McMahans in the American South
1740-1970
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MacMahans in Scotland and Noteworthy Laird s

McMahans in the Thirteen Colonies and Early America, Including Tennessee, below the Mason Dickson Line.

McMahans in
Pennsylvania

John McMahan

Jenny Craig McMahan

John and Jenny McMahan's Children

Archibald  and Ann Payne McMahan and Their Children

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

                                 

 

McMahans (and similar) in Colonial Virginia

References:

(Settlements on Branches of the James and Roanoke Rivers)

"September 2, 1746, William McMachan-Grant, 400 acres on the
head of a north branch of Buffalo Creek adjoining Borden's line."
(P.67)

"1747, Robert Young from William McMachan, Gent. of Frederick
County, 400 acres at the head of a north branch of Buffalo Creek,
Cor. To Borden's land.  Au.D. Bk. 1, 359."  (P.68)

"James McMahon, 938 lbs" (p.392) "Hemp certificates granted
 by the court of Botetourt County, 1770-1771."  (P.391)

James McMahon was in Captain Taylor's Company, Craig's Creek,
with five horses and two cattle.  This was in reference to James
River Communities in Botetourt County, 1770-1783. (P.p.464-465)
((Craig's Creek was located slightly S.W. of Natural Bridge))

"Kegley's Virginia Frontier The Beginning of the Southwest The Roanoke of Colonial Days 1740-1783"By F.B. Kegley The Southwest Virginia Historical Society Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.A., 1938

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McMachan Will.m: p. 572, Virginia Council Land Grants, April 22, 1747, Potomack, Yaughyaughgare & Monongahela Rivers.

McMachen, Jn.o: p. 553, Poll taken at the Election of Burgesses, Frederick County (Virginia) May 18, 1761.

McMachen, John: p.550 Poll taken at the Election of Burgesses, Frederick County, (Virginia), May 18, 1761.   AND p. 574, listed along with Will.m McMachen, and Rich:d McMachen as grantees in Virginia Council Land Grants, dates between 1745-1753.  John and Rich:d may be related to the Will.m McMachan listed above)

McMachen, Rich d.: p.  552, Poll taken at the Election of Burgesses, Frederick County, May 18, 1761.(Colonel Geo. Mercer's section)  AND p.555, same poll as above but in Colonel Adam Stephen's section, AND
p. 574, listed along with John and Will:m McMachen on the land grant.

McMachen, Will.m: p. 554, listed as part of the poll under Colonel Stephen, AND along with John and Rich'd on the land grant 574

McMacken, Richard: p 330, Poll for Frederick County, Dec 11, 1755, List of Voters, for Mr. Hugh West.

McMaehon, William: p. 573 Oct 25, 1751, Virginia Council Land Grants, listed with Marquis Calmes, no geographic location.

McMahan, Rich.d: p. 514, Colonel George Washington's section, Poll taken in Frederick County (Virginia) July 24, 1758.  AND p.  518, Hugh West's section, July 24, 1758, Poll taken in Frederick County.

McMahan W.m: p. 518, Mr. Hugh West's section, July 24, 1758, Poll taken in Frederick County.

(Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774 Murtie June Clark, Baltimore Publishing Co, Inc, 1986)

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McMechen, William (Va) Surgeon 4th Va., 14 Oct 1776, in 3rd Va.  June1779, served to Oct 1779. (Name also spelled McMahon) (p 374)

Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army, April, 1775 - December 1783
Francis B. Heitman, The Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914, Washington, D.C.

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Kegley's Virginia Frontier The Beginning of the Southwest
The Roanoke of Colonial Days 1740-1783
By F.B. Kegley
The Southwest Virginia Historical Society
Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.A., 1938

Settlements on Branches of the James and Roanoke Rivers

"September 2, 1746, William McMachan-Grant, 400 acres on the head of a north branch of Buffalo Creek adjoining Borden's line."  (P.67)

"1747, Robert Young from William McMachan, Gent. of Frederick County, 400 acres at the head of a north branch of Buffalo Creek, Cor. To Borden's land.  Au.D. Bk. 1, 359."  (P.68)
 
 

"James McMahon, 938 lbs" (p.392) "Hemp certificates granted by the court of Botetourt County, 1770-1771."  (P.391)

James McMahon was in Captain Taylor's Company, Craig's Creek, with five horses and two cattle.  This was in reference to James River Communities in Botetourt County, 1770-1783.
(P.p.464-465) ((Craig's Creek was located slightly S.W. of Natural Bridge))

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  MCMAHAN John 174?  Virginia
 
Historical reg. Of Virginians in the Rev., soldiers, sailors and
marines, 1775-1783.Ed. By John H. Gwathmey. Richmond,
Va. 1938. (13, 872p.):535
 
Index to Saffells List of Virginia Soldiers in the Revolution, J.T. McAllister, Hot Springs, VA, 1913

George McMahon 264
Joseph McMahon 264
Roger McMahon 257
William McMahon 505
 

241-245 = Colonel Chas. Harrison's Virginia and Maryland Regiment of Artillery from November 30, 1776 to April, 1782.

411-437 = Va. Officers of the Continential Army either killed in service, supernumary, or served to end of the war and acquired right to half pay, commutations, bounty land under the Act of Congress.

500-508 = Officers whose service in land warrants were used prior to Dec 31, 1784.

Index to officers in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 11th Va. Regiments in Vol 1 of Palmers Calendar of Va. State papers giving date of commission and number of page where the name appears.

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