Thomas m. McJunkin

Joseph married Ann Thomas on 09 March 1779 in Ninety-Six District SC. war record http://sc_tories.tripod.com/sketch_of_joseph_mcjunkin.htm  Major Joseph McJunkin was born on 22 June 1755 in Chester County, Pennsylvania (PA); he died 31 May 1846 in Union County, South Carolina (SC).  Ann was the daughter of Colonel John Thomas and Jane Black. She was born 15 January 1757 in Chester County PA, and died 17 March 1826 in Union County SC Joseph Jr. b.1791 m. 1817 Nancy Sartor (1801-53) dau. Amanda McJunkin m. David Jones Fant (1814-81)

John Thomas McJunkin m. Margaret Alexander  -- Troup Co., Ga 1840 sale of land recorded.

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Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia extracted from the original court records of Augusta county, Virginia 1745-1800

                  by Lyman Chalkley.  3 vols. John Thomas is listed as surveyor. Spartanburg neighbors are the Black family.  John Thomas and John Black are listed as Justices 1777-1778.

About 60 miles southeast of Spartanburg is another site associated with Jane Black Thomas' courage: The National Park Service's Ninety Six Historic Site, where Jane's husband John and two of their sons, Abram and Robert, were imprisoned in the two-story brick jail in June of 1780. http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/sparta_troops.htm  When Jane went to visit her menfolk on July 11, she overheard two Tory women talking. One woman said to the other, "Tomorrow night the Loyalists intend to surprise the Rebels at Cedar Spring."

Jane's heart must have missed several beats upon hearing of the planned attack. Cedar Spring, a few miles from the Thomas home, was where her firstborn, John, had headquartered about 60 members of the reorganized Spartan Regiment. Several of her sons-in-law and various kin were at Cedar Spring with the Flying Camp--a name often applied to the Spartan Regiment because of its frequency of action and movement. The little, black-haired Irishwoman didn't wait around for confirmation of the overheard Tory gossip. She rushed to her horse and made a hasty departure from Ninety Six jail, heading northwest to warn the Spartans of the impending attack. She rode over 60 miles of rough, forbidding terrain during the night and through the following day, arriving at Cedar Spring with the timely warning. Then, as Jane rode on to her home, a plan was drawn up to entrap the Tories. The Spartans built up their campfires at dusk to burn brightly near improvised bedrolls. Then the men withdrew and hid themselves in the surrounding forest. They hadn't long to wait. Shortly after preparations were complete, 150 British and Tory soldiers cautiously advanced to surprise the "sleeping" Spartans. The soldiers suddenly found themselves attacked from the rear by the militia they had expected to surprise. "Thrown into confusion by this unexpected reception, defeat, overwhelming defeat, was the consequence to the loyalists. . .The victory thus easily achieved they owed to the spirit and courage of a woman!"

After the Revolutionary War's conclusion, Jane Black Thomas established yet another homestead in the western frontier. In 1785 she and John Thomas moved to the vicinity of Greenville, when Colonel Thomas was appointed commissioner of land locations for the new Greenville County. Here the couple resided and prospered until their deaths just six months apart in 1811.

Until the day of her death on April 16, 1811, this spunky "feminist" adamantly refused to drink tea, saying it was "the blood of the poor men who first fell in the war" (and two of her sons and two sons-in-law were among those slain in battle). Jane Black Thomas remained a "sincere and spirited whig" –a Patriot—to the very end of her 91 years.

Colonial and Revolutionary History of Upper South Carolina by J. B. O. Landrum p. 110 and 144 stories of Jane Thomas as above.

 Dr. Landrum's HISTORY OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY, SC  There is a chapter devoted to Col. John Thomas, of Revolutionary War fame. He was born in Wales and raised in Chester County, PA.

Thomas, John, Sr. b. 1720 d. post 1811 m. Jane Black.  He served as Col of the Spartan Regiment of Militia during 1775 and 1776.  He was taken prisoner and held fourteen months.  Council of Safety, 7, VN 1775.  South Carolina Roster of Patriots. p. 925.  http://home.netcom.com/~fzsaund/thomas.html

              Some Heroes of the American Revolution by J.D. Bailey -- Col. John Thomas has a chapter, as does Col. Joseph McJunkin, his son-in-law.

• Women of the American Revolution by Elizabeth Ellet  -- Jane (Black) Thomas, wife of Col. John Thomas has a chapter in this book.
• A Coloring Book of Heroines of the American Revolution by Joel Canon (Illustrator), Alan Archambault -- Includes a picture and a page about Jane (Black) Thomas, our ancestor.
• Noble Deeds of American Women by Jesse Clement -- Jane (Black) Thomas is covered in two pages.
• Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives, volume III, 1775-1790 by N Bailey -- Col. John Thomas Sr. and Col. John Thomas Jr. covered in a nice biographical sketch with references. Thanks to the McCown website for these references

Thomas family

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Family  - Wales > Pennsylvania > South Carolina

"John Ap Thomas and his Friends, a contribution to the Early History of Merion," by James J. Levick, M.D. (pp.301-327)

Source: PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE, HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, VOL. IV, No. 3 publication of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1880
Extracted by Ilene Jones-Cornwell, Nashville, TN, Nov. 24, 1996; contact: (E-mail) icornwel@dubois.fisk.edu OR Ilene.Jones-Cornwell@nashville.com

                                                   Three South Carolina Sites Associated With Revolutionary "Feminist" Jane Black Thomas (1720-1811)

Jane Black Thomas could be called South Carolina's first feminist. Had the word existed, she never would have approved of such a radical term for herself, given her conservative, strict Presbyterian upbringing and her standing as a bedrock pillar of the Fairforest Presbyterian Church. She would have been pleased, however, to discover herself described as a "sincere and spirited whig"—a Patriot—who fought for independence of the American colonies.

When Pennsylvania-born Jane Black and her husband, Welshman John Thomas, brought their children from Pennsylvania to South Carolina around 1749, they and their accompanying Scot-Irish-Welsh neighbors found themselves up to their necks in Cherokee Indian territory. Their first homestead on Fishing Creek at Catawba River and the second, in 1762 on Fairforest Creek in the Upper or Broad River District, had to be defended constantly from marauding Cherokees and allied tribes. Just when it seemed a decade of self-defense had brought some peace and stability to the Upper Piedmont, the Revolutionary War broke out in the northeast and swept southward.

Jane's husband John had been commander of the area's loyalist militia, taking part in Braddock's defeat in 1755 and in the "snow campaign" against the Cherokees in 1762. When the British-colonial hostilities began in the early 1770s, John Thomas resigned his English commission and formed the Patriots' Spartan Regiment in 1775. He was elected colonel and commander of the militia, in which the older Thomas sons—John, Jr., Abram, and Robert—and several sons-in-law served. The Thomas matriarch, her daughters, and her daughters-in-law all were as immersed in the defense of the Upper Piedmont as their men - for more information see Ilene Jones Cornwell E-mail: ijcorn@bellsouth.net

Alexander m. McJunkin

John Thomas McJunkin, b. 29 Jan 1785, , Union Co., South Carolina  

Abt 1803 , , South Carolina probably  

	1. George McJunkin, b. 1805, , , South Carolina
	2. Matilda McJunkin, b. 1808, , , South Carolina
	3. Samuel A. McJunkin, b. 1810, , Union Co., South Carolina
>	4. Ann Jane McJunkin, b. 29 Aug 1812, , Union Co., South Carolina
	5. William Thomas McJunkin
>	6. Theophilus McJunkin, b. 21 Jan 1814, , Union Co., South Carolina
	7. Joseph Alexander McJunkin

Joseph Alexander

ALEXANDER, JOSEPH minister of York District, 10 Jul 1809
To:  Baldwin & Joseph Byers, the succeeding issue of my daughter, Martha.
Daughter:  Sarah Barnett.
Son:  Samuel Davis Alexander, lands on which he owns lives according to a survey made by William Gaston, Esq.
Daughter:  Edith Walkers ?
Daughter:  Esther, her youngest child, Joseph Alexander King.
Son:  George Baldwin Alexander
Daughters:  Judith Bankhead, Ann Garrison, Margaret McJunkin.
Executors:  Joseph McJunkins, Col. Joseph Hughes
Witnesses:  John Black, Jacob Black, John B. Black
Proven:  10 August 1809, Bk. A-219; Case 52 file #2266

Joseph Alexander b. 1735 MD	m. Esther Davis b. abt. 1747
Children:  Martha (1767) , George (1770-1780), Margaret (1783)

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**http://www.pcanet.org/history/churches/southcarolina.html J. Alexander's ministry

**Accessions to the Presbytery of New Castle, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland
1760-1788   Joseph Alexander licensed 1767

** http://www.members.aol.com/lettermen2/craig.html Joseph Alexander became the second pastor of Sugar Creek Presbyterian Church [his son, John McKnitt Alexander, was chairman of the May 1775 Convention that wrote the Mecklenburg Declaration

**The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Volume XII Fall 1984 Number 4
EARLY ELDERS OF DUNCAN CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH LAURENS COUNTY, SC

These six Elders were ordained in October 1788, by Revd. Joseph Alexander     

**York County, SC Will Abstracts 1770-1812

Alexander family

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Alexander Family Genealogy, Research and Records -- Sassytazzy's Online Genealogy Research Library

Six Alexanders who signed the Mecklenburg Declaration **Rev. Joseph Alexander, D.D. (d. 1809) http://sdss4.physics.lsa.umich.edu:8080/~mckay/amckay/presbio.htm He graduated at Princeton College in 1760; was licensed by the New Castle Presbytery in 1767; the same year was installed pastor of the Sugar Creek Presbyterian Church, in North Carolina, where he established a classical school which soon established a high reputation. In a few years he became pastor of Union Church, South Carolina, where he remained until 1773, when he was installed pastor of Bullock's Creek Church, and continued to be so until 1801. Dr. Alexander was active in the cause of education in South Carolina as he had been in North Carolina. He was endowed with fine talents, and was an uncommonly animated and popular preacher. he was an ardent patriot throughout the Revolution. He died July 30th, 1809.