John McGee, MaGee, McGehee and Mary Carr, 18th C. Colonial Virginia

Take a look at this document examine the different Garlands to arrive in Virginia

http://www.coveytrees.com/GarlandLog.pdf

There was a lot of generational mixup (typical). I still haven't gotten to your Mcgehee's but the Carr's are getting clearer to me. One question: there are two Mary Garlands of different generations (who improbably were given the same death date). I do not know the lineage of the later one: Mary Carr (Garland)

Would you like me to look into the McGehees?

That would help me Linda. I'm currently in all the Carr's and want to get back to the Garlands.

Okay, I started the McGehees.

Erica Howton, I got some of the merges done in the McGehee area of the tree. I haven't figured out where this William belongs....
William McGeehee
I think that the other William is more likely to be the son of Thomas and Ann.
Must get some shut eye. Will try to work on it more in the morning.

This writes about the William problem.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mysouthernfamily/...

William McGeehee was born in 1689 in New Kent, VA. He married about 1720 to Mary Carr who was born in 1704 in King William, VA. William and Mary had the following children: Carr, John, Ann, Mary and James. William moved his family to Granville, NC where he died 22 October 1774.

From http://www.genealogical-gleanings.com/Early%20Virginia.htm

Re: Mary Carr

This Mary could not be the mother of all these children if she was born abt 1704, she could be the mother of John March, William then would have a first wife unk.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mysouthernfamily/...

I don't see how he can be William 1672. Even a 1689 date supports a 1st unknown wife. Mary Carr cannot have been born before 1704.

I added a copy of a William McGehee that was written in 1771. His wife when it was written was Catherine......

William McGeehee

More copies of Wills here
http://www.txgenelady.com/McGeheeFamily/McGeheeWills.html

Attached Will to Thomas McGeHee. No William mentioned.........
Thomas McGehee

I am still trying to figure out William 1672 McGehee. If his 1st wife was Mary Johnson (1678 to 1751), then his second wife, Mary Chiles (b. 1704) was 55 years old when they got married (assumed to be 1751).

He is a tough one, Elizabeth. I couldn't figure him out so I left him where he was. However, I don't believe that he belongs there.....

It would be nice to find who all these Wills belong to also.
http://www.txgenelady.com/McGeheeFamily/McGeheeWills.html
I think I found who three of the Wills belonged to, and attached them.

I'm a bit confused about the two Mary Garlands as well. I have one (b. 1654 Boston), married to Thomas Carr, Sr; and then one (b.1708, Louisa Co. VA) a generation later married to John Carr. It's possible of course, but bemusing.
tim