Person:Matthew McCorkle (1)

Name	Matthew McCorkle
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	1720	Ulster, Northern Ireland
Marriage	Abt 1742	to Jean Givens
Death`^?`	30 May 1772	Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

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Information on Matthew McCorkle

Samuel Matthew McCorkle and his wife, Elizabeth (Unknown) were living in Scotland during the troubled times of Bonnie Prince Charles Edward, the Pretender, who tried to seize the Scottish throne. Samuel Matthew McCorkle moved his family to Ulster (Protestant Northern Ireland). While living there, their son, Matthew, was born around 1720.

Matthew married Jean Givens and migrated to America through the port of Philadelphia about 1740, bringing with them Jean's teenage brother, Ned Givens. Family tradition claims Ned, a youth at the time, stowed away on the ship until it was too far to turn back. They settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, during the first half of the eighteenth century. Matthew and Jean had two sons and several daughters.

By 1754, Matthew & Jean moved their family from Pennsylvania to North Carolina. They traveled the "Great Wagon Road" through Maryland, the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, to the Piedmont and the mountain region of North Carolina along with other Scotch-Irish Presbyterians.

In March 1758, Matthew McCorkle purchased 400 acres of land from Edward and Agnes Givens of Anson County (Anson County Deed Book 6, pp 246 - 249). This land on both sides of Davidson Creek in Anson County later became Mecklenburg County. Davidson Creek rises near Mooresville, NC and flows southwesterly, emptying into the Catawba River northwest of Charlotte, NC.

Edward Givens was a brother of Jean Givens McCorkle. Their father lived and died in Ireland and was also a brother of Samuel Givens, who married Sarah Cathey. The Catheys were one of the early settlers of Anson County, NC

Matthew McCorkle of Mecklenburg County, NC, conveyed to Francis McCorkle of Lincoln County and Thomas McCorkle, his brother, the 400 acres he had purchased in 1758 from the Givens "for love and natural affection , I, Matthew McCorkle, bear to my two sons, Francis and Thomas".

Matthew died 30 May 1772 in Mecklenburg County, NC. Jean also died about 1772.

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