Samuel MCCOLLOCH

                   Cause of Death:  yellow fever or cholera
Served as Sheriff of Ohio County, Virginia. 1776. 2 Draper, Virginia Papers, 9 ZZ 58, Interview with Miss Narcissa Doddridge, Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia.

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John McColloch was highly influential in Ohio County history. He, by 1776, was a colonel in the Continental Army, for which he was commissioned to raise six battalions on November 9. Also, he arranged the meeting of local landowners at Hezekiah Dewitt's house on December 8, to vote for a place to hold court. Likewise, he administered the oaths of office for their various positions to David Rodgers, David Shepherd and James McMechen. Our references are vague on these points, but they do point out the authority of the man. He died in 1778 while serving as sheriff of Ohio County.
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.JOHN MCCULLOCH 2.SAMUEL MCCULLOCH 1.JOHN MCCULLOCH John McCulloch, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Ward) McCulloch, was born in 1725 in Glouscester County, New Jersey and died of cholera at Pittsburgh, PA in 1775. He married Sarah Inskeep in Gloucester County in 1749. Sarah, a daughter of James and Mary (Miller) Inskeep, was born was born in Gloucester County in 1730 and died in Albermarle County, VA about 1793. John and Sarah lived on the family farm at Marlton, NJ util 1760, when they moved to Hardy County, VA and settled on the South Branch of the Potomac River. In 1770, they moved to Ohio County, VA and settled on Short Creek near Wheelng. Sarah returned to Hardy County and was joined by John in 1771. In 1775, John visited their son George in Pittsburg, caught cholera and died. Sarah moved to Albermarle County, VA, where she died about 1793. Children of John and Sarah (Inskeep) McCulloch. 11. (1). Elizabeth b. 1750 m.Ebenezer Zane 1767 12. (2). John b. 1752 d.Apr 6 1821 m.Mary Bukey 1771 13. (3). Samuel b. 1756 d.Jul 30 1782 m.Mary Mitchell Feb 1782 14. (4). George b. 1758 m.Margaret Wilson 15. (5). Abraham b. 1760 d.May 5 1839 m.Alcey Boggs 1787 16. (6). Sarah b. 1762 m.Jcob Coleman
                  

                   Modern Short Creek is West Liberty, West Virginia

HISTORY.
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OHIO.

Containing n History of the State of Ohio. from its earliest settlement to the present tithe, embracing its topogaphy, geological, physical and climatic features; its agricultural, stock-growing, railroad interests. etc. ; a History of Logan County, giving an account of its abori-ginal inhabitants, early settlement by flee whites, pioneer incidents, its growth, its improvements, organization of the count, its judicial and political history, its business and industries, churches, schools, etc. ; Biographical Sketches; Portraits of .route of the Early Settlers aced Prominent, Men,etc.

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[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 9, Ed. 1, Tree #2400, Date of Import: 27 Jul 2000]List of patents, Ohio County after 1782 issued by the Commonwealth of Virginia, from a looseleaf notebook #929.3 V, in the Rare Book Room of the Wheeling Public Library, shows the following: McCullock, Geo., Grantee, 300 Acres, Waters of Buffalo Creek, year-1784, Book 1, Page 61.In the same Patent Book listed above is the following entry; Geo. McCullock @ wife Catherine 1779, 1791.
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On October 7, 1777 William Bonar, Oliver Gorrell, George McCulloch along with most of the male citizens of the then Ohio Co. signed an Oath of Allegience to the Commonwealth of Virginia, and did swear to renounce and refuse all allegience to George III, King of England.
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From Research by Fred Higgins Marshall: "George McCulloch. . . was first married to Catherine Van Meter sometime between 1758-1764, the later being the birth year of Jane McCulloch. Of what I understand from another researcher, . . .a deed with George McCulloch and his brother John as Grantors in Hampshire Co., Val, dated 14 Sept. 1768, reads 'devised by the late Isaac VanMeter dec'd to his daughter and sd wife of George McCulloch . . .' , the tense of this sentence would seem that Catherine Van Meter was still alive at the date of this deed. From this record we can definitely say that 1. Jane b. ca 1764; 2. Capt. Samuel b. ca 1767; 3. Capt. William b. Jan. 15, 1768 were through Catherine Van Meter. Then by my estimation Catherine Van Meter died and George remarried Catherine Hedges between Sept. 1768 and ca. 1773. The second document that proves that George McCulloch was married twice is the Will of Solomon Hedges in 1802 found in Brooke Co., W. Va. Will Book A page 15 where we find that Solomon lists his daughter as Catherine McCulloch (dec'd). From these two documents it shows that Catherine Van Meter and Catherine Hedges are not the same person. And would show that our ancestor is Catherine Van Meter and not Catherine Hedges although they were both 1st and 2nd cousins to each other through the Van Meters."

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The different settlements appear to have been made by people from neighboring localities, the ties of friendship and kindred, with apprehensions of danger, inclining them to set their stakes in close communities. A squad of Marylanders would settle here, a company of Virginians there, while in another section a detachment of Germans or Scotch; and to this day, these localities are distinctly marked by peculiarities of names, manners and modes of speech. The Short Creek country about West Liberty, early attracted settlement by its fabulous fertility, and was appropriated by horse-racing, fox-hunting, jolly Marylanders and Virginians--some of them, men of education and refinement, and early given to hospitality, good living, fun and intermarriage. Farther north, the Scotch and Irish element began to predominate, though the prevailing type continued Virginian. It is, however, said that the genuine 'Short Creeker' never did fully recognize his fellow citizen of the "White Oaks" region, but held him in a manner, outside the sporting pale. Among the original settlers of Ohio County, may be named Jas. Caldwell, George McColloch, Benj. Briggs, And. Woods, John Boggs, Joseph Tomlinson, Ebenezer Zane, Moses Chapline, John McColloch, Solomon Hedges, John Williamson, David Shepherd, Archibald Woods, Z. Sprigg, Alexander Mitchell, &c., whose names appear prominently on the record; while in 1787, several patents were located in Brooke, or Yohogania, by Dorsey Pentecost, Moses Decker, Peter Cox, Benjamin Wells, John Van Meter, Benj. Johnson Jr., who was a surveyor, and located 7000 acres in 1785, Wm. McMahon, who appropriated the hills lying back of Wellsburg, in 1786, Hezekiah Hyatt, Lawrence Van Buskirk, John Beck, and Gabriel Greathouse, besides many others whose names do not figure so prominently. These appear to have constituted the advance guard of pioneers, for after their arrival, there was a cessation of entries, until 1795, when it again commenced in redoubled numbers. Among this latter irruption we find prominently the names of Thomas Cook, Nathaniel Fleming, Jas. Darrah, Wm. McClane, Benj. Reed, and others. Under the operation of the very liberal Virginia laws regulating claims to unappropriated lands, the good land of the country was rapidly taken up, and generally in large bodies, by the parties named above, and their contemporaries--a large proportion of it on speculation, to be sold at an advance or held until forfeited for non-payment of taxes; but much of it for actual settlement. It is singular and significant of the characteristics of our institutions, to observe how small a proportion of the land now remains in the hands of the descendants of the original proprietors. A large proportion of it changed hands, during the first twenty years; and although the names sound familiar enough, it will be found on examination that but few of the present actual landholders of the Panhandle, are represented in the family names above recorded. In the mutations of circumstances, many who were then at the top of the wheel, have revolved downward; and while others, who were of minor pretensions then, now occupy situations that enable them to look down upon others again, who at the next revolution may occupy their places. So it goes. The easy character of the warrants, carelessness in locations, and the liability to be sold for taxes and purchased by speculators, caused a great deal of litigation in early times; and the land suits of that day were a perfect harvest to the attorneys, many of whom prospered and grew fat by nurturing and encouraging a litigitous spirit among the settlers.
Brooke County, West Virginia History to 1882 
                  

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