Robert McClung property on the northwesterly side of Absolom Beidell adjoining Hollingsworth.

Granted 12-6-1774
Signed 6-1-1775 by Jonathan Sell for Absolom Beedle (sic)


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Robert McClung land on east side of the land of Joseph Maddock & Isaac Vernon in St. Paul's Parish 2/100 -- Bounded northerly Joseph Maddock and vacant land. Westerly by John Oliver, southerly by George Bick, Isaac Vernon and vacant land.

John McClung signed for John Givens 10-14-1775 for a grant of 300 acres in St.Thomas Parish 2/100; bounded by vacant land.

This may be the father of John the Rev. War soldier as we know his family came to the Wilkes County area before 1770 or thereabouts. St. Paul's Parish was the designation of the land before it became Richmond County, then Wilkes County.

We went into these records searching for Robert and Mary from PA. The record of this John is a bonus. This is not the Rev. War soldier because he would have been only 12 years old. Could this John have been a brother to Robert?

We also checked for the McCormick family as they may be related. We found a Robert McCormick in St. Matthew's Parish in 1771 and in St. George's Parish in 1775. Notice that John was signing in St. Thomas. We have found no indication of a land record of John's.

It appears that Robert's land was bounded on the west by Joseph Maddock and Absolom Beidell to the east and south with, perhaps, vacant land on other sides. Their presence in an area where records were kept by the parish priest might indicate that some marriages might be found in church records there. Does anyone have access to these?

This includes St. Paul's Parish on the eastern border with Richmond probably the seat. In 1773-7 the Ceded Lands just to the north included what became Wilkes County.

Robert McCormick has papers there from several sources in the Georgia Archives:
ap:LA:292 (loose Papers, Administrations)
INV:42, 237, 254 (materials held by University of GA Libraries)
w:Y-1: 258-9 (Bonds, Bills of Sales, etc., Book Y-1)