North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
Name: Tully Mccrea
Gender: Male
Father:
John Mccrea
Mother:
Mrs John Mccrea
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Book Title: Genealogy of the MacClaughry family : a Scoto-Irish family originally from Galloway, Scotland; appe
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Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
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Genealogy of the MacClaughry family;
a Scoto-Irish family, originally from Galloway, Scotland, appearing in Ireland about 1600, and emigrants to New York in 1765.
Comp. by Charles C. McClaughry.
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Main Author: McClaughry, Charles C. b. 1863.
Language(s): English
Published: Anamosa, Iowa, 1913.
Subjects: McClaughry family.
Note: Contains also the Savage, Clark, Leal, Douglas, Rose, Riggs, Spence, Madden, Struthers, Swift, Montgomery, Hume and Parish families.
Physical Description: 462 p. coats of arms. 24 cm.
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Mother, Elizabeth Montgomery, No. 2941 Montgomery Genealogy. No. 5 was married to Thomas McClaughry, No. 32. Born 1770 at or near Cambridge, Washington Co., N. Y. Died 1858 at Kortright, Delaware Co., N. Y. Daughter of Andrew McClaughry, No. 13. and Elizabeth Jane Harsha. Born 6. McCREA, ALEXANDER. Came to America in 1797 1778 Died Father Mother, No. 6 was married 1802 to Jane McFarland. Born Scotland Died Daughter of Children: 5 born at Delhi, Delaware Co., N. Y., 2 at Sterling Center. 11, at 12. 8. McCREA, JOHN. Born Died 1848 at San Francisco, Cal. Father, John McCrea Mother, Hall No. 8 was married Born Died
Page 370 Daughter of Children: 18. Tully McCrea, Brig. General (of Artillery) U. S. A. retired, (1908), Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, N. J. 9. McCREA, WILLIAM B. Born Died Father, John McCrea Mother, Hall No. 9 was married Born Died Daughter of Children: 19. Charles McCrea 20. Rollo McCrea 21. William McCrea 22. Frank 23. Belle (Shofstall) 24. Emma (Phelps) 25. Carrie. Concerning John McCrea Mrs. Belle McCrea Shofstall of Dayton Ohio writes; “My grandfathar John McCrea (4) came to this country in 1785, He was born in 1767. His coming to America at so young an age as 18 was on this wise. His father had land leased near Aughnacloy and in the summer of 1785 this son was one day working in his father's barly field when an assizer and his servant, his dog, gun, ammunition and all things necessary for a good day's hunt, came into the field, went to a very large rock somewhere in the field, leaned his fine gun against and laid his other things on it, and proceeded to transact the business he came for, viz; choose for the church a certain portion of the field's grain yield. field, leanand procee church
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This was done by always choosing and marking every tenth shock in each row. Instead of the aforesaid assizer doing it in this manner he went over the field examining and selecting the best shocks and having his servant mark them by thrusting a long stick-sticks brought for the purpose into the top of each shock. When he came back to the rock the young John who had been watching his manoevres came to him and asked why he had gone over the field in this unusual way. The assizer gave him to understand that he was too young to interfere with his business. The young Scotchman said he did not think he acted justly at all. They continued talking till both grew angry when the young man John, seizing the gun struck it against the rock, breaking it. This was considered a crime, simply because it belonged to a man who was appointed by the church to go about the country taking the tenth part of all grain fields for the church. The son went home and told his parents. They immediately hurried him off to an uncle's, thirty miles distant. He was kept there till his clothes and chest were ready and then he started for America. ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY. Mrs. Belle McCrea Shofstall, 31 Madison St., Dayton, Ohio, says “Our great grandmother was born in Scotland, was the daughter of a lord, but I do not know what city or town. In their married life, or at least some portion of it, they lived in Aughnacloy, Ireland. Was a linen merchant or draper so-called there.” Again, she says "The grandmother, Elizabeth Montgomery McCrea was of the nobility, was the daughter of a Scotch lord. Father remembered her well, said she was tall and stately, very fine looking and quite dignified. His grandfather was very jolly but both of them very intelligent and refined. About the year 1610 the Earl of Abercorn and his brothers obtained from James the First (their relative) large grants of land in Ireland. This was during the “Plantation of Ulster.” Among the first families brought over from Scotland by the Earl and his brother were several families of MacKaes (or MacCreas.)
