Display Patriot - P-243766 - James MCAFEE Jr

James MCAFEE Jr

SAR Patriot #: P-243766

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Captain / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A074349

Birth: abt 1736 / Armagh / Ireland
Death: 25 Jun 1811 New Providence / Mercer / KY

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Lt and Capt in the VA Miltia in 1777, 1778 and in Lincoln County Milita in 1782
  2. LINCOLN CO MILITIA; ALSO SOL, Captain SAMUEL MCAFEE, MAJ MCGARY, Colonel TRIGG
  3. BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT
  4. DEFENDED MCAFEE'S STATION

Additional References:
  1. NSSAR #147342
  2. "History of the Fee Family" pg 22
  3. NSDAR # 8881716 cites:
    • GWATHMEY, HIST REG OF VA IN THE REV, pg 512
    • POFFENBARGER, BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT, pg 26
    • HARDING, GEORGE ROGERS CLARK & HIS MEN, pg 102,150
    • COLLINS, HIST OF KY, Volume 2, pg 618

Spouse: Agnes Clark/Clarke;
Children: John; Nancy; Mary; Elizabeth;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1974-08-17 IL Unassigned James Frank Cooper Sr (107181) Mary   
1985-06-20 AR 229827 James William Louy (125942) Nancy   
1996-11-26 FL 202797 Paul Kenneth McAfee (147342) John   
1997-09-25 FL 200818 Earl Douglas McAfee (149032) John   
2019-05-24 KS 86615 Matthew Gordon Ericson (211632) Mary   
2019-05-24 KS 86616 Mason Matthew Ericson (211633) Mary   
Location:
McAfee / Mercer / KY / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:

Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
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Marker Type:
Memorial Bronze Plaque
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Photos used with permission of Compatriot Mitchell Anderson, 229001, KYSSAR



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
  • West .8 mile on Kentucky Highway 1160 off U.S. 127 then right .65 miles on Man O'War Drive at Rainey Estates
  • The Cemetery is in the small group of woods at the end of Road



Author: Robert Lee Knott Jr
James McAfee Jr. immigrated in1739 to LancasterCo., Pennsylvania from Ireland.

James was born 1736 in County Armagh, Ireland, and died June 25, 1811 in Mercer Co. Kentucky. He married AGNES NANCY CLARK September 30, 1762 in Agusta Co. Virginia, daughter of THOMAS CLARK. She died May 02, 1814 in Mercer Co. Kentucky.

James , the second son of James the Patriarch, was one of the pioneers of Kentucky. Went to Kentucky about 1779. He was left in the wilderness of Kentucky, to guard the lands, in the company of James Mc Coun, while his brother Robert and his companions returned to Botecourt County Virginia. James was the one who built a stone house for a fort, which still stands in Mercer County Kentucky; a monument to his memory. It is not a tumble-down wreck, such as old-time landmarks usually are, but a substantial house of masonry, occupied as a dwelling by one of Mercer Counties' staunchest citizens.
Capt. from Virginia in the Revolutionary War.

Burial: New Providence Cemetery, Mercer Co. Kentucky
Left: 1739, Ireland

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