John McDowell & Rachel

John McDowell

Descendants of John McDOWELL



GENERATION NO. 1



1. JOHN3 MCDOWELL (JOHN2, UNKNOWN1) was born 1700 in County Derry, North
Ireland, and died 1779 in Newville, Cumberland County, PA. He
married RACHEL.

Notes for JOHN MCDOWELL:

SOURCE: History of The First United Presbyterian Church, Newville,
PA, 1764-1978; compiled Georgia Rife, 1980.

"The following persons were in the eldership before the year 1800, and
whether they were all ordained at the same time or not, is not known, viz:

John Brown, ... (listing includes 4 people, including) ...John McDowell,
Died in 1799, aged about 70 years."

SOURCE: McDowells of Ligonier Valley, by Nancy McDowell Murphy, Copywright
1995 W. H. Wolfe Associates Historical Publications, P. O. Box 972,
Roswell,
Georgia 30077

? John McDowell of Cumberland Co. PA, uncle to Samuel and Robert
McDowell Born in Co. Derry, N. Ireland. Came to America in 1734.

? John McDowell (immigrant), children: John, d. 1806, m. Margaret, both
interred in Carlisle, Pa.; William; James, M. Agnes, d. 5-13-1783, York
Co.
Pa.; Thomas

SOURCE: MCDOWELLS IN AMERICA, page 155. by Dorothy Kelly

JOHN MCDOWELL of Cumberland Co., Pa., was b. County Derry, North Ireland.
He
was an Uncle to Samuel McDowell of Cecil Co., Md. whose will was dated
7/8/1775, prov. 1/1/1776, in which he names his cousins John, his issue
Samuel and Rachel, cousins William, James and Thomas; Samuel McDowell and
his brother Robert of Cumberland Co. He came to America in 1734. Robert
died
in Westmoreland Co. 1784. Samuel m. Ann Saunders in Sept. 1749.



Email from Susan and Osa McDowell dated April 9, 1999

Dear, Tena McDowell

Today is your Lucky day we got a hit on John McDowell Born 1700, he was
the
son of John McDowell Sr. That was killed in the Londenderry war,in
Ireland.

He was the Brother to my Ephraim McDowell.You see after John was killed in
the Londenderry war, Joseph McDowell is the brother to Ephraim McDowell,
and
he raised him. I will add your line to my Family Tree, and I will send
you a
copy of it if you send me your Snail mail address, but their is some work
I
have to do to it before you get it. Best Regards Susan McDowell. Now read
to
good news below.

This information I recieved from Leo McDowell, and am Greatful for it.

...The early McDowells of PA/MD/DE are very difficult to link/separate.
But
I was able to get copies of some of Egles' notes and from those and other
source documents, this is how I think it breaks out. Note that I said
"...think it breaks out", I'm not positive. More research is required and
I'm still working this. The

key lies somewhere in PA, MD, and/or DE.

The John McDowell (b. 1700-10) that you mentioned as married to Rachel ?,
was born about 1700-1710 and is the cousin of William McDowell (b. 1680)
of
"Martin's Delight" in Cecil Co., MD son of Joseph McDowell (b. 1668). My
contention is that Joseph (b. 1668), William (b. 1680) of Wright's Ferry,
PA
and Ephraim (b. 1672) and the deceased John (Sr.) (b. abt 1665 who died
during the seige of Londonderry in 1689) were brothers. They also had a
brother Charles

McDowell who either died or remained in Ireland and probably Robert, as
well
as Andrew McDowell Sr. Esther McDowell McElroy was their sister. Another
John McDowell born about the same time, referred to by Egles as John Jr.
was
the son of this John (Sr.)whose brother Joseph (b. 1668) was made his
guardian according to PA records and Egles notes. In short, the line from
Abraham, I think, looks something like this:

Abraham McDowell (b. abt 1648) m. ?Ann? Calhoun, sister of Mary Calhoun
Lewis -the mother of John Lewis of Staunton, VA)

1. John (b. abt 1665 d. 1689)

i. John Jr. (b. 1701) m. Catherine ?

2. Charles (b. abt 1665 d. ? Ireland?)

3. Joseph (b. 1668 d. 1727-37)

i. Charles (b. 1697 d. 1754) m. Rachel ?

ii. John (b. abt 1700 d. 1775 or 1789) m. Rachel ?

iii. Ann (b. 1700) m. Hugh Devinie

iv. William (b. 1705 d. 1738) m. Ruth Roberts

v. James (b. abt 1707 d. 1747) m. Mary McPeters

vi. Thomas (b. abt 1708 d. Jun 1738) m. Isabel ?

vii. Isaac (b. abt 1710 d. ? Port Amboy, NJ)m. Minerva ?

viii. Elizabeth (b. abt 1710) m. ? Vance

ix. Robert (b. abt 1709 d. bef Jan 1771) m. Margaret Reefy

x. Joseph (b. 1715 d. 27 Feb 1771) m. Margaret O'Neil

4. Ephraim (b. 1672 d. 1770) m. Margaret Irvine (d. 1728 Ireland)

i. Rev. Alexander (b. bef 1706 d. 1782) m. ? no issue

ii. George (b. abt 1706-1710)

iii. Samuel (b. abt 1706-1710)

iv. Avid (b. abt 1706-1710)

v. Mary Elizabeth (b. 1707 d. 1809) m. James Greenlee

vi. James (b. 1708 d. 1760) m. ?

vii. John (b. 1714 d. 1742) m. Magdalena Woods

viii. Margaret (b. abt 1716) m. James William Mitchell

5. Andrew (b. abt 1680)

i. Andrew Jr. (b. 1710)m. 1st Elinor ?,

2nd Martha Giverans,

3rd Sarah Shanklin

ii. James

iii. John

iv. William

v. Mary

vi. Jean

vii. Sarah

viii. Margaret

ix. Son?

6. Robert (b. abt 1680 d. PA)m. Jane O'Neil

i. John (b. 1714 d. 1779) m. Hannah De Pui

ii. Jane (b. abt 1716) m. Samuel De Pui

7. William (b. 1680 d. 1759) m. Mary Irvine (11 children)

8. Esther (b. abt 1675-80)m. Hugh McIlroy (McElroy)

i. James (b. 1707) m. Sarah McCune



More About JOHN MCDOWELL:

Emigration: 1734


Children of JOHN MCDOWELL and RACHEL

i. WILLIAM4 MCDOWELL, b. Abt. 1720, Cumberland County, PA.

ii. THOMAS MCDOWELL, b. Abt. 1725.

iii. JAMES MCDOWELL, b. Abt. 1729; d. May 13, 1783, York County,
PA; m. AGNES.

2. iv. JOHN MCDOWELL, b. March 17, 1730/31, Cumberland County, PA;
d. March 05, 1807, WestPennsboro, Cumberland County, PA.

Rachel