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Rh Exeter, N. H. Capt. and owner of a merchant ship. Died in Dublin, Ireland, March, 1791.

7., b. March 13, 1753. Died in Savannah, Ga., Sept. 15. 1775.

8., b. Nov. 21, 1754; m. first, Nancy Hunter, Bristol, Me. Second, Mary Wilson, of Boston. He, like his father and grandfather, was an Elder in the Federal Street, the first Presbyterian church of Boston. He left the church when it became Unitarian under Dr. Channing. Two greatgrand-sons now live in New York City, viz: Wm. E. Peters, a distinguished lawyer, and Rev. John P. Peters, rector St. Michael Protestant Episcopal church.

9., b. July 27, 1757. Married James Randlet, of Exeter. Died about 1805.

10., b. Aug. 5, 1759. Died in Boston.

11., b. Sept. 3, 1761. Farmer, married and lived in Bedford, Maine.

12., twin, b. Sept. 3, 1761. Sea captain. Died at Exeter Feb. 18, 1787.

13., Dec. 26, 1763—Oct., 1765.

Doubtless belonging to this family was Rev. Alexander Wilson McClure, D. D., b. Boston May 8, 1808; educated at Yale and Amherst Colleges and Andover Theological Seminary, class 1830. Pastor and Editor, died Sept. 20, 1855. "Dr. McClure was truly a learned scholar, a genuine wit, keen dialectician and a practical controversialist. Ardent and honest as the sunlight, abounding in good feeling and simple in manners as a child, he was a man of positive convictions, fearless of consequences in the advocacy of truth and in assailing popular error. Yet with all his exuberant mirth and knowledge of the world. Dr. McClure was pre-eminently a devout and humble Christian minister."—Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit, Vol. II, p. 7.

Another living member of this family, is Arthur G. McClure, of New York City.