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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

Family Group Record for John McLAUGHLIN
(Rockingham County, Virginia, 1764)
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Husband: John McLAUGHLIN
============================================
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.

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Pocahontas County Courthouse, 900 C Tenth Street, Marlinton, WV 24954.

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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.

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Archives Microfilm Publication M432, roll 969) Seventh Census of the United
States, 1850, Entry for family of Daniel McLaughlin, p , dwelling 318.
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15. Minnehaha Springs Cemetery; Huntersville, Pocahontas County, WV, Stone
inscription, Hugh McLaughlin. Died April 20, 1866 / Aged 67 Years 8 Mos 3
Days.

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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.