no image
Privacy Level: Open (White)

John McClain (abt. 1750 - 1812)

John McClain
Born about in Bedford, Bedford, Colony of Virginiamap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , and
Died at about age 62 in Shelby, Kentucky, United Statesmap
Problems/Questions Profile managers: David Gray private message [send private message] and Anon Anonymous private message [send private message]
Profile last modified | Created 28 Jan 2015
This page has been accessed 1,167 times.

Contents

Biography

John McClain was born in 1750 in Bedford County, Virginia. Best estimate is that he married Rachel Morgan about 1777 in Bedford County. He was still there with his family for the 1810 Census. [1] Sometime after that date they arrived in Shelby County, Kentucky [2] [3] where, in 1812, he passed away.

Death

Alternate unsourced death given as 25 Dec 1812 • Shelby, Kentucky, United States.

Military

Virtually every able bodied male of age was in some form of military service particularly in the frontier settlements, but records are notoriously sparse. There are references to John McClains in different military units, but whether any one of them is this John McClain is indeterminate. [4] [5] [6] [7]

Who is Nancy McClain daughter of John McClain who married Lee Gowen in Shelby, Kentucky on 04 Feb 1830 and/or James Hollis [8] [9]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1810 US Federal Census, Bedford County, Virginia; https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/35096447/person/18761794564/facts
  2. ↑ Beadle, J H • “History of Parke County, Indiana” : H H Hill and N Iddings Company, Chicago 1880 pp 461, 462 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112045819148&seq=1285
  3. ↑ Chapman Brothers • “Portrait and Biographical Record of Montgomery, Parke and Fountain Counties, Indiana” : Chicago 1893 p 124 https://archive.org/details/portraitbiographmont00chap/page/124/mode/2up
  4. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2M-RC5N United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783; Name: John McClain; Event Type: Military Service; Event Date: Feb 1781; Military Regiment: Loudoun County Militia; p 516; Military Rank (Original): Ensign.
  5. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGXR-T8DY United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; Name: John McClain; Event Type: Military Service; Event Date: 01 Nov 1777; Event Place: United States; Military Rank: Trumpet Major.
  6. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGXR-PDN1 United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; Name: John McClain; Event Type: Military Service; Event Date: Dec 1777; Event Place: United States; Military Rank: Trumpet Major.
  7. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL6Y-7KY8 United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; Name: John McClain; Event Type: Military Service; Event Date: 30 Sep 1780; Event Place: United States; Event Place (Original): United States.
  8. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJ9-G95C Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954; Name: Lee Gowen; Event Type: Marriage; Event Date: 01 Feb 1830; Event Place: Shelby County, Kentucky, United States; Gender: Male; Spouse's Name: Nancy McClain; Spouse's Gender: Female; Spouse's Father's Name: John McClain.
  9. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJ9-LB3C Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954; Name: Lee Gowen; Event Type: Marriage; Event Date: 01 Feb 1830; Event Place: Shelby County, Kentucky, United States; Gender: Male; Age: 21; Birth Year (Estimated): 1809; Spouse's Name: Nancy McClain; Spouse's Titles and Terms: Miss; Spouse's Gender: Female; Spouse's Father's Name: John McClain.

See also:

  • Familysearch.org Person LZ1X-D73
  • Ancestry Profile
  • Ancestry Profile
  • 1800 United States Federal Census; Ancestry Record 7590 #460326; Name: John Mclain; [John McLean] ; Home in 1800 (City, County, State): Chartiers, Washington, Pennsylvania; Free White Persons - Males -10 thru 15: 1; Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1; Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1; Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 2; Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over: 1; Number of Household Members Under 16: 1; Number of Household Members Over 25: 2; Number of Household Members: 6. Image
  • 1810 United States Federal Census
    • Ancestry Record 7613 #657630; Name: John McClain; Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Bedford, Virginia; Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1; Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 3; Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1; Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1; Number of Household Members Under 16: 1; Number of household members over 25: 2; Number of Household Members: 6. Image
    • "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 2 October 2020), John Mc Clain, Bedford, Virginia, United States; citing p. 14, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 67; FHL microfilm 181,427.
  • American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
    • Ancestry Record 3599 #596667; Name: John McLane; Birth Date: 1750; Birthplace: Virginia; Volume: 115; Page Number: 41; Reference: Heads of Fams. at the first U.S. census. Va. By U.S. Bureau of the Census. Washington, 1908. (189p.): 41, 98
  • Ancestry Record 3599 #560653; Name: John McClain; Birth Date: 1740; Birthplace: Virginia; Volume: 113 p 163; Reference: Historical reg. of Virginians in the Revolution: soldiers, sailors and marines, 1775-1783. Ed. By John H. Gwathmey. Richmond, Va. 1938. (13, 872p.):516
  • Gwathmey, John Hastings, Historical Register of Virginians in the revolution, soldiers, sailors, marines, 1775-1783 (Dietz Press, Richmond, Virginia, 1938)
  • Kentucky, Tax Lists, 1799-1801; Ancestry Record 3720 #17147; Name: John McClain; Residence County: Henry; Residence Year: 1800. Image; There are six John McClain(s) listed on this page, living in: Gallatin, Hardin, Henry, Henry, Livingston, and Madison; all dated in 1800, henry two are both dated 6 Aug 1800. The next page has two more, in Montgomery and Nelson, and a John Jr (who could be his son) in Henry dated 6 Aug 1800.
  • Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801; Ancestry Record 2497 #1603164; Name: John McClain; Year: 1779; Town or Ward: Northern Liberties Township; County: Philadelphia; Archive Rollname: 333. Image; Quote: John McClain 150 £2.5
  • Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900; Ancestry Record 1995 #39859; Name: John Mcclain; Application State: Virginia; Applicant Designation: Survivor's Pension Application File; Archive Publication Number: M804; Archive Roll Number: 1667; Total Pages in Packet: 1 Image
  • U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900; Ancestry Record 7836 #800365; Name: John Mcclain; Gender: Male; Spouse Name: Catherine Horton; Number pp: 1.
  • U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
  • U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820
  • U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
  • Ancestry Record 4282 #253501; Name: John McClain; [John McLean] ; Military Place: Virginia, USA; State or Army Served: Continental Troops; Rank: D W
  • Ancestry Record 4282 #253503; Name: John McClain; Gender: Male; Military Date: 05 Aug 1777; Military Place: Virginia, USA; State or Army Served: Virginia; Regiment: 12th Regiment; Rank: Private Image
  • War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815




Is John your ancestor? Please don't go away!
 star icon Login to collaborate or comment, or
 star icon contact private message private message a profile manager, or
 star icon ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com

DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:

Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.



Comments: 9

Leave a message for others who see this profile.
There are no comments yet.
Login to post a comment.
John Smith MD
David McClain lived in Frederick Co, VA in 1750; whereas John McClain was born in Bedford Co, VA that same year - 180 miles apart today. Possible but hardly likely.

David was in Washington Co, PA from 1782 to 1790. He bought land in Jefferson Co, KY (became Shelby Co) in 1790. John lived in Bedford Co until he came to Shelby Co, about 1811 (and died the next year) - 20 plus years after David came there. Today Washington Co is 330 miles due north of Bedford Co, and Bedford Co to Shelby Co is 430 miles.

David was 90 years-old when he mentioned his son John in his 1803 Shelby Co will, and 98 years-old by the time John arrived in Kentucky from Bedford Co, VA. They would have had just enough time together to shake hands.

There had to be at least two John McClains in Shelby Co (ours dies 1812); and, by 1811, two David McClains: one in Shelby Co (also about to die) and one back in Washington Co, PA.

All the above make it implausible John McC of Bedford Co, VA could be the son of David McC of Washington Co, PA.

posted by John Smith MD
edited by John Smith MD
Gregory Biehl
I concur wholeheartedly. The David McClain who spent several years in Washington County, PA cannot be the father of the John McClain who was born in Bedford county, VA. And I agree that the confusion is the result of 2 different John McClains that were apparently in Shelby County, KY after 1800. One was married to Catherine Horton and was probably the son of the David McClain of Washington County. The other was married to Rachel Morgan and came from Bedford County, VA.
posted by Gregory Biehl
John Smith MD
Re John McClain and Military Service

July 1775 • Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania • 3rd Revolutionary Convention militia payroll for Lord Dunmore’s War: Capt John Robertson lists a private John McClain in his company - folio page 27 (scroll down to p 27) https://www.ancestry.com/boards/topics.Military.amerrev.va/20 • Same John McClain?

1832 • A John McClain applied in person in Rockbridge County, Virginia for a pension (#S5744) for Revolutionary War service. But John McClain & Rachael Morgan emigrated to Kentucky in 1811 where he died in 1812, she in 1829. He cannot be that same John McClain.

posted by John Smith MD
edited by John Smith MD
Richard Schwartz Jr
McClean-185 and McClain-999 do not represent the same person because: not the same
posted by Richard Schwartz Jr
A. Creighton
McClain-1220 and McClain-999 appear to represent the same person because: Please take a look. There are too many similarities.
posted by A. Creighton
Foster-86 William Foster Jr
McClean-185 and McClain-1220 are not ready to be merged because: Serious conflation going on here that needs to be carefully untangled. No merge, two people here that are tangled together.
posted on McClain-1220 (merged) by William Foster Jr
Foster-86 William Foster Jr
Looks like spouse Horton is missing from this profile and should be taken off other one along with all the children.
posted on McClain-1220 (merged) by William Foster Jr
Richard Schwartz Jr
McClean-185 and McClain-1220 appear to represent the same person because: I am sorry, I messes up the profile of McClain-1220 adding John McClean-185 to my wife's tree. Per an old bible from her Maternal side, the name is spelled McClean in the bible. I am still learning. These are the same person. Too many facts are the same not to be. If you can fix the mess or tell me how and I will.
posted on McClain-1220 (merged) by Richard Schwartz Jr
Foster-86 William Foster Jr
There appear to be two people here that need untangling, so no merge should be done.
posted on McClain-1220 (merged) by William Foster Jr

Rejected matches › John McClane (-1813) › John (MCclain) McClean (abt.1740-abt.1813) › John McClain (1750-) › Jean (McClung) Maxwell (1750-1810) › John MacLean (1752-) › John D McLean (abt.1750-) › Jane Jean (McClean) Moorhead (1748-) › John McCallum (abt.1755-)

Featured National Park champion connections: John is 13 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 18 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 14 degrees from George Catlin, 11 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 18 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 16 degrees from George Grinnell, 24 degrees from Anton Kröller, 15 degrees from Stephen Mather, 18 degrees from Kara McKean, 14 degrees from John Muir, 17 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 21 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.

M  >  McClain  >  John McClain