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WIFE

Sarah

CHILDREN

1. Mary Ann McAllister

2. Sarah McAllister

3. Edward McAllister b. Bef. 1773

4. Samuel McAllister b. Abt. 1780

5. David McAllister b. Abt. 1783

Mary Ann McAllister married Andrew Herron in Madison Co., KY in 1797. A Sarah McAllister married John Crawford in 1784 in Garrard Co., KY.  The county lines were being redrawn during this period and it is possible Sarah and Mary Ann lived at the same place.  Assuming all of these McAllisters are related, this is a summary of their family.

At the January 1790 County Court of Lincoln County, Sarah McAllister appeared together with bondsmen David Logan and Moses Collier and petitioned that letters of administration be granted her for the estate of George McAllister, deceased. - The recorded inventory indicated a small estate. It appears certain that he owned no land in either Lincoln, Madison or Garrard Counties.

George McAllister first appeared as the only McAllister on the 1788 tax list of Lincoln County, Kentucky, paying one poll for one white male over the age of 21 and tax for 4 horses.

On March 21, 1792 George McAllister's administrators were ordered to pay Alexander Walker 75 pounds of tobacco for one days attendance and traveling 15 miles as a witness for him at the suit of William Scofield. The item that assured beyond doubt that the George and Sarah McAllister of Lincoln County, Kentucky, was the very same as the George and Sarah McAllister of Augusta/Rockbridge Counties in Virginia is that George McAllister and wife, Sarah, sold 73 acres of land to William Scofield while they both lived in Rockbridge County. George and Sarah McAllister also sold to David Campbell, all of them of Rockbridge County, VA, the same 50 acres of land that George McAllister purchased from Benjamin McAllister.


Early Virginia land patents. Book 12, pages 433-434
17 August 1787
Beverley Randolph, Governor of Virginia, to George McCallister, assignee of Benjamin McCalister, Assignee of Thomas Bates who were assigness of Joseph Bates. Consideration: 5 shillings sterling.
50 acres bearing date 7 September 1764 in Augusta County, Virginia in the fork of the James River.


A male had to be over 21 to purchase land. So George McAllister was born prior to 1766 and probably earlier than that. There was a George McAllister who served in the 10th Virginia Regiment of Virginia in the revolutionary war.

George and Sarah McAllister sold the 50 acres grant he had purchased from Benjamin McAllister to David Cambell on 3 March 1788. They must have begun their trip to Kentucky soon after appearing for the first time on the Lincoln county, Kentucky, 1788 tax list. On 22 December 1784, George McCallister purchased 73 acres of land from Martha Galabreath on the south side of Buffaloe Creek. George McAllister and wife, Sarah, sold this land to William Scoffield, for 70 pounds.

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