Person:Thomas McGuire (12)

Land Grants

From "Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia, pg. 574:

• 1787: McGuire, Thomas - 185 acres on Wts. Buffalo Creek, Book 1, Pg. 394.

Will Abstract

Pg. 186. Will of Thomas McGuire, Hopewell Twp. Died 19-May.1792, Probated: 13-Mar.1793

Exec: Son Francis; Charles Wells

Wit: Francis McGuire Jr.; Thomas Cantwell; James Carr.

Wife: Mary (formerly Mary Randles).

Sons: Thomas (rec'd land adj. Shannons line); Hugh; John; Robert; William (dec'd); Francis (rec'd lands in Hampshire Co. Va.)

Daus: Nancy; Betsy; wife's daughter Margaret--Gr children: Williams 2 daus by his first wife.

Mentions money belonging to Brian Brewer in partnership with Samuel Kennedy and another tract in same county Rooley Gap formerly by lands of Edward McGuire and near Jacob Senatis debt in land of Luke Collins.

Two sons of Robert.

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Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's:

• Vol. 2 - Parsons vs. McGuire--O. S. 159; N. S. 56--Bill, May, 1808. Orator, James Parsons. William McGuire of Hampshire died testate in 1789; will dated 22d December, 1789, and proved in Hampshire; leaving widow, Rachel, sons, Robert and Francis, and other sons and daughters. William devised a tract which he had received from his father, Thomas McGuire. Rachel had since died. Orator bought the land from Robert and Francis. William's other children were, viz: Thomas, James, Nancy, Jane, Peggy, Polly, Annis. James is since dead. Robert McGuire's answer in Ross County, Ohio. Francis McGuire answers in Pendleton County. His grandfather, Thomas McGuire at a very early period had put his son William in possession of the land, agreeing to make him a deed or devise. William took possession when first married and lived there until his death. Thomas survived William and died testate, will dated 19th May, 1792, and recorded in Washington County, Pennsylvania. (There was a Francis McGuire living in Brooke County, uncle to defendant Francis.) Answer by Nancy in Brooke County and Jane McGuire in Muskingum County, granddaughters of Thomas. Bond by Francis McGuire of Muskingum County, Ohio, 1809. William McGuire's will of Hampshire County, dated 22d December, 1789, recorded in Hampshire, 11th February, 1790. Thomas McGuire of Township of Hopewell, Washington County, Pennsylvania, will dated 19th May, 1792. Sons, Thomas. Hugh, John, William; wife, Mary (formerly Mary Randels); daughters, Nancy and Betsey; wife's daughter Margaret, son William's two daughters by his first wife; son Francis, bond belonging to Brian Brewin; son Robert's two sons. Proved in Washington County. Pennsylvania, 13th March, 1793.

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2.   Brookecountywvgenealogy.org.

   MAJOR FRANCIS MC QUIRE
   
   BY LUCY MCCOY
   FROM KEYHOLE--GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTHWESTERN PA.
   JULY 1996
   Thomas McGuire and two of his sons, Francis and Robert, came into Independence Township (then Hopewell) in 1772 from Hampshire County Virginia (now west Virginia), on the south branch of the Potomac River. They settled on the dividing ridge between the Cross Creek and Buffalo Creek watersheds, just on the edge of Independence Township, Washington County, and Brooke County, west Virginia. Here they built a blockhouse - McGuire's - the first in all that region.
   
   Francis bought land in Pennsylvania from the Benjamin Wells estate and had several land grants in Pennsylvania, but sold his land in Pennsylvania from 1801 to 1806 and settled across the border in West Virginia. He was born around 1772 in Hampshire and died in Brooke County on September 18, 1820, age 55 years. He married, probably on a return trip to Hampshire County, Barbara Miller, who died December 29, 1835.
   
   Earle Forrest claims that he served as a major in the Continental Line, but Dr. Raymond M. Bell quotes from the Draper Manuscripts that he was a major in the militia. Forrest quotes from Joseph Doddridge's Notes on the settlement and Indian Wars that he was in a party of men who rescued a Mrs. Glass and her small son from the Indians down the Ohio River below Wellsburg and near Short Creek. Dr. Bell also quotes the Draper Manuscripts which state that Francis McGuire and his brother Robert were on Col. David Williamson's campaign to the Moravian Village at Gnaddenhutten where 96 Christian Indians were massacred on March 8, 17982, by the settlers of Washington County. Col Williamson was not in favor of the deeds of his men, but he did not seem to exert enough control over them to stop the mad killing. Francis McGuire strongly opposed the action, but his brother Robert favored it.
   
   In a small plot near Independence are found these stones: Francis McGuire died September 1(), 1820 Age 66-- Barbara McGuire died December 29, 1835, Age 81
   
   Richard Waugh bought the farm on the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border on which Mr. McGuire lived in 1804, and it was in the Waugh family until about twenty-five years ago. The Waugh's had a commercial orchard there, and the Grimes Golden Apples were a specialty developed there. The farm has since become a golf course, and that burial g round is located on top of the hill at Hole #12. Mrs. Barbara Crothers of Taylorstown as a Waugh and was raised on that farm.
   
   The story is told that the McGuire's had twenty slaves that Mrs. McGuire freed after her husband's death. But they ran away because they were afraid that some people would take time again as slaves.
   
   http://www.brookecountywvgenealogy.org/mcguire-family.html