Mary McClure

A Patriot of the American Revolution for SOUTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor # A075312

Eight children supposedly and are listed at the sources.

(Research):"The McClure Family" by J. Alexander McClure, published 1914 - McClures in North and South Carolina., p. 156-57:

The best known ancestor is Mary (Gaston) McClure, known in the history of South Carolina as "The Heroine of the Cherokee." She was a sister of Dr. Gaston <Alexander>, a Revolutionary patriot and is said to have been born 1725 and died 1800. Four sons in the Revolutionary War.

"The South in the Building of the Nation", Vol. XII, p. 129:

Capt. John McClure, wounded at Hanging Rock Aug. 6, 1780, and died at Liberty Hall, Charlotte, N. C., Aug. 18. Gen. Davis spoke of him as one of the bravest men he had ever known.

"McCurdy's History of South Carolina", p. 594:

Ensign James McClure, also wounded at Hanging Rock Aug. 6, 1780. He, with his brother-in- law, Edward Martin, while melting pewter to make bullets were captured by Huck and condemed to death.

"McCurdy's History of South Carolina", p. 762:

Hugh McClure, Revolutionary soldier - "It is at least significant that we find among the returned none of the Brattons, McClures, Hills, Gastons and Laceys who so distinguished themselves when the war of the Revolution rolled back to the upper part of the State."

"Wheeler's History of North Carolina", p. 79:

Dr. William McClure, a soldier of the Revolution, appointed April 17, 1776, surgeon Sixth Regiment; transferred June 7, 1776, to the Second Regiment, Col. John Patten, Commanding. Was captured at the fall of Fort Moultrie, May 12, 1780, and later exchanged.

From a number of letters from him to Gen. Sumter, published in the Colonial records of N.C., we learn that he had an uncle, a Dr. Gaston, killed by the enemy; that all his property in S.C., "which was considerable," had been lost by the war; that his aged mother, who was in affluent circumstances in S.C., had been reduced to poverty by the war; that in the year 1776, in S.C., he was surgeon for the Eighth Virginia Regiment in addition to his own; that he was detained in New Bern, N. C., for some time by reason of ill health.

He was in 1784 appointed one of the trustees and directors of the New Bern Academy. He was on Dec. 29, 1785, appointed one of the commissioners on pension claims.

On Nov. 22, 1785, the Legislature appointed a committee "to examine the model of a boat invented by Dr. McClure, which is represented to be calculated to improve the inland navigation of this State." In the Senate Journal for December, 1786. "we nominate Dr. William McClure, &c., &c., Councillors of State," to which office he was elected.

In 1790 the Senate endorsed memoranda submitted by him. He died in New Bren, N. C., 1804.

The New Bern, N. C., records show that he owned a great deal of property in and around the town. Heitman gives his death at 1825.

<"Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution; April 1775 to December 1783", by Francis B. Heitman, pub. 1890, p. 175: This is positively wrong, as his will is recorded in Book B, Folio 207, New Bern written 1794 and proven 1804. Wife, Elizabeth. Judging from the will he had no sons. He speaks of his brothers and sisters, but not by name. He mentions two daughters, Fanny Bachelor and Hannah, who was not to marry until she was twenty and to live with Margaret Gaston.>

she was a Revolutionary War Patriot like her husband? She was struck by the flat of a Tory's sword while moulding bullets out of her pewter vessels for the South Carolina troops.

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