The MAGOFFIN FAMILY of KENTUCKY fl«í/RELATED FAMILIES The MAGOFFIN FAMILY of KENTUCKY and RELATED FAMILIES Beriah Magoffin Isaac Shelby Including: Thompson • Claiborne • Shelby Fauntleroy • Bushrod • Peirsey • Napier Hart • West Information Compiled by VIRGINIA HEGSETH if jfrOtter Bay Books ' BALTIMORE, MD 2013 FAMILY HISTORY'LIBRARY 35 NORTH WEST TEMPLE ST SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84150 Copyright © 2013 by Virginia Hegseth All rights reserved. Permission to reproduce in any form must be secured from the author. Please direct all correspondence and book orders to: Virginia Hegseth 36049 S. Mesa Ridge Dr., SaddleBrooke, AZ 85739 Library of Congress Control Number 2013931865 Published for the author by Otter Bay Books, LLC 3507 Newland Road Baltimore, MD 21218-2513 www.otter-bay-books.com Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS The Booth Family 84 The Boswell Family 206 The Bushrod Family 249 The Campbell Family 81 The Claiborne Family 115 The Croshaw Family 105 The Elliot Family 214 The Fauntleroy Family 215 The Fox Family 113 The Griffin Family 243 The Hart Family 155 The Ingram Family 257 The Magoffin Family 1 V The McAfee Family 260 The Napier Family 85 The Peirsey Family 238 The Perrin Family 83 The Rice Family 186 The Royall Family 82 The Shelby Family 130 The Simpson Family 187 The Swan Family 254 The Thompson Family 75 The Warren Family 194 The West Family 100 vi NOTE By using the information compiled in this book, Virginia has become a member of National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, National Society Colonial Dames XVI1 Century, Daughters of the American Colonists, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Dames of the Court of Honor, Jamestowne Society, and other Heritage and Lineage Societies. She is also a member of Dames of The Magna Charta, The Plantagenet Society, Order of the Crown of Charlemagne and The Order of the Merovingian Dynasty. She has had a wonderful time discovering her family roots and invites others to do the same. vii Compiled by Virginia Hegseth We often wonder where the Magoffin family originated. We know they were in County Down, Ireland in the late 1700's, but before that? The Magoffin family is considered a member of the MacPhie Society of America, as is the McAfee family and many others as well. Therefore it is likely that the Magoffin and McAfee families had been acquainted in Ireland, although James McAfee, grandfather of Jane McAfee who married Beriah 1 Magoffin, immigrated to this country in 1739. The MacFie clan is one of the seven original clans that descend from Kenneth (Cinaed) MacAlpin, first king of both the Scots and Picts and are a part of Siol Alpin. Before that time Scotland had been divided, with Dal Raida, home of the Scots, to the west, and Pictland, home of the Picts, to the east. The Vikings were constantly invading both areas. At this time the Picts dominated Dal Raida and Alpin, Kenneth's father, who was a Scot but married to a Pictish princess, rebelled. The war against the Picts was fierce and eventually Alpin was killed. The Pict King Oengus died soon after. In 843 AD Alpin's son, Kenneth became King of Dal Raida Scots through his father, and, since the Picts had a tradition of matrilineal succession, the Pictland Picts through his mother. The descendants of Alpin ruled Scotland until Malcolm II. Incidentally, these Kings were also ancestors of my Great Grandmother, Lucy Thompson, who married Beriah Magoffin III. 1 ¥ MacFie Crest MacFie Tartan Alpin had younger sons, and grandsons to whom he gave grants of land, but kept these land grants widely separate so the families could not conspire to overthrow the current King. Clan MacFie, also known as MacDhubhsith, MacDuffie, MacPhie, was given the island of Colonsay in the Western Hebrides. The MacFie's lived on that island until 1623, when the Clan chief, Malcolm MacFie joined James MacDonald in a clan rebellion. This ended badly for the poor MacFie's, for they were on the losing side. Malcolm was murdered by Coll MacDonald, who took the island for himself, and the MacFie's were scattered and became a "broken clan". Wording on the Macfie Standing Stone, Colonsay CARRAGH MHIC A PHI 2 IN 1623 MALCOLM, LAST CHIEF OF OUR CLAN WAS MURDERED AT THIS STONE BY A RENEGADE MACDONALD. DAMAGED OVER THE CENTURIES IT WAS REPAIRED BY ULF MACFIE HAGMAN, SWEDEN, CHARLES MACPHEE, AUSTRALIA AND DUNCAN MACPHEE, SCOTLAND. THE PLOT OF GROUND WAS GIVEN TO THE CLAN MACFIE BY LORD STRATHCONA AND FENCED BY GIFTS FROM CLAN FOLK. ON 10TH MAY 1977 ULF HAGMAN AND DR. EARLE MACPHEE, CANADA, A CLAN HISTORIAN, DEDICATED THE MEMORIAL TO OUR CLAN. COLONSAY MEN HUGH MCDOUGALL, ANGUS CLARK, DUNCAN MCDOUGALL, PETER MACALLISTER, DION ALEXANDER ASSISTED IN THE PROJECT. After the break-up of the McFee Clan, families scattered throughout Scotland and Ireland and the spelling of the name changed as there was no universal spelling at that time. But we think that the Magoffin family descended from the MacGuffey (MacGuffie, MacGuffin) family, a sept of the Douglas family, since the two names are quite similar. And, since the MacGuffey's are also considered part of the original MacFie clan, the family origins would not change. And how did they get to Ireland? The families who lived on both sides of the English-Scottish border had been involved in what were called the Border Wars for generations and when James I of England, and IV of Scotland, took the throne of both countries he decided to end them, and scattered the border families throughout all of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Ralph Manning Magoffin in his book on the Magoffin family thought they may have originally been McLaughlin's but I have found no evidence of that connection. The McLaughlin clan is Catholic. Since both Magoffins and McAfees were extremely conservative Presbyterians I find MacFie more plausible. 3 Beriah Magoffin 1 Beriah Magoffin I was born in County Down, Ireland February 14, 1773. Beriah and his twin brother, James, arrived in this country about 1790. James remained in Mercer Co. PA. and founded the Pennsylvania Magoffin branch. Beriah made his way down the river to Fort Harrod, Ky., where he became a successful merchant. On June 11, 1797, he married Jane McAfee, daughter of Samuel McAfee and Hannah McCormick. Beriah and Jane built a home in Harrodsburg named "Clay Hill". It was a large brick home with four columns in front, built on a hill not far from the fort. They had ten children, many of whom are well- known. He died March 9, 1843. Jane died 9 March, 1858. Both he and his wife are buried in Spring Hill cemetery, under a slab tombstone close to the monument of his son Beriah 11, who was elected 23rd Governor of Kentucky at the beginning of the Civil War.1 Old I on I laiToci 1 Findagrave.com. Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg. KY. Clay Hill Children of Beriah Magoffin and Jane McAfee: 1. James Wylie Magoffin: b.1799, Harrodsburg, Ky., died 27 Sep. 1868 in El Paso, Tx. He was an early explorer in Mexico and founder of El Paso, Texas. (See story p. 20) 2. Sarah Magoffin: b. 1800; m. Francis R. Richardson 22 Sep 1825.2 It appears that she was the mother of Charles Cunningham Richardson, who married Josephine Magoffin, daughter of Sarah's brother, James Wylie. Sarah died about 1844 and Francis died a few years later. 3. Samuel Magoffin: b. 1801 Harrodsburg, Ky., died 23 Apr. 1888, Barrett's Station, Mo. He was a trader on the Santa Fe Trail. He took his wife, Susan Shelby with him. She was the first woman to travel down the Santa Fe Trail and she kept a diary, which was later published, of the trip as well as her time in Santa Fe and Mexico. (See story p. 25)4 4. Ann Jane Magoffin: b. 1803, m. William Harrison 8 Nov 18205. He died in 1826.6 She apparently married 2nd) Luther Luckett. 5. Hannah McAfee Magoffin: b. 1808; died 24 Dec 18927; married 1) On 21 Sep 1830 Charles W. 2Ky Marriages 1802-1850. 3 Missouri Marriage Records 4 Op cit - Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis,MO. 5Ky Marriages 1802-1850. 6 Mercer County, Kentucky Wills 1818-1826. 5 Cunningham , who died around 1840. She married 2) on 15 Apr 1844 William J. Moberly.9 6. Beriah Magoffin: b. 18 Apr, 1815, Harrodsburg, Ky., died 28 Feb. 1888, Harrodsburg, Ky. (See story P.7)10 7. Ebenezer Magoffin: b. bef. 1817, Harrodsburg, Ky., d. 1862. He was murdered after escaping from Alton prison during the Civil War; m. Margaret Ann Hutchinson.(See story p.35)!1 8. William Magoffin: b. 14 Aug, 1824; d. 1883, m. Anne Patterson. He was a physician and for a short time, a trader on the Santa Fe Trail with his two older brothers. He was an Acting Assistant Surgeon during the Civil War - Confederate Troops. He lived 1st in Georgia13, and later moved to Spring Green, Wisconsin14 He died in Harrodsburg, Ky. and is buried in the Magoffin family section in Spring Hill cemetery.15 9. John Magoffin: b. 1829; d.3 Nov 1893 in Kirkwood, MO. He was a physician and lived in St. Louis, MO. He never married.16 10. Joseph Magoffin: b. bef. 1825; d. young. 7 Findagrave.com-SpringHill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, KY. 8 Ky Marriages 1802-1850. 9 Findagrave.corn-Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, KY 10 Op cit " Op cit 12 US Civil War Soldiers, 1861 -1865 13 1870 US Federal Census 14 1880 US Federal Census 15 Findagrave.corn-Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, KY.