James McFarland

James McFarland

Male Abt 1795 - 1838  (43 years)

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  • Name James McFarland  [1, 2, 3
    Alt. Birth 1788  [3
    Birth Abt 1795  Co. Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Immigration 1796 
    Occupation Farmer and Distiller 
    Death 11 Jun 1838  Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Burial Hopewell, (presently New Bedford), Lawrence co, Pennsylvania ("age 43 years") Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I16284  MacFarlane
    Last Modified 29 May 2024 

    Father John McFarland, BY7777 +2 JoM01,   b. Abt 1750, Ardstraw, Co. Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1797 and 1802, Eastern Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Margery Anderson,   b. Abt 1756, Ardstraw, Co. Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Apr 1835, Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Abt 1775  Co. Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F4272  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Melissa Hard,   b. 7 Apr 1803, Franklin, Franklin, Vermont, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Mar 1885, Viola, Mercer, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Alt. Marriage Abt 1820  [2
    Marriage 16 Nov 1820  Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
    +1. Mary Jane McFarland,   b. 18 Oct 1821, Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Feb 1911, Cloud Co, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +2. John Anderson McFarland,   b. 3 Jun 1823, Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Sep 1901, Wolf Creek, Mercer, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +3. Louisa Maria McFarland,   b. 5 Jul 1826, Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Mar 1904, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. Margery McFarland,   b. Abt 20 Jul 1828, Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 16 Jul 1838, Young Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 9 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +5. Sarah M. McFarland,   b. Oct 1833, Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1910, San Miguel, San Miguel, Colorado, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +6. Lysander J. McFarland,   b. 1835, Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Dec 1862, Andersonville Prison Camp, Fort Sumter, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +7. Robert Warner McFarland,   b. 6 May 1837, Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Mar 1917, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F4515  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 May 2024 

  • Notes 


    • JAMES MCFARLAND/MCFARLIN - SCOTS/IRISH IMMIGRANT and OHIO DISTILLER (1
      795 - 1838)
      (Research by Peter Folsom McFarlin - May, 2012, revised June 2019)

      ARRIVAL IN PENNSYLVANIA - THEN TO OHIO
      James McFarland, was just one year old when he arrived in America wit h his family in 1796. This date of arrival is chosen since his two old er brothers, Alexander and William, both stated that was the year whe n they had immigrated to America (*1
      ). I assume the whole family arriv ed in America together, including their father John.
      As shown before, in the notes for his mother and older brothers and si sters, the family spent about four years elsewhere in Pennsylvania. Th en by 1799/1800 they lived about two years in Hopewell (New Bedford) , Mercer county, Pennsylvania with h is mother's brother, John Anderson . (see his 1800 US census pg 433 for Mercer co, PA)
      About 1802/1803, the widow Margery McFarland, with her four sons and t wo daughters, came to Coitsville, Ohio. James was about seven then an d no doubt helped out on the family farm. He remained with his mother , Margery for the rest of her life i n Coitsville (she died in 1835).
      By the 1820 census, he is newly married and head of his own family, ha ving settled "...on the road leading west from the village..." (*2 p 1 68). His wife is Melissa Hard, possibly a weaver, since she is from th e sheep farming area of Huntsbur g (Franklin co), Vermont.
      James is said to have had one of the four early distilleries in Coitsv ille, his older brother William having another (*2 p 171). They "...pu shed their business with energy for some years, consuming about twenty -four bushels of grain daily at le ast one hundred and fifty days out o f the year, thirty-six hundred bushels per annum, and putting upon th e market nine thousand gallons, more or less, of ardent spirits". Jam es, the distiller, may be the person in his 1820 Ohio census househol d , 'engaged in manufactures' (unless it might be his wife Melissa, runn ing a loom?).
      When his first son is born in 1823, they name him John Anderson McFarl and; probably the John after James' father, and the Anderson for his m other's maiden name. By 1830, they have three children living with the m; probably Mary, John and Louisa . Also in their household is James' m other, widow Margery, the original pioneer matriarch from Ireland. How ever, she dies in 1835, seventy-nine years old.
      James then died in June of 1838 at age 43 (*3). His estate was probate d from 21 June 1838 to June 1841. At the latter date, a John Stewart w as chosen guardian by both his son John Anderson McFarlin, age 18, an d daughter Louisa McFarlin, age 14 , and the same John Stewart is appoi nted guardian to the younger children; Sarah M McFarlin, age 8, Lysand er J McFarlin, age 6 and Robert W McFarlin, age 4. The 'McFarlin' spel ling of the surname was used in these probate record's (*4). James w a s buried near his mother in the Hopewell Presbyterian cemetery, New Be dford, Pennsylvania (*5). This is where most of the early settlers o f Coitsville were interred since it was the nearest church in the earl y 1800's.
      The Hopewell Cemetery records indicate that his mother's name was MARG ARET, and James' last name in 1838 was spelled MCFARLIN (*6).
      Melissa carried on, raising the family, and remained a widow for forty -seven years.

      PFM's SOURCES for James McFarland(McFarlin);
      1820 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 240; (his age 16-26, engaged in manufa ctures)
      1830 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 249; (his age 30-40)

      REFERENCES
      *1 1809 Depositions On Contested Election; OGS Report 24:3(1984) p 202
      *2 History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties; Williams, 1882 v 2
      *3 Henry R Baldwin Records Index; p 833
      *4 Trumbull county Probate; James McFarlin Sr. 9-266, 9-313, 9-316, 11 -61, 11-150, and 11-168.
      *5 Henry R Baldwin Records; LDS microfiche 6051349-1 p 1
      *6 Hopewell Cemetery Records, New Bedford, Lawrence co, PA; "IN Memor y of JAMES MCFARLIN who departed this life 11 june 1838 aged 43 years " (verbatum from headstone)
      FSID 2Z3X-HLR

  • Sources 
    1. [S55] Clan MacFarlane Worldwide, Clan MacFarlane Worldwide Genealogy Form, Skip McFarlin #659 from MHH rec: 21 Jun 2018.

    2. [S57] Peter Folsom McFarlin, Descendants of John McFarland, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: John McFarland descendants (no notes).pdf rec: 6 Dec 2010;;;;;).

    3. [S58] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," database, FamilySearch, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: (http://www.familysearch.org);;;;;).