Thomas; $1,000 to his daughter, Sarah, the wife of John Henderson and the mother of Jennet Henderson; bequests to his daughter, Martha, wife of Hugh Houston; to his daughter, Jane, w, of Wm. Kerns, and to her four children by her first husband, Geo. Houston; to his d. Betsy, wife of Samuel Harris, and their two children, James and Peggy: to his son, Joseph, "if he can be found;" to Matthew, son of his brother, William McClure, deceased of S. C., and to Matthew Morrison, his kinsman of S. C.
He mentions other property in lands west of the Alleghanies, and owned in 1790, six slaves.
The witnesses were William Alexander, Jos. McKnitt Alexander, and J. M. L. Alexander, The administrators, Samuel Harris, Wm. Kerns and Jos. McKnitt Alexander.
This is doubtless the Matthew McClure who was in Augusta County 1760, and who is mentioned only once; one of the appraisers of the estate of Robert Houston. Chalkley III, p. 66.
A family certainly connected with that of Mecklenburg County, N. C., settled some time before the Revolution on Pacolet River, Cherokee County, S. C. The records at Greenville, S. C, give deeds and wills of James, James R., John, Richard, Samuel, Thomas W., Mollie, et al. The best known ancestor is Mary (Gaston) McClure, known in the history of South Carolina as "The Heroine of the Cherokee." She was a sister of Dr. Gaston, a Revolutionary patriot and is said to have been born 1725 and died 1800. Four sons in the Revolutionary War.
I. Capt. John McClure, wounded at Hanging Rock Aug. 6, 1780, and died in Liberty Hall, Charlotte, N. C., Aug. 18. Gen. Davis spoke of him as one of the bravest men he had ever known. See Vol. XII, p. 129, "The South in the Building of the Nation." It is also probable that this family is descended from John McClure, of Burt, near Londonderry.
He left a son, John McClure, who m. Mary Porter; parents of Hugh McClure, who m. Margaret Crain; parents
