Brunswick County, VA - Maclin Family; Wm. and Mary Qrtly, Vol. 7, No. 2

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William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 2. (Oct., 1898), 
pp. 108-109

Maclin Family

Page 108.

                            MACLIN FAMILY.
                          (BRUNSWICK COUNTY)
                          BY JUNIA McKINLEY.

   William(1) and John(1) Maclin came from Scotland to Virginia early in
the last century.  In 1736 William(1) Maclin received large grands of land
in Brunswick county; was surveyor in 1733; sheriff, 1738-'39; justice of
county court, 1732-1746; captain of foot, 1751; vestryman of St. Andrew's
parish* for many years.  His will was probated in Brunswick county March
26, 1752.  Executor, son James(2) Maclin; John Maclin and Sampson Lanier,
securities; five children mentioned in will:  James(2), William (2),
John(2), Anne(2) (wife of Lanier), Judith(2) (wife of McKnight), grandson
Thomas Lanier. 

   John(2) Maclin, vestryman of St. Andrew's; lieutenant, captain, major,
and colonel in county militia, 1743-1774; will probated November 28, 1774;
children mentioned in will: Frederick(3), Thomas(3), John(3), William(3),
Amy(3), Elizabeth(3+), Rebecca(3), Susannah(3); "executors, Frederick
and Thomas Maclin, Gent."

Page 109.

   Frederick(3) Maclin married Lucy Rollins, of Brunswick county.  He was
vestryman of Saint Andrew's, justice, county lieutenant, member of House
of Burgesses 1767-'69, member of the Virginia Convention held at Williams-
burg May, 1775; in county records called "Colonel."  Will probated in
Brunswick county December 26, 1808; children mentioned: sons - James(4),
Frederick(4), Nathaniel(4), daughters - "Patsy"(4) (wife of Joseph
Saunders), Lucy(4) (Lewis), Amy(4) (Clack), Elizabeth(4) (wife of John
Hardaway); John Hardaway and Joseph Saunders, executors.  (John Lewis
was grandson of John Taylor, President Madison's maternal great-grandfather).
Among the descendants of Frederick Maclin is Robert H. Hardaway(5), of
Newman, Ga., his great-great-grandson.  Robert Hardaway married (1869)
Isora Burch: issue; Martha King(6), Virginia, George Burch, Robert Hall,
Robert Henry, Carille, Ruth Reid.

                               NOTES.

   *Meade's list of vestrymen, St. Andrew's parish, gives names of William
and Frederick MACHEN.  The writer of this sketch has personally examined
old vestry book of the parish, and finds signatures of vestrymen William
MACLIN, Frederick MACLIN, John MACLIN.

   +Elizabeth(3), sister of Frederick Maclin; married James Maclin, of
Greensville county (died 1794), had eight children; her daughter Susan(4)
(widow of Lundie) married, 1810, Col. Jesse Read (war 1812), who had five
children; their daughter Ann Eliza Read(5) married 1) Richard Lewis Starke
(had one daughter, Dionysia(6); married 2) Ebenezer Davis McKinley, relative
of President William McKinley,  Issue:  Frances(6), Nathaniel(6), 
Salouel(6), Junia(6), Joseph Ebenezer(6).

   Authorities for Maclin sketch:  Grigsby's men of the Convention;
Virginia Almanacs, 1767-'69; Meade's Old Churches and Families of Virginia;
Henning's Statutes, Vol, VII; Brunswick County Records, Order Books, Nos.
3, 8, 11; Maclin Wills (Frederick(3), John(2), William(1)).