Research Project

Robert McMahan 1760-1823

                                                                           
      Research to determine the parents, siblings (lineage) of Robert      
        McMahan of Virginia, Kentucky and Madison County, Illinois         
                                                                           
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Husband's Name   Robert McMahan                                            
 Born:           1760    Place: Virginia                                   
 Died:           1823    Place: Troy, Madison, Illinois                    
 Married:    Jun 1795    Place: St. Clair County, Illinois                 
 Father:                                                                   
 Mother:                                                                   
 Other Spouses:  Margaret Clark(e)                                         
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Wife's Name      Nancy Kester                                              
 Born:       abt 1777    Place: Kentucky                                   
 Died:                   Place:                                            
 Father:                                                                   
 Mother:                                                                   
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Children                                                                   
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 1. Sex Name                                                               
     M  Isaac Kester McMahan                                               
        Born:    29 Mar 1796    Place: On a raft (Ohio-Illinois)           
        Died:    08 Jan 1863    Place: Alton, Madison, Illinois            
        Married:                Place: Illinois                            
        Spouse:  Catherine .......                                         
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 2. Sex Name                                                               
     M  Robert McMahan (junior)                                            
        Born:    28 Dec 1797    Place: St. Clair County, Illinois          
        Died:    29 Oct 1872    Place: Scott County, Illinois              
        Married: 25 Feb 1818    Place: Madison County, Illinois            
        Spouse:  Nancy Conway                                              
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 3. Sex Name                                                               
     F  Rebecca McMahan                                                    
        Born:    04 May 1800    Place: Horse Prairie, Randolph, Illinois   
        Died:    09 Oct 1857    Place: Wolf Creek, Pike, Arkansas          
        Married: 14 Jun 1814    Place: Madison County, Illinois            
        Spouse:  William Kelley                                            
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 4. Sex Name                                                               
     M  Thomas "Stogden" (Stockton) McMahan                                
        Born:           1802    Place: Horse Prairie, Randolph, Illinois   
        Died:       aft 1854    Place: Madison County, Ill (last record of)
        Married:                Place: Madison County, Illinois            
        Spouse:  Nancy Harrington                                          
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 5. Sex Name                                                               
     F  Susanna (Susan) K. McMahan                                         
        Born:           1805    Place: Horse Prairie, Randolph, Illinois   
        Died:                   Place:                                     
        Married: 25 Dec 1827    Place: Madison County, Illinois            
        Spouse:  Creath Renfro                                             
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 6. Sex Name                                                               
     M  Nathaniel S. McMahan                                               
        Born:           1808    Place: St. Clair County, Illinois          
        Died:    02 Feb 1819    Place: Madison County, Illinois            
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 7. Sex Name                                                               
     M  George W. McMahan                                                  
        Born:           1810    Place: St. Clair County, Illinois          
        Died:    27 Apr 1840    Place: near Curtis' Mills, Clinton Co., Ill
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 8. Sex Name                                                               
     F  Nancy McMahan                                                      
        Born:    12 Mar 1812    Place: Madison County, Illinois            
        Died:    22 May 1877    Place:                                     
        Married: 13 Mar 1827    Place: Madison County, Illinois            
        Spouse:  Milton Hall                                               
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 9. Sex Name                                                               
     M  Jesse W. McMahan                                                   
        Born:           1813    Place: Madison County, Illinois            
        Died:           1857    Place:                                     
        Marr 1:  12 Jan 1840    Place: Morgan County, Illinois             
        Spouse:  Mary Johnson                                              
        Marr 2:  01 Jan 1843    Place: Scott County, Illinois              
        Spouse:  Mary S. Smith                                             
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10. Sex Name                                                               
     F  Emily McMahan                                                      
        Born:    26 Jul 1815    Place: Madison County, Illinois            
        Died:    13 Mar 1884    Place:                                     
        Married: 15 Dec 1836    Place: Illinois                            
        Spouse:  Samuel Caruthers                                          
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11. Sex Name                                                               
     F  Avaline McMahan                                                    
        Born:           1818    Place: Troy, Madison, Illinois             
        Died:    06 Dec 1878    Place:                                     
        Married: 08 Apr 1839    Place: St. Clair County, Illinois          
        Spouse:  James E. Clark                                            
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12. Sex Name                                                               
     F  Caroline McMahan                                                   
        Born:           1821    Place: Troy, Madison, Illinois             
        Died:                   Place:                                     
        Marr 1:  31 Dec 1840    Place: Madison County, Illinois            
        Spouse:  Phillip W. Moore                                          
        Marr 2:                 Place:                                     
        Spouse:  Andrew Harvey                                             
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Husband's Name   Robert McMahan                                            
 Born:           1760    Place: Virginia                                   
 Died:           1823    Place: Troy, Madison, Illinois                    
 Married: 29 Jun 1785    Place: Crab Orchard, Lincoln, Kentucky (bond)     
 Father:                                                                   
 Mother:                                                                   
 Other Spouses:  Nancy Kester                                              
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Wife's Name      Margaret Clark(e)                                         
 Born:                   Place:                                            
 Died:    26 Jan 1795    Place: near New Design Station, Monroe, Illinois  
 Father:         William Clark(e)                                          
 Mother:                                                                   
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Children                                                                   
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 1. Sex Name                                                               
     F  Sarah (Sally) McMahan                                              
        Born:    09 Mar 1786    Place: Lincoln County, Kentucky            
        Died:    23 Jan 1850    Place: Alton, Madison, Illinois            
        Married:                Place:                                     
        Spouse:  David Gaskill                                             
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 2. Sex Name                                                               
     M  child McMahan                                                      
        Born:       Abt 1788    Place: Kentucky                            
        Died:    26 Jan 1795    Place: near New Design Station, Monroe, Ill
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 3. Sex Name                                                               
     F  child McMahan                                                      
        Born:       Abt 1790    Place: Kentucky                            
        Died:    26 Jan 1795    Place: near New Design Station, Monroe, Ill
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 4. Sex Name                                                               
     F  child McMahan                                                      
        Born:       Abt 1792    Place: Kentucky                            
        Died:    26 Jan 1795    Place: near New Design Station, Monroe, Ill
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 5. Sex Name                                                               
     F  infant McMahan                                                     
        Born:           1794    Place: near New Design Station, Monroe, Ill
        Died:    26 Jan 1795    Place: near New Design Station, Monroe, Ill
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New Design Station (fort-stockade) was located in St. Clair (now) Monroe   
County, Illinois in 1795. The McMahan house was situated within the        
northeast quarter of section nineteen, township three south, range nine    
west. Monroe County was created January 6, 1816 from Randolph and St. Clair
counties, Illinois.                                                        
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SMITH CEMETERY                                                             
                                                                           
Smith Cemetery is located west of Alsey in southwestern Scott County,      
Illinois, near the blacktop road between Glasgow and Alsey. Jacob Smith    
received the land in a grant from the government in 1832 when the area was 
still a part of Morgan County. In 1852 Jacob Smith conveyed the farm land  
around the cemetery to George G. Smith "excepting 2 rods square including  
burying yard on said land." In 1976 a 4-H club, the Alsey Youth            
Corporation, undertook the project of restoring the long neglected         
cemetery. This was accomplished under the leadership of Mrs. George (Carol)
Cooper. A re-dedication ceremony was held on Sunday, Oct. 31, 1976. Former 
State Representative G. William Horsley of Springfield, an authority on    
Abraham Lincoln, gave the dedicatory address. He was driven from Alsey to  
the cemetery in a buggy escorted by the 7th Cavalry Reactivated which also 
gave a demonstration of Civil War drills. The listing of tombstone readings
given here was made by Mrs. Edna McMahan Secrest and her husband, Elvin    
(Al) R. Secrest, in August of 1978.                                        
                                                                           
List of Known Burials                                                      
                                                                           
ALLEN, Caroline                                                            
Died 2 Oct 1854                                                            
Age 16 Yr 5 Mo 16 Da                                                       
                                                                           
ARNOLD, Infant Son                                                         
of W.M. and D. Arnold                                                      
Died 22 Feb 1866                                                           
Age 1 Mo 2 Da                                                              
                                                                           
Scott County, Illinois Marriage Licenses 28 March 1839-30 December 1899,   
page 9, by Edna McMahan Secrest, show that William M. Arnold and Dorcas    
Hankins were married on March 24, 1842.                                    
                                                                           
SMITH, David                                                               
Died 23 Apr 1857                                                           
Age 33 Yr 1 Mo 12 Da                                                       
                                                                           
SMITH, James J.                                                            
Died 11 July 1884                                                          
Age 67 Yr 5 Mo 20 Da                                                       
                                                                           
SMITH, Rebecca Ann                                                         
Wife of J.J. Smith                                                         
                                                                           
She married James J. Smith on June 30, 1842. Mr. and Mrs. Elvin R. Secrest 
did not find a marker ... but they have a copy of her obituary - name and  
date of newspaper unknown - which reads: "MRS. REBECCA ANN SMITH, nee      
MCMAHAN, one of the pioneer residents of Scott Co., Ill., died at the home 
of her daughter Mrs. Maria Roberts, 23 Sept. 1912 at the age of 77 years 4 
months and 21 days. She was married to James J. Smith 30 June 1842, and    
they were the parents of four children two boys and two girls three of whom
are still living, Mrs. Maria Roberts of Alsey, Mrs. George H. Roney of East
St. Louis and Joseph Smith of Canton, Ill. Grandma Smith as she was        
familiarly called, spent the last nine years of her life at the home of her
daughter Mrs. Maria Roberts of Alsey, where she had the faithful and       
consistent care of her daughter and family, till the end came which was    
faithful and full of faith. She was the last of the charter members of the 
Big Spring Baptist Church, having made a profession of faith in Christ in  
early life and continued a consistent life till the master called her home.
She rests from her labors and her works do follow her. The funeral services
was held from the Baptist church in Alsey, 25 Sept. 1912, conducted by Rev.
W.E. Vaughn of Carlinville. Interment was in the Smith Cemetery."          
                                                                           
Her parents were Robert and Nancy (Conway) McMahan.                        
                                                                           
SMITH, Rachel                                                              
Died 21 Feb 1838                                                           
Age 52 Yr                                                                  
Wife of Jacob Smith                                                        
                                                                           
Her tombstone was repaired during the 1976 restoration of the cemetery.    
                                                                           
SMTIH, William                                                             
Co. F 61 Ill. Inf.                                                         
                                                                           
SMITH, William H.                                                          
Son of J.J. and R.A. Smith                                                 
Died at Franklin, Tenn.                                                    
May 28, 1865                                                               
aged 17 Yr 7 Mo 16 Da (no marker)                                          
                                                                           
WHALEN, America J.                                                         
Died 18 Sept 1858                                                          
Age 15 Yr 4 Mo 23 Da                                                       
Dau of H. ?. and S. Whalen                                                 
Badly shattered, monument repaired in 1976.                                
                                                                           
Infant Son of H. and S. Whalen (no further inscription)                    
                                                                           
WHALEN, Nancy M.                                                           
Died 21 Oct 1850                                                           
Age 2 Yr 4 Mo 23 Da                                                        
Dau of H. and S. Whalen                                                    
                                                                           
WHALEN, William H.                                                         
Died 30 Mar 1853                                                           
Age 2 Yr 1 Mo 25 Da                                                        
                                                                           
WHALEN, Sarah G.                                                           
Died 20 Mar 1854                                                           
Age 37 Yr 7 Mo 22 Da                                                       
                                                                           
DV (Footstone)                                                             
                                                                           
JY (Footstone)                                                             
                                                                           
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilscott/cemeteries/Smith.txt                      
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1860 United States Federal Census                                          
                                                                           
Name: Ann McMahan                                                          
Age in 1860: 85                                                            
Birth Year: abt 1775                                                       
Birthplace: Kentucky                                                       
Home in 1860: Township 3 Range 7, Madison, Illinois                        
Gender: Female                                                             
Post Office: Troy                                                          
                                                                           
Household Members: Name Age                                                
                                                                           
Geo G Smith      41                                                        
Catherine Smith  37                                                        
Mary Dixen       13                                                        
Martha Smith      2                                                        
Ann McMahan      85                                                        
                                                                           
Page No. 27                                                                
                                                                           
Schedule No. 1 - Free inhabitants in Township 3 N. 7 W. in the County of   
Madison, State of Illinois enumerated by me on the 12 day of June, 1860.   
(blank), Ass't Marshal. Post Office: Troy                                  
                                                                           
Line 20-20 | Dwelling 193 | Family 190 (James Purviance)      Birthplace   
                                                                           
George Churchhill     70  M  Farm Laborer                     Vermont      
                                                                           
Line 32-36 | Dwelling 195 | Family 192                        Birthplace   
                                                                           
Geo. G. Smith         41  M  Farmer             1200  200     Kentucky     
Catherine  "          37  F  House Keeper                     Illinois     
Mary Dixen            13  F                                       "        
Martha Smith           2  F                                       "        
Ann McMahan           85  F                                   Kentucky     
                                                                           
Census Year: 1860; Census Place: Township 3 Range                          
7, Madison, Illinois; Roll: M653-208; Page: 27.                            
                                                                           
Notes: Illinois Marriages, 1790-1860, Name: Catharine McMahan, Spouse:     
Patrick Henry Dixon, Date: 3 Jun 1846, County: Madison, State: Illinois,   
Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah Microfilm: 1306457    
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THE GASKILL FAMILY: ONE LINE OF DESCENDANTS OF                             
EDWARD GASKILL OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, SINCE 1636                         
                                                                           
by Gussie Esther Gaskill (excerpts)                                        
                                                                           
Most of the Gaskills in this country are descended from Edward, a ship     
carpenter who had a grant of 20 acres of land in Salem in 1636. This is the
history of one line of his descendants, compiled by a female descendant of 
the tenth generation. This line is                                         
                                                                           
 1. Edward and Sarah                                                       
 2. Samuel and Provided Southwick                                          
 3. Samuel and Bethiah Woodin                                              
 4. Jonathan and Alice Pickering                                           
 5. Silas and Sarah Jillson                                                
 6. David and Sarah McMahan                                                
 7. Joseph and Mahala Riggin                                               
 8. Sylvester and Mary Elizabeth Tenison                                   
 9. Terry and Eva Edna Worswick                                            
10. Gussie Esther Gaskill                                                  
                                                                           
Illinois Gaskills: David Gaskill's nephew Sylvanus, son of Wilder, settled 
near David in Madison County, Illinois, and many of his descendants have   
lived in that area, including St. Louis, Missouri, ever since.             
                                                                           
David Gaskill arrived in Troy, Illinois, in 1804. Not long afterward he met
and married Sarah McMahan. Sarah (Sally) McMahan was the daughter of Robert
McMahan, a native of Augusta County, Virginia, who had emigrated to        
Kentucky after the Revolution. He married Margaret Clark at Crab Orchard,  
Kentucky, on June 29, 1785. In 1793, he moved his family to Illinois and   
settled near New Design, in the present Monroe County, one of the earliest 
American settlements in Illinois.                                          
                                                                           
For a year or more, the family lived in a house belonging to James Lemen at
a station or fortified place, with other early settlers, for protection.   
Then in January 1795, they moved to a cabin McMahan had built on their own 
land, about three miles from the station and out of sight of any other     
house. Only two or three days later they were attacked by four marauding   
Indians from northern Illinois. The mother and four young children,        
including a tiny baby, were killed. Sally, the eldest, who was not quite   
nine, and her father were taken captive and forced to go north with their  
captors.                                                                   
                                                                           
Robert McMahan managed to escape the second night and make his way back to 
find his family all dead and buried by shocked neighbors in a common grave.
Sally was taken north to the home of the Pottawatomies, southwest of Lake  
Michigan where she was turned over to an Ottawa Indian chief.              
                                                                           
In 1795, General Anthony Wayne won a great victory over the Indians in     
Ohio, and this was followed by the Treaty of Greenville, under which the   
Indians agreed to return all their white captives. In April 1796, the      
Ottawa chief, Suk-ko-nok, took Sally by canoe down the Illinois and        
Mississippi Rivers to Cahokia, where he delivered her to the white people. 
                                                                           
Her father remarried, moved to Ridge Prairie, southwest of Troy, in Madison
County, and raised a large family. It was there that Sally met and married 
David Gaskill, and there that they lived until his death in 1842.          
                                                                           
Various accounts of the McMahan massacre have been published in Illinois   
histories, but the best and most accurate is that of George Churchill, who 
had been for years a neighbor of the McMahans and Gaskills on Ridge        
Prairie. His account was read before the Troy Lyceum in 1855 and was       
published in A Gazetteer of Madison County (Alton, Hair, 1866), pp. 248-   
252.                                                                       
                                                                           
When I was a little girl with reddish hair my grandfather told me about his
grandmother Sally who had been taken captive by Indians and her family     
killed. He said I got my red hair from her, that it was because of her red 
hair that the Indians had taken her captive instead of killing her too.    
                                                                           
David and Sally had thirteen children, five sons and eight daughters. But  
of the sons, only Joseph E., their second child, married and had children. 
The oldest child was a daughter, Cynthia, who married Ebenezer Pickering   
when she was only sixteen or so. She was dead when her father died in 1842,
and her mother's will, 1850, lists Susan, Hannah, and James Pickering,     
children of her deceased daughter Cynthia, among her heirs.                
                                                                           
Of the sons, Robert was killed at age 14. William and Samuel Parker (called
Parker) were living when their mother died in 1850, but they died,         
unmarried, not many years after-ward. Joseph died too, in 1852, of         
"consumption."                                                             
                                                                           
Two daughters, Katharine and Elizabeth, died before their mother. The other
children were two pairs of twin daughters, Fanny C. and Julia Ann, being   
the elder, and Lucy and Phoebe, the second pair, and David and Mary Ann,   
the two youngest children. David died unmarried in Alton early in 1851.    
Julia Ann married William W. Fairbanks in 1844, and Fanny C., who was      
administratrix of her mother's estate, married Robert W. Kennedy in 1850.  
Lucy married Williamson Jones, and Mary Ann married Oscard Gifford in 1855.
                                                                           
Sally moved to Alton after David's death and lived there until she died.   
Joseph had settled near Marine, also in Madison County, but several miles  
from Ridge Prairie about the time he was married.                          
                                                                           
After David's death in 1842, his land and other property on Ridge Prairie  
was gradually sold and the family left Ridge Prairie for Alton and         
elsewhere. Fanny asked to be replaced as administratrix of her mother's    
estate after she married and was moving out of Madison County. William died
in New Orleans in 1851 and Mary Ann and her husband, Oscar Gifford, whom   
she married in 1855, moved eventually to Kansas.                           
                                                                           
Joseph is the only one of David and Sally's children whose death was       
attributed to consumption (tuberculosis) in the records we have, but was it
the cause of the early death of others of their children? The last death   
attributed to consumption was that of Joseph's younger son by Mahala       
Riggin, Seth, but his four children by Lucinda Smart all died young. Did   
they have consumption too?                                                 
                                                                           
Joseph E. Gaskill was born in Illinois in 1806, married Mahala Riggin on   
March 13, 1828. They had three daughters and two sons, the elder of whom   
was Sylvester H. The younger was Seth W., born in 1838, who died unmarried 
in 1866. The three daughters were Harriet Ann, Lucinda and Ellen. Joseph   
and Mahala had settled before 1830 on a farm in Marine, Illinois, Madison  
County, near Albert Riggin, presumably Mahala's brother. Mahala died in    
1838 when Seth was born, and then Joseph married Lucinda Smart. They had   
four children, who all died young. When Joseph died in 1852, he owned a    
grocery store in Alton. Mahala's daughter, Harriet Ann, had married William
H. Owen or Owens, and Lucinda had married Dr. James Peterson before they   
both moved with their families to Kansas where they lived the rest of their
lives. Ellen and Seth W. died in Marine.                                   
                                                                           
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Contact: John James Henry (jhenry05@comcast.net)                           
                                                                           
ID: I03684                                                                 
Name: John MCMAHAN                                                         
Sex: M                                                                     
Birth: ABT 1731 in County Meath, Ireland                                   
Death: 1783 in Montgomery Co., VA                                          
                                                                           
Note: John planned to go with the Shields families (his wife's sister was  
Nancy Stockton, Robert Shields' wife) and his brother Archibald to         
Tennessee, but died soon after the plans were finished. His wife Deborah   
and their younger children went to TN with the Shields in 1785.            
                                                                           
Father: Robert MCMAHAN b: 1706 in Ireland                                  
Mother: Catherine BRYAN b: 1709 in Ireland                                 
                                                                           
Marriage 1 Deborah STOCKTON b: 1733 in Augusta Co., VA                     
                                                                           
ID: I03556                                                                 
Name: Deborah STOCKTON                                                     
Sex: F                                                                     
Birth: 1733 in Augusta Co., VA                                             
Death: AFT 1795 in Sevier Co., TN                                          
                                                                           
Note:                                                                      
                                                                           
Deborah McMahan and some of her children made the trip to Shield's Station,
Sevier Co., TN in 1785, shortly after John died. Her son James was         
prominent as Sevier County's Register of Deeds in 1796-1800. However her   
older sons William and John Jr. must have remained on Montgomery Co., VA.  
Whether Robert came to Sevier Co. or stayed in Virginia is not known.      
                                                                           
Married: BEF 1852 in Augusta Co., VA                                       
                                                                           
Children                                                                   
                                                                           
1. Nancy MCMAHAN b: 1752 in Augusta (now Montgomery) Co., VA               
2. William MCMAHAN b: 1754 in Augusta (now Montgomery) Co., VA             
3. John MCMAHAN b: 1755 in Augusta (now Montgomery) Co., VA                
                                                                           
ID: I10108                                                                 
Name: John MCMAHAN                                                         
Sex: M                                                                     
Birth: 1755 in Augusta (now Montgomery) Co., VA                            
Death: 1837 in Warren Co., KY                                              
                                                                           
Marriage 1 Rosannah HARDIN                                                 
Married: ABT 1785 in Montgomery Co., VA                                    
                                                                           
Child                                                                      
                                                                           
Rosana MCMAHAN b: 4 OCT 1789 in Montgomery Co., VA                         
                                                                           
4. Robert MCMAHAN b: 1762 in Augusta (now Montgomery) Co., VA              
5. James MCMAHAN b: 1768 in Augusta (now Montgomery) Co., VA               
                                                                           
ID: I10114                                                                 
Name: James MCMAHAN                                                        
Sex: M                                                                     
Birth: 1768 in Augusta (now Montgomery) Co., VA                            
Death: AFT 1840 in Sevier Co., TN                                          
                                                                           
Note:                                                                      
                                                                           
James McMan (McMahan) had a Land Grant for 428 acres in Sevier County and  
his land included most of the center of downtown Sevierville today. He was 
Sevier County's second Register of Deeds after statehood. (Sources: "In The
Shadow Of The Smokies", SMHS, 1993, p80; Goodspeed, "History of East       
Tennessee", 1887 reprinted 1972, p836-7.) Goodspeed on p836 says James     
McMahan was Register in 1795 but on page 837 says he became Register in    
1796. James is sometimes confused with his cousin, James McMahan, the son  
of Archibald.                                                              
                                                                           
6. Mary MCMAHAN b: 1770 in Augusta (now Montgomery) Co., VA                
7. Elizabeth MCMAHAN b: 1771 in Augusta (now Montgomery) Co., VA           
                                                                           
ID: I06114                                                                 
Name: Nancy STOCKTON                                                       
Sex: F                                                                     
Birth: 1745 in Albemarle Co., VA                                           
Death: 1805 in Middle Creek, Sevier Co., TN                                
Burial: Middle Creek Methodist Church, Sevier Co., TN                      
                                                                           
Marriage 1 Robert SHIELDS b: 9 NOV 1740 in , Augusta Co., VA               
Married: ABT 1761 in , Augusta or Rockbridge Co., VA                       
                                                                           
Children                                                                   
                                                                           
Janet SHIELDS b: 7 MAR 1762 in Augusta Co., VA                             
Thomas SHIELDS b: 1763 in Augusta Co., VA                                  
Richard SHIELDS b: 4 JUL 1764 in Augusta Co., VA                           
David SHIELDS b: 1766 in Augusta Co., VA                                   
William SHIELDS b: 4 JUL 1768 in Augusta Co., VA                           
John SHIELDS b: 1769 in Augusta Co., VA                                    
James SHIELDS b: 10 MAR 1770 in Augusta Co., VA                            
Robert SHIELDS b: 1772 in Harrisonburg, Botetourt Co., VA                  
Joseph SHIELDS b: 17 MAR 1775 in Harrisonburg, Botetourt Co., VA           
Benjamin SHIELDS b: 1780 in Harrisonburg, Botetourt Co., VA                
Jesse SHIELDS b: 10 MAR 1782 in Harrisonburg, Botetourt Co., VA            
                                                                           
ID: I06113                                                                 
Name: Robert SHIELDS                                                       
Sex: M                                                                     
Birth: 9 NOV 1740 in Augusta Co., VA                                       
Death: 18 JAN 1802 in Middle Creek, Sevier Co., TN                         
Burial: Middle Creek Methodist Church, Sevier Co., TN                      
                                                                           
Note:                                                                      
                                                                           
Robert Shields was a Private in Frances Lang's company of the Shenandoah   
Co., Militia during the American Revolution. In 1781, Robert bought land on
Smith Creek (in Augusta, now Rockbridge, Co., VA), and as an heir to his   
brother, John, of Botetourt Co., VA he conveyed land to William Shields in 
1782. John A. Shields says that Robert and his sons left Virginia because  
they could not compete with the slave-owning-plantations and, as Irishmen, 
didn't believe owning slaves was morally right. In truth, hard times       
following the Revolution may have forced them to seek greener pastures in  
the wilderness. In 1784, Robert Shields bought land from the Watauga       
Association (Landon Carter in Washington Co NC (now TN) on Middle Creek    
which was then in Greene Co., NC and is now in Sevier Co., TN. He and three
of his married sons accompanied by Archibald McMahan and another McMahan   
family then went to their newly purchased land and established Shield's    
Station in the valley of Middle Creek, near Shield's Mountain. It took     
nearly 4 years to complete the fort and the men were separated from their  
wives and smaller children for about a year while they completed the       
initial structures. They were among the first settlers south of the French 
Broad River in Tennessee, having purchased their land about a year before  
the Treaty of Dumplin opened this land to Settlers. The fort was enclosed  
by a palisade of pointed logs on a rectangular plot of about 1/4 acre and  
inside this they built a long single log dwelling for all six families. It 
was a log structure with a common kitchen at one end and a living room at  
the other. In between these were rooms for the individual families. Inside 
the palisade there was also a well and two log barns for the animals. They 
were about 12 miles from the main Indian road, so they were rarely bothered
by Indian attacks, though many small skirmishes occurred and Thomas Shields
was almost killed by Indians in 1793. The Shields and McMahans lived in    
this communal setting until about 1800 when most of them built separate    
homes on their own land and only the Robert Shields family remained in the 
Station by 1804.                                                           
                                                                           
Father: John SHIELDS b: 1709 in Lancaster, Chester Co., PA                 
Mother: Margaret PERRY b: ABT 1715 in Chester Co., PA                      
                                                                           
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RICHARD STOCKTON was born 1710, and died July 21, 1775 in Albemarle County,
Virginia. He married AGNES ANN ANTHONY, 1732, in Goochland County,         
Virginia, daughter of JOSEPH ANTHONY.                                      
                                                                           
Notes for RICHARD STOCKTON:                                                
                                                                           
29 Mar. 1749, Richard annexed 12 Shillings to the Orthodox Reformed        
Presbyterian Church.                                                       
                                                                           
Richard Stockton lived at fork of Mechum's River, near the old Black place,
in fact, that was a part of his land, he and his wife Agnes having sold 400
acres to Rev. Samuel Black in 1751.                                        
                                                                           
Obtained a grant of 400 acres in Albemarle County on 23 July 1754 and other
grants later.                                                              
                                                                           
Augusta Co., VA Court Records, Order Book No. VII, 20 Nov. 1761, pg. 133:  
John McMahon and Richd. Stockdon (sic), bail for Robt. McMahon.            
                                                                           
Patented 200 a. of land on the N. Fork of Mechum's River, Albemarle Co.,   
VA. Patent Book #54, 1756-1762, Pg. 60.                                    
                                                                           
His will was dated 21 July 1775 and proved in October 1775. His will read: 
                                                                           
In the Name of God, Amen. I, Richard Stockton, of Albemarle County and     
parish of St. Annes, being sick of body, but of sound and perfect memory,  
do constitute this to be my last will and testament. That is to say, I     
bequeath my soul to the lord that gave it to me, trusting in his mercies   
that he will preserve it again, and as for my worldly goods, I bequeath as 
in form and manner following:                                              
                                                                           
     Unto my son Thomas Stockton, five shillings sterling.                 
     Unto my son John Stockton, five shillings sterling.                   
     Unto my son Robert Stockton, five shillings sterling.                 
     Unto my son David Stockton, five shillings sterling.                  
     And to every one of my daughters, five shillings apiece.              
                                                                           
I bequeath unto my son Richard Stockton my land and Negro Simon, after his 
mother's death, and all the rest of my goods after my just debts are paid I
bequeath unto my well beloved wife and that (they) be at her disposing     
after my death.                                                            
                                                                           
I appoint Alexander Black and John Dollings to be my executors.            
                                                                           
                    July 21st, 1775                                        
                    Richard (his X mark) Stockton (L.S.)                   
                    John Davis                                             
                    Francis Davis                                          
                    Lucy Davis                                             
                                                                           
At Albemarle October Court 1775, the will was presented and proved by the  
oath of John Davis and Francis Davis, two witnesses hereto and ordered to  
be recorded. Teste.                                                        
                                                                           
                    John Nicholas, Clerk.                                  
                                                                           
More About RICHARD STOCKTON and AGNES ANTHONY:                             
                                                                           
Marriage: 1732, Goochland County, Virginia                                 
                                                                           
Children of RICHARD STOCKTON and AGNES ANTHONY:                            
                                                                           
   i.   DEBORAH STOCKTON, b. Abt. 1733, Orange County, Virginia; d. (in)   
        Sevier County, Tennessee; m. JOHN MCMAHAN, Bef. 1752; b. 1731,     
        Orange County, Virginia; d. 1784, Augusta County, Virginia.        
                                                                           
        Notes for DEBORAH STOCKTON:                                        
                                                                           
        Deborah McMahan and at least some of her children made the trip    
        to Tennessee with the Shields family. John McMahan had died in     
        Virginia.                                                          
                                                                           
        Notes for JOHN MCMAHAN:                                            
                                                                           
        Augusta Co., VA Court Records, Order Book No. VII, 20 Nov. 1761,   
        pg. 133: John McMahon and Richd. Stockdon (sic), bail for Robt.    
        McMahon.                                                           
                                                                           
        More About JOHN MCMAHAN and DEBORAH STOCKTON:                      
        Marriage: Bef. 1752                                                
                                                                           
  ii.   ELIZABETH STOCKTON, d. Aft. 1816, Surry County, North Carolina;    
        m. LT. THOMAS LOCKHART, Abt. 1747, around Albemarle County,        
        Virginia; b. Abt. 1705; d. Bef. May 30, 1791, Henry County,        
        Virginia.                                                          
                                                                           
        Notes for ELIZABETH STOCKTON:                                      
                                                                           
        Julia Wood shows Elizabeth as born abt 1749, died aft 24 NOV       
        1790, Henry County, Virginia.                                      
                                                                           
        More About THOMAS LOCKHART and ELIZABETH STOCKTON:                 
                                                                           
        Marriage: Abt. 1747, around Albemarle County, Virginia             
                                                                           
 iii.   NANCY STOCKTON, b. Abt. 1739, Goochland County, Virginia; d. Abt.  
        1805, Sevier County, Tennessee; m. ROBERT SHIELDS, 1761,           
        Harrisonburg, Virginia; b. July 04, 1744, Harrisonburg, Virginia.  
                                                                           
        Notes for NANCY STOCKTON:                                          
                                                                           
        Description: Gravestone says "In memory of Nancy, wife of Robert   
        Shields, Daughter of Richard & Agnes Stockton Shields, came to     
        Sevier Co. in 1784"                                                
                                                                           
        Bill Navey gives Nancy's birth date as 1749                        
                                                                           
        More About NANCY STOCKTON:                                         
                                                                           
        Burial: Middle Creek Cemetery, near Sevierville, Tennessee         
                                                                           
        Notes for ROBERT SHIELDS:                                          
                                                                           
        Christine Brown says Robert was born Nov 9 1749 near Harrisburg,   
        Virginia.                                                          
                                                                           
        Robert Shields was a private in Francis Lang's Company in Rev War  
        Christine Brown says he was a captain.                             
                                                                           
        John A. Shields put Robert's birth at 1740. He says there were 11  
        sons, one died in infancy. Another source says that there were 12  
        sons and 2 died in infancy.                                        
                                                                           
        Court records indicate that Robert acquired land in 1781 on Smith  
        Creek, a branch of the Calf-Pasture River in Augusta and           
        Rockbridge Counties, Virginia. As heir to his brother John of      
        Botetourt County, Robert conveyed land to William Shields in 1782. 
                                                                           
        John Shields says the family settled in the western wilderness     
        near Pigeon Forge because the government of North Carolina was     
        offering cheap land and tax exemptions and because the were        
        pressed in Virginia by high taxes, poor markets, ruinous           
        competition of slave-labor plantations (the Shields were not slave 
        holders), hard times and increasing needs of a large family.       
        Daniel Boone, described as a kinsman, and other hunters and        
        explorers had brought back glowing accounts of the fertility of    
        the land, abundance of game and beauty of the country, all of      
        which was added to by accounts of the eldest son, Thomas, who had  
        spent three years exploring the unsettled region of East Tennessee.
                                                                           
        In 1784, the Shields and McMahan families (Mrs. Deborah McMahan    
        was Nancy Stockman's recently widowed sister) loaded their         
        possessions in three wagons and embarked on the long trail down    
        the Shenandoah Valley. At Big Lick (Roanoke), the party divided.   
        One wagon, in charge of Robert's son James, 13 with Nancy, Janet   
        and the smaller Shields boys, went to Yadkin Settlement in North   
        Carolina, where they remained with Robert's cousins a year before  
        proceeding to Tennessee. The other two wagons proceeded as far as  
        the settlement on the Watauga where the McMahan and Thomas' and    
        Richard's wives remained until the following year. In 1785, the    
        McMahans and the Yadkin party of the Shields family went on with   
        the pack animals via the old Traders Trail.                        
                                                                           
        At the Watauga Land Office, Robert Shields bought a tract of land  
        on Middle Creek, a tributary of the Little Pigeon River in what is 
        now Sevier County, Tennessee. This was far beyond the most remote  
        frontier settlements. The most remote settlement up until then was 
        at Big Island in the French Broad River, about 20 miles northeast  
        of Robert's land. From Watauga to Middle Creek was about 100 miles 
        as the crow flies and more than 200 miles by the pack-animal trail 
        or 150 miles via forest footpaths.                                 
                                                                           
        In 1784, Robert and his five older sons, carrying on their backs   
        such scanty equipment as was absolutely required, proceeded on     
        foot by mountain paths known by Thomas. They often traveled for    
        days without seeing a settler's cabin. Once, two Indians with      
        flintlocks and tomahawks stalked them. Thomas, becoming aware of   
        the lurking danger, took two long-rifles, going some distance      
        ahead of the others, and hid until the trailing Indians passed     
        him. He killed them both.                                          
                                                                           
        After about two weeks, they reached the mouth of the Little        
        Pigeon River. Leaving the regular trail, they turned south up      
        that stream to their new location. On what is now the old T.D.     
        McMahan place on Middle Creek, a branch of the Little Pigeon       
        River, they built a temporary cabin at the foot of Shields         
        Mountain, started a clearing and began erection of Shields fort.   
                                                                           
        On the frontier, a fort was a prime necessity for protection       
        from hostile Indians. Following the Revolution, Spain claimed the  
        land west of the Alleghenies and bitterly opposed settlement from  
        the United States. The Spanish incited the Indians, especially the 
        Cherokees, offering large bounties for white settlers' scalps.     
        Some accounts say that between 1780 and 1795 half of the male      
        settlers were killed by Indians.                                   
                                                                           
        Shields Fort, when completed was 16x100 feet with low ceilings     
        and attics. It was constructed of heavy logs with a fireplace at   
        each end. There were four outside doors, several small window      
        openings without glass and numerous portholes with convenient      
        places upstairs and down. The original building contained living   
        quarters for six families with a large common kitchen at one end   
        and a common living room at the other. The building was in the     
        midst of an oblong yard of about a quarter-acre, surrounded by     
        walls 12 feet high. The walls consisted of double rows of logs     
        standing on end, closely spaced and sharpened at the top and       
        fastened together with wooden pins. A high sentry box at each end  
        of the stockade gave a commanding view of the clearing for several 
        acres. The spring was within the enclosure, as were stables for    
        the stock and all the other buildings.                             
                                                                           
        It took nearly four years to complete the original structure. It   
        was in this fort that Robert Shields lived with his children and   
        grandchildren for almost 20 years. Seven of his sons brought their 
        brides to the fort. As the family grew, the size of the stockade   
        increased. Eventually, the McMahan and some of the Shields boys    
        moved into their own separate quarters nearby.                     
                                                                           
        John A. Shields says Robert and Nancy Shields died at the fort     
        about 1805 and were buried in unmarked graves on a nearby hillside.
        In 1976, the Spencer Clark Chapter of the DAR marked Robert and    
        Nancy's graves, which are now part of a small cemetery at the rear 
        of Middle Creek Methodist Church. Other members of the Shields and 
        McMahan families are buried there as well.                         
                                                                           
        More About ROBERT SHIELDS and NANCY STOCKTON:                      
                                                                           
        Marriage: 1761, Harrisonburg, Virginia                             
                                                                           
  iv.   THOMAS STOCKTON, b. Abt. 1740; m. MARY GOLDEN, October 28, 1775;   
        b. Abt. 1742.                                                      
                                                                           
        More About THOMAS STOCKTON and MARY GOLDEN:                        
                                                                           
        Marriage: October 28, 1775                                         
                                                                           
   v.   JOHN STOCKTON, b. Bef. 1741, New Jersey; d. Abt. 1810, Pittsylvania
        County, Virginia; m. MARY MORTON11; d. Aft. 1811.                  
                                                                           
        Notes for JOHN STOCKTON:                                           
                                                                           
        John Stockton was a signer of the Albemarle Declaration of         
        Independence.                                                      
                                                                           
        John and Mary "Polly" Stockton were on record in Pittsylvania      
        County as early as 24 August 1775, when Thomas Herget of           
        Pittsylvania County granted power of attorney to John (Index to    
        Wills and Deeds, 1767-1848, Vol. 4, p. 157).                       
                                                                           
        On 26 Nov. 1777, John Davis of Henry County sold John Stockton     
        500 acres in the Commonwealth of Virginia and on Turkey Cock       
        Creek in consideration of 250 pounds "current money" (Pittsylvania 
        County Deeds and Wills 1767-1780, Vol. 5, p. 2).                   
                                                                           
        On October 21, 1811, Mary Stockton is signing alone, so John had   
        probably died by then. Mary and her children and her children moved
        to Cumberland County, Kentucky after John's death.                 
                                                                           
  vi.   ROBERT STOCKTON, b. November 11, 1743, Goochland County, Virginia; 
        d. September 21, 1824, Henry County, Virginia; m. CATHERINE BLAKEY,
        September 07, 1768.                                                
                                                                           
        Notes for ROBERT STOCKTON:                                         
                                                                           
        Two separate entries appear in the 1782 Personal Property Tax List 
        of Henry County, Virginia for Robert Stockton, as follows:         
                                                                           
        Stockton, Robert - Tithes 1, Negroes 6, Horses 5, Cattle 23.       
        Stockton, Robert - Tithes 0, Negroes 8, Horses 13, Cattle 24.      
                                                                           
        Very likely the above represents two different Robert Stockton's   
        who happened to reside in Henry County at that time. However,      
        "tithe", as I understand it, indicates the taxability of 1/10th    
        of ones annual income. Could it also be possible that two entries  
        are made for the same individual if, for example, the person had   
        two farms (an entry for each farm)? Then, it would seem the        
        individual would only be counted once, as appears to be the case,  
        above.                                                             
                                                                           
        1790 Personal Property A for a Robert Stockton in Henry county, VA 
        appears as:                                                        
                                                                           
        White Tithes - 2, Blacks over 16 - 7, Blacks 12 to 16 - 4, Horses  
        - 4                                                                
                                                                           
        More About ROBERT STOCKTON and CATHERINE BLAKEY:                   
                                                                           
        Marriage: September 07, 1768                                       
                                                                           
 vii.   SARAH STOCKTON, b. Bet. 1744-1749; d. Aft. January 1787, Albemarle 
        County, Virginia; m. HUGH ROSS, Bef. 1764.                         
                                                                           
        Notes for SARAH STOCKTON:                                          
                                                                           
        Joe Funderburk reports that Sarah married Benjamin Jones.          
                                                                           
        More About HUGH ROSS and SARAH STOCKTON:                           
                                                                           
        Marriage: Bef. 1764                                                
                                                                           
viii.   RICHARD STOCKTON, b. Abt. 1745; m. ELIZABETH COPELAND, January 04, 
        1781, Henry County, Virginia.                                      
                                                                           
        Notes for RICHARD STOCKTON:                                        
                                                                           
        A Richard Stockton is shown in the 1790 Henry County, VA Personal  
        Property A Tax Roles on page 14 with:                              
                                                                           
        White tithes - 1, Blacks over 16 - 2, Blacks 12 to 16 - 2?, Horses 
        - 4.                                                               
                                                                           
        Will of Richard Stockton                                           
        Franklin Co., Virginia                                             
        WB 2:297-299, 10 AUG 1819:                                         
                                                                           
        In the name of God, Amen. I, Richard Stockton of the County of     
        Franklin & State of Virginia being of sound disposing mind & memory
        and calling to mind that it is appointed for all men to die, do    
        hereby constitute this as my last will & Testament, revoking all   
        other will or wills by me heretofore made. First I recommend my    
        Soul to God who gave it existance and that my Body be decently     
        buried at the discretion of my Executrix and Executors hereafter   
        named.                                                             
                                                                           
        My will and desire is that all my just debts be paid also that my  
        loving wife Elizabeth Stockton have the use and benefit of the Land
        and plantation whereon I now live, including the lands I purchased 
        of Samuel Luttrell and Willis Luttrell with all the appurtenances  
        thereunto beloning, also the following negroes, namely, Simon and  
        his wife Aggy, and their daughter, Anly(?), also Gilbert and Letty,
        with all the Plantation tools, household furnitre and Kitchen      
        furniture with all Stock of every kind, also my Still except as    
        hereafter mentioned, all which I lend to my beloved wife during her
        natural life. ITEM I give to my Daughter ELIZABETH COPLAND the land
        I purchased of Dennis Marshall and the Title conveyd to me by      
        Elisha Arnold and Joseph Pedigo also a Negro man named David, which
        land and negroe my said Daughter has already in possession. ITEM I 
        give to my Daughter CHRISTIANA KING two negroes namely Hercules and
        Edice and which she has already received. ITEM I give to my        
        Daughter NANCY WINGFIELD the following negroes to wit, Siney and   
        her 2 children named George and Aggy, also a girl named Jimmey, all
        of which she now has in possession and with their future increase. 
        ITEM I give to my Daughter MARIA CRAIG, two negroes, namely Lucy   
        and Malinda with their future increase, which said negroes she now 
        has in possesion. ITEM I give to my Daughter SOPHIA STOCKTON, three
        negroes, namley Delila & Frances and a boy named Simon (son of     
        Aggy) with any future increase of the said Delila or Frances, and  
        after my wife's decease, a half dozen table and tea spoons of      
        silver now in my possession, also a horse, saddle & bridle out of  
        my Estate after my wife's decease and upon her arriavel to lawful  
        age or marriage to have a feather bed & furniture and a cow and    
        calf. ITEM I give to my son PETER C. STOCKTON our negroe man named 
        Tom, also one hundred and thirty pounds, and which said negroe and 
        money my said son has already received. ITEM I give to my son      
        CHARLES STOCKTON a negroe man named Patrick and hundred pounds in  
        cash, also one abligation on Joseph Collins of South Carolina for  
        one hundred and five pounds, Virginia Currency, also after my      
        decease my negroe man named Will and a female negro named Caroline 
        with her future increase. ITEM I give to my son COPELAND STOCKTON a
        negroe man named Stephen also a horse out of my stock, such as he  
        may choose also a feather bed and furniture and a cow and calf to  
        go into his possession on his marriage or on his arrival to lawful 
        age. ITEM I give to my son PRESTON STOCKTON a negro boy named Ben, 
        also a horse, such as he may choose also a feather bed and         
        furniture, and a cow & calf out of my Estate on his marriage or    
        arriving to lawful age. ITEM my will is that the whole of the Land 
        I now own in Franklin County be after my wife's decease divided by 
        the following lines to wit, Beginning on a toped red oak in the    
        line between me and William Campbell and 7 poles north west from   
        where Campbells line crosses a branch, flowing down from Campbell's
        field and running from thence, North 7 degrees East 20 and poles to
        a persimmon tree, thence north 7 degrees West 47 poles to a stake, 
        thence North 30 degrees 105 poles crossing a branch to the line    
        dividing my land from Benjamin Cooks, and I give to my son COPLAND 
        after my wife's decease all the land lying southeast of the above  
        mentioned line and to my son PRESTON after wife's decease the      
        residue of my land lying Northwest of the before described line.   
        And I further desire and direct that during my wife's life the said
        Plantation be cultivated in the manner that I have of late         
        practiced, viz, that no part be tended in corn of lesser than once 
        in every third year and after my wife's decease I give to my son   
        COPLAND my Desk and Bookcase, and to my son PRESTON, my still and  
        Cupboard. And my negroes not herein named are to remain with my    
        wife during her life, and after her decease, all those negroes     
        loaned to her with any owned by me or belonging to the Estate and  
        not herein bequeathed all the stock of every description and every 
        species of property which may remain of my Estate is to be equally 
        divided amongst by before mentioned children or their legal        
        representatives in any manner that a majority or them or their     
        legal representatives may agree on, but should any of my aforesaid 
        children or their representatives enter into any lawsuit about the 
        distribution herein made or directed, in that case I do hereby most
        solumnly revoke all legacy herein given to such child or children, 
        except one dollar to each of such individual child or children or  
        representative or representatives. Las ly I hereby appoint my      
        beloved wife Executrix, and my son Peter C. Stockton, Christopher  
        Wingfield, Robert Innes and Benjamin Cook, Executors, of this my   
        last will and testiment. In Witness whereof I have and do hereunto 
        set my hand & seal this 10th day of August 1819.                   
                                                                           
        Witnesses, John Cook, P. Dickenson, Willis Luttrell, Peter Campbell
        and Zachariah Finney.                                              
                                                                           
        More About RICHARD STOCKTON and ELIZABETH COPELAND:                
                                                                           
        Marriage: January 04, 1781, Henry County, Virginia                 
                                                                           
  ix.   JEMIMA STOCKTON, b. Abt. 1747, Albemarle Co, VA; d. July 10, 1833, 
        Franklin Co, TN; m. WILLIAM SHARP, Sr., VA; b. Bet. Sep-Oct 1751,  
        Pittsylvania Co, Virginia; d. Feb 9, 1838, Winchester, Franklin Co,
        TN.                                                                
                                                                           
   x.   DAVID STOCKTON, b. Abt. 1750, Albemarle Co, VA; d. Union Co, SC; m.
        MARGARET HADEN.                                                    
                                                                           
  xi.   MARGARET STOCKTON, b. Abt. 1754, Goochland Co, VA; d. 1797, near   
        Fayetteville, Illinois; m. JOHN PULLIAM, Sr., Abt. 1775; b. June 1,
        1757, Richmond, Henrico Co, VA; d. Bet. 1812-1813, Fayette, St.    
        Clair Co, Illinois.                                                
                                                                           
        Notes for JOHN PULLIAM, SR.:                                       
                                                                           
        The Pulliam family moved to Kentucky when their oldest son was a   
        boy, then to Illinois in 1796, finally settling in St. Clair Co.,  
        in 1802.                                                           
                                                                           
        Information from Jerry McClure, Carthage, MO jmac23@ipa.net        
                                                                           
        More About JOHN PULLIAM, SR.:                                      
                                                                           
        Burial: the family farm on the Kaskaskia River near Fayetteville,  
        Illinois                                                           
                                                                           
        More About JOHN PULLIAM and MARGARET STOCKTON:                     
                                                                           
        Marriage: Abt. 1775                                                
                                                                           
 xii.   WINNEFORD STOCKTON, b. Abt. 1754, Virginia; d. Sevier County,      
        Tennessee; m. JOHN RANDALL.                                        
                                                                           
        Notes for JOHN RANDALL:                                            
                                                                           
        A John Randall is shown in the 1782 Personal Property Tax List of  
        Henry County, Virginia. The entry is, as follows:                  
                                                                           
        Randall, John - Tithes 1, Negroes -, Horses 3, Cattle 12.          
                                                                           
xiii.   SUSANNAH MOURNING STOCKTON, b. Abt. 1755, Virginia; m. ALEXANDER   
        WILKEY.                                                            
                                                                           
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Descendants of DAVIS STOCKTON                                              
                                                                           
Generation No. 3                                                           
                                                                           
DEBORAH-7 STOCKTON (RICHARD-6, DAVIS-5, RICHARD-4, RICHARD-3, JOHN-2,      
OWEN-1) was born 1733 in AUGUSTA CO.,VA. She married JOHN MCMAHAN, son of  
ROBERT MCMAHAN and JOAN.                                                   
                                                                           
Children of DEBORAH STOCKTON and JOHN MCMAHAN:                             
                                                                           
   i.   NANCY MCMAHAN, b. 1752, AUGUSTA CO., VA.                           
  ii.   WILLIAM MCMAHAN, b. 1754, AUGUSTA CO., VA; m. REBECCA PATTON.      
 iii.   JOHN MCMAHAN, b. 1755, AUGUSTA CO., VA; d. 1837.                   
  iv.   ROBERT MCMAHAN, b. 1762, AUGUSTA CO., VA.                          
   v.   MARY MCMAHAN, b. 1770, AUGUSTA CO., VA; m. PETER BLAKE, September  
        03, 1792.                                                          
  vi.   ELIZABETH MCMAHAN, b. 1771, AUGUSTA CO., VA; m. HUGH DONAGE, March 
        08, 1791.                                                          
 vii.   JAMES MCMAHAN.                                                     
                                                                           
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Thomas S. McMahan                                                          
Born: ABT. 1802, Horse Prairie, Randolph Co, IL                            
Married ABT. 1824 to Nancy Harrington                                      
Died: AFT. 1854, prob. Madison Co, IL                                      
                                                                           
Children with: Nancy Harrington                                            
                                                                           
Children:                                                                  
                                                                           
Permelia McMahan                                                           
Francis M. McMahan                                                         
Emily McMahan                                                              
Sarah McMahan                                                              
George W. McMahan                                                          
Charles H. McMahan                                                         
William T. McMahan                                                         
                                                                           
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                            ROBERT McMAHAN Sr.                             
                                                                           
                            Illinois Pioneer                               
                                                                           
Along the lowlands of the Mississippi river in southwest Illinois from     
Alton to the mouth of the Kaskaskia river the first immigrants found a     
deep, rich and fertile body of land where they made their first            
settlements. These early pioneers named this region the American Bottom. It
produced excellent crops and its name helped distinguish it from the       
Spanish territory west of the Mississippi. These American settlers came    
principally from Kentucky and Virginia and in 1779 the first English       
speaking settlement was established at Bellefontaine. Other settlements    
were Grand Ruisseau and New Design.                                        
                                                                           
The New Design was founded by a group of Virginians about 1786 not far from
Bellefontaine. It was the largest American settlement in Illinois at that  
time and thus became the first rendezvous and head-quarters, along with the
Bellefontaine settlement, for the westward moving American population. In  
these early settlements the inhabitants erected forts or "stations"        
consisting of blockhouses and stockades, primarily for their protection    
against possible Indian hostility. Beginning in 1783 and especially from   
1786 to 1795, depredations occurred annually in the settlements and several
murders were committed upon the settlers by hostile tribes. It is under    
these circumstances that a number of families from Kentucky arrived at the 
New Design in 1793. Included among them was the Robert McMahan family.     
                                                                           
Robert McMahan Sr. of Augusta county, Virginia was born in 1760 ... While a
resident of Augusta county, Robert McMahan Sr. served in the Revolutionary 
war. His service extended from 1780 to 1781. He was among the Virginia     
militia engaged in the Battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina    
where he was taken prisoner. This battle occurred March 15, 1781 and the   
Virginia militia commanded by Generals Robert Lawson and Edward Stevens    
provided for the "American Second Line" of defense. This battle was the    
climax of the Green-Cornwallis campaign across the Carolinas.              
                                                                           
After the war soldiers of Augusta county, Virginia that were issued        
military land warrants traveled to Kentucky to make claims. Upon their     
return home and favorable report of this region "a spirit of immigration   
was awakened throughout the county." As a result, in 1783 or 1784, several 
families moved to Kentucky including Robert McMahan. He settled at Crab    
Orchard in Lincoln county where he married Margaret Clark, June 29, 1785   
(bond). From there he moved to Lexington, Fayette county, Kentucky and in  
1793 moved to the Illinois country. Before moving to Illinois Robert       
McMahan with others employed James Whiteside, also of Kentucky, to go to   
the Illinois country and make claims and secure improvements for them. By  
April 1790 Whiteside had selected several locations for improvements but   
died on his return to Kentucky. Subsequently those having an interest moved
to Illinois during the years 1791 thru 1794 and made actual cultivation by 
themselves or agents on their respective improvements.                     
                                                                           
Robert McMahan left Kentucky for the American Bottom in 1793 and upon his  
arrival for reasons not fully known made temporary settlement west of the  
Mississippi in the village of New Madrid then under the Spanish government.
The Spanish Commandants at St. Louis frequently invited the inhabitants of 
the Illinois country to become settlers of the Spanish colonies and assured
them at the same time they would have land for themselves and their        
families. But being partial to his own government according to the         
Territorial Papers of the United States McMahan left New Madrid after a    
short time to settle near the New Design. He selected a place for a farm   
about three miles southwest of the New Design Station but apprehensive of  
attacks then being made by various parties of Indians he moved into a house
owned by James Lemen Sr. near the station in 1794. In the same vicinity    
lived Peter Carterline and Benjamin Ogle.                                  
                                                                           
Later that year desiring to improve the land he had selected for his farm  
and hoping to escape or repel any potential Indian attack McMahan moved to 
his improvement on the prairie. This improvement was situated within the   
northeast quarter of section nineteen, township three south, range nine    
west in present day Monroe county, Illinois. His house was so constructed  
that the door could be strongly barred and port holes were made in the     
walls so as to be able to shoot anyone who might attempt to ascend to the  
roof. He had a rifle and a blunderbuss charged with six charges of powder  
and nine balls. He said to his friends at the Station, "when you hear the  
report of my blunderbuss, you may be certain that I am attacked." In spite 
of these preparations he and his family fell victim to an Indian assault   
which resulted in the death of his wife and four children in January, 1795.
One historical account described it as "the most serious and dreadful      
tragedy that ever occurred ... in the state."                              
                                                                           
George Churchill later a neighbor of Robert McMahan in Madison county,     
Illinois prepared a written account of the affair which he read before the 
Troy Lyceum in Madison county in 1855. He states, "the story has several   
times appeared in print, frequently with some inaccuracies, and always with
the ommission of some important circumstances." George Churchill's account 
was first published in 1866 by James T. Hair in his "Gazetteer of Madison  
County" which says: "the following paper ... not heretofore published,     
gives a true account of the massacre of Mr. McMahan's wife and four of his 
children, and of the captivity of himself and eldest daughter by a party of
Indians." An excerpt of Mr.Churchill's account follows:                    
                                                                           
"On the fatal 26th of January 1795, Mr. McMahan went out to hunt for his   
oxen, when he perceived that his horse, which was confined in a pen,       
appeared to be frightened. He cast his eye over the prairie in every       
direction, but saw no enemy. A lone hickory tree, one hundred and fifty    
yards from his house, had been blown down the year before while in full    
leaf, thus furnishing a convenient hiding place for an attacking party, but
unfortunately Mr. McMahan did not think of there being a deadly enemy      
ensconced within that convenient covert.                                   
                                                                           
He entered his house, but had not been there more than two or three minutes
when four Indians, frightfully painted black and red, entered the house,   
two by two, saying "Bon jour! Bon jour!" (good day! good day!) They stood  
motionless a few seconds, when one of them attempted to take down Mr.      
McMahan's rifle from the hook, and Mr. McMahan took down his blunderbuss;  
but his wife took hold of it and begged her husband not to resist, as she  
hoped their lives might be spared if they submitted peacefully, but        
otherwise they would be killed. The Indians then seized the blunderbuss and
wrenched it from his hands. Every one then made for the door. Mrs. McMahan 
ran half way around the house when she was shot in the left breast and     
scalped. Mr. McMahan was then pulled back into the house, thrown on the    
floor, and his hands pinioned close behind him with deer sinews. Sally     
McMahan, his eldest daughter, then less than nine years old, remained in   
the house and saw one of the Indians knock her brother and two of her      
sisters on the head with the poll of his tomahawk. It was a light blow,    
only sufficient to stun them. This Indian was proceeding to open the cradle
where lay a female infant, only one month old, when Sally ran out of the   
house and once around it, when she was also seized by him.                 
                                                                           
The Indian who committed the murders was supposed to be of the Miami tribe.
The other three were Pu-taw-wahs, as they call themselves, or as they are  
commonly called by the whites, Potowatomies.                               
                                                                           
Three of the children were scalped. It was said that the infant was not    
scalped, but my informant stated that the Indians displayed five scalps    
when they camped at night, and she supposed they took two scalps from the  
head of one of the murdered children, and left the infant unscalped. It has
also been stated that the infant was unhurt and died of starvation, but my 
informant learned from a woman who was present at the burial, that there   
was a gash in its cheek.                                                   
                                                                           
The Indians took from the house such articles as they wanted, packed a part
of them upon Mr. McMahan, one of whose hands was untied so that he might   
carry his load, and with their captives, left in haste for their home in   
the northeast part of Illinois. Mr. McMahan meditated an escape, but did   
not make known his intention to his daughter. The first night of the       
journey he saw no chance of escape, as the Indians had tied him very       
securely, and had taken away his shoes and hat and part of his clothes. But
during the second night, he quietly slipped the cords from his limbs and   
body and was about to rise, when he perceived that one of the Indians was  
awake. Waiting till the Indian was again asleep, he made his escape after  
trying in vain to get possession of his shoes. In the dead of winter,      
without shoes, without food, and scanty clothing, he left his daughter with
her captors and endeavored to make his way to the New Design. He lay out   
one cold night making a bed of leaves under a large fallen tree, which was 
held up from the ground by its branches. Here he was partially frozen, but 
the next morning resumed his journey.                                      
                                                                           
He now had the pleasure of meeting a friend in the person of Col. Samuel   
Judy, who gave him the necessary directions, which he pursued, and reached 
his home just after his wife and four children had been committed by their 
sympathizing neighbors, to one common grave. He prostrated himself upon the
grave, exclaiming, "They were lovely in their lives and in their deaths    
they were not divided!"                                                    
                                                                           
The massacre took place on a Monday and the burial on the succeeding       
Friday. A small dog belonging to Mr. McMahan daily visited the residence of
Mr. James Lemen Sr. and endeavored by whining to inform the people of what 
had happened to his master's family. But for several days they did not     
comprehend the dog's message, one authority says, not until old Mr. Judy   
had discovered the dead bodies and reported the fact to the Station."      
                                                                           
In the meantime the Indians, with Sally McMahan, traveled north until they 
reached the home of the Potawatomi southwest of Lake Michigan in northeast 
Illinois. Here she was transferred to an Ottawa Indian, now a Potawatomi   
chief and whose wife was a sister of the three Potawatomi involved in the  
massacre. The name of this "chief of the small fort west of Lake Michigan" 
was Sukkonok which means Blackbird, but among the whites he went by the    
French name of Leturneau.                                                  
                                                                           
The Indian tribes of the north were opposed to the white settlements being 
established above the Ohio River. They considered the Ohio River as a      
boundary line between them and the Americans. They were organized into a   
confederation to protect this border and frustrate white immigration into  
their lands. The Indian confederation waged war across the present states  
of Indiana and Ohio for six years defeating and humiliating the American   
forces until Anthony Wayne Major General commanded the army of the United  
States in a decisive victory over the Indian alliance in the Battle of     
Fallen Timbers in Ohio on August 20, 1794. It "broke the back of tribal    
resistance" and peace was negotiated. On August 3, 1795 a treaty of peace  
between the United States and the Tribes of Indians which included the     
Wyandot, Delaware, Shawanee, Ottawa, Chipewa, Potawatomi, Miami, Eel-River,
Weea's, Kickapoo, Piankashaw and Kaskaskia was signed at Greenville, Ohio. 
This treaty known as the "Treaty of Greenville" was ratified and proclaimed
on December 2, 1795. One of the significant conditions (Article II) of the 
treaty was, "all prisonersshall on both sides be restored. The Indians,    
prisoners of the United States, shall be immediately set at liberty. The   
people of the United States, still remaining prisoners among the Indians,  
shall be delivered up in ninety days from the date hereof ..."             
                                                                           
Thus Sukkonok, in April 1796, brought Sally McMahan down the Illinois and  
Mississippi rivers in a canoe to Cahokia and delivered her to the white    
people. This was during a Quarter Session of the General Court and a large 
number of people had assembled in Cahokia for that purpose. Sukkonok made  
a speech to them in which he said he had no part in the massacre of the    
McMahan family and that he had paid a large sum for the captive and had    
brought her a considerable distance into the white settlements. He appealed
to the liberality and sense of justice of the people to make him           
compensation. A subscription paper was circulated and one hundred and      
sixty-four dollars was subscribed by the people and that amount in goods   
was advanced to Sukkonok by William Arundel an Irish merchant of Cahokia.  
                                                                           
At another time a ... humorous incident occurred involving Robert McMahan  
Sr. during a session of General Court at Cahokia. It was remembered by     
John Reynolds a former Governor of Illinois and published in his book "My  
Own Times" in 1852.                                                        
                                                                           
"At a Court in Cahokia in olden times, a great crowd of people remained    
there all night and the hotel kept by E. Pensoneau was filled to           
overflowing. One half of the collection could not procure beds and many did
not want any. Robert McMahan, Esq., a Judge of the Court and a rather      
dignified character, was anxious to obtain a bed and not sit up all night  
with the wild, frolicking party. Jehu Scott, an old settler and neighbor of
McMahan, told him he could get him a bed, but he must go to it soon to keep
others out of it. McMahan readily agreed to it and would retire            
immediately.                                                               
                                                                           
The wife of the landlord, E. Pensoneau, was sick in a bed in a private room
and in the room there was not much light. Scott got McMahan slyly into the 
room of the sick woman and told him to take his clothes off without noise  
so others would not know it. Scott so timed it, that about the time McMahan
would get his clothes off, he would tell Pensoneau there was a man in bed  
with his wife. When McMahan entered the room and was taking his clothes    
off, Mrs. Pensoneau thought he was her husband and said nothing, but as    
soon as he entered the bed and came in contact with her, she discovered the
mistake, and so did McMahan, also. At this crisis Scott had so fixed it,   
that Pensoneau entered his wife's bedroom with a light. He was an irritable
Frenchman and understood very little English. He in reality believed       
McMahan was in bed with his wife and made a terrible noise and bluster     
about it. He found McMahan with his clothes off and commenced without      
ceremony to chastise him. He and the wife both laid on McMahan without     
stint and banged him about the room in a furious style. By this time, Scott
had all the wild and merry crowd at the room to witness the fun. All three,
McMahan, Pensoneau and his wife, were in a horrid fracus within the room,  
all shouting, scrambling and fighting in terrible confusion. McMahan was   
trying to explain, but Pensoneau did not understand in the scuffle, his    
English explanations, and blustered on. At last McMahan was forced out of  
the room naked and abandoned his clothes and dignity. He ran to the crowd  
for protection and to save himself from the fury of the landlord and wife. 
                                                                           
Never was such a farce enacted since Don Jaun was whipped out of the       
bedroom of Donna Julia in Spain. This was backwoods merriment and afforded 
the audience great amusement. The spectators laughed and shouted at the    
sport. In due time the affair was explained to the satisfaction of all     
concerned, except Justice McMahan, who would prefer Scott to perpetrate his
tricks on others and let him alone."                                       
                                                                           
Sally McMahan eventually married David Gaskill and had thirteen children   
including two sets of twins. She was born in Kentucky on March 9, 1786 and 
died at Alton, Madison county, Illinois on January 23, 1850. She was the   
informant who provided George Churchill with information that occurred in  
her presence in his account of the massacre and captivity of her family.   
                                                                           
Robert McMahan Sr. second married in St. Clair county, Illinois to Nancy   
Kester in June 1795. They had twelve children:                             
                                                                           
Isaac Kester McMahan, born March 29, 1796, On a raft (Ohio-Illinois);      
married Catherine (maiden surname unknown); died January 8, 1863.          
                                                                           
Robert McMahan Jr., born December 28, 1797, St. Clair county, Illinois;    
married Nancy Conway, February 25, 1818, Madison county, Illinois; lived   
in Pike County, Arkansas 1848-1853; died October 29, 1872.                 
                                                                           
Rebecca McMahan, born May 4, 1800, Horse Prairie, Randolph county,         
Illinois; married William Kelley, June 14, 1814, Madison county, Illinois; 
moved to Pike county, Arkansas in 1815; died October 9, 1857.              
                                                                           
Thomas "Stogden" (Stockton) McMahan, born 1802, Horse Prairie, Randolph    
county, Illinois; married Nancy Harrington; lived in Pike county, Arkansas 
1847-1853.                                                                 
                                                                           
Susanna (Susan) K. McMahan, born 1805, Horse Prairie, Randolph county,     
Illinois; married Creath Renfro, December 13, 1827, Madison County,        
Illinois.                                                                  
                                                                           
Nathaniel S. McMahan, born 1808, St. Clair county, Illinois; died          
February 2, 1819, Madison county, Illinois.                                
                                                                           
George W. McMahan, born 1810, St. Clair county, Illinois; died April 27,   
1840; drowned near Curtis' Mills, Clinton County, Illinois.                
                                                                           
Nancy McMahan, born March 12, 1812, St. Clair or Madison county, Illinois; 
married Milton Hall, March 13, 1827, Madison county, Illinois; died May 22,
1877.                                                                      
                                                                           
Jesse W. McMahan, born 1813, Madison county, Illinois; married first, Mary 
Johnson, January 12, 1840; married second, Mary S. Smith, January 1, 1843, 
Scott county, Illinois; died 1857.                                         
                                                                           
Emily McMahan, born July 26, 1815, Madison county, Illinois; married Samuel
R. Caruthers, December 15, 1835; died March 13, 1884.                      
                                                                           
Avaline McMahan, born 1818, Madison county, Illinois; married James E.     
Clark, April 8, 1839, St. Clair county, Illinois; died Decemeber 6, 1878.  
                                                                           
Caroline McMahan, born 1821, Madison county, Illinois; married first       
Phillip W. Moore; married second Andrew Harvey.                            
                                                                           
About 1799 or 1800 Robert McMahan moved his family to the upper end of     
Horse Prairie in Randolph county, Illinois. While living here he served as 
a justice of the peace and Judge of the courts. He was Judge of the        
Randolph County Court from August 1, 1800 until January 1, 1806. From      
Randolph county, Illinois McMahan moved to St. Clair county, Illinois and  
settled on Silver Creek near Lebanon about 1806 or 1807. In 1812 or 1813 he
moved to Madison county, Illinois and located southwest of Troy where he   
died in 1823 at the age of sixty-three.                                    
                                                                           
David Kelley                                                               
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The Gems of Pike County Arkansas                                           
Volume VI Number 2 page 21 & 24                                            
                                                                           
ROBERT McMAHAN Sr.                                                         
                                                                           
Illinois Pioneer and father of Rebecca McMahan                             
wife of William Kelley of Pike County, Arkansas                            
                                                                           
Robert McMahan Sr. of Augusta county, Virginia was born in 1760 and        
believed to be the son of John McMahan and Deborah Stockton. John McMahan's
father, also named Robert McMahan, was an early settler of Augusta county  
who died in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1769 ...                             
                                                                           
Robert McMahan the father of John McMahan of Augusta County, Virgina was   
executed at the Public Gallows in Williamsburg, James City county, Virginia
on Friday, May 26, 1769. He murdered Robert Reaburn the son of his second  
wife Mrs. Margaret Reaburn. He was charged in Augusta county, Virginia and 
sent to Williamsburg for trial where he was found guilty and sentenced to  
death. The court records of Augusta county show a previous history of      
violence. He was involved with Samuel Lockhard or Lockhart in killing      
William Thomson's or Thompson's hogs, horses &c. in 1746.                  
                                                                           
Source: The Virginia Gazette newspaper, June 1, 1769, page 3, column 1.    
Augusta County, Virginia court records.                                    
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HALL, William Jr.                                                          
HALL, William W.                                                           
HALL, William Sr.                                                          
HALL, John                                                                 
McMAHAN, Robert                                                            
HALL, Noah                                                                 
GASKILL, Silvanus                                                          
GASKILL, David                                                             
KELLEY, Giles                                                              
McMAHAN, Isaac K.                                                          
McMAHAN, Robert Jr.                                                        
McMAHAN, Thomas S.                                                         
HARRINGTON, Whitmill                                                       
HARRINGTON, John                                                           
HALL, Henry                                                                
                                                                           
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AN ABRIDGED RECORD OF THE LIFE OF JOHN MURDOCK, TAKEN FROM HIS JOURNAL BY  
HIMSELF. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS GENEALOGY AND THAT OF HIS CHILDREN,  
AS ALSO HIS TRAVELS, EXPERIENCE, ORDINATIONS, CALLINGS, PREACHING,         
BLESSINGS, ENDOWMENTS AND ETC.                                             
                                                                           
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They (Levi and Lyman) went on but we tarried till Monday (February) 27th. I
had a severe fit of the ague and did not recover from it so as to get up   
till noon. I lay and thought on our mission and our calling of God. We had 
but very little money and while sick we were continually on expense. I saw 
we could not stand it, so I determined in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
to arise and pursue my journey. I called Bro. P. (Brother Pratt) to the bed
and told him my determination, and requested him to lay hands on me in the 
name of the Lord. I arose from my bed, we took dinner and gave the widow a 
Book of Mormon for her kindness and started on our journey, it being 7     
miles to the next house. I had a severe headache, and would frequently sit 
down and have Bro. P. (Brother Pratt) lay hands on me. At length we arrived
at the 7 mile house and tavern overnight. 28th Bro. P. (Brother Pratt) had 
a shake before he was out of bed and then arose. We took a little breakfast
and travelled 20 miles. 29th travelled 16 miles. I had a shake about 10    
o'clock forenoon and travelled through it. Paid 12 cents for dinner. March 
1st. Preached at An. Caldwell's. 2nd preached at Mr. Farrier's, people     
tender. We tarried till Sunday 4th and preached--5th travelled 20 miles and
preached. 7th taught the people. 8th thence 7 miles to St. Louis 200 miles 
east of where we started in Jackson County. Found Brother Lyman and Levi   
who had visited the Catholic Bishop and other Priests, they said, and tried
to get public meetings in the city but was refused. They said they had     
preached in the markets and corner of the streets. We 4 crossed the        
Mississippi and stayed at Mr. Short's. 9th we recrossed the river to St.   
Louis and tried to obtain the courthouse to preach in but could not, and   
recrossed the river. Travelled 13 miles to Eportis and preached in the     
evening, Brother Lyman and Levi passed on. 10th preached at the Canteen    
Baptist meetinghouse (Madison County, Illinois). 11th Sunday, preached.    
12th we preached. 13th we awoke at 12 o'clock at night by the hallowing of 
Isaac K. McMahan who followed us 27 miles to be baptized. He insisted on   
being baptized immediately. We arose and travelled back with him 4 miles,  
and baptized him at 2 o'clock (in the) morning, and ordained him an Elder  
and among other teaching we taught him to go to Zion ...                   
                                                                           
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Ridge Prairie, Madison Co., Illinois April 4, 1846                         
                                                                           
Dear Caroline,                                                             
                                                                           
It is a considerable time since I have heard from you, but the receipt of  
the Wisconsin Argus of March 10 convinces me that you are still alive ...  
                                                                           
Stephen W. (Gaskill) has sold his ... farm, and bought the old farm of     
Thomas S. McMahan. I mean the one having a barn and brick cabin ...        
                                                                           
Truly yours. George Churchill.                                             
                                                                           
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From: MesaV3013@aol.com                                                    
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 13:20:13 EST                                         
Subject: John McMahan & Deborah Stockton:                                  
To: a0009792@netzero.net                                                   
                                                                           
David                                                                      
                                                                           
There is some question about John's father. I've attached some items I     
found on Genealogy.com's data records back in 2004. There is another Robert
McMahan who lived in Augusta Co. Virginia and was hung in Williamsburg in  
1769 for killing his stepson. I've seen the Robert McMahan website:        
                                                                           
http://www.geocities.com/pameladhudson/mcmahan.html                        
                                                                           
But I'm not sure she has the correct Robert McMahan father of our John     
McMahan. I have some other Robert McMahan records, but I'll have to search 
for them.                                                                  
                                                                           
Ray Reed                                                                   
                                                                           
MesaV3013@aol.com                                                          
                                                                           
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Last Friday were executed, pursuant to their sentence (bring all that were 
capitally convicted and condemnded the last General Court) the following   
criminals, viz: Robert McMachen, from Augusta, for murder; William Jones   
(alias Richard Chapman) from Southampton and James Biggars from Bedford,   
for horse-stealing; and John Derby (alias Derby Finn) from Westmoreland,   
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McMahan, Robert                                                            
Date: May 16, 1752                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 31650                                                           
Description: Witness                                                       
Book Page: 4-401                                                           
Property: 112 acres.                                                       
Remarks: Patented to Andrew 1 Jun 1750                                     
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: Sep 7, 1753                                                          
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 31848                                                           
Description: Witness                                                       
Book Page: 5-477                                                           
Property: 165 acres on Dry River between Daniel Smith's and Shifman's      
lands.                                                                     
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Samuel                                                            
Date: Sep 7, 1753                                                          
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 31848                                                           
Description: Grantor                                                       
Book Page: 5-477                                                           
Property: 165 acres on Dry River between Daniel Smith's and Shifman's      
lands.                                                                     
Notes:  This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the    
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: May 16, 1754                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 36400                                                           
Description: Surety                                                        
Book Page: WB2-45                                                          
Remarks: Margaret Reburn's bond as administratrix of Edward Reburn.        
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Samuel                                                            
Date: May 16, 1754                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 36413                                                           
Description: Decedent                                                      
Book Page: WB2-56                                                          
Remarks: Robert McMahon's bond as administrator of Samuel McMahon.         
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: May 16, 1754                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 36413                                                           
Description: Administrator                                                 
Book Page: WB2-56                                                          
Remarks: Robert McMahon's bond as administrator of Samuel McMahon.         
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Samuel                                                            
Date: May 19, 1755                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 36463                                                           
Description: Decedent                                                      
Book Page: WB2-109                                                         
Remarks: Samuel McMahon's appraisement, by Thomas Stevenson, John Campbell,
David Stevenson, and accounts - paid Samuel McMahon, George Bowman, John   
Reybourn. To Robert McMahon, Cr., 21 May 1755, by appraisement.            
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: May 19, 1755                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 36463                                                           
Description: Administrator                                                 
Book Page: WB2-109                                                         
Remarks: Samuel McMahon's appraisement, by Thomas Stevenson, John Campbell,
David Stevenson, and accounts - paid Samuel McMahon, George Bowman, John   
Reybourn. To Robert McMahon, Cr., 21 May 1755, by appraisement.            
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Samuel                                                            
Date: May 19, 1755                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 36463                                                           
Description: Creditor                                                      
Book Page: WB2-109                                                         
Remarks: Samuel McMahon's appraisement, by Thomas Stevenson, John Campbell,
David Stevenson, and accounts - paid Samuel McMahon, George Bowman, John   
Reybourn. To Robert McMahon, Cr., 21 May 1755, by appraisement.            
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: May 18, 1761                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 32554                                                           
Description: Grantor                                                       
Book Page: 9-402                                                           
Property: 140 acres on a branch of North River of Shanandoe; corner to     
Conolley's land.                                                           
Remarks:  £10. Part of 300 acres patented to Robert, 12 May 1759.          
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, John                                                              
Date: May 18, 1761                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 32554                                                           
Description: Grantee                                                       
Book Page: 9-402                                                           
Property: 140 acres on a branch of North River of Shanandoe; corner to     
Conolley's land.                                                           
Remarks:  £10. Part of 300 acres patented to Robert, 12 May 1759.          
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, (Deborah)                                                         
Date: May 18, 1761                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 32554                                                           
Description: Grantor's Wife                                                
Book Page: 9-402                                                           
Property: 140 acres on a branch of North River of Shanandoe; corner to     
Conolley's land.                                                           
Remarks: £10. Part of 300 acres patented to Robert, 12 May 1759.           
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: May 19, 1761                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 32555                                                           
Description: Grantor                                                       
Book Page: 9-406                                                           
Property: 380 acres on the Buffalo Draft on south side North River; corner 
to James Beard's land.                                                     
Remarks: £30. Patented Robert Smith 16 Aug 1756.                           
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahan, Robert                                                            
Date: May 19, 1761                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 32512                                                           
Description: Neighbor                                                      
Book Page: 9-267                                                           
Property: 150 acres on Mill Creek, a branch of South River of Shannando;   
Steven's line.                                                             
Remarks: £13.10. Delivered to John Botkin 5 Jun 1762.                      
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, John                                                              
Date: Sep 17, 1763                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 32937                                                           
Description: Witness                                                       
Book Page: 11-385                                                          
Property: 255 acres on line of Beverley Manor and Borden's tract; corner   
Patrick Hayes; corner Dunlap.                                              
Remarks: £98. Delivered to Francis Smith, 1 Oct 1767.                      
Notes:  This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the    
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: Aug 20, 1765                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 33237                                                           
Description: Neighbor                                                      
Book Page: 12-80                                                           
Property: 174 acres on a draft of North River Shanandoe, corner Robert     
McMahon.                                                                   
Remarks: £20. Delivered to Hugh Donaho, 1 Jun 1769.                        
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahan, John                                                              
Date: Sep 4, 1765                                                          
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 33307                                                           
Description: Grantor                                                       
Book Page: 12-244                                                          
Property: 400 acres on North River of Shanandow on the next spring branch  
below the mouth of Cooks Creek.                                            
Remarks: £100. Delivered to George Mallo, Mar 1773.                        
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahan, Isabella                                                          
Date: Sep 4, 1765                                                          
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 33307                                                           
Description: Grantor's Wife                                                
Book Page: 12-244                                                          
Property: 400 acres on North River of Shanandow on the next spring branch  
below the mouth of Cooks Creek.                                            
Remarks: £100. Delivered to George Mallo, Mar 1773.                        
Notes:  This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the    
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: Oct 21, 1765                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 33401                                                           
Description: Grantor                                                       
Book Page: 12-493                                                          
Property: 300 acres on a draft of North River of Shanando.                 
Remarks: £30.18. Property patented to Robert, 12 May 1759. Delivered to    
Hugh Donaho, Jan 1768.                                                     
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Margaret                                                          
Date: Oct 21, 1765                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 33401                                                           
Description: Grantor's Wife                                                
Book Page: 12-493                                                          
Property: 300 acres on a draft of North River of Shanando.                 
Remarks: £30.18. Property patented to Robert, 12 May 1759. Delivered to    
Hugh Donaho, Jan 1768.                                                     
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: Mar 15, 1768                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 33669                                                           
Description: Landowner                                                     
Book Page: 14-152                                                          
Property: On a draft of North River of Shanando; corner Charles Campbell's 
land on northwest side of the Pennsylvania road, field of Robert McMahon's,
being 300 acres.                                                           
Remarks: £68.15. Property patented to Robert McMahon 12 May 1759 and       
conveyed by Robert to grantor 21 Oct 1765. Delivered to John Anderson, Nov 
1767.                                                                      
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: Mar 15, 1768                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 33669                                                           
Description: Neighbor                                                      
Book Page: 14-152                                                          
Property: On a draft of North River of Shanando; corner Charles Campbell's 
land on northwest side of the Pennsylvania road, field of Robert McMahon's,
being 300 acres.                                                           
Remarks: £68.15. Property patented to Robert McMahon 12 May 1759 and       
conveyed by Robert to grantor 21 Oct 1765. Delivered to John Anderson, Nov 
1767.                                                                      
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: Mar 21, 1768                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 33877                                                           
Description: Landowner                                                     
Book Page: 15-305                                                          
Property: 300 acres on a branch of North River of Shanandore, Alexander    
Walker's corner.                                                           
Remarks: £40. Property patented to Robert McMahon, 12 May 1759. Delivered  
to James Hook, 21 Mar 1775.                                                
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahan, John                                                              
Date: May 28, 1769                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 37416                                                           
Description: Appraiser                                                     
Book Page: WB4-219                                                         
Remarks: John McMahan and Samuel Erwin appraise the improvements of John   
King on a tract bought by him of William Watterson, 30 cattle valued at    
sixty pounds.                                                              
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, John                                                              
Date: Jun 20, 1769                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 33919                                                           
Description: Witness                                                       
Book Page: 15-418                                                          
Property: 174 acres on a draft of North River of Shanandoe, corner Robert  
McMahon.                                                                   
Remarks: £10. Delivered to Hugh Donaho, 8 Mar 1775.                        
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: Jun 20, 1769                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 33919                                                           
Description: Neighbor                                                      
Book Page: 15-418                                                          
Property: 174 acres on a draft of North River of Shanandoe, corner Robert  
McMahon.                                                                   
Remarks: £10. Delivered to Hugh Donaho, 8 Mar 1775.                        
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: Aug 22, 1770                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 34116                                                           
Description: Landowner                                                     
Book Page: 16-500                                                          
Property: 100 acres on a draft of North River of Shanando.                 
Remarks: £16. Property patented to said Robert McMahon, 12 May 1759.       
Delivered to John McMahon, Jan 1773.                                       
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, John                                                              
Date: Aug 22, 1770                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 34116                                                           
Description: Grantee                                                       
Book Page: 16-500                                                          
Property: 100 acres on a draft of North River of Shanando.                 
Remarks: £16. Property patented to said Robert McMahon, 12 May 1759.       
Delivered to John McMahon, Jan 1773.                                       
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, John                                                              
Date: Nov 21, 1770                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 37508                                                           
Description: Appraiser                                                     
Book Page: WB4-357                                                         
Remarks: Alexander Robertson's appraisement (by John McMahon, Robt.        
Stevenson, James Allen, Arthur Conoley).                                   
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, John                                                              
Date: Nov 19, 1772                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 37638                                                           
Description: Mentioned                                                     
Book Page: WB5-41                                                          
Remarks: Hugh Bodkin's recantation of slanderous words about John McMahon. 
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, John                                                              
Date: Mar 16, 1774                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 37734                                                           
Description: Surety                                                        
Book Page: WB5-220                                                         
Remarks: George Moffett's bond as guardian to Robert Reaburn orphan of     
Robert Reaburn.                                                            
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, John                                                              
Date: Aug 18, 1778                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 37956                                                           
Description: Appraiser                                                     
Book Page: WB6-42                                                          
Remarks: Recorded. Edward Warner's appraisement by John McMahon, William   
Black, John Harper.                                                        
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: Nov 16, 1779                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 35033                                                           
Description: Landowner                                                     
Book Page: 23-132                                                          
Property: Whereon said Harper now lives.                                   
Remarks: Patented to Robert McMahon, 12 May 1759.                          
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, John                                                              
Date: Nov 16, 1779                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 35033                                                           
Description: Grantor                                                       
Book Page: 23-132                                                          
Property: Whereon said Harper now lives.                                   
Remarks: Patented to Robert McMahon, 12 May 1759.                          
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Deborah                                                           
Date: Nov 16, 1779                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 35033                                                           
Description: Grantor's Wife                                                
Book Page: 23-132                                                          
Property: Whereon said Harper now lives.                                   
Remarks: Patented to Robert McMahon, 12 May 1759.                          
Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the     
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, John                                                              
Date: Jan 23, 1784                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 38162                                                           
Description: Decedent                                                      
Prove Date: Oct 19, 1784                                                   
Book Page: WB6-424                                                         
Remarks: John McMahon's will -- To wife, Deborah; to daughter, Nancy; to   
son, William, home plantation, 330 acres, infant; to son, John; to son,    
Robert; to daughter, Mary; daughter, Elizabeth; to 3 youngest daughters.   
Executors, wife and son Robert. Proved.                                    
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Deborah                                                           
Date: Jan 23, 1784                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 38162                                                           
Description: Decedent's Wife                                               
Prove Date: Oct 19, 1784                                                   
Book Page: WB6-424                                                         
Remarks: John McMahon's will -- To wife, Deborah; to daughter, Nancy; to   
son, William, home plantation, 330 acres, infant; to son, John; to son,    
Robert; to daughter, Mary; daughter, Elizabeth; to 3 youngest daughters.   
Executors, wife and son Robert. Proved.                                    
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: Jan 23, 1784                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 38162                                                           
Description: Executor                                                      
Prove Date: Oct 19, 1784                                                   
Book Page: WB6-424                                                         
Remarks: John McMahon's will -- To wife, Deborah; to daughter, Nancy; to   
son, William, home plantation, 330 acres, infant; to son, John; to son,    
Robert; to daughter, Mary; daughter, Elizabeth; to 3 youngest daughters.   
Executors, wife and son Robert. Proved.                                    
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Deborah                                                           
Date: Jan 23, 1784                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 38162                                                           
Description: Executrix                                                     
Prove Date: Oct 19, 1784                                                   
Book Page: WB6-424                                                         
Remarks: John McMahon's will -- To wife, Deborah; to daughter, Nancy; to   
son, William, home plantation, 330 acres, infant; to son, John; to son,    
Robert; to daughter, Mary; daughter, Elizabeth; to 3 youngest daughters.   
Executors, wife and son Robert. Proved.                                    
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Nancy                                                             
Date: Jan 23, 1784                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 38162                                                           
Description: Decedent's Daughter                                           
Prove Date: Oct 19, 1784                                                   
Book Page: WB6-424                                                         
Remarks: John McMahon's will -- To wife, Deborah; to daughter, Nancy; to   
son, William, home plantation, 330 acres, infant; to son, John; to son,    
Robert; to daughter, Mary; daughter, Elizabeth; to 3 youngest daughters.   
Executors, wife and son Robert. Proved.                                    
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, William                                                           
Date: Jan 23, 1784                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 38162                                                           
Description: Decedent's Son                                                
Prove Date: Oct 19, 1784                                                   
Book Page: WB6-424                                                         
Property: home plantation, 330 acres                                       
Remarks: John McMahon's will -- To wife, Deborah; to daughter, Nancy; to   
son, William, home plantation, 330 acres, infant; to son, John; to son,    
Robert; to daughter, Mary; daughter, Elizabeth; to 3 youngest daughters.   
Executors, wife and son Robert. Proved.                                    
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Mary                                                              
Date: Jan 23, 1784                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 38162                                                           
Description: Decedent's Daughter                                           
Prove Date: Oct 19, 1784                                                   
Book Page: WB6-424                                                         
Remarks: John McMahon's will -- To wife, Deborah; to daughter, Nancy; to   
son, William, home plantation, 330 acres, infant; to son, John; to son,    
Robert; to daughter, Mary; daughter, Elizabeth; to 3 youngest daughters.   
Executors, wife and son Robert. Proved.                                    
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Elizabeth                                                         
Date: Jan 23, 1784                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 38162                                                           
Description: Decedent's Daughter                                           
Prove Date: Oct 19, 1784                                                   
Book Page: WB6-424                                                         
Remarks: John McMahon's will -- To wife, Deborah; to daughter, Nancy; to   
son, William, home plantation, 330 acres, infant; to son, John; to son,    
Robert; to daughter, Mary; daughter, Elizabeth; to 3 youngest daughters.   
Executors, wife and son Robert. Proved.                                    
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Robert                                                            
Date: Jan 23, 1784                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 38162                                                           
Description: Decedent's Son                                                
Prove Date: Oct 19, 1784                                                   
Book Page: WB6-424                                                         
Remarks: John McMahon's will -- To wife, Deborah; to daughter, Nancy; to   
son, William, home plantation, 330 acres, infant; to son, John; to son,    
Robert; to daughter, Mary; daughter, Elizabeth; to 3 youngest daughters.   
Executors, wife and son Robert. Proved.                                    
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, John                                                              
Date: Jan 23, 1784                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 38162                                                           
Description: Decedent's Son                                                
Prove Date: Oct 19, 1784                                                   
Book Page: WB6-424                                                         
Remarks: John McMahon's will -- To wife, Deborah; to daughter, Nancy; to   
son, William, home plantation, 330 acres, infant; to son, John; to son,    
Robert; to daughter, Mary; daughter, Elizabeth; to 3 youngest daughters.   
Executors, wife and son Robert. Proved.                                    
Notes:  This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the 
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, John                                                              
Date: Nov 16, 1784                                                         
Location: Augusta Co., VA                                                  
Record ID: 38169                                                           
Description: Decedent                                                      
Book Page: WB6-435                                                         
Remarks: Recorded. John McMahon's appraisement by William Johnston, Arthur 
Connly, Jno. Campbell, Hugh Donaghe.                                       
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the  
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Elizabeth                                                         
Date: Mar 8, 1791                                                          
Record ID: 2477                                                            
Description: Spouse                                                        
Bond Date: Mar 7, 1791                                                     
Remarks: Bride is the daughter of Debora McMahon, who consents.            
Notes: This marriage record was originally published in "Chronicles of the 
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Mary                                                              
Date: Sep 6, 1792                                                          
Record ID: 835                                                             
Description: Spouse                                                        
Bond Date: Sep 3, 1792                                                     
Remarks: Bride is daughter of Deborah McMahon, who consents.               
Notes: This marriage record was originally published in "Chronicles of the 
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Wm.                                                               
Date: Sep 6, 1792                                                          
Record ID: 2495                                                            
Description: Witness                                                       
Bond Date: Sep 6, 1792                                                     
Remarks: Bride is the ward of Elizabeth Walker, who consents.              
Notes: This marriage record was originally published in "Chronicles of the 
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, Margaret                                                          
Date: May 15, 1794                                                         
Record ID: 6013                                                            
Description: Spouse                                                        
Bond Date: May 13, 1794                                                    
Remarks: Groom was 21 in October, 1793.                                    
Notes: This marriage record was originally published in "Chronicles of the 
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
                                                                           
McMahon, James                                                             
Date: Feb 20, 1806                                                         
Record ID: 3108                                                            
Description: Spouse                                                        
Notes: This marriage record was originally published in "Chronicles of the 
Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original
Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.                        
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From: MesaV3013@aol.com                                                    
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 13:22:00 EST                                         
Subject: McMahan & Stockton:                                               
To: a0009792@netzero.net                                                   
                                                                           
David                                                                      
                                                                           
Here's is the Richard Stockton website:                                    
                                                                           
http://members.cox.net/trm/StocktonRichard.htm                             
                                                                           
It has items of Robert McMahan father and John McMahan son.                
                                                                           
Ray Reed                                                                   
                                                                           
MesaV3013@aol.com                                                          
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From: MesaV3013@aol.com                                                    
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:12:56 EST                                        
Subject: Robert McMahan:                                                   
To: a0009792@netzero.net                                                   
                                                                           
David                                                                      
                                                                           
I finally had a chance to read your 'Robert McMahan Project' in it's       
entirety. You have done an excellent job with your research. I also, would 
agree with the assumption of Thomas S. McMahan's middle name being         
Stockton, that was a great find ...                                        
                                                                           
I hadn't seen the Isaac K. McMahan piece by John Murdock. Quite interesting
to say the least. My cousin Marilyn and I were wondering how you determined
that Isaac was born on a raft. Our paternal grandmother was Anne Belle     
McMahan daughter of Martin Luther McMahan son of Isaac. Martin is buried at
Pana Mound Cemetery, Pana, Christian Co., Illinois.                        
                                                                           
The letters by George Churchill are quite unique and give you a first hand 
idea of what life was like in that time. I first saw those letters in      
January of 2005. There are other references in those letters of Isaac      
McMahan and Samuel Kelley. I never did find Fredi Perry, the owner of those
letters, it would be nice to have copies of the originals.                 
                                                                           
Tomorrow I'm going to the Wisconsin Historical Library at the UW Madison   
campus to research the Reeds. We're stuck in York and Adams counties of    
Pennsylvania in the mid 1700s. Madison is a lot closer then LDS in Utah and
the LDS doesn't lend out their books like they do with their films.        
                                                                           
Ray Reed                                                                   
MesaV3013@aol.com                                                          
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Date Sat, 18 Feb 2006 013507 -0600                                         
To MesaV3013@aol.com                                                       
From David Kelley (a0009792@netzero.net)                                   
Subject John D. McMahan, 1880 Census, father born on a raft ...            
                                                                           
Ray                                                                        
                                                                           
John D. McMahan family name is given as "Mahan" in the 1880 census - easy  
to miss them ... Says his father was born on a raft. Notes for John D.     
McMahan follow. Census image attached.                                     
                                                                           
David                                                                      
                                                                           
Notes:                                                                     
                                                                           
JOHN D. McMAHAN (son of Isaac K. McMahan & Catherine)                      
                                                                           
1850 United States Federal Census                                          
                                                                           
Name: Anson McMahan                                                        
Age: 26                                                                    
Estimated birth year: abt 1824                                             
Birth place: Illinois                                                      
Gender: Male                                                               
Home in 1850 (City, County, State): Not Stated, Sangamon, Illinois         
Page 161                                                                   
Roll M432-127                                                              
                                                                           
Page No. 72                                                                
                                                                           
Schedule No. 1 - Free inhabitants in (blank) in the County of Sangamon,    
State of Illinois enumerated by me on the 25 day of Sept., 1850. Jno. E.   
Anderson, Ass't Marshal.                                                   
                                                                           
Line 33-36 | Dwelling 499 | Family 499                                     
                                                                           
Anson McMahan         26  M  Farmer             800     Illinois           
Eveline McMahan       24  F                             Virginia           
Henry McMahan          7  M                             Illinois           
Martha McMahan         2  F                                do              
                                                                           
Line 37-39 | Dwelling 500 | Family 500                                     
                                                                           
John McMahan          24  M  Farmer            1000     Illinois           
Almira McMahan        24  F                                do              
John McMahan           5  M                                do              
                                                                           
Description                                                                
                                                                           
This database details those persons enumerated in the 1850 United States   
Federal Census, the Seventh Census of the United States.                   
                                                                           
Source Information                                                         
                                                                           
Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census. MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. 
Original data United States. 1850 United States Federal Census. M432, 1009 
rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.       
                                                                           
1860 United States Federal Census                                          
                                                                           
Name: John McMahan                                                         
Age in 1860: 34                                                            
Birthplace: Illinois                                                       
Home in 1860: Waverly, Morgan, Illinois                                    
Gender: Male                                                               
Post Office: Waverly                                                       
Roll: M653-213                                                             
Page: 589                                                                  
Year: 1860                                                                 
Head of Household: John McMahan                                            
                                                                           
Page No. 266                                                               
                                                                           
Schedule No. 1 - Free inhabitants in Waverly Precinct in the County of     
Morgan, State of Illinois enumerated by me on the 3rd day of Aug., 1860.   
W.L. Dunlap, Ass't Marshal. Post Office Waverly                            
                                                                           
Line 08-14 | Dwelling 1817 | Family 1785                                   
                                                                           
John McMahan          34 M  Farmer        1600  700     Illinois           
Almira   "            35 F                                 "               
John C. Godley        16 M                                 "               
Isaac McMahan          7 M                                 "               
Andrew   "             4 M                                 "               
Lemuel   "             2 M                                 "               
George   "             1 M                                 "               
                                                                           
Description                                                                
                                                                           
This database details those persons enumerated in the 1860 United States   
Federal Census, the Eighth Census of the United States.                    
                                                                           
Source Information                                                         
                                                                           
Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census. MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. 
Original data United States. 1860 United States Federal Census. M653, 1438 
rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.       
                                                                           
1870 United States Federal Census                                          
                                                                           
Home in 1870: Waverly, Morgan, Illinois                                    
Post Office: Waverly                                                       
Roll M593-263                                                              
Page: 636                                                                  
Year: 1870                                                                 
                                                                           
Page No. 34                                                                
                                                                           
Schedule No. 1 - Inhabitants in Precinct of Waverly in the County of       
Morgan, State of Illinois enumerated by me on the 17th day of June, 1870.  
O.J. Zyate-?, Ass't Marshal. Post Office Waverly                           
                                                                           
Line 6-12 | Dwelling 259 | Family 260                                      
                                                                           
McMahan, John        43 M W  Farmer             5940  982     Illinois     
   "   , Almira      44 F W  Keeps House                          "        
   "   , Isaac       17 M W                                       "        
   "   , Andrew      12 M W                                       "        
   "   , Lemuel      11 M W                                       "        
   "   , George      10 M W                                       "        
   "   , Clement      7 M W                                       "        
                                                                           
Description                                                                
                                                                           
This database details those persons enumerated in the 1870 United States   
Federal Census, the Ninth Census of the United States.                     
                                                                           
Source Information                                                         
                                                                           
Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census. MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003. 
Indexed by Ancestry.com from microfilmed schedules of the 1870 U.S. Federal
Decennial Census. 1870 United States Federal Census. MyFamily.com, Inc.,   
2003. Original data Data imaged from National Archives and Records         
Administration. 1870 Federal Population Census. M593, 1,761 rolls; part of 
Minnesota T132, 13 rolls. Washington, D.C. National Archives and Records   
Administration.                                                            
                                                                           
FamilySearch                                                               
                                                                           
Household Record                                                           
1880 United States Census                                                  
                                                                           
Household                                                                  
                                                                           
Name-Relation-Marital Status-Gender-Race-Age-Birthplace                    
Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace                         
                                                                           
John D. (Mc)MAHAN   Self M Male   W 53 IL Farmer            ON A RAFT  AR  
Almira (Mc)MAHAN    Wife M Female W 54 IL Keeping House     KY         KY  
Isaac S. (Mc)MAHAN  Son  S Male   W 27 IL Farmer-At Home    IL         IL  
Lemuel (Mc)MAHAN    Son  S Male   W 22 IL Works On The Farm IL         IL  
George (Mc)MAHAN    Son    Male   W 20 IL Farm Laborer      IL         IL  
Clement (Mc)MAHAN   Son    Male   W 16 IL Works On Farm     IL         IL  
                                                                           
Source Information                                                         
                                                                           
Census Place: Waverly, Morgan, Illinois                                    
Family History Library: Film 1254238                                       
NA Film Number: T9-0238                                                    
Page Number: 323D                                                          
                                                                           
© 1999-2002 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc.  All rights reserved.            
                                                                           
1880 United States Federal Census                                          
                                                                           
Name: John D. MAHAN                                                        
Age: 53                                                                    
Estimated birth year: 1827                                                 
Birthplace: Illinois                                                       
Occupation: Farmer                                                         
Relationship to head-of-household: Self                                    
Home in 1880: Waverly, Morgan, Illinois                                    
Race: White                                                                
Gender: Male                                                               
Spouse's name: Almira MAHAN                                                
Father's birthplace: ON A RAFT                                             
Mother's birthplace: AR                                                    
                                                                           
Image Source                                                               
                                                                           
Year 1880; Census Place Waverly, Morgan, Illinois; Roll T9-238; Family     
History Film 1254238; Page 323D; Enumeration District 178; Image 0649.     
                                                                           
Page No. 12                                                                
                                                                           
State: Illinois                                                            
County: Morgan                                                             
Supervisor's Dist No: 6                                                    
Enumeration Dist No: 178                                                   
                                                                           
SCHEDULE 1. - Inhabitants in Town 13 Range 8 in the County of Morgan, State
of Illinois, enumerated by me on the 8th day of June, 1880. Samuel F.      
Moodton, Enumerator.                                                       
                                                                           
Line 18-23 | Dwelling 109 | Family 109                                     
                                                                           
(Mc)Mahan, John D.     W M 53        Farmer             Ill  on a raft  Ark
    "    , Almira      W F 54  Wife  Keeping house      Ill  Ky         Ky 
    "    , Isaac S.    W M 27  Son   ? at home          Ill  Ill        Ill
    "    , Lemuel      W M 22  Son   Works on the farm  Ill  Ill        Ill
    "    , George      W M 20  Son   Farm laborer       Ill  Ill        Ill
    "    , Clement     W M 16  Son   Works on farm      Ill  Ill        Ill
                                                                           
Line 24-26 | Dwelling 110 | Family 110                                     
                                                                           
(Mc)Mahan, Andrew J.   W M  23       Farmer             Ill  Ill        Ill
    "    , Mary        W F  20 Wife  Keeping house      Ill  Ill        Ill
    "    , Carrie E.   W F   1 Daug                     Ill  Ill        Ill
                                                                           
1900 United States Federal Census                                          
                                                                           
Name: Almira McMahan                                                       
Home in 1900: Waverly, Morgan, Illinois                                    
Age: 74                                                                    
Estimated birth year: 1826                                                 
Birthplace: Illinois                                                       
Race: White                                                                
Relationship to head-of-house: Head                                        
                                                                           
Image source                                                               
                                                                           
Year 1900; Census Place Waverly, Morgan, Illinois; Roll T623 332; Page 5B; 
Enumeration District 102.                                                  
                                                                           
TWELFTH CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES                                        
SCHEDULE NO. 1 - POPULATION                                                
                                                                           
State: Illinois                                                            
County: Morgan                                                             
Supervisor's District No: 10                                               
Enumeration District No: 102                                               
Sheet: 5 B                                                                 
                                                                           
Township or other division of county: Waverly Precinct exclusive of Waverly
City. Enumerated by me on the 8th day of June, 1900. George Kienks-?,      
Enumerator.                                                                
                                                                           
Line 95-96 | Dwelling 110 | Family 110                                     
                                                                           
McMahan, Almira    Head    W F Nov 1825 74 Wd 8-5   Ill  Kentucky  Kentucky
Caruthers, Newton  Nephew  W M Apr 1851 49 Sg       Ill  Illinois  Illinois
                                                                           
Description                                                                
                                                                           
This database is an index to all individuals enumerated in the 1900 United 
States Federal Census, the Twelfth Census of the United States.            
                                                                           
Source Information                                                         
                                                                           
Ancestry.com. 1900 U.S. Federal Census. MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Original 
data United States. 1900 United States Federal Census. T623, 1854 rolls.   
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.              
                                                                           
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900 (Morgan County, Illinois)     
                                                                           
Groom              Bride                 Date        Vol./Page  License No.
                                                                           
MCMAHAN, ANDREW J  SPRINGER, MARY A      09/13/1878  00C/0121   00001449   
MCMAHAN, ANSON C   HAMER, EVELINE D      06/24/1845  00B/0047   00001421   
MCMAHAN, EVAN T    KING, MARGARET (MRS)  08/12/1875  00C/0097   00000540   
MCMAHAN, GEORGE    ARMSTRONG, LOUELLA    01/12/1887    C/ 211       3921   
MCMAHAN, GEORGE    TALKINGTON, JULIA E   11/22/1886    C/ 209       3871   
MCMAHAN, GEORGE W  REYNOLDS, MARY E      01/12/1890    D/  28       4775   
MCMAHAN, ISAIAH    TURNER, NANCY         11/21/1847    B/  57       1755   
MCMAHAN, JESSE W   JOHNSON, MARY         01/12/1840  00B/0022   00000638   
MCMAHAN, JOEL L    DEATHERAGE, JULIA E   10/14/1884  00C/0184   00003290   
MCMAHAN, JOHN D    TURNER, ELMIRA        03/21/1849    B/  66       2019   
                                                                           
http//www.ilsos.net/GenealogyMWeb/MarriageSearchServlet                    
                                                                           
DEATH REGISTER                                                             
MORGAN COUNTY ILLINOIS                                                     
DEATH RECORDS - FILE # 2                                                   
                                                                           
SURNAMES McDa-McNu                                                         
                                                                           
Name McMahan, John D.                                                      
Born IL                                                                    
Sex M                                                                      
Color W                                                                    
Maritial Status Mar                                                        
Died 23 Jan 1893                                                           
Where J'ville SH (Jacksonville State Hospital, Morgan County, Illinois)    
Buried Waverly, IL                                                         
Age 67Y                                                                    
Source Bk 2 pg 83                                                          
                                                                           
http//www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/morgan2/death2/mcd2_m2.html                 
                                                                           
WAVERLY EAST CEMETERY                                                      
Waverly, Illinois                                                          
T13N-R8W-3PM                                                               
                                                                           
SURNAMES = I - J - K - L - M                                               
                                                                           
Cemetery inscriptions were read by Mrs. Ruth Ann Stewart during October,   
1981. In addition to reading the grave markers, other burials have been    
gleaned from obituaries, cemetery records, records maintained by Mrs. Myra 
Martin and from material belonging to the Morgan Area G. & H. Society.     
                                                                           
This data might help someone searching a particular surname without knowing
who a female family member had married. I have additional information and  
obituaries for many of these burials and would be happy to supply same upon
request - Shirley Aleguas (salegaus@motion.net)                            
                                                                           
MCMAHAN                                                                    
                                                                           
George L., 13 Dec 1860-23 Apr 1920                                         
Mary Julia Ann (Stewart), 26 May 1854-23 May 1942                          
Everett Groves, Died 13 Apr 1958                                           
Martha E. (Childs), 19 Oct 1899-22 Dec 1968                                
                                                                           
MCMAHAN                                                                    
                                                                           
Isaac S., 5 Sept 1852-30 Oct 1921                                          
Josephine Peck, 25 Aug 1863-20 Nov 1917                                    
Nellie C., Died 27 Dec 1977                                                
Willard, 18 June 1905-1 Sept 1909                                          
Avis, Died 8 Feb 1977, 88 Yr, Dau of Isaac & Josie                         
Eva, Died 23 Jan 1993                                                      
Russell Samuel, 8 Apr 1899-6 Oct 1990                                      
                                                                           
MCMAHAN                                                                    
                                                                           
John D., Died 23 Jan 1893                                                  
Joel Lemuel, 22 Mar 1858-17 Mar 1938                                       
Julia Etta (Deatherage), 14 Dec 1863-11 Sept 1941                          
                                                                           
MCMAHAN                                                                    
                                                                           
M.J. (Foster) King, 27 July 1855-31 Jan 1930, Mother                       
                                                                           
MCMAHAN                                                                    
                                                                           
Ollie L., 6 June 1895-Died, 14 Mar 1939, IL PFC 71 Field Art. 11 Div       
Bessie (Challans), 31 Mar 1895-12 Apr 1953                                 
                                                                           
http//www.rootsweb.com/~ilmorgan/twp-wav_im.htm                            
                                                                           
Waverly Township, Morgan County, Illinois                                  
                                                                           
Morgan County ILGenWeb © Mary Ann Kaylor & Shirley Aleguas July 1999. In   
keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data
and images may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message 
remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced
in any format for profit or for other presentation without express         
permission by the contributor(s).                                          
                                                                           
TURNER Cemetery                                                            
NE1/4, NE1/4, Section 21, T13N-R8W-3PM                                     
                                                                           
Contents for this page are courtesy of Pat Hall whose g.g.g.grandfather    
James Rhea, and his brother Lewis Rhea rest here. Turner Cemetery is       
located in Township 13 North, Range 8 West, Section 21, Morgan County,     
Illinois. It is located west of Route 111, south and west of Waverly,      
Illinois. This cemetery was read in the 1960's by Guy and Myra N. Martin.  
                                                                           
John D. McMahon                                                            
Died Jan. 23 1893                                                          
66 yr. 4 mo. 4da.                                                          
                                                                           
Almira Turner Collins                                                      
Wife of John D.                                                            
Nov. 8, 1825-Dec. 31, 1921                                                 
                                                                           
Clement Loyd                                                               
Son of J.D. & Almira (McMahan)                                             
June 20, 1863-July 22, 1882                                                
                                                                           
Ivan T. (McMahan)                                                          
Sept. 1, 1847-Mar 8, 1913                                                  
                                                                           
Nancy M. Turner                                                            
Wife of Isaiah                                                             
16/18 Dec 1830-June 9, 1882                                                
                                                                           
http//www.rootsweb.com/~ilmorgan/twp-waverly.htm#turnalhttp//              
www.rootsweb.com/~ilmorgan/twp-waverly.htm#turnal                          
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 09:48:54 -0600                                      
To: MesaV3013@aol.com                                                      
From: David Kelley (a0009792@netzero.net)                                  
Subject: Re: Robert McMahan                                                
                                                                           
Ray                                                                        
                                                                           
Thank you for your compliment of the Robert McMahan research ... I have    
added what you sent ... also transcribed Nancy (Kester) McMahan's          
Revolutionary War application file, will have all of this ready for the    
page before long ... It was an unexpected find of John Murdock's journal   
mentioning Isaac K. McMahan who was converted (at least for a time) a      
member and ordained an Elder in the LDS church ... I have an idea he wasn't
able to convince his family to follow him and "go to Zion" which I believe 
(the church) may have already relocated from New York to Kirtland, Ohio ...
John Murdock's missionary companion may have been Orson Pratt ... I think  
this could be easily found in the church's records. I hope some new leads  
may come as a result of the page ... my fourth great-grandfather Giles     
Kelley can not be, yet, connected to any family ... working on this also   
... Thanks for writing and your interest in this, it is appreciated ...    
                                                                           
David                                                                      
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From: MesaV3013@aol.com                                                    
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:28:05 EST                                        
Subject: Samuel Kelley:                                                    
To: a0009792@netzero.net                                                   
                                                                           
David                                                                      
                                                                           
In the letter by George Churchill of Troy, Madison Co., Illinois, Oct. 30, 
1849 he writes the following:                                              
                                                                           
"Your former admirer, Rev. Samuel Kelley, has removed back to Arkansas. He 
and his father-in-law, Isaac K. McMahan, had seceded from Methodism, and   
joined the Baptists. Samuel Steele Hunter and Robert McMahan have gone with
him. Their destination is Pike Co., Ark."                                  
                                                                           
I contacted the St. Clair Genealogical Society and paid for the pamphlet   
"Bethel Baptist Church Minutes 1806-1851." There are a number of references
to Samuel Kelley and Isaac McMahan in it. Nothing earth shattering, but    
just a confirmation of the letter by George Churchill.                     
                                                                           
I'm sure you know that Isaac McMahan spent time, early 1860s, in a mental  
institution in Jacksonville, as did John D, and Robert in Morgan Co. late  
1890s ...                                                                  
                                                                           
Thanks for the updates.                                                    
                                                                           
Ray Reed                                                                   
MesaV3013@aol.com                                                          
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:49:52 -0600                                      
To: MesaV3013@aol.com                                                      
From: David Kelley (a0009792@netzero.net)                                  
Subject: Re: Samuel Kelley                                                 
                                                                           
Samuel Kelley, the subject of this sketch, is a prominent planter and      
minister of Muddy Fork Township, Howard County, Ark., and was born May 5,  
1817, in Clark County, (then Missouri) Territory, which is now Pike County,
Ark. He is a son of William and Rebecca (McMahan) Kelley, who were married 
in Illinois in 1814, and moved from Illinois to Arkansas, in the fall of   
1815. His father was a soldier in the War of 1812, under Whitesides, being 
made paymaster general in Jackson`s administration. Afterward he was       
justice of the of the peace for many years; was also probate judge of Pike 
County, and by profession a Baptist minister, who finally changed his      
views, uniting with the Christian Church, and a practicing physician for   
many years. The subject of our sketch spent his youth in Arkansas,         
attending school, beginning business for himself when twenty-one years old,
by farming on the home farm. In 1838, he went to Illinois and was married  
to Rebecca McMahan, a daughter of Isaac K. and Catherine McMahan, June 4,  
(1840). To them were born eight children, of which only three are living:  
Daniel W., Rebecca C., and Stephen N.C. Mr. Kelley commenced the study of  
theology in his early youth, taking it up with renewed interest after his  
marriage; was licensed by the Methodist Episcopal Church as an exhorter;   
continued with that denomination some time, afterward changing to the      
Baptist Church, in which he was ordained in 1848. The next year the family 
moved to Arkansas, where Mr. Kelley entered the milling business and bought
a tract of 368 acres of land in Pike County. In 1872 he was elected to the 
Legislature from that county, serving one term. He introduced an amendment 
to the administrator's law, which was passed (this was the first Arkansas  
Legislature to introduce the idea of local option), also a bill which      
separates the county and probate courts. Returning from the Legislature,   
the subject of this sketch took up farming and preaching again, until he   
was elected on the Union ticket a member of the Arkansas Seceding          
Convention. About 1853 he commenced to build up the Church of Christ,      
according to the Scriptures. The war interfered with this work, but        
afterward he worked with renewed activity, establishing a large church.    
July 27, 1876, he married Mrs. Nancy Horton of Arkansas, who is still      
living. Their one child died in infancy. He moved upon his present farm in 
1876, is a Master Mason, is an active Democrat and a highly successful man.
                                                                           
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas, 1890, Howard     
County, pages 277-278.                                                     
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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:26:58 -0600                                      
To: MesaV3013@aol.com                                                      
From: David Kelley (a0009792@netzero.net)                                  
Subject: Re: Samuel Kelley                                                 
                                                                           
Ray                                                                        
                                                                           
I very much appreciate this excerpt from the letter of George Churchill ...
there are a few "gems" of information you likely would not have anywhere   
else ... Samuel Kelley formed some of his own churches in southwest        
Arkansas that had some practices not typical of ... other churches ... His 
doctrine that someone could "fall away" even after they had been           
"regenerated" was not acceptable to many ... It seems they also had foot-  
washing and open communion - I have a book, very good research, of these   
churches, The Kelleyite Church of Christ ...                               
                                                                           
I also appreciate knowing the time Robert McMahan (Jr.) came to Pike       
County, they are on the Pike County tax lists for the early years of (the) 
1850s ... Thomas McMahan (and) his son Francis McMahan came in 1848 ... I  
imagine the mother (Nancy) came also, or at least made visits (to          
Arkansas, if able) ... One account says she lived to be 105. Possible?     
Apparently she was born about 1777, age 80 in January 1858, and her Rev.   
War. pension (application) file has a "jacket" referring to acts of        
Congress as late as 1873 ... It seems there are several documents missing  
from this file based on an empty jacket ... Her attorney misplaced her     
papers in the first place and they were delayed before getting to the      
Commissioner of Pensions in Washington (City) D.C. in 1860.                
                                                                           
Thanks again,                                                              
                                                                           
David                                                                      
                                                                           
Notes: Nancy McMahan has not been found in the 1870 U.S. Census            
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:04:51 -0600                                      
To: MesaV3013@aol.com                                                      
From: David Kelley (a0009792@netzero.net)                                  
Subject: Re: Robert McMahan:                                               
                                                                           
Ray                                                                        
                                                                           
... I reviewed the Revolutionary file of Nancy McMahan, the (empty) jacket 
refers to an Act of Congress ... (in) 1873 but written on the outside of it
says "no folder" ... no papers for this one, and the letter of her         
attorneys indicates there are affidavits by the Lemen brothers and they are
also missing from the file ... I noted the number on the jacket (that)     
Young & Niles letter was enclosed, is "1512" and it may be the papers are  
filed elsewhere if they still exist ...                                    
                                                                           
I have finished updating the Robert McMahan file including the information 
you provided ... thank you                                                 
                                                                           
David                                                                      
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From: MesaV3013@aol.com                                                    
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:00:15 EST                                        
Subject: Re: Robert McMahan:                                               
To: a0009792@netzero.net                                                   
                                                                           
David                                                                      
                                                                           
Thank you for the information, the website is excellent. I wasn't sure if  
the copy of the newspaper article, Robert McMahan execution, I sent had the
source data included. It is a copy of the Virginia Gazette, June 1, 1769,  
from the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library in Williamsburg, Virginia. My     
cousin Marilyn visited Williamsburg in November of 2003 and toured the     
site.                                                                      
                                                                           
Ray Reed                                                                   
MesaV3013@aol.com                                                          
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From: J. Christian (mailto:jsxian@mindspring.com)                          
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 3:45 AM                                   
To: McMAHON-L@rootsweb.com                                                 
Subject: [McMAHON-L] 2/2 - McMAHANs in Bureau Of Land Management -         
General Land Office Records                                                
                                                                           
... the BLM records accessable via www.glorecords.blm.gov have been updated
since I last posted their records to the list. This is N thru W for        
McMahan.                                                                   
                                                                           
If you find a name on which you want more info as to location - go to the  
site and use the search function and then click on 'details' for location  
an such. After you have the loction you can search for the location and    
find the neighbors. However - these are ONLY Government to individual      
transactions and not EVERY land transaction.                               
                                                                           
Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records                    
                                                                           
Patentee Name      State      Issue Date  Doc. Nr.  Accession/Serial Nr.   
                                                                           
MCMAHAN, ROBERT      IL       12/02/1839   13673       IL2170_.013         
MCMAHAN, ROBERT      IL       12/02/1839   13946       IL2170_.270         
MCMAHAN, ROBERT      IL       10/20/1834    4047       IL0190_.094         
MCMAHAN, ROBERT      IL       10/20/1834    4048       IL0190_.095         
MCMAHAN, THOMAS S    IL       05/11/1829    1132       IL0130_.167         
MCMAHAN, THOMAS S    IL       05/25/1841   21744       IL2320_.324         
                                                                           
Jim Christian                                                              
Chattanooga, TN                                                            
jsxian@mindspring.com                                                      
                                                                           
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From:  "BJ" (bmahan@texas.net)                                             
To: MCMAHAN-L@rootsweb.com                                                 
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Subject: [MCMAHAN] Lincoln Co., KY - Robert McMahan                        
                                                                           
Fwd: bjtexas@bigfoot.com                                                   
                                                                           
The following was extracted from a message originally posted to the Lincoln
Co., KY GenConnect xxx board. Full text of the message may be found at the 
URL provided below....                                                     
                                                                           
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From: "Glenda Scarborough" (P650cc@aol.com)                                
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 11:27 PM                                  
Source: GC-Lincoln Co. Ky Query Forum                                      
URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ky/Lincoln/2536        
Subject: Margaret Clark                                                    
                                                                           
Surname: Clark, McMahan                                                    
                                                                           
I am looking for information about Margaret Clark(e). She was born about   
1762 in Crab Orchard, Lincon County and married Robert McMahan in 1785.    
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From: (McMahanpest@sbcglobal.net)                                          
To: MCMAHAN-L@rootsweb.com                                                 
Message-ID: (MFMBM021HkidcDjoYAP00004e06@mfmbm021.myfamilycorp.local)      
Subject: [MCMAHAN] Re: MCMAHAN IN GREEN CO ILL OR MADISON CO ILL           
                                                                           
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.       
                                                                           
Surnames: MCMAHAN                                                          
Classification: Query                                                      
                                                                           
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Robert, Sr. (had) Thomas McMahan who had Francis McMahan who had Albert    
McMahan who had John, Sr. who had John, Jr. who had John McMahan III who   
had John McMahan IV (my husband) and we have John McMahan V ...            
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From:  "Jenny Kernan" (rainysnana@hotmail.com)                             
To: MCMAHAN-L@rootsweb.com                                                 
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Subject: [MCMAHAN] Robert McMahan & Mrs. Joan?                             
                                                                           
I am looking for more information on the following couple:                 
                                                                           
Robert McMahan                                                             
B. abt 1706 Augusta VA                                                     
M. abt 1722 Augusta VA                                                     
D. 1769 Augusta Co. VA                                                     
                                                                           
Spouse                                                                     
                                                                           
Mrs. Joan (?)                                                              
B. abt 1709 Augusta VA                                                     
D. after 1738                                                              
                                                                           
Thanks                                                                     
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Caruthers, Samuel  McMahan, Emily    01 Dec 1846  Illinois Greene County   
Clark, James E.    McMahan, Avaline  08 Apr 1839  Illinois St. Clair County
Conway, Nancy      McMahan, Robert   25 Feb 1818  Illinois Madison County  
Johnson, Mary      McMahan, Jesse W. 12 Jan 1840  Illinois Morgan County   
McMahan, Caroline  Moore, Phillip W. 31 Dec 1840  Illinois Madison County  
McMahan, Susan K.  Renfro, Creath    25 Dec 1827  Illinois Madison County  
                                                                           
Dodd, Jordan. Illinois Marriages to 1850. Electronic transcription of      
marriage records held by the individual counties in Illinois, 1997.        
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RW Robert MCMAHAN/MCMAHON                                                  
Posted by: Jen White (jawhite99@hotmail.com)                               
Date: March 12, 2000 at 08:24:02                                           
                                                                           
Can anyone help with the RW soldier Robert McMahon? I have from the        
Abstracts of Rev. War Pension Files: "Robert McMahan or Robert McMahon,    
Nancy, R16357, VA Line, wid appl 20 Jan 1858 Madison Co IL aged 80, sol    
lived in Augusta Co VA at enl, sol m Nancy Nester in Jun 1795, sol d in    
1823."                                                                     
                                                                           
I have from the Arkansas Family Historian that he m a Nancy KESTER. I am   
researching the following line, but am mostly interested in the proof of   
Rebecca McMahan's parentage and leads on this family on back. This is my   
line:                                                                      
                                                                           
Daughter Rebecca McMahan b. May 14 1800 IL d. 9 Oct 1857. M June 14 1814   
William Kelley b 17 Dec 1794 in TN.                                        
                                                                           
Son Robert McMahan Kelley b. 31 Mar 1821 m 1839 Pike Co, AK Sarah (some    
say CARPENTER for last name, but this is not from the AK Historian).       
                                                                           
Their daughter Martha Elvira KELLEY b. 11 Jan 1845 Pike County, Arkansas d.
20 Jan 1911.                                                               
                                                                           
Martha KELLEY m. Andrew Armstrong Stell(e) 25 Jul 1861 (per LDS).          
                                                                           
Their daughter Nancy Alice STELL b. 8 Oct 1864 in Missouri Township, Pike  
County, Arkansas m. John Alexander CRAIGHEAD b. 25 Mar 1859 in Tennessee on
October 18, 1880.                                                          
                                                                           
Their daughter Ruby Alice CRAIGHEAD b. Dec 22, 1898 in Texas, died May 1991
m. Roy D. WHITE b. 1887 in Tennessee. They were my gggrandparents.         
                                                                           
Thank you very much and hello new cousins!                                 
                                                                           
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Re: RW Robert MCMAHAN/MCMAHON                                              
Posted by: David Kelley (a0009792@netzero.net)                             
Date: April 04, 2000 at 13:18:55                                           
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William Kelley and "Rebecca Kelley my wife formerly Rebecca McMahan        
daughter and child of Robert McMahan late of the County of Madison in the  
State of Illinois" and (sister) of Nathaniel McMahan of the said County of 
Madison in the State of Illinois (both of whom are now deceased) of the    
County of Pike in the State of Arkansas have constituted and appointed ... 
our son Samuel Kelley at present in the County of Madison in the State of  
Illinois our true and lawful attorney ... October 3, 1839. (Signed) William
Kelley, Rebecca Kelley. (Affidavit of David Huddleston. Affidavit of David 
S. Dickson. Affidavit of William Kelley, Presiding Judge of Pike County    
Court, Arkansas.) Power of Attorney, Madison County, Illinois Deed Record  
Volume 26, page 33-35. Family History Library film 0484058, item 2. Salt   
Lake City, Utah.                                                           
                                                                           
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Murder Trial of ROBERT MCMAHAN, 1769 VA                                    
Posted by: Diann Danska (lithouse52@aol.com)                               
Date: July 11, 2000 at 14:23:59                                            
                                                                           
I am curious to know more about the arrest and trial of Robert McMahan of  
Augusta Co., Va. in Nov. 1768 for the murder of Robert Reaburn. He was to  
be sent to Williamsburg for trial and he died in 1769. Was he convicted and
executed? Does anyone know the circumstances of the trial? I would         
appreciate any info on this subject.                                       
                                                                           
Thanks, Diann                                                              
                                                                           
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Re: Murder Trial of ROBERT MCMAHAN, 1769 VA                                
Posted by: Bob McMahan (bobsonoma@aol.com)                                 
Date: January 03, 2001 at 14:04:50                                         
In Reply to: Murder Trial of ROBERT MCMAHAN, 1769 VA by Diann Danska       
                                                                           
Robert was my great great great great great grandfather and sold land to   
Robert Reaburn. I can let you know what year that was but don't have the   
information with me at this moment. Don't know why he killed Reaburn. Do   
you have any info on the trial?                                            
                                                                           
Thanks, Bob McMahan                                                        
                                                                           
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Posted by: Bob McMahan (bobsonoma@aol.com)                                 
Date: January 03, 2001 at 14:12:26                                         
In Reply to: Murder Trial of ROBERT MCMAHAN, 1769 VA by Diann Danska       
                                                                           
Hi Diann:                                                                  
                                                                           
Do you have any info on where great(5) grandfather Robert may have come    
from originally?                                                           
                                                                           
Thanks, Bob                                                                
                                                                           
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Re: Murder Trial of ROBERT MCMAHAN, 1769 VA                                
Posted by: Diann Danska (lithouse52@aol.com)                               
Date: January 11, 2001 at 19:24:14                                         
In Reply to: Re: Murder Trial of ROBERT MCMAHAN, 1769 VA by Bob McMahan    
                                                                           
Bob -- I don't know any more about the trial. I have just seen abstracts of
the court proceedings in Augusta Co., remanding him for trial in           
Williamsburg. Was Robert Raeburn related to him by marriage? ...           
                                                                           
Thanks, Diann                                                              
                                                                           
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Re: Murder Trial of ROBERT MCMAHAN, 1769 VA                                
Posted by: Jaime Woods (lonerock89@cs.com)                                 
Date: May 15, 2001 at 20:40:11                                             
In Reply to: Murder Trial of ROBERT MCMAHAN, 1769 VA by Diann Danska       
                                                                           
I can't find anything either on the outcome of this issue ... I searched   
through Virginia Genweb and the US Genweb by state, and ancestry.com       
doesn't show any more info either ... I am descended from Robert's brother 
Thomas ...                                                                 
                                                                           
Personally, it looks to me like it was either over a land dispute (since   
they owned land bordering each other) or it was over the Reburn wife ...   
as Robert (McMahan) married her after Mr. Reburn's death ...               
                                                                           
Jaime Woods                                                                
                                                                           
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Posted by: Gail Cartee (tsalagiog@cs.com)                                  
Date: July 09, 2001 at 20:04:57                                            
In Reply to: Re: Murder Trial of ROBERT MCMAHAN, 1769 VA by Jaime Woods    
                                                                           
Do you know if Thomas's family went to Tenn? ...                           
                                                                           
Gail                                                                       
                                                                           
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McMahan Descendants of Robert McMahan Augusta Co.                          
Posted by: Danny Tucker (thumper_nam@yahoo.com)                            
Date: March 06, 2002 at 05:04:33                                           
                                                                           
I am trying to connect as many of the descendants of Robert and Joan as I  
can find. My line is Robert and Joan, John McMahan and Deborah Stockton,   
Robert McMahan Sr. and Nancy Kester, Robert McMahan Jr. and Nancy Conway,  
George W. McMahan and Mary Stuart, Charles Elmer McMahan and Mary Magdaline
Janin, Charles Joseph McMahan and Opha A. Capehart, Mamye Eileen McMahan   
and Leon Hollis Tucker, Gary Leon Tucker and Shirley Rose Wyatt, Danny Lee 
Tucker and Lucy Katherine Ziegler. I will collect and share all the data I 
have and get.                                                              
                                                                           
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Re: McMahan Descendants of Robert McMahan Augusta Co.                      
Posted by: Catherine Pethoud (cpethoud@aol.com)                            
Date: March 21, 2002 at 15:29:29                                           
In Reply to: McMahan Descendants of Robert McMahan Augusta Co.             
             by Danny Tucker                                               
                                                                           
I am trying to trace my Gr Grandfather back and I am stuck. He was born in 
LaPorte, In. He, Peter S. Blake, was married to Mary McMahan whose parents 
came from Augusta Co. VA and she may have been born there. She had a       
brother John (that I know of). Her parents were Deborah Stockton and John  
McMahan and John's parents were Robert and Joan (?) McMahan. I was also    
wondering if he was the same Robt. that was on trial for murder in 1769.   
Thanks, I would appreciate any information.                                
                                                                           
Catherine Pethoud                                                          
                                                                           
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Re: McMahan Descendants of Robert McMahan Augusta Co.                      
Posted by: Paula (jchabek@peoplepc.com)                                    
Date: April 03, 2002 at 16:05:02                                           
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             by Catherine Pethoud                                          
                                                                           
Hi Catherine,                                                              
                                                                           
I have John McMahan married to Deborah Stockton they had 7 children. I     
don't have much on Mary McMahan except she married Peter Black 03 Spe 1792.
Not sure what other information you are looking for but if I can help let  
me know ... You can e-mail me direct if you'd like at JCHABEK@PEOPLEPC.COM 
                                                                           
Good Luck.                                                                 
                                                                           
Paula                                                                      
                                                                           
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Re: McMahan Descendants of Robert McMahan Augusta Co.                      
Posted by: Danny Tucker (thumper_nam@yahoo.com)                            
Date: May 30, 2002 at 05:41:12                                             
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             by Catherine Pethoud                                          
                                                                           
Catherine                                                                  
                                                                           
Here's some info I have. John McMahan and Deborah Stockton, they had 10    
children. Nancy born 1752, William born 1754 married Rebecca Patton, Robert
born 1760 married Margaret Clarke (Clark) and Nancy Kester, Mary McMahan   
born 1762 married Peter Blake, Elizabeth McMahan born 1764 married Hugh    
Donage, James McMahan born 1766, Mary McMahon born 1770, Elizabeth McMahon 
born 1771, James McMahon born 1773, John McMahon born 1755 married Rosannah
Hardin. I don't know why some of the chidren last name is spelled McMahon  
but in my research I have found this in about six family groups.           
                                                                           
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Re: McMahan Descendants of Robert McMahan Augusta Co.                      
Posted by: Jean Copeland (ajcop@sbcblobal.net)                             
Date: February 07, 2003 at 22:46:54                                        
In Reply to: McMahan Descendants of Robert McMahan Augusta Co.             
             by Danny Tucker                                               
                                                                           
Danny,                                                                     
                                                                           
I am (a descendant) of Susan McMahan, her father is Robert McMahan and     
mother is Nancy Kester. I found your tree on Ancestry.com we are sorta     
cousins. I have a copy of some newspaper clippings and a story about one of
the Mcmahans and an Indian raid. It concerns Susan, her husband Creath     
Renfro, and her immediate family. Creath and Susan are my gg-grandparents. 
I will be happy to share information with you.                             
                                                                           
Jean Renfro Copeland                                                       
                                                                           
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Date:     Sat, 28 Apr 2001 20:30:40 -0400                                  
Reply-To: Mickey Fournier (mfournier@ATLANTIC.NET)                         
Sender:   "Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family        
          history." (VA-ROOTS@LISTLVA.LIB.VA.US)                           
From:     Mickey Fournier (mfournier@ATLANTIC.NET)                         
Subject:  Raeburns of Augusta Co., VA                                      
                                                                           
Maggie Phillips inquired:                                                  
                                                                           
Looking for the parents of Jane RAEBURN. She m. Andrew McCOMB circa 1737;  
she d. in Augusta County, VA after 15 March 1788. Andrew McCOMB d. Between 
March 15 and June 1788 in Augusta.                                         
                                                                           
The name RAEBURN caught my eye. I am a McMAHON/McMAHAN/McMECHAN, etc.,     
etc., descendant and I found these notes quite some time ago in Chalkleys, 
which is on line at the Augusta County website now. There may be much more 
REABURN information. I only copied that which connected to the McMAHON     
family. This Robert McMAHON was a piece of work! Do you recognize these    
folks?                                                                     
                                                                           
16 May 1754, Augusta County, VA. Margaret REBURN's bond as admx of estate  
of Edward REBURN, with sureties, Robert McMAHON and Henry REBURN.          
                                                                           
1758, Augusta Co., VA. Margaret REABURN, widow, has married with Robert    
McMAHON and she is summoned to show cause why her children should not be   
bound out.                                                                 
                                                                           
21 Oct 1765, Augusta Co, VA. Robert McMAHON and Margaret, his wife, to Hugh
DONEGHE, land on North River. Wit: John REBURN.                            
                                                                           
21 Nov 1768, Augusta Co., VA. Robert McMAHON, committal to trial on        
suspicion of the murder of Robert REBURN. Recognizance of witnesses, Jean  
REBURN, John REBURN, Thomas McMAHAN.                                       
                                                                           
26 Nov 1768, Augusta Co., VA. Robert McMAHON sent to Williamsburg for trial
on the murder trial.                                                       
                                                                           
26 Jun 1769, Augusta Co., VA. Robert McMAHON vs. John JONES, suit abates   
due to plaintiffs death.                                                   
                                                                           
Mildred "Mickey" Fournier                                                  
PO Box 1967, Lake City, FL 32056                                           
mailto:MFournier@atlantic.net                                              
                                                                           
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                            of Nancy McMahan of                            
                          Madison County, Illinois                         
                         for a Revolutionary Pension                       
                            under Acts of July 29                          
                            1848, and February 3rd                         
                              1853, as Widow of                            
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       Declaration of a widow for a Revolutionary pension under the        
         acts of Congress of July 29, 1848, and February 3, 1853.          
                                                                           
STATE OF Illinois                                                          
                     Sct.                                                  
County of Madison                                                          
                                                                           
Be it remembered, that on this 20th day of January, in the year or our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, personally appeared before the 
County court within and for the county and State aforesaid, Nancy McMahan, 
a resident of the county of Madison and state of Illinois, aged eighty     
years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth make the following 
declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the  
acts of Congress of July 29, 1848, and February 3, 1853, granting pensions 
to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she 
is the widow of Robert McMahan, deceased, who was in the company commanded 
by Captain (blank), in the regiment commanded commanded by Colonel (blank) 
in the Revolutionary war; that her said husband entered the service as     
aforesaid on or about the year A.D. 1780, and left the service about the   
year 1781; that the names of the officers under whom he served are now not 
recollected by her though she believes the General was Stevens or Lawson;  
that at the time he entered the service he resided in the county of Augusta
and State of Virginia, and was marched from thence to Gilford Court house  
in the State of North Carolina, that he was engaged in the battle fought   
there and was taken prisoner - that he served to the best of her belief,   
one year and upwards in the Revolutionary war; that she was lawfully       
married to the said Robert McMahan, in the county of St. Clair, and State  
of Illinois, on the (blank) day of June, A.D. 1795; that her name before   
she married the said Robert McMahan was Nancy Kester; that her said husband
died in the county of Madison, and State of Illinois, on the (blank) day of
(blank), A.D. 1823; and that she was married to him at the time above      
stated. She further declares that she is now a widow; and finally, she     
hereby constitutes Richard M. Young, of Washington city, her lawful        
attorney, to prosecute her said claim to a pension, and to receive her     
certificate of pension when ready for delivery.                            
                                                                           
                     Nancy her X mark McMahan (SEAL.)                      
                                                                           
Two witnesses-Attest:                                                      
                                                                           
Joshua Atwater                                                             
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I, M.G. Dale, presiding judge of the county court within and for the county
of Madison, and State of Illinois, do hereby certify, that the foregoing   
declaration was subscribed, and duly sworn to by the said Nancy McMahan in 
open court, before me, and in my presence, in conformity with law, on the  
20th day of January, A.D. 1858. I also certify, that Joshua Atwater and    
Matthew Gillespie, resident citizens of the county of Madison, and State of
Illinois, whose names are signed to the said declaration as subscribing    
witnesses thereto, are personally well known to me to be persons of        
respectability and credibility as such; and who, being first duly sworn    
according to law, testified in open court that they were personally well   
acquainted with the said Nancy McMahan, whose name is signed to the        
foregoing declaration, and know her to be the identical person she         
describes herself to be in and by the same, and that she is now a widow.   
                                                                           
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                     Sct.                                                  
County of Madison                                                          
                                                                           
I, John A. Prickett, clerk of the county court within and for the county of
Madison, and State of Illinois, do hereby certify, that the Hon. M.G. Dale,
whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, now is, and was at  
the time of signing the same, the presiding judge of the said court; that  
such proceedings were had in the said court in the premises as are stated  
by him in his said certificate, and that his said signature is genuine, and
in his own proper handwriting.                                             
                                                                           
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the   
seal of the said court, at the clerk's office in Edwardsville, this 20th   
day of January, A.D. 1858.                                                 
                                                                           
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                                                     March 20th 1860       
                                                                           
Hon. Geo. E. Whiting                                                       
Comms'r of Pensions                                                        
                                                                           
Sir:                                                                       
                                                                           
The enclosed application of "Nancy McMahan, widow of Robert McMahan" of the
Va. Line, having been mislaid by our Mr. Young, is now presented for your  
consideration.                                                             
                                                                           
The widow is now living and evidence relating to the service of her husband
was forwarded to your office some years ago, consisting of the affidavits  
of two brothers named "Lemen."                                             
                                                                           
We will be obliged if you will cause an examination to be made and inform  
us whether those papers can be returned to --                              
                                                                           
                           Yours Respectfully,                             
                                                                           
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April 8, 1843                                                              
                                                                           
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Jesse W. McMahan vs. Louisa McMahan                                        
Bill for Divorce, In Chancery, To May Term 1844                            
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INDIAN MASSACRES                                                           
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Augusta County, VA                                                         
Posted Queries for April 1997                                              
                                                                           
MCMAHON posted by Gail McMahon on Monday, April 7, 1997                    
                                                                           
I am searching for information on Robert MCMAHON who patented land in      
Augusta County in 1759. Robert was the father of John MCMAHON. I would like
to know the names of Robert's parents and where they came from in Northern 
Ireland, also when they came to the United States.                         
                                                                           
Gail McMahon                                                               
Email: Gailbeth50                                                          
                                                                           
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaaugust/query/query009.htm                       
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FHL book US/CAN 977.386                                                    
Court Records of Madison                                                   
County, Illinois 1818-1821                                                 
                                                                           
Complete with index by Bob Johnston (Copyright 1983) copied from a typed   
transcription completed by Edna Feldner in April 1939 for the WPA. The     
original is located in the Illinois State Archives.                        
                                                                           
(144) P.P. 201. Mar. 8, 1821. Ordered that Isaac K. McMahan be appointed   
constable for Ridge Prairie Township upon his entering into Bond according 
to law with David Gaskill his security.                                    
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FHL periodical US/CAN 977.3 A1 No. 176                                     
Illinois Libraries, Volume 59, Number 5,                                   
May 1977, Raymond Hammes, Special Guest Editor                             
                                                                           
The Land Office of the United States of America at Kaskaskia, REGISTER of  
Applications and Permissions:                                              
                                                                           
(208) Jiles Kelly. (Giles Kelley). October 2, 1807. Situate on the head    
waters of Cantine creek joining David White on the North. 320 acres.       
Permission No. 208. January 8, 1808.                                       
                                                                           
(209). Silas Bankston. October 2, 1807. Situate on the West branch of      
Silver creek joining John Thomas Junior on the South, David Gaskill on the 
East and Anthony Thomas on the North. 320 acres. Permission No. 208.       
January 8, 1808.                                                           
                                                                           
(247) Robert McMahan. October 26, 1807. Situate on the branches of the     
Waters of Silver creek joining John Thomas Jun'r on the South. 320 acres.  
Permission No. 247. January 8, 1808.                                       
                                                                           
(248) John Thomas Jun'r. October 26, 1807. Situate on the small branches   
of the Waters of Silver Creek joining Robert McMahan on the North West,    
Anthony Thomas and Silas Bankston on the North East and David Gaskill on   
the East. (Applicant 248) took possession after the 3d of March 1807. 320  
acres. No permissiion granted.                                             
                                                                           
(286) David Gaskill. December 22, 1807. Situate near Silver creek joining  
Silas Bankston on the North and John Thomas on the West. 320 acres.        
Permission No. 286. January 8, 1808.                                       
                                                                           
Appendix                                                                   
                                                                           
(Page 07) David Gaskill. (Page 88) August 1, 1814. NE quarter, Section 13, 
Township 3 North, Range 8 West. Witnesses: Robert McMahan & James Renfro.  
Evidence: Improved, inhabited & cultivated NW (NE) quarter prior to        
February 5, 1813 & resides thereon.                                        
                                                                           
(Page 12) Robert McMahan. (Page 89) SW quarter, Section 18, Township 3     
North, Range 7 West. Witness: James Renfro. Evidence: Inhabited, improved  
& cultivated on SW quarter prior to February 5, 1813 & continued his       
residence thereon.                                                         
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Kaskaskia French/English Deed                                              
Record Volume A (1804-1805)                                                
Illinois State Archives,                                                   
Springfield, Illinois                                                      
                                                                           
August 29, 1804 to April 30, 1805                                          
                                                                           
Page 212-213. December 1, 1791. Derousse of the County of St. Clair in the 
Territory North West of the River Ohio conveys to John Edgar for ten       
dollars (100 acres) Militia Right (militia man in the Illinois country,    
August 1, 1790). "I assign over the within deed to Robert McMahon, Esquire 
for value received." Kaskaskia 26th August 1799. (Signed) J. Edgar.        
(Signed) Robt. McMahon. (Robert McMahan apparently assigned deed thereafter
to Robert Morrison). I assign over the within Deed to John Bloom for value 
received this 19th day of March 1804. (Signed) Robert Morrison. Witness:   
Wm. Wilson. Recorded 24th December 1804.                                   
                                                                           
Page 257-258. December 11, 1795. Michel La Source of the County of         
Randolph, Territory of the United States North West of the River Ohio      
conveys to John Edgar, Esquire for twenty dollars (100 acres) Militia      
Right (milita man in the Illinois country, August 1, 1790). "I assign over 
the within deed to Robert McMahan, Esquire for value received." Kaskaskia  
26th August 1799. (Signed) J. Edgar. "For value received I assign to R.    
Morrison, my right and title to the within deed. Witness my hand 8th       
December 1803. (Signed) Robt. McMahon. Recorded 24th December 1804.        
                                                                           
Page 418-419. "For valuable consideration I John Edgar do hereby Grant,    
Bargain and Sell, Assign and confirm unto Robert McMahon his heirs and     
assigns forever all my Estate, Right, Title and Interest of, in, and to    
the within Tract of one hundred acres of land. In Witness whereof, I have  
hereunto set my hand and seal this 16 April 1799. (Signed) J. Edgar (Seal).
Test: Lardner Clark, William McIntosh. Randolph County, Sct. Came before me
the subscriber, one of the Justices for said County, who acknowledged him, 
said John Edgar, to make over all his Right, Title, Interest of this       
Militia Right to Robert McMahon for value received. Kaskaskia 29th December
1804. (Signed) G. Fisher, J.P. (Robert McMahan conveys deed to Abraham     
Varner 29th December 1804).                                                
                                                                           
Page 419-420. February 1792. Jean Baptiste Thamur deed (militia right) to  
John Edgar. John Edgar same to Robert McMahon 16 April 1799. Robert        
McMahon same to Abraham Varner 29th December 1804.                         
                                                                           
Page 435-436. January 3, 1796. J. Baptiste Lajoye deed (militia right) to  
John Edgar. John Edgar same to Robert McMahon April 17, 1799. Robert       
McMahan same to Wm. Lot Whiteside 29th December 1804.                      
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Madison County, Illinois Deed Index                                        
Grantor (A-S) 1814-1875                                                    
                                                                           
01)  Kelley, Samuel (grantor) and H. Hays (grantee) Entry Book 7, page     
     78. Record Book 21, page 324. (1841)                                  
                                                                           
02)  Kelley, Samuel (grantor) and I.K. McMahan (grantee) Entry Book 7,     
     page 158. Record Book 22, page 408. (1842)                            
                                                                           
03)  Kelley, William (grantor) and Samuel Kelley (grantee) Entry Book 7,   
     page 186. Record Book 26, page 33. (1842) (FHL film 0484058 item      
     1-2)                                                                  
                                                                           
04)  Kelley, William (grantor) and Thomas S. McMahan (grantee) Entry       
     Book 7, page 253. Record Book 27, page 174. (1842) (FHL film          
     0484059)                                                              
                                                                           
05)  Kelley, Samuel (grantor) and Stephen Gaskill (grantee) Entry Book 8,  
     page 238. Record Book 32, page 171. (1848) (FHL film 0484060)         
                                                                           
06)  Kelley, Samuel (grantor) and Isaac K. McMahan (grantee) Entry Book    
     9, page 104. Record Book 33, page 430. (1849) (FHL film 0484060)      
                                                                           
07)  Kelley, Samuel (grantor) and Eusebius C. Morris (grantee) Entry Book  
     9, page 168. Record Book 35, page 199. (1850) (FHL film 0484061)      
                                                                           
08)  McMahan, Robert (grantor) and William Thomson (grantee) Entry Book    
     4, page 164. Record Book 6, page 109. (1814-1832)                     
                                                                           
09)  McMahan, Robert (grantor) and Isaac McMahan (grantee) Entry Book      
     4, page 184. Record Book 6, page 223. (1814-1832)                     
                                                                           
10)  McMahan, Thos. (grantor) and Joseph Penn (grantee) Entry Book 4,      
     page 281. Record Book 5, page 430. (1814-1832)                        
                                                                           
11)  McMahan, Robert (grantor) and George Moffett (grantee) Entry Book     
     5, page 36. Record Book 10, page 61. (1833)                           
                                                                           
12)  McMahan, Jesse W. (grantor) and Thomas McMahan (grantee) Entry        
     Book 5, page 246. Record Book 14, page 75. (1836)                     
                                                                           
13)  McMahan, Emily (grantor) and Thomas McMahan (grantee) Entry Book 5,   
     page 246. Record Book 14, page 74. (1836)                             
                                                                           
14)  McMahan, Robert (grantor) and T.S. McMahan (grantee) Entry Book 6,    
     page 182. Record Book 17, page 336. (1838)                            
                                                                           
15)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantor) and Samuel Kelley (grantee) Entry Book    
     7, page 14. Record Book 20, page 439. (1841)                          
                                                                           
16)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantor) and A. Walker (grantee) Entry Book 7,    
     page 110. Record Book 21, page 377. (1842)                            
                                                                           
17)  McMahan, Jesse (grantor) and I.K. McMahan (grantee) Entry Book 7,     
     page 158. Record Book 22, page 404. (1842)                            
                                                                           
18)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantor) and Jesse Renfro (grantee) Entry Book 7,  
     page 170. Record Book 25, page 34.                                    
                                                                           
19)  McMahan, Nancy (grantor) and Thomas S. McMahan (grantee) Entry Book   
     7, page 177. Record Book 26, page 17. (1843)                          
                                                                           
20)  McMahan, Catharine (grantor) and Thomas S. McMahan (grantee) Entry    
     Book 7, page 177. Record Book 26, page 18. (1843)                     
                                                                           
21)  McMahan Robert (grantor) and T.S. McMahan (grantee) Entry Book 7,     
     page 183. Record Book 23, page 402. (1843)                            
                                                                           
22)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantor) and William G. Palmer (grantee) Entry    
     Book 7, page 203. Record Book 26, page 70. (1843)                     
                                                                           
23)  McMahan & Aldrich by Sheriff (grantors) and Thomas S. McMahan         
     (grantee) Entry Book 7, page 273. Record Book 27, page 175. (1844)    
                                                                           
24)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantor) and G.A. Aldrich (grantee) Entry Book    
     325. Record Book 27, page 228.                                        
                                                                           
25)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantor) and John Edwards (grantee) Entry Book    
     8, page 35. Record Book 25, page 346. (1846)                          
                                                                           
26)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantor) and William Kelley (grantee) Entry       
     Book 8, page 135. Record Book 28, page 538. (1847) (FHL film          
     0484059)                                                              
                                                                           
27)  McMahan, T.S. (grantor) and Samuel Kelley (grantee) Entry Book 8,     
     page 150. Record Book 29, page 224. (1847) (FHL film 0484058)         
                                                                           
28)  McMahan & Hall (grantors) and Clark & Kelley (grantees) Entry Book    
     8, page 180. Record Book 30, page 310. (1848) (FHL film 0484058)      
                                                                           
29)  McMahan, Thomas (grantor) and S.W. Gaskill (grantee) Entry Book 8,    
     page 225. Record Book 32, page 70. (1848) (FHL film 0484060)          
                                                                           
30)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantor) and Robert McMahan (grantee) Entry       
     Book 8, page 234. Record Book 32, page 144. (1848) (FHL film          
     0484060)                                                              
                                                                           
31)  McMahan, Nancy (grantor) and Thomas S. McMahan (grantee) Entry        
     Book 8, page 235. Record Book 32, page 148. (1848) (FHL film          
     0484060)                                                              
                                                                           
32)  McMahan, Thomas (grantor) and Samuel Kelley (grantee) Entry Book      
     9, page 52. Record Book 33, page 235. (1849) (FHL film 0484060)       
                                                                           
33)  McMahan, Isaac (grantor) and John R. Teter (grantee) Entry Book 9,    
     page 142. Record Book 35, page 118. (1849)                            
                                                                           
34)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantor) and George Churchill (grantee) Entry      
     Book 9, page 284. Record Book 36, page 140. (1850)                    
                                                                           
35)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantor) and John S. Dewey (grantee) Entry Book    
     9, page 322. Record Book 37, page 48. (1850)                          
                                                                           
36)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantor) and S.W. Gaskill (grantee) Entry Book     
     10, page 47. Record Book 39, page 198. (1851)                         
                                                                           
37)  McMahan (grantor) and Irwin B. Randle Comr. (grantee) Entry Book      
     10, page 269. Record Book 38, page 493. (1852)                        
                                                                           
38)  McMahan, James (grantor) and Dorothy C. Purcel (grantee) Entry Book   
     10, page 288. Record Book 38, page 531. (1852)                        
                                                                           
39)  McMahan, Thomas (grantor) and McKinley Ward (grantee) Entry Book      
     11, page 275. Record Book 47, page 509. (1854) (FHL film 0484065)     
                                                                           
40)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantor) and John R. Swain (grantee) Entry Book    
     12, page 34. Record Book 51, page 489. (1856)                         
                                                                           
41)  McMahan (grantor) and Bernard F. Young (grantee) Entry Book 12,       
     page 38. Record Book 51, page 504. (1856)                             
                                                                           
42)  McMahan, James (grantor) and Albert Kelsay (grantee) Entry Book 12,   
     page 448. Record Book 54, page 604. (1857)                            
                                                                           
43)  McMahan, Nancy (grantor) and Stephen W. Gaskill (grantee) Entry       
     Book 13, page 329. Record Book 61, page 539. (1859) (FHL film         
     0484070)                                                              
                                                                           
44)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantor) and Martin L. McMahan (grantee) Entry     
     Book 14, page 399. Record Book 74, page 88. (1862)                    
                                                                           
45)  McMahan, Daniel W. (grantor) and Westley Cook Etal. (grantee) Entry   
     Book 15, page 417. Record Book 80, page 380. (1864)                   
                                                                           
46)  McMahan, John D. (grantor) and Daniel W. McMahan (grantee) Entry      
     Book 15, page 433. Record Book 73, page 572. (1864)                   
                                                                           
47)  McMahan, Daniel W. (grantor) and Westley Cook Etal. (grantee) Entry   
     Book 15, page 435. Record Book 73, page 579. (1864)                   
                                                                           
48)  McMahan, Daniel W. (grantor) and Westley Cook Etal. (grantee) Entry   
     Book 15, page 436. Record Book 73, page 599. (1864)                   
                                                                           
49)  McMahan, Martin L. (grantor) and Fredrick Kohler (grantee) Entry      
     Book 15, page 596. Record Book 82, page 303. (1865)                   
                                                                           
50)  McMahan, Martin L. (grantor) and Catherine McMahan (grantee) Entry    
     Book 15, page 601. Record Book 81, page 319. (1865)                   
                                                                           
51)  McMahan, Anson C. (grantor) and Catherine McMahan (grantee) Entry     
     Book 15, page 600. Record Book 81, page 321. (1865) (FHL film         
     0484076)                                                              
                                                                           
52)  McMahan, Isaiah (grantor) and Mary Jane McMahan (grantee) Entry       
     Book 16, page 125. Record Book 84, page 107. (1865) (FHL film         
     0484077)                                                              
                                                                           
53)  McMahan, Catherine (grantor) and Charles & Mary J. Metzger (grantee)  
     Entry Book 16, page 236. Record Book 83, page 576. (1865) (FHL film   
     0484077)                                                              
                                                                           
54)  McMahan, Martin L. (grantor) and Charles Metzger (grantee) Entry      
     Book 18, page 70. Record Book 94, page 447. (1868)                    
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 26 (2nd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 33-35. William Kelley and Rebecca Kelley my wife formerly Rebecca     
McMahan daughter and child of Robert McMahan late of the County of Madison 
in the State of Illinois and (sister) of Nathaniel McMahan of the said     
County of Madison in the State of Illinois (both of whom are now deceased) 
of the County of Pike in the State of Arkansas have constituted and        
appointed ... our son Samuel Kelley at present in the County of Madison in 
the State of Illinois our true and lawful attorney ... October 3, 1839.    
(Signed) William Kelley, Rebecca Kelley. (Affidavit of David Huddleston.   
Affidavit of David S. Dickson. Affidavit of William Kelley Presiding Judge 
of Pike County Court, Arkansas).                                           
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 27 (1st Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 174. Caroline Moore to Thomas S. McMahan both of Madison County,      
Illinois (Quit Claim) September 20, 1843.                                  
                                                                           
Page 174. William Kelley of the County of Pike State of Arkansas and       
Rebecca his wife by their attorney Samuel Kelley to Thomas S. McMahan.     
January 15, 1844.                                                          
                                                                           
Page 228. Thomas S. McMahan of the County of Madison and State of Illinois 
to Severen A. Aldrich of the County and State aforesaid. February 7, 1845. 
                                                                           
Page 493. Nancy McMahan to Thomas S. McMahan (both) of Madison County,     
Illinois. November 27, 1844.                                               
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 28 (2nd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 538. State of Arkansas, County of Pike. Thomas S. McMahan of the      
County and State aforesaid constituted and appointed William Kelley to be  
my true and lawful attorney. Joseph Stell, J.P. Certified by Thomas S.     
Drew, Little Rock. Recorded August 28th 1847. John A. Prickett Recorder.   
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 29 (3rd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 224-225. Thomas S. McMahan of the County of Pike and State of         
Arkansas by William Kelley to Samuel Kelley of the County of Madison and   
State of Illinois ... November 4, 1847. (Signed) Thomas S. McMahan, William
Kelley his Attorney.                                                       
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 30 (4th Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 310-312. Isaac K. McMahan and Katherine his wife, Milton Hall and     
Nancy his wife, James E. Clark and Aveline his wife, Samuel Kelley and     
Rebecca his wife all of the County of Madison in the State of Illinois     
being seized as tenants in common of the certain contiguous Tracts of Lands
lying in the County of Madison ... (Partition). March 10, 1848. (Signed)   
Jas. E. Clark, Avaline Clark, Milton Hall, Nancy Hall, Samuel Kelley,      
Rebecca Kelley, Isaac K. McMahan, Catharine McMahan. (Volume Number        
uncertain).                                                                
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 32 (2nd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 70-71. Thomas S. McMahan of the County of Pike, State of Arkansas to  
S.W. Gaskill of Madison County, Illinois "it being Lands that Nancy        
McMahan widow of Robert McMahan inherited as Heir of Nathaniel McMahan and 
George McMahan W. McMahan. Also her right of Dower as Widow of Robert      
McMahan now deceased. August 28, 1848.                                     
                                                                           
Page 144. Thomas S. McMahan of Pike County, Arkansas appoints Robert       
McMahan of Green County, Illinois his lawful attorney. September 28. 1848. 
Thomas S. McMahan appeared before M. Gillespie, Notary Public of Madison   
County, Illinois.                                                          
                                                                           
Page 148. (Nancy McMahan to Thomas S. McMahan not found) search record.    
                                                                           
Page 171. Samuel Kelley and Rebecca Kelley his wife of Madison County,     
Illinois to Stephen Gaskill of the same place. August 13, 1848.            
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 33 (3rd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 235. (Thomas McMahan to Samuel Kelley not found) search record.       
                                                                           
Page 430. Samuel Kelley of Madison County, Illinois to Isaac K. McMahan    
Isaac K. McMahan. October 18, 1849. (Thereafter moved to Pike County, Ark.)
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 35 (1st Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 199-201. Samuel Kelley and Rebecca his wife of Madison County,        
Illinois to Eusibius C. Morris. September 14, 1849.                        
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Edwardsville, Illinois                                                     
Administrators and Executors                                               
Index (H-O) continued (begins with Ko)                                     
                                                                           
McMahan, Robert                Estate No. 13 (1823) Type of Case (D)       
McMahan, Nathaniel S.          Estate No. 14 (1840) Type of Case (D)       
McMahan, Isaac K.              Estate No. 77 (1863) Type of Case (D)       
McMahan, James                 Estate No. 77 (1865) Type of Case (D)       
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Probate Volume 1 (1821-1832)                                               
                                                                           
Page 117. Edwardsville, May 5, 1823. Lyman Gillett guardian of Adeline     
Hall. Entered into bond with Matthew Rodgers and Isaac K. McMahan.         
                                                                           
Page 149. At a Special Term of the Court of Probate holden in the County   
of Madison and State of Illinois. December 1, 1823. Nancy McMahan widow of 
Robert McMahan widow of Robert McMahan dc'd appeared in Court and          
presented her petition praying that the last Will and Testament of her     
late husband may be proved as the law requires. Whereupon Joshua Armstrong 
Esqr. and Andrew Turner came into Court and having been duly sworn made    
oaths that they were present and saw Robert McMahan sign & seal the        
foregoing instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and         
testament of him the said Robert McMahan and that the said McMahan was at  
the time of so doing of sound mind, memory and understanding and further   
more that they were subscribing witnesses thereto. On motion it is         
therefore ordered that the said Will together with the proof thereof and   
also this order be placed on Record.                                       
                                                                           
Page 152. December 26, 1823. Nancy McMahan in Court presented her          
petition praying to be administrator of the Estate of her late husband     
Robert McMahan Eqr. On motion it is therefore ordered that Nancy McMahan   
be appointed Administratrix of the Estate of Robert McMahan deceased with  
the will annexed upon her entering into bond agreeably to law with Robert  
McMahan and (blank) Securities in the sum of Five hundred dollars for the  
faithful performance of the duties of Administratrix as aforesaid. On      
motion ordered that the petition of Nancy McMahan be placed on file. On    
motion it is ordered that the affidavit of Isaac K. McMahan be placed on   
file. Bonds having been entered into. Letters of Administration with the   
Will annexed were accordingly issued.                                      
                                                                           
Page 171. May 29, 1824. Nancy McMahan Executrix of the last will and       
testament of Robert McMahan dec'd presented an Inventory of the property   
of the deceased which had come to her hands amounting to the sum of Two    
hundred thirty nine dollars seventy five cents, which having been examined 
and approved was on motion ordered to be placed on file.                   
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Probate Volume 3 (1837-1840)                                               
                                                                           
Page 294. Probate Office April 30th 1840. This day came Thomas S. McMahan  
and suggested the death of George W. McMahan late of the County Madison    
and State of Illinois and that he died intestate to the best of his        
knowledge and belief. Ordered that proof of the same be now taken.         
Thereupon said Thomas S. McMahan made oath that George W. McMahan late of  
the County of Madison, State of Illinois died on or about the 27th day of  
April A.D. 1840 and that he died intestate to the best of his knowledge    
and belief. Ordered that said affidavit be placed on file. Ordered that    
proof of the personal property of said McMahan be now taken. Thereupon     
said Thomas made oath that the value of the personal property belonging to 
said G.W. McMahan dec'd does not exceed in value the sum of two hundred    
and twenty five dollars to the best of his knowledge and belief. Ordered   
that said affidavit be placed on file. Thereupon the said Thomas prayed    
that letters of administration might now issue to him on the Estate of     
said dec'd. Ordered accordingly upon his entering into Bond with approved  
security according to Law. (Page 295) Ordered that the penal sum in said   
Bond be Five hundred & fifty dollars. Thereupon said Thomas M. presented   
a Bond with Robert McMahan as his security which was examined, approved    
and ordered to be placed on file. Ordered that three disinterested persons 
be appointed to appraise the goods & chattels of George W. McMahan dec'd.  
Ordered that Sylvanis Gaskill, Lyman Gillett & (blank) be the persons      
appointed. Ordered that the oath of Administration be now administered     
according to Law which was done accordingly. Ordered that said affidavit   
be placed on file. Ordered that letters of Administration now issue which  
was done accordingly. (Signed) M. Gillispie, Probate Justice.              
                                                                           
Page 296. Probate Office. May 7th 1840. This day came Isaac K. McMahan     
and suggested the death of Nathaniel S. McMahan late of the County of      
Madison & State of Illinois. Ordered that proof of the same to be now      
taken. Thereupon said Isaac K. made oath that said Nathaniel S. departed   
this life on or about the 2nd day of February A.D. 1819 and that he died   
intestate to the best of his knowledge and belief. Ordered that said       
affidavit be placed on file. Ordered that proof of the personal property   
belonging to said Nathaniel S. dec'd be now taken. Thereupon said Isaac K. 
made oath that the value of the personal property belonging to said        
Nathaniel S. does not in his opinion exceed the value of Two Hundred       
dollars. (Page 297) Ordered that said affidavit be placed on file.         
Thereupon said Isaac K. prayed that letters of Administration might be     
granted to him on the personal Estate of said dec'd. Ordered accordingly   
upon his entering into Bond with approved security according to Law.       
Ordered that the penal sum of said Bond by five hundred dollars. Thereupon 
said Isaac K. presented a Bond with John West as his security in said Bond 
in the above ordered sum which was examined, approved and ordered to be    
placed on file. Ordered that the oath required by Law be now administered  
which was done accordingly and ordered to be place on file. Ordered that   
three disinterested persons be appointed to act as appraisers in said case.
Ordered that (blank) be the persons. Ordered that Letters of Administration
now issue to said Isaac K. McMahan which was done accordingly. (Signed) M. 
Gillispie, Probate Justice.                                                
                                                                           
Page 305. Probate Office. June 18th 1840. This day came the Adminstrators  
of George W. McMahan dec'd and presented an Inventory of said personal     
Estate which was examined, approved and ordered to be placed on file. Said 
Administrator also presented an Appraisement Bill of said Estate amounting 
to the sum of $297.75 which was examined, approved and ordered to be placed
on file. Said Administrator also presented a Sale Bill of said Estate      
amounting to the sum of $294.87 1/2 (Page 306) which was examined, approved
and ordered to be placed on file. (Signed) M. Gillispie, Probate Justice.  
                                                                           
Page 308. Probate Office. July 6th 1840. This day came the Executrix of the
Estate of Robert McMahan Senr. dec'd and prayed that settlement of said    
Estate might now take place. Ordered accordingly upon her producing proof  
of her intention of settling said Estate at this term of the Court         
according to Law. Thereupon said Executrix presented the Certificate of    
the Editor of the Alton Telegraph a Public Newspaper published in the City 
of Alton in this State setting forth the fact that (Page 309) Notice of    
Publication of settlement of said Estate had been published in said paper  
for six months prior to the day of said settlement according to Law.       
Ordered that said Notice be placed on file. Thereupon said Executrix       
presented an account current with said Estate by which it appears that she 
stands chargeable to said Estate in the following sum (to wit): $239.75    
and that she is entitled to credits to the amt. of $247.16 leaving a       
balance in favor against said Estate of which was examined, approved and   
ordered to be placed on file. (Signed) M. Gillespie, P.J.P.                
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Madison County, Illinois                                                   
Probate Volume 4 (1841-1843)                                               
                                                                           
Page 104. Probate Office. July 5th 1841. This day came the Administrator of
the Estate of George W. McMahan dec'd and prayed that settlement of said   
Estate might now be had. Ordered accordingly upon his showing his intention
of making said settlement according to Law. Thereupon said Administrator   
presented a Certificate and Notice from the Editor of the Alton Telegraph a
Public Newspaper published in the City of Alton in this State purporting to
be a Notice that said settlement would be had at this term of the Court and
which had been published for the space of six months prior to the day of   
said settlement which was examined and ordered to be placed on file.       
Thereupon said Administrator presented an account current with said Estate 
by which it appears that he stands charged to said Estate to the amt. of   
$309.17 1/2 leaving a balance in his hands of $231.80 which was examined,  
approved and ordered to be placed on file. (Signed) M. Gillespie, P.J.P.   
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Madison County, Illinois                                                   
Probate Volume 5 (1843-1846)                                               
                                                                           
Page 130. Probate Office Edwardsville. November 25, 1844. Estate of George 
W. McMahan dec'd. This day came the Administrator of the Estate of George  
W. McMahan dec'd and prayed that Settlement of said Estate might now take  
place and it was ordered accordingly. Thereupon the said Administrator     
presented an account current with said Estate by which he stands charged   
$231.80 and that he is entitled to credits to the amount of $134.75        
leaving a balance in his hands of $97.05 which was examined, approved and  
ordered to be placed on file. Said Administrator is hereby ordered to pay  
over to S. Caruthers Esqr. the sum of $72.75 after which then will be in   
his hands the sum of $24.30. Thereupon said Admr. prayed that a divident   
of the balance in his hands be made among the several heirs of said        
deceased (there being thirteen in number) & it was ordered accordingly.    
Thereupon it was found that the sum of one dollar & eighty seven cents was 
coming to each of the said heirs of said deceased and said Administrator   
is hereby ordered to pay to each of said heirs the above sum of $1.87 and  
take their receipts for the same & file in this office. (Signed) Geo. W.   
Prickett, P.J.P.                                                           
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Deed Index Grantee (A-Q) 1814-1875                                         
                                                                           
01)  Kelley, Samuel (grantee) and I.K. McMahan (grantor) Entry Book 7,     
     page 15. Record Book 20, page 439. (1841) (FHL film 0484056)          
                                                                           
02)  Kelley, Samuel (grantee) and William Kelley (grantor) Entry Book 7,   
     page 186. Record Book 26, page 33. (1843) (FHL film 0484058)          
                                                                           
03)  Kelley, William (grantee) and Thomas S. McMahan (grantor) Entry       
     Book 8, page 135. Record Book 28. page 538. (1847) (FHL film          
     0484059)                                                              
                                                                           
04)  Kelley, Samuel (grantee) and T.S. McMahan (grantor) Entry Book 8,     
     page 150, Record Book 29, page 224. (1847) (FHL film 0484059)         
                                                                           
05)  Kelley & Clark (grantees) and McMahan & Hall (grantors) Entry Book    
     8, page 180. Record Book 30, page 310. (1848) (FHL film 0484058)      
                                                                           
06)  Kelley, Samuel (grantee) and Katherine Dixon (grantor) Entry Book     
     8, page 219. Record Book 29, 249. (1848) (FHL film 0484059)           
                                                                           
07)  Kelley, Samuel (grantee) and Sheriff (grantor) Entry Book 8, page     
     274. Record Book 32, page 408. (1848) (FHL film 0484060)              
                                                                           
08)  Kelley, Samuel (grantee) and Thomas S. McMahan (grantor) Entry Book   
     9, page 52. Record Book 33, page 235. (1849) (FHL film 0484060)       
                                                                           
09)  Kelley, Samuel (grantee) and E.C. Morris (grantor) Entry Book 9,      
     page 109. Record Book 33, page 541. (1849) (FHL film 0484060)         
                                                                           
10)  Kelley, Samuel (grantee) and Caroline Hervey Et al. Entry Book 9,     
     page 169. Record Book 35, page 201. (1850) (FHL film 0484061)         
                                                                           
11)  McMahan Robert (grantee) and Thomas H. Talbot (grantor) Entry Book    
     4, page 34. Record Book C, page 228. (1814-1832)                      
                                                                           
12)  McMahan, Thomas (grantee) and Robert McMahan (grantor) Entry          
     Book 4, page 178. Record Book 6, page 185. (1814-1832)                
                                                                           
13)  McMahan, Isaac (grantee) and Robert McMahan (grantor) Entry Book      
     4, page 184. Record Book 6, page 223. (1814-1832)                     
                                                                           
14)  McMahan, Thomas (grantee) and John Riggin (grantor) Entry Book 4,     
     page 209. Record Book 6, page 372. (1814-1832)                        
                                                                           
15)  McMahan, Thomas (grantee) and Lyman Gillett (grantor) Entry Book      
     4, page 277. Record Book 4, page 320. (1814-1832)                     
                                                                           
16)  McMahan, Thomas (grantee) and Seth Gillett (grantor) Entry Book 4,    
     page 277. Record Book 4, page 221 & 323. (1814-1832)                  
                                                                           
17)  McMahan, Thomas (grantee) and Seth Gillett (grantor) Entry Book 4,    
     page 277. Record Book 4, page 323. (1814-1832)                        
                                                                           
18)  McMahan, Thomas (grantee) and David Gaskill (grantor) Entry Book      
     5, page 246. Record Book 14, page 73. (1836) (FHL film 0484055)       
                                                                           
19)  McMahan, Thomas (grantee) and Creath Renfro (grantor) Entry Book      
     5, page 246. Record Book 14, page 74. (1836) (FHL film 0484055)       
                                                                           
20)  McMahan, Thomas (grantee) and J.W. McMahan (grantor) Entry Book       
     5, page 246. Record Book 14, page 75. (1836) (FHL film 0484055)       
                                                                           
21)  McMahan, Thomas (grantee) and E. McMahan (grantor) Entry Book 5,      
     page 246. Record Book 14, page 75. (1836) (FHL film 0484055)          
                                                                           
22)  McMahan, T.S. (grantee) and A. Walker (grantor) Entry Book 6, page    
     82. Record Book 16, page 171. (1837)                                  
                                                                           
23)  McMahan, Robert (grantee) and William Manning (grantor) Entry Book    
     6, page 132. Record Book 13, page 586. (1837)                         
                                                                           
24)  McMahan, T.S. (grantee) and Robert McMahan (grantor) Entry Book       
     6, page 182. Record Book 17, page 336. (1838)                         
                                                                           
25)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantee) and Stephen Aldrich Et al. (grantor)      
     Entry Book 6, page 382. Record Book 20, page 156. (1840)              
                                                                           
26)  McMahan, I.K. (grantee) and United States (grantor) Entry Book 6,     
     page 392. Record Book 20, page 206. (1840) (FHL film 0484056)         
                                                                           
27)  McMahan, Jesse (grantee) and S. Aldrich (grantor) Entry Book 7, page  
     115. Record Book 23, page 261. (1842) (FHL film 0484057)              
                                                                           
28)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantee) and Jesse McMahan (grantor) Entry Book    
     7, page 158. Record Book 22, page 408. (1842) (FHL film 0484057)      
                                                                           
29)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantee) and Samuel Kelley (grantor) Entry Book    
     7, page 158. Record Book 22, page 408. (1842) (FHL film 0484057)      
                                                                           
30)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantee) and Sally Gaskill (grantor) Entry Book   
     7, page 176. Record Book 26, page 17. (1843) (FHL film 0484058)       
                                                                           
31)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantee) and Nancy McMahan (grantor) Entry        
     Book 7, page 177. Record Book 26, page 17. (1843) (FHL film 0484058)  
                                                                           
32)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantee) and Katherine McMahan (grantor)          
     Entry Book 7, page 177. Record Book 26, page 18. (1843) (FHL film     
     0484058)                                                              
                                                                           
33)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantee) and R. McMahan (grantor) Entry Book      
     7, page 183. Record Book 23, page 402. (1843) (FHL film 0484057)      
                                                                           
34)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantee) and Caroline Moore (grantor) Entry       
     Book 7, page 273. Record Book 27, page 174. (1844) (FHL film          
     0484059)                                                              
                                                                           
35)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantee) and William Kelley (grantor) Entry       
     Book 7, page 273. Record Book 27, page 174. (1844) (FHL film          
     0484059)                                                              
                                                                           
36)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantee) and Samuel R. Caruthers (grantor)        
     Entry Book 7, page 273. Record Book 27, page 175. (1844) (FHL         
     0484059)                                                              
                                                                           
37)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantee) and Aldrich (&) McMahan by Sheriff       
     (grantor) Entry Book 7, page 273. Record Book 27, page 275. (1844)    
                                                                           
38)  McMahan, Thomas (grantee) and Nancy McMahan (grantor) Entry Book 8,   
     page 2. Record Book 27, page 493. (1845) (FHL film 0484057)           
                                                                           
39)  McMahan, Thomas S. (grantee) and Sally Gaskill (grantor) Entry Book   
     8, page 162. Record Book 30, page 184. (1847) (FHL 0484058 item 3-5)  
                                                                           
40)  McMahan, Robert (grantee) and T.S. McMahan (grantor) Entry Book 8,    
     page 234. Record Book 32, page 144. (1848) (FHL film 0484060)         
                                                                           
41)  McMahan, Francis (grantee) and Orren Hays (grantor) Entry Book 9,     
     page 29. Record Book 29, page 431. (1849) (FHL film 0484058 item      
     3-5)                                                                  
                                                                           
42)  McMahan, Isaac (grantee) and John Teter (grantor) Entry Book 9,       
     page 24. Record Book 33, page 98. (1849)                              
                                                                           
43)  McMahan, Isaac (grantee) and John Teter (grantor) Entry Book 9,       
     page 67. Record Book 33, page 295. (1849)                             
                                                                           
44)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantee) and John R. Teter (grantor) Entry Book    
     9, page 93. Record Book 33, page 359. (1849)                          
                                                                           
45)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantee) and Samuel Kelley (grantor) Entry Book    
     9, page 104. Record Book 33, page 430. (1849) (FHL film 0484060)      
                                                                           
46)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantee) and Jacob C. Gouterman (grantor) Entry    
     Book 9, page 217. Record Book 35, page 479. (1850)                    
                                                                           
47)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantee) and Lyman Barber (grantor) Entry Book     
     9, page 225. Record Book 34, page 232. (1850)                         
                                                                           
48)  McMahan, Thomas (grantee) and Irwin B. Randle (grantor) Entry Book    
     10, page 27. Record Book 39, page 126. (1851)                         
                                                                           
49)  McMahan, Thomas (grantee) and Edward Fisher by Comr. (grantor) Entry  
     Book 10, page 270. Entry Book 39, page 643. (1852)                    
                                                                           
50)  McMahan, James (grantee) and D.A. Spaulding (grantor) Entry Book      
     10, page 291. Record Book 40, page 297. (1852)                        
                                                                           
51)  McMahan, Thomas (grantee) and McKinley Ward (grantor) Entry Book      
     11, page 272. Record Book 46, page 560. (1854)                        
                                                                           
52)  McMahan, Thomas (grantee) and Henry F. McNeil (grantor) Entry Book    
     11, page 405. Record Book 48, page 420. (1855) (FHL film 0484065)     
                                                                           
53)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantee) and Andrew Mills (grantor) Entry Book     
     12, page 35. Record Book 51, page 488. (1856)                         
                                                                           
54)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantee) and Andrew Mills (grantor) Entry Book     
     12, page 85. Record Book 50, page 676. (1856)                         
                                                                           
55)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantee) and Mary J. French Et al. Entry Book 12,  
     page 618. Record Book 59, page 92. (1857)                             
                                                                           
56)  McMahan, Isaac K. (grantee) and Samuel Bostwick (grantor) Entry       
     Book 13, page 592. Record Book 64, page 519. (1860)                   
                                                                           
57)  Morriss, Eusibious C. (grantee) and Isaac K. McMahan (grantor) Entry  
     Book 14, page 376. Record Book 67, page 592. (1862)                   
                                                                           
58)  McMahan, Daniel W. (grantee) and Isaac K. McMahan (grantor) Entry     
     Book 14, page 377. Record Book 67, page 594. (1862)                   
                                                                           
59)  McMahan, Martin L. (grantee) and Isaac K. McMahan (grantor) Entry     
     Book 14, page 399. Record 74, page 88. (1862)                         
                                                                           
60)  McMahan, Daniel W. (grantee) and John A. McMahan (grantor) Entry      
     Book 15, page 433, Record Book 73, page 572. (1864)                   
                                                                           
61)  McMahan, Catherine (grantee) and James C. Brown (grantor) Entry       
     Book 15, page 600. Record Book 81, page 322. (1865) (FHL 0484076)     
                                                                           
62)  McMahan, Catherine (grantee) and Auson C. McMahan (grantor) Entry     
     Book 15, page 600. Record Book 81, page 321. (1865) (FHL 0484076)     
                                                                           
63)  McMahan, Catherine (grantee) and Martin L. McMahan (grantor) Entry    
     Book 15, page 600. Record Book 81, page 319. (1865) (FHL 0484076)     
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 14 (2nd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 73. David Gaskill and Sally his wife of Madison County, Illinois to   
Thomas S. McMahan of same place "lands belonging to the heirs of Robert    
McMahan late of the County and State aforesaid deceased" ... September 7.  
1835.                                                                      
                                                                           
Page 74. Creath Renfro and Susan his wife of Madison County, Illinois to   
Thomas S. McMahan of the same place "lands belonging to the heirs of       
Robert McMahan late of the County and State aforesaid deceased" ...        
September 16, 1835.                                                        
                                                                           
Page 75. Jesse W. McMahan of Madison County, Illinois to Thomas S.         
McMahan of same place "lands belonging to the heirs of Robert McMahan late 
of the County and State aforesaid deceased" ... July 9, 1835.              
                                                                           
Page 75-76. Emily McMahan of Madison County, Illinois to Thomas S.         
McMahan of same place "lands belonging to the heirs of Robert McMahan late 
of the County and State aforesaid deceased" ... July 9, 1835.              
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 20 (3rd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 206. James Monroe President of the United States of America to Isaac  
K. McMahan assignee of David Hendershott ... deposited in the General Land 
Office a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Edwardsville,   
Illinois whereby it appears that full payment has been made for ... (land  
described) ... Given under my hand at the City of Washington ... November  
13, 1823. By the President. (Signed) James Monroe. George Graham           
commissioner of the General Land Office.                                   
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 26 (2nd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 17. Sally Gaskill of Madison County, Illinois to Thomas S. McMahan of 
the same place (Quit Claim) March 24, 1843.                                
                                                                           
Page 17-18. Nancy McMahan of Madison County, Illinois to Thomas S. McMahan 
of the same place (Quit Claim) March 8, 1843.                              
                                                                           
Page 18. Emily McMahan of Madison County, Illinois to Thomas S. McMahan    
of the same place (Quit Claim) March 3, 1843.                              
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 29 (3rd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 431-432. Oren (Orren) Hays and Eliza his wife late Eliza Fisher and in
right of the said Eliza of the City of (St.) Louis, State of Missouri to   
Francis McMahan of the County of Madison, State of Illinois. December 4,   
1847.                                                                      
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 27 (1st Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 174. Caroline Moore of Madison County, Illinois to Thomas S. McMahan  
of same place (Quit Claim) "the lands which my father Robert McMahan was   
seized of at his death" ... September 19, 1843.                            
                                                                           
Page 174. William Kelley of Pike County, Arkansas and Rebecca his wife to  
Thomas S. McMahan (Quit Claim) "certain Farm or piece of land situate in   
the County of Madison" ... January 15, 1844.                               
                                                                           
Page 175. Samuel Caruthers of Morgan County, Illinois and Emily his wife   
to Thomas S. McMahan (Quit Claim) "in and to the Real Estate of which      
Robt. McMahan Sen. was seized at His death. September 13, 1843. (Signed)   
Samuel R. Caruthers, Emily Caruthers.                                      
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Madison County, Illinois Probate                                           
Letters, Wills Etc. Volume 6 (1821-1836)                                   
                                                                           
Page 123-124. Last Will and Testament of Robert McMahan dated August 15,   
1822. Proved November 26, 1823. Ordered to placed on record.               
                                                                           
Page 125. Nancy McMahan widow granted power &c. to administer Estate of    
Robert McMahan. December 26, 1823.                                         
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Madison County, Illinois Probate                                           
Letters, Wills, Etc. Volume 7 (1836-1840)                                  
                                                                           
Page 377-379. Thomas S. McMahan and Robert McMahan of Madison County,      
Illinois Bond. April 30, 1840. Thomas S. McMahan administrator of the      
Estate of George W. McMahan.                                               
                                                                           
Page 413-414. Inventory of the Estate of George W. McMahan. May 23, 1840.  
(Signed) Lyman Gellet, Sylvanus Gaskill, Archelaus Walker, appraisers.     
                                                                           
Page 414-415. Sale Bill of the Estate of George W. McMahan. May 23, 1840.  
Purchasers: T.S. McMahan, W.F. Purviance, J.E. Clark, G.W. Kelly, Joseph   
Gaskill, John Harrington, S.S. Hunter, David Gaskill, W.O. Harrington,     
Alfred Writson, John Cook. (Signed) W.O. Harrington, Clk. Certified by     
Samuel S. Hunter, Crier.                                                   
                                                                           
Page 415-417. Isaac K. McMahan and John West of Madison County, Illinois   
Bond. May 7, 1840. Isaac K. McMahan administrator of the Estate of         
Nathaniel S. McMahan.                                                      
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 47 (2nd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 509-510. Thomas McMahan of Madison County, Illinois to McKinley       
Ward of same place. October 21, 1854. (Signed) Thomas McMahan in the       
presence of Timothy Turner.                                                
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Rrecord Volume 48 (3rd Volume on Roll)                                     
                                                                           
Page 420. State of Illinois, Jersey County. Henry F. McNeil and Mary E.    
McNeil his wife to Thomas McMahan (the Southwest quarter of Section 6,     
Township 6 North, Range 10 West, 113 33/110 acres) December 28, 1854.      
(This tract is in Green County, Illinois west of Carrollton near the       
Illinois River).                                                           
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U.S. Federal Census (1860)                                                 
Green County, Illinois                                                     
                                                                           
The name of every person whose usual place of abode of the first day of    
June, 1860, was in this family. Original Page No. 68-69. (Written Page No. 
664-665) Schedule 1. Free inhabitants in (blank) in the County of Green,   
State of Illinois enumerated by me, on the 30th day of June 1860. Thos. J. 
Carlin, Ass't Marshal. Post Office: Whitehall.                             
                                                                           
                                (445-445)                                  
                                                                           
Line 38.   Henry C. McMahan      36  m  Farmer  2500 8600    Illinois      
           Ann McMahan           27  f                       Illinois      
           Wm. McMahan           12  m                       Illinois      
Line 01.   Robert McMahan         9  m                       Illinois      
           Jesse McMahan          7  m                       Illinois      
           David McMahan          1  m                       Illinois      
                                                                           
The name of every person whose usual place of abode of the first day of    
June, 1860, was in this family. Original Page No. 75. (Written Page No.    
671) Schedule 1. Free inhabitants in (blank) in the County of (Green),     
State of (Illinois) enumerated by me, on the 4th day of July 1860. (Blank),
Ass't Marshal. Post Office: (blank).                                       
                                                                           
                                 (497-497)                                 
                                                                           
Line 30.   Nathan'l McMahan       27  m               300    Illinois      
           Malissa W. McMahan     18  f                      Illinois      
           Louisa M. McMahan       4  f                      Illinois      
           Virginia McMahan       20  f                      Illinois      
           Francis L. McMahan   3 mo  m                      Illinois      
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Green County Courthouse                                                    
Carrollton, Illinois                                                       
Probate Index (G-Z)                                                        
                                                                           
Name of Estate           Administrator, Excr. &c.     Book   Page          
                                                                           
Nathaniel G. McMahan     Charles Rogers                 X    133 173 180   
Nathaniel G. McMahan     Charles Rogers                 X    195 231 328   
Nathaniel G. McMahan     Charles Rogers                 X    396           
Nathaniel G. McMahan     Charles Rogers                 Y    44 46         
Nathaniel G. McMahan     Charles Rogers                 BB   316           
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Green County, Illinois                                                     
Grantor Index (1821-1878) M-Z                                              
                                                                           
01)  McMahan, Robert (grantor) George Floyd (grantee) Book H, page 135.    
                                                                           
02)  McMahan, Robert (grantor) Gay Morrison (grantee) Book N, page 150.    
                                                                           
03)  McMahan, Henry (grantor) William Groce (grantee) Book T, page 168.    
                                                                           
04)  McMahan, Robert (grantor) Henry C. McMahan (grantee) Book V, page     
     203.                                                                  
                                                                           
05)  McMahan, Henry C. (grantor) John Conway (grantee) Book X, page 73.    
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Green County, Illionis                                                     
Grantee Index (1821-1878) M-Z                                              
                                                                           
01)  McMahan, Robert (grantee) Nathaniel Pratt (grantor) Book D, page      
     137.                                                                  
                                                                           
02)  McMahan, Henry C. (grantee) Robert McMahan (grantor) Book V, page     
     203. (Same as Number 04 above)                                        
                                                                           
03)  McMahan, Henry (grantee) Robert Bradley Comr. (grantor) Book X,       
     page 71.                                                              
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 61 (3rd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 539-540. Nancy McMahan of Madison County, Illinois to Stephen W.      
Gaskill of the same place (Quit Claim) October 26, 1859. Witnesses: Milton 
Hall, Jas. M. Lawrence.                                                    
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 81 (2nd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 321-322. Anson C. McMahan and Evaline D. McMahan his wife of Logan    
County, Illinois to Catherine McMahan of Madison County, Illinois (Quit    
Claim) "the land of which Isaac K. McMahan late of Madison County, Illinois
seized ... December 29, 1864. Recorded March 2, 1865.                      
                                                                           
Page 322-323. James C. Brown and Martha Ann Brown of Sangamon County,      
Illinois to Catherine McMahan of Madison County, Illinois (land) "being    
their entire interest in the estate of Isaac K. McMahan deceased." February
3, 1865. Recorded March 2, 1865.                                           
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 83 (2nd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 576-577. Catherine McMahan of Madison County, Illinois to Charles     
Metzger and Mary Metzger his wife "being the property of Isaac K. McMahan  
dec'd which the said party of the first part bought from the following     
heirs to wit: Martin L. McMahan and wife, Ansen C. McMahan and wife and    
James C. Brown and wife and her heirship in the estate of James McMahan    
her son dec'd ... (Signed) Catherine (her x mark) McMahan. Recorded        
November 17, 1865.                                                         
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 84 (3rd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 107-108. Isai(a)h McMahan and Nancy Ann McMahan his wife of Morgan    
County, Illinois to Mary Jane McMahan of Madison County, Illinois "being   
the entire interest of the party of the first part in the estate of Isaac  
K. McMahan dec'd" ... (Signed) Isaiah McMahan, Nancy Ann (her x mark)      
McMahan. Recorded July 19, 1865.                                           
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Lincoln County, Illinois Index                                             
Administrator's and Executor's Volume 1                                    
                                                                           
McMahan, C.H.     Erhart Stoll (Adm'r)         Book 13     Page 66 69 95   
McMahan, C.H.     Ernart Stoll (Adm'r)         Book 13     Page 131 144 172
McMahan, C.H.     Erhart Stoll (Adm'r)         Book 13     Page 222 448 560
McMahan, C.H.     Erhart Stoll (Adm'r)         Book 14     Page 26 111 130 
McMahan, C.H.     Inventory                    Book  5     Page   275      
McMahan, C.H.     Appraisment Record           Book  5     Page   278      
McMahan, C.H.     Sale Record                  Book  5     Page   279      
McMahan, C.H.     Record of Bonds & Letters    Book  3     Page   19       
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U.S. Federal Census (1860)                                                 
1st Filming Logan County, Illinois                                         
                                                                           
The name of every person whose usual place of abode of the first day of    
June, 1860, was in this family. Page No. 341. Schedule 1. Free inhabitants 
in The Town of Lincoln in the County of Logan, State of Illinois enumerated
by me, on the 28 day of August 1860. A. Mayfield, Ass't Marshal. Post      
Office: Lincoln                                                            
                                                                           
                               (2424-2488)                                 
                                                                           
Line 28.  A.C. McMahan          38   m     Laborer           Illinois      
          Eveline McMahan       37   f                       Virginia      
          Henry A. Harmer       17   m                       Illinois      
          Geo. W. Harmer         9   m                       Illinois      
          Susan C. Harmer        7   f                       Illinois      
          Marietta Harmer        4   f                       Illinois      
          S.C. Roach            25   f                       Illinois      
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Madison County, Illinois Deed                                              
Record Volume 20 (3rd Volume on Roll)                                      
                                                                           
Page 156. Indenture made March 8, 1838 between Stephen Aldrich and         
Adeline wife of Stephen Aldrich and Samuel R. Aldrich of the County of     
Madison and State of Illinois of the first part and Isaac K. McMahan of    
the County and State aforesaid of the second part ... In the presence of   
Cyrus Scott. (Signed) Stephen Aldrich, Adeline Aldrich, Samuel R. Aldrich. 
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The Atlanta Argus (newspaper)                                              
February 10, 1882 to September 9, 1887                                     
                                                                           
Volume XV, No. 16. Atlanta, Illinois, Friday (August 25, 1882) page 1,     
column 7, item 1. Triple Murder. Three men Bound and Gagged and their      
Throats Cut from Ear to Ear, near Mt. Pulaski.                             
                                                                           
Volume XV, No. 17. Atlanta, Illinois, Friday (September 1, 1882) page 1,   
column 3, item 1, paragraph 7. "The detectives have been busy ever since   
the Mt. Pulaski triple murder, endeavoring to obtain a clue to the         
murderers, but without success. Several persons have been shadowed, but    
the crime has been fastened on no one as yet. The rewards aggregate nearly 
$7000, and with this incentive the detectives will use every effort to     
solve the mystery."                                                        
                                                                           
Notes: Murder of Charles H. McMahan, son of Thomas S. McMahan and Nancy    
Harrington, and his two hired hands.                                       
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