Bio - John McComb

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Data Description:Biio - John McComb
Submitter: Jane McCombs Gillespie
Researching: McComb/McCombs & Hopewell Presbyterian Church
Date Posted:16 July 2001
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John McComb (d. 1829)

Planter of Abbeville District. John McComb attended South Carolina College
where he received an A.B. in 1814. While a student he was a member of the
Clariosophic Society. McComb studied law and entered the South Carolina bar
at Columbia in 1815.

In 1820 he owned 20 slaves in Abbeville District. He represented Abbeville 
District in the Twenty-sixth (1824-1825), Twenty-seventh (1826-1828), and 
Twenty-eighth (1828) General Assemblies and served on the pension committee 
(1824-1828). In addition to his House service McComb was commissioner of 
locations for Abbeville District (1820) and trustee of the John De La Howe 
estate (1825). John McComb died in August 1829 during the recess of the 
Twenty-eighth General Assembly and his place in the Abbeville delegation was 
filled by George Washington Hodges. He died intestate and an inventory of his 
estate, recorded in late 1829, listed farm implements, plantation products, 
and thirty slaves, amounting in value to $8,451.75

(Sources: Abbeville Co. Probate Records, box 60, pkg 1414, Almanacs 1819,1820. 
Biographical Directory of the House, 1:319. Catalog of SC College, 1854, 26. 
Census, 1820, Abbeville District, 19. House Committee Book, 1824, 1828. House 
Journal, 1826, 7. O'Neall Bench & Bar, 2:610. Reports & Resolutions, 1842, 119. 
Reynolds File, Abbeville Co.Statutes, 8:347. USC Student Rolls)

(Added by Jane McCombs Gillespie - janegpngusa.net)

Major John McComb born 1779-1784 was the son of Andrew & Rebecca (Foster) McComb. 
Married Catherine "Kitty" Foster. Their children were: Margaret Perrily (1819-1889), 
Jehu Foster (c. 1822-bf 1888) and John Andrew (c. 1829-?) McComb. Siblings were: 
Andrew Jr., Martha, Rebecca, William, and Ann McComb


Estate cases, etc. that Major John was involved in some way with: 
Andrew Taylor (1818), Francis & Thomas McBride, William & Elizabeth Harvey (
1819 Equity case), Andrew McComb Sr (1819), John Patterson (1820), James McClane 
(1821), Margaret Smith (1822), John Yarborough (1823), Robert Patterson (1826), 
John McGee (1826), Thomas Wiley (1826), Allen Moore (1826), Joseph McCeary (1827), 
John McCartney (1828), Wyley Minors (1828), George Roberts (1828), Andrew Taylor 
(1828), William Carson (1828), Patrick Bradley (1828), Edward S Prince (1828), 
William Perrin (1829)

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