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Rh of Eliza Jane McClure, who m. Dr. Abram Da Vega in South Carolina.

II. , also wounded at Hanging Rock Aug. 6, 1780. He, with his brother-in-law, Edward Martin, while melting pewter to make bullets were captured by Huck and condemned to death. For the full account see McCurdy's History of South Carolina, p. 594.

III. , Revolutionary soldier. McCrady's History of S. C, p. 762, giving the personnel of the Provincial Congress, 1775, says: "It is at least significant that we find among the returned none of the Brattons, McLures, Hills, Gastons and Laceys who so distinguished themselves when the war of the Revolution rolled back to the upper part of the State."

IV. , mentioned in Wheeler's History of N. C, p. 79, as a soldier of the Revolution, appointed April 17, 1776, surgeon Sixth Regiment; transferred June 7, 1776, to the Second Regiment, Col. John Patten, Commanding. Was captured at the fall of Fort Moultrie, May 12, 1780, and later exchanged.

From a number of letters from him to Gen. Sumter, published in the Colonial records of N. C., we learn that he had an uncle, a Dr. Gaston, killed by the enemy; that all his property in S. C, "which was considerable," had been lost by the war; that his aged mother, who was in affluent circumstances in S. C., had been reduced to poverty by the war; that in the year 1776, in S. C, he was surgeon for the Eighth Virginia Regiment in addition to his own; that he was detained in New Bern, N. C., for some time by reason of ill health.

He was in 1784 appointed one of the trustees and directors of the New Bern Academy. He was on Dec. 29, 1785, appointed one of the commissioners on pension claims.

On Nov, 22, 1785, the Legislature appointed a committee "to examine the model of a boat invented by Dr. McClure, which is represented to be calculated to improve the inland navigation of this State."

In the Senate Journal for December, 1786, "we nominate