Person:Edward McGlammery (1)

About Edward McGlammery

From Ancestry Message Board:

Edward McGlammery resided in Somerset County, Maryland. He wrote his will there March 25, 1721 and it was probated in 1723. His wife was Sarah (maiden name unknown--possibly Keene, daughter of William Keene). He named his three sons as:

1--George McGlammery, named on land records in Wicomico County, Maryland in 1730's.

2--Edward McGlammery, married Ann. He left his will dated April 19, 1743 and states he had a number of children "under the legal age". His children are John (died 1769 and married to Sarah), Mary (married in 1745 to David Magee), Solomon, Sarah, Isaac, Anne and Edward (perhaps this was the Edward McGlammery who served in the Revolution from Maryland). Ann and Edward were born Feb 3, 1739 in Stephens Parish, Somerset County, Maryland.

3--William McGlammery, nothing else known except he is listed on 1733 tax list of Wicomico County, Maryland. It is believed he was the father of:

A--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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