Capt. Ephraim McLean b. 1730 Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland d. 1823 Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky: Davidson Genealogies

1730 - 1823 (93 years)

Name	Ephraim McLean
Prefix	Capt.
Born	1730	Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland
Gender	Male
Group	American Colonial Immigrants
	Immigrants from the UK who came to United States or Canada before the Revolutionary War
Group	Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
	DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran
Group	Immigrant Ancestors
	Immigrant Ancestors
Group	Veteran of Revolutionary War or Patriot
	Revolutionary War Patriot or Soldier.
FindaGrave Memorial ID	9122587
	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9122587
1820 Census	1820	Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
	p. 143 Alney McLean 420 210 - 20010 - 0203 Ephraim McLean 000 001 - 00001 - 0000
Died	1823	Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
Buried	Aft 1823	Caney Station Cemetery, Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
Person ID	I389	DNA Family 1 Genealogies
Last Modified	16 Apr 2021

Father	John McLean, b. Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland , d. 1745, Guilford County, North Carolina
Mother	Margaret Moore, d. Abt 1741
Married	Bef 1726
Family ID	F244	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Elizabeth Davidson, b. Bef 19 Apr 1741, Augusta County, Virginia , d. Aft 1820, Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Age ~ 79 years)

Married 1760 Rowan County, North Carolina

Children

	1. John McLean, b. 1 Jun 1761, d. Unknown
	2. Margaret McLean, b. Jun 1763, Burke County, North Carolina , d. 25 Dec 1837 (Age ~ 74 years)
	3. Rev. Ephraim McLean, Jr., b. 5 Mar 1766, Rowan County, North Carolina , d. 23 Apr 1818, Snow Creek, Maury County, Tennessee (Age 52 years)
	4. George McLean, b. 1767, d. 12 Dec 1849, Todd County, Kentucky (Age 82 years)
	5. Jane McLean, b. 12 Dec 1769, North Carolina , d. 18 Jun 1847, Logan County, Kentucky (Age 77 years)
	6. Charles McLean, b. 30 Nov 1771, Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina , d. 18 Dec 1825, Midland, Rutherford County, Tennessee (Age 54 years)
	7. Samuel McLean, b. 1772, d. Unknown, Tennessee
	8. William McLean, b. 17 Feb 1773, Tryon County, North Carolina , d. 23 Jul 1814, Snow Creek, Maury County, Tennessee (Age 41 years)
	9. James Davidson McLean, b. 30 Mar 1777, Rowan County, North Carolina , d. 9 Jul 1843, Carroll County, Mississippi (Age 66 years)
	10. Judge Alney McLean, b. 10 Jun 1779, Burke County, North Carolina , d. 30 Dec 1841, Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Age 62 years)
	11. John Davidson McLean, b. 16 Mar 1781, North Carolina , d. 5 Apr 1881, Mount Joy, Maury County, Tennessee (Age 100 years)
	12. Robert Davidson McLean, b. 1783, Ft. Harrod - Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky , d. 1872, Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee (Age 89 years)

Last Modified 4 May 2006

Family ID F243 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

	Born - 1730 - Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland
	Married - 1760 - Rowan County, North Carolina
	1820 Census - 1820 - Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
	Died - 1823 - Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
	Buried - Aft 1823 - Caney Station Cemetery, Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

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Histories

Letter from Alney McLean to cousin Samuel Stockard
This letter had been transcribed and posted on the Tennkin.com site and was saved in 2009 and supplied to me by Kenneth Rickett in October 2018. This site no longer seems to be extant.

This letter provides many valuable insights on the McLean and Davidson families but it has several provable errors. None the less, it is a useful testimony to the early history of these families.

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From FindGrave:

Ephraim McLean was the son of John McLean and Margaret Mary Moore. He married Elizabeth Davidson in 1761 in Iredell County, North Carolina, daughter of John Davidson and Margaret Morrison. Together Ephraim and Elizabeth had 12 Children: John McLean, Margaret McLean,
Jane McLean, George McLean, Charles McLean, William McLean, Samuel McLean, Ephraim McLean, James McLean, Alney McLean, John Davidson McLean, and Robert Davidson McLean.

He was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons and represented Burke County at the North Carolina General Assembly of 1777.

He served his country in many capacities. He was commissioned a Captain of a regiment of Tryon County foot soldiers. He was wounded at the Battle of Kings Mountain; a memorial monument there bears his name. He served on the Rowan County Committee of Safety. He served as a Justice of the Peace. He served as a Minuteman in the Militia. He was a builder, blacksmith, surveyor and he was a Founding Member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
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From the Stockard Letter:

Dr. Ephraim Bevard was the author of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence which was so enthusiatically ratified by the Convention assembled at Charlotte in May 1775.

The Convention then and there (assembled) appointed what they called a Committee of Safety, a kind of Legislature, which held regular monthly meetings at Salisbury in Rowan County. Ephraim McLean was a member of that committee.

At the meeting of the committee, October 1775, it was ordered that three additional brigades should be raised. Thomas Polk was appointed Colonel, Charles McLean, Major of one of those brigades.
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From Wheeler's History of North Carolina: Ephraim McLean was present at the meeting of the Committee of Safety at Salisbury on the 22nd of October 1875. His name does not appear at any subsequent meeting of that body.

According to the Stockard letter, : "I suppoise he must have moved soon after this to Kentucky. He went to Harrodsburg, in that state where he remained but a short time, when he moved to Cumberland River and settled on that stream four miles above where Nashville now stands, on a six hundred acre tract of land near a bend of the river, which is now known as McLean's bend. At the time of Nashville's centennial celebration in 1880, a history of the early settlers of that sity was published in the papers of the city, in which Ephraim McLean was mentioned as one of the three trustees of the school at that place.

"I suppose he left Nashville soon afrter, for I have been told that his youngest son, Robert, was born in Harrodsbirg, Ky., in 1782. Sometime towards the close of the last century he moved to Maury County, Tenn., and settled on Knob Creek, where he remained until 1820. He was ninety years old, and being worn out with age, he went back to Kentucky to spend his few remaining days with his sons, Alney and Robert, who lived at Greenville, His son, Alney, had a house built in the yard for his father and mother to live in, He lived three more years and died at the age of ninety-three, and I have never learned whether Grandmother survived him or not.

"Ephraim McLean was was the father of twelve children. His oldest son, John, was killed by Indians, and his youngest, a daughter, died in infancy. He raised to manhood and womanhood eight sons and two daughters.

"His sons were George, Ephraim, Charlesm Samuel, Alney, William, James and Robert. His daughter married and lived in Kentucky.

"One of them married Gen. Robert Ewingm a brother of Rev. Finis Ewing. She (possibly Jane) was the mother of Judge Ephraim Ewing, a distinguished lawyer of that state. He represents Ky. in Congress, and was appointed Sureme Judge of that Statem a position he held until his death. And he is the Ewing that endowed a professorship in Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tenn.

"The other daughter (possibly Margaret) married Robert Brank, and she was the mother of Houston Brank and Ephraim Brank. Houston Brank studied law in the office of Judge Alney McLean, and in a class with John McLean, the eldest son of Rev. Ephraim McLean.

"George McLean married his cousin, a daughter (possibly Pamela) of Gen. William Davidson. He settled in Logan County, Ky., twelve miles west of Russellville, about one hundred years ago. His youngest son, Andrew Jackson, died on the same farm since at the age of seventy six years. Alney McLean and Ephraim Brank married sisters, and they are said to have been refined and accomplished ladies. His second son, Thornton, was a Presbyterian minister of line ability who went to Mississippi and died there. His third son, Robert Davidson, was a lawyer, lived at Grenada, Miss. and was judge of the Circuit Court of that District. He died there in 1878 abd his wife and two daughters died there of yellow fever when it visited that place with such fatal results in 1878. His oldest daughter Anna, married a McBride. They moved to Mississippi and there he died. She was an accomplished lady - so it was said. His second daughter Tabitha, was also very accomplished; she never married. She is now seventy-one years old and living with her twin brothers, Charles and Alney, at Greenville.

"Uncle Robert married a Miss Wilson, and had five children; three sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Robert, was a practicing physician in Muhlenburg County. Edward and Alney went with their father to Miss. and settled there. Celia married Robert Russell, and they still live in Clarkesville, Tenn. Her father died at her house at the age of ninety. I don't know what became of the other daughter, Eliza.

"Finis McLean, the youngest son of Rev. Ephraim McLean, once wrote me that he had a conversation with Uncle Robert, who told him that he was eighty years old and that he had not felt a pain in his body for thirty years and was then an active practitioner of his profession.