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9301 I33870  McMURTY  ANNA  1768  8 Feb 1849  Chestnut Hill  tree1 
9302 I33870  McMURTY  ANNA  1768  8 Feb 1849  Anna was buried by her husband Jesse.

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Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 186, 280.
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Jay S. Webb, 230 Harris St., Clinton, TN 37716-4108, webb2705@knox.mindspring.com.
http://www.smokykin.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I37875&tree=smokykin
King.Ged, (Date of Import: Dec 13, 2001), "Electronic."
Rosa Lee Downey notes, 16 June 1983, p 58.
'Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage', 1994, p 261, 381.
Williamson.FTW, Date of Import: Jan 26, 2002.
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9303 I34553  McMURTY  JOSEPH   1665  1688  Family tradition says that three brothers (one with a wife) and two sisters (both with husbands) children of this Joseph and Mary, immigrated from Scotland in the early 1700's. The three brothers were Thomas, Robert and Joseph.

A cousin, Alexander, may have been with them or joined them later. Alexander settled in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

Anyway, they can be documented as of the 1740's in New Jersey.

Thomas settled in Somerset County, New Jersey while Joseph and Robert settled in Sussex County, New Jersey.

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Williamson.FTW, Date of Import: Jan 26, 2002. 
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9304 I35830  McMURTY  JOSEPH   1685  17 May 1762  Dalmellington, Ayrshire, Scotland may have been the city of birth.

Orginally from Scotland, they lived in England and Wales before moving to Philadelphia in 1712. The orginal spelling may have been McMurtrie.

Joseph McMurtry (Macmurtree ?) was a manufacturer of fine Moroccan Leather. In Scotland he belonged to the Stuart. The McMurtry's are not a clan, but a Sept of the clan Stuart of Bute. A Sept is a group of people who allied together for political reasons and they are allowed to wear the tartan of the clan to which they are attached.

Winch Gedcoms show Joseph dying May 1762 in Pennsylvania. I do not believe this to be the case. If he did die thier I do still believe that he was buried in New Jersey with Ann.

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Williamson.FTW, Date of Import: Jan 26, 2002.
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9305 I35828  McMURTY  JOSEPH  1733  Aft 1790  Joseph, a Capatain in the Americian Revolutionary War, was in a battle at Chilocothee, Ohio. This battle is where he was most likley shot. The shot we know he did recieve was a shot by the Indians in his thumb and first finger, bullet in chest under his skin.

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Jay S. Webb, 230 Harris St., Clinton, TN 37716-4108, webb2705@knox.mindspring.com.
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9306 I39524  McNeely  James Wilburn      [Winch.FTW]

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9307 I16004  McNeil  Abbie Kate      King.GEDCOM. Electronic. Date of Import: December13, 2001.

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#1- The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Volume 60 page 198
Miss Abbie Kate Mcneil.
DAR ID Number: 59581
Born in Balltown, Mo.
Descendant of Lieut. Caleb Furbee.
Daughter of David William McNeil and Virginia Dare Brand, his wife. Granddaughter of James L. Brand, M. D., and Delia Furbee, his wife.
See No. 59574. 
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9308 I41922  McNeil  Albert S.  17 Oct 1885  06 Jun 1957  [Winch.FTW]

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9309 I43863  McNeil  Ida Saxton      [Winch.FTW]

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9310 I40375  McNeil  Martha Alberta  01 Sep 1876  02 Feb 1965  [Winch.FTW]

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9311 I16002  McNeil  Pearl      King.GEDCOM. Electronic. Date of Import: December13, 2001.

[Benjiman Furbee Descendants.FTW]

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Volume 60 page 197[p.197]
Mrs. Pearl Mcneil Bean.
DAR ID Number: 59574
Born in Balltown, Mo.
Wife of Jack Hardin Bean.
Descendant of Lieut. Caleb Furbee.
Daughter of David William McNeil and Virginia Dare Brand, his wife. Granddaughter of James L. Brand, M. D., and Delia Furbee, his wife. Gr-granddaughter of James Furbee and Mary Ann Lindsay Boggess, his wife. Gr-gr-granddaughter of George Furbee and Elizabeth Prichard, his wife. Gr-gr-gr-granddaughter of Caleb Furbee and Sarah —, his wife. Caleb Furbee (1752-1837) enlisted, 1775, as private in Captain Sipples' company of Delaware militia, and, 1776, was promoted lieutenant. He was at the battle of Brandywine. He was born in Kent, Del.; died in Monongalia County, W. Va. 
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9312 I40365  McNeil  Sarah Ann  01 Nov 1849  07 May 1921  [Winch.FTW]

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9313 I41964  McNeil  Sarah Lou  28 Sep 1879  05 Jun 1933  [Winch.FTW]

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9314 I41928  McNeil  Willa  10 Oct 1890  08 Jan 1968  [Winch.FTW]

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9315 I4731  McNish  Cordilia      King.GEDCOM. Electronic. Date of Import: December13, 2001.

MR. MC NISH WAS A GOODIN AND TOOK THE NAME MC NISH. PER DOT MAPLES 
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9316 I29189  McNutly  Sarah Ann Curtis  Bet. 1733 - 1756  Bet. 1786 - 1844  Sources:
Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 6, Ed. 1, (Release date: August 22, 1996), "CD-ROM," Tree #1763.
Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 8, Ed. 1, (Release date: January 12, 1997), "CD-ROM," Tree #3560.
King.Ged, (Date of Import: Dec 13, 2001), "Electronic," Date of Import: Dec 13, 2001.
Ronald Stuart Sapp and Kellie Sue Sapp King, "Pedigree Charts - Sapp and King Family History," August 28th 1988. 
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9317 I37024  McNutt  Alta Leona  18 Feb 1900  Nov 1995  [Winch.FTW]

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9318 I38360  McNutt  Betty Sue      [Winch.FTW]

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9319 I37576  McNutt  Don Allen  1928  1970  [Winch.FTW]

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9320 I38142  McNutt  Eulala Lee      [Winch.FTW]

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9321 I36614  McNutt  Eulala Lee  12 Nov 1893  13 Oct 1982  [Winch.FTW]

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9322 I37825  McNutt  Hazel  02 Dec 1908  22 May 1911  [Winch.FTW]

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9323 I37517  McNutt  Jack Redmane      [Winch.FTW]

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9324 I38119  McNutt  Millard Lewis      [Winch.FTW]

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9325 I36652  McNutt  Millard Lewis  10 Nov 1903  10 May 1973  [Winch.FTW]

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9326 I37016  McNutt  Minnie Velma      [Winch.FTW]

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9327 I38143  McNutt  Richard      [Winch.FTW]

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9328 I37321  McNutt  Robert Lewis      [Winch.FTW]

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9329 I38032  McNutt  Robert Lewis      [Winch.FTW]

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9330 I37230  McNutt  Robert Lorenza  24 Apr 1895  10 Oct 1975  [Winch.FTW]

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9331 I48200  McPherson  Elizabeth  17 Jul 1817  7 Nov 1882  [hollcalv.ged]

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9332 I48153  McPherson  Joshua  17 Jun 1783  29 Aug 1872  [hollcalv.ged]

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9333 I48193  McPherson  Rhoda  1807  Apr 1850  [hollcalv.ged]

Morgan Co., MO, Marriage Book 1 
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9334 I48155  McPherson  Sarah  1809  Bet. 1840 - 1842  [hollcalv.ged]

Cooper Co., MO, Marriage Book A, p. 104
Info from William GANN, Independence, MO. 
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9335 I43391  McQuay  _____      [Winch.FTW]

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9336 I39206  McSpadden  Amanda L.  1843    [Winch.FTW]

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9337 I37404  McSpadden  Elda      [Winch.FTW]

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9338 I39205  McSpadden  Eunice A.  1838    [Winch.FTW]

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9339 I38111  McSpadden  J. C.  9 Mar 1916  27 Apr 1997  [Winch.FTW]

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9340 I37530  McSpadden  Ronald      [Winch.FTW]

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9341 I39148  McSwain  Mary Jane      [Winch.FTW]

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9342 I2193  McTeer  James  Abt 1695  16 Feb 1785  'James McTeer came from County Down Ireland with a wife and a number of children, the voyage was made in the old sailing vessel, requiring a great length of time. An epidemic broke out on board the ship. He saw one child, then another, and at last his wife's body lowered into the watery grave. His grief was such that the convulsions caused such upheavals of the breast, that the buttons were torn from his silk satin vest.'
Sometime about 1730 James McTeer left Northern Ireland with a wife and family. On shipboard his children fell ill and died one by one, then his wife succumbed also; so the grief-stricken young man arrived alone in Pennsylvania. This same traditional has been handed down from generation to generation in both Tennessee and Ohio. Though the story is essentially the same in both branches, the number, sex, and names of the children vary, and no one has presumed to suggest a name or identity for this first wife.

On 16 Jan. 1746/1747 James McTeer took out a tract of land in East Pennsboro Twp., Lancaster Co., 304 acres 120 perches on Warrant #117; on 8 Nov. 1760 he took out two additional adjoining tracts containing 72.5 and 37.5 acres, which additions were described in the survey as 'but thin and ordinary land.' At the time of the first survey on 10 Nov 1760, the land was in East Pennsboro Twp., Cumberland Co. and the abutting property owners were Anthony McCue, James McMeen, Peter Leester and Rowlan Chambers. On 13 May 1767 James took out still another 70 acres southeast of the preceding tract and abutting on Yellow Breaches Creek; this land was not surveyed until much later, but is mentioned in James' will as 'warrant land.'

This homestead was successively in East Pennsboro Twp., Lancaster Co., until the formation of Cumberland County in 1750; then in East Pennsboro Twp., Cumberland Co., until 1766, when Allen Township was formed. When Allen Township was divided in 1850 the McTeer land fell in Lower Allen, 'on the road from Lisburn to Silver Spring Meeting House.'

In relatively modern terms the location is between St. Johns Road on the east, Slate Hill on the south, the Upper-Lower Allen Township line on the west, and another range of hills on the north. Identification of exact landmarks within the area has been singularly complicated because the property is now traversed by the Lisburn Road, the Reading Railroad, The Pennsylvania Turnpike, as well as by other local roads coming from New Cumberland on the east and proceeding southward to Fairview Twp., York Co. across Yellow Breaches Creek.

Soon after completing his title to the property with a patent dated 11 Nov. 1760, James McTeer built a store house near a large flowing spring, probably at about the point where Lisburn Road crosses Cedar Run. A Cumberland Co. map of the 1860s shows at that time seven houses on what had been the original McTeer grant; owners along the southern border were C. Musselman and John Strong, who had two Dwellings, one at the junction where Lisburn Road came in from the south; then on Lisburn Road going north again after the jog, James Dunlap had two houses; David Hurst was still further north but somewhat west of the roadway; at last an unidentified building was located east against the hill.

Records of the Pennsylvania Direct Tax of 1798 for Allen Twp., Cumberland Co., list James McTeer's original house then owned and occupied by his son Samuel McTeer, as a stone dwelling, 16 by 22 feet, one story with four windows containing 48 lights (panes of glass); the accompanying kitchen was shown as an outbuilding 16 by 12 feet with two windows containing 12 lights; and the whole property including two acres of land was valued at $600.

When Major Will A. McTeer of Maryville, Tenn., visited the locality a century later this house was still standing and still owned by a McTeer descendant, Mrs. Ellen Saxton. The Major wrote his impressions in a letter from Mechanicsburg, dated 30 July 1898; 'We got here last night. A beautiful town of five thousand inhabitants, nestled down in the richest and loveliest little valley I have ever seen. I am just now back from a visit to the old homestead of my great, great grandfather, four miles out. The main part of the old stone house is still standing but very old and dilapidated. The old farm is of the very best. A barn as big as Texas ... filled ... with oats by the six horse load. I drank from the old spring that slaked the thirst of my ancestors.'

But only a few weeks after this encounter the old place was torn down; so a neighboring farmer could use the stones for the foundation of a milk station. In Mrs. Saxton's words, 'It was hard for me to make up my mind to it but thought it best to lay sentiment aside as it was getting unsightly and useless and possibly dangerous.'

During the French and Indian War James McTeer was a captain in the local militia. He and his lieutenant John Anderson, both of East Pennsboro Twp. were commissioned in 1747-1748 in the Associated Regiment of Lancaster Co. Over the River Susquehanna. By the time of the American Revolution he was well past 70 years and so was not included in any of the militia lists of that time; nor is there any evidence of his providing other specific assistance to the cause of Independance. Yet, since his five sons and three sons-in-law all served with the Pennsylvania troops at various times during the war there can be no doubt where his sympathies were in that conflict.

Out of his 400 acres James McTeer provided a farm for each of his four sons who remained in Allen Township. On 8 Dec 1770 'for love and affection' he deeded 100 acres to his son John; on 21 Dec. 1770 he made a similar conveyance to his son William; and by his will he also gave land to sons James and Samuel. Son Robert moved to Fermanaugh Twp., Cumberland Co., soon after his marriage and had already gone on to Tennessee before his father's death. Since he received in the will only a token legacy, it is clear that Robert had in some way received his share at an earlier date, but the nature of that inheritance is now past recovery.

The will of James McTeer Sr. of Allen Twp., Cumberland Co., written 2 Aug. 1764, probated 16 March 1785, bequeathed to son James. 'the land he now liveth on as it is divided by John Creigh', one half 'the warranted land adjoining to be divided according to quantity and quality', also 'the meadow that is fenced off for his use'; to daughter Elizabeth Boyd, five shillings; to son Robert McTeer, five shillings; to daughter Alce Caruthers, five shillings; to sons William and John, five shillings each; to daughter Sarah Pauly, five shillings; to granddaughter Elizabeth, daughter of son James, 'my chest of drawers'; to son James, 'my table'. Any remainder after payment of the legacies and expenses from the sale of personal property to be divided between sons James and Samuel McTeer. They to be Executors. Witnesses: Hugh Laird, John Worden.

An untotalled inventory of the 'Goods and Cattels of James McTeer Sen deceased', made on 26 Feb. 1785 by Hugh Laird and William McMEan, includes only personal property; one horse at 17 pounds; a red cow with a white face at 4 pounds; seven pewter plates at 14 shillings; a case of drawers willed to granddaughter Elizabeth 3 pounds 15 shillings; a table willed to son James, 15 shillings; other furniture, table, chair, dough chest, walnut chest and bedstead totaling 1 pound 2 shillings 6 pennies; two featherbeds, pillows, coverlets and blankets, 15 pounds 5 shillings and 2 pennies total; wearing apparel, 2 pounds 10 shillings; old books, 1 pound 1 shilling 6 pennies; a few tools, flax hackle, pruning chisel and draw knife, 7 shillings 6 pennies; pot rack, tongs, fire shovel, two basins, spice box and frying pan, 16 shillings; a buckskin, 10 shillings; 'a pair of specks and tobacco box', 2 shillings 6 pennies.

Sources: McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 7, 23-26.
 
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9343 I2126  McTeer  Robert  25 Jan 1740  06 Apr 1824  Some time in 1804 Robert McTear of Tennessee made a trip back to Pennsylvania to visit his only surviving brother, William in Cumberland Co., and some of his wife's relatives in Mifflin Co. From that journey he brought back a copy of 'The Psalms of David in Metre, According to the Version Approved by the Church of Scotland', 1790, by Mr. Mathew Henry; the leather bound book has this inscription: 'Presented by William McTeer of Cumberland, Pennsylvania, to his nephew William McTeer in French Broad' (East Tennessee). Robert brought also a small notebook in which he had written the names and birthdates for his brothers and sisters along with his father's deathdate.
Shortly after his marriage, and at about the same time that his father-in-law and brothers-in-law William Boyd and John Pauley took up land in Fermanagh Twp., Cumberland Co., Robert McTeer applied for a tract still farther north on Mahantanga Creek in an area loosely known as Buffalo Valley.

On 13 Aug. 1767 on Application #850 Robert McTear received a warrant for 300 acres bounded on the west by Mahantango, on the north by the Narrows Mountain, on the south by a ridge and on the east by John Harris' Survey. This land as surveyed on 26 Sept. 1767 was located at the head of Mahantanga Creek, and that stream flowed eastward through the length of the property.

There is every indication that Robert and his family moved onto the tract soon after the date of this survey, and he was almost certainly the first settler there. When Northnumberland County was formally organized on 21 March 1772 its southern boundary was defined in part as 'the southside of Mahantanga Creek up to the head of Robert Mateer's Spring.' In an article on the 'Township Names of Old Northumberland County, Their Origin and Meaning', Charles Fisher Snyder describes the first survey of the region, 'The Mahantango on the western shore was followed by the surveyors who marked the boundaries of Old Northumberland in 1772 but not quite to its source. In fact they designated a spot known as Meteer's Spring from which a straight line was run in a westerly direction. Local tradition has it that at this early date Robert Meteer had built a stillhouse over the spring using the cooling waters to chill the coils of the still, and it was at this point the early surveyors tarried before striking out across the mountain wilderness.'

On 27 May 1776 Christian Graybill of Penns Twp., Northumberland Co. conveyed to John Graybill a warrant for land in Penns Twp., bounded by property of John Simpson and Joseph Sterrat, which warrant John Grabill had taken out in the name of Christian Graybill. Witnesses: Robert McTeear, Joseph Wark. The next day, 28 May 1776, before William Maclay, Robert McTeer 'one of the subscribing witnesses made oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that he was personally present' and saw the signature of Christian Graybill to this document. These Graybills, credited as founders of Richfield, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, were Robert's very near neighbors, as will appear in subsequent litigations over land boundaries.

Apparently the McTeers continued to occupy the property at the head of Mahantango until some time in the fall of 1780, or the spring of 1781, when they left for the Valley of Virginia. Robert Muntier was listed as a resident and taxpayer in Penn Township, Northumberland in 1780, but not in 1781 or thereafter. On 13 Aug. 1780 Robert McTeer deeded to George Pyle his 290 acre tract 'part in Cumberland and part in Northumberland Co., in the Townships of Greenwood and Penn'; however, in order to complete this transaction a re-survey and definition of boundaries was called for; and thereby hangs a tale.

On 2 September 1782 John Graybill sued Robert MAteer 'on caveat'. This suit was dismissed on the plaintiff's non-appearance. Then on 13 June 1783 John Graybill entered a caveat 'against the acceptance of a survey granting a Patent to George Pyle for a Tract of land in Mahonoys in the Counties of Northumberland or Cumberland by virtue of Application No. 850 entered by Robert Mateer.' The suit alleged that the said McTeer had a survey made, whereupon the said Graybill obtained a warrant in the names of Peter Graybill for a tract bounding that survey, and that since then the said Mateer or Pyle had made another survey and 'thereby extended the lines to include the best part of the land which was the object of Peter Graybill's Warrant.' This complaint was still pending on 12 Feb 1794.

Meanwhile on 2 November 1791 Letters of Administration on the Estate of George Pfile were granted in Northumberland Co., to Henery Pfile and John Grable, Frenni (Veronica) Pfile, the widow, having declined to administer the estate. Sureties to the bond: Jacob Echort and George Merkle.

Long afterward four completely new warrants and subsequent patents were issued for the land once include in McTeer's 290 acre property; so it appears that neither McTeer nor Pyle ever had a warrantable title to this land, though they enjoyed possession and paid taxes on the tract for over twenty years. Evidently McTeer sold in good faith, but after the grantor's departure from the Province of Pennsylvania Pyle was unable to complete the transfer of the property or unwilling to fight in the courts for his title.

The Northunberland Co. Tax Lists provide an interesting verification of these land transfers. In a combined list of 1778-1780 for Penn Twp. Robert Muntier was listed with property worth 150 pounds 17 shillings (nature of the assets unspecified), no mention of any Graybill. There is no McTeer listing. In succeeding years 1781-1787, George Pyle is shown as owner of 170, 300, 290, 290, 300, 300 and 150 acres respectively; John Graybill with 119, 120, 120, 120, 350, 100, 100; Christioan Graybill comes on the list in 1781 as a single man, in 1786 and 1787 he owned 100 acres.

The Revolutionary War was still in progress when Robert McTeer left Pennsylvania about 1781, and his participation in that conflict presents a very sticky problem. There is no question that he did expouse the cause of Independence and did his share with the local militia in defense against the British. But because of several peculiarly complicating circumstances it is not possible now to identify, date, and document his service with absolute certainty.

While the Shenandoah Valley may have been Robert's immediate destination when he left his home in Mahantanga (as intimated in his letters), he very shortly went to settle on Cherokee Land in the region of the French Broad River. There he was a pioneer of the central section of East Tennessee; he was one of the leaders in the construction of McTeer's Fort at Ellejoy, Tennessee and built the first grist mill in that area.

Concerning Robert McTeer's land in Tennessee, Major McTeer says: 'My great-grandfather secured a large body of land in this county, first by a grant from North Carolina, which failed to vest title owing to defective legislation, and when the state was vested with authority, he renewed his grant for the greater part from Tennessee, and his descendants are occupying part of the land still.'

On 26 Dec. 1791 the State of North Carolina granted to Robert McTeer, 800 acres on Ellejoy Creek, bounded by lands of Benjamin Tipton, J. McKamme and Samuel Bogle, surveyed 19 September 1791 by James McTeer, John McKamme and James W. Luckey on grant #952. The stated purchase price was 10 pounds per 100 acres plus 'yearly sum to be determined by the Assembly.' This transaction was recorded in Blount County Deeds in May 1807, and entered in North Carolina Land Grants in East Tennessee, where the location was described as in Greene Co., North Carolina.

On 1 October 1809 the State of Tennessee by John Sevier Governor, conveyed to Robert McTeer Sr., 481 acres, in 'the tract for academies' in Blount Co., District South of the French Broad and Holston Rivers, surveyed 5 Jun 1807, located on the waters of Ellejoy Creek abutting on property of Joseph Bogle, Robert Murrin and Robert McTeer Jr. The total price of this tract was $281 paid in installments from 12 February 1808 until 12 October 1820.

On 5 October 1809 Robert McTeer obtained from the State of Tennessee a further grant of 114 acres and 15 poles.

A will of Robert McTeer, written 10 December 1823, bequeathed to daughter Margaret Sloan, one-fourth of the Chickasaw Land Warrant, the big chest, one-half of the cattle; to sons James Robert McTeer, each one-fourth of the Chickasaw Land Warrant; to son Martin McTeer, 100 acres 'of the plantation I now live on', including the mill and tools belonging thereto, also the hogs; to daughter Janet McTeer, one-fourth of the Chickasaw Land Warrant, one-half the cattle; to son William McTeer, 260 acres of the home plantation, including the old improvement, also the sheep; to granddaughter Agnes McTeer, daughter of son Robert, bed, bedding, coverlet, blankets and pillows she used 'when living with me.' Executors: sons Martin and William McTeer. Witnesses: Hugh Bogle, Robert Murrin.

On 12 April 1822, not long before his death, the State of Tennessee granted to Robert McTeer 'by virtue of Certificate #31 dated 9 July 1808, issued by the Commissioiners for East Tennessee ... and entered on 5 February 1821 by #462', 640 acres in the 9th District in Perry Co., in the 1st and 2nd Ranges, 7th Section.

The implications and location of this grant, the 'Chickasaw land Warrant' mentioned in Roert's will, have raised some fundamental questions. In a letter on 9 April 1920 to Rev. Nathan McC.ung of York, N. Y. (a descendant of the Ohio Robert McTeer) Major McTeer writes: 'Under purchase and treaty with the Chickasaw Indians the government purchased a large part of the territory in what is now West Tennessee, and land warrants were issued to the Revolutionary veterans in 640 acre tracts, then on the warrants the land was located, and Grants issued for title in full.'

The present librarians at the Tennessee State Library are more cautious. Certificates from the Tennessee Land Commissioners were issued for a variety of causes: to redeem military warrants, for evidence of a paid grant, to adjudicate an occupant claim, and in other cases of disputed ownership. While no minutes of the East Tennessee Commission are now available, it is the judgment of Mrs. Cleo A. Hues, Director of the Archives, that Robert McTeer's grant may have represented a land purchase, since no military connection was stated in the warrant.

Possible there was some recognition here of Robert's past services in building and maintaining the fort on Ellejoy throughout the Cherokee Wars, but no mention of such consideration is made on any of he papers found. Tennessee, organized in 1796, contributed no soldiers to the War for Independence, and any payment for Robert's Revoluntinary service would have had to come from the State of Pennsylvania in whose militia he had served.

Finally, the location and disposition of the Chickasaw land is indicated in the following deed: On 28 September 1832 Archibald Sloan and Mames McTeer conveyed to James McWilliams, all of Blount Co., for $360 all their rights in 640 acres located in the name of Robert McTeer in the Wester District in Madison Co., near Mt. Pinson, pursuant to Warrant #31 issued 9 July 1808 by Archibald Roan, surveyed by Samuel Wilson, he to have one-fifth for locating same. The remaining four-fifths were left by the will of Robert McTeer to four children, Margaret Sloan and Janet McTeer being two of these legatees. Whereas William Sloan by his will left the said interest of Margaret Sloan to Archibald Sloan (their son), and whereas the said Janet McTeer is now deceased, now James McTeer, husband of said Janet, and Archibald Sloan (as above) do convey their shares to James McWilliams. Witnesses: John Wilson, Samuel Hamil. Filed in Blount Co., Tennessee, Deeds, 18 January 1833.

Sources: McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 25, 35-38.
 
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