McGee Harris

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McGee married Mary "Polly" Givens on 26 Dec 1826 in Wilson County, Tennessee. Mary was born on 27 Feb 1802 in Sanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky; died on 20 Aug 1873 in Pleasant Grove, Utah County, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Martha Givens Harris was born on 27 Mar 1832 in Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee; died on 12 May 1908 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah; was buried on 14 May 1908 in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah.
2. Mary Ann Harris was born on 1 Apr 1839 in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois; died on 5 Jun 1911 in Richmond, Cache County, Utah; was buried on 8 Jun 1911 in Richmond City Cemetery, Richmond, Cache County, Utah.

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William married Margaret Sloan on 20 Sep 1784 in Rowan County, North Carolina. Margaret (daughter of Fergus Sloan and Ann Elizabeth Robinson) was born about 1763 in Rowan County, North Carolina; died in 1820 in Tipton County, Tennessee; was buried after 1820 in Tipton County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Samuel married Rebecca Morrison on 18 Aug 1758 in Rowan County, North Carolina. Rebecca (daughter of William Morrison and Margaret [--?--]) was born in 1737 in Nantmeal Village, Chester County, Pennsylvania; died on 11 Aug 1776 in Rowan County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 1790 Census: 1790

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Information from Rootsweb World Connect: " My Central Piedmont, NC Kin" who states the source as from Lacy Udell Weston, Gadsden, Alabama.

He and his wife came to America about 1747 and located for a short period in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. By 15 March 1775, they were in what is now Iredell Co., NC.

Fergus Sloan purchased 640 acres of land on Buffalo Branch (later called Sloan's Branch) from John Oliphant. This was a land grant to Oliphant from the Earl of Granville. This later proved to be a significant purchase for Fergus Sloan. In 1789 about 68 acres of his land was purchased for the town of Statesville, NC. Previously, he had deeded a portion of his land for the "use and Benefit of the Presbyterian Society, commonly called the Fourth Creek Congregation Society, "......" with the privilege of the spring." This deed also included the burying ground adjouning the Fourth Creek Church.

During the Revolutionary War, he served in the Militia as a private.
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INFORMATION FROM FAMILY HISTORY. COM , MESSAGE BOARDS:
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message from Catherine Sloan Black states he was born in 1717 and died in 1812
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Posted by: Percy Milster
Message: Fergus Sloan born 1720 at Lancaster County, Penn. died 1812 at Salisbury District, Rowan, North Carolina. He was a landowner on Fourth Creek in Iredell county N. C. and in 1765 gave the ground for Fourth Creek Presbyterian Church, now the First Presbyterian Church of Statesville. Some records show his birthplace as Ireland. He married Ann Elizabeth Robinson at Tyrone County, Ireland. Her father Was Judge Robinson, he lived in Tyrone County, Ireland.
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"A History of Iredell County",
compiled by Dr. P F. Laugenour

Fergus Sloan
Paper nine, Part 1.

Just when Fergus Sloan came from Ireland to America, or when he came to this section, is not definitely known but that he came here when this country was more the home of the savage Indian, bears and buffaloes than of civilized white men is certain. While he sold to the country the land on which to build its capital, which was to later become the ‘City of Statesville’, ‘The best town in North Carolina’, he was not the original grantee of the land but had purchased it March 15, 1755, from John Oliphant to whom it was granted by Earl Granville, November, 1753. It is evident that he was here with the earliest settlers of this section.

Here he settled; here he lived for about half century; here he reared his family; but for a place to spend his old age, a place where his body should return to the dust from which it came, he chose another section in another state, but where the spot is tradition is as silent as the tomb in which his body mouldered to the dust. That he had a large family is practically certain, that his descendants are numerous is positively known, but who they are and where they are is not so well known. He married in Ireland, Nan or Ann Elizabeth Robinson, a daughter of Judge Robinson, and an aunt of George Robinson, (q.v.) "Fergus Sloan’s dwelling was half a mile north from the public square, near the first branch (the one which runs down from the spring near the Presbyterian church.) there, in early life, Andrew Jackson, later president of the United States, spent some time. The house being unoccupied was burned down about 1846." (Rockwell) The road at that time turned down the first branch and crossed the second one about where Tradd Street now crosses it.

This second branch is alluded to in old deeds as ‘Buffalo Branch’, in later times and to our older citizens it was ‘Free Nancy’ branch, from the fact that a free negro - one that was free in the days of slavery - lived near it.

THE FIRST STILL set up any where in North Carolina, according to tradition, was set up and operated by Fergus Sloan near the spring north of Stockton street, about 200 yards east of Tradd street, not far from his residence which, as near as can be ascertained at this day, stood on the knoll west of the ravine that runs down from the spring. It is said that Mr. Sloan brought that still from the old country and that he sent a wagon to Philadelphia to bring it here to perform service for our ancestors in producing, what was considered among those early settlers, one of the indispensables to life and comfort in a frontier country.

There is a tradition in this section to the effect that Fergus Sloan, who was a native of Ireland, soon after the county was formed, incited his (wife’s) nephew, George Robinson, of Tyronne, Ireland, to come to America. This devoted nephew in response to the request of his uncle, ‘came across’, and after being on the water eleven weeks he landed at Charleston, S.C., from where he made his way to the new country of Iredell in America, arriving here in 1790. Mr. Robinson being one of the first settlers of the town chose his location on the northeast corner of the square where, as a substantial token of regard for his nephew, and or his appreciation of his nephew’s complying with his advice, Mr. Sloan deeded him a town lot - two acres. Later a contention arose between Fergus and his nephew as to the amount of land conveyed or the location at the lines and the matter finally went into the court for settlement. The jury decided against Mr. Sloan at which he become so exasperated that he resolved to leave the country, saying that he would not reside in a county where any jury would render such an unjust verdict. And he went, but where he went I am not informed. It is said that Mr. Sloan alleged that the jury was unduly influenced by Mr. Robinson’s liberal distribution of brandy among them. January 8, 1801, Fergus Sloan sold to David Crawford of Burke county, for 600 pounds, 561 acres of land contiguous to the town lands, adjoining Thomas Hall (who lived on Fourth creek near Fort Dobbs) James McCulloch, Wm. Stevenson, Wm. Young, and the Watt lands, after which he left this region for parts to me unknown. Some of the children and descendants of Fergus Sloan were the following:

Elizabeth, 1750-1831; Ann, 1751-1805; Polly; William, 1755-1827; John; Fergus; Robert, 1767-1888; James.

I. Elizabeth Sloan, b. 1750, m. Thomas Hall, and d. June 13, 1831, at 81 years of age; buried at Bethany. For a long list of her descendants see Hall family.

II. Ann, b. April 5, 1751; d. Oct. 17, 1805, m. Mussentine Matthews, Buried at Fourth Creek (Statesville) grave yard. Dr. Henry Long of Statesville is a descendant of Fergus Sloan and Mussentine Matthews, being a son of Mary Cowan (wife of Dr. J.F. Long) daughter of Ann Allison, ( wife of W.F. Cowan) daughter of Mary Matthews, (wife of Thomas Allison) daughter of Ann Sloan, (wife of M. Matthews) daughter of Fergus Sloan.

Paper nine, Part 2.
IV. William Sloan, 1758-1827, m. Jane Stevenson 1st, (continued in the notes on William Sloan)

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Here Dr. Laugenour begins with the George Robinson family and mentions the Sloans no more. There were no missing parts within the Sloan article.

This article was transcribed by Rosemary Moore and submitted to the SLOAN-SLONE Discussion List. Rosemary provides the following information & disclaimer:

THESE ARTICLE ARE NOT MY WORDS, MY OPINIONS, NOR DO THEY REPRESENT MY BELIEFS. I am simply passing along several articles written by Dr. P.F. Laugenour, a dentist and historian, many years ago. He spent 3 to 5 years in compilation and published them in The Statesville Sentinel from 1914 to his death in 1916. I have not in anyway added to or changed the articles, they are copied word for word, as they occur in their original form, and are available to anyone visiting the Iredell County Library, in the James Iredell Genealogy Room. The booklet that holds the copied newspaper articles has no copyright statement."
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If anyone has any proven "corrections" to Laugenour's article, I'll be glad to post comments as a footnote.

i.e., para. "V" The John Sloan that d. at the battle of Ramsour's Mill is NOT part of the Fergus Sloan line. I don't think I have seen any other reference to sons named James or John.

Frank Mitchell
The Sloan Connection
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Notes from "Frank Mitchel's Sloan Connection" at Rootsweb

An IGI entry says he is son of a George that d. in Rowan Co. NC. and he is a brother of the Wm. Sloan that m. Ann Means. [I'd like to see the evidence on this]
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1747: Forester/Stalham says he was in Lancaster Pa.
15 Mar 1755, bought land from John Oliphant, originally granted to Opliphant, Nov 1753. c1755: Fergus appears on 4th Creek in central Rowan Co. NC.
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From the Iredell County Tracks, (approx Feb 1992, pub of Iredell Co. Gen. Soc.):

Pioneer Certificate Abstracts Pioneer Fergus Sloan (Sr.) was born in 1724, moved into the Iredell area on 27 August 1751, and died in Lincoln county, NC, in 1812. He was married to Ann Elizabeth Robinson, who was born in 1723 and died in Iredell Co. NC. Children:
Elizabeth (1750-1831) mar. Thomas Hall;
William (1753-1827) mar. Jane Stevenson;
Ann (1759 - )mar. Mussendine Matthews;
Margaret (1763 -) mar William Harris;
Robert (1767 -) mar. Martha Harris;
Fergus (1770 -) mar. Prudence King.

Line of Descent: Elizabeth Sloan Hall -- Prudence Hall Stevenson -- Matissa Stevenson Hill -- James Henry Hill -- James Lola Hill -- Mittie Ena Hill Linney -- Evangelena Linney Barber.
Applicants: Mittie E. Hill Linney, 322 Broad St., Statesville, NC. and her daughter, Evangelena Barber.
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Sources:
1. Census 1790-Iredell Co. NC. Salisbury Dist. [233]
2. research of Monita Horn
3. 1986 research of Paulette Haynes, 2715 Co. Rd. 500 N.Route 2 Box 211-J Anderson Tn. 46011[originally?]
4. [unchecked] DAR application #511907 of Majorie Neblett Forester & DAR application #565860 of Valentime Forster Walkup. [mil. info]
5. Tex. Soc. of DAR
Roster of Tex. DAR Vol. III
6. 1987 research of Wanda Jean Sloan Karnes, 1711 Magnolia Dr, Ft. Smith, AR. 72903
7. "A History of Iredell County", compiled by Dr. P F. Laugenour, Fergus Sloan, Paper nine, Part 1-2.
8. LDS Family Search Website: International Genealogical Index, Film #20734757 & #1985519, [dpob, 1775-1778, Co. Antrim, Ireland]
8. LDS Family Search Website: International Genealogical Index, "Electronic," Film #2078024, [dpom, abt 1751 Ulster Province Ireland, spouse]
9. Various LDS Ancestry file submitters.
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CHAPTER III. SCOTCH-IRISH In IRELAND And In AMERICA by ANDREW PHELPS McCORMICK, 1897
section copied from rootsweb: //ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/special/mccormick/chapter3.txt

"..... a number of large creeks, called in their order, First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Creek, enter the South Yadkin from the southwest, and Rocky Creek and Sugar Creek, both large streams, with a number of considerable branches tributary to them, enter the South Yadkin on the opposite side from the Northwest. All of these streams drain the same watershed of the divide between the Catawba and the Yadkin, and flow in the same general direction, nearly parallel, and near to each other, the course of the creeks trending slightly towards the river, till one by one each flows into it. The other side of the divide is drained in like manner by Elm Shoal Creek, Buffalo Shoal Creek, Reedy Creek, and other large creeks flowing from the northwest into the Catawba, which receives similar tributaries from the southwest, of which Lyle Creek in Catawba and Lincoln Counties has received mention in the last chapter. Third Creek is the longest and largest of those named as flowing into the Yadkin.

"The old 'Fourth Creek Meeting House' was the place of public worship and of all public meetings for all the settlers on all of these creeks between the Catawba and the South Yadkin, and for a few families on the farther side of each of those rivers. It was permanently located about 1756, though the congregation had begun to be united several years earlier and to meet at points near the one finally chosen and retained permanently. The first settlements on the Catawba were made about 1740. By 1745, there were numerous settlements in the territory which in 1762 was erected into Cabarrus and Mecklenburg counties, and by 1750, the settlements had extended and become dense for a frontier section, and began united themselves into church congregations.

"What is now Iredell County was embraced in Anson, till Rowan was constituted in 1753, of which it remained a part till 1788, when Iredell was established and its county seat located at the Statesville town site, which embraced the 'Fourth Creek Meeting House.' The settlements preceded the surveys and grants of lands, as they have done on other frontiers. The first authorized surveys in what now constitutes the area of Iredell County were made in 1750. In February, 1751, a tract was surveyed for and granted to Col. Thomas A. Allison, and in July of that year two tracts were surveyed for and granted to William Morrison. One of these surveys was dated July 12, and the other July 13, 1751, and both were embraced in one deed of grant by John, Earl Granville, and signed, "Granville, by Francis Corbin," of the odious memory so notorious in the War of the Regulation in 1770. This tract was near the site afterwards chosen for the Concord Church, which is a few hundred yards from Iredell Station, on the Atlantic, Tennessee & Ohio Railroad. This grant to William Morrison is number nine of the grants made by Lord Granville in Anson County.

"The tract on which the town of Statesville is built was granted by the Earl to John Olyphant, and was prior to the grant in February, 1751, to Col. Allison, for the field-notes in his deed call for a beginning point or corner in the line of John Olyphant's land. Mr. Olyphant sold and conveyed his grant to Ferguson Sloan, who was the first settler on the small branch of Fourth Creek, thereafter called 'Sloan's Branch,' at a spring about one-half mile from the spot where the 'Fourth Creek Meeting House' -- now Statesville Church -- stands.

"In this pioneer cabin home the widowed mother of Andrew Jackson and her son, then a mere lad, found welcome shelter and generous hospitality. The original cabin stood there for a century, and was at last destroyed by an accidental fire. The land for the town-site was conveyed by Mr. Sloan to the board of town commissioners in 1778, when the county was established and the county-seat located. This Mr. Fergus Sloan was the father of William Sloan, who married Jane Stevenson and went West in 1807 with Andrew McCormick and Robert Stevenson, as mentioned in the last chapter. He was also the father of a daughter who married Thomas Hall, a brother of Dr. James Hall. Prudence Hall, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hall, married the elder William Stevenson's son, William. This son, William, was born in 1763, and was an infant in arms when this Stevenson family settled on Third Creek."

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1790 Census:
____, Iredell Co., NC, p. 158, 2-0-3-0-3

Fergus married Ann Elizabeth Robinson before 1750. Ann was born about 1723 in Antrim, Ireland, UK; died in Unknown in Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina; was buried in Old Fourth Creek Cemetery, Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William married Margaret [--?--] about 1733 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Margaret was born in 1715 in Ireland; died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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George married Mary Campbell. Mary was born about 1698 in Antrim, Ireland, UK; died in Jun 1742. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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