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Family tree▼ Facts and Events
Children
Myers lists the children of this family as: Abigail, Sarah, Thomas, John, and James:[1]
John McMillan, as his son James states in his Bible, was
born in 1728, in Co. Antrim, Ireland ; died 9 Mo. 17, 1791, and
was buried in Friends' burial ground at Warrington Meeting
House ; was married 5 Mo. 4, 1756, at Sadsbury Meeting, Lancaster
County, Pa., to Jane, widow of Josejih Green, of Sadsbury,
and daughter of John and Jane (Bell) Boyd. She was born in
1728 in Co. Antrim, Ireland, died 5 Mo. 12, 1782, and lies buried
beside her second husband at Warrington. After the death of his
first wife John McMillan was married, 7 Mo. 15, 17S4, at Warrington
Friends' Meeting, to Joanna, widow of William Griffith,
of Warrington, and daughter of William and Mary Craig. Joanna
died 4 Mo. 21, 1794, and was buried at Warrington. Children
of John McMillan, all by his first wife Jane:
1. Abigail McMillan, b. 4 Mo. 18, 1757, in Warrington, York
County Pa., m. in 1776, William Whinery, son of Robert and
Isabel. Removed to near Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio.
Children : Robert, John, Thomas, William, James, George, Jane,
Zimri, Sarah, and Abigail.
2. Sarah, b. 3 mo. 3, 1760, d. i Mo. 25, 1790.
3. Thomas McMillan, b. 5 Mo. 14, 1762, d. 4 Mo. 12, 1831;
buried at Warrington; m. 10 Mo. 11, 1 791, at West Grove Friends'
Meeting, Chester County, Pa., Ruth Moore, daughter of Joseph
and Jane (Marsh) Moore (see Andrew Moore and his Decendants).
She was born i Mo. 33, 1763; d. 4 Mo. 11, 1846, and was buried
in Friends' burial ground. Short Creek, Jefferson County, Ohio.
Children : Joseph, Jacob, Maria, and Mahlon.
4. John McMillan, b. 1766; d. 3 Mo. 16, 1838; buried at
West Grove, Harrison County, Ohio ; m. first, 1787, to Esther
Griffith, daughter of William and Joanna (Craig) Griffith. She
was born i Mo. 13, 1766, in Warrington Twp., York County,
Pa.; d. 6 Mo. 7, 1818 ; buried at West Grove, Harrison County,
Ohio. They removed from Warrington, York County, Pa., to
Short Creek Meeting, Ohio, in 1804. John, m. secondly to Alice
Barnard. Children, all by first wife ; Jane, Ruth, Joanna, Sarah,
Amos, John, James, Griffith, Elisha, Jesse, and Maria.
5. James McMillan, b. 9 Mo. 4, 1768, in Warrington Twp.,
York County, Pa. ;d. I. Mo. 7. 1856, buried in Friends' graveyard,
Harrisville, Harrison County, Ohio.; m. 3 Mo. 21, 1798, in York
County, Pa, to Mary Griffith, daughter of William and Joanna
(Craig) Griffith. She was born 3 Mo. 16, 1771, in Warrington
Twp. ; d. I Mo. 8, 1856 ; buried in same ground as her
husband.
James McMillan, as he records in his diary, learned the hatting
trade in youth and followed that occupation for thirty years. For
three years he kept a tavern and store in York County; then,
about 1803, he removed with his wife and settled in Harrison
Co., Ohio, where he followed various callings : milling, farming,
surveying, and conveyancing. For two years he served as Senator
in the State Legislature of Ohio. Children : Uriah ; Edith,
m. JohnGwynn, in 1819 ; Asa, m. Mary Kelly, in 1827 ; Gulielma
Maria, m. her brother-in-law, John Gwynn, in 1830 ; Ira James,
m. Ann Christy, in 1847 ; Myra, m. Joseph Crawford, in 1831 ;
Joanna ; Sarah, m. Joshua P. Watson.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Family of (I) John McMillan, in Myers, Albert Cook. Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, with Their Early History in Ireland. (Swarthmore, Penn.: The Author, 1902)
p. 400-401.
" I. John McMillan ... was married 5 Mo 4, 1756. at Sadsbury Meeting, Lancaster County, Pa., to Jane, widow of Joseph Green of Sadsbury, and daughter of John and Jane (Bell) Boyd."
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