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John McDonald of Argylshire 1736-1811
Some time after arriving from Scotland John McDonald settled in Botetourt County, Virginia. There he married a Miss Schuyler and raised a daughter and several sons, all born in Botetourt County.
After the death of his wife John left Virginia about 1785 and joined the wagon trail West with his children. He bought The Old Daniel Boone Farm on the Tennessee River and stayed there until about 1805 when the children were grown up. Although his wife was a Presbyterian, it seems likely that John himself was a Methodist, because several of his children were very devout Methodists. His son John II became a Methodist preacher, while daughter Betsy married a Methodist preacher and most of her sons also became Methodist preachers.
In about 1805, when John I was almost seventy, he sold the farm and hit the wagon trail again together with his sons James and John II, this time to Ohio. (Some or all of his other children may also have travelled with him; it seems likely Thomas travelled to Ohio at the same time.) The family finally settled on The Glade in Madison County, Ohio in April 1807. John I died there in March 1811 surrounded by children and grandchildren, and was the first person to be buried in the new McDonald Cemetery in the Upper Glade, Deer Creek. His headstone suggests he was born in November 1736, and reads:
John McDONALD, Sen
died March 1811
74y 4m
