John Magill, Jr.

John T. Magill

• Birth: 1759 Augusta County, Virginia836,1058, p. 190.
• Death: Jan 1842, Franklin County, Kentucky1058, p. 190.,1061, p. 17. Age: 83
• Occupation: Author , p. ix-x.
• Military: Revolutionary War, Virginia Militia; Received Pension While Living In Kentucky.1061, p. 4-5.,1506, p. 494.
• Parents: John MAGILL (~1725-1816) and Mary PATTERSON (-<1813)
• Spouses: Jane EDMONDSON Marriage6 Oct 1785, Augusta County, Virginia559, v. 2, p. 283 (Augusta County Marriage Bonds),1061, p. 5.

Biographical Sketch (1996):1058, p. 190.

"Author of The Pioneer to the Kentucky Emigrant, Frankfort, Kentucky, 1832; subject of Willard Rouse Jillson’s Chronology of John Magill, Standard Printing Company, Louisville, 1938. Although Kentucky emigration had been underway for some 50 years, John Magill’s book is the first adequate guidebook to the state, giving details about topography, climate, crops, etc., for most areas and counties of the state. Professor Jillson traced John Magill back to his birth in Augusta County, Virginia and gives a year by year account of his legal education, marriage, siblings, and family, ending with his death in 1842 in Franklin County, Kentucky. His letter to his nephew Caleb Magill in 1838 gives the early history of our branch of the Magill family."

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John Magill moved from Augusta County, VA, to land near Stanford on the Wilderness Trail. He took up land on Paint Creek in 1783 and returned to Augusta County to marry Jean (Jane) Edmiston, October 6, 1785. They returned to Kentucky. John was a school teacher, attorney and printer, was associated with the first newspaper west of Pittsburgh, the Kentucky Gazette first issued August 11, 1787, in Fayette County. In 1788 he bought land in Bourbon County and became a tobacco planter, owning land in many locations (Mercer County, now Franklin; Cumberland County. He suffered smallpox in 1794, was damaged mentally. Moved in 1795 to Franklin County from Bourbon County, 7 miles southwest of Frankfort. His history of Kentucky, THE PIONEER TO THE KENTUCKY EMIGRANT, was published in Frankfort in 1832. He died in Franklin County 1842. He was born in Augusta County, VA, son of John Magill, Sr., in 1759. Served in the militia in 1777. Completed his education probably at Liberty Hall, Lexington, and served in the campaign to relieve General Gates at Hillsborought, NC, in 1780. Children of John and Jean Edmiston Magill: Matthew E. Magill, Mary Magill, Samuel P. Magill, John Allen Magill (a well known physician), Cyrus T. Magill, William Magill, Jane Ann Magill, Margaret S. Magill.
See EFAB, No. 33.

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