Person:Rebecca Stuart (5)

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Researchers believe that Rebecca Stuart was likely the 2nd wife of John McClung and NOT the mother of all his children. The following Chalkley's record proves that John McClung's first wife was Janet "Jennet" Thompson:

• Vol. 1 - NOVEMBER, 21, 1755. - (507) Robert Means's will proved. Admr. moved for by Thos. Thompson, his nephew and heir-at-law, and also by John McClung, who married Jennet, niece of decd - given to Thomas.

Rebecca Stuart was born in Galloway, Scotland in 1710, the daughter of Andrew Stuart and Eleanor Dalloway. According to Church records, she was Christened in Londonberry, Ireland, in 1710.(W.H.Egle's N&Q) After her fathers death in 1715, Rebecca resided with her brother, Archibald Stuart. She eventually accompanied him to the American Colonies, where he traveled to escape religious persecution (Source-US and Canada Passenger and Immigrations Lists-1500-1900, Source Publication Code #9255.7. While living in Lancaster County,Pennsylvania, Rebecca met and married John McClung, a Scotch-Irish immigrant who came to America in 1720 as an indentured servant. Their marriage bond (dated August22, 1726)was posted in the Presbyterian Church of a small Scotch-Irish settlement (now Pequea,PA) near Chickies Creek that had been founded in 1724 (Source-book 'Early Stuart Family Immigrants in America')

Rebecca and John originally had a homestead near the Natural Bridge in Virginia (Source-Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia). Eventually, John McClung bought 279 acres of land in Augusta County, Va, 249 acres of which were part of Benjamin Borden's tract and 30 acres were part of King's land adjoining the same. (Source- Augusta Co. Deed Book, pg 15, 388).Rebecca and John had ten children, three of whom were heros in the Revolutionary War (Source- Sons of the American Revolution).

Rebecca Stuart McClung died in 1781 at the age of 71 and was buried on the family farm, which her husband John later sold to his son Edward. Rebecca was related to the Hon. Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, who was Secretary of State in President Franklin Pierce's cabinet. He was Rebecca's brother Archibald's grandson (Source-The McClung Genealogy). In 2015 DNA testing done on the descendants of Rebecca Stuart and John McClung proved that Rebecca was the mother of John McClung's children.

1.   Daughters of the American Revolution. Lineage book of the Daughters of the American Revolution. (Washington, District of Columbia: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939)
   Page 31, item # 6.

   "John McClung m.1726 Rebecca Stuart"

2.   Virkus, Frederick Adams. The abridged compendium of American genealogy: first families of America: a genealogical encyclopedia of the United States. (Chicago: A. N. Marquis, 1925-1942)
   Volume 3, page 466.

   "6-John McClung (d.1788) ancestor of the Greenbrier, WV McClungs; m.circa 1726, Rebecca Stuart".

3.   North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000.

   "Name: John McClung
   Birth: 1706
   Marriage: to Rebecca McClung
   Date: 1726

4.   Sons of the American Revolution Revolutionary War Records.

   "John McClung,Senior, PS Virginia, was born 1706 in Ireland and died in 1788 at Rockbridge County, Virginia. He married Rebecca Stuart in 1726.

5.   Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900: [database online] (not considered a reliable primary source). (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004)
   Source number 8,100,004; family group sheet, FGSE.

   " name: John McClung, Gender: male, Birth year: 1706, Spouse name: Rebecca Stuart, Marriage: 1726, Number pages: 1"

6.   McClung, William, and Nancy Richmond. The McClung Genealogy. (Createspace Independent Publishing Platform [a self-publishing platform], 2014)
   Volume 1, page 139.

   "John McClung and Rebecca Stuart had ten children"

7.   Richmond, Nancy. John McClung and Rebecca Stuart: Colonial Pioneers. (Createspace Independent Publishing Platform [a self-publishing platform], 2016)
   page 121 .

   DNA profile for Rebecca Stuart shows that the children of John McClung Sr. carry her Mitochondrial, X and Y genes.