Glendenin-3 original profile - William may have been his father afterall

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"The Clendenin's, prominent early settlers of the Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Ohio rivers, came to the region from central Virginia. They were among the founders of Charleston and of Kanawha and Mason counties, and the Kanawha County town of Clendenin is named for them. Archibald and Charles Clendenin (Clendinen), possibly brothers, were the progenitors of the family in America.

Archibald lived on the Cowpasture River in what is now Bath County, Virginia, and never came to present West Virginia. He died in 1749, leaving a wife, daughter, and sons Archibald and John. John, the younger son, lived in present Monroe County before moving to Tennessee. Archibald Jr. was among the earliest settlers of present Greenbrier County. At his homestead, about two miles west of present Lewisburg, on July 15, 1763, he was among a number of settlers killed by a party of Shawnee led by Cornstalk. Wife Ann soon escaped the Indians and daughter Jane was released many years later, but two young children were killed during or after the raid."

Sources Clendenen, John F. & Harriet M. Clendenen. Charles Clendenin of Virginia: His parents, his son Alexander, some of Alexander Clendinen's descendant's vols. 1-4. San Luis Obispo, CA: Poor Richard's Press, 2000-2001. Handley, Harry H. The Clendenin Massacre. Journal of Greenbrier Historical Society, (1970). Cite This Article: Ratliff, Gerald S. "Clendenin Family." e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. 20 June 2012. Web. 13 September 2015.

From Twelve Virginia Counties: where the western migration began, pg. 371 The Scotch and Irish immigration to America followed the siege of Londonderry, the escape of King James to France, and the acceptance of the British throne by William and Mary. For fifty years there was an exodus of Presbyterians from Ireland to America, being lured to the new country where they might escape paying tithes to the Church of England. The Presbyterians were first to come into Augusta, and the Colonial government of Virginia, anxious to seat a white population west of the Blue Ridge, was lenient in enforcing the rules of the Established Church upon Presbyterians and other dissenters in the Valley. The Scotch-Irish migration to the Valley of Virginia was of transcendent importance. Most of these stern consenters were from Ulster, in the north of Ireland just across from Scotland.

Archibald Clendenin was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia. Archibald Clendenin lived on the lower Cowpasture (possibly near the Calfpasture) before his death in 1749, Archibald Clendenin, a son of William Glendenning, was born in Staplegorton parish near Langholm, Scotland about 1685 and died in Orange County VA in 1749.

Archibald Clendenin lived on the John Walker survey and was buried there in 1749. He left half the farm to his son, John, then about five years old, who later went to East Tennessee. The boy had a sister, Margaret, and James Burnside was a half-brother. Archibald, Jr . , a son by the first wife, moved to Greenbrier and was murdered by Indians in 1763. His wife was an Ewing. Five of his six children were also killed, but the wife escaped to the Cowpasture. George and Charles seem to have been other sons. The latter gave his name to the capital of West Virginia .

Meigs County, Tennessee, is named for Return Jonathan Meigs, a descendant of the Clendenin's.

Other Sources: Glendenning family Lines: Mary and Phillip Hoggat, Chrisby family tree - Family Search Books. Pg 8, 17, 20