Person:John McAfee (3)

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Generation No. 1

1. JOHN1 MCAFEE, SR. was born 1645 in Scotland, and died Abt. 1738 in County Armagh, Ireland. He married ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY Abt. 1670 in near Glasgow Scotland, daughter of MALCOM MONTGOMERY. She was born 1639 in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Notes for JOHN MCAFEE, SR.:

Historical

The genealogy of the McAfee family has been traced back to John McAfee, the Patriarch, who was born and reared in Scotland in the days of Cornwell. Then the persecutions of James II were directed toward him on account of his religious convictions. He came under the ban, but the pride of his noble line rose in him triumphant, and with his wife( Elizabeth Montgomery,) , and his son, John, he fled to Ireland in 1672. Similar migrations happened from 1611-1700, noting the familiar saying "Scotch Irish". The persecutions of James II drove nearly all the Covenanted from Scotland into the north of Ireland. With the McAFEE'S went the CAMPBELL, MONTGOMERY, McMICHAEL, Mc COUN, and the ADAMS families, all related through marriage. They settled in Armagh County, in Ulster, near Callan and the Ulster canal, 70 miles northwest of Dublin. He fought in the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland in 1690 alongside his son John McAfee JR. who at that time was only a lad of 17. Also fighting under the banner of William, Prince of Orange were John McAfee SR'S seven brothers.

Children of JOHN MCAFEE and ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY are:

2. i. JAMES2 MCCOUN, b. 1660, Guilithgowshire, Scotland; d. Bef. April 07, 1735, Ireland; Stepchild.

3. ii. JOHN MCAFEE, JR., b. 1673, Scotland; d. 1736, County Armagh, Ireland.

4. iii. ? MCAFEE, b. Abt. 1674.

iv. JAMES MCAFEE, b. Abt. 1675.

5. v. NH(John)? MCAFEE, b. Abt. 1676.