Company, Col. John Logan's Regiment May 3, 1781, to May 25, 1781.
Also in Lincoln Militia 1782, John McClure, Lieut, to Capt. John Boyle, Col. Benjamin Logan.
He received by patent from the Commonwealth of Virginia, Dec. 24, 1787, 1,000 acres of land in Jessamine Co., Ky. He moved to Kentucky soon after this and died single in Jessamine Co. in 1819. In Minute Book D., pp. 107-110, Jessamine Co., we find the following: "On May 17, 1819, a writing, purporting to be the last will of John McClure deceased, was produced in court by John Trimble (whose mother is a sister of McClure and one of the devisees and executors named in the will) who moved the court for probate thereof and admission to record, which was opposed by the heirs of said McClure, to-wit: David Wilson, Andrew McClure, William Sullivan and Alex McClure."
This estate was later owned by his nephew, Andrew McClure.
VI. Josiah McClure, born about 1752, one of the executors of his father's estate. He and his wife, Sally, were living in St. Louis Co., Mo., in 1825.
VII. Andrew, (Rev. Andrew McClure, of Kentucky), born in Augusta Co. in 1755; graduated from the Augusta Academy (now Washington and Lee University) with A. B.
After leaving school he did some work as a surveyor in Augusta. "May 22, 1773, surveyed for Mr. Geo. Gibson the annexed plot of 1,264 acres of land in Augusta County, Beverely Manor lying on a branch of Christian's Creek called Black's Run.
This was copied by Mr. Edward Frazer, of Lexington, Ky., from "Andrew McClure, his Book of Mathematics," in Mr. Frazer's possession. There is a court record where Andrew McClure on Aug. 17, 1773, was appointed a road surveyor for Augusta Co. He, like his father and brothers, was a Revolutionary soldier. The Virginia State Library gives the fragmentary record that he served 20
