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m. Abt 1730
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http://www.archive.org/stream/mcclanahans00whitgoog/mcclanahans00whitgoog_djvu.txt James McClannaghan. It is recorded in the land office at Harrisburg, Pa., that a warrant was issued at Philadelphia, May 17, 1734, to James McClannaghan, to take up two hundred acres of land on Octorara Creek, in Lancaster County. This warrant was returned as transferred to William Webster on the 18th of December, 1746. A few months after this transfer, i. e. t on the 18th of April 1747, James McClannaghan took out a warrant for one hun- dred and fifty acres of land along the Maryland line. For this and for other land he received a patent in 1762. His will was made on the 6th of June, 1764, and was probated on May 27, 1777. There was a Scotch-Irish settlement on Octorara Creek, and the most of the settlers of the Cum- berland Valley in Pennsylvania, came in from the lower counties. This James McClannaghan came to America, as nearly as can be ascertained, about 1739, from the North of Ireland, and died A. D. 1771. His son, James McLenahan, married Isabella Craig, of Cecil County, Maryland, in 17-61. Their son, James, married Elizabeth Boggs, of whom were born five children, the eldest of which was J. King McL,enahan, now living in Hollidaysburg, Penn. Their son John married E. Johnston and begat Thomas Johnston (who became a prosperous mer- chant of Philadelphia), and Isabella, afterwards Mrs. George Brown, of Baltimore, who built the "Brown Memorial Church." William McLena- han, the sixth child of James and Isabella, mar- ried Mary Gregg, and begat four children, the second of which was James X., who was a mem- ber of the Thirty-first Congress, from 1849-53. The similarity of the names — McClannaghan and McClannahan, and the identity of many of the family surnames, together with the coincidence in the time of their coming to America from the North of Ireland, render it very probable that James and Robert were near of kin, and probably brothers.
http://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?43,437119 McClanahan Lineage From: "Dennis Stamm" <dennisstamm@@bellsouth.net>
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