Great-great Aunt Loll (Laura McClure Milhouse) was into family history, especially that of the McClure family. She wrote on rolls of shelf paper: family names and dates and relationships and quotes from books. She quoted a book about the McClures and the immigration in 1729 of two brothers, David and Samuel. Her great grandfather was a David who was a physician in the Revolutionary War.
For a while I was stuck on the McClure line with our DAR David. Then in church records, I found the birth of his daughter, Betsy Gill McClure. I had also found the marriage of John McClure and Elizabeth Gill in nearby Leicester, Massachusetts, the right time and place. It was enough for me to believe that Elizabeth was David McClure's mother.
Elizabeth and John lived in Brookfield, Massachusetts and had about ten children including our DAR David who married Hannah Richardson. Elizabeth's last name may have originally been Gyll. I haven't been able to find her parents. Other researchers have suggested parents as Michael and Relief Gill, but their Elizabeth married Cheever and there is no reason to believe he died and she remarried. A William and a Thomas Gill witnessed John's fathers' will, but I haven't connected them to Elizabeth.
John died in Brookfield in 1782 and Elizabeth died there a few years later. Granddaughter Betsy Gill McClure was born in 1791.
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Have you seen David McClure's Rev. War Pension file submitted by Penuel McClure? Mentions Oranda, Sopha, Betsy Gill Mcclure and Penuel. Other children listed also.Lucy Kibbee listed as wife.Previously married to Hannah Richardson
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