Person:John McGlammery (3)

About John McGlammery

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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.

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