Michael McGuire Junior (1717 - 1793)

Born 6 Dec 1717 in Taneytown, Carroll, Maryland

Ancestors

Husband of Rachel (Brown) McGuire — married 3 Oct 1766 in Taneytown, Frederick county, Maryland

Descendants

Died 17 Nov 1793 at age 75 in Allegheny, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Born

Michael McQuire Junior was born on 6 DEC 1717 at Taneytown, Carroll County, Maryland ^[1]

Military

During the Revolutionary War he served as a Captain from Maryland. Enlisted 9 Sep 1778. ^[2][3]

Residence

Michael McGuire was a noted trapper and hunter who frequently traveled from his home in Taneytown, Md. on expeditions far into the interior of Pennsylvania. On one of his trips, about the year 1768, he traveled the Kittaning or Indian Trail, crossed the Alleghenies and established his hunting camp near the present Chest Springs. This location was marked on an old draft of the country made in 1793, which labeled "Captain McGuire's Camp."

In 1788 Captain Michael McGuire, purchased about 1200 acres of land in the Allegheny Mountains, in present day Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Bringing his family from Maryland to a log cabin he built in the valley below the site of the present town of Loretto. As other settlers came to the area it became known as McGuire’s Settlement and was later called Clearfield.

The 1790 US Census reveals he resided in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. ^[4]

Death

Captain McGuire died in 1793, bequeathing to Bishop Carroll of the Catholic Church four hundred acres of his land in trust for the benefit of the resident clergy who, he hoped, would be appointed to provide for the spiritual wants of his growing colony. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Volume: 202
2. ↑ Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 The Flying Camp Battalion.
3. ↑ Ancestry.com Maryland Revolutionary War Records Publication
4. ↑ Year: 1790; Census Place: Huntingdon, Pennsylvania; Series: M637; Roll: 8; Page: 115; Image: 319; Family History Library Film: 0568148
5. ↑ Rev. Felix Brosius, S.J., once or twice visited McGuire's settlement from Conewago. On one of these visits he set apart a plot of ground, donated by Captain McGuire, and blest it for a cemetery although as yet unneeded. Captain Michael McGuire died November 17th, 1793, in the 76th year of his age, and was the first to be interred in the new cemetery. Wirtner, The Rev. Modestus. The Benedictine Fathers in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Gold Cross. 1925 [1]

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 September 2020), memorial page for CPT Michael McGuire (1717–17 Nov 1793), Find a Grave Memorial no. 19885416, citing Saint Michael Cemetery, Loretto, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by Kat (contributor 19409629) Find A Grave: Memorial #19885416.