John McClure, Sr. and Martha Denny

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Husband John McClure, Sr. ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: Abt 1723
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         Father: John McClure (Abt 1696-1757) 2 3 5
         Mother: Janet McKnight (1702-1780) 2 3

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       Marriage:  - Cumberland Co, PA

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Wife Martha Denny ^{2 3 4 6}

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         Father: William Denny (      -1751) 7
         Mother: Agnes [Unk] (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M William McClure ³

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            AKA: [Unk] McClure 8
           Born: 1750 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Mary McAllister (1760-      ) 3 8
           Marr: 1775 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 3

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2 M John McClure, Jr. ^{2 6}

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         Spouse: Agnes Toppins (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - John McClure, Sr.

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This family descended from that hardy Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock so prominent in the history of Pennsylvania. The McClure family first settled east of the mountains.

He came with his parents, about 1732, to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

He was one of the early settlers of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and he located on and purchased the land where Homestead now stands, which tract of land was called "Amity," and consisted of 329½ acres. The original patents, granted to him May 19, 1786, were still in the possession of his descendants more than a century later, and it is a fact worthy of mention that this land continued in their uninterrupted possession for four generations.
He was fond of the chase, and kept a pack of hounds. He traveled over western Pennsylvania, but found no land that suited him so well as his "Homestead."

He was named in his father-in-law's will, on record in Cumberland County, as one of the executors.

At the time of his father's death in 1757, he was coroner of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Two years later he disposed of his property at Carlisle and removed to Pittsburgh, or Fort Pitt, as it was then called, immediately after its capture by the English. Here he engaged in the Indian trade and became very wealthy.

He and his wife were the parents of seven children; William was the eldest son.

1 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 725.

2 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 141.

3 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 515.

4 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 76.

5 Editor, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 384.

6 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 279.

7 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 75.

8 Editor, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 85.