James McCall Sr. (abt. 1720 - 1794)

Born about 1720 in County Antrim, Ulster, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Janet (Harris) McCall — married 8 Aug 1738 in Earle Township, Lancaster County, PA

Descendants

Died 1794 at about age 74 in Mint Hill, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

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Biography

James was born between 1720 and 1721 in Antrim County, Ulster, Ireland. He was the son of Joshua McCall and Julianna (Truby) McCall. James arrived in Philadelphia from Ulster, Northern Ireland, in 1730. His family settled on Conachcocheque Creek in Pennsylvania.

Marriage

James was married about 1740 to Janet (Harris) McCall, daughter of James Harris who accompanied the McCall emigration from Ireland.

Children

James and Janet had seven known children:

1. James McCall Jr.
2. Hugh McCall
3. Thomas Harris McCaule
4. Rachael McCall
5. Nancy Agnes (McCall) Alexander
6. William B. McCall
7. Jane (McCall) Harris

The McCalls and the Harrises joined the movement to New River, Virginia about 1750. ^[1]

Indian attacks compelled the New River, VA settlement to remove to Anson County [now Mecklenburg County], North Carolina about 1760. There James McCall received land grants, was a member of the North Carolina militia in 1766 in Captain Adam Alexander's Company and became a Revolutionary soldier, along with two of his sons, William McCall and Hugh McCall.

On April 20, 1773 while living in Mecklenburg County James McCall and Janet Harris McCall made a deed to the land they owned at New River, Virginia. He held public office there, according to "DAR Magazine," Volume 31. He was enumerated as the head of a household in the 1790 census of Mecklenburg County.

Will

In 1794 he wrote his will which was witnessed by his cousin, Francis McCall, John Harris and James McCaule. Named as executors were his wife, "Jeanet McCall" and William McCall, believed to be his son.^[3] He died shortly afterward.</p>

Death

James died in 1794 in Mecklenburg County, NC

Sources

1. ↑ Sketch of the McCall family as written by Thomas McCall in 1829, and published in the 1981 reprint of Capt. Hugh McCall's The History of Georgia
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (Index Link : accessed 26 January 2017), James Mccall, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 354, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 7; FHL microfilm 568,147.
3. ↑ Mecklenburg County Will Book B, page 49 lower half (Very Difficult to Read)

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Acknowledgments

• Thank you for the import of indygrandma.ged on 02 January 2011.
• McCall-813 was created by Bruce Doxey through the import of Doxey Family Tree 9 gen_2014-01-14.ged on Jan 14, 2014.
• Thank you to Martin Humphrey for creating Mccall-644 on 14 Jul 13.

Notes

• My source comes mainly from my Cousin's website she as done a lot of work on the family history and tree. [1] [2]