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From: "Bonita Voigt" <>
Subject: Re: [DAVIDSON-L] MCCONNELL & DAVIDSON of NC & TN
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 21:38:14 -0400
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> Do you have any idea of who the parents of the 2 DAVIDSON girls were? I
am
> grasping at straws, but James and William could be in my yet-to-be found
and
> proved DAVIDSON family. Do you have any data on whom the siblings of
James
> and William were?
>
> Thanks for checking. Have a great tomorrow! Shirley:


Hi, Shirley,

If you are referring to MARGARET and MARY that was listed in my posting,
they were not born DAVIDSONs. They were the daugs. of JOHN
MCCONNELL & MARY WINSLOW (WINSLEY) of IREDELL COUNTY, NC. They married
into the DAVIDSON family. In fact, they married brothers. I can tho,
provide you with data on the siblings and parents of WILLIAM and JAMES
DAVIDSON.

JOHN DAVIDSON (b. 1709 Northern Ireland), emigrated to America in the early
18th century with his two brothers, GEORGE and ROBERT. On the long voyage
over the ocean, he met a young widow named MARY MORRISON whose beauty and
charm had attracted him. She was born in Ireland of wealthy parents, but
had eloped with a devout young Protestant who succumbed to disease aboard
the ship. One MORRISON son was born of this union who was raised by the
DAVIDSON family. During the Revolution, that young man remained a Tory and
family ties were strained. JOHN and MARY landed at Philadelphia and lived
in southern PA and northern Maryland until abt. 1740 when they moved to
Rowan County, NC to a place near Centre Presby. Church.

JOHN saw action during the French and Indian War in association with
Washington. When General John Rutherford came through western NC on a
punitive expedition against the Cherokee in 1775, GENERAL JOHN DAVIDSON was
in command of the supply train.

The DAVIDSONs lived on the land that later became the site of Davidson
College, which was named for JOHN's nephew GENERAL WILLIAM LEE DAVIDSON many
years later.

The children of JOHN and MARY DAVIDSON were:
1. WILLIAM md. MARGARET MCCONNELL. (They lived in Buncombe County, NC.)
2. SAMUEL. (Twin to William and first settler west of the Blue Ridge Mtns.
Killed by the Cherokees.)
3. THOMAS. (He settled in SC.)
4. JAMES md. MARY MCCONNELL. (They settled in Transylvania County, NC)
5. BENJAMIN. (He settled in Transylvania County, NC)
6. JOHN ("One-Eyed") md. MARY BREVARD. (They lived at Old Fort, NC)
7. RACHEL md. JOHN ALEXANDER
8. MARGARET ("Peggy") md. JAMES SMITH
9. ELIZABETH md. EPHRAIM MCLEAN
10.REBECCA md. WILLIAM YOUNG

I hope this can be of some help to you. If you would like additional
information on any of these DAVIDSON children, I'll see what I can dig up.
Look forward to hearing from you again.

Take care,
Bonita Voigt



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