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The McCullar or McCullough family traces its ancestry to Cullo of Neil of Scotland, who fought under the Bruces for the independance of Scotland. The immediate families of McCullars emmigrated from County Antrim, Island, Northern Ireland, Magee Island, prior to the Revolutionary War, about 1772. Alexander McCullar Sr. was a Revolutionary War Soldier and many of his descendants have joined "The Daughters of the American Revolution" on his services in the Revolutionary War. (See Pension #S-4196)
Alexander McCullar, born Dec 22/24, 1758 in County Antrim, Ireland, came to America with his family and the Magee family in 1771 and landed at Savannah Georgia. About 1789, he married Esther Magee, a sister to Patrick Magee. She was a small baby when they came from Ireland. She is buried at Bethel Springs, McNairy Co., Tn. and her tombstone shows she died Aug 25, 1852 aged eighty years and six months. She is buried next to Martha (Patsy) (Magee) Rowsey, the ninth child of Patrick Magee and Rosanna (McCullar) Magee. Here we have brother and sister married to brother and sister and the two families stayed together for many years and cousins married cousins until we have a hard time figuring what kin they are to each other. The first place we find our Magee and McCullar families for certain is in Greene Co., Ga.. Will give a few records to show they were there.
Greene County Georgia Land Deeds
Deed Bk 1, pg 671 Patrick Magee and John McCullough bought land from Robert McLowell on the South Fork of Ogeechee River on Oct. 9, 1792, which they divided between them. We do not know if this is Patrick Magee's brother-in-law or father-in-law.
Deed Bk 2, pg 578 Patrick Magee to John Day, Feb 1, 1802
Deed Bk 3, pg 229 Alexander McCullough to Exekiel Veasey, Aug 23, 1796
Platt Book 1784, pg 201 Patrick Magee, 100 acres, South Fork Ogeechee River, warrant dated March 6, 1801, executed March 8, 1801
Platt Book 1784, pg 211 Alexander McCullough, 110 acres, on the waters of Ogeechee River, warrant dated Dec 7, 1801, executed Jan 2, 1802
Headright Land Grants, Greene County, Georgia BK DDDDD, pg 769 Patrick Magee, 100 acres, Ogeechee River, 1802; Book EEEEE, pg 406 Alexander McCullough, 100 acres, Ogeechee River 1803
Book AA, pg 734 William Philips of Greene County sold to Alexander McCullock of Greene County on Dec 10, 1793 for the sum of 7000 pounds of Augusta inspected tobacco, 150 acres of land in Greene County originally granted to William Phillips on 22 Jan. 1789 by Gov. George Walton. Recorded 6 March 1804.
These Deeds and Land Grants covered property in the South-Eastern part of Greene County, which is now Taliferro County, Ga. Most of this land was acquired by Ezekiel Veasy and is still owned by the Veasey family. We went to this land in August 1962 and Mr. John (Jack) Veasey who now lives on the place showed us where the old homestead and blacksmith shop was located. Mr Veasey's address is Crawfordsville, Georgia. The land is on Highway 22, in Taliferro Co., Ga. Next we find that our Magee family drew land in the 1805 Georgia Land Lottery, as follows. We have not checked on the McCullars, but they probably drew land in the lottery also.
DECLARATION IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFITS OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS PASSED JUNE 7th, 1832 Pension # S-4196
State of Tennessee
McNairy County On this the twenty third day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared in open Court before the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions now setting, Alexander McCullar, a resident of McNairy County and State of Tennessee, aged seventy five years, who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That I was born in the County of Entrim, Ireland on the twenty second day of December in the year of our Lord 1758. When I was fourteen years of age, my father, self and family emigrated from Ireland (1772) and landed after a tolerable short passage at Savannah, in the State of Georgia. From there we went to Burke County where we remained a short time, then we moved to Augusta in Georgia where I entered the service of the United States as a volunteer soldier in the year as well as I now recollect, 1779 under Captain J
Eberneasor on the Savannah River, there we were attached to General Wayne. We remained in Garrison at this place for a long time guarding that place from the British and to keep them from assending the river, here I was discharged after my turn of three months was out. I do not recollect of ever getting a discharge, if I did it is now lost or destroyed.
He has no Documentary Evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or Annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Question: Where and in what year were you born?
Answer: I was born in Entrim County Ireland in the year of our Lord 1758
Question: Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it?
Answer: I had my age recorded in a large Bible, my house got burnt and the Bible comsumed.
Question: Where were you living when called into service and where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you live now?
Answer: I was living in Augusta when I entered the service of the United States, after the Revolution I lived in Burke Co., Ga. ten years, then I moved to Greene Co., in Georgia and lived there eighteen years, then I moved to Clark County, Georgia and lived there seven years then I moved to Franklin Co., Tennessee and lived there five years then I moved to Pearl River in Mississippi and lived there nine years and then I moved to McNairy County, Tennessee where I now live.
Question: How were you called into service, were you drafted or did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if so, a substitute for whom?
Answer: I went out as a volunteer soldier each trip.
Question: State the name of some of the Regular Officers who were with the Troops when you served such Continental and Military Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer: When I went on the Florida expedition General Williamson commanded the Militia from South Carolina, we also had some regulars which was from the North but I do not recollect any of their names, indeed the Regulars and Militia was kept seperated and I had but little chance to become acquainted with any. The Balance of the question I have answered in the body of my Declaration.
Question: Did you ever recieve a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Answer: I do not recollect of ever receiving a discharge from the service.
Question: State name of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer: I am acquainted with Parson Anthony B. Lambert and Maclin Cross, both of my neighborhood, they can testify to my character for veracity and their belief and the neighborhood belief of my being a soldier of the Revolution.
Alexander McCullar
Sworn and subscribed the )
day and year aforesaid )
Wm. S. Wisdom, Clk of )
McNairy County, Tenn. )
We: Anthony B. Lambert a Clergyman residing in the County of McNairy and Maclin Cross, residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Alexander McCullar, who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration, that we believe him to be seventy five years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution. And that we concur in that opinion.
A. B. Lambert
Maclin Cross
Sworn and subscribed the )
day and year aforesaid )
Wm. s. Wisdom, Clrk. of )
McNairy County, Tenn. )
An the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he stated. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Anthony B. Lambert who has signed the preceding Certificates is a Clergyman resident in McNairy County and that Maclin Cross who has also signed the same is a resident of the same County and is a reliable person and that their statement is entitled to credit given under our hand.
Joseph Smith
Thomas Lane
L. D. Pace
I, William S. Wisdom, Clerk of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for McNairy County, Tn., do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Alexander McCullar for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office in Purdy this 23rd day of September in the year 1833 and the 58th year of the American Independance.
W.S. Wisdom Clk of McNairy Co. Court, Tennessee
The above Pension application of Alexander McCullar, gives us the approximate date that Magee and McCullar family arrived from Ireland and gives data as to where they lived. We know that the two families arrived from Ireland and gives data as to where they lived. We know that the two families stayed together until they separated in Franklin Co., Tn., when the Magee family and some of the McCullars went to the Missouri Territory. Some went with Alexander McCullar to the Pearl River in Ms..
Colonial Records of Georgia, by Allen D. Candler
Vol XI, pg 108 Feb 6, 1770
Reads a petition from the inhabitants of lands granted for Irish Settlers on or near the river Great Ogechee: praying for a road from the said Irish settlement called Queensboro to the road already laid out from Savannah to the Hon Jonathan Bryan's cowpen on the River Great Ogechee.
From this we see that hey had a road to travel from Savannah to their homes on the Ogechee River, in what was then Greene Co., Georgia.
Greene County, Georgia Platt Book 1784
page 201: Patrick Magee, 100 acres, South Fork Ogeechee River
Warrent dated March 6, 1801, executed 8 March 1801
page 211: Alexander McCullough, 100 acres on the Waters of Ogeechee River.
Warrent Dated Dec 7, 1801, excuted 2 Jan 1802
page 197 Alexander & William McCullough, 200 acres on the waters of South Fork Ogeechee River
Warrent dated April 2, 1792, excuted 28 April 1792
Deeds, Green County Georgia, Deed Book I, pg 671
Oct 9, 1792, State of Georgia
Record #229, made the ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninty two (9 Oct 1892) between Robert McLowell and his wife of the County of Greene and State aforesaid of the one part and John McCullough and Patrick Magee of teh said State and County of the other part. Witnesseth, that whereas the said Robert McLowell for and in consideration of the sum of forty pounds to him in hand paid by the aforesaid John McCullough and Patrick Magee aforesaid, the receipt whereof the said Robert McLowell doth
hereby acknowledge, he the aforesaid Robert McLowell and Susanna his wife, have given, granted bargained, sold and do by these presence give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, release and confirm unto the said John McCullough and Patrick Magee jointly and their heirs and assigns forever one certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the County of Greene, bounded and courses as follows and contains two hundred and eleven and one half acres (211 1/2), of each of them to hold their respective parts on which they now live, agreeable to a devision line run between them by William Phillips, Surveyer, beginning at a corner maple on the fork of Ogechy thence running on the old Mill survey north twenty degrees east to corner pine of black oak near Maddux's line thence on Johnson's old line now Livingston's, north seventy west to a corner black oak; thence south twenty degrees following Waller's old line and Adam's old line to the south fork of Ogeechy (South Fork of Ogeechee) to the beginning, together with
reversions, reminders, rents and services of the said premises, and also the estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand of them the said Robert McLowell and Susanna his wife of and into the land and premises hereby conveyed with their appurtenances unto them John McCullough and Patrick Magee and to no other interest and perpose whatsoever and the Robert McLowell for himself and against the said Robert McLowell and his heirs and against the claim of all and every other person and persons whatsoever to them.
In witness whereof the said Robert McLowell and Susanna his wife have hereunto set their hand and affixed their seas the day and year written above.
Signed Robert McLowell
Susanna McLowell seal
signed sealed and delivered in the presence of
William Phillips. Surveyor
Thomas Baldwin, J.P.
At the time the above deed was made the land was in Greene Co. Ga., but now it is in Taliaferro County, Ga., which was formed in 1825. This land was sold to Ezekiel Veasey and is still owned by the Veasey family. We think that the John McCullough in the above deed was Patrick Magee's father-in-law, but it could also be his brother-in-law.
References from Book Magee McCullar, by Clarence Elbert Moore
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1758 - 1848 (89 years)