Person:Samuel McGaughey (3)

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

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American Revolutionary War Veteran

Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 3, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

McGaughy, Samuel - born 7/15/1763 in York County, Pennsylvania; moved abt. age 9 with father to Washington County, Virginia, on Holston River where he resided when Revolutionary War began; entered service 1778 in Sullivan County, North Carolina [later Tennessee], as substitute for father; moved to Greene County [state not listed, [prob. Tennessee]] for 44 years, thence settled on French Broad to 1818, thence to Lawrence County, Alabama where granted Pension in 1833; died there 1/5/1840/41; married 2/24/1784 to Jame Laughfland, Sullivan County, North Carolina; widow granted Pension age 78 in Lawrence County, Alabama, 1842; died 4/1/1847; children mentioned but not named; soldier's younger sister Agnes Alexander made affidavit there; Jeremiah Alexander* (no kinship given) made affidavit there then that he was in Revolutionary War service with soldier; soldier's surname also spelled McGaughey; query letter in file in 1936 from descendant Mrs. Edward H. Patterson, Fort Smith, Arkansas. F-W9981, R1682.

• - Note: Jeremiah Alexander listed in the above record was the brother-in-law of Samuel McGaughy, he married Samuel's sister Agnes, who is also listed in Samuel's Revolutionary War Pension Application file as providing an affidavit to back up Samuel's Revolutionary War service.