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State of Service: NJ
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
5th great-grandfather of Alan . M. Wenger, S.A.R. # 178166
REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE
Oct., 1775, a call for soldiers from Somerset and Hunterdon counties for the New Jersey State Militia, second regiment. "All men capable of bearing arms, directed to enroll. Were to furnish themselves with a good musket or firelocker or bayonet, a sword or tomahawk, a steel ramrod, worm, priming-wire and brush fitted thereto, a cartouch - box to contain 23 rounds of cartridges. 12 flints and a knapsack, one pound of powder and 3 pounds of bullets."
Among the privates was John McCain.
In the Continental Army, 4th Battalion, 2nd Estate, Capt. John Anderson Company, Private John McCain. 4th Bat. organized 1 Feb. 1777. Capt. Anderson served from28 Nov. 1776 to 1780.
( Some Descendants of James McCain, Sr. of Somerset County, New Jersey; Mabel McFatridge-McCloskey, c. 1952 pg. 13 )
John MacCain Farmer, born 1733 N. Ireland, came to America with his parents in 1738. Died in 1815 Warren Co., Ohio. M. Elizabeth Logan who die before 1812 when John made his will. John and Elizabeth, with members of their family, except Daniel, came to Ohio 1795 They lived in Cincinnati for a while .
In 1797 he purchased a 320 acre farm in Hamilton Co., the part later set off as Warren Co. In deeds, his name is spelled McKean. His will is signed McKane. His children were Richard, b. 1761; John b. 1763; Daniel b. 1765; Mary [Cummings] 1767; Robert abt. 1769; Elizabeth [Ramsey] 1771; William b. 1773; and James b. 1775.
( Some Descendants of James McCain, Sr. of Somerset County, New Jersey; Mabel McFatridge-McCloskey, c. 1952 pg. 22-23 )
Listed in Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War
New Jersey. Adjutant General's Office; Stryker, William S. (William Scudder), 1838-1900, pg. 681
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