Dodie, I truly defer to your knowledge of this family and will impose once more to help me through this maze. Some questions l. If John is younger than James and Daniel, what birth dates do you fix for each one? 2. If this John disappeared in 1798 (making him a possible candidate for the 1803 John of Wilkes county), is there a census report of 1800 for him? 3. If he left then the Wagon Road south was one alternative but many also went west. I know you did some work on the Johns who went west; IF forced to select one these for the son of Lawrence, who would it be? As you know, I have leaned for several years that the John of Wilkes was the lost son of Lawrence ; perhaps it can not be proven but now I am willing to let others shoot at this prospect. Help me, Dodie. Jim [email protected] wrote: > Jim: > As to your question about John McCan, as you know Kellog did some early > research on that family, and he seemed to believe that John was one of the > sons of Lawrence McCan, as well as Daniel and Patrick and James. He mentions > that in a list of Washington County Pa. militia was John McCan, along with > Daniel and James. They had settled after the war near Lightburn on McCan's > Run. Daniel, he says was in Capt Timothy Downey's Co and listed in the 5th > class, The place of Daniel in the 5th class tells us that he was older than > John, who was in the 2nd class. > > James was in the 4th class, so that makes him younger than Daniel, but older > than John. Washington County at that time covered all south-western Pa and > even territory of Virginia. - land which was still in dispute with Va. > > This John McCan is the one who disappeared suddenly, last appearing in 1798. > He had signed as a wwitness to Patrick's marriage to Hannah Johnson in 1787. > > In 1796 he signed for surety for Patrick to keep an Inn in 1796. > > For other John McCan's Kellog writes: > John McCan appears in Colonel Ewings Battalion for the Flying Camp in Aug > 1776. > John McCan appears as a Pvt in the muster roll of Capt Horatio Slaggetts Co > in the 3rd Maryland Rg't. for Dec. 1779. > John McCan In a muster roll of Maryland Corps in service for the U.S > commanded by Capt Thomas Beal for Jan to Oct in 1780. > John McCan also in a list for the 4th Co, 4th Btn. Captains George Richards, > and Capt Bird. (no place listed) > > Dorothy > > ==== McCANN Mailing List ==== > Note: To RETRIEVE the most recent McCann RootsWeb Digests from Archives: > Address: [email protected] > Subject: archive > Text: get volume98/latest/n > n = number of digests you want -- up to a max of 18.