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McMahans in the American South |
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MacMahans in Scotland and Noteworthy Laird s McMahans in the Thirteen Colonies and Early America, Including Tennessee, below the Mason Dickson Line. John and Jenny McMahan's Children Archibald and Ann Payne McMahan and Their Children Jessie and
Caroline Barrett McMahan and their Children
Other Descendents of John and Jenny
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John and Jenny Craig McMahan's Children We currently have no information on where or when any of John or Jenny's children were born except for Archibald. John and Jenny were married in 1740 and Archibald was born in 1761. The family narratives indicate that they were married either in Scotland, Ireland or Pennsylvania sometime around 1740, and that they made the voyage in 1740, the year of a severe famine in Ireland and Scotland. We assume Archibald was one of the younger children. We know that his sister
Jenny or Jane moved to Jackson County Georgia, and that his brother Alex went to
Indiana. We suspect that his sister, Lettie was married in Pennsylvania in 1760.
Brothers and Sisters Archibald McMahan's sister, Jennie McMahan was noted in family narratives as
marrying James Payne, the cousin of Archibald's wife, Ann Payne. there is a reference that James Payne married Jane Mahan on 13 April, 1785, and Moses Payne was the best man. James Payne was also mentioned as the best man at the marriage of Moses Payne to Mary Rogers on 4 February, 1784, and of William Payne's marriage to R. Murdock on 24 July, 1786. Archibald's mother was Jennie Craig McMahan. The name Jennie or Jenny was a nickname for Jane, and was often interchanged with Janet. Archibald was, at one time or another between 1775 and 1790, referred to as
Mahen Mahon and Mahan William McMahan One family narrative has William staying in Pennsylvania, one staying in North Carolina and another has him being killed in the Revolution. There was a William McMhann in Orange County in May of 1767 who served as a witness to a deed. This was in Eva Weeks Register of Deeds at the North Carolina State Library in Raleigh. In the land grants recorded in the N.C. Archives in Raleigh, a grant was issued to William McMan in November of 1790, as grant 1089 entry 168, book 75 (#2001 for reference) James McMahan There is no information on James. There was a James McMahan on the 1780 Orange District tax list, There was a James McMan listed as an Orange County tax payer in 1787, on Page 59 of the N.C. Geneological Society Publication in Raleigh James McMan was mentioned on October 1, 1793 as bordering a 100 ac. tract of land in Orange County on the waters of Back Creek There was an estate administration for James McMahan with the inventory of his belongings taking place on 25 November, 1793, Archives, Raleigh. John McMahan John is not mentioned in all versions of the family narrative. In one version it indicates that he moved to Tennessee. Looking for information on John is complicated by possibility of confusing references to John McMahan with that of his father. In all of the cases below, each could have been John the father or John the son. There was a John Mann on the Orange County 1780 tax list. (Archives, Raleigh) John Mann, on December 9, 1778, entered 320 ac in Orange County on the branches of the Haw River, bordering John Steel, Wm. Bradshaw, John Ubanks and John Grisham, including the improvements where Thomas Thompson and John Mann Live. John Mann is mentioned in a land transaction which took place on December 31, 1778 by John Grisham who entered 180 acres in Orange County on Motes Cr. And Woolf Br. of the Haw River which bordered John Steel, James Roach and John Mann John Mann is mentioned in a land transaction which took place on February 18, 1780 by John Thompson who entered 200 acres in Orange County on Motes Creek of the Haw River which bordered John Eubanks and John Mann. Alex McMahan Alex is mentioned in several family narratives as marrying Millie Huggins or Higgins from Grove Creek, SC and sometime afterwards moving to Indiana. Archibald moved to Grove Creek in time to be counted in the 1790 census, probably in 1789 after he sold his land in the Hawfields. Alex probably moved with Archibald, possibly with other brothers and sisters because Anne Payne McMahan mentioned in her pension application that Archibald's family were present at their wedding. Alex was probably married after 1790. Lettie Mahan A Lettie Mahan married Andrew Eaken, December 8, 1761 in Cumberland County, Pa. Bondsmen: James Eaken, James Pollock. Witnesses: Robert Callender, William Maclay. ( Cumberland County Pennsylvania Marriages, 1761-1800 p.624, Pa. Vital Records) It is speculation, but if this were John and Jenny's daughter, she would have
been around 21 years or younger. Cumberland is an adjacent county, the name
Lettie is somewhat unique, and her last name is the same as Archibald was using
later in North Carolina. Nellie McMahan There is no Information on Nellie, she may have moved to Grove Creek with
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