William McCREIGHT

1736 - 1776  (40 years)

• Name	William McCREIGHT  [1]
  Born	1736
  	calculated from age at death
  Gender	Male
  Died	5 Dec 1776	Jackson Creek, Fairfield, SC, USA   [2, 3, 4]
  	aged 40 years; Then Craven County
  Buried	McCreight Family Plot, Winnsboro, Fairfield, SC, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I3312	Boyd
  Last Modified	19 Nov 2011

  
  

  Father	David McCREIGHT,   d. Abt 1794, , Fairfield, SC, USA
  Mother	Mary UNKNOWN
  Family ID	F2967	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Agnes SMITH
  Children	+ 1. Robert McCREIGHT,   b. 1762, , Antrim, Ireland ,   d. 1842  (Age 80 years)   2. John McCREIGHT,   b. Abt 1765,   d. 10 Dec 1846, Winnsboro, Fairfield, SC, USA  (Age ~ 81 years)   3. David McCREIGHT   4. Agnes McCREIGHT   5. Mary McCREIGHT + 6. Col. William McCREIGHT, Jr,   b. 14 Jun 1774,   d. 7 Nov 1859  (Age 85 years)
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2022
  Family ID	F2452	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Died - 5 Dec 1776 - Jackson Creek, Fairfield, SC, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived in Charleston, SC, USA on Pennsylvania Farmer, December 1772. Received 400 acres land grant from South Carolina. This would indicate that he had 6 children when he arrived in SC. [5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S387] Will of David McCreight, (South Carolina Department of Archives & History, 1980), S108093. [S244] Will of William McCreight, (South Carolina Department of Archives & History, 1980), S108093. [S413] Message on McCreight message board on genealogy.com, Mike Young. [S10] Find a Grave, photo. [S212] Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772, Jean Stephenson, (Clearfield, Washington, 1971; republished Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1999 - 2008), ISBN-13:978-0-8063-4832-2.