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From: "Ed and Jeanette" <>
Subject: Re: [MCCRACKEN] McCracken spelling variants
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 18:25:17 -0500
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Phil, I saw this James McCracken on the census. Do you have any other data
on him? Wife? Children? Thanks, Jeanette

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Subject: [MCCRACKEN] McCracken spelling variants


> My first James McCracken in America was finally found in the 1790 census
for
> Union County, South Carolina spelled McKrakken. He was in the
Revolutionary
> War by at least 1775. Even though his will started out as "I James
McCracken"
> it was signed "James McGraban" but with a mark.
>
> A number of early settlers to South Carolina in the 1760s came as "Poor
> Protestants" with their passage paid and a promise of land. Some of these
were
> probably McCrackens with names such as McCrachan, McCrahen, McCadam, and
> McGraban.
>
> Phil McCracken
>
>

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