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Hugh McCain Sr. (abt. 1729 - 1821)

Hugh (Huey) McCain Sr.
Born about in Antrim, Irelandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and
Brother of , , , and
Husband of — married 1747 in North Carolina, British Colonial Americamap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , , , , , and
Died at about age 91 in Waxhaw, Union, North Carolina, United Statesmap
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Biography

Brianne Rainey Davidson: Notes William Alexander McKean and Sarah Hamilton are currently documented on this page as the parents of Hugh Mccain Sr. I have found a thread on Family Search that lists his potential parentage as Major Robert McCain (b. Ballymoney, Antrim County, Ireland in 1703, d. 1788 Pensylvania) and Sarah Hamilton (b. 1810 in Londonderry, Ireland, d. 1785 South Carolina, United States). I am continuing to search for proof of the accurate lineage and will update as I find evidence. Could Sarah have possibly married twice and had children by both McCain and McKean? The Family search tree shows this: Major Robert McCain 1703-1788 and Sarah Hamilton 1710-1785: Children: Hugh Mccain Sr. 1729-1821, John McCain 1730-1798


Below is the link to the thread I mentioned: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/GM37-4V4/major-robert-mccain-1703-1788


Notes: Some people believe he was born in Pennsylvania, others say in Ireland. I am still researching this question. Miller-33353 17:41, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Notes: Another handwritten note from a descendant I found says there were two sets of McCain brothers, one that settled in Pennsylvania and one that settled in North Carolina and that the records for these men with identical and similar names are often co-mingled. Here's how I think you can separate the two:

  • The McCains from Pennsylvania moved south to Mississippi and Arkansas.
  • The McCains from North Carolina moved to Tennessee and then south and west to Alabama and Texas.

The marriage records shown below are misleading because they say that Hugh McCain was born in Pennsylvania, but I believe that to be an error. If I discover otherwise, I will remove these records.Miller-33353 18:31, 2 November 2019 (UTC)


First Marriage Record [1]

Name: Hugh Mccain
Gender: Male
Birth Place: PA
Birth Year: 1729
Spouse Name: Eleanor Nutt
Spouse Birth Year: 1733
Marriage Year: 1747
Number Pages: 1


United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors [2]

Name: Hugh McCain
Event Type: Military Service
Event Date: 26 Jan 1786
Event Place: United States
Page Number: 169


1790 United States Federal Census [3]

Name: Hugh Mccain
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1790
Event Place: Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States
Page: 382


Second Marriage Record [4]

Name: Hugh Mccain
Gender: Male
Birth Place: PA
Birth Year: 1729
Spouse Name: Jane Pickens Davis
Spouse Birth Year: 1741
Marriage Year: 1790
Marriage State: PA
Number Pages: 1


Land Grant Record [5]

Name: Hugh McCain Sr
Issue Date: 12 Apr 1798
Residence Place: Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA
Certificate Number Range: 4169-4382
Description: Mecklenburg 4169-4382


1800 United States Federal Census [6]

Name: Hugh Mccane
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1800
Event Place: Salisbury, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States
Page: 591


1810 United States Federal Census [7]

Name: Hugh Mccain
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1810
Event Place: Capt Crages, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States
Page: 476


1820 United States Federal Census [8]

Name: Hugh Mccain
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1820
Event Place: Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States
Page: 196


Probate Records [9]

Name: Hugh (Sr) McCain
Event Type: Probate
Event Year: 1821
Event Place: Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States
Number of Names with File: 1
File Name: Hugh (Sr) McCain
First Image Number: 01191
Last Image Number: 01195
Number of Images: 5


North Carolina, Historical Records Survey, Cemetery Inscription Card Index [10]

Name: Hugh McCain
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 26 Aug 1821
Event Place: Waxhaw, Union, North Carolina, United States
Event Place (Original): Tirzah Presby Ch Cem, Waxhaw, Union, N C, United States
Age: 92
Birth Year (Estimated): 1729
Cemetery: Tirzah Presby Ch Cem


Find A Grave Burial Record [11]

Name: Hugh McCain
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 1821
Event Place: Waxhaw, Union, North Carolina, United States of America
Photograph Included: Y
Death Date: 26 Aug 1821
Affiliate Record Identifier: 33237123
Cemetery: Tirzah Presbyterian Church Cemetery


DAR Lineage of Miss Jennie McCain [12]

Name: Hugh McCain
Gender: Male
Age: 92
Birth Date: 1729
Birth Place: Ireland
Death Date: 1821
Death Place: North Carolina
Spouse: Jane Davis
Child: Hugh McCain
Notes: Lineage from Jennie McCain to Hugh McCain Sr.
Miss Jennie McCain
John Melbourne McCain
William Madison McCain
John McCain
Hugh McCain Jr.
Hugh McCain Sr.


Research Notes

History of Hugh McCain

This is a great resource on Hugh McCain and his descendants. It notes that a son named Robert is not named and that more work needs to be done to confirm the line between Robert and Hugh.



Will of Hugh McCain [13]

Note that son Robert is not mentioned, probably because he predeceased him by 9 years.

In the Name of God Amen

I Hugh McCain of North Carolina Mecklenburg County planter Caling to Mind My Mortality & that it is appointed for all once to Die Concidering it to be My Duty to Settel My affairs Touching Worldly things – I Would do it in the following Maner – first that all My Just Debts & funeral Charges be paid I Give to My beloved Wife Jean My Negro Woman Named Pink During her Natural Life or Widowhood the Sd Negro not to be taken away & if She out Lives her mistres She is to have the priveldg to Chuse her Master – During the foreSd time My Wife to have her Living on My plantation one bed and Close Such as She Shal Chuse With all Close belonging to her I Give her My Sorel Mare & her Sadel two Cows such as She Shal Chuse Two Sheep all My household Furniture of evry kind horses cows sheep hogs plantation tools Waggon & Still to be Sold the money to be Divided between My Wife Seven Sons and one Daughter reference being had to the value of the Negros that fel to evry ones “Share by Lot the value Will Apeare in the Bils of Sales Given to themthe Sixth day of August 1805 by Me – I order thatmy plantation I now Live on be Divided between My two Sons James & Joseph McCain the Creek to be the line between them up to the Mouth of the Charaw Branch up Sd Branch to the line James to have the Where he now Lives Joseph the part Where I now Live I Give it to them and therne heirs I Do Apoint my Son Hugh McCain of North Carolina & Wm Nisbett of South Carolina Executors of the My Last Will and testament and I Do Disanul all former Wills and testaments before this time Named and I do ratify and Confirm this and No other to be my last Will and testatment Given under My hand this thirty first Day of December in the yeare 1805.

Signed Sealed and Delivered in the

Presence of us the Suscribing Witnes his

James Huey Jurat Hugh “X” McCain Hercules Huey Joseph M’Cain mark (Seal)

(NOTE: Copied as written. Grammar and spelling not corrected.)

Sources

  1. ↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Hugh McCain married Eleanor Nutt in 1747, Source number: 147.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: DPS. See: https://ancstry.me/2NaRLRF.
  2. ↑ "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGKK-Q7SN : 22 August 2019), Hugh McCain, 26 Jan 1786; citing Military Service, United States, Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 103140767.
  3. ↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2M-99B : accessed 2 November 2019), Hugh Mccain, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 382, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 7; FHL microfilm 568,147.
  4. ↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Hugh McCain married Jane Pickens Davis in 1790, Source: 82.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: DPS. See: https://ancstry.me/2WDo9zy.
  5. ↑ North Carolina Land Grants. Microfilm publication, 770 rolls. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina. High McCain Sr. issued land in Mecklenburg, North Carolina on 12 April 1798. Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Land Grant Files, 1693-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. See: https://ancstry.me/32ae7qo.
  6. ↑ "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRW-SBK : accessed 2 November 2019), Hugh Mccane, Salisbury, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 591, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 33; FHL microfilm 337,909.
  7. ↑ "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHL9-DVT : accessed 2 November 2019), Hugh Mccain, Capt Crages, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 476, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 42; FHL microfilm 337,915.
  8. ↑ "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHGH-8FP : accessed 2 November 2019), Hugh Mccain, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 196, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 84; FHL microfilm 162,800.
  9. ↑ "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KFSW-HK4 : 15 March 2018), Hugh (Sr) McCain, 1821; citing Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States, State Archives, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 2,020,633.
  10. ↑ "North Carolina, Historical Records Survey, Cemetery Inscription Card Index", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPRB-4767 : 16 October 2019), Hugh McCain, 1821.
  11. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 02 November 2019), memorial page for Hugh McCain (1729–26 Aug 1821), Find A Grave: Memorial #33237123, citing Tirzah Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Waxhaw, Union County, North Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Donna Ozenne (contributor 47091140).
  12. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 158 : 1920, Hugh McCain, born 1729 in Ireland, died 1821 in North Carolina, descendant Miss Jennie McCain. Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. See: https://ancstry.me/2oBvraa.
  13. ↑ Will of Hugh McCain, transcribed by Ancestry member djlukich, see: https://ancstry.me/2C6zVJi. No other source given.


Acknowledgments

Thanks to Brianne Rainey for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Brianne and others.





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McCain-587 and McCain-266 appear to represent the same person because: same find a grave on both profiles.
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[Living McCain]
Hugh McCain may have been born in the Marsh Creek settlement in Pennsylvania, west of the Susquehanna River. There is no original document which proves where he was born. On 5 Dec.1758 Hugh McCain witnessed a gift deed from William Nutt to his sons, John, William Jr., and Andrew Nutt. Eleanor Nutt, Hugh's his wife, retained the use of the home tract for the rest of her life. Recorded Anson County, NC. Deed Book 5, p. 305.

The Waxhaw settlement was originally located in Anson Co., which became Mecklenburg Co, then finally Union Co., NC.

posted on McCain-587 (merged) by [Living McCain]

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