William McElveen

A Patriot of the American Revolution for SOUTH CAROLINA (SOLDIER). DAR Ancestor # A076682

Following [https://www.geni.com/projects/H1-C16239T-Mitochondrial-DNA/36277]

Susan Catherine "Katie" McElveen [Susan "Katie" (McElveen) Wise.] m. Bridger John Wise [Bridger John Wise]. Bridger traces his lineage to Alexander Stewart [Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland] of Ayr.

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BIOGRAPHY

Evidence shows that William Emmanuel McIlveen was born in Charleston South Carolina as his father, Adam immigrated from Ayrshire Scotland, and met his wife, Margaret McRae [1] (was she William's wife?) who was born in Georgetown South Carolina.

Family and Property
He met and married his wife, Margaret, and they bought a tract of land and settled a plantation on the Eastside of "Indiantown*" found in the rural sector of Williamsburg. He equipped his home with slaves, horses, and equipment to manage his property. (Refer to his Will in "Sources" and Indiantown in "See Also" below.)

His wife, Margaret, was still alive at his passing. She was given an aging slave named "Old Fibby" who was probably her companion throughout her life. We know William and Margaret enjoyed riding as she was bequeathed a saddle, harness, and a "horsebed" which I believe is a stall for a horse.[2] [3]
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According to his Last Will and Testament, they raised the following children:

1) William Emmanuel (Sr.) Served in the American Revolution and left for Georgia with Richard Harvey. [4][5]
2) James [6] [7] Also mentioned is a "daughter-in-law" Elinor Matthews and her son John. I suppose Matthews is her maiden name. This probably means his son died before 1807 (possibly during the war?) -
We're not replacing "Moses" whose family comes from Sumter and Emigrated to Mississippi
3) Jane [8]
4) Mary [9]
5) Mary Ann [10]
6) Margaret [11]
7) Thomas [12] in 1840, 2nd house up from Henry's family, Thomas is listed with his wife, no children are apparent. [13]
8) Henry b. 1788 [14] [15] Henry moved to Darlington, married and raised a family.
Death and Legacy
William McIlveen died in Indiantown, Williamsburg South Carolina and his Will was probated 1807. His wife, Margaret survived him for a number of years.

Research Notes
The McElveens left their properties in Ayrshire to become tenant farmers in County Tyrone until John and Janet brought their family to Williamsburg on a Land Grant.

Background Context for Williamsburg
While a majority of the people realized that the Whigs and Tories were simply, in the beginning, two great political parties in England and America, and that a colonial citizen, in all good conscience, might have espoused the cause of the "Mother Country," some regarded the Tory taint as ineradicable. In 1787, when a bill to restore the civil rights of a certain Tory was before the General Assembly, the Williamsburg delegation voted as follows: Aye, Robert Paisley, John Dickey, and Benjamin Porter; Nay, John Thompson Green.

From the close of the Revolution in 1783 until South Carolina became a member of the Federal Union in 1788, Williamsburg was concerned primarily in working out its own economic salvation. No other section in South Caro-lina suffered so severely during the Revolution as did Williamsburg. When the War began, Williamsburg had grown rich producing indigo and tobacco and raising cattle and sheep. This indigo that Williamsburg produced was exported to England; and, when the War of the Revolution began in South Carolina, the sale of indigo ceased. The one thing upon which Williamsburg had for so long depended for its economic prosperity failed all at once. Its immense stock of indigo on hand rotted. Its indigo tanks decayed and its indigo fields grew into wild wood. During the Revolution, the large herds of cattle that fed and flourished along the swamps and creeks and rivers emptying into Black River had either been exhausted in supplying Marion's men with beef or wantonly destroyed during the several British campaigns in this district.

After the Revolution, Williamsburg had to come again almost from pioneer conditions. Of course, pessimists preached that the end had come, but this district then evidenced its most striking recuperative powers, which have been evident ever since in the many calamitous conditions that have befallen the section. For several years, the men of Williamsburg paid especial attention to cattle raising, and, within a few seasons, many were abundantly rewarded. It is said that Captain John Nelson, whose home was burned, whose plantation was destroyed, and whose cattle were all lost in the Wemyss destruction of 1780, by 1790 was marking more than a thousand calves every season, while in other sections of the district, Major John James, Major John Nesmith, William Wilson, Benjamin Screven, Alexander McCrea, and John Snow owned herds as large as Captain Nelson. Ready markets for these cattle were found in Charleston and Georgetown. They were driven by cow boys across Murray's Ferry to Charleston and Brown's Ferry to Georgetown.

See Also
It might be interesting that their plantation was situated on the east side of Indiantown in the rurual area of Williamsburg, South Carolina the boundaries divided by swamp. [16]
Henry's daughter, Isabella Rebecca McIlveen Gregg m. Robert D. Gregg [17].
Robert D. Gregg's father was Robert Gregg, an Executor mentioned in William McIlveen's Will.
There are children not mentioned in this Will being "Moses" and "Adam Thomas" who were at one point in Sumter South Carolina and migrated to Mississippi. I theorize that "Adam" and "Moses" were also Adam's grandchildren whose family may have moved to Mississippi?
NOTE H. Inducements were held out, who had left their homes after the Battle of Calloden, to settle in South Carolina. "The High Hills of Santee" that lie between Lynche's Creek and the Watertree, in what is now Sumter County, were designed for them. The exiles, however, baffled by the contrary winds, were driven into the Cape Fear, and from thence part of them crossed and settled higher up, in what is now Darlington County, the rest having taken their abode in North Carolina. [18]
This is evidenced in the 1840 census for Darlington County where Henry settled with his family and Thomas and his wife just the second door up the road.

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Sources
↑ FamilySearch Wiliam McIlveen (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KP9B-367) 31 Aug 2021
↑ The Spruce Pets (https://www.thesprucepets.com/bedding-for-horse-stalls-1885940)
↑ William's Plantation is designated in Williamsburg Co., SC Will Book A (1802-1826) www.southcarolinalioneers.net (https://georgiapioneers.com/restricted/SC/scprobate/williamsburg/wm...)<31 Aug 2021
↑ "FamilySearch William Sr. (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KGM9-MN8) 31 Aug 2021"
↑ Williamsburg Co., SC Will Book A (1802-1826) www.southcarolinalioneers.net (https://georgiapioneers.com/restricted/SC/scprobate/williamsburg/wm...)<31 Aug 2021
↑ Family Search James (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K2FS-TJT) 31 Aug 2021)
↑ William's son James in Williamsburg Co., SC Will Book A (1802-1826) www.southcarolinalioneers.net (https://georgiapioneers.com/restricted/SC/scprobate/williamsburg/wm...)<31 Aug 2021
↑ See "Jane" in the Williamsburg Co., SC Will Book A (1802-1826) www.southcarolinalioneers.net (https://georgiapioneers.com/restricted/SC/scprobate/williamsburg/wm...)<31 Aug 2021
↑ See "Mary" in the Williamsburg Co., SC Will Book A (1802-1826) www.southcarolinalioneers.net (https://georgiapioneers.com/restricted/SC/scprobate/williamsburg/wm...)<31 Aug 2021
↑ See "MaryAnn" in the Williamsburg Co., SC Will Book A (1802-1826) www.southcarolinalioneers.net (https://georgiapioneers.com/restricted/SC/scprobate/williamsburg/wm...)<31 Aug 2021
↑ See Margaret in Williamsburg Co., SC Will Book A (1802-1826) www.southcarolinalioneers.net (https://georgiapioneers.com/restricted/SC/scprobate/williamsburg/wm...) 31 Aug 2021
↑ See in Thomas Williamsburg Co., SC Will Book A (1802-1826) www.southcarolinalioneers.net (https://georgiapioneers.com/restricted/SC/scprobate/williamsburg/wm...) 31 Aug 2021
↑ "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YY1-S7TJ?cc=1786457&w... : 24 August 2015), South Carolina > Darlington > Not Stated > image 66 of 107; citing NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
↑ See Henry FamilySearch Henry (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/M2B8-CNP) 31 Aug 20212
↑ Williamsburg Co., SC Will Book A (1802-1826) www.southcarolinalioneers.net (https://georgiapioneers.com/restricted/SC/scprobate/williamsburg/wm...) 31 Aug 2021
↑ Wikipedia Indiantown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiantown%2C_South_Carolina)
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82979940/robert-decatur-gregg : accessed 31 August 2021), memorial page for Robert Decatur Gregg (1824–12 Apr 1907), Find a Grave Memorial ID 82979940, citing Hopewell Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Florence, Florence County, South Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Bill Smith (contributor 47682389) .
↑ Highlanders in America (https://archive.org/details/historicalaccoun00macluoft/page/442/mod...>p. 442
↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKN-LT1 : accessed 9 September 2021), Wm Mcilveen, Prince Fredericks, Georgetown, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 500, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 11; FHL microfilm 568,151.
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KP9B-367

Biography
William was possibly born to a second wife of Adam McElveen in 1757 in Sumter South Carolina. Adam probably married twice: first in Williamsburg where they had a son William Emanuel McElveen born and raised in Williamsburg, SC. 2 other boys, John McKnight McElveen and William M. McElveen were born and raised in Sumter, South Carolina. A second marriage is assumed as 2 brothers 11 years apart were both named William McElveen.

Military
There are two William McElveens listed as serving in the American Revolution for a year in Little River District Regiment in 1775. [1] The second William was probably William E. McElveen, his nephew. William M. McElveen married Rhoda the following year and together they had the following children:

Family
1. Margaret Ann (McElveen) McDonald
2. John D. McElveen
3. Moses W. McElveen
4.Adam Thomas McElveen
5.Moses McElveen
Note: The name Moses came from two separate roots. Ongoing research will hopefully disentangle the problem. This could be a second marriage like his own exxperience? Apparently one Moses went to Georgia, the other to Mississippi.

Death
He passed away in 1837. [2]

Sources
↑ William E. McElveen and Milliam M. McElveen both served together in the same regiment [1]
↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Linda (Johnson) Leslie.
"United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHP2-858 : 20 February 2021), William Mcelveen, Sumter, South Carolina, United States; citing 59, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 172; FHL microfilm 22,506.