William Alexander McClintic, III

Information obtained from "McClintic is Our Name" website, http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/c/c/Stephen-C-Mcclinti....

William no doubt as a youth had to assume many responsibilities in business affairs under the guidance of his mother and uncle, Moses Mann. In later years this training made him a man of much influence and integrity in his community. In 1838 he built a nice brick home across the river, adjacent to the original William McClintic homestead and along the main traveled road up the river. In public office, William III served several terms in the state legislature as a delegate from Bath Co. 1824-1850. Between him and his cousin, Andrew Byrd (1792 - 1862) seems they took turns serving in the legislature. In time they got tired of this turn of public office so by political manipulation a new county, Highland, was created from parts of Bath and Pendleton Cos, so that both could serve in the legislature at the same time. Unfortunately, by the time this new Co. was formed, they were both getting along in years and they only had the honor of serving one or two more terms. Both of these old life-long friends died within a year. It is said that William liked to argue politics or history so well, at any time that he was given the nickname of "Puttery Billy". His old home on Jackson's River was used for a number of years as a post office of the locality and was called Shanklin. The Population Growth of the Jackson River Area continued from William McClintic I general notes. Source: (Iroquios Research Institute 1979) William McClintic III's first 58.5 acres of land appear to have been acquired on June 12, 1801, when he was only 17. According to the survey book, the tract lay on the north side of the Jackson River adjoining lands of William McClintic I and John Bolar (Jones Ledgers, Survey Book I:332). By 1807 he bought 140 acres immediately west of his first purchase, and in 1811 he purchased the half-interest in the home tract left by his grandfather in 1801. Eventually, he alone acquired more than 1800 acres along the Jackson River as well as another 1000 acres in the immediate vicinity. Before he reached his 30th birthday, however, he became embroiled in a major social and legal dispute with another powerful landowner in the area, John Bolar. The controversy arose because, in 1810, community gossip circulated a report that Bolar had punished one of his female slaves so severely that she died. In such a tight-knit community, news of a slave's death under peculiar circumstances spread quickly. In order to put public discussion to rest, William McClintic III led the drive for the court's permission to exhume the body. Part of the reason for his success may have been the fact that the county sheriff was his uncle, Thomas Milhollin. After examining the corpse, McClintic "swore that when the body was raided one of hers ears or a considerable part was cut off, that part of her back was white as snow or chalk and that one of her breasts had a wound or cut" (McClintic Papers: court proceedings transcript). John Bolar's protests of innocence were sufficient to convince a jury of his peers to acquit him of the murder charge, but they decided against him when he later tried to seek satisfaction against McClintic in court (McClintic Papers: court proceeding transcript; Chalkley 1966:143). Animosity arising from this controversy continued for years. Although John Bolar owned or controlled the interest in several thousand acres of land, he faced powerful opposition in any political contest with the McClintics since members of that family lived from one end of the valley to the other. Over the years, the McClintic family continued to grow and expand so that with two decades their power and numbers had increased more than those of any other family in the area. It may be appropriate to suggest that until after the Civil War, the political climate of the Jackson River Valley was dominated by a "Monocracy" (Brudebaugh 1963:132). The wealth and political prestige which William McClintic III was beginning to enjoy by the third decade of the 19th century led to his constructing a substantial new brick house on his lands. Gradually, the McClintic House and its outbuilding took the form of an independent plantation familiar to the agricultural South. Down slope and away from the stretched other buildings, barns, and supporting structures (Plate 20). A short distance south of the house another log structure was built to store a distilling apparatus. Across the road from that building flowed a limestone spring with the sweet water which came to distinguish the whiskey made at the McClintic Plantation. At the time of his death, William McClintic III owned three stills and their vessels, a dozen barrels for whiskey, and an apple press with which to process apples for distilling purposes. Even today there are remnants of the McClintic orchards in the fields lying north of the house. McClintic's operation was not uncommon in Virginia, for in 1810, Virginia was second only to Pennsylvania in whiskey production; in that year, Virginia's 3662 stills produced an average 647 gallons each (Gates 1960:13).

William McClintic was born on January 2, 1783 and died August 6, 1861. His wife Nancy Shanklin was born on November 26, 1781 and died February 19, 1859. They were married on October 20, 1805 and to them were born five sons and three daughters.

Moses born: Feb 18, 1806 died: October 1, 1890 Married: Susan Inskip Sept 20, 1831

Shanklin born: Feb 25, 1808 died: Dec 12, 1879 Married: Hanna Wilson Dec 20, 1833 Married: Martha Seahorn Dec, 1840 Married: Margaret Shields Feb 14, 1843

John P born: Feb 24, 1810 died: May 1818

Alice born: July 13, 1812 died: Sept 30, 1878 Married: A.H. McClintic Oct 2, 1834

William born: Oct 12, 1815 died: March 12, 1889 Married: Nancy H. Byrd Oct 11, 1838

James born: June 3, 1818 died: Dec 8, 1899 Married: Harrietta Mann Oct 26, 1847

Elizabeth born: March 5, 1821 died: August 7, 1891

Susan born: Sept 25, 1823 died: Feb 3, 1880 Married: Hamilton Byrd Sept 18, 1842

This bio is in progress @ 7/15/09

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Spouse:

 Nancy Shanklin McClintic (1781 - 1859)*

Children:

 John P McClintic (1810 - 1818)*

 Alice Mann McClintic McClintic (1812 - 1878)*

 William Moses McClintic (1815 - 1889)*

 James McClintic (1818 - 1891)*

 James M. McClintic (1818 - 1899)*

 Elizabeth McClintic (1821 - 1891)*

 Susan McClintic Byrd (1823 - 1880)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Warm Springs Cemetery Warm Springs Bath County Virginia, USA

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