So many people have brick walls in their genealogy. I have some of those as well, but my McCartney is more like a fence with a good sized knot hole in it.  I can see the possible family on the other side, but I can’t get them connected.

John McCartney, by a few family histories is my fifth great grandfather. Oscar Burton Robbins in his Jackson Family history, states that John was the father of Isaiah McCartney and that he was the husband of Margret Clyde who was the daughter of Michael and Bridget Clyde. I also have a copy of an application for John through DAR done by a 2 nd great Aunt and submitted in 1908, which also states the above, but with little other information.

I have information that puts John and Isaiah in the same areas of Pennsylvania. I find information, putting  John McCartney in Leigh, in a list of names with Michael Clyde as  petitioners who were ordered to produce a draft for the proposed township (Allen) at the next court.

On the 1810 census I find Isaiah and part of his family in or near Derry Pa. Then again later in Ohio where they moved to. There is also an news article that Isaiah posted looking for his father in law James Hudders.

In short I can put Isaiah and his family together and I can with some certainty put John with his wife and in-laws, but to prove that Isaiah was the son of John, I have not been able to do thus far. I will keep plugging along and hopefully I am climbing the correct tree.

1.  John McCartney was born before 1750 in Scotland and died after 1780
in Columbia Co. PA. John married Margaret Clyde, daughter of Michael Clyde and Bridget.
Children from this marriage were:

+ 2 M     i. Isaiah McCartney  was born on 17 Nov 1776 in Scotland?,
died on 27 Feb 1847 in Salt Creek Township, Wayne Co., OH
at age 70, and was buried in Fredericksburg West Side
Cemetery.
3 F    ii. Jennet McCartney was born in PA.

Second Generation (Children)

2.  Isaiah McCartney  was born on 17 Nov 1776 in Scotland?, died on 27 Feb
1847 in Salt Creek Township, Wayne Co., OH at age 70, and was buried
in Fredericksburg West Cemetery.

Isaiah married Lettice Hudders, daughter of James
Hudders and Eliza Clyde, about 1800 in Columbia County,
PA By Rev. J.B. Patterson. Lettice was born on 15 May 1786 in
Pennsylvania, died on 1 Mar 1864 in Salt Creek Township, Wayne Co., OH
at age 77, and was buried in Fredericksburg West Side Cemetery.
Children from this marriage were:

4 M     i. William D. McCartney  was born on 20 Jan 1805.
5 F    ii. Eliza Clyde McCartney  was born on 2 Sep 1807.
6 M   iii. John Miller McCartney  was born on 6 Dec 1809.
7 F    iv. Margaret Hudders McCartney  was born on 8 Jan 1812.
8 M     v. James McCartney was born on 26 Feb 1814.
+ 9 M    vi. Samuel Craig McCartney was born on 29 Jun 1816 in Knox
Co OH and died in 1863 in Fredricksburgh OH at age 47.
10 F   vii. Mary A. McCartney  was born on 9 Mar 1819 in Ohio.
+ 11 M  viii. Robert McCartney  was born on 17 Aug 1821 in PA.
12 M    ix. Isaiah Peterson McCartney  was born on 6 Mar 1824.
13 F     x. Lettice McCartney [2088] was born on 30 Dec 1826 in Ohio.
14 M    xi. Enos McCartney [2089] was born on 14 Oct 1829.
15 M   xii. Cornelius McCartney [2090] was born on 4 Jul 1833 in Ohio.

Happy Hunting!

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