HUNTER, David

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• Arrival: 1742, York, PA USA

Notes:

From Richard Watkins Trapnell application for membership in Sons of the American Revolution:

“Captain David Hunter was Captain of one of the two York Co Penn companies of the French & Indian Wars. During summer of 1776, while living at “Red House Farm” about 2 miles from Martinsburg, VA, Capt Hunter mysteriously disappeared. He was at home in June of that year, as an old Journal of a Presbyterian minister speaks of riding from Martinsburg to Winchester with Capt. Hunter + Capt Joseph Holmes, his son in-law on June 6 1776.

During the Civil War an old house in the Valley of VA was ransacked by Unionists and a paper found there sent to Capt Hunter’s great-grandson, David Hunter Strothes. It was a writ of habeas corpus directing Sheriff of Berkeley Co. to bring Capt. Hunter to the Capitol at Williamsburg. The writ was issued in the name of Geo III & by authority of Lord Dunmore, governor of VA. the 14th of May, the 14 “Year of the Reign of Geo III”. Thus nearly 100 years later, the disappearance of Captain Hunter, who was a patriot, was explained, for Lord Dunmore, the last of the English governors of Virginia, was noted for his unjust cruelty & has left behind an infamous memory.”

Arrival:
David Hunter came to York, Pennsylvania, in 1742 or 1743. He owned and laid out the town of Hunterstow, six miles north of Gettysburg, now Adams County, Pennsylvania, and sold lots.

David married MCILHENNY, Martha in 1745. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell research notes:

Rebecca… was born in York County, Pennsylvania, on November 8, 1748. She married Joseph Holmes in 1767. In her will dated September 10, 1806, and proved October 6, 1806, she left a feather bed and bedding to each of her daughters, Elizabeth McGuire and Rebecca Contrad.  To another daughter, Gertrude Holmes, she left the remainder of her beds and bedding and one “filley known by the name of Venus.” To each of her sons, Joseph Holmes and Andrew Hunter Holmes, she left a two-year old colt.  All the rest of her property was to be sold and the receipts divided equally between her daughters, Elizabeth McGuire, Rebecca Contrad and Gertrude Holmes, and her sons, Joseph and Andrew Hunter Holmes. Her executors were Archibald Magill and Thomas Faucett.  Martin Cartmell and David Holmes gave bond in the amount of $10,000. Her daughter Margaret Holmes Legrand had died, and no mention was made of her son Judge Hugh Holmes nor of her daughter Nancy Holmes Boyd. (Fred. Co. WIll Bk. 8, p. 254-244, 1806).

Rebecca married HOLMES, Col Joseph in 1767 in Frederick Co, VA. Joseph (son of HOLMES, Hugh) was born on 22 Aug 1746 in Ballykelly, Londonderry, Ireland; died in 1800 in Winchester, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: STEVEN, Ann. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nancy married BOYD, General Elisha in 1805. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Judge

Hugh married BRISCOE, Elizabeth on 20 Dec 1791. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Senator from and a Governor of Mississippi
• Interred: 1832, Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, MS

Notes:

From "A Trapnell Chronicle": 'His stone in Mt. Hebron Cemetery, WInchester, says he was a Senator from and a Govenor of Mississippi.'

Margaret married LEGRAND, Rev Nash on 7 Mar 1793. Nash died in 1814 in Winchester, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Betsy

Elizabeth married MCGUIRE, Edward on 10 Mar 1796 in Frederick Co, VA. Edward (son of MCGUIRE, Edward and WHEELER, Susannah) was born in Jul 1767 in Winchester, VA; died on 23 Nov 1827 in Woodville near Berryville, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married CONRAD, Dr. Daniel in 1796. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gertrude married MOSS, Captain William after 1806. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell notes:

The third son named Joseph Holmes was born in 1789 and died in 1810, aged 21.  Wayland refers to the “tragic death of Peyton Bull Smith who was killed Nov. 1809 near Shepherdstown on the Maryland side of the Potomac in a duel with Joseph Holmes.” (Historic Homes of Northern Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, John W. Wayland. The McCluer Col, Inc., Staunton, Virginia 1937, p. 50.)

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Died:
Andrew Hunter Holmes, born in 1792, was killed at Mackinaw in the War of 1812, aged 20.

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Birth:
A compilation by Hammond Hunter in 1910, lists 13 children of Joseph Holmes and Rebecca Hunter – three named Joseph, two of whom died in infancy.

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• Arrival: Abt 1844, Charles Town, Jefferson, West Virginia, USA

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell notes:

Her great-granddaughter, Mary Meade Ewart, said that she remembered one of the Riddles of Charles Town telling her that she and her sister as little girls like to go with their mother to call on Grandma Macky.  She had such a charming home and always had cookies to give them, – “evidently they were seen and not fed when they went other places.”   Mrs Tucker (another great-granddaughter) wrote that during the War (Civil), “Charlestown was overrun with the ‘damnyankees.’ My mother (Nannie Tidball) said that many a night they would bang on their doors and demand they get up and make pancakes. They would have to grease the whole top of the stove to make enough pancakes to satisfy them. Did you ever hear the tale that a bullet came crashing through the window and took the top off Grandma Macky’s cap?” No, and Mrs. Tucker died before she could relate it for inclusion here.

What the sources were of Rebecca Macky’s income is not known, but they could not have been great.  On February 10th, 1855, when she was fifty-seven, she first applied for a pension in consequence of her late husband’s service in the War of 1819, under the Act of Congress passed in September 1850, she deposing that her husband had not during his life time received any bounty lands nor had she.  On July 13, 1878, the Hon Andrew Hunter, aged 74, and N. S. White, 60 years of age, appeared before B. C. Washington, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia, to apply for a pension for Mrs. Rebecca Holmes Macky under a Law of Congress passed in March 1878. N. S. White, her son-in-law, swore that of his personal knowledge Mrs. Macky applied for and obtained a Land Warrant for 160 acres of land under the 1850 Law and that she sold the land for a dollar an acre.  One of the papers in this latter claim ends with the statement, “She has been known by general reputation and by her intimate friends as the widow of said John Macky and is and has ever been a lady of the highest respectability.”  The file does not show what disposition was made of this claim.  She was eighty years old and died before its probable conclusion.

On the 15th of April, 1852, “...Rebecca H. Mackey of Charlestown, Jefferson County, Virginia, for motives of benevolence and in consideration of the long fidelity of servant Thomas, commonly called Thoms Hataway, have manumitted and set free from slavery,...my negroe man Thomas Hataway and I hereby give, grant and return unto said Thomas all my right, title and claim of, in and to his person, labor and services and of, in and to all the estate and property to which he may now have or may hereafter acquire.” (Jeff. Co. Deed Bkl, 32, p272).  

Birth:
Rebecca McGuire was born at “Grove Farm,” the home of her maternal grandfather, Joseph Holmes

Arrival:
Sometime in 1844, Rebecca Macky moved to Charles Town, West Virginia, following the marriage of her daughter Frederica whose husband, Nathan Smith White, was practicing law there.

Rebecca married MACKY, John on 25 May 1815 in Winchster, Frederick, VA USA. John (son of MACKY, Dr Robert and SNICKERS, Catharine) was born on 25 May 1794 in Frederick Co., VA; died on 1 Apr 1825 in Winchester, Frederick County, VA, USA; was buried in Apr 1825 in Winchester, Frederick County, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Milicent married TIDBALL, Alexander Scott about 1820. Alexander (son of TIDBALL, Joseph and SCOTT, Jane) was born on 19 Jan 1796; died on 3 Jan 1848 in Winchester, Frederick, VA, USA; was buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester City, Winchester, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Winchester, Frederick, VA, USA

Family/Spouse: MOSS, Ann Eliza. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Education: University of Pennsylvania Medical School
• Occupation: Physician, and later Planter

Notes:

From Encyclopedia of Virginia:

Dr. William David McGuire, son of Edward (2) and Elizabeth (Holmes) McGuire, was born February 23, 1810, at Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School as M. D. in 1830, and soon afterward began the practice of medicine at Winchester, Virginia, but after a few years gave up his profession and became a planter near Winchester. Before the civil war he was a Whig, but after the war a Democrat; served as presiding justice in the justice court of his county for some years. Died February 4, 1877, at or near Winchester, Virginia.
He married (first) Lucy Catherine Ware, in 1833, who had issue several children of whom only one daughter lived to maturity, to wit: Elizabeth Holmes, born in 1834 in Clarke county, Virginia. He married (second) Nancy Boyd Moss, daughter of Captain William and Gertrude (Holmes) Moss, February 16, 1841, in Fairfax county, Virginia. She was born December 4, 1818, at Aspen Hill, Fairfax county, Virginia; her mother, Gertrude (Holmes) Moss, was a daughter of Colonel Joseph Holmes, of Winchester, Virginia, and her father, Captain William Moss, was a son of Ann Minor by Captain John Moss, of Fairfax county, Virginia, who was an officer in the revolutionary war. Said last mentioned John Moss was a son of Thomas Moss, of Fairfax county, Virginia, who was the son of Thomas Moss, of Westmoreland county, Virginia, and the latter a descendant of Edward Moss, of York county, Virginia, whose father came to Virginia in 1625, from Staffordshire, England. Dr. William David McGuire and his wife had eleven children, ow whom only the following mentioned survived to maturity, namely: Margaretta Holmes, born January 12, 1844; Nannie Wilmer, born May 30, 1854; Evelyn Parker, born November 7, 1857; William Edward, of whom more hereafter.

Birth:
Dr. William David McGuire, son of Edward (2) and Elizabeth (Holmes) McGuire, was born February 23, 1810, at Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia.

William married WARE, Lucy Catherine in 1833. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married MOSS, Nancy Boyd on 16 Feb 1841 in Fairfax Co, VA, USA. Nancy (daughter of MOSS, Captain William and HOLMES, Gertrude) was born on 4 Dec 1818 in Aspen Hill, Fairfax, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Encyclopedia of Virginia:

She was born December 4, 1818, at Aspen Hill, Fairfax county, Virginia; her mother, Gertrude (Holmes) Moss, was a daughter of Colonel Joseph Holmes, of Winchester, Virginia, and her father, Captain William Moss, was a son of Ann Minor by Captain John Moss, of Fairfax county, Virginia, who was an officer in the revolutionary war. Said last mentioned John Moss was a son of Thomas Moss, of Fairfax county, Virginia, who was the son of Thomas Moss, of Westmoreland county, Virginia, and the latter a descendant of Edward Moss, of York county, Virginia, whose father came to Virginia in 1625, from Staffordshire, England.

Nancy married MCGUIRE, Dr. William David on 16 Feb 1841 in Fairfax Co, VA, USA. William (son of MCGUIRE, Edward and HOLMES, Elizabeth) was born on 23 Feb 1810 in Winchester, Frederick, VA, USA; died on 4 Feb 1877 in Winchester, Frederick, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]