MCKAUGHAN, Hugh

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Found his name (spelled McQuown) on a list of petitioners from Rowan Co ., NC along with Georg e Howard. Petition to His Excellency Josiah Mar tin Esquire Governor and Commander in Chief i n and over the Province o f North Carolina asking him to have an amendment of the act of Assem bl y so far as to tolerate the Presbyterian Publication. (Concerning marr ying of the member s of the Presbyterian Church). From Four Generations of McKaughans in America: There are two s tories written or tol d about Hugh's life. One story states that he le ft Phoebe and the children when their twins , Jesse Alfred and Forreste r were small, presumbly to find a better place for them to live . The t wins were born on May 1, 1815. It was told that he went to Tesas to re locate near re latives, prehaps his niece, Jane Mercer Brooks Simpson, d aughter of his sister, Rebecca McKau ghan Brooks. A letter from Archib ald's son, John Wesley McKaughan, to one of his children re lates that t he family heard from his grandfather (Hugh) two or three times in the n ext few ye ars and then no more, so assumed dead around 1820. The other story relates that Hugh was known to have bought land in 1816 i n Pulaski Co., Kentu cky. While there, it is stated that he married Na ncy Riddle in 1820; then moved to Texas t o settle near his niece. Div orces were practically unheard of in this era. If there were gr ounds f or divorce, only the rich and/or influential could afford them. Whethe r or not he eve r legally divorced Phebe or just deserted his family is n ot known. Prehaps if the latter i s true, it wwas just easier for Pheb e to tell her children that their father was dead than t o try to expla in the divorce/desertion. Book 23, page 40: On 11 Sep 1812, Hugh McKaughan -- no wife signs -- l ets John Cecil (both o f Rowan Co., NC) have 75 acres on Rich Fork of A bbott's Creek next Rachel Cecil, Hoseph Alber tson & ---- Collet, for 1 00 pounds, witnessed by John Wayman & Thomas Cecil & proved by the l at ter in Feb 1814. (Said Hugh McKaughan bought this of Sherwood Kennedy) . Hugh reared his family in Guilford Co., NC but went to Texas which port ion was then Mexico . He wrote his son Archibald from Natchitoces, LA o n the border of Texas. A little later wor d was received that he was de ad. In a note from Raymond Peace, editor of "The Descendants of Silas Peace ": In the settling o f the estate of George Whitefield Pope, daughter, P hebe McKaughan, was not taken apart from h er husband as was her sister . This indicates that Hugh McKaughan is deceased. Date is 5 Oc t 1819 . He was on the tax rolls in Texas in 1845 - from Cuz of Sorts by M inniebell McKaughan P erkins From CUZ of Sorts: HUGH McKAUGHAN, named after his Uncle Hugh Mc Kaughan born in Pennsy lvania, went with his parents to what is now Sul livan County, Tennessee after the Revolutiona ry War. He went to Pulas ki County, Kentucky around 1800 with his parents where he was grante d 2 00 acres of land on the East Side of the south fork of the Cumberland R iver. He apparentl y kept his land; but he went to North Carolina wher e he married PHOEBE POPE, 29 March 1804 . Phoebe was born 7 August 178 3 in Pennsylvania, daughter of Rev. George Whitefield Pope an d Mary Ha itt. His marriage bond was co signed by his father-in-law, Rev. George W . Pope, Witn esses James Pope, the bride's brother, and Joab Brooks, br other of his sister Rebecca's husba nd, John D. Brooks. It is possible H ugh and Phoebe knew each other in Pennsylvania before the y moved south . Something happened to the marriage of Hugh McKaughan and Phoebe Pope. W hile I was in North C arolina, I read a letter telling that Hugh went t o the Dominion of Mexico (Texas) to try to g et land near kin (his niec e, Jane Mercer Brooks Simpson), when the twins were a few months ol d ( 1815). He was heard from once only so assumed dead. When we were in P ulaski County, Kent ucky doing research, we found him having his land s urveyed and getting a license to run a saw mill. In 1818, he married P OLLY RIDDLE and then they went to Texas where he was on the tax r olls u ntil 1845. If they heard from him in Texas, it was years after he had l eft North Carol ina. I feel the marriage bond had something to do with i t for it states that if he leaves hi s wife, and there are children inv olved, he would pay the state five hundred pounds, the curr ency of the d ay. Since he was nowhere to be found and since his father-in-law had c o-signed , it looks like he would be the one to pay. It was just easie r for Phoebe to say he had gon e and not heard from rather than he had l eft her. To get married legally in those days, yo u had to get a marri age bond, which meant you had to pay the state a certain amount of mone y t o take care of your children if you left them, in his case, 500 pounds. T his is why commo n law marriages were so popular. After Hugh McKaughan left North Carolina, Phoebe took her children to h er father's farm wher e they built a cabin for her down by the spring. T he foundation is still visible. They alwa ys referred to it as "Widow P hoebe's home" All their children stayed in North Carolina but Re v. Wil liam, my great grandfather.

Hugh married POPE, Phebe on 29 Mar 1804 in Rowan County, NC. Phebe (daughter of POPE, Rev. George Whitefield and HIATT, Mary) was born on 7 Aug 1783 in Guilford County, NC; died on 16 Sep 1867 in Guilford County, NC; was buried in Oak Ridge, NC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. MCKAUGHAN\ MCKOIN, George P. was born in 1805 in Rowan County, NC; died on 22 Jul 1871.
2. MCKAUGHAN, Archibald was born on 13 Sep 1808 in Rowan County, NC; died on 8 Nov 1879 in Forsyth County, NC; was buried in Winston-Salem, NC.
3. MCKAUGHAN, Jane was born before 1810 in Rowan County, NC; died in 1850; was buried in Forsyth County, NC.
4. MCKAUGHAN\ MCCOIN, Rev. William was born on 18 Apr 1813 in Rowan County, NC; died on 2 Mar 1895 in Emporia, KS; was buried on 7 Mar 1895 in Emporia, KS.
5. MCKAUGHAN\ MCCOIN, Rev. Jessie Alfred was born on 1 May 1815 in NC; died on 5 Apr 1860; was buried in NC.
6. MCKAUGHAN\ MCKOIN, Rev. Forrester was born on 1 May 1815 in Rowan County, NC; died on 30 Sep 1883; was buried in NC.

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From CUZ of Sorts: ARCHIBALD McKAUGHAN, JR.: born 1735, County A ntrim, Ireland. He cam e to America with his parents in 1747, at the ag e of 12 years. They settled in Pennsylvania , believed to be Cumberland C ounty. He married JANE MERCER, daughter of Moses and LaGrelda Fo rreste r Mercer from Scotland to Pennsylvania. Little is known about Moses and L aGrelda afte r they came to America. The Mercer cousins who have worked o n that line believe Moses was rel ated to General Hugh Mercer, they bot h came to America around the same time and Jane's brothe rs always seem ed to be near General Hugh. History books tell us General Hugh Mercer was the private doctor to the K ing of Scotland an d after their war with England for their Independenc e the King was exiled and so was Genera l Hugh Mercer. We do not know w hether Moses Mercer was also exiled or not. General Hugh settl ed in Cu mberland County, Pennsylvania (Mercersburg was named after him). When t he revolutiona ry war broke out, Hugh Mercer enlisted as a doctor and w as commissioned to General. He was i n many battles in Pennsylvania and w as sent to Princeton, New Jersey where he was killed. Tw o of Jane Merc er's brothers were with him in Princeton at the time. Archibald McKaughan, Jr. served as a private eighth class, Captain Jack 's Sixth Company, Four th Battalion, Cumberland County Militia, accordi ng to a patrol return dated 24 October 1782 ( page 313, Vol. 6, 5th ser ies, Pennsylvania Archives). He is recorded as Arch McCaughran. I fe el t he name was written by a clerk and the clerk wrote it "McC", rather tha n "McK" because Ar ch Jr's signature on a land survey in 1804 and he sp elled the name McKaughan. The "r" in th e name indicates the Gaelic pro nunciation and the "r" the roll. His name is recorded Archibal d McKaug han on the D.A.R. Patriotic Records, cleared 9 November 1933 by Zula Mo ore Nelson, Wi chita Falls, Texas. There are, however, several errors i n her report. After the revolutionary war, all the Mercer brothers and all the McKaug han's regathered i n a territory which is now Sullivan County, Tennesse e. Around 1800, when Kentucky was formed , all the Mercer brothers and f amilies and Archibald McKaughan, Jr. and family went to Pulask i County , Kentucky. Archibald's land was 15 miles west of Somerset, west of Nan cy about 2 mil es, and one mile south on road #1664. The King Creek men tioned on the survey is now named Spu tter Creek. The land is now owned b y Mr. Glen Roy. Their graves are in the pasture on a hill , among a clu mp of trees, between the two barns. It is hard to tell just how many gr aves ther e are for the cattle have trampled them, and there are only t wo marked with names. One, a sol dier recorded Caughran (no date), appe ars to be a grandson, and the other a baby recorded a s Caughron (1853) . I have neither of these on my files. If the soldier was the father of t h e baby, it appears he had dropped the prefix "Mc" from the name and u sed "C", as we find the m doing sometimes during this time, and again t he "r" which indicates the name was still pron ounced the Gaelic way, t he "r" being the roll in the name. In the early days, Pulaski County , Kentucky was quite large; in fact, it went to the Tennessee border. The y built sub-courthouse s so the men could get to a courthouse in the wi ntertime when the river was frozen and road s icy. One such sub-courtho use was built at Monticello, Kentucky. Later, when Pulaski Count y was d ivided into several counties, Monticello became the county seat of Wayn e County but i t appears they kept all the old records so if you look f or information, you have to work bot h courthouses. The Wolf Creek Dam h as been built between Archibald McKaughan, Jr's land and M onticello so y ou have to go to Somerset and around but at the time he lived there. I w as tol d by Mr. Roy that they would take a skiff across the river. It i s 7 miles from Monticello an d 15 miles and many hills to Somerset. Thi s explains why we found more information in Wayne C ounty on them than P ulaski County. The information containing the children and birth dates was found in tw o courthouses - in Way ne Co., TN - Monticello and Somerset. From Four Generations of McKaughans in America - "After the war, h e moved with his fam ily to East Tennessee. They cleared their land, b uilt their homes, put in their crops, and m ade peace with the indians. T hey were doing fine until North Carolina found out about them a nd took t heir land. Archibald, Jr. was one of the signers to form the little st ate of Frankl in. After North Carolina took over their land, they move d on to Jackson County, Tennessee, b uying land next to his brother, Hu gh about 1815. It is assumed that they both died and are b uried in Ja ckson Co., TN." Archibald McKaughan, Jr. was buried in a pasture on a hill among a clum p of trees on land no w owned by Mr. Glen Roy - Pulaski Co., KY (west o f Somerset). Archibald McKaughan, Jr. is listed in D.A.R. patriot Index published 19 67 pr. 455. Archibald McKaughan, Jr.'s record was cleared 9 Nov. 1933 by Zula Moore N elson of Wichita Fal ls, Texas Military Record of Archibald McKaughan, Jr.: Private 8th Class in Capta in Jack's Sixth Co., F ourth Battalion, Cumberland County, Pennsyvania M ilitia He is my DAR patriot - #751693 Archibald McKaughan, Pvt. PA

Archibald married MERCER, Jane. Jane was born about 1750; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Born in Scotland?