on 8/23/02 3:04 AM, MCELROY-D-request@rootsweb.com at MCELROY-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > MCELROY-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 157 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [MCELROY-L] John Mackelroy ["Betty Stokes" <jstokes@houston.rr] > > Administrivia: > Welcome to the McElroy List in Digest form. the primary purpose of this list > is genealogy. Please try to keep the primary purpose of your messages keyed > to the subject of genealogy and McElroys or their families. Please: > 1. No Spam > 2. No Sales - without clearing it with the listowner first. > 3. Be polite and we can maintain a nice list. > 4. No Virus or Hoax messages - without clearing it first. > Thanks to all our listmembers, we have a wonderful list and have made some > great contacts with new "cuzzins". Let's keep it that way. > > To unsubscribe from MCELROY-D, send a message to > > MCELROY-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject > line too. > > Maryann Dixon Moseby > mdmgen@aol.com > ______________________________ > From: "Betty Stokes" <jstokes@houston.rr.com> > Date: Thursday, August 22, 2002 2:54 PM > To: MCELROY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [MCELROY-L] John Mackelroy > > I am going through some Johnston Co., NC books and entering deed abstracts, > etc. The events form a "time line" for individuals I am interested enough in > to go to this trouble. > > Right now, I am looking at an entry dated 10 Jul 1763 for John Mackelroy > (proved William Bryan(t) to Nathaniel Kimbrough to apprentice his son John > Bryan). Name is also spelled McIlroy as a witness and Mackelroy as the person > "proving" this apprenticeship. > > My/our ancestor, John Mackelroy I (wife Frances) was still living at this > time. I have his death date as after 23 Nov 1765. His sons John and Archibald > may have died in the French and Indian War (I have no proof but there was a > group of soldiers of Johnston Co. who went to Virginia in this War). At any > rate, I have that both John and Archibald died about 1760. > > Does anyone have anything different? I want to be clear as to which John this > information should be added it. > > Betty > Betty, would you have any other information on this "proving" incident that you mention in your message? I have not had a chance to check some information, but this is interesting because I am guessing that these Bryan gentlemen are of my maternal lines, while John Mackelroy would be of my paternal lines. Also, can you (or anyone else) tell me what this means...that he "proved" the apprenticeship?? Thanks, Mark McLeroy ps can you give me the name of this source that you are examining?

______________________________ > > From: "Betty Stokes" <jstokes@houston.rr.com> > > Date: Thursday, August 22, 2002 2:54 PM > > To: MCELROY-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [MCELROY-L] John Mackelroy > > > > I am going through some Johnston Co., NC books and entering deed abstracts, > > etc. The events form a "time line" for individuals I am interested enough in > > to go to this trouble. > > > > Right now, I am looking at an entry dated 10 Jul 1763 for John Mackelroy > > (proved William Bryan(t) to Nathaniel Kimbrough to apprentice his son John > > Bryan). Name is also spelled McIlroy as a witness and Mackelroy as the person > > "proving" this apprenticeship. > > > > My/our ancestor, John Mackelroy I (wife Frances) was still living at this > > time. I have his death date as after 23 Nov 1765. His sons John and Archibald > > may have died in the French and Indian War (I have no proof but there was a > > group of soldiers of Johnston Co. who went to Virginia in this War). At any > > rate, I have that both John and Archibald died about 1760. > > > > Does anyone have anything different? I want to be clear as to which John this > > information should be added it. > > > > Betty > > > Betty, would you have any other information on this "proving" incident that > you mention in your message? > I have not had a chance to check some information, but this is interesting > because I am guessing that these Bryan gentlemen are of my maternal lines, > while John Mackelroy would be of my paternal lines. > > Also, can you (or anyone else) tell me what this means...that he "proved" > the apprenticeship?? > > Thanks, > Mark McLeroy > ps can you give me the name of this source that you are examining? > > > ==== MCELROY Mailing List ==== > I shook my family tree, a bunch of nuts fell out. > >