MCCOLLOCH FAMILY
of Scotland, Ireland, New Jersey, U.S.A. and West Virginia,
U.S.A.
NOTE
ABOUT OHIO CO., WEST VIRGINIA: On the first development of the
Panhandle, it constituted a portion of the extensive county of
Ohio, which dates back to before the revolution, and reached
territorially to an indefinite extent. On the waters of Short
Creek, celebrated from the earliest period for the exceeding
richness of the soil, was located the seat of justice for this
immense territory. It was called West Liberty, and here on the
16th of January, 1776, was held the first Court for Ohio County,
and perhaps the first civil Court ever held in the valley of the
Mississippi. A Court House and jail were ordered in the following
spring, and among the attorneys practicing are the names of Philip
Pendleton and George Brent in 1778. The town was incorporated
November 29th, 1786. At the organization of the present county of
Brooke in 1797, at which period the seat of justice for Ohio
County, was removed to Wheeling, and at about which time the
county records were burned, West Liberty was quite a metropolis,
and was the scene of many a hard fought battle with forensic as
well as physical weapons. The old settlers of this section
were largely Marylanders, Virginians, and North Carolinians; and
naturally introduced into their new settlements, the manners and
customs of the hospitable and never over industrious sections from
whence they came.
The different settlements appear to have been made by people from
neighboring localities, the ties of friendship and kindred, with
apprehensions of danger, inclining them to set their stakes in
close communities. A squad of Marylanders would settle here, a
company of Virginians there, while in another section a detachment
of Germans or Scotch; and to this day, these localities are
distinctly marked by peculiarities of names, manners and modes of
speech. The Short Creek country about West Liberty, early
attracted settlement by its fabulous fertility, and was
appropriated by horse-racing, fox-hunting, jolly Marylanders and
Virginians, some of them, men of education and refinement, and
early given to hospitality, good living, fun and intermarriage.
Among the original settlers
of Ohio County, may be named Jas. Caldwell, George McColloch,
Benj. Briggs, And. Woods, John Boggs, Joseph Tomlinson, Ebenezer
Zane, Moses Chapline, John McColloch, Solomon Hedges, John
Williamson, David Shepherd, Archibald Woods, Z. Sprigg, and Alexander Mitchell,
whose names appear prominently on
the record; while in 1787, several patents were located in
Brooke, or Yohogania, by Dorsey Pentecost, Moses Decker, Peter
Cox, Benjamin Wells, John Van Meter, Benj. Johnson Jr., who was
a surveyor, and located 7000 acres in 1785, Wm. McMahon, who
appropriated the hills lying back of Wellsburg, in 1786,
Hezekiah Hyatt, Lawrence Van Buskirk, John Beck, and Gabriel
Greathouse, besides many others whose names do not figure so
prominently. These appear to have constituted the advance guard
of pioneers.
Under the operation of the very liberal Virginia laws regulating
claims to unappropriated lands, the good land of the country was
rapidly taken up, and generally in large bodies, by the parties
named above, and their contemporaries, a large proportion of it on
speculation, to be sold at an advance or held until forfeited for
non-payment of taxes; but much of it for actual settlement. It is
singular and significant of the characteristics of our
institutions, to observe how small a proportion of the land now
remains in the hands of the descendants of the original
proprietors. A large proportion of it changed hands, during the
first twenty years; and although the names sound familiar enough,
it will be found on examination that but few of the present actual
landholders of the Panhandle, are represented in the family names
above recorded.
*Source For Above: Brooke County, West Virginia History to 1882.[database
online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: J. G.
Jacob, Brooke County: Being a Record of Prominent Events
Occurring in Brooke County, West Virginia from the Settlement of
the Country, until January 1, 1882.
The above names are but a few that migrated west, as it was
called back then, from Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey.
Many of these early pioneers were of Scotch, Irish and German
ancestry and at times banded together with other family members
and neighbors to make the trip to Ohio County. Some settled
between West Liberty and Wheeling in the valley along Short
Creek as the McColloch brothers did. These were men and women of
intelligence and education with a pioneering spirit that begged
to write history. Many of the names listed above will be
mentioned in the same breath as they enter into marriages with
their friends and neighbors through the years.
JOHN AND ELIZABETH McCOLLOCH
1. McCOLLOCH, John (Ardwell) – b. 1559 , d. 1667 , married Elizabeth
(Myretoun) McColloch, b. ___ , d. ___ .
Children of John McColloch and Elizabeth McColloch: 2. Sir
Alexander McColloch
2. McCOLLOCH, Sir Alexander – b. Bef. 1620, Scotland, d. June 3, 1675, Scotland, m.
Bef. 1638 in Scotland, Anna Ferguson, b. 1626, d.
1699 in Scotland.
Children of Alexander McColloch and Ana Ferguson: 3. John McColloch
3. McCOLLOCH, John - b. Abt. 1644, Scotland, d. ___ , m. Katherine Ross, b.
Abt. 1640, Scotland, d. 1682.
Children of John McColloch and Katherine Ross: 4. John McColloch
4. McCOLLOCH, John - b. 1682, Parish Galloway, Scotland, d. Abt.
1730, Gloucester Co., New Jersey. m. 1703 in Ireland, Mary Campbell, b. 1682, Scotland, d. Abt. 1730, New Jersey. John and Mary were supporters of the British monarch and fled to Ireland about 1700. They emigrated from Ireland to Gloucester Co., New Jersey.
Children of John McColloch and Mary Campbell:
5. McCOLLOCH, John – b. 1708, Ireland, d. 1795, Albemarle Co., Virginia.
5. McCOLLOCH, Robert – b. 1710, Ireland d. ___ .
5. McCOLLOCH, Samuel – b. 1705, Mamacullen, Armagh
Co., Ireland, d. June 8, 1748, Gloucester Co., New Jersey, m. June 23, 1726, at 1st Presbyterian, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ward,
daughter of George and Hannah (Wainwright) Ward, b. 1705, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d.
___ , Gloucester Co., New Jersey.
Source for Samuel McColloch Will: Ancestry.com.
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 1670-1760. [database online]
Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: New Jersey
Historical Society. Calendar of New Jersey Wills,
Administrations, etc. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society,
1901
Calendar of New Jersey Wills,
Vol. II 1730-1750
Calendar of New
Jersey Wills
Page: 314 Name: Samuel McColloch (McCulluch) Date: 08 Jun 1748 Location: Gloucester Township and County
yeoman. Sons--John (eldest, not 23), to have 400 acres of the
homestead fronting Timber Creek, a tract, which was his
grandfather's and my father's (John McCulloch's), also the
meadows and two tracts of land and cedar swamps called Faraway
Swamp, and all my lands formerly Montgomery's; George, at 21, to
have the other part of my plantation, 200 acres, beginning at
Samuel Hazard's upper corner, and the principal and interest
from the sale of pine land, 220 acres, at Four Mile Branch road,
also White Oak, Fish Creek and White Hall Cedar Swamps.
Daughters--Mary, Elizabeth and Hannah McCulluch. Executor--son,
John. Witnesses--James Cooper, David Ward, Michael Fisher. Sworn
and affirmed 30 June, 1748.
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. II 1730-1750
Calendar of New Jersey Wills
Lib. 8, p. 255.
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. II 1730-1750
Calendar of New Jersey Wills
1748, June 29. Inventory (£336.18.11) includes watch, cattle,
horses, sheep, timber, husbandry tools. Appraisers--John
Blackwood, Richard Cheeseman.
THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN WERE BORN
OF
SAMUEL AND ELIZABETH WARD McCOLLOCH:
'COL' JOHN McCOLLOCH AND SARAH INSKEEP
McCOLLOCH'S PATH
"McCULLOCH'S PATH" ~
The above Historical Marker is located near Oakland, Maryland.
It marks the path that John McColloch, Sr., opened between
Hampshire Co. (now Hardy Co.), Virginia and the Monongahela
River, near Morgantown, West Virginia. This path provided for
the movement of supplies and goods as well as a route that was
probably used by most of the
pioneering people who migrated to the valleys of West Virginia and beyond.
Thanks to my cousin Lisa Zugner, who was kind enough to share
the photo with me. The picture was taken June 18, 1987. I have heard that this sign
became damaged and was replaced with a new one.
6. McCOLLOCH, ‘COL’ John, Sr. – b. 1726, in Gloucester
Co., New Jersey, d. 1778, Ft. Pitt, Allegheny Co., Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, of yellow fever or cholera, m. May 24, 1749,
Burlington, Co., New Jersey to Sarah Inskeep, b. September 4,
1728, Gloucester Co., New Jersey, the daughter of James and Mary
(Miller) Inskeep. It is also believed that Sarah died in 1778 at
Ft. Pitt.
Note: Sarah Inskeep is the niece of John and Sarah Ward Inskeep of
Marlton, New Jersey. Sarah's father James Inskeep was born in
England and immigrated to America with his parents, his brothers
John and Joseph, and his sister Mary.
The Inskeeps became a prominent family in Marlton, New Jersey. See
Sarah's, Uncle John Inskeeps house here.
Children of 'COL'
John McColloch and Sarah Inskeep
7. McCOLLOCH, Elizabeth
- b. October 30,
1748, Marlton, Gloucester Co., New Jersey, d. January 17, 1814,
Ohio Co., Wheeling, West Virginia, m. Abt. 1768, Hampshire Co., Virginia, to ‘COL’
Ebenezer Zane, b. October 7, 1747, Moorefield, Hardy Co., West
Virginia, d. November 19, 1811, Ohio Co., Wheeling, West Virginia.
7. McCOLLOCH, Samuel 'MAJOR' - b. 1752, d. July 30, 1782,
killed by Indians at Girty's Point, Short Creek, Ohio Co.,
West Virginia, m. February, 1782, to Mary Mitchell. Major
McColloch had married Miss Mitchell only six months before his
death. His widow afterward married Andrew Woods.
7. McCOLLOCH, Catherine Irene - b. October 16,
175? in
Gloucester Co., New Jersey, d. August 16, 1832 in Bassimer,
Ohio.
Child of Catharine Inskeep, sister to Sarah
Inskeep, taken in to raise by John and Sarah
Inskeep McColloch, upon Catharine's death.
Catharine Inskeep's Will:
Source for Catharine Inskip Will: Ancestry.com.
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 1670-1760. [database online]
Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: New Jersey
Historical Society. Calendar of New Jersey Wills,
Administrations, etc. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society,
1901
Calendar of New Jersey Wills,
Vol. III 1751-1760
Calendar of New Jersey Wills
Name: Catharine Inskip Date: 29 Oct 1751 Location: Big Timber Creek, Gloucester Township and County
will of. Commits child, name not given, to John McCollock and wife,
Sarah, who are also to receive all debts owing to testatrix. Father,
James Inskip, sole Executor. Witnesses--David Langlee, John Blackwood,
Samuel Blackwood. Proved April 13, 1752.
Lib. 8, p. 117.
1752, --- --. Inventory, £115.4.6, incl. a bond, £100; small debts, £4.12.6;
made by Thomas Chew and John Perce (Peiroe).
NOTE: For the time being I have taken down
Catherine Irene's page showing her husbands and descendants as
there is new information coming to me regarding her. There are
many questions regarding her marriages and children. I'm sure that
this is one of the reasons that many McColloch genealogies do not
include Catherine. We are also not sure of her birthdate. As
evidenced the her mother's will above, John and Sarah did raise
one of her children. Looking forward to more complete information
on this soon.
7. McCOLLOCH, John 'MAJOR' - b. 1754, Hampshire Co.,
Virginia, d. April 6, 1821, Ohio Co., Short Creek, West
Virginia, m. 1777, Ohio Co., West Virginia, to Mary Bukey, b.
1754, Sussex Co., New Jersey, d. July 1, 1845, 1846 in Ohio Co.,
West Virginia.
Notes: John was also an Indian fighter and tracker. He was in
the company of his brother, Samuel McColloch, much of the time
and was with him the day they were ambushed by Indians at
Girty's Point and Samuel, was killed. John wheeled his horse and
shot his brothers killer through the heart.
John succeeded his brother, Major Samuel McColloch, as
heir to the McColloch estate. John's Military service: Bet.
1775 - 1795, was a private in the Ohio County, West Virginia, Militia during the Revolutionary War Militia under
Capt Ogle and Col. Brodhead. Listed in D.A.R. Patriot Index,
Private, VA.
7. McCOLLOCH, Abraham "Abram" - b. 1760, Hampshire
Co., Virginia, d. May 5,
1839, Short Creek, Ohio Co., West Virginia, bur. Short Creek Cemetery,
Wheeling, West Virginia, m. March 11, 1788, Short Creek, Ohio Co.,
West Virginia, Alcy Boggs, b. January 15, 1769, Short Creek,
Brooke Co., West Virginia, d. March 30, 1838,
Short Creek, Ohio Co., West Virginia, bur. Short Creek Cemetery,
Ohio Co., Wheeling, West Virginia.
Notes: Abraham figured quite extensively in the early history
of Richland district as it is now called, having engaged to some
extent as a scout among the Indians, by whom he received a wound
in the hip; its effect was prevented from becoming fatal by a
book which he carried in his pocket. This happened in early
life. He followed farming as an occupation. He was the father of
eleven children, six sons and five daughters.
Pensioned. Listed in D.A.R. Patriot Index, Private, Scout,
Patriotic Service, VA.
7. McCOLLOCH, George 'CAPT' - b. 1763, Hampshire Co.,
Virginia, d. May 19, 1836, bur.
Short Creek Cemetery, Ohio Co., Wheeling, West Virginia, m. April
5, 1791, Ohio Co., Wheeling, West Virginia, Margaret Wilson, b.
1774, d. July 6, 1837, bur. Short Creek Cemetery, Ohio Co., Wheeling, West
Virginia.
7. McCOLLOCH, Sarah - b. 1765, Hardy Co., Virginia, d. _____
, m. Samuel Jacob Coleman, b. 1748, d. 1828.
6. McCOLLOCH, ‘COL’ George – b. 1728, Gloucester Co., New Jersey, d.
Abt. 1790,
Ohio Co., West Virginia, m. Catherine Hedges, b. 1748, m. Catharine VanMeter, b. Abt. 1734, d. Bef. 1768.
MARY
McCOLLOCH AND URIAH (or CHARLES) FRENCH
AND HUGH CREIGHTON
This Is The Only Information I have
(There is also question regarding Mary's marriage to Charles
French and the children of the French marriage. This needs more
looking into.)
6. McCOLLOCH , Mary – b. April, 1730, Gloucester Co., New Jersey, d. _____ , m.
Uriah (or Charles) French: m. August 10, 1759, Gloucester Co., New Jersey, Hugh Creighton.
This is the only information that I have for Mary McColloch.
ELIZABETH
McCOLLOCH AND HENRY CRAWFORD This Is The Only Information I Have
6. McCOLLOCH, Elizabeth –b. 1732, Gloucester Co., New Jersey, d. _____
, m. April 6, 1754, Gloucester Co., New Jersey, Henry Crawford, b.
______ , d. _____ .
Note: This is the Only Information that I have for Elizabeth. I am
guessing that the information found below is regarding Elizabeth
and Henry as the date and place would be within probability.
Source:
Elizabeth McColloch found in:
Marriage Index: New Jersey, 1680-1900
Married: Apr. 06, 1754 in: Gloucester, NJ
Gender: F Source: County Court Records Film number: 0850324
Spouse name: Crawford, Henry Spouse gender: M
6. McCOLLOCH, Hannah – b. October 15, 1737, Gloucester Co., New Jersey, d. 1791, m. October 5, 1756, Gloucester Co., New Jersey, to Joseph
Inskeep, b. May 10, 1733, Burlington Co., New Jersey, d. 1803/1809, Virginia.
NOTE
ABOUT OHIO CO., WEST VIRGINIA: On the first development of the
Panhandle, it constituted a portion of the extensive county of
Ohio, which dates back to before the revolution, and reached
territorially to an indefinite extent. On the waters of Short
Creek, celebrated from the earliest period for the exceeding
richness of the soil, was located the seat of justice for this
immense territory. It was called West Liberty, and here on the
16th of January, 1776, was held the first Court for Ohio County,
and perhaps the first civil Court ever held in the valley of the
Mississippi. A Court House and jail were ordered in the following
spring, and among the attorneys practicing are the names of Philip
Pendleton and George Brent in 1778. The town was incorporated
November 29th, 1786. At the organization of the present county of
Brooke in 1797, at which period the seat of justice for Ohio
County, was removed to Wheeling, and at about which time the
county records were burned, West Liberty was quite a metropolis,
and was the scene of many a hard fought battle with forensic as
well as physical weapons. The old settlers of this section
were largely Marylanders, Virginians, and North Carolinians; and
naturally introduced into their new settlements, the manners and
customs of the hospitable and never over industrious sections from
whence they came.
