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Mary Helen Haines notes:
Earlier family trees never mention this James as the son of Robert, they only include Robert Jr. and Benjamin. However, the records for Robert in Montgomery Co., indicate he had a son named James. James appears as his son on various tax and militia records for 1772, 1774 in the Augusta Co., then Botetourt Co., area. (See below)
A James McFarland marries a Margaret Downing, daughter of John Downing, supposedly in Bedford County in 1763. The connection with Robert selling the land to John Downing in the 1750s could indicate this connection, however if he was born in 1752, he would be too young to have married in 1763. Other sources have the James who married Margaret Downing as belonging to the Robert of Rockbridge Co. VA line.
In 1774 a Robert McFarland served 108 days in the militia under Captain Walter Crockat as part of the call-up of men who were to travel to Point Pleasant as part of Governor Dunmore's war. Also in this company was James Mcfarland, serving 108 days. This could be the two sons of Robert, Sr., James being 22 and Robert just 15, or it could be Robert Sr.. Source: Soldiers of Fincastle Co. Virginia 1774, Mary B. Kegley, R929.37558 K26S 1974, p. 30.
In 1777, James McFarland was picked to be the Constable for the Reed Creek militia. (Mary Kegley's book, Early Adventurers on the Western Waters, Vol. 1, p. 35)
In Nov. 1779, the Montgomery court allowed the pay to men who served in the previous year during the Revolution. James McFarland's name was listed. Source: Montgomery County Virginia: The First 100 Years, by Charles W. Crush, Dallas Public Library
However in 1782 in Montgomery Co. entries for Commissioner's Court where everyone was filing for their deeds (p. 113 of Kegley, Vol. 1) George Kegley, filed for 150 acres on Lick Run, adjoining a survey made for Jas Mcfarlin dec'd. Not sure who this James McFarland is referring to.
Washington County VA:
There is a James who is next to Robert on the 1782 tax list in Washington Co. Robert never warranted any land in Washington Co. By 1783 Robert has moved Greene Co. (TN).
1784: Washington Co. Surveyors Record, Page 92 - James McFarland...372 ac...on Walkers Creek, waters of the middle fork of Holstein River...Preemption Warrant...Beginning on the bank of a little branch...corner to John Andersons survey...at the foot of Walkers Mountain...Warrant #1757...November 2, 1784 (Washington Co.) This is not too far from Abington.
Tennessee:
A James McFarland purchased the 114 acres from Joseph McFarland in 1792. Then he could have sold that land (but with no record because Cocke Co. courthouse fire destroyed all these). He could have then moved to Christian Co. KY and be the James who died in that county in 1811 and who had a first son named Robert. Need to find a descendant of that family to genetically test.
He also could be the father of Joseph McFarland of Whitley Co. KY. According to Joseph McFarland's death record in 1752 in Whitley Co., his parents were James McFarland and wife Ety (Ely). The Knox Co. and Whitley Co. KY McFarlands seem to be genetically connected to the Robert of Lancaster Co. line.
So presently, the McFarlands of Rockbridge Co. VA (1780s), Bedford Co. VA (1760s-80s), Reed Creek area (Wythe Co. VA 1750s-80s)), Christian Co. KY (1800s), Whitley Co. KY (1800s), Knox Co. KY (1800s), Jefferson Co. TN (1780s on), Buncombe/Haywood Co. NC (1800s-1815) , Rutherford Co. TN (1840s, coming from Rockingham Co. NC) appear to be the same lineage according to the most advanced DNA tests. From these places they moved into Missouri, Texas and beyond. The earliest presence of this line is in Lancaster Co. PA in the 1720s and what becomes Franklin Co. PA in the 1780s.
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