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134 D., who witnessed the will of James McClure, 1756, and died prior to 1761. No record of either deed or will. He was doubtless the father of,

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II. . In 1797 Josias McClure acquired a tract of land, "being the same granted to James McClure by patent." He mentions in his will, written 1814 and proved 1817, his wife, Jane, and his friends, Isaac, David and Hugh McClure, Ann Hutcheson, wife of George H., Sr., Agnes Pilson, d. of Hugh McClure, deceased; Mary McKenny, d. of And. McClure, deceased; John McClure, son of Andrew and grandson of Mitchel; and Hugh McClure of unsound mind. Jane McClure his wife was a daughter of William Johnson, Augusta County. For her will, 1817, see W. B. 12, p. 389.

III. . He was doubtless the signer of the Augusta Petition on p. . Chalkley, vol. III, p. 473, gives his deed for land on Middle River, in Beverley Manor, August 16, 1768. Teste: John Stuart, Hugh Allen, Andrew McClure. April 16, 1793, William and Elizabeth McClure sold 198 acres on Middle River. In 1818 William McClure, in Richmond, Va., sold for $3,500, one-third of 500 acres in Augusta County. There are McClures now living in Richmond, probably his descendants.

This county being set off in 1777 from Augusta and Botetourt, information prior to that date is found in the records of those counties. There is nothing to show that the family is closely related to that of Augusta. As it is morally certain that both families came from near Raphoe, County Donegal, it is probable that the Augusta family is descended from John McClure and the Rockbridge family from Arthur McClure, both of whom were Ruling Elders in the Raphoe congregation, 1700. They were doubtless related.

Of the Rockbridge family,