jenniecraigmcmahan

McMahans in the American South
1740-1970
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Jessie and Caroline Barrett McMahan and their Children

William Lawrence and Ida Barron McMahan and their Children

References and
Sources: The Colonial
American South

Other Descendents of John and Jenny McMahan
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St. John's Lutheran Church

Fairview Southern Methodist Church

Wofford College

Deaton Family

Jenny Craig McMahan

Jennie Craig is mentioned as the mother of Archibald McMahan and his siblings in three McMahan family narratives, even in one when the name of her husband is not noted. In one version she was married in Glasgow, Scotland, in the other two she was married in Pennsylvania, and was from Ireland.

The narratives agree that she was married and came to Pennsylvania in 1740.

There was a William Craige, born in Lanark Scotland, a town just
SE of Glasgow, Scotland in 1694. He married Margaret Logan Long in
Scotland and sailed from Ireland in 1729 on the ship Georgeann(?)
to Lancaster, Dauphine County, Pa. He had a son, Samuel, born in
1740.

The family was in the Hawfields in NC in 1750. Earlier, William had
traveled from PA to the Hawfields on a scouting expedition.

Samuel had a daughter, born in the New Hope Community of Orange
County, named Jane with Jenny in quotes in the reference. She was
born in 1776.

I suspect that our Jennie Craig McMahan was named Jane but called
Jennie, as was Samuel's daughter above, and as was her own daughter,
Jenny, who we found in the records named Jane when she married James
Payne.

I also suspect that our Jennie's father may have been one of the
brothers of William Craige from Lanark (Glasgow). Jane or Jennie may
have married the McMahan ancestor, John or James, in Scotland or in
Ireland and may have traveled with William Craige and his party,
since they all ended up in Lancaster, PA and then all ended up within
a few miles of each other in the Hawfields.

Archibald was born in Lancaster PA in 1761, and the family moved from Lancaster to the Hawfields community near Hillsborough, NC sometime between 1761 and 1775.

Only one mention of Archibald's mother has been found other than these narratives.
In 1781, in the Hawfields community near Hillsborough, N.C., Archibald's wife to be, Ann Payne, mentioned later in her pension application that she saw Archibald's mother trying to make arrangements for him to be released from the prison ship Ashe in Charleston Harbor.

Craigs in or around Hillsborough, N.C.

1st individual or family

Cpt. David Craig
Born in Scotland During 1732
Married Elinor Johnston
Parents of Margaret, Mary, William, Johnston, Isabel, Joh, Elinor, David, Samuel.
Died in North Carolina in 1785.
List of Soldiers of North Carolina in the American Revolution, High Point, N.C. 1948.

John, William, Samuel James and David Craig were paying taxes in Orange county in 1779

There was a John Craig in Hillsborough District, Orange County, St Thomas District in the 1790 Census (P.97, Heads of NC Families, 1790 Census)

James Craig was replaced as Overseer of a road by Archibald Bowland in February 1766. (Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County in the Province of North Carolina September 1752 through August, 1766. Compiled by Ruth Herndon Shields.
Entry 443, p. 134.)

Mary Craig died February 11, 1798 at age 36, leaving six sons and one Daughter.

Margaret Craig married James Johnson March 4, 1788 in Orange County, N.C.

2nd individual or family

John Craig 1731 - 1816
Served as a private in the N.C. Militia
Born in Scotland, Died in Orange County, N.C.
Wife, Mary Blackwood
Daughter, Elizabeth
(DAR Lineage Book #53, 1905, p. 350.)

3rd individual or family

John Craig had his Revolutionary War Account audited (File number 1569)
sometime after 1776 //0015 003 0027 00324 00// (SC State Archives)

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