The McGlammery Family
THE McGLAMMERY FAMILY
Edward McGlammery resided in Somerset County, Maryland.He wrote his will there March 25, 1721 and it was probated in 1723.His wife was Sarah (maiden name unknown--possibly Keene, daughter of William Keene). He named his three sons as:
1--George McGlammery, named on land records in Wicomico County, Maryland in 1730's.
2--Edward McGlammery, married Ann. He left his will dated April 19, 1743 and states he had a number of children "under the legal age". His children are John (died 1769 and married to Sarah), Mary (married in 1745 to David Magee), Solomon, Sarah, Isaac, Anne and Edward (perhaps this was the Edward McGlammery who served in the Revolution from Maryland). Ann and Edward were born Feb 3, 1739 in Stephens Parish, Somerset County, Maryland.
3--William McGlammery, nothing else known except he is listed on 1733 tax list of Wicomico County, Maryland. It is believed he was the father of:
A--John McGlammery (name spelling changed to Meglamre).He was born June 7, 1730 in Maryland.As a resident of Worcester County, Maryland, and sold 81 acres of land there (while a resident of North Carolina) in February 1765 to William Parsons and also 50 acres on the same day to Joshua Nelms (adjoining land sold to Edward Meglamre).According to an address by Garnett Ryland at the unveiling of the monument to John at the Antioch Church in Sussex County, Va., on June 12, 1932, it stated that John was the son of William Meglamre.He was of old Presbyterian stock and breeding, but when at thirty-five he joined the Baptist Church at Fishing Creek in North Carolina.In 1767 he was ordained to be a minister and the following year he became pastor at the Kehukee Church in Halifax County, North Carolina.In 1770 he crossed over into Virginia and preached at the homes of Henry Bailey and Henry Andrews in Sussex County, and in 1772 became the pastor at the newly organized church on Racoon Swamp (later called Antioch) in Sussex county.John also became moderator of the Kehukee Baptist Association and held that position for twenty years, at which time it included sixty one churches with over five thousand members in two states.It had become so large that the association was divided and John held the post of moderator of the Virginia division called the Portsmouth Association.In 1794 his declining health compelled him to relinquish the pastorate.John died December 13, 1799.Tradition pictures John as tall, blue-eyed and broadshouldered, with the lithe body of an Indian.He loved singing and among the books and papers were manuscript hymn and tune books in his own hand.
John married in St. Stephens Parish in Northumberland County, Virginia on October 17, 1756 to Lettice "Lettie" Nelms, daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Northen) Nelms, born November 14, 1738 in Northumberland County, Virginia.They moved to Granville and Halifax Counties, North Carolina, and on August 8, 1776 purchased 285 acres of land in Sussex County, Virginia.John died across the Sussex border in Southampton County, Virginia on December 13, 1799.Lettie died there in February of 1807.
CHILDREN OF JOHN AND LETTICE (NELMS) MEGLAMRE:
1) Sarah "Sally" Meglamre, born about 1758 in Virginia.She married about 1780 to John Clanton, son of John and Amy (Wyche) Clanton, born December 31, 1758 in Sussex County, Virginia.They had children named Drury (mrd Jemima Walpole—my ancestors), Henry (mrd Branchy Dilliard and Polly Hailey, and was the grandfather of Ike and Billy Clanton of the Gunfight at the OK Corral fame), Rebecca (mrd Edmond Bailey), Robert (mrd Deborah Murphy and Sarah Smith) and Jackey Clanton (mrd George Whitehorn).John died 1790 in Sussex County, Virginia.Sally married (2) in Sussex County on September 15, 1791 to Edward Whitehorn, son of John and Elizabeth Whitehorn.He died there in 1819.They had three children, namely Elizabeth Anne (mrd David Newsom), John M. (mrd Elizabeth Cain) and Nancy Whitehorn (mrd Richard Bailey).Sally moved with her son John to Hardeman County, Tennessee in 1841 and died there the following year.
2) Elizabeth Meglamre, married there in Sussex County on January 2, 1794 to Philip Bailey, son of Henry and and Wilmoth (Wyatt) Bailey, born 1763 in Virginia.Philip had previously been married to Ann Whitehorn, daughter of John and Elizabeth Whitehorn.Elizabeth died in Jarratt, Sussex County on August 31, 1933.Philip died there September 21, 1834.They had three daughters: Zilpah (married Nathaniel Whitehorn); Elizabeth (mrd Seymour Northcross); and Martha (mrd William Newsom).
3) Hettable "Hetty" Meglamre, married in Southampton County, Virginia on December 5, 1797 to Thomas Northcross.Hetty died 1842 in Southampton County. Two children are John Meglamre Northcross and James Northcross (the latter died at the Alamo).
4) Mary Meglamre, married in Southampton County, Virginia on January 14, 1796 to William Lundy.Mary died there in 1797. It is not known if she had a child but it is assumed she may have died during child birth.
5) John Meglamre, born June 29, 1774 in Southampton County, Virginia.John married in Sussex County on June 30, 1798 to Mary Stuart, born December 6, 1775 in Sussex County.John died in Southampton County on May 7, 1851 and Mary died there February 25, 1853.Their children were Littleton (mrd Elizabeth Green); William (mrd Mary Jane Tomlinson); Nancy; James; Jack (mrd Mary Owen); Sarah (mrd George Miskell); Mary (mrd Nicholas Partridge); Elizabeth; and Caroline Meglamre.
Miscelleanous notes:
Note: It is thought that the following were descendents of the three brothers, George, Edward and Wiliam of Somerset County, Maryland.
1---There were two McGlamery brothers named Jesse and George who resided 1790 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. George's son Isaac (born 1800) moved to Jefferson County, Tennessee.Jesse and George had come from Maryland.
2---There was an Edward McGlamery who resided 1790 in Guilford County, Salisbury District, North Carolina with one son and five daughters.
3---In the 1800's there are a number of McGlamory's in Georgia.The earlist of this name found was a John living 1799 in Burke County.I just find that a Elijah McGlamery died 1794 in Hancock Co., Ga.He is perhaps the Elijah McGlamary living 1781 in Charles County, Maryland as a discharged soldier of the militia of the Continental Army.
4---There was a McGlamry family in Augusta County, Virginia, the earliest mention being Mathias McGlamry in 1770. Possibly the same as the Matthew McGlamary in the 1783-4 tax list of Greenbrier Co, Va (later West Va). John McGlamary of this county served in the Revolutionary War.
5---There was a John McGlamary residing in 1770's in Charleston, South Carolina.
One McGlamery descendent, Barbara Rushing of Newport News, Va., wrote me in 1976 "It seems that the majority of McGlamerys came from North Carolina.I was told by my grandfather (Walter Elliot McGlamery, born 1902) that the original McGlamerys came over from Ireland and that the husband died at sea and the wife along with seven children landed in the U.S.But where and when no one kmows."This family can be traced back to a John T. McGlamery, born about 1850 (do not know where).The seven children is probably just legend.
Another note:I have been told by a researcher of the McLemore family of Granville County, North Carolina ((John, James, Young and Atticus McLemore) are not connected to our McGlamary families, but are a complete different family they having been traced back to their immigrant ancestors
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