Dennis McClendon (1680 - 1725)

Born 1680 in Scotland

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Died 1725 at about age 45 in Bertie County, North Carolina

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Biography

Dennis McClendon migrated from Scotland to Virginia.

Will

Bertie County Will Date: 19 Jan 1725-1726 Will: Sons: Dennis, John (to each is devised a plantation). Daughters: Mary and Elizabeth MacClendon. Wife: Margarett. Executors: John Earley (father-in-law]), Francis and Thomas MacClendon (brothers). Witnesses: James Page, Nicholas Fairless. No probate. "I desire my two negroes * * * in ye winter to make pitch and tarr, and freight it away to New England for such goods as shall best for my wife, etc."

From Grimes, John Bryan. Abstracts of North Carolina Wills. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Department of State, 1910.

John Wesland to John Rasberry. Assignment of a deed for 350 acres bought of Dennis Macklenden, May 8, 1719; Jan'y 21, 1719/20. Test, Robt. Hicks, Wm. Grosvenor.^[1]

In the general court on 31 October 1700 Dennis Mackelendon proved rights to 650 acres for importing Charles Gastin, Mary Gastin, Eliz. Gastin, Margarett Donn, Dennis Donn, Mathew Bryan, Mary Watts, Eliz. Macklendon, Dennis Macklendon, Jr., Dennis Macklenden, Sr., Bryan Macklendon, Francis Macklendon, and Tho. Macklendon.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 2, edited by James Robert Bent Hathaway
2. ↑ NC Genealogy Journal 1985-1989. p. 6, date accessed 2014-05-14, amb

See also:

• Origin of the McLendon-McClendon Family — The Myth and the Reality, (1994) RODERICK A. McLENDON, 27527 Cunningham Dr., Valencia, CA 91354-1912.

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of Shortened files.ged on 30 December 2010.