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Facts and Events
Alexander McClure was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Military Service
- American Revolutionary War Veteran
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 3, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
McClure, Alexander - entered service 1780 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, where born 8/1/1763*; granted Pension 1842 in Franklin County, Kentucky; died 7/6/1842; children mentioned but not named in 1842; query letter in file in 1912 from descendant Miss. Addie M. Potter, Waucoma, Iowa; query letter in file in 1927 from descendant Mrs. Charles A. Semler, Benton Harbor, Michigan. F-S30575, R1669.
- - Rockbridge County was formed from part of Augusta County, Virginia in 1778, so Alexander was actually born in what was then Augusta County.
References
- Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Pension Application of Alexander McClure S30575 VA
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris. Revised 5 Sep 2014.
State of Kentucky }
Franklin county viz }
On this 17th day of January in the year of our Lord 1842 personally appeared in open court (being a court of Record) For the s’d. county of Franklin Alexander McClure aged seventy eight since last August and being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows viz. that in the month of October 1780 he joined the company of Samuel Wallace of Rockbridge county state of Virginia in the Regiment commanded by Col John Boyer [sic: John Bowyer] of the Virginia Militia and immediately marched to Richmond and from there to Portsmouth in the s’d state of Virginia or near that place which was occupied by the British, who we kept in said place & had several skirmishes with them. I continued in service the full term of three months and was honorably discharged from s’d service and during the latter part of the summer 1781 when Cornwallis was about retiring upon Little York I again entered the army I believe the company commanded by a Capt. Campbell The Regiment I have forgotten, we marched from RockBridge county and immediately went on to Richmond & from there to Little York where we faithfully aided in the Siege of Gen’l Cornwallis and in his capture on the 19th of October 1781, having faithfully served on this tour of duty, making six months service in the Revolutionary War and was again honorably discharged which said discharges he has long since lost or mislaid as he afterward moved from Virginia to the State of Kentucky. That he is not a pensioner at this time, and has neglected to apply for his pension because of the difficulty of procuring proof & not feeling the immediate want of it until his old age admonished him that he required as the aid he could get however small it might be that he does not now know of any other witness alive except Mr Thomas Paxton whose witness he is now able to procure. Witness my hand
this 17th day of January 1842.
(Signed) Alexander McClure
State of Kentucky } The additional declaration of Alexander McClure
Franklin County viz } This day made in open court being first sworn as the law requires, he further states that he was born in the county of Rockbridge in the state of Virginia on the 1st day of August in the year 1763. That he has a record of his age in his Bible. That he lived in the state of Virginia previous to his removal to Kentucky which was in the year 1793. That he resides in the county of Woodford adjoining the county of Franklin & only 10 miles from the seat of Justice (Frankfort) and that his declaration is made in Franklin county for convenience to Mr Thomas Paxton [pension application S30636; who stated he served both tours with McClure] who is his witness and whose age makes it very inconvenient to him to ride out of his county as he is very old & infirm. That he has lived in Woodford county for the last 42 [or 49] years and being interrogated by the court he says he was discharged by the captain under whom he served his tours, which s’d discharges have been long since lost. That he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present, and that his name is on no pension roll or agency in any state, and that he knows of no other witness now alive by whom he can prove his service except Thomas Paxton who served with him Given under my hand this [blank] day of [blank] 1842
[Certified 22 March 1842]
(Signed) Alexander McClure
NOTE: A letter in the file states that McClure died 6 July 1842, and it inquires how his children could obtain the pension.
http://revwarapps.org/s30575.pdf
- Democratic Telegraph and Texas Register (Houston, Texas). Telegraph and Texas register (Houston, Texas) : 1835-1850. (Houston, Texas: Southwestern Microfilm, 1960).
Died--in this city on the 6th instant, Mr. Alexander McCLURE, late of Versailles, Kentucky, father of the late Judge McCLURE of Gonzales. The deceased was a soldier under Washington, and served in the American Army at the Battle of Yorktown. Although at the advanced age of seventy-nine years, he ventured to emigrate to this country; but his constitution proved too frail to sustain the change of climate and the privations and exposure incident to journey. He was attacked with a fever about a week after his arrival, and after lingering about six weeks, expired. It may be a relief to his friends and relatives to learn, that he bore his illness with christian fortitude and resignation, a nd every attention was bestowed by kind friends to comfort and relieve him in his last moments. 7/13/1842
- Railey, William Edward. History of Woodford County. (Originally published Frankfort, Kentucky: Roberts Printing Co., 1928)
pg. 53.
Alexander McClure came to Kentucky about the same time as the Trabues, Dupuys, and Subletts came in 1783, and with them cast his lot in Woodford County. He purchased a farm between Grier's Creek and Mortonsville, near the Sublett farm, and built upon it a large two-story brick house in which he and his wife lived and died. He married Nancy Dupuy, a daughter of Bartholomew Dupuy, Jr., and Mary Motley, she a kinswoman of the Trabues, a niece of Olympia Dupuy Trabue.
Alexander McClure was in the Revolution and his name appears on the 1810 Census, where he reports eight members in his family and lists eight slaves.
His son, Abraham McClure, married Ann Christopher, and they dwelt for a lifetime in the ancestral home. They were blessed with a daughter which they christened Ruth, who married Arthur Sublett, a farmer of the county and for four years Sheriff of Woodford. The children of the latter couple are: Dr. Sam O. Sublett, Frank Sublett, and others who reside in the county. Frank is domiciled in his great-grandfather's old home, built in 1796, and it is in good condition today. Hard by is the home of Bartholomew Dupuy, and Lewis Sublett's home is also close, all neighbors and friends, all built about the same time and on McCowan's Ferry road not far from Mortonsville.
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