Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1790, Richmond, North Carolina, United States
• Residence: 1810, Richmond, North Carolina, United States
• Residence: 1830, Tattnall, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1840, District 956, Walker, Georgia, USA

John married Sarah Ann "Sally" Gordon before 1791 in Richmond Co., North Carolina, USA. Sarah was born about 1770 in Virginia, America; died on 18 Feb 1816 in Tattnal Co., Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: Abt 1730, Scotland
• Immigration: Between 1750 and 1755, North Carolina, America
• Possessions: 1761, Cumberland County, North Carolina; Earliest entry is for 100 acres Rockfish Cr., Wolfpit Br. Book 1, p. 466. Then 1762 100 acres Poplar Br. Book 2, p. 137
• Probate: 1767, Cumberland, North Carolina, USA

Notes:

IMMIGRATION: 1747. Original Land survey of Cumberland County in 1747 had his
name.
TAXLIST: 1755 NORTH CAROLINA, Cumberland County. John McFarlin.
1 - IMMIGRATION: Must have been abt 1750-1755.
Many sources, however, state that he came 1772 from Scotland to Cumberland County, North Carolina. [This relates to a different John McFarland that is often confused with this one.-Ed.]
PROBATE: 1767 NORTH CAROLINA, Cumberland County. John McFarland. Mentions
wife, children: Duncan, Mary, Dugald, Margaret and John.
Most of clan migrated to (MS-Mississippi). Had daughters: Mrs. Cameron, Mrs. McNair, and another Mrs. McNair.

2 - Several sources have put John McFarland (died 1767 NC) as the husband of two women; Mary McLeran, and Catherine Buie. John's will has no mention of the children of the first wife, esp. missing is Bartholomew Parlan, who was born 1751 in Cumberland Co. NC, while his mother was already dead back in Scotland.
I do not believe that these two lines are from the same father, although I have seen the claim on one tree that he is.
[E-mail from Mary Helen Haines rec: 15 May 2011]

3 - The line of Dugald, appears to be the line in Richmond Co. (which would be connected to the John and Catherine Buie line) and that is not genetically related to the Moore Co. Parlan line. [Thereby reinforcing supposition that the two John's are not the same.-Ed.]
[E-mail from Mary Helen Haines rec: 17 May 2011]

John married Catherine Buie in 1757 in Cumberland, Cumberland, North Carolina, USA. Catherine was born in 1735 in Isle of Jura, Argyllshire, Scotland; died in Aug 1787 in Richmond Co., North Carolina, USA; was buried in McFarland Cemetery, Richmond Co., North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1 - Catherine Buie, the daughter of Donald Buie, was born on Jura ca. 1735. She married John McFarland and they lived in Cumberland County, North Carolina. After John McFarland's death, Catherine married John McNair (b. 1735, Kilkenny Parish Argyllshire, Scotland, d. 6-30-1819, Richmond Co., N.C.). In the Cumberland County court on April 28, 1775, John McNair was "appointed guardian of Daniel McFarland, Duncan McFarland, Dougald McFarland, John McFarland, and Margaret McFarland, children of John McFarland, deceased, he entering into bond with Hugh Brown, Archibald Buie, and Duncan Ray." Duncan McFarland lived in Richmond and Robeson Counties and was a member of Congress. He married Mary Porter.

2 - Tracing Our Roots to Scotland, Profiling the First Generations That Came to America in the 1700s.
Catherine Buie, a widow and a Highland Scot. The daughter of Donald Buie of Jura, Catherine married John McNair when she was 38 years old, in 1773.
Her first husband, a native of Scotland, was named John MacFarland, and they first settled in Cumberland County, NC. MacFarland had apparently bought some land in Scotland County, so John MacNair and Catherine Buie McFarland, when they married, moved from Cumberland County 30 miles south to what is now Scotland County.
Sadly, the marriage of John McNair and Catherine lasted only 14 years, as she died in 1787 at the age of 52. He lived another 32 years, not dying until June 30, 1819 at the age of 84.
Catherine Buie McNair and John McNair are buried in Old Laurel Hill MacFarland Cemetery in Scotland County, NC.
Catherine left the land her husband had given her to son from her first marriage, Duncan McFarland. He donated it for the creation of Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church. He stipulated that there not be a cemetery on church property, so the family cemetery sits in the midst of a cotton field that adjoins the church.
[Source from BLOG THE BUIE KNIFE <http://jimbuie.blogs.com/journal/2004/04/tracing_my_root.html]