Laurel Messenger Tuesday April 25, 1944 Volume 137 No. 33 The McClintock Family Loaned Mrs. W. B. Ardery for Publication by Mrs Millie James of Paris, Kentucky. The only as yet unplaced McClintock found in the vicinity is one Alexander McClintock and his wife Sally Deeka referred to on page 75, deed book 32 Bourbon County KY in a deed dated Sept 1833. The Joseph McClintock who married, Nov 5 1818 Elizabeth Honey and died in 1836 having a daughter Margaret over 14 (later married Dimmitt) and Elisabeth R., Francis Jane, Amanda T., Emily G., Eliza A., and Mary Ann (afterward married McKenney) all under fourteen proves to have been the son of Daniel and Fanny Clark. A long letter from Alexander McClintock (3, Joseph 2, Joseph) dated Cynthiana, Harrison Co., KY. Dec 20 ???1672?? to Cousin Jane Dunnington (3, Hugh? 2, Joseph) examined by compiler agrees with compiler's conclusions of the family history notes. A few additions in the way of dates have been inserted from this source July 10 1926? In order to test the possibility of direct descent from Alexander McClintock, founder of the family in Ireland, we insert at this point an extract from Burke's Peerage and Baronage p. 1216 carrying each branch down to 1740, the date of the American family's emigration, and counting? only the sons who died unmarried and the mention of daughters. Lineage
This is a branch of an old Scottish family established in Ireland for upwards of three centuries: Alexander McCLINTOCK., Esq., the first of the family who settled in Ireland, purchased the Rathdonnell estates, County Donegal, in 1597, which he devised to his only son and heir ALEXANDER McCLINTOCK of Trinta in the County of Donegal, who married in 1648 Agnes -- Stenson, daughter of Donald McClean., Esq. and had issue: 1. John, his heir and
2. William, born
16?37, married 1685 Elisabeth, daughter of David Harvey, Esq., of Dunmore, 1. John McClintock married
Rebecca, daughter of Col. Robert McCausland of Fruit Hill, County Derry
1. William married Francellana, 3rd
daughter of James Nesbit, Esq. Of Green Hills, 2. James of Trinta, born 17th of August 1735, married in 1762 Dora-Beresford, etc. IV. Robert McClintock (born 1702). Mr. McClintock (son of John) died the 3rd of Sept, 1707, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son. II. Alexander McClintock Esq. of Drumcay, county Louth, born the 30th of Sept 1692 died unmarried the 25th of May 1775, devising his estate to his nephew, the 3rd son of his brother John etc. Thus it may be seen that the American branch of the family in order to be directly descended from Alexander McClintock, founder of the family in Ireland, as is claimed, must have from Robert McClintock (whose history is not carried out in Burke's account), the fourth son of John McClintock, esq. of Trinta, born in 1702.
McCLINTOCK FAMILY The Emigration To America
The McClintock family of whose history we treat in the pages following is of Scottish extraction but settled at an early date in the North of Ireland. Two Pennsylvania branches which may, upon investigation, prove to be of the same family tree have recorded slightly varying versions of their origin. One, which had representation in Kentucky a century later, was descended from the McClintocks of Donegal and Londonderry, Ireland who emigrated to the north of Ireland at the time of the Resolution of 1635. The family belonged to the "Landed Gentry," that esteemed clan, some of whose hereditary estates and rights to bear arms were acquired centuries before those of the peers of the realm. Alexander McClintock of the county Donegal, Ireland, married Anne Patterson and had a son named Samuel born 1772 d, 1856, who married Jane Rankin, whose son Mathew married Susan Appleby. Their daughter Jane McClintock, born Dec. 23, 1833 in Philadelphia, married Samuel H. Craig and came to Woodford Co. Kentucky to reside. (McKenzie’ s Colonial Families of the U.S. Vol. IV page 113, Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy Vol. I page 574.) Arms of the McClintocks of Donegal as borne by Baron Rathdonnell are (Burkes Peerage and Baronage page 1218)
"Per pale, gules and azure: a chevron, ermine between three escallops
argent, Crest: A lion The escallop shell was the Pilgrim’ s badge, worn on hats and hoods by them in their expeditions and pilgrimages especially to the Holy Land. It was considered a charge of such distinguishing character the Pope Alexander IV forbade its use to all except pilgrims who were truly noble. One James McClintock, born in Ireland, a descendant of Alexander McClintock, who went from Scotland to Ireland in 1597, came to America and settled in Shippingburg, Cumberland Co., PA., about 1760. He married Mary Davidson Williamson, a sister of Hugh Williamson, one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States. This couple left descendants through a son, James, born 1785, [and probably] others. (Abrig. Compendium American Genealogy Vol. I page 457). Apparently this James McClintock (Sr.) was one of six traditional McClintock brothers who emigrated to America about 1740, settled in Sherman’ s Valley, Cumberland Co., Pa., and lived all their days there. According to James Robert McKee, (528 N. Alexandria Ave. Los Angeles, Ca.) compiler of the McKee, McClintock, [Stipp] and Stewart Family chart, they were, Joseph, d. 1799, James, d. 1901, Robert, d. 1793, John, d. 1785, and Alexander, d. 1750. Although this sketch purposes to deal with the descendants of Joseph McClintock, this published notice of James McClintock’s history is included for the light it appears to shed on Joseph McClintock’s ancestry also. Joseph McClintock, the direct ancestor of one line, was born in Tyrone, County, Ireland 1701, of that sturdy stock, the so-called Scotch-Irish Presbyterians.
They were a superior
class, marked by their love of liberty and a tireless fealty to right which led
them to embark for the new world in order to escape from the burdensome and
despotic conditions which prevailed in the mother country in the first half of
the eighteenth century.
The motives and courage which impelled them to flee for relief to the
wilderness of the new world and its certain privations, were of the highest
order and are a heritage of which one may be proud. The high purposes to which
their lives were devoted and the physical strength, with which they endured the
hardships of pioneering contributed much to the moral and physical strength of
the succeeding generation.
They were men and women of pure and simple lives, of strong religious
convictions, resolute, patriotic. Capable and industrious, they prospered in
farming, stock raising, as shown by the six early McClintock wills, recorded in
Cumberland Co., Pa.
Their devotion to their adopted country challenges our admiration. Many
sons of the original six fought for the colonies, early and conspicuously
exhibiting lofty patriotism. A number of them repeated the pioneer experience of
their parents by going west at the close of the Revolution, to Kentucky, where
they practiced the simple virtues and indulged their taste for domestic life. In
appearance they are remembered as blondes of medium height.
In the case of Joseph's family their family standard seems the more
remarkable in that Elizabeth Torrence, who became his wife in 1740 in
Pennsylvania, died in 1758 leaving him with ten children, to whom he must be
father and mother. After working in the woods all day he taught them by
firelight at night inculcating them with the rudiments of learning, love of God,
of home, and love of country. The children of Joseph and Elizabeth Torrence
were;
1. Daniel married Frances
Clark, come to Bourbon Co., Kentucky, where he
died in 17(??) leaving
2. Alexander, one of the two oldest boys. He was apprenticed to a
wheelwright to learn a trade. He
3. Joseph,
the oldest son, was apprenticed to a
man who made sickles, learned
the trade and 4.
Elizabeth, b. June
1750, married 1776 Wm. McClintock, died Aug. 27, 1819 in Nicholas Co. near 5.
Agnes who
married Wm. Nesbit came to KY where she lived until after the death of her
husband in 6.
Ann,
b. July 9, 1757, m. John Miller, founder of Millersburg, KY., Bourbon Co., 7.
Hugh,
b. 1757, married May 10th, 1787, Jane McCord and died in Nicholas Co., KY., 8.
Mary,
b. 1742, died Dec. 14, 1827, near Millersburg, the wife of Henry Thompson, the 9. Sarah, married Mr. Clark, remained in PA. (10 children). 10. Margaret, b. 1758, m. Joseph Patton (6 children). 11. Susan m. Duffle, died in Pa. about Xmas 1813, prob. sister-in-law. 12.
Wm. Probably
the brother-in-law called "Brother" in Power-of-attorney 1785.
Joseph McClintock's Will of Joseph McClintock "In the name of God Amen! I, Joseph McClintock of Teboyne Township and county of Cumberland and state of Pennsylvania, farmer, being of perfect mind and memory, Blessed be God for his Marcies, calling to mind the mortality of my body and that all men has once to die; do make and ordain this my last will and Testament, that is to say I recommend my Soul into the hands of God that give it nothing doubting but I shall receive the same again and my body to be buried in a Christian manner at the direction of
my Executors hereafter named. I
give and devise unto my sons Danial and Hugh my farm which I possess with giving
the sum which the aforesaid Danial and Hugh has mentioned in a covenance give by
me Joseph McClintock which sum or sums to be divided equally between my
sons and daughters hereafter named, Danial, Alexander, Joseph and Hugh and my
daughters Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Agnes, Ann, Margaret and what might be left of
my personal estate after my burial, I leave and bequeathe to my son Alexander
such as my bed and bed clothes with my body clothes only my great coat I leave
to my son Joseph and I do ordain William McQuair and Robert Hunter my Executors
of this my last will and Testament and I do utterly revoke disanull all other
will or wills made by me in any wise given under my hand and seal this
thirteenth day of October in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and
ninety three. Joseph
McClintock (seal) Teste:
John Clark `
Hugh McClintock Emigration to Kentucky About
the time that Joseph McClintock's children grew up rumors of the quantity of
game and wonderful fertility of the soil to the southwest (Collins' History of KY.
says P 807) "Between 1761 and 1767 several companies of hunters from
Virginia and Pennsylvania came into south-eastern KY.,") led a company of
fourteen young men of the vicinity of Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Pa., to make the
trip to Kentucky. In
March and April 1775 Wm. Miller, John Miller, Richard Clark, Wm. Flinn, Joseph
Huston (or Houston), Paddy Logan, Wm. McClintock, Wm Nesbitt, Alexander Pollock,
John Shear, Wm. Steel, Henry Thompson and two others came in canoes down the
Ohio and up the Licking to the Lower Blue Licks where they joined a company of
fifteen men who had prededed them by a few days. The William McClintock,
above named is said to be the son of Wm. and a nephew of Joseph McCLINTOCK but
in 1776 became his son-in-law as did also Wm. Nesbitt, John Miller and Henry
Thompson Each
party sent out explorers, who examined the country, and reported to the two
companies at the Blue Licks. They all traveled together the main buffalo trace
toward what is now Lexington, until they reached a trace turning west, since
called Hinkston's trace which the Hinkson party followed. John Hinkson,
John Haggin, John Martin, John Townsend, James Cooper, Daniel Callahan, Patrick
Callahan, Matthew Fenton, George Gray, Wm. Hoskins, Wm Shields, Thomas Shores,
Silas Train, Samuel Wilson, a boy of about 16 years, and John Woods who composed
this company took the trace to the neighborhood between Paris and Cynthians,
where they improved lands, made small clearings, built a cabin for each member
of the party and afterward settled Hinkson and Martin's stations. Hinkston's and Townsend creeks and Cooper's run were named
for some of the men of this company, and a branch of Stoner, near which Martin's
station was built in 1779 was called Martin's creek. Meanwhile
the other party encampment on Miller's run at the crossing of the Lower
Limestone or Ruddle's road, and from there went around the country, selecting
fourteen spots for improvement and divided them by lot, Wm. Steel's place was on
the north side of Hinkston, below the buffalo trace; he improved it by cutting
down timber and planting potatoes, the first planted in Kentucky. They all returned up the Ohio to Pennsylvania in the fall. These
two companies were the first known visitors of the white race to reach to this
particular spot of Kentucky. In
the spring of 1776, John Miller, Alexander Pollock, Samuel Nesbitt, Wm. Steele,
Wm. Nesbitt, Wm. Miller and several others returned to Kentucky, raised crops of
corn and make the usual improvements. These
consisted of clearing small tracts, cutting initials on trees and erecting an
improver's cabin, an uncovered enclosure of the rudest sort. Their seed corn was furnished by John Townsend and John
Cooper who had raised a bit the year before.
In May 1779 Virginia passed the celebrated Land Law under which a preferred
right to certain quantities of land was secured to actual settlers who had
become such prior to Jan 1, 1778, and to those who might have theretofore and
thereafter "made a crop of corn" or have resided in the country upon
the western waters for at least on year. (The
proximity of water courses was the only means of describing the lands, and some
which sounded like larger rivers are dry ditches eleven months of the year.)
Among the hundreds whose lands were secured by this enactment the six above
mentioned men each became entitled to a settlement of one thousand acres and a
pre-emption of four hundred acres adjoining.
It is very difficult for us to realize the very confused conditions of land
titles at this time. In Kentucky
some few entries and surveys had been made under the corporate charters and upon
importation rights, very many more upon treasury warrants for money paid the
receiver general, and many upon military warrants for services in the French and
Indian war. Add to this the
very crude method of marking the lands by blazing trees in a country covered
with dense forests, and the lack of skill of many of the earlier surveyors and
you have a chaotic condition of overlapping claims which caused suits for fifty
years in some instances. Although
the interesting old record book of the Virginia Land Court for the County of
Kentucky (which sat from (Oct. 13, 1779 to Apr 26 1780 to pass upon these
claims) does not contain the name of Henry Thompson.
He evidently purchased at an early date the pre-emption rights of some
other entrant. In Deed Book F, page
22 dated Oct 5th and acknowledged Oct 19th is recorded and from a deed from
Henry Thompson and Mary McClintock) his wife to Joseph McClintock (2d) for
6041/2 acres of land upon the waters of Hinkson, adjoining Hubbard Williams,
Alexander Pollock's settlement, it being the half of Henry Thompson's
settlement, (upon which final survey disclosed an overplus of 200 acres) which
Thompson had promised Joseph McClintock for clearing out said pre-emption and
securing the title for him (Nicholas Co. record).
Revolutionary record of Joseph McClintock (Department
of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I
hereby certify that the name of Joseph McClintock appears as a private in the
Second Class on "A Class Roll of John Nelson's Company for the Years 1780
and 1781, Eighth Company, Fifth Battalion of Cumberland County Militia" in
the War of the Revolution. See
page 355, Vol. VI. Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series. (signed)
H.H. Shenk, archivist. NOTES
ON RESEARCH I. "You will note that as early as 1751 there were in
Hopewell Township an Alexander McClintock and a Joshua McClintock.
These were the first McClintocks of whom the Cumberland county records
make mention. Alexander died in
1760, his will being proven on Sept. 10, 1760,
apparently a young man. The
Orphans Court records show that he had two minor daughters, Mary and Margaret,
also that he had boys who were put to trades, but it does not appear what there
names were.
Joshua McClintock's only appearance was in 1751 and there is nothing to indicate
what became of him.
From 1760 to 1787 there was a John McClintock in Hopewell and in Newton which in
1766 was formed from Hopewell. He probably was a son of the Alexander who died in 1760.
This John's
will was proven May 8, 1788 which shows that he had tow son, Alexander and
Daniel, and three daughters; Mary, Ann and Elizabeth.
This Alexander of this family died in 1795 and letters of administration
on his estate were issued to his brother Daniel.
His wife, Sarah (Torrance) McClintock
died in 1806 without issue (Sarah must have been sister to Elizabeth).
The above named McClintocks all lived in the part of Cumberland County lying
south of the Kittatinuy mountain range or in the Cumberland valley.
The section lying immediately north of the formation of it into Perry
County, 1820 was generally designated as Sherman's Valley, and many of the
settlers in the Cumberland Valley owned lands in the Sherman Valley, and had
intimate social and business relations with the people there.
There were no legal settlements in that section prior to 1854
as the Indians held title to the lands up to that time. No McClintock among the squatters ejected in 1750.
The earliest townships in the "Sherman Valley" were Upper Tyrone,
Lower Tyrone and Rye. Upper Tyrone
was soon formed into Toboyne.
In 1763 a Joseph McClintock appeared in Toboyne and continued there until his
death which according to his will occurred early in 1799.
His will is dated Oct 13, 1793.
But there were also others. The
witnesses in Joseph McClintock's will were John Clark and Hugh McClintock.
Hugh
could not have been the testator's son, as the son was a beneficiary of the will
and could not have been a legal witness. He
was probably a brother.
Letters of administration on the estate of Hugh McClintock of Toboyne were
issued March 24 1879 to John McClintock and Elizabeth McClintock. As this was between the dates of the writing of Joseph's will
and his death, it could have been the Hugh witness to Joseph's will.
Another Hugh of Toboyne died in 1807, estate administered Nov. 5 to Wm. McQuire
and Ann McClintock. A record in Orphan's court of Nov. 15, 1814
shows that the heirs were the widow Ann, and 1. Hamilton, 2. Frank, 3. Rachel,
married Robert Reed, 4. Jane married Frederick Peale, 5. Mary married Robert
Purdy, 6. Robert, 7. Hugh, 8. James, 9. Ann married Andrew Fleming, 10.
Isabella, 11. John, the two latter names under 14.
(Ann wife of Hugh, presumably Ann Crothers). Wife of Hamilton McClintock
was Mary Culbertson. Note from inquiry attached).
C.P. Harnish's report on Cumberland Co., (PA). Record May 12, 1897.
'As early as 1763 a Joseph McClintock was returned as owner of a 100 acre
section patented land in Upper Terone-Tyrone Township Cumberland, now Perry Co.
Pa. In 1763 the upper or westernmost portion of this township was set up as
Toboyne. In 1763 is returned from Toboyne as the owner of 150 acres and is the
only McClintock from Tyrone or Toboyne. In 1768, 1770, 1771 and 1772 Joseph
McClintock is returned as a land owner from Toboyne, the quantity
of land varying: and in 1770
Daniel McClintock who seems to be the oldest son of Joseph as a freeman in
Toboyne. In 1771 we have Daniel and Hugh, both returned, the former as a freeman
and the latter as the owner of 60 acres of land.' In 1772 Daniel is returned
'freeman', Hugh as owning 100 acres; and Joseph owning 200 acres in Toboyne. In
1769 a Wm. McClintock returned from Tyrone also in
'70, '71, and '72. In 1820 a Margueret McClintock, a widow was assessed
for 100 acres, and Joseph for 187 acres, of which 100 was ridge land, in Toboyne,
PerryCo.*****
The village of New Germantown was laid out on a portion of the land
located by Joseph McClintock prior to 1767.
(extract from W,T. McClintock's letter dated March 5, 1894 Chilicothia).
"From all I can learn, I am inclined to think the 'branch' from which I
descend, emigrated from Ireland and settled in Chester County, Pa., prior to the
period when Lancaster Co. was carved out of Chester Co. in 1729. When that event
occurred some of them fell within the limits of Chester, so also when in 1756,
Cumberland Co. was taken from Lancaster County, some fell within the limits of
each. My grandfather lived for a part of his life at least in Cumberland county
where my father was born at Shippensburgh. Oct 25, 1785. *
* * *
I find that there was an Alexander who died in Cumberland Co., Pa. Sept.
1760, leaving children. Daniel, born in 1743; Jane, born in 1745; William, born
1742; Mary, born 1749 died 1772; and Margaretta, born 1751."
Extract from C.P. Humrich, Attorney, Carlisle, Pa., dated 1897…”In
1792 there were four townships in what is now Perry Co. Toboyne, being the most
western and Tyrone (or Terone) joined it on the east.. I found however that
Joseph McClintock was a resident of Toboyne in 1793 to ’99. Not of Tyrone
township in the same county. These locations put your family farther west in
Sherman’ s Valley, than I had expected, and the Associated Reformed
Presbyterian Church to which you refer must have been located either in
Newville, this county, or near Perry, Center Co. From papers which I have at
hand I have learned that John McClintock settled near Sewell’ s Gap, in this
county; and I should not be surprised if he were a brother of Joseph.
John Linn, V. D. M. 22.”
In 1750 Cumberland county was , and it included all of the province of
Penna. West of the Susquehanna, except the county of York as above described.
From this you will see, that at that date, Cumberland County extended to
and beyond the Ohio River at Pittsburg, and when the latter manor was surveyed
in 1706, it was described as in Cumberland county. The first county stricken off
from Cumberland was Bedford in 1771, and this embraced the territory from the
present limits of Bedford westward. Westmorland county was organized out of
Bedford in 1773, Washington County in 1781, Fayette in 1783, and Franklin from
Cumberland in 1784. It will thus be seen that
anyone who lived west of the Susquehanna and north of York county, from 1750 to
1771 was a resident of Cumberland county. After that date if he lived within the
present limits of Bedford or west of them he was a resident of Bedford and so,
by the organization of one county after another his residence changed with
the organization of new counties. Perry county was organized out of Cumberland
in 1820, and it now includes all of what at an early day was known as Sherman’
s Valley. It is so-called from the fact that Sherman’s Creek flows through it
in an easterly or northeasterly direction, and the county is on the north
boundary of Cumberland its entire length as you will see by consulting a map of
Pennsylvania.
This Sherman’s Valley was prominent in our early history, for the
reason that one of the great Indian paths from the western part of this state
eastward passed through it, and in many places and miles at a time was along
Sherman’ s Creek, thence to a gap in the mountain now called Aterretis but
which should be named Grogans, and from
thence to Harris Ferry now Harrisburg, the state capitol.
Many of the prominent families of the early history of this county
settled in Sherman’s Valley, and afterwards removed south across the mountain
into what is now Cumberland Valley. Partly I suppose, that about the time of
Braddock’ s defeat in 1756 they had laid out a great road through this valley
to Fort Hill which was a more desirable route than through Sherman’s Valley. 1.
William
McClintock, settled at Mercersburg. 2.
John
McClintock, m. Isabelle Hume, settled at Chambersburg. 3.
…….McClintock,
m………Steele, went to Illinois. 4.
Phoebe
McClintock, m…….Bowman, settled at Bedford Springs. 5.
Mary
McClintock, m. ………Peale 6.
Jean
McClintock, born Oct. 26, 17[8]1,
married Christian Cougher, Nov. 30, 1809 at
Mercersburg (ancestor of Couffer 7. Nancy McClintock, m. (?) Morrison and went to Piqua, Ohio
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