Who Are the McLaughlins?

Mine own cousin has a new book coming out soon.

Indeed, note the title of the book by my pretty cousin-“McLaughlin” was my own last name for nineteen years. Joan did exhaustive research on our family tree for this book. To my delight, she discovered that the McLaughlins were a force to be reckoned with in America’s history. And our lineage goes back to 1763-before America was even a country!

Damn I just knew it. For if ever an American born and bred and breathing walked this earth it would be me, my family and of course, the lovely Kaitlyn Mae. Then I find out that my ancestors fought the British and so okay, they were on the wrong side of the Civil War. Still the McLaughlins were mighty and fierce and of the stuff that created this country.

I am just so proud.

McLaughlin Genealogy: Previous Posts

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"They Sure Liked the Name Hugh, Didn't They?"

Post includes research information on four different Virginian Hugh McLaughlins:
1st ran from HMS Cruizer, Virginia Coast 1743;
2nd father of two orphaned children in Augusta County Virginia, 1772;
3rd son of 2nd;
4th died in Revolutionary War, 1777.
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Cemetery Headstone Photos

Post 1 and Post 2 from Highland County, Virginia.

Post from Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

Stafford and Prince William Counties, Virginia

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Here is an excellent breakdown of the formation of counties and parishes in the early- to mid-1700, Upper Tidewater region of Virginia.

From Va Parish Histories and Land Descriptions:

Overwharton Parish of Stafford Co was officially designated by at least 1702, was formed from Potomac, then Upper and Lower Parishes - skipping lengthy descriptions which are further covered below as other Parishes were created, in summary, Overwharton Parish was all of "upper" Stafford Co VA until the creation of Hamilton Parish (and Prince William Co) in 1730 (See Next). The remainder of Stafford County; i.e., "Lower" Stafford was part of St. Paul's Parish .

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Hamilton Parish of Prince William was created by an Act of the Assembly adopted May 1730, effective 01 Jan 1730/31, providing that effective that date that the parish of Overwharton "be divided into two distinct parishes, by Chopawansick Creek, and a southwest line to be made from the head of the North branch of the said Creek to the parish of Hanover, and that all that part of sd. parish which lies below the said bounds shall forever thereafter remain and be called and known by the name of Overwharton, and that all that other part of the said parish which lies above the said bounds, shall thereafter be called and known by the name of Hamilton. " (4 Hening 304). In other words, the county boundary lines of Prince William, created in 1730/1, and the Parish lines of Hamilton were practically the same. (See Also Truro Parish & Leeds Parish of Fauquier)

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Truro Parish of Prince William & Fairfax. By an act of the Assembly adopted in 1732, Hamilton Parish of Prince William was divided into two parishes, the second named Truro (later part of Fairfax County); i.e., "…Prince William be divided into two distinct parishes, by the river of Ockoquan and Bull Run (a branch thereof), and a course from there to the Indian Thoroughfare of the Blue Ridge of Mountains; and all that part of… Prince William which lies below the said bounds shall forever thereafter retain … the name of Hamilton. And all that other part… thereafter be called and known by the name of Truro. (4 Hening 367) Note: When Fairfax was formed in 1742, the Hamilton & Truro Parish boundaries were slightly changed by the Assembly; i.e., "… all that part lying on the south side of Occoquan and Bull Run, and from the head of the main branch of Bull Run, by a straight course to the Thoroughfare of the Blue Ridge of Mountains, known by the name of Ashby's Gap or Bent, shall be one distinct County and retain the name of Hamilton Parish… other part thereof, known as parish of Truro shall be one other distinct County and called and known by the name of Fairfax." (5 Hening 207)

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Dettingen Parish of Prince William. In 1745 the parish of Hamilton, by an act of the Assembly was divided as follows: "…a line to be run from the dividing line of Stafford and Prince William counties, a straight course to the head of Dorrell's run, thence down the said run to Cedar run, thence to the fork of Broad Run near the lower line of Colonel Charles CARTER'S tract, called Broad run tract, thence to the mouth of Bull Lick run, opposite to Jacob SMITH'S in Fairfax County… all that part… situate below said line to be erected into …. parish… of Dettingen, and all that other part thereof, scituate above the said line to be erected into one other distinct parish and retain the name of Hamilton. (5 Hening 259)

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Families in this region include: Allentrop, Ashby, Bannister, Godfrey, Hansbrough, Harding, and Jeffries, among many others.

Family Group Records--Carpenter: Previous Posts

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John Carpenter and Nancy McLaughlin, married Bath County, VA, 1810, here

Legacy Family Tree Software

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Original Document Images: Previous Posts

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Please leave comments below about the readability of these document images on your monitor. I want to ensure that every visitor can view them clearly enough to read them, and if not, I will begin transcriptions.

John McLaughlin Will, 1838, here
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John McLaughlin Deposition for Hugh McLaughlin, 1806, here
Transcription of same, page 1 and 2, here
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John McLaughlin and Anne Wiley Marriage Certificate (Minister's Return), here
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Hugh McLaughlin (born between 1765 and 1770)Signed Promissory Note, here
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John Carpenter (husband of Nancy McLaughlin), Will, 1862, Pocahontas County, (W)VA, here
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Revolutionary War Pension Application, filed by Agnes (Nancy) Gwin McLaughlin Wiley, for soldier Hugh McLaughlin, dec'd, Bath County, VA, pages 1 through 5 here and 6 through 9 here.

McLaughlin Family Novel Excerpts: Previous Posts

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God's Mountain, McLaughlin's Valley:

Prologue
Here

Afterword
Here

Family Group Records--McLaughlins: Previous Posts

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John McLaughlin and Anne Wiley, married 30 Nov 1790, Bath County, Virginia.

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John Carpenter and Nancy McLaughlin, married 27 Dec 1810, Bath County, Virginia.

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Charles McLaughlin, Bedford County, Virginia, born abt 1720-1730.

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James and Mary McLaughlin, Stafford / Prince William County, Virginia, 1720s.

On Genealogy--Lessons in Finding Your Past: Previous Posts

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6/20/05 Post -- How to get started in family research.

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6/27/05 Post -- Documentation, Proof, and Keeping It All Straight

by Joan M. Kay
from The Kaitlyn Mae Book Blog

This is a "do as I say, not as I do" post, folks.

For you could see by taking a browse through my family group records, a great many of my facts have not been documented clearly. Or well. Or at all. I've very often been lazy as a summer pond when I'm researching.

But no longer...

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