Dear Jim & Ginger McAfee:

I was going through some old email this weekend while doing my McAfee line this weekend. I saw you posting to me last December and found this that may answer some question as to the origin of "The McAfee Company" relationships.

Some time back I saw sent a large descendant line on John McAfee whom arrived in VA from Scotland. I cut and pasted the information that seems applicable. I have highlighted in red the things that seem most relative and blue related information. I hope you find this of some interest.

Robert Temples

Lynnwood, Washington

Descendants of John McAfee, Sr.

Notes for JAMES MCAFEE, SR:

James McAFEE was born October 17, 1707, in Armagh county Ireland, at the family homestead. In 1735 he married Jane McMichael, " the flower of Erin", even though the parent stock was transplanted from Scottish soil. We have meager information that in 1739 he proposed to his family to emigrate to America. Everything they had was conveyed into gold for investment in the new country. They embarked at Belfast. The family group consisted of Mrs. John McAfee, (mother of James, then 84 years old), James McAfee, his wife Jane, and there three children, James, John & Malcom. Malcom died and was buried at sea almost within sight of the American shore. A few days later they landed at New Castle on the Delaware River. This occurred June 10, 1739. James McAfee purchased a tract of land situated on what was known then as Octorora Creek, which, rising in the S.E. part of the Susquehanna River near Port Dipisit. Here he made a home for his family, and it was here his other children were born, George, Margaret, Robert, Mary, William, and Samuel. The dates of the marriages and giving of marriage of these children and their descendants down to my father's generation follow. This list is lineal having been obtained from General Robert B. McAfee's private journal, much of which was taken from the journal of his father, Robert McAfee, the pioneer, and the first commodore of the three principal rivers of the West, and therefore it is authentic. General Robert Breckenridge McAfee says that the McAfee's undoubtedly descended from Normandy, and that they were largely mixed with Spanish blood. Tradition bases this claim probably on the grounds that they were large men and women, of commanding port and dignity with black eyes and hair: wherever they may appear, if not marked with these family characteristics it is because the predominant characteristic of some race into which they have married, dominates their own.

Notes for JANE MCMICHAEL:

Memorial erected by/ DAR/ AFT. 1983 in New Providence Presbyterian Cemetery, in Mercer Co. Kentucky. "In memory of Jane McAfee, the mother of the Pioneer men of Kentucky, who by the side of five sons was among the first to Cross the Cumberland in 1779. This stone erected by her descendants and Jane McAfee Chapter of D.A.R.

Children of JAMES MCAFEE and JANE MCMICHAEL are:

12. i. CAPT. JAMES4 MCAFEE, JR, b. 1736, County Armagh, Ireland; d. June 25, 1811, Mercer Co. Kentucky.

ii. JOHN MCAFEE, b. 1737, County Armagh, Ireland; d. 1768, near New River, Virginia.

Notes for JOHN MCAFEE:

Was killed at the fork of Reedy Creek, near New River, in Virginia.

iii. MALCOM MCAFEE, b. Bet. 1738 - 1739, County Armagh, Ireland; d. July 1739.

Notes for MALCOM MCAFEE:

Malcom died and was buried at sea almost within sight of the American shore. A few days later they landed at New Castle on the Delaware River. This occurred on June 10 1739.

More About MALCOM MCAFEE:

Died as an infant: June 1739

13. iv. GEORGE MCAFEE, SR., b. April 15, 1740, Botecourt Co. Virginia; d. April 14, 1803, Mercer Co. Kentucky.

14. v. MARY MCAFEE, b. 1742, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; d. Mercer Co., Kentucky.

15. vi. MARGARET MCAFEE, b. Abt. 1745, Pennsylvania.

16. vii. ROBERT MCAFEE, b. July 10, 1745, Lancaster Co. Pennsylvania; d. May 16, 1795, New Orleans, Louisanna.

17. viii. SAMUEL M. MCAFEE, b. October 1748, Augusta Co., Virginia; d. June 08, 1801, Mercer Co. Kentucky.

18. ix. WILLIAM MCAFEE, b. 1750, in Pennsylvania; d. August 1780, Floyd's Fork, Jefferson Co., Kentucky.

x. THOMAS MCAFEE, b. Abt. 1751.

xi. ALEXANDER MCAFEE, b. Abt. 1752.

8. MARY3 MCAFEE (JOHN2, JOHN1) was born Abt. 1716 in County Armagh, Ireland, and died in Botecourt Co., VA. She married WILLIAM CURRY Abt. 1738 in Botecourt Co., VA, son of WILLIAM CURRY and AGNES NESBIT. He was born Abt. 1714 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, and died 1791 in Botecourt Co. Virginia.

Children of MARY MCAFEE and WILLIAM CURRY are:

19. i. SUSANNAH4 CURRY, b. October 08, 1740, Botecourt Co. Virginia; d. September 03, 1810, Mercer Co., Kentucky.

20. ii. REBECCA CURRY, b. October 18, 1740, Botecourte Co., VA.

iii. WILLIAM CURRY, b. Abt. 1744; d. 1801, Mercer Co. Kentucky.

21. iv. JAMES CURRY, b. Abt. 1746; d. 1828, Mercer Co., Kentucky.

v. JOHN CURRY, b. Abt. 1750; d. 1823; m. MARGARET ADAMS, September 25, 1777, Botecourt Co. Virginia.

9. JAMES3 MCAFEE (?2, JOHN1) was born Abt. 1705, and died Abt. 1769 in Lincoln Co., North Carolina. He married (1) MARGARET GIBSON HARDIN. He married (2) MARGARET JANET HARDIN.

Children of JAMES MCAFEE and MARGARET HARDIN are:

22. i. WILLIAM4 MCAFEE, b. Abt. 1730, Tyron Co., North Carolina; d. 1805, Burke Co., North Carolina.

23. ii. JAMES MCAFEE, JR., b. Abt. 1737, North Carolina; d. March 04, 1829.

iii. JANE MCAFEE, b. Abt. 1743; m. JOSEPH HARDIN.

iv. JANET MCAFEE, b. March 03, 1744/45; d. September 12, 1811.

10. MATHEW3 MCAFEE (NH?2, JOHN1) was born in Londonberry, New Hampshire. He married (1) NANCY AIDEN. He married (2) SUSANNAH MORRISON Bef. 1758.

Child of MATHEW MCAFEE and NANCY AIDEN is:

24. i. WILLIAM4 MCAFEE.

Children of MATHEW MCAFEE and SUSANNAH MORRISON are:

ii. WILLIAM4 MCAFEE.

iii. SAMUEL MCAFEE.

iv. MARY MCAFEE.

v. JOHN MCAFEE.

vi. JAMES MCAFEE.

vii. DAVID MCAFEE.

viii. MATHEW MCAFEE.

ix. SUSAN MCAFEE.

12. CAPT. JAMES4 MCAFEE, JR (JAMES3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born 1736 in County Armagh, Ireland, and died June 25, 1811 in Mercer Co. Kentucky. He married AGNES NANCY CLARK September 30, 1762 in Agusta Co. Virginia, daughter of THOMAS CLARK. She died May 02, 1814 in Mercer Co. Kentucky.

Notes for CAPT. JAMES MCAFEE, JR:

James , the second son of James the Patriarch, was one of the pioneers of Kentucky. Went to Kentucky about 1779. He was left in the wilderness of Kentucky, to guard the lands, in the company of James Mc Coun, while his brother Robert and his companions returned to Botecourt County Virginia. James was the one who built a stone house for a fort, which still stands in Mercer County Kentucky; a monument to his memory. It is not a tumble-down wreck, such as old-time landmarks usually are, but a substantial house of masonry, occupied as a dwelling by one of Mercer Counties' staunchest citizens.

Capt. from Virginia in the Revolutionary War.

GEORGE4 MCAFEE, SR. (JAMES3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born April 15, 1740 in Botecourt Co. Virginia, and died April 14, 1803 in Mercer Co. Kentucky. He married SUSANNAH CURRY 1781 in Botecourt Co. Virginia, daughter of WILLIAM CURRY and MARY MCAFEE. She was born October 08, 1740 in Botecourt Co. Virginia, and died September 03, 1810 in Mercer Co., Kentucky.

Notes for GEORGE MCAFEE, SR.:

The fourth son of James of Ireland. He obtained a land grant from Benjamin Harrison for 1,400 acres of land, nearly every acre of which still remains in the McAfee family. That which has passed into other hands has gone with daughters who bear other names than McAfee.

Kentucky pioneer.

Served in Revolutionary War as Pvt. from Virginia.

Executors: Susannah(wife), George Jr. (son), Samuel Gray Esq.

*Other info lists his b. April 5, 1740, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania*

More About GEORGE MCAFEE, SR.:

Burial: Aft. April 14, 1803, in New Providence Presbyterian Cemetery, Mercer Co. Kentucky

29. MARY ANN5 MCAFEE (ROBERT4, JAMES3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born September 15, 1775 in Botecourt County, Virginia, and died December 19, 1860 in Mercer Co. Kentucky. She married JOESPH ADAMS November 29, 1794 in Mercer Co. Kentucky, son of SAMUEL ADAMS and ANNE ADAMS. He was born March 31, 1768 in Augusta Co., Virginia, and died October 26, 1852 in Mercer Co., Kentucky.

Children of MARY MCAFEE and JOESPH ADAMS are:

i. ANN6 ADAMS, b. December 03, 1797.

ii. ELIZABETH ADAMS, b. December 15, 1802.

iii. JANE ADAMS, b. October 08, 1804, Mercer Co. Kentucky.

iv. MARTIN ADAMS, b. 1806.

v. THOMAS ADAMS, b. 1808.

vi. JOESPH ADAMS, b. 1814.

vii. CALEB ADAMS, b. 1815.

viii. MARGARET ADAMS, b. 1817.

ix. SALLY ADAMS, b. 1820.