Notes:

Mary Helen Haines notes:

This statement below has been incorrectly interpreted as referring to this Robert McFarland and his wife. However, that is incorrect. It is referring to William McFarland, a son of Robert, and Mary McNutt, daughter of George.

Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century (1853)
p. 369
SETTLEMENTS SOUTH OF FRENCH BROAD.
the minds of some of the earliest and most steadfast friends of Franklin by the assurances of the Governor and Legislature of North-Carolina, that, at the proper time, a new state should be formed, and their cherished wishes for independence should be gratified, if the malcontents would return to their allegiance. The argument was forcible-to many perfectly satisfactory and irresistible. It inflicted a vital stab upon the new government, which, within the next year, caused its dissolution.
PROGRESS OF THE SETTLEMENTS SOUTH OF FRENCH BROAD.
The Irish Bottom began to be settled. George McNutt was one of the earliest emigrants. His daughter, _____, afterwards the wife of Col. _____ McFarland, and still living in Jefferson county, was the first white child born south of French Broad. Nancy Rogers, daughter of Jonah Rogers, was the second.

Mary Helen Haines notes:
In 1759 there was no Knox County Tennessee, so the birthplace is incorrect. If George McNutt is Margaret's father, then they were residing in Montgomery County VA at the time of the marriage, not Bedford County as some sources have it. George McNutt and John McNutt were living in Montgomery Co. in the 1781 militia list for John Finley's militia company Reed Creek area that included John McFarland, senr. and John McFarland, Duncan Gullion, Robert Love as 1st Lt. and the Simmermans.
Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century (1853)
p. 369
SETTLEMENTS SOUTH OF FRENCH BROAD.
the minds of some of the earliest and most steadfast friends of Franklin by the assurances of the Governor and Legislature of North-Carolina, that, at the proper time, a new state should be formed, and their cherished wishes for independence should be gratified, if the malcontents would return to their allegiance. The argument was forcible-to many perfectly satisfactory and irresistible. It inflicted a vital stab upon the new government, which, within the next year, caused its dissolution.
PROGRESS OF THE SETTLEMENTS SOUTH OF FRENCH BROAD.
The Irish Bottom began to be settled. George McNutt was one of the earliest emigrants. His daughter, _____, afterwards the wife of Col. _____ McFarland, and still living in Jefferson county, was the first white child born south of French Broad. Nancy Rogers, daughter of Jonah Rogers, was the second.

Margaret married Robert McFarland, FT218687 RoM02 on 7 Jan 1778 in Botetourt County, VA. Robert (son of Robert McFarland, FT218687 RoM02 and Margaret Jane) was born on 15 Mar 1759 in Orange Co., North Carolina; died on 10 Feb 1837 in Jefferson Co., TN; was buried in Col. Robert McFarland Cemetery in Hamblen Co., Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Polly McFarland
2. James McFarland was born on 2 Nov 1778 in Virginia; died after 1836 in Carroll County, Georgia, USA.
3. John McFarland, FT218687 was born on 17 May 1780 in Washington Co., VA; died on 9 Jun 1851 in Jefferson Co., TN; was buried in John McFarland Cemetery, Hamblen Co., TN.
4. Jane McFarland was born on 12 Mar 1782.
5. Elizabeth McFarland was born on 11 Nov 1786 in Tennessee; died on 9 May 1838 in Jefferson Co., TN; was buried in Col. Robert McFarland Cemetery in Hamblen Co., Tennessee.
6. Margaret McFarland was born on 27 Jan 1787 in Jefferson, Tennessee, USA; died after 1850 in Missouri, USA.
7. Sarah McFarland was born on 13 Dec 1788 in Jefferson Co., TN; died on 23 May 1856 in Prairie Home, Cooper Co., MO.
8. Robert McFarland was born on 17 Aug 1791 in Greene Co., TN; died in Aug 1844 in Foxtown, Madison, Kentucky, USA.
9. Mary McFarland was born on 28 May 1793 in Jefferson Co., TN; died on 28 Oct 1858 in McMinn Co., TN.
10. William McFarland was born on 4 Oct 1795 in Jefferson Co., TN; died on 10 Sep 1825 in Texas, United States.
11. Catherine McFarland was born on 26 Jan 1799 in Jefferson Co., TN; died before 1860 in Cocke Co., TN; was buried in Point Pleasant, Cocke County, Tennessee, United States of America.
12. Rachael McFarland was born on 23 Dec 1802 in Jefferson Co., TN; died in 1873 in Cooper Co., MO.