of Alexander, and in a chart by Mr. Francis Thomas Anderson Junkin, LL. D., of Chicago.
The facts of his life are so fully given in Waddell's Annals of Augusta Co., and in Alexander's Life of Dr. Archibald Alexander, p. 6-7, that it is not necessary to repeat them here.
His will, recorded at Lexington, Va., was written Nov. 29, 1779, and proven Feb. 1, 1780.
There were seven children by this marriage:
I. Mary, b. July 4, 1760. She m. first, John Trimble, b. Aug. 24, 1749, and d. 1783, leaving one son, James, b. July 5, 1781; and died near Nashville, Tenn., 1824. For further information see Waddell's Annals of Augusta. She m. second, Lewis Jordan and moved to Tennessee.
II. Margaret, b. Feb. 1, 1762, d. s.
III. John, b. July 28, 1764, and d. 1828. He was a soldier of the Revolution, substituting for his half brother, William, who was married and had a family. (See Alexander's Life of Dr. Archibald Alexander, p. 15).
IV. James, b. Oct. 4, 1766, m. Martha Telford.
V. Samuel, b. Feb. 1769, m. McCoskie.
VI. Archibald, b. March 3, 1771, m. Isabel Fatton.
VII. Jane, b. 1773, m. Rev. John W. Doak, of Washington Co., Tenn., son of Rev. Samuel Doak, D. D., (1748-1830). She was the mother of Rev. Alexander A. Doak, of Washington Co., Tenn., father of (1) Rev. A. S. Doak, b. Sept. 10, 1846, now pastor of the Presbyterian Church Lenoir, Tenn., (2) Rev. S. H. Doak, father of W. H. Doak, M. D., the father of Rev. A. H. Doak, pastor Presbyterian Church, Wilmore, Ky.
E. James McClure, Jr., the third son and fifth child of James and Agnes McClure, was born in Ireland about 1730; was the youngest of the children that came with his parents to Augusta County. He received pay 1758, for militia service. See Hening, Vol. VII, p. 181.
He administered on his father's estate in 1761, receiving according to the terms of the will, one half of the farm.
