appears to us to be very equally in favor of all the good citizens of this very extensive commonwealth.
It is likewise our humble desire and request that the General Assembly will be pleased to pass the said bill without the least alteration." (See State Library, Eichmond, Virginia).
His will, recorded in Will Book 7, p. 168, was written Feb. 20, 1789, and proven July 21 the same year.
He mentions his wife, Eleanor, two sons, John and Josiah and a daughter, Elizabeth Trimble and her son, John Trimble. "To my son, Josiah, the tract of land I now live on, 265 acres." "That my beloved wife, Eleanor, be comfortably and sufficiently maintained by my son, Josiah." His sons, John and Josiah, executors, David and John McClure, witnesses.
There were nine children.
I. Esther, bap. June 17, 1743. Died in infancy.
II. Elizabeth, bap. Nov. 10, 1745, mar. a Trimble. Her son, John Trimble, em. to Ky., where he died previous to 1828, leaving eight children, viz: Elizabeth, who mar. Frederick Stip, John, James, Napoleon, Harvey, Andrew, Franklin and Jane.
III. James, born May 16, 1748, baptized by the Rev. John Craig, September 25, 1748, died in Augusta County Sept. 13, 1899.
He received from his father March 21, 1775, a tract of land. The deed reads "Andrew McClure, yeoman, to Jas. McClure, yeoman, 370 acres of land beginning at the corner of Joseph Teas and Daniel Monahan.
He was a soldier of the Revolution. The records at Richmond show that he served from October 22nd to November 24th, 1782, with Capt. Nathan Houston and Gen. George Rogers Clarke.
He mar. May 18, 1773, Elizabeth, dau. of John Kerr, of Augusta Co. She died 1824 testate. See W. B. 14, p. 468. They had eight children, viz:
- 1. Andrew, b. about 1775, m. Oct. 25, 1800, Mary Steele, dau. of Andrew Steele, of Augusta. They em. to
