Revolutionary War Soldier 1778-1779
New York 2nd Regiment Continental Line under Col Phillip Van Cortlandt Capt, Charles Graham's Company
Signed the Association Test Denouncing the King, Dutchass Co., New York 1775
Founder of McClure Settlement, Broome Co. NY.
Note on William MacClure's Birth year and age at death:
It has always been thought and said that William lived to be 100 thus was given his birth year as 1725 or so. And, this new stone says William was 100 years old at death, but, that is not correct, even if it is "carved in stone". Perhaps the relatives that replaced his old stone in 1900 could not clearly read his age at death. Extensive research has proven William MacClure was born 1738 or 1739. In a letter he himself wrote, speaking of his father's death, he says that he was 6 or 7 years old at his father's death but certainly not 9 years old. The inquest into his father's death shows his father died 28 Sept 1745. Thus we arrive at William's birth year as 1738 or 1739 and was about 88 years old at death.
William McClure, (MacClure), born c1738 in Chester, NH, son of Ulster-Scot immigrants, James and Jean Andrews MacClure, who arrived in Boston from Londonderry, Ireland aboard Ship Joseph May 1720. William was 7 years old when his father died by the fall of a tree in 1745. Siblings were Frances, Thomas, Alexander, Isabel, and Mary. In 1760, William and Brother Thomas mustered in a NH Militia unit at “Old Fort #4” along the Connecticut River between NH and Vermont. The Muster lists them from Chester, NH. They crossed the Connecticut River, cutting a road across Vermont arriving at Fort Crown Point, NY. The battle in and around the Fort was fierce. William told family members he performed duties with/as a Quartermaster while serving during the French and Indian war.
William received a “Good English” education from an unknown benefactor from New York City. He was proficient in Navigation, Mathematics, Surveying, and was fluent in three languages, French, German, and Latin. Prior to the American Revolution, he was a school teacher in Norwich, Connecticut, Rhinebeck Precinct, Dutchess County, NY, and Goshen, Orange County, NY.
1775, while a teacher in Staatsburg, Dutchess County, NY William signed the Association test document renouncing his allegiance to the king and pledging allegiance to the United States. An act that was considered “High Treason” by the king and punishable by Flogging, imprisonment or death for many signers. William musters in various militia units and Levies in Dutchess and Orange Counties, NY.
1778, William enlists in the NY Continental Line, 2nd Regiment. Prior to reporting for duty he settles in or near Goshen, Orange County, NY.
1778 General Washington ordered a revamp of the supply system regarding hides and leather and requested NY Governor George Clinton provide a high ranking officer to assume the duties of Commissary of Hides for the Northern Army stationed at Valley Forge. Gov. Clinton appointed Col. Moses Hatfield as Commissary of Hides.
May 1778 William reports to the 2nd Regiment of the NY Continental Line, commanded by Col. Philip Van Cortlandt, Captain Graham’s Company for a nine month enlistment and was marched off to join up with Washington’s Army at Valley Forge. Muster sheets show him as “On Command” meaning he was assigned duties at Head Quarters and show his duties as “On Command” at … “State Store”, “Storehouse”, “Hide Department”, “Dept. of Hides”, and “Commissary of Hides”.
After the war, William returned to Orange County & maintained a close relationship with Col. Hatfield.
Family members asked why he chose not to receive a pension, his reply as noted, “To live under a free government was pension enough!”
Spring 1787, William was a very early settler, Pioneer and surveyor, just four years after the Revolutionary war, in the area around Deposit and McClure and was instrumental in establishing the correct PA/NY state line. He owned tens of thousands of acres of land. He built a Surveyors office close to the river in "Kookhouse", present day the town of Deposit. He also built a log cabin 5 miles west of Kookhouse.
1791, Goshen, Orange County, NY, William married Sarah Farnham, daughter of Capt. Eliab Farnham and Abigail Killham. He and his wife settled in that cabin on the thousands of acres he surveyed in 1787, in what is now Broome County and named it McClure Settlement. They had nine children.
New York 2nd Regiment Continental Line under Col Phillip Van Cortlandt Capt, Charles Graham's Company
Signed the Association Test Denouncing the King, Dutchass Co., New York 1775
Founder of McClure Settlement, Broome Co. NY.
Note on William MacClure's Birth year and age at death:
It has always been thought and said that William lived to be 100 thus was given his birth year as 1725 or so. And, this new stone says William was 100 years old at death, but, that is not correct, even if it is "carved in stone". Perhaps the relatives that replaced his old stone in 1900 could not clearly read his age at death. Extensive research has proven William MacClure was born 1738 or 1739. In a letter he himself wrote, speaking of his father's death, he says that he was 6 or 7 years old at his father's death but certainly not 9 years old. The inquest into his father's death shows his father died 28 Sept 1745. Thus we arrive at William's birth year as 1738 or 1739 and was about 88 years old at death.
William McClure, (MacClure), born c1738 in Chester, NH, son of Ulster-Scot immigrants, James and Jean Andrews MacClure, who arrived in Boston from Londonderry, Ireland aboard Ship Joseph May 1720. William was 7 years old when his father died by the fall of a tree in 1745. Siblings were Frances, Thomas, Alexander, Isabel, and Mary. In 1760, William and Brother Thomas mustered in a NH Militia unit at “Old Fort #4” along the Connecticut River between NH and Vermont. The Muster lists them from Chester, NH. They crossed the Connecticut River, cutting a road across Vermont arriving at Fort Crown Point, NY. The battle in and around the Fort was fierce. William told family members he performed duties with/as a Quartermaster while serving during the French and Indian war.
William received a “Good English” education from an unknown benefactor from New York City. He was proficient in Navigation, Mathematics, Surveying, and was fluent in three languages, French, German, and Latin. Prior to the American Revolution, he was a school teacher in Norwich, Connecticut, Rhinebeck Precinct, Dutchess County, NY, and Goshen, Orange County, NY.
1775, while a teacher in Staatsburg, Dutchess County, NY William signed the Association test document renouncing his allegiance to the king and pledging allegiance to the United States. An act that was considered “High Treason” by the king and punishable by Flogging, imprisonment or death for many signers. William musters in various militia units and Levies in Dutchess and Orange Counties, NY.
1778, William enlists in the NY Continental Line, 2nd Regiment. Prior to reporting for duty he settles in or near Goshen, Orange County, NY.
1778 General Washington ordered a revamp of the supply system regarding hides and leather and requested NY Governor George Clinton provide a high ranking officer to assume the duties of Commissary of Hides for the Northern Army stationed at Valley Forge. Gov. Clinton appointed Col. Moses Hatfield as Commissary of Hides.
May 1778 William reports to the 2nd Regiment of the NY Continental Line, commanded by Col. Philip Van Cortlandt, Captain Graham’s Company for a nine month enlistment and was marched off to join up with Washington’s Army at Valley Forge. Muster sheets show him as “On Command” meaning he was assigned duties at Head Quarters and show his duties as “On Command” at … “State Store”, “Storehouse”, “Hide Department”, “Dept. of Hides”, and “Commissary of Hides”.
After the war, William returned to Orange County & maintained a close relationship with Col. Hatfield.
Family members asked why he chose not to receive a pension, his reply as noted, “To live under a free government was pension enough!”
Spring 1787, William was a very early settler, Pioneer and surveyor, just four years after the Revolutionary war, in the area around Deposit and McClure and was instrumental in establishing the correct PA/NY state line. He owned tens of thousands of acres of land. He built a Surveyors office close to the river in "Kookhouse", present day the town of Deposit. He also built a log cabin 5 miles west of Kookhouse.
1791, Goshen, Orange County, NY, William married Sarah Farnham, daughter of Capt. Eliab Farnham and Abigail Killham. He and his wife settled in that cabin on the thousands of acres he surveyed in 1787, in what is now Broome County and named it McClure Settlement. They had nine children.
Revolutionary War Soldier 1778-1779
New York 2nd Regiment Continental Line under Col Phillip Van Cortlandt Capt, Charles Graham's Company
Signed the Association Test Denouncing the King, Dutchass Co., New York 1775
Founder of McClure Settlement, Broome Co. NY.
Note on William MacClure's Birth year and age at death:
It has always been thought and said that William lived to be 100 thus was given his birth year as 1725 or so. And, this new stone says William was 100 years old at death, but, that is not correct, even if it is "carved in stone". Perhaps the relatives that replaced his old stone in 1900 could not clearly read his age at death. Extensive research has proven William MacClure was born 1738 or 1739. In a letter he himself wrote, speaking of his father's death, he says that he was 6 or 7 years old at his father's death but certainly not 9 years old. The inquest into his father's death shows his father died 28 Sept 1745. Thus we arrive at William's birth year as 1738 or 1739 and was about 88 years old at death.
William McClure, (MacClure), born c1738 in Chester, NH, son of Ulster-Scot immigrants, James and Jean Andrews MacClure, who arrived in Boston from Londonderry, Ireland aboard Ship Joseph May 1720. William was 7 years old when his father died by the fall of a tree in 1745. Siblings were Frances, Thomas, Alexander, Isabel, and Mary. In 1760, William and Brother Thomas mustered in a NH Militia unit at “Old Fort #4” along the Connecticut River between NH and Vermont. The Muster lists them from Chester, NH. They crossed the Connecticut River, cutting a road across Vermont arriving at Fort Crown Point, NY. The battle in and around the Fort was fierce. William told family members he performed duties with/as a Quartermaster while serving during the French and Indian war.
William received a “Good English” education from an unknown benefactor from New York City. He was proficient in Navigation, Mathematics, Surveying, and was fluent in three languages, French, German, and Latin. Prior to the American Revolution, he was a school teacher in Norwich, Connecticut, Rhinebeck Precinct, Dutchess County, NY, and Goshen, Orange County, NY.
1775, while a teacher in Staatsburg, Dutchess County, NY William signed the Association test document renouncing his allegiance to the king and pledging allegiance to the United States. An act that was considered “High Treason” by the king and punishable by Flogging, imprisonment or death for many signers. William musters in various militia units and Levies in Dutchess and Orange Counties, NY.
1778, William enlists in the NY Continental Line, 2nd Regiment. Prior to reporting for duty he settles in or near Goshen, Orange County, NY.
1778 General Washington ordered a revamp of the supply system regarding hides and leather and requested NY Governor George Clinton provide a high ranking officer to assume the duties of Commissary of Hides for the Northern Army stationed at Valley Forge. Gov. Clinton appointed Col. Moses Hatfield as Commissary of Hides.
May 1778 William reports to the 2nd Regiment of the NY Continental Line, commanded by Col. Philip Van Cortlandt, Captain Graham’s Company for a nine month enlistment and was marched off to join up with Washington’s Army at Valley Forge. Muster sheets show him as “On Command” meaning he was assigned duties at Head Quarters and show his duties as “On Command” at … “State Store”, “Storehouse”, “Hide Department”, “Dept. of Hides”, and “Commissary of Hides”.
After the war, William returned to Orange County & maintained a close relationship with Col. Hatfield.
Family members asked why he chose not to receive a pension, his reply as noted, “To live under a free government was pension enough!”
Spring 1787, William was a very early settler, Pioneer and surveyor, just four years after the Revolutionary war, in the area around Deposit and McClure and was instrumental in establishing the correct PA/NY state line. He owned tens of thousands of acres of land. He built a Surveyors office close to the river in "Kookhouse", present day the town of Deposit. He also built a log cabin 5 miles west of Kookhouse.
1791, Goshen, Orange County, NY, William married Sarah Farnham, daughter of Capt. Eliab Farnham and Abigail Killham. He and his wife settled in that cabin on the thousands of acres he surveyed in 1787, in what is now Broome County and named it McClure Settlement. They had nine children.
New York 2nd Regiment Continental Line under Col Phillip Van Cortlandt Capt, Charles Graham's Company
Signed the Association Test Denouncing the King, Dutchass Co., New York 1775
Founder of McClure Settlement, Broome Co. NY.
Note on William MacClure's Birth year and age at death:
It has always been thought and said that William lived to be 100 thus was given his birth year as 1725 or so. And, this new stone says William was 100 years old at death, but, that is not correct, even if it is "carved in stone". Perhaps the relatives that replaced his old stone in 1900 could not clearly read his age at death. Extensive research has proven William MacClure was born 1738 or 1739. In a letter he himself wrote, speaking of his father's death, he says that he was 6 or 7 years old at his father's death but certainly not 9 years old. The inquest into his father's death shows his father died 28 Sept 1745. Thus we arrive at William's birth year as 1738 or 1739 and was about 88 years old at death.
William McClure, (MacClure), born c1738 in Chester, NH, son of Ulster-Scot immigrants, James and Jean Andrews MacClure, who arrived in Boston from Londonderry, Ireland aboard Ship Joseph May 1720. William was 7 years old when his father died by the fall of a tree in 1745. Siblings were Frances, Thomas, Alexander, Isabel, and Mary. In 1760, William and Brother Thomas mustered in a NH Militia unit at “Old Fort #4” along the Connecticut River between NH and Vermont. The Muster lists them from Chester, NH. They crossed the Connecticut River, cutting a road across Vermont arriving at Fort Crown Point, NY. The battle in and around the Fort was fierce. William told family members he performed duties with/as a Quartermaster while serving during the French and Indian war.
William received a “Good English” education from an unknown benefactor from New York City. He was proficient in Navigation, Mathematics, Surveying, and was fluent in three languages, French, German, and Latin. Prior to the American Revolution, he was a school teacher in Norwich, Connecticut, Rhinebeck Precinct, Dutchess County, NY, and Goshen, Orange County, NY.
1775, while a teacher in Staatsburg, Dutchess County, NY William signed the Association test document renouncing his allegiance to the king and pledging allegiance to the United States. An act that was considered “High Treason” by the king and punishable by Flogging, imprisonment or death for many signers. William musters in various militia units and Levies in Dutchess and Orange Counties, NY.
1778, William enlists in the NY Continental Line, 2nd Regiment. Prior to reporting for duty he settles in or near Goshen, Orange County, NY.
1778 General Washington ordered a revamp of the supply system regarding hides and leather and requested NY Governor George Clinton provide a high ranking officer to assume the duties of Commissary of Hides for the Northern Army stationed at Valley Forge. Gov. Clinton appointed Col. Moses Hatfield as Commissary of Hides.
May 1778 William reports to the 2nd Regiment of the NY Continental Line, commanded by Col. Philip Van Cortlandt, Captain Graham’s Company for a nine month enlistment and was marched off to join up with Washington’s Army at Valley Forge. Muster sheets show him as “On Command” meaning he was assigned duties at Head Quarters and show his duties as “On Command” at … “State Store”, “Storehouse”, “Hide Department”, “Dept. of Hides”, and “Commissary of Hides”.
After the war, William returned to Orange County & maintained a close relationship with Col. Hatfield.
Family members asked why he chose not to receive a pension, his reply as noted, “To live under a free government was pension enough!”
Spring 1787, William was a very early settler, Pioneer and surveyor, just four years after the Revolutionary war, in the area around Deposit and McClure and was instrumental in establishing the correct PA/NY state line. He owned tens of thousands of acres of land. He built a Surveyors office close to the river in "Kookhouse", present day the town of Deposit. He also built a log cabin 5 miles west of Kookhouse.
1791, Goshen, Orange County, NY, William married Sarah Farnham, daughter of Capt. Eliab Farnham and Abigail Killham. He and his wife settled in that cabin on the thousands of acres he surveyed in 1787, in what is now Broome County and named it McClure Settlement. They had nine children.
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