James McNary and Unknown

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Husband James McNary ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Abt 1711 - Scotland
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           Died: 1796 - Hanover Twp, Washington Co, PA 4
         Buried:  - Harmon's Creek Cemetery, near Paris, Washington Co, PA

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         Father: [Ancestor] McNary (      -      )
         Mother: 

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Wife Unknown

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Children

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1 M John McNary ^{5 6 7}

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           Born: 1738 - Scotland
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           Died: Mar 1802 - York Co, PA 8
         Buried:  - Guinston, [York Co], PA

         Spouse: Esther Boyle (      -      ) 6 9

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2 M James McNary ^{4 10}

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           Died: Feb 1815 - ? Washington Co, PA 11
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         Spouse: Margaret Paxton (      -      ) 11 12

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3 M Thomas McNary ^{13 14 15}

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           Born:  - York Co, PA
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           Died: 1820 - ? Washington Co, PA 11 13
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         Spouse: Jennet [Unk] (      -      ) 11

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4 M David McNary ^{4 11}

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           Born: 1757 11
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           Died: 1817 - ? Washington Co, PA 11
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         Spouse: Esther Cowden (      -      ) 11

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5 F Jane McNary ⁴

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         Spouse: William Robison (      -      ) 16

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General Notes: Husband - James McNary

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Born in Scotland, the traditions of the family say he resided for some time in Ireland. It is not definitely known at what date he and his family emigrated to America, but his first known residence was in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In the year 1760 he removed to York County, where he purchased a tract of land in Chanceford township, and resided there for twenty-three years. In 1769 he was chosen elder in the Seceder Congregation of Guinston. About the year 1783 he removed, with his youngest son, David, to Hanover township, Washington County, where he died, and was buried in the Harmon's Creek (Seceder) graveyard near Paris (Washington county).

By trade a shoemaker, he was born in Scotland about the year 1711, and, according to tradition, moved with his family to the North of Ireland. After sojourning there for a time he and his wife emigrated to America, bringing with them their four sons and one daughter, some of whom had married in Ireland.

He was a man of medium size, spoke with a broad Scotch brogue, and was a shoemaker by trade.

He emigrated from the north of Ireland with his family to his new home, over the seas, some years prior to A. D. 1760; the precise date of coming to America is not known, but in 1760 the records show, James McNary purchased from Samuel Esson, a farm in Lower Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania, for three pounds, ten shillings, upon which he made his home until after the American Revolution. He and his eldest son, John McNary, were elected elders of the Associate Presbyterian Church at Guinston, Pa., May 15, 1769. The four sons of James McNary-John, James, Thomas and David-were all participants in the Revolutionary struggle for national independence. John and David were members of their brother, Capt. Thomas McNary's Company, Sixth Battalion, York County Militia, William Ross, colonel, and took part in the campaigns of Washington's Army at the battles of Monmouth, Trenton and Brandywine.
At the close of the Revolutionary War, this aged emigrant, with his son David, removed from Chanceford, York County, to a farm in Hanover Township, Washington County. This was in A. D. 1783 [another source: 1787]-the location being near the Virginia State line (near the present village of Paris). After enduring many hardships and privations, and facing grave dangers from the murderous incursions of the hostile Indians upon the unprotected settlers of the frontier, this aged patriarch was, in the year 1796, gathered to his fathers, and his remains are interred (probably) in the "Tent" burying grounds in West Virginia, adjacent to the village of Eldersville, in Jefferson Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

He was a shoe-maker by trade, who reached the United States, or the colonies as they were then denominated, and in 1760 settled in what is now Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania. There he purchased a tract of land from Samuel Eason, paying three pounds and ten shillings for the same, and in 1764 he bought a farm from Robert McCall, paying thirty-two pounds and ten shillings.

His wife's name is not known, she died prior to the time of the Revolutionary War.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 714, 717, 873.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 81, 330, 843.

3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 960, 1293.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 81.

5 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 717.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 81, 843.

7 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1139, 1294.

8 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1294.

9 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1139.

10 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 714, 873.

11 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 82.

12 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 715.

13 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 873.

14 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 81, 541.

15 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1082.

16 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 330.