Thomas George McElwain Jr. (1730 - 1797)

Born 1730 in Frederick, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Nancy (Rector) McElwain — married 1752 in Rockingham,,Virginia

Descendants

Died 1797 at about age 67 in Franklin, Virginia, United States

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Biography

George was born in 1730. He passed away in 1797.

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

This person was created on 21 March 2011 through the import of Martin_O_Daniels_Lorentz_Toale.ged.

Birth

Birth:

Date: ABT 1730

State: Pennsylvania

Death

Death:

Date: 1797

State: Virginia

Country: United States

Note

Note: {geni:about_me} This book was published by a James L. McIlvaine from Falls Church, Virginia. I don't know how accurate it is, but most of the dates and info I have researched is correct. He writes:

>"Andrew McIlvaine came from Aughnacloy, Ireland to America on or about 1719. His father was Alexander Muckelvane of Ayr, Scotland. In the mother country, he had been a clothier. He settled at Cool Spring, Delaware, where, together with Robert Mickey (McKee)who had come over with him, bought a tract of land , 550 acres, from John Russel."

Notes

* "In reply to your inquiry about Thomas or George being married to Nancy Rector. I have a "McIlvaine Family History" book that I received from descendants of James McIlvaine in Falls Church, Virginia. In this book they have that she was married to a II George Mucklewain b.1730 d 1797 Frankin, VA. In answer to your question about George marrying Nancy Rector.....his book has him with only one child, Andrew, it was from another source that I got the name of II George Mucklewain b.1730 d.1797 in Franklin, VA". Re: Geo. or Thomas McElwain m.Nancy Rector?? 2001

* "I seriously doubt that your George McElwain was the son of George McElwain and Margaret Thompson. George the husband of Margaret Thompson died about 1747 in Cumberland County (then Lancaster Co.) PA at about the age of 40. They had two minor children, Andrew and Joseph. Margaret Thompson subsequently remarried and moved to Iredell Co., NC where she raised several other children.".

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The McElwain family was in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania as early as 1748. The deed records show John Muckelwain witnessed a deed for John Scott in that year. Robert McIlvain (McElvain) and his wife, Mary, sold land in Strasbury Township, May 1765. The land was purchased in 1762.

The state of Pennsylvania required its citizens to take Affirmation of Allegiance to the United States Government during the Revolutionary War, 1777-1778. The names of Alexander, George, Robert, Moses, and James McElwain appear on the list for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Members of this McElwain family came in to Washington County, Pennsylvania and to Augusta, Bedford and Botetourt Counties in Virginia; John went on to Wooford County, Kentucky.

This pattern of immigration seems to coincide with the one of George. His family came into Rockingham and Shenandoah Counties, Virginia, then to Franklin County, Virginia. Thomas McElwain, grandson of George, made his home in Muhlenberg, Kentucky. George McElwain is probably a part of these Lancaster County, Pennsylvania families and could be descended from Alexander McIlwain, who married a Mrs. McAdams and lived at Aughnacoy, Ireland. Alexander had a son, Andrew, who came to America in 1719 and settled at Cool Springs, Delaware.

There are no documentary records that George was the father of Tunis, other than his grandson, Joseph's, statement. There are no tax, census, deed or Revolutionary War records to place him anywhere, other than Tunis saying he was born in Rockingham County, Virginia. Nancy McElwain's consent to the marriage of her daughter, Sally, to Charles Vinson in Franklin County, Virginia, places her in that county with her five younger children, April 22, 1799. The two older children remained in the Shenandoah Valley with their families.

Links

* http://www.wvgenweb.org/calhoun/george.htm

* http://lionstime.com/waynemcelwain.html

* http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/o/b/Warwick-R-Tobias/GENE7-0019.html

Sources

1. ↑ McElwain-60 was created by Dave Patrick through the import of export-Ancestors.ged on Jul 29, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Pat Allen for creating WikiTree profile McElwain-26 through the import of update Feb 2013.ged on Feb 14, 2013.