John McClure and Janet McKnight

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Husband John McClure ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Abt 1696 - Scotland
     Christened: 
           Died: 9 Oct 1757 - Cumberland Co, PA 1
         Buried: 

       Marriage: Abt 1720

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Wife Janet McKnight ^{2 3}

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           Born: 1702 - Ulster, Northern Ireland 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 Jan 1780 - Pennsylvania 3
         Buried: 

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Children

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1 M Charles McClure ^{1 4}

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           Born: 1739 1
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           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Anna Blair (      -      ) 4

         Spouse: Amelia Blair (1765-1793) 4

         Spouse: Rebecca Blair (1753-1826) 1 5 6 7

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2 M John McClure, Sr. ^{2 3 8 9}

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           Born: Abt 1723
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Martha Denny (      -      ) 2 3 9 10
           Marr: Cumberland Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - John McClure

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He came to America from the north of Ireland about 1715. He married and settled in what is now Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, taking up a large tract of land, on part of which the city of Carlisle was afterwards built. [MAC II, 141]

He and his wife were the parents of eight children.

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

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 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 584.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 579.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 985.

7 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 18.

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

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

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