Person:Samuel McClanahan (2)

Samuel McClanahan was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Land Records

Samuel McClanahan is shown in Land Tax lists with a Surveyor’s Record 112, 12 July 1787, 179 acres on Looney Creek; from a new grant. He sold this property to Martin Beard on 10/22/1790, DB4, pg. 529, 179 acres waters of Looney Creek.

Records in Virginia

At a court held for Botetourt County the 10th day of August 1770. Samuel McClanahan proved a certif.. accdg. To law for David McClanachan for four hundred & seven pounds of winter rotten hemp made on the sd. David’s plantation.

At a court continued & held for Botetourt County the 9th day of February, 1773; Order that John Brown, orphan of John Brown, deceased, be bound by the church wardens to Saml. McClenachan accdg. To Law.

James Moore’s Will made 13 September 1776 and proven August 1780 names Samuel McClanahan and Jane McClanahan. Therefore, we know that Samuel and Jane were already married by 1776. Jane Moore McClanahan was also known as Jean.

1787: We find Samuel McClanahan and David McClanahan, his father, in Botetourt County in the 1787 Personal Property Tax List for Virginia. This tax list is also shown as the 1787 Census for Virginia. It lists all personal property tax owners over the age of 21. These three events happened in very quick order and the lure of the newly opened lands of Tennessee to settlement found Samuel next in the eastern regions of Tennessee. If Samuel was related to Lieutenant Colonel William McClanahan in Botetourt County in Virginia, he certainly did not share in his prosperity.

In 1789, Matthew McClanahan and Martha (Moore) Ralston, Samuel and Jean (Moore) McClanahan’s in-laws, sold their holdings in Botetourt County and within two or three years moved in what is now Jefferson County, Tennessee. Samuel and Jean McClanahan sold their holdings on Looney Creek to Martin Beard on 22 October 1790. Samuel and Jean followed Matthew and Martha to Jefferson County, Tennessee.

1790: Matthew Ralston — Grant, 561 acres adjoining Samuel McClanahan, Samuel Mines and others. [Kegley's Virginia Frontier, pg. 415].

Records in Tennessee

Samuel McClanahan is found in the Court Minutes for the May Session 1793. He was a participant in a grand inquest, The court minutes state: The following grand inquest appeared in Court was qualified and received their charge Vix: Abednego Inman foreman, James Hill, Robert Gentry, George Edgar, George Evans, Joseph Prignore, Caleb Witt, David Murphy, Joseph Witt, Hugh Kelso, Abraham Slover, Richard Rankin, Samuel Lyle, John McRoberts, Ezekiah Henry, Samuel McClanahan, Adam Willson, David McClanahan, and Thomas Vance.91

Samuel McClanahan died about 1795. Although researchers have not bee able to locate Samuel’s Will, there is this entry from Samuel’s estate papers in Jefferson County: James McClanahan appointed administrator of the estate of Samuel McClanahan. 1795. Estate settled, 1801

Further research uncovered the following two entries regarding the estate of Samuel McClanahan. Jefferson County Will Book 1, 1792-1810, pages 243-244, abstracts the following information: James McClanahan Admr. “an inventory of the goods & chattels, rights, and credits of the estate of Samuel McClanahan late of Jefferson County, deceased. Debts desperate: William Nelson, Lewis Tarwater, John Morrow, George Graham, Wm. Thornton, Joseph Copeland, Jacob Derrick, John Kenney, John Briggs, Saml. Jack, Michael Yokom. Sale of the Estate to James McClanahan, Widow McClanahan and Matthew McClanahan.”92

There is one other reference to Samuel McClanahan’s estate in the Jefferson County TN Court Minutes 1792-1795.93 Page 131 of the court minutes give the following entry: “James McClanahan hath leave to administer on all and singular the goods and chattels rights and credits of Samuel McClanahan deceased who entered into Bond with Mathew Roulstone and Parmenas Taylor his securities and was qualified”.

There is little doubt that the Samuel McClanahan, who appeared in the early records of Jefferson County, TN and died there about 1795, was the same Samuel McClanahan who was the son of David and Isabella (Snodgrass) McClanahan. We are also sure that this same Samuel McClanahan married Jean Moore. There are numerous deed records to indicate that he traveled and moved with his sons’s David and James McClanahan to Jefferson County as well as his brother, William and cousins, John and Alexander McClanahan.94 All are shown numerous times in the records of Jefferson County, TN. Also show is John Moore’s Will, the likely brother of Jean Moore.

Notes

http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=charlou10&id=I23343&ti=5538

ID: I23343 Name: Samuel McClanahan Given Name: Samuel Surname: McClanahan Sex: M

Change Date: 26 Apr 2008 Note: He was named in the will (proved 7 Jul 1761) of his uncle James McClanahan.

LAND & COURT RECORDS

[father of Jane (Moore) McClanahan] Botetourt Co., VA, Will Book A, page 120: Will of James Moore, dated 13 Sep 1776: eldest son James Moore youngest son John Moore son-in-law Samuel McClechnenhan my four children John & James Moore, Martha Ralston, & Jean McClenchan witnesses: Andrew Woods, Robert Woods, Marshall Woods proved Aug 1780 Birth: Death: 1795 in Jefferson Co., Tennessee

Father: David McClanahan b: BET 1710 AND 1720 Mother: Isabelle Snodgrass b: in probably, Virginia

Father: David McClanahan b: BET 1710 AND 1720 Mother: Isabella Snodgrass b: ABT 1728

McClanahan, Samuel

Marriage 1 Jane Moore Married:

1.   Jackson, Ron V. Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890.

   Name: Samuel Mc Clenechan
   State: VA
   County: Botetourt County
   Township: Mases Dist
   Year: 1785
   Record Type: Tax List
   Page: NPN
   Database: VA Early Census Index

2.   SAMUEL MCCLANAHAN / MCCLENACHAN Edwin A. Arnold Family written by Patrica Arnold Divjak and Suzanne Arnold McCormick descendants of Mathew McClanahan.

   http://www.ajlambert.com/moore/stry_smc.pdf
   
   - WARNING: this article confuses Samuel McClanahan's father-in-law, James Moore of Botetourt County, Virginia with a DIFFERENT James Moore, who married Jane "Jennet" Walker, of Rockbridge County, Virginia.