[Ancestor] Magill

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1 M Arthur Magill, Sr. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1764 - Burnt Cabins, Fulton Co, PA 1 4
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           Died: 1 Jun 1847 - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 1 4
         Buried:  - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA

         Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

         Spouse: Elizabeth Arters (      -1840) 1 4
           Marr: 15 Jun 1798 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Magill

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The Magill family is of Scotch-Irish descent, and it is of record in America since prior to the Revolution. The name was formerly spelled McGill and MacGill, the first of the name to come to America being John Macgill, who changed the name to McGill, and later it became Magill. He landed in Massachusetts, where there developed many of the name, and from whence they spread to adjoining states and all over the Union. The Macgills were connected by ties of blood and a community of interests with the Campbell clan, Fergus Campbell coming to America with John Macgill. Owing to the frequent destruction of early records, it is not always possible to trace the connection of the present generations with the earlier ones in an uninterrupted manner, but there is every reason to suppose that all the Magills now in this country have had a common origin.

This Magill family traces their ancestry back to John Magill, of Belfast, Ireland, but originally they came from Scotland. He came to America at a very early date and located at Philadelphia. He was married and had two sons, one of whom became the noted Professor Magill, one of the founders and who held a chair in Amherst College, at Amherst, Massachusetts, which college was founded in 1821 as a Congregational school of learning. He never married. His brother married and reared a family in Pennsylvania. He never changed his name from Magill to McGill, as some in this country did, and none of his descendants have deviated from the original way of spelling the name\emdash "Magill."
A direct descendant of this brother was Arthur Magill, who was a resident of Warren County, Pennsylvania.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1097.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 180.

3 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 294.

4 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 303.