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James McDADE

Male 1749 - 1833  (84 years)


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  • Name James McDADE 
    Born 1749  Hampshire County, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Died 30 Jul 1833  Jackson County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Notes 

    • Will of James McDade
      (One of the three pioneer settlers of Jackson County in May of 1796.)

      I, James McDade, of the county of Jackson in the state of Virginia, being of sound mind and conscious that it is destined for all men one to dye, have hereby thought proper to make disposition of such property as it hath pleased God to bless me with in this world, in the following manner, to wit:
      It is my wish and desire and I do hereby devise to my beloved wife Margaret McDade for and during her natural life, all the Estate that I am in possession of, both real and personal, and at her death to be equally divided between my children and my wife Margaret's in equal proportion to each, except to my daughter, Sally Greathouse, she is not to have but one dollar to be made out of the property when sold as hereinafter described. I also appoint John Harpold Executor of this my last will and testament, and that he will after the death of my wife, Margaret, sell the property then remaining and make distribution as above mentioned, hereby revoking all other will(s) by me heretofore made.
      In witness hereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 24th day of July 1833.
      James McDade (Seal)
      Teste: J(ohn) Armstrong
      Ephraim S Evans

      Will was probated September 23, 1833, Benjamin Wright, Clerk of County Court
      Securities, John Harpold & William Samuel Deweese
      Will Book 1, Page 34, County Clerk's Office, Jackson County, West Virginia

      Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files
      Volume II: F_M
      Abstracted by Virgil D White
      The National Histoical Publishing Company
      Waynesboro, Tennessee 1991

      McDade, James, S38193, VA Line, sol lived in Hampshire Co VA at enl, he appl 19 Aug 1818 Mason Co VA aged 69, in 1820 sol had a wife and 3 children; a son nearly of age, a son 6 and a daughter aged 14, sol d. 30 June 1833

      U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900
      Name: James Mcdade
      Application State: Virginia
      Applicant Designation: Survivor's Pension Application File
      Archive Publication Number: M804
      Archive Roll Number: 1675
      Total Pages in Packet: 22

      U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872
      Name: James Mcdade
      Pension Office State: Virginia
      Year Range: 1818-1832
      Rank: Pvt
      Monthly Allowance: $8
      Allowance 1-2 Year: $48
      Commencement: 19 Aug 1818

      U.S., The Pension Roll of 1835
      Name: James McDade
      Rank: Private
      Annual Allowance: 96.00
      Sums Received: 1,435.09
      Description of Service: Virginia Line
      Place on Pension Roll: 2 Mar 1819
      Commencement of pension: 19 Aug 1818
      Age: 86
      Residence Place: Mason, Virginia, USA
      Death Date: 30 Jul 1833

      Revolutionary War Pension Application VA S38193 VA No. 7181
      James McDade
      Revolutionary War Pension Application VA S38193 VA No. 7181. James McDade enlisted in Hampshire County, Virginia and served as a private in the 2nd Virginia Brigade and the 8th Virginia Regiment. He served with Captain William Voss of the 12th Virginia regiment under Colonel Wood in General Scott's Brigade. He took part in engagements at Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Eutaw Springs and Camden. At Eutaw Springs he received a bayonet thrust through the body and a sword wound on the wrist. At Camden he received a bullet wound in the ankle which rendered him unfit for service. He served 3 years. James McDade's application for pension states that he was discharged at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania after which discharge he substituted in place of Uriah Gandee for the eighteen months and served under Captain David Williams of the County of Hampshire and in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Campbell. James McDade received a pension in the amount of $96 per year beginning on March 5, 1819 in Mason County, Virginia. He received a total of $1435.09 and died on July 30, 1833 at age 86.
    Person ID I1493  WVPioneers
    Last Modified 13 Feb 2007 

    Father James McDADE,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Notes 

    • James McDade was legislated out of Northern Ireland prior to 1750 which is how the Catholics got rid of the Scotch Irish Protestants when they were in control to keep them from owning land. That McDade was a Colonial Soldier and was in the frontier Wars.

      Kanawha Co tax list
      James McDade sr 1801, 1 white male over 21

      Name: James McDead
      Year: 1737
      Place: America
      Source Publication Code: 4971
      Primary Immigrant: McDead, James
      Annotation: Date transportation ordered and intended destination. Includes crime and county where order was enacted. Extracted from Journal of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland, vol. 7 (1796).
      Source Bibliography: McDONNELL, FRANCES. Emigrants from Ireland to America, 1735-1743: A Transcription of the Report of the Irish House of Commons into Enforced Emigration to America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. 134p.
      Page: 77
    Family ID F1716  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Rachel TANNER,   b. Between 1763 and 1768,   d. 27 Sep 1820, Mason, Mason County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 57 years) 
    Married Bef 1783  [3
    Notes 

    • Hampshire County Census, 1782, Looks like 4, gone in 1784

      Harrison County Court Order Book #1 1784-1792
      Harrison Co Grand Jury Presentments
      5/17/1785
      James McDead & James Meeks for assault & battery on evidence of Obediah Davisson.
      7/19/1785
      James Schoolcraft vs James McDead. Confessed
      8/18/1785
      State vs McDead, Indictment. Not guilty

      Kanawha Co tax list
      James McDade sr 1801, 1 white male over 21

      1805: Mason county financial statement for October 1805 shows James McDade was paid bounty for three wolf scalps.

      Mason Co tax list
      James McDade 1805-06-07-09-10-11-12-13-14

      1810 Mason county census:
      James McDade
      3m under 10 Jesse, Samuel, ?
      2m 16-26
      1m over 45 James
      2f under 10 Margaret, Nancy???
      1f 10-16 Susanna or Seany???
      1f 16-26 Seany??? or Susanna
      1f over 45 Rachel - Grace is already married, Sarah probably is

      1820 Mason Co
      James McDade
      1 male 16-18 ???? Sam if born 1804
      2 males 16-25 Jesse 1800 & Samuel?
      1 male 45+ James
      1 female 10-15 Margaret
      1 female 16-25 Nancy
      1 female 26-44 Seany This would mean Rachel was already dead

      1830 Mason county
      James McDade
      2m 10-15
      1m 20-30
      1m 70-80 [James]
      1f 10-15
      2f 15-20 [dau Margaret]
      1f 40-50 [wife Margaret]

      1831 Jackson Co Personal property tax list
      James McDaid - 2 horses, $.12 tax, 1 white male over 16

      Mcdade, James VA MASON CO. 155 1830

      July 1798, page 97. James & Margaret Tanner, Arnold & Elizabeth (can't see it but he signs later as Cain), George and Nancy Hyde, Jesse & Grace Hewes, James & Rachel McDade, Edward & Wife Tanner, and Samuel & Wife Tanner, all of Harrison co, Virginia, to Alexander Sleeth for $1000.00, 1000 Acres. . in the forks of the west fork of the Little Kanawha River.
      . . signed James Tanner, Edward Tanner, Samuel Tanner, Jesse Hewes, James McDade, Arnold Cain. Recorded January 1799.

      March 1797, page 98. James & Rachel McDade, of Covington Co, Virginia, appoints Alexander Sleeth his attorney, to receive of the heirs of Edward Tanner, deceased, 125 acres of land, his part of 1000 acres just described. Signed James (X) McDade and Rachel (X) McDade, Wit: James and Margaret Tanner. Recorded January 1799
      [There is no Covington Co in VA or WV, therefore this probably should read "Kanawha Co, VA. . . bb]

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      "Jackson County in the Wars"
      Revolutionary Soldiers
      James McDade. Born in 1749 and died on Parchment, Jackson county, July 30, 1833. Enlisted in Hampshire county. . .

      James McDade’s father also named James McDade was legislated out of Northern Ireland prior to 1750 which is how the Catholics got rid of the Scotch Irish Prostestents when they were in control to keep them from owning land. That McDade was a Colonial Soldier and was in the frontier Wars.

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      Early Settlers of Jackson County by O. J. Morrison:
      In the month of May, 1796, William Hannamon, Benjamin Cox and James McDade reared their cabins within the present limits of Union District, and were thus the first to establish civilized homes in what is now Jackson County. The first two became actual settlers and began to fell the forest and cultivate the soil. McDade, who was a soldier in the service of Virginia, selected a site for his future home, but continued to discharge the duties assigned him-that of Indian scout-and many days and nights did he spend in the dreary wilderness between the mouths of the Great and Little Kanawha Rivers, watching to catch a glimpse of the savage foe on the shore of the Old Northwest Territory beyond the Ohio.
      Jackson County was created in 1831, from parts of Mason, Kanawha and Wood, in compliance with an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, passed March 1st of that year, and named in honor of the hero of New Orleans, who was at that time President of the United States. The present area of the county is 400 square miles.

      **
      Excerpts from the first four pages of Anna Herbertson's book: Some Descendants of Uriah Sr., and Susannah Gandy/Gandee
      More About JAMES MCDADE:
      Fact 1: Rev War Pension App VA S38193
      Fact 2: was receiving pension 1819 Mason Co, VA
      Fact 3: died 1833

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      "They Went Thataway" Hamlin GEN 929 HAM POM
      Rev War Size Roll (after 9/1/1780 - age probably about 1780)
      James McDade, 21, born Hampshire (WV) resided Hampshire

      **
      West Virgininas in the American Revolution
      Assembled and Edited by Ross B. Johnson
      The sources of this material are from the files of the Pension Office at Washinton from various county records, from notes of patriotic societies, principally the DAR, SAR, Sons of the Revolution and from a large miscellaneous group of published and private sources.
      pp 187, 188
      McDade, James
      Service - Virginia Va. No 7181 No. S 38193

      Born, 1749, and died July 30, 1833. Enlisted from Hampshire County, Virginia, Captain William Voss of the Twelfth Virginia Regiment under Colonel Wood in General Scott's Brigade. Took part in the engagements at Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Eutaw Springs and Camden. At Eutaw Springs received a bayonet thrust through the body and a sword wound on the wrist. At Camden he received a bullet wound in his ankle which rendered him unfit for service. Served three years. Substituted for Uriah Gandee for eighteen months. Received pension in Mason County.
      His will, filed in Jackson County, mentions his wife, Margaret, and daughter Sally Greathouse, and other children. They were probably Edward, Samuel and Margaret.

      U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900
      Va. McDade, James # S.38193

      U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
      Name: James McDade
      Rank - Induction: Privt
      Roll Box: 111
      Roll State: VA

      U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872
      Virginia
      James McDade
      Rank: Pvt
      Monthly allowance: $8
      Allowance for 1-2 years:$48
      Commentement: 19 August 1818

      American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
      Name: James McDade
      Birth Date: 1750
      Birthplace: Virginia
      Volume: 113
      Page Number: 508
      Reference: Heads of Fams. at the first U.S. census. Va. By U.S. Bureau of the Census. Washington, 1908. (189p.): 26
    Children 
     1. Sarah McDade,   b. 23 May 1783, Mason, Mason County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jun 1863, Mason, Mason County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
     2. Edward McDade,   b. 7 Jul 1792, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Grace McDADE,   b. 1794, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Mar 1862, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
     4. Susanna McDade,   b. 1796,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Jesse 'Ike' McDade,   b. Abt 1800, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     6. Seany McDade,   b. Est 1798–1805,   d. Yes, date unknown
     7. Samuel McDade,   b. Between 1804 and 1808, Mason, Mason County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     8. Nancy McDade,   d. Yes, date unknown
     9. Margaret McDade,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F558  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Margaret Deneal [Darnell],   b. Between 1780 and 1790,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 17 Mar 1825  Mason, Mason County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Notes 

    • Marriage Record
      Date: 17 March 1825
      Place: Mason, West Virginia, United States
      James McDade to Margaret Stuart
    Family ID F906  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1749 - Hampshire County, WV Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 17 Mar 1825 - Mason, Mason County, West Virginia Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S91] Military Pension Records (Reliability: 3).
      On the 19th day of August 1919, he stated ge was aged sixty nine years

    2. [S91] Military Pension Records, LDS Roll # 0971675 (Reliability: 3).
      Handwritten on card in his Revolutionary War Pension file:
      "Died July 30, 1833"

    3. [S118] Probate Records (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S16] Marriage Records, Mason Co, WV.