Descendants of Richard Baldridge

Descendants of Richard Baldridge

Generation No. 1

1. RICHARD¹ BALDRIDGE was born in County Tyrone, Ireland.

Child of RICHARD BALDRIDGE is:

2. i. WILLIAM² BALDRIDGE, b. 1689, County Tyrone, Ireland; d. November 25, 1772, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Generation No. 2

2. WILLIAM² BALDRIDGE (RICHARD¹) was born 1689 in County Tyrone, Ireland, and died November 25, 1772 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married JANET HOLMES June 16, 1714 in in County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland, daughter of JAMES HOLMES and MARGARET JENNINGS.

Notes for WILLIAM BALDRIDGE:

William, Janet, and their children came to America in the ship, "Queen Margaret", and settle d in Little Brittain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1726. William died November 25, 1772.

More About WILLIAM BALDRIDGE:

Fact 1: in Little Britain T, Lancaster Co., PA

More About JANET HOLMES:

Fact 1: in Little Britain T, Lancaster Co., PA

Children of WILLIAM BALDRIDGE and JANET HOLMES are:

3. i. MARGARET³ BALDRIDGE, b. 1719, Coleraine, , Ulster, Ireland; d. 1766.

ii. JANETTE BALDRIDGE.

iii. ELIZABETH BALDRIDGE.

iv. MICHAEL BALDRIDGE.

v. JOHN BALDRIDGE, b. 1715, County Tyrone, Ireland; m. REBECCA CLARK.

vi. ALEXANDER BALDRIDGE, b. 1717, County Tyrone, Ireland; m. JANE RAMSEY.

Generation No. 3

3. MARGARET³ BALDRIDGE (WILLIAM², RICHARD¹) was born 1719 in Coleraine, , Ulster, Ireland, and died 1766. She married JOHN POSTON, son of JOHN POSTON and MARTHA.

Notes for MARGARET BALDRIDGE:

Land was cheaper in the Carolinas and the climate was milder than in Pennsylvania, so in 1766 , we find John and Margaret Baldridge Poston selling their land to join the southward march . They sold their 274 and 1/2 acres to James Smith for 730 pounds on 2 September 1766 (Dee d Book !#, page 187, Chester County Deeds, West Chester Pennsylvania.

Unfortunately the compiler has found no records for the fifteen years following the sale of t he land. From the deed, we know Margaret was living 2 September 1766, and from her father' s will, we know she died before 9 January, 1767, th date of the will. Since Margaret died so soon after the land was sold, she may have died in Chester County, leaving John to make the move to the south with their children. It is probable that John reached South Carolina since later census records indicate that John and Anthony, the two sons, were hardly old enough to carve out homes for themselves in the wilderness that was at that time the back country of South Carolina.

Erma Poston Landers

Atlanta, Georgia

Child of MARGARET BALDRIDGE and JOHN POSTON is:

i. MARY⁴ POSTON, b. July 11, 1750, Supposed Pennsylvania; d. 1846, in South Carolina; m. DAVID MCWHORTER, March 31, 1766, St. James Episcopal church, Lancaster County, Pa.

Notes for MARY POSTON:

Bible owned by W.B. Hendrix, 603 North Vermont Avenue, Lakeland, Florida

On the front inside cover of the bible is written in ink:

"David McWhorter"

"S.P. McWhorter"

"if I was corrected for

all my rongs it would

Shorten my days and

end my songs and end my songs."

On the bottom of front page is written: "1766, put here by A.W.McWhorter, 1927, great, grea t grandson of David McWhorter and Mary Posten McWhorter."

Bible owned by W.B. Hendrix, 603 North Vermont Avenue, Lakeland, Florida

On the front inside cover of the bible is written in ink:

"David McWhorter"

"S.P. McWhorter"

"if I was corrected for

all my rongs it would

Shorten my days and

end my songs and end my songs."

On the bottom of front page is written: "1766, put here by A.W.McWhorter, 1927, great, grea t grandson of David McWhorter and Mary PostenMcWhorter."

"Mary Poston, our great-grandmother, came over here directly from the Highlands of Scotland . She knew John McWhorter in Scotland (Aunt Lila was almost certain that she did). She was a skilled horse-woman. At the age of 90 she could step into Grandpa's hand, spring lightly into the saddle and center over the hills and mountains like a girl of 16. Aunt Lila has heard Grandpa say this many a time. Grandpa said she was tall, straight, handsome, with snow w hit hair, and as he remembered her. She, after 90, helped to keep house for her daughter-in- law Elizabeth Anderson, who became badly drawn with rheumatism. Mary Poston died at the age of 96, but not from old age. She was an unusually intelligent woman, as was Elizabeth Anderson. But let me go back to Mary Poston for a minute. One day a Tory neighbor, after a Tory victory, and after great-great grandfather had been wounded, came to the home and started i n an exulting manner to tell of the victory. Mary Poston said, "Get away from here, you vile Tory, or I'll take this clapboard to your head!" He, knowing she meant what she said, left immediately."

Children of DAVID MCWHORTER and MARY POSTON are:

4. i. JOHN4 MCWHORTER, b. October 30, 1768, Pennsylvania; d. February 19,1855, Walker County , Georgia.

ii. ROBERT MCWHORTER17, b. October 22, 1770

iii. SAMUEL MCWHORTER17, b. September 30, 1775

iv. SOLOMON MCWHORTER17, b. October 02, 1777

v. MARY MCWHORTER17, b. November 27, 1779

vi. ISAAC MCWHORTER17, b. November 30, 1785

vii. SARAH MCWHORTER17, b. September 05, 1787

viii. DAVID MCWHORTER17, b. October 12, 1773

Notes for DAVID MCWHORTER:

David McWhorter was a Blacksmith by trade. Data shows that they lived in West Fallowfield Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania and sold what was perhaps their homeplace in 1767. The y were living in North carolina by 1770. David received a land grant in the 96th District, South carolinain 1786, but records show that it was originally surveyed for him in1784. He die d in Abbeville County in 1789, leaving his widow and nine children, ranging in age from two t o twenty-one years.

David McWhorter was a Blacksmith by trade. Data shows that they lived in West Fallowfield Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania and sold what was perhaps their home place in 1767. The y were living in North Carolina by 1770. David received a land grant in the 96th District, South Carolina in 1786, but records show that it was originally surveyed for him in1784. He died in Abbeville County in 1789, leaving his widow and nine children, ranging in age from two to twenty-one years.

Birth date accepted by DAR (Accounts of United States with North Carolina, War of Revolution , Book A, p. 174.

Notes and Queries, Egle, 1897, p. 12 (Misspelled McWhister)

Letters of Administration of David's estate by his widow, Mary McWhirter, Oct. 4, 1789, Probate Court, Abbeville Co., S.C. .

Bible Record

Statement of Mrs. Temperance (A.M.) Kirkes, a granddaughter who was 14 years old in 1846; also statement of Miss Eliza Waugh McWhorter, a g.gd. to Helen Mary McWhorter McIntyre in 1922 that Mary Poston was 96 years of age at her death. See letter.

Some Descendants of David McWhorter (McWhirter) (ca. 1741-1846) and his wife Mary Poston (Post en) McWhorter (1750-1846), Compiled by Shelley McWhorter Wright (Mrs. Clifton P.) of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Edited and printed by Mr. and Mrs. E. R. McWhorter, Longview, Texas, 1978.

Mrs. Gwen McWhorter

Birmingham Alabama

March 26, 1927

As to David (Mary Poston's husband), the definite tradition with us is that he was wounded in a hand to hand encounter with a party of Tories in upper South Carolina, and that he died subsequently from the effect of the wound. The wound was in his head, and he was left for dead, some friendly Indians found him, repaired the fractured skull with a piece of silver and nursed him until he was able to get back to camp. Thomas James McWhorter, son of Samuel of Summerville, Georgia, says he has always understood that the Revolutionary ancestor served in upper South Carolina under General Merriam.

Child of MARY POSTON and DAVID MCWHORTER is:

2. i. JOHN4 MCWHORTER, b. October 30, 1768, Pennsylvania; d. February 19, 1855, Fairview Cemetery Walker County, Georgia.