Prince George's County MD Archives Biographies.....Edward McGUIRE, 1720 - 
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Source: Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
Author: Lyon Gardiner Tyler

From John Peyton McGuire 1866- biography:

 Dating in Virginia prior to the year 1747, this branch of the McGuire family 
traces to the ancient family in Fermanagh, Ireland, McGuire's county. In the 
latter part of the thirteenth century Don Carragh McGuire overcame the 
neighboring chieftains and made himself master of the whole country, he and 
his descendants holding it independent of the English for centuries. The 
descent is traced in direct male line back from John Peyton McGuire, of 
Richmond, to Edward, the American ancestor, who settled in Frederick county, 
Virginia, prior to 1747, and from him to James, whose parents quitted 
Fermanagh county, Ireland, during the troublous times of 1641, and settled in 
county Kerry, near Tralee, in McElligott parish. James McGuire was married to 
Cecelia McNamara Reagh and had male issue; one of his sons, John Sigismund 
McGuire, went abroad in early life and entered the Austrian army, having a 
number of kinsmen in that service, through whose influence he obtained a 
commission. He rose to high rank, was military governor of Dresden in 1760, 
and was at that time colonel of a regiment of four battalions; was a count of 
the Holy Roman Empire, and a lieutenant-general of their Majesties' Imperial 
Armies. Another son of James McGuire was Constantine McGuire, who married, in 
Kerry, Julia McElligott, and they were the parents of Edward McGuire, the 
Virginia founder of the family.

Edward McGuire was born in county Kerry, Ireland, in 1720, and came to 
Virginia, prior to 1747, his first patent to land in Frederick county bearing 
that year date. He married Elizabeth Wheeler, of Prince George county, 
Maryland.


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Entire John Peyton McGuire Biography: 
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