The McGinty Family
The surname McGinty is Scottish and derives from an ancient Celtic family.  According to Surnames in Ireland by Sir Robert E. Matheson, McGinty is a derivative of the name McGinity.  Other variations of this name were Maginnetty, M’Entee, M’Ginety, M’Ginnety and McGinnitty.  The name originates from Mag Fhinneachta, which means “Son of Fair Snow” in Celtic. Two separate authorities, Patrick Woulfe and Edward MacLysaght, who are publishers of Scotch/Irish research, have confirmed this meaning of our name. M'Ginty is also an old Irish name, stamped with the seal of the real bluebloods. Its ancient form was Inty, which means "well-born." So the family were of the purple, the well-born McGinty, or M'Intys, for the founder of the line, or clan, was Irial, son of Conal Cearnach, the Warrior.

Conal Cearnach is one of the greatest of ancient Eire's heroes and there are many tales of his prowess and keen leadership. He was one of the great realities of Ireland, whose name, and deeds, have been passed won; not merely for generations, but for many centuries.

Possessions of the M'Ginty family were in what is now County Donegal, Ireland in olden times best known as Tirconaill, or Tir-connell, the land of Conaill. This territory was not named after Conal Cearnach, or Kearnach, but after Conall Gulban, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, King of Ireland.

Conall Vernaugh, son of Amergin, was fourth in degree of Rory O'More, who gave his name to the tribe of Ulster in the year of 87 B.C.

Numbers of the M'Ginty family are known as McEntee, and M'Entee; some as M'Inty, which is like the ancient name. In some sections of Donegal, and in several sections of Eastern Ulster, descendants of this clan changed their name to Tinney.

"By Tinney" is a form of M'Attiny, which comes from MacAnt- Sionn - aigh, of Sionagh, and this name has been anglicized into "Fox"; sionagh means a fox.

The Scotch-Irish McGinty Family

We find in Black's "Surnames of Scotland" that the root word "innes" is of territorial origin in Scotland. Up the Northeastern shore of Scotland is the large Firth or Moray, or inlet. In the reign of King Malcolm IV a Fleming named Bero Wold got a charter for the Islands of Ineeas, or Easter ur que hart. in the province of Elgin. The Gaelic names means "Island"; as a stream in the province formed two branches around the island. This grant of land was chartered in Latin in 1225, or 1226, to Walter de Ineys, and the barony of the same name was in Morey parish, part of the mainland and part on the island.

We find a Wm' de Inays swearing fealty at Aberdeen in 1296, and giving his seal as a star with six points. In 1685 we find a branch of the family in Caithness Innice. The names "McGinnes" in Galloway is a variant of MaCinnes, son of Innes. It is a side form of Patrick McCinnis in Baedian Mylne in 1669. Around Glasgow it is probably a modern Irish name and spelled as "MacGinty."

This is the first time the name is spelled as we spell it today; and this was found in Scotland, though the family had gone to Ireland in the beginning of 1600 when the English and Scottish settlers were given great plantations in Ulster by the King of England, who was trying to settle the Northern part of Ireland. In Ulster the name was spelled in various ways, even down to the exodus to America, which began before 1700. In the Valley of Virginia it is very hard to trace the line, because these "sons of Ennis" were all sons, or "macs," and not being able to read nor write, the last part of the named was spelled as it sounded to the clerk who wrote down the land record.

The Presbyterian Historical Society of Northern Ireland has given us the first record of the name in Londonderry, in 1663 in the Camus Parish in Colerain Barony. James McGinnaghtie bought "one hearth" (or home) from the Hearth Money Roll Company. We also learn that the McGinty family grew from a tribe of clan in County Donegal which was a part of Northern Ireland in the early settlement. At first they had no given names, they just called themselves "mac" with the clan name of Innes, spelled in various ways, then they began to take the Scottish names of John, James, Robert, and Alexander from the Bible. They were all of the Presbyterian faith, which they brought with them from Scotland.

For over 50 years the McGinty family has thought that a John McCinney/McKinney of Augusta County, VA. was the first McGinty of our line to immigrate to the colonies. That John McKinney/McCinney was traced in Augusta County, VA. through tax records, deeds and finally his will, which was written in 1762. It has come to light, in the past year (2000), that this line is in fact the McKinney Family and is not related to our McGinty family at all. This John McCinney's (McKinney), who died in 1762, and left his will that named sons John, Robert, and Alexander, is definitely not our McGinty ancestor.. (Will of John McKinney) I have included the McKinney will for those who are researching that line in Virginia. The sons of this John McKinney migrated on to West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. The son John, who we thought to be our direct ancestor, is later found in Lincoln County, Virginia, later to become Lincoln County, Kentucky. Previous researchers of the McGinty family just failed to pursue the McKinney line in Virginia after finding John McKinney's will dated in 1762. This was an easy mistake to make since John McKinney's son John ventured on into Lincoln County, VA. after 1762 and our McGinty's turned up in Mecklenburg County, NC after 1762. That John leaving Augusta County, VA mislead McGinty family researchers into thinking he was our ancestor. At the time McGinty family researchers were doing their research, the abundance of records was not as available as they are today and many assumptions regarding the family turned out to be inaccurate.

The greatest relative importance of Irish migration to the colonies (America) was from 1717 to 1775. Pennsylvania was their favorite Colony, but the coastline was already populated by the Society of Friends. The area west of Philadelphia in Lancaster County is where they began to settle. During the 1720's and 1740's they spread to what is now the Cumberland Valley. There were ill feelings between the German camps and the Irish camps in Pennsylvania around 1740 and many a riot took place during election times. As a result the Penn's instructed their agents in 1743 "to sell no land to the Scotch-Irish throughout the regions, but to make them generous offers of removal to the Cumberland Valley, farther to the Westward."

The early offers of removal to the Cumberland Valley were so liberal, that many of the Scotch-Irish accepted them. The Scotch-Irish were inclined to be clannish and were glad to relocate to a district that they could call their own. Other Scotch-Irish families of the Lancaster area, were more deeply entrenched and were not easily persuaded to give up their rights to the land on which they already lived. 

Such was the first phase of the Scotch-Irish settlement in Pennsylvania, extending from Delaware to the Susquehanna and from the Susquehanna to the Alleghenies.

The first record, we have so far located, on our John McGinty I is found in Lancaster County, PA., in a 16, December 1755 land warrant for 50 acres. In Cumberland County, PA. in 1757, he is mentioned in a deed of sale (Public Auction) with his brother Alexander McGinty, who was an Indian Trader, and made many trips to the Carolina's, which is where our John McGinty I settled, along with his brother Alexander in the 1760's. Previous family researchers have indicated that Alexander McGinty was said to be the son of John McGinty, but I have found that he was more likely his younger brother. No documentation has been found which proves or disproves that Alexander McGinty was the son of John McGinty. More research will be required on John and Alexander to get an idea of how long they were in Pennsylvania before they migrated to North Carolina in the 1760's. Tax records of 1758 and 1759 indicate that John McGinty was listed in Donegal Township, which at that time was Lancaster County, PA. Donegal Township late became Mount Joy Township.

Alexander McGinty was known as an Indian Trader and in 1753 was captured by French Preying Indians when he and other traders were returning from the Carolinas.

Account of Alexander McGinty's capture:

"That on the twenty-sixth of January last your petitioner, in company with six other Indian Traders, being on their return from a trading journey among the Cuttawas (Cherokees), an Indian nation within the territories of Carolina, was met and taken prisoner by a party of French Indians, who took from your petitioner in goods, skins, and horses to the value of two hundred and twenty pounds, being all that your petitioner had in the world, and was even stripped of all his clothes; and being now reduced to extreme poverty and want... Deposition of Alexander McGinty

Many of the early German and Scotch-Irish settlers used what became known as the Great Wagon Road to move from Pennsylvania southward through the Shenandoah Valley through Virginia and the Carolinas to Georgia, a distance of about 800 miles. Beginning first as a buffalo trail, a great Indian Road (the Great Warrior Path) ran north and south through the Shenandoah Valley, extending from New York to the Carolinas. The mountain ranges to the West of the Valley are the Alleghenies, and the ones to the east constitute the Blue Ridge chain. The Second Treaty of Albany (1722) guaranteed use of the valley trail to the Indians. At Salisbury, North Carolina, the Great Warrior Path was joined by the Indian's "Great Trading Path." By the early 1740s, a road beginning in Philadelphia (sometimes referred to as the Lancaster Pike) connected the Pennsylvania communities of Lancaster, York, and Gettysburg. The road then continued on to Chambersburg and Greencastle and southward to Winchester. In 1744, the Indians agreed to relinquish the Valley route. Both German and Scotch-Irish immigrants had already been following the route into Virginia and on to South Carolina, and Georgia. After 1750 the Piedmont areas of North Carolina and Georgia attracted new settlers. From Winchester to Roanoke the Great Wagon Road and the Great Valley Road were the same road, but at Roanoke, the Wagon Road went through the Staunton Gap and on south to North Carolina and beyond, whereas the Valley Pike continued southwest to the Long Island of the Holston, now Kingsport. The Boone Trail from the Shallow Ford of the Yadkin joined the road at the Long Island of the Holston.

John's brother Alexander, who was probably born in Ireland about 1725/1726, first purchased land in Mecklenburg Co., NC in 1763 on Clems Branch. He later sold the land in 1799 to Elijah Miller. By 1810 you will find Elijah Miller along with Alexander's grandson, James Crawford living in the same area, but now it is part of York Co., South Carolina.

Alexander later purchased land from George Augustus Selwyn on Reedy Creek and McAppins Creek in January of 1767. He later mortgaged the property to Henry Eutace McCulloh for 75 pounds. Alexander paid off his debt to McCulloh in 1796. There are many land records and Court Minutes that mention Alexander in Mecklenburg County until his death in 1802. Alexander left a will which mentions his wife, Mary Ann, and many of their grandchildren. Mary Ann also left a will mentioning grandchildren. Neither Alexander or his wife Mary Ann mention any of their children in their wills. Family tradition states that Alexander McGinty married Mary Ann Orr, but I have found no documentation to prove this statement.

The known children of Alexander McGinty and his wife Mary Ann (?) are:

1.  Rachel McGinty born ca. 1745 married Joseph Crawford

   Children of Joseph and Rachel McGinty Crawford are:

     a. Alexander Crawford 

     b. James Crawford born ca. 1763

     c. Rachel Crawford

     d. Martha Crawford born ca. 1772, married Samuel Miller, September
       10, 1792.

2.   A daughter who married James Finney

     Children of James Finney and (?) McGinty are:

     a. James Finney

3.    Elizabeth McGinty born ca. 1764, married David Johnston

     Children of David and Elizabeth McGinty Johnston are:

     a. Mary Ann Johnston

     b.  Nancy Johnston born ca. 1784, married Ira Alexander February 12, 1812

     c. Samuel C. Johnston, married Cynthia Parks. Samuel died ca. 1825

     d. Joseph Johnston

     e. George W. Johnston

     f. John Johnston

     g. Robert Johnston

     h. William Johnston

     i. David H. Johnston

     k. Martha Johnston who married Hugh M. Barnett

4.  Alexander McGinty, born ca. 1765, married Hannah McDowell ca, 1787. Alexander died ca. 1798. His occupation was a lawyer.  Went to law school with Andrew Jackson. Lived for a time in Burke Co., NC, where Hannah McDowell was from. In 1791 Alexander and Hannah sold 551 acres on Canoe Creek in Burke County, NC. to Hannah brother-in-law, James Murphy.

   Alexander and Hannah McDowell McGinty had the following children:

   a. Abner Alexander McGinty born ca. 1794, married Selena McEwen, August 5, 1816

   b. Mary Ann McGinty, born ca. 1795, married William Kennedy Aug. 27, 1816

   c. Henry McDowell McGinty, born ca. 1797.

   d. Sophia McGinty, born June 23, 1791, married ca. 1809 to Matthew Bain.
     Sophia died June 3, 1857 and is buried in Old City Cemetery in Kosciusko,
     Mississippi

 

JOHN MCGINTY I

As early as 1730, there was a heavy immigration from Pennsylvania into Virginia and North Carolina of Scotch-Irish, Welsh, and Germans, most of whom settled in the upper valleys. John was thought to have possibly resided in Virginia for a few years prior to relocating to Mecklenburg. County, N.C., but recent evidence indicates that he was in Cumberland County, PA. as late as September 1766, when he sold 100 acres of land to John Bayly (sic). This 100 acres was a warrant he received in July 1762. His brother Alexander first purchased land in the Mecklenburg area, close to the South Carolina border in 1763. John first purchases land in Mecklenburg in January of 1767. The emigration of Pennsylvanians into North Carolina beginning about 1740 and getting well under way by 1750, continued in an increasing stream until the American Revolution. Governor Tyron reported, "In 1764 alone, over a thousand immigrant IRISH wagons have passed through Salisbury, NC.

The French and Indian War hindered migration for a short time due to the Great Wagon Road being closed because of the war. In 1750, British and French representatives met in Paris to try to solve territorial disputes, but little progress was made. Early in 1755 Major General Edward Braddock was sent to America as commander-in-chief of the British forces in America. He quickly set in motion plans to capture Fort Duquesne, but was defeated, and in fact loss his own life, having died just four days after the battle. The French continued to maintain their hold in the Ohio Valley. Despite all this military activity, it wasn't until 1756 that war was officially declared between the French and British. The French had the upper hand until 1758 and the tide began to turn and the British started to take the upper hand. In 1759 the British lay siege to Quebec from June until September, when the French finally surrendered their garrison in the city. This was the turning point of the war, with an eventual British victory all but certain. In February of 1763 the Treaty of Paris was signed. 

John McGinty I was probably born in County Donegal, Ireland about 1720 and died in Mecklenburg Co, North Carolina about 1782.

The earliest record we have of John McGinty I is from the book, History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys, edited by F. Ellis and A.N. Hungerford, published in 1886. It recounts the history of Mifflinburg (also called Taylorstown) which was three quarters of a mile below todays Mifflintown, PA. The 278 acres of property where this town was located was warranted to Robert Campbell on September 8, 1755.  It was described as being bounded on the west by the Juniata River, on the north by Alexander Lafferty's land (now Mifflintown) and on the east by John McGinty's land.  In 1755, this area of PA was in Cumberland Co. and John's property was in Fermanagh Township, east of the Juniata River. A few months later there is a warrant for fifty acres of land that John received December 16, 1755 (photo).  This land was located adjoining William Henderson on a run northward of Juniata in Cumberland Co., PA.  This section of PA had been purchased from the Indians on July 6, 1754, as the demand for land grew and settlers pushed west.  John’s brother or son, Alexander, also acquired land in this area of PA in 1755. The tax list of both 1758 and 1759 show John paying taxes in Donegal township (formed before 1741), which was about fifty miles southeast of Mifflinburg in Lancaster Co. Donegal township was named for Donegal Ireland where the McGinty originated. It was formed in 1716-19. Another warrant for 100 acres was issued to him on July 29, 1762, also on the north side of Juniata in Cumberland Co. There are also references to Mifflin Co., which was formed out of Cumberland Co. in 1789.  Juniata Co. was then formed from Mifflin in 1831. Of course, this was well after John had relocated to NC, so the references are relating to the later county names rather than the original ones. He received more warrants in this area for 190 acres and another 50 acres on July 29, 1762.  Then another two acres in Fermanagh Township in what is today's Juniata Co., for land warrants received July 29, 1762. On August 5, 1762, we see him selling 250 acres to John Wilkins, located on the north side of Juniata in Mt. Joy Township, Cumberland Co. His wife, Rebecka is shown in this deed for the first time. This entry confirms the name of his wife in PA and later in NC. We also see him as witness to a deed for land in Derry and Donegal Townships, dated June 7, 1765.

John McGinty received a land warrant in Lancaster County, PA. in 1755. Tax records find him in Lancaster in 1758 and 1759. We find him mentioned in a deed of sale of his brother Alexander's land in Cumberland County, PA. in 1757. That deed stated that Alexander's land joined John McGinty's land. In 1762 John McGinty was living with his wife Rebecca in Lancaster County, PA. He sold property there and took up land in Cumberland County, PA., which he sold in September of 1766.

A North Carolina neighbor of John's, Thomas Polk, left Cumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1753 and followed Thomas Spratt's wagon through the Shenandoah Valley into the Carolina Piedmont. By 1755, Scotch-Irish settlers from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland had forged the Great Wagon Road southward, and numbered several hundred in the area. 

The Indian trouble, so vividly told in histories of the frontier at this time, sent a great many families fleeing to North Carolina, and we find the names of many of the old neighbors and friends of the McGinty family in Cumberland County, PA. in the early settlement of the Carolinas, and on into Georgia. Those families were the Finney's, Crawford's, Galbreath/Gilbreath's, Neal's, Maxwell's, Lowrey's, and others. They formed colonies and settlements in North Carolina. There were seven Irish colonies in Mecklenburg County, alone and several across the line in South Carolina, and a number in Old 96 and Edgefield District. Land was much cheaper in North Carolina than in Pennsylvania. As the land was bought from the Indians and opened up in northern Georgia, many moved across the river into Richmond County.

We can trace John McGinty 1 through land and Court Minutes after he settled in Mecklenburg in 1767. He purchased 321 acres from Lord George Augustus Selwyn January 4, 1767, just a little over 3 months after he and Rebecca sold their land in Cumberland County, PA. He later mortgaged this property to Henry Eustace McCulloh for 87 pounds. We have not found a record showing that the mortgage was paid as we did with Alexander's property. We also have the records to show that John's wife was named Rebecca, and that he had at least four sons, Robert, James, John and Joseph, and possibly a son named Alexander. Previous McGinty researchers have stated that John's wife was Sarah and that her name showed up in land records in Mecklenburg, but I have found no land records mentioning a Sarah or a Rebecca. The name Rebecca comes from the land records in Cumberland County, PA. and Court Minutes of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Book 1, October Session 1784: "Ordered that Letters of Administration on the Estate of John McGinty, deceased issue to Rebecca McGinty & James McGinty, Administrators, who come into Court and Qualified and enters into Bond with James Finny & Joseph Gilbreath who we bound in the sum of 200 pounds." The Estate Sale does not mention the widows name, but does mention items going to the widow, including a bible. 

John later moved down on Little Sugar Creek where he bought 230 acres from the noted Thomas Polk and his wife Susannah Spratt Polk. He was neighbor to both the Polk and Jackson families; each of these families gave us a president of the United States. John's son Robert McGinty, in 1785, sold 122 acres of this property to William Kennedy who later married Mary Ann McGinty, granddaughter of Alexander and Mary Ann Orr McGinty. After Robert sold this land to William Kennedy, Rebecca, and the brothers of Robert, John and James, left Mecklenburg and went to Wilkes County, Georgia with Robert. In 1791 Rebecca McGinty joined the Phillip Mill Church by experience. Robert McGinty was received by experience in 1787.

We do not have an accurate list of the children of John1, but the known children are:

1. Robert Earl McGinty, born between 1750-1760, (based on 1830 Census of Monroe County, GA.) probably in Pennsylvania, d. February 10, 1841 in Monroe Co., Georgia. Married Deborah Jackson, (b. ca.1749 d. ca.1850) around 1770. These dates unconfirmed but felt to be close based on other research.

Recent information from a website that includes Quaker Wrightsborough Township Records of Landholders, Residents, and Associated Families 1768-1810, records Deborah Jackson married to Robert McGinty. It also records her parents as Thomas and Mary Jackson and her brother, Joseph. Earlier research, done by other McGinty Family members, states that Deborah was the daughter of a Baptist minister named John Wright, but there is no documented proof of this. The “Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 1”, by Hinshaw shows (p. 405) 1778 - Joseph Jackson McGinty, grandchild - Wrightsborough Monthly Meeting - 1779 Joseph Jackson and Deborah Jackson McGinty, child Thomas received Cane Creek Monthly Meeting.1778 - Deborah (McGinty) formerly Jackson - certified to Georgia". Cane Creek was in North Carolina so it looks as though they moved to Wrightsborough before 1778.

Her father, Thomas Jackson, was one of the founders of the Wrightsborough Colony of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1769. The records show that he was born April 22, 1731 in East Marlborough, Chester Co., PA. His wife was named Mary and they had at least two children, Deborah and Joseph. It is also interesting to note that Thomas was the son of Isaac Jackson who was born ca. 1705 in Ireland and was married in Chester Co., PA in 1730. The records of the Jackson family are well documented and show at least nine generations up to Deborah. This family was living in Killingswold Grove, Yorkshire, England as early as 1505. From there, they went to Cavan, Ireland, probably around 1650, and then came to America and Chester Co., Pennsylvania sometime before 1727.

The Wrightsborough monthly meeting minutes show that Thomas Jackson was "disowned" on May 3, 1775 for enlisting in the Province Services. Thomas died in 1779 of unknown causes. His son, Joseph Jackson, was also "disowned" on April 1, 1780 for "bearing arms in a warlike manner, and of partaking of plundered goods, and also of accomplishing his marriage disorderly or out of the unity of Friends." He moved to Wilkes Co. and then Green Co., GA with his wife, Mary Burke. They produced seven children. There are records of several land transactions and the mention of their slaves. They were divorced in 1801 and their property split between them. He remarried Anna Rainey in 1805 and died in Putnam Co., GA in 1835.

According to Jackson researchers, Deborah was a cousin of President Andrew Jackson. They shared the same great, great grandfather, Anthony Jackson II who was born ca. 1599 in Killingswold Grove, Yorkshire, England and died in October, 1666 probably in Ireland. All future children in the McGinty - Jackson line are blood relatives of the President.

The Wrightsborough settlement was in St. Paul's Parrish near present day Thomson, GA, which is about 30 miles west of Augusta, GA in McDuffie Co. 40,000 acres of land were granted to the Quakers by the General Assembly of Georgia for this settlement. It was named for Sir James Wright, Governor of the colony. The land was located on "both sides of Germany's Creek to the head thereof and from thence to continue this same course 'till it intersects the Indian Line". The original settlers were from South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Thomas Jackson, who was from the Cane Creek meeting in either North or South Carolina, received an initial grant of 250 acres in this area. Records show that Robert McGinty lived in this community with Deborah and could have himself been a Quaker.

Robert was referred to as Robert "Earl" in earlier McGinty research. However none of the many documents we currently have show him as having this middle name.

2. James McGinty born about 1755 in Pennsylvania. James was a Revolutionary Soldier who served with Charles Polk. After the war he went to Georgia with his mother Rebecca, and brother John when Robert returned to Georgia after selling his 122 acres of land, which was part of his inheritance from his father's estate. James later returned to Mecklenburg County, NC. and is found in the 1790 Iredell County, NC. census. He witnessed a deed in July of 1793 and also is mentioned in Iredell County, NC, Land Valuations for Direct Tax 1800. "510 acres valued at $510, 1 barn 50 x 26, 200 acres on 4th Creek valued at $100.

3. John McGinty II born about 1760 in Pennsylvania. He was a Revolutionary Soldier who also served with Charles Polk's regiment. He followed his brothers Robert and James to Wilkes County, Georgia where he raised a family. Wife's name is not yet known.

Further information Robert McGinty:

Robert’s early life was spent with his father and family in Mecklenburg Co., N.C.  Based on earlier research, he married Deborah Jackson around 1770 in North Carolina. They moved to Georgia sometime later, near or in the Wrightsborough Quaker settlement.

One of the first records of Robert was a deed that he witnessed in Richmond Co. (Augusta) Georgia in 1777.  This deed was given by Absolom Bedell to David Robinson, and the land had been granted to Bedell in 1772.  Robert purchased 270 acres of land from Peter and Sarah Buffington of the Old 96 district of South Carolina, August 4, 1785. This land was an original grant to William Fanning in 1770 and was located on Germany’s Creek in Wilkes Co. There is no further record of Robert during the Revolutionary War. Earlier researchers speculated that he might have gone with families that were taken to safety in the North Carolina mountains by Elijah Clarke and his men during this part of the war but, as yet, there is no proof of this. 

The Revolutionary War, 1775-1783, reached these settlements in late 1779.  By this time, Robert and Deborah had three of their twelve children.  Robert’s actual involvement in the war is unclear.  He did receive a land grant after the war for 250 acres.  We have this documented. The land was granted to him under a proclamation from Col. Elijah Clarke on February 2, 1784. However, it was common for citizens that did not actually bear arms to receive land grants. In his grant, there is no mention of him actually serving in the war. A search was also done at the National Archives and there is no record of military service for Robert McGinty.  Other DAR records do not list him as a soldier.

There is a record in the National Archives of his brother, James McGinty serving in the North Carolina Militia as a foot soldier with the rank of Private.  The records show that he served in Capt. Charles Polk’s Company from July, 1776 until after January 1779 when he was at Cross Creek.  His brother, John II also served in this unit and was the Company’s Sergeant.

After the War, on February 2, 1784, Robert was given the land grant mentioned above for 250 acres.  This land was in Wilkes Co. Georgia.  On September 16, 1785, he was given an additional 200-acre “headright” in Wilkes Co. The deed reads, “bounded on all sides by vacant land”.  Then on October 12, 1785, he was given an additional “headright” for 300 acres in Wilkes Co. The deed describes the location of the land, and one side was bordered by the Absalom Bedell property. Absalom is mentioned above in the 1777 land transaction. Both of these headright grants were signed by the Governor of Georgia, Samuel Elbert (sp?). A “headright” was land that had not been surveyed and divided into land districts and land lots. It was only surveyed in response to an application for a head-right grant and could be any shape the grantee desired so long as it conformed to the amount of his grant.  By the end of 1785, Robert owned 750 acres of land in Wilkes Co., Georgia.

In February 1785, Robert returned to Mecklenburg Co. NC and sold 122 acres of land that was part of his father, John McGinty’s estate.  This land was located on McAlpin’s Creek and was a tract originally granted to Thomas Polk in 1775 and sold to John McGinty in 1779.  Robert sold the land to William Kenedy for 60 pounds (note: Kenedy married Mary Ann McGinty, the granddaughter of Alexander McGinty who was Robert’s uncle). After this sale, Robert, his mother Rebecka, and brothers James and John II, returned to Wilkes Co., GA.

Later, in October 1785, Robert cleared and then sold his land on Germany’s Creek to Thomas Napier and moved his family to the newly granted property in Wilkes Co., Georgia. The Quaker records show that Deborah was “certified” in good standing with the church and was moving to Georgia around this time. Robert is shown in the 1785 tax records as being in Capt. Karr’s District, Wilkes Co. with 300 acres.  His brothers John II and James are also listed but do not show any acreage.  This land on Kettle Creek was said to be near War Hill, just west of Washington, GA, where the Revolutionary War battle of Kettle Creek was fought.  The home place was just south of Little River into which Kettle Creek runs.

After settling in Wilkes Co., Robert and Deborah sold part of their land grants in several parcels.  One hundred acres were sold on Kettle Creek to Thomas Daniel.  This land had been granted to Robert, August 11, 1786.  Three hundred acres were sold to Edward Butler, November 24 1786.  This land was on the south side of Little River and is described as land “whereon said McGinty now lives”.  This was part of the 1785 grant.   There is an additional record of some land “granted by the government to said McGinty” that was sold to Charles Smith on August 4, 1787.  All of these sales are shown in Early Records of Georgia, Vol. 1, Wilkes County compiled by Grace Gilliam Davidson in 1932.  The book is located in the Jack Tarver Library at Mercer University in Macon, GA.

Somewhere in this time frame, Robert converted to the Baptist faith and the church records exist showing that he and Deborah joined the Phillips Mill Baptist Church by “experience” in 1787.   Records show that they were members of this church as early as 1785, along with Robert’s mother, Rebecka and a Jane McGinty whose parents are unknown at this time.  She could have been Robert’s sister or the wife of his brother John II..  These records are on microfilm, Phillips Mill Baptist Church, Wilkes Co. GA, Pub No 1111, Historical Commission, Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville, TN. Abstracted in 1989 by Charlotte G. Tucker.

The Phillips Mill Baptist Church was founded June 10, 1785 by sixteen members who met at the home of George Lea.  The first building was on the banks of Little River about one mile down river, southeast of GA highway 44 near the Little River Bridge.  The first pastor was Silas Mercer one of the great Baptist in early Georgia.  Silas came from the church at Kiokee, which was the first Baptist church in Georgia, established in 1772.  His son, Jesse Mercer and Robert McGinty were both received into the church by profession of faith in 1787.  They remained close associates in the Baptist church for many years after that. 

It is very possible that Robert met Silas Mercer and his son Jesse when they were at the Kiokee Baptist Church. Kiokee was about ten miles from Germany’s Creek where Robert and Deborah had lived prior to moving to Wilkes Co.   However, Robert and Deborah did not join the Baptist church until 1787.  When Robert and Deborah moved to Wilkes Co., Silas and Jesse were again their neighbors.

In 1787, Robert was appointed by the congregation at Phillips Mill,  “trustee to get the meetinghouse floored and seated”.  By 1791 this had not been fully resolved according to the church minutes and Robert and two other members were ordered to “see how cheap they could get a workman to joint and lay the meetinghouse floor, make seats with backs and a pulpit and to make doors and window shutters to the same”.  In 1787, Silas Mercer, pastor, referred to Robert as “one of our beloved brethren at Phillips Mill”. 

In the 1787 tax returns Robert is shown in Capt. Heard’s District in Hancock Co. owning 374 acres. 

In 1790 Robert became a licensed minister at Phillips Mill Church and began a long career of service in the Baptist Church.  He remained at Phillips Mill Baptist until January 7, 1791, about four years.

He is shown on the 1790 tax returns of Wilkes Co., Georgia in Capt. McCormick’s District, owning 250 acres.

He sold the final two hundred fifty acres in Wilkes Co. to Nathaniel Dean on March 26, 1791, but the sale was not registered until August 21, 1794.

From Wilkes Co., Robert and Deborah moved to Washington Co.  There is mention in earlier research about him having a Bounty Warrant, number 1446 for the land in this county. Hancock Co. was later formed from Washington Co.  His church records from 1791 until 1799 have not been located but there are records that he served as Justice of the Inferior Court in Hancock Co. from 1793 – 1796.  He also served a second term from 1801 – 1807.  We do know that their family was large by then with twelve sons and one daughter all born by around 1800.

In 1799 he and Deborah joined the Island Creek Baptist church in Hancock Co. “by letter”.  He was listed as an ordained minister.  Three of their sons were baptized there, Joseph on March 11, 1800, Thomas on September 1, 1804 and Washington on August 31, 1805. 

In 1801/02 he served as Pastor of the Horeb Baptist Church in Hancock Co. According to the church records, the current pastor became ill and Robert was asked to serve for one year.  Church records show that “In February, 1802, Brother McGinty made known to the church that he could not attend them any longer.  On leaving, the treasurer was ordered to procure a suit of clothes for Bro. McGinty”.

In 1803 he served as Pastor of the Island Creek Church and in 1808 – 1809 he was the substitute pastor or, as they were called, “supply”.  He was also Clerk of this church from 1815 – 1821.  

On October 4, 1804, Robert preached the sermon at the Georgia Baptist Association meeting.  The title of the sermon was, “And there was given to me a reed, like unto a rod, Revelations 11:1”.

He participated in the Ocmulgee land lottery drawings of 1806 in Hancock Co.  These draws were in Capt. Gunn’s District. He drew twice but was not successful.  His brothers James and John also drew and were unsuccessful.  His son, Joseph McGinty was successful in his draw.  His son, Robert McGinty Jr. also had one draw along with son, Thomas McGinty with two draws.

As the Indians were being pushed steadily westward, it usually took up to five years for their vacated land to be surveyed and divided up into lots of about two hundred acres each.  In typical land lotteries, plats of each lot were traced on small cards, about the size of those now used in the game of Monopoly, which were deposited in wire cages, along with a number of blank cards.  At highly publicized events, the cards were drawn one by one, in full view of the assembled crowds.  Every white adult male was entitled to one free draw, married men or widows with children had two draws, and extra chances went to Revolutionary War veterans, those who had served honorably in certain public offices, or had some other distinction.

The tax list of 1810 shows him as owning property in Baldwin Co., Capt. Gunn’s District along with John and Washington.

In 1811, Robert helped found the First Baptist Church of Milledgeville in Baldwin Co. GA.  Church records say that he drafted the original constitution for the church.  Jesse Mercer was also one of the advisors that helped start this church..

Robert and family remained members of the Island Creek Church for twenty two years, departing by letter on November 17, 1821 when they moved on to Jones Co., GA and he became pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church for a short time. He then appears to have gone into Baptist association work.  At this time he was 76 years old and referred to as “Elder McGinty”.

Since it is known that Robert was very involved in “association” work from this point forward in his life, It is important to understand what changes were taking place in the Baptist church at this time in history.

From the beginning, Baptist churches were not independent of each other.  Whitney, in his History of British Baptists covering the church history in the 1600’s shows that they always sought the fellowship between the different churches to carry on evangelistic work. This continued in America.

The first Baptist church that was established in Georgia was founded in 1772.  It was the Kiokee Baptist Church in Columbia Co., near Augusta.  Over the next two years several others were formed.  In 1774 these churches formed an association called the Georgia because it was the only one in the State.  It was constituted at Kiokee by the work of Elder Daniel Marshall, the minister.

Over the next ten years the association flourished and by 1784 there were about fifty-five churches with over 5,000 members.  Beginning in 1794, new associations were formed including the Hepzibah, the Serepta and the Savannah.  In 1810, the Ocmulgee Association (named for the Ocmulgee River, which was the western boundary of white settlements in Georgia) was formed at Rooty Creek in Putnam Co. It was the fifth association and had about 1,200 members.  Robert McGinty was part of the committee that formed this association of twenty-four churches.  He was then the moderator (chairman) from 1817 – 1822.  He was President of the Ocmulgee Missionary Society around 1819 and for some years after.

About this time, the question of foreign missions began to be considered by Georgia Baptists.  Cary, the great pioneer in modern missions, had already been to Hindustan for a number of years and by 1812 great interest was developing in Georgia.  The first mission society is thought to have been in Savannah in 1813.  This society sent out a stirring address on the subject of missions, which resulted in the formation of other societies. 

By 1815, Jesse Mercer, one of the most influential Baptist of the day started a society to “evangelize the poor heathen in idolatrous lands”. 

At the same time a strong anti-mission spirit which condemned the whole movement was underway.  This caused great division in the church with some becoming “Missionary Baptists” and others anti-missionary, or “Primitive Baptists”. There was thought to be a need for a general organization where brethren from different views could meet and resolve their differences.  The new organization was called the General Baptist Association of the State of Georgia.  It was formed at Powelton, GA, June 27, 1822.  Robert McGinty, then pastor of the New Providence Church in Monroe Co. was the first moderator. At the time there were eight separate associations in Georgia with about 16,000 members.  The new association did not receive full support for many years.  In 1828 the name was changed to the Baptist Convention of the State of Georgia (Georgia Baptist Convention).  However, by 1846 it was representing only 38,000 members out of estimated 60,000 total in the association.  There were bitter feelings and divisions within the church in the period 1830-1840 over the missionary issue.

The 1820 census shows Robert and sons, Meshach and William living in Baldwin Co.  Robert and his sons, William and Josiah are also shown in the land lottery draws of 1821 in Maj. Richard W. Ellis Battalion,

The Flint River Association, tenth in the State, was formed October 16, 1824 at Rocky Creek meetinghouse in Monroe Co.  It consisted of fourteen churches, five ministers and about 525 members. Robert McGinty was the moderator of this first session.  In 1825 at the second session, Robert gave the introductory address.  In 1829 he was Chairman of the association. This association was created out of the Ocmulgee and was a strong missionary group of churches.  The association responded to the needs of people at home, such as the Indians and Negroes and abroad, where they could.  They heartily embraced the total world mission program.  The minutes of 1824 show Robert, in the first circular letter, admonished the people of God, “in the name of Him in whose service you are engaged, go on.” Robert continued active in the association until age and infirmity compelled him to decline service.

In Georgia Baptists: Historical and Biographical by Jesse H. Campbell, published in 1847, he offers the following on Robert McGinty:  “He was a man of general information, an excellent moderator, a person of easy and polite manners, and a sensible, sound preacher”.

Robert’s Last Will and Testament was probated February 10, 1841 in Monroe Co., GA. He gave his servant, Molly, her freedom.  He gave all of his twelve children $25 each with equal shares of everything else and appointed two of his sons, Thomas and William executors for the balance of his estate.  Will of Robert McGinty

The exact date of his death is unknown.  There is a notice in the Christian Index, December 3, 1841 with the minutes of the Flint River Association, October 16-19, 1841 which includes a report on the death of ministers.  It reads as follows:

“We notice with much reverence, and long won worth and merit, the departure of our honored and aged father and brother, Robert McGinty, who we remember in useful life, and even when age had taken the vigor of youth and active usefulness, as one of the pillars: Yes, he has gone up to reap his reward!”

Robert McGinty had been a minister in the Baptist Church for more than 50 years.  Many of his descendents were also ministers and his longevity is also found in several future generations of McGinty.

At the time of his death in 1840/1841, it appears that all thirteen of his children were living because they are all mentioned by name in his Will.  Some of them were still in Georgia, some in Hancock Co., and some had gone down to Jones Co. and into Wilkinson Co.  Two of his sons, Washington and James had gone to Alabama and the oldest son; Joseph had gone to Mississippi with the Mercers.  When Robert died, he was living with his son, William, in Monroe Co. and Thomas was nearby in Wilkinson Co. Shadrack lived in Jones Co. and the others were around him in a closely -knit family.  The number of McGinty descendents from Robert and Deborah are so numerous that future researchers will have plenty of opportunities to sort out the branches of their family tree. The above information was submitted to this website by Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. of St. Paul. MN. I appreciate his contribution to this website on Robert McGinty and his descendants. Not all information has been incorporated in this site. For additional information please contact Mr. McGinty at Mcgintyboy@aol.com.

Children of Robert and Deborah Jackson McGinty:

1. child + 3 ii. Joseph Jackson MCGINTY the eldest son, b. ca.1772, Mecklenburg, NC, d. in 1851, Conway, Arkansas. Married (1) Elizabeth Hood in Georgia, Elizabeth died in Yazoo County, Mississippi (2) Louise Scroggins, born Mississippi and died in Conway, Co., Arkansas, (3) Melissa Shaw born Conway County, Arkansas. Joseph served in the Georgia Militia fighting the Seminole Indians in early 1800, then after moving to Mississippi, h served in the War of 1812. (information provided by Robert McGinty of Conway, Arkansas) 

2. child 4 iii. John MCGINTY the second son, has left very few records. His birth is placed about 1779. It is believed that he went to the Mississippi Territory with Joseph and is found in the 1830, Warren Co., Mississippi Census. Some researchers have mistaken this John for John A. McGinty, son of John2 McGinty, younger brother of Robert. There is research (unconfirmed) showing that he married Sophie James Jacoby, daughter of Bartholomew Jacoby. He was a member of the Island Creek Baptist Church, joining by baptism on February 2, 1800. He was a member there until he lettered out November 30, 1811. He did receive a lottery land grant in the Act of May 11, 1803, and got two draws, which indicate that he was married at that time.

3. 5 iv. James MCGINTY, third son, b. 1776, 1781 - (The GA census of 1860 shows him at age 79, farmer), in Georgia, death date unknown. Married Lister Temperance "Tempy" (last name unknown). There are few records with none showing children. (There is a record in the 1900 census of Cullman Co., AL showing a Benjamin and Rebecca McGinty ages 77 and 70 respectively.  They were both born in GA.  It is thought that Benjamin is the son of James). He received a lottery land grant in the Act of 1803, but only one draw indicating that he was not married at the time. We do not see him in the records of the Island Creek Church but we know that he belonged to one of the Baptist churches in Georgia, because he joined an Alabama church later in life by "letter". We feel that he went with his brother, Washington to Alabama in 1835. He and Tempy joined the Ephesus Baptist Church at McGinty's Crossroads, Chambers Co., Alabama on December 20, 1850. They were members here until they moved to Randolph Co., Alabama in October of 1856. There is a deed dated September 2, 1848 showing his purchase of land from James M. Spear, Chambers Co. Deed Book 8, Page 544. We are told of his death by some of his grandchildren who said that when he was very old, he left the house on a very cold day and fell off of a fence he was climbing over. This killed him. He would have been over eighty when he died. James served in the war of 1812.

4. + 6 v Robert McGinty, b. 1782 (the 1850 census gave his age as 68), d. Grimes Co., Texas, date unknown. 

5. + 7 vi Thomas McGinty,    b. September 29, 1784 (date proven from family records), probably in Wilkes Co., GA. (this was about the time his father was clearing his headright land grant on Kettle Creek).  He died 1868 in Morehouse Parrish, Louisiana.  He was raised in Hancock Co. and married Sarah Castleberry, the daughter of John and Mary Ann Castleberry, in 1804.  They produced a large family of eight girls and three boys. He had two land lottery draws in the Ocmulgee Lands in 1806. On July 2, 1808, they took out their letters and moved to Wilkinson Co., GA. and raised a large family of ten children.

6. + 8 vii George Washington McGinty, sixth son, was born ca. 1786. He married Nancy Thompson in Hancock Co., Ga. in 1810. He joined the Island Creek Church, 31 August 1805, and was excluded June 1814. He was restored to membership in 1816, and removed his letter January 1817, to join the Ramah Church in Wilkerson County, where he remained until he moved to Alabama in 1835. Apparently Nancy died for in 1813 he married Tabitha Moore who, also put her letter in Ramah Church. By 1821 they had three sons and a daughter and it seems that Tabitha died at this time. Washington married Naomi Moore, the sister of Tabitha by 1825, and they had a son and three daughters. In 1835, he moved his family to a place called McGinty Cross Roads, later changed to River View, Alabama. There he joined the Ephesus Primitive Baptist Church. When Naomi died he married Elizabeth Harrington and they had two sons and two daughters. Each of his twelve children raised large families. In 1850 he was excluded from the church over money matters. He is found in the 1850 and 1860 Chambers County, Alabama census. After this, he moved into Randolph County, AL., where he died March 14, 1874.

7. + 9 viii. Issac McGinty, seventh son, was born ca 1787, the year his parents became Baptist. He married Sarah Sample July 7, 1807 in Baldwin County, Georgia.. He can be found in the 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860 Georgia Census. He and Sarah are shown in the History of Upson County, p. 234.

8. + 10 ix William McGinty, the eighth son, was born in Hancock Co., about 1792 (census of 1850), d. April 4, 1858 (The Christian Index, page 3, col. 7) in Monroe Co. GA.  His Will was prepared February 1, 1858. He married Martha Grant at the house of Levi Speights, March 14, 1824, by Sterling Bass, Esq. He may have married again.  He is shown in the 1820 census living in Baldwin Co.

One of these sons, John Thomas was Editor of the Monroe Advertiser, a schoolteacher and was Ordinary of Monroe Co., GA for many years. William's grandson, George Banks McGinty was Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington, D.C. It is interesting to note that in William's Will, he specifically mentions John T. as follows;  "It is my will that my son, John shall not come in for any part of my Estate as I have provided him with a liberal education which I consider equal to what the balance of my children will get".  As it turned out, John T. was very successful in his life. Four of his sons, Cornelius, John T., Richard W., and Sidney F. enlisted in the Confederate Army; all in Monroe Co. Records show that they all survived.

There is an article in the Georgia Journal, December 16, 1817, saying that William and Levin Moore (father of Ann Moore who was wife of William Pitts McGinty) were drafted into the 1st Regiment of the Georgia Militia but had not joined the company.  A reward of $5 was being offered for their delivery to Ft. Hawkins which is present day Hawkinsville, GA in Pulaski Co. William and the first wife Martha joined the Island Creek Baptist Church by experience, he in 1827 and she in December of the same year.  There are records showing that he had two successful draws in the land lottery of 1827.  The land was in Muscogee Co.  In one of the draws he is shown as a soldier.  He served in the War of 1812.

He is shown in the 1830 census then living in Monroe Co.  Deeds on record at the Monroe Co. courthouse show that he purchased land in the county as early as 1824.  He was a major property owner with over 3000 acres of land sales on record. He had numerous land purchases and sales in Monroe Co. and is shown as a resident from the early 1820's until his death. This is somewhat confusing as he also shows in Baldwin Co. as a resident during this same period. He is shown in the 1850 census of Monroe Co. with wife, Martha and six children. He was still living in Monroe Co. in early 1858 on the land that is mentioned in his Will as "the land I currently live on".  He owned several slaves and they were given to his wife and children in his Will. His obituary published in the April 7,1858 issue of the Christian Index, says that eleven children survived him. His son, Cornelius was named the executor of his father's estate. There were several land sales from his estate beginning in 1858 and the final 202 1/2 acres of land in his estate was sold by Cornelius at public auction in Forsyth, GA, December 11, 1877 for $800.

9. 2 i Mary or Polly, the only daughter of Robert and Deborah left no record that we could find, not even who or if she married, though she is mentioned in her fathers will. There is some research, unconfirmed, that she married John Russell, March 4, 1811 in Amite Co., Mississippi.

10. + 11 x Shadrach McGinty, b. circa 1792 - 1795, d. 1843 in Jones Co., GA.  He married Mary Lamar, August 5, 1818 in Putnam Co., GA having been guardian of her younger brother, A. Richardson and sister, Caty after her father, James Lamar died. Mary was born in 1803.  He served in the War of 1812. Shadrach shows in the 1820 census in Wilkinson Co., GA and in the 1830 census in Bibb Co., GA.  He was in Jones Co. after 1830 and is listed in a sheriff’s sale of 101 acres of his land.  He was in Milledgeville, Georgia in 1834 as part of the City’s “Board of Visitors”.  Family legend says that he was a Baptist minister.  He moved to Jones Co., GA and received a land lottery grant in 1826.  He also got a second grant as a soldier in the militia.  He is shown in the Monroe Co., GA census of 1840 with three males and two females in his household. There is a land sale totaling 362 acres that he made in Monroe Co., GA in 1838. The buyer was Chosen Boynton. When he died in 1843, his surviving family moved over to Dallas Co., Alabama to be near their Lamar relatives.
11. 12 xi. Meshach McGinty, b. 1800 (Autauga Co., AL census of 1860), d. unknown, but after 1860.  He was a licensed Primitive Baptist minister, showing at the Union Baptist Church in Jones Co. GA, part of the Ocmulgee Association, in 1836 and again at the Eanon/Enon Baptist Church in Putnam Co. GA, also part of the Ocmulgee Assn., in 1838 and 1840.  His wife, as shown in the 1860 census of Autauga Al, was named Frances. They had at least six children and possibly more, Sarah age 20, William age 23, Rebecca age 16, Robert age 12. He received a lottery land grant in 1819, drawing in Watson’s Battalion District, Baldwin Co., GA along with his brother, Abednego and father, Robert. He drew again in 1826.  He was allowed two draws each time indicating that he was married.  He is shown in the land lottery of 1832, now living in Jones Co. GA. By 1860, at age 60, he was living with his wife in Autaugaville, AL., which is west of Montgomery. Meshach possibly had a daughter named Elizabeth who married William Washington Maddox in 1848, and shows up in the 1850 Muscogee Co., GA. census. 

12. 13 xii Abednego McGinty,  b. ca. 1795-1800, d. unknown. He is shown in Baldwin Co. (Milledgeville, GA) in 1822 with his mother, Deborah and father, Robert. He relocated to Decatur Co. (Bainbridge, GA) before 1824 and lived there until after 1832.  He was the tax collector in Decatur Co. in 1824. 232 acres of his land in Decatur Co. was sold in a sheriff’s sale. There is a general index card in the National Archives showing that he was a Corporal in Wimberly’s Regiment, Georgia Militia, in the Seminole War, 1817 – 1818.  The Military Record Book of 1829-1841, p.83 located in the Georgia Department of Archives where he is listed as a Colonel in the 88th Regiment of the Georgia Militia (Early County Georgia), Commissioned on August 27, 1835.  To attain the rank of Colonel indicates that he spent a great deal of his career serving in the Georgia Militia.  He was the commanding officer at Ft. Gaines (est. 1816) in Early Co., GA in 1836.  He is listed in the 1840 Early County census with a son under 5 and a daughter 10-15. No wife is listed. This part of Early Co. is now Clay Co. (1854). This was on the extreme frontier at the time and there were many problems with hostile Indians. There are letters that he wrote to the Gov. of Georgia asking for workable muskets for his men and other needs. Early Co. is in extreme southwest Georgia, next to Seminole Co., and near the Florida border.  It is interesting to note that the second Seminole War started in 1835 and lasted for seven years. Also of note is that his older brother, Washington, served in the first Seminole War in 1818. There is an A. McGinty, born in GA who shows up in a later census in Macon Co. AL as the Postmaster.  The birth dates and children match.  Could be him.  Macon Co. AL is not too far from Early Co. GA.

13. + 14 xiii Josiah McGinty, the last of the twelve sons, was born ca 1800. He married Marion Penelope Russ in 1825 and had a family of three sons and two daughters.  R.R., Jeremiah, Perry, Marion Elvena, and Mariale Penelope. In 1830, he is listed in the Pike Co., GA census and later in the 1850 census in Bibb Co., GA. There are no other records on his family known at this time. In 1830 he is listed in the Pike County, GA. census and later in 1850 he had moved to Bibb County, GA.

2. James McGinty was born in Pennsylvania about 1755 and also remained in Mecklenburg County, though we find him getting land in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1785. The U.S. Census of 1790 list him as living in Mecklenburg County, District 15, down in the corner of the county, The census listed James with two boys under 16, and three girls. In 1800 he is found in Iredell County, NC. In 1801 he purchased 250 acres. He is found in other land records of Iredell Co., NC.

3. John2 McGinty was born ca. 1760 probably in Pennsylvania. Date of death and to whom he was married is not known. This John was possibly married twice, though we have not found any marriage records. His oldest son John A. McGinty was born in 1779. Since he was a soldier in the American Revolution, from North Carolina, we can assume that he was married first in North Carolina and possibly second in Georgia. (Georgia Lee McGinty's line is descended from this John). (See sketch on Alexander McGinty.)

4. Joseph McGinty birth date unknown could have also been known as Joseph Alexander McGinty. There is mention in the "The Tunis Hood Family History, by Dellmann O. Hood that an Alexander McGinty was married to a Lydia Hood. In 1813 he received a State Grant of 22 acres in Mecklenburg County, NC. on Back Creek.

Second Generation

3. Joseph3 MCGINTY (Robert Earl2 John1) was born in Georgia about 1777. died. probably in Mississippi, date unknown. Married (1) Elizabeth? (2) Louise Scroggins (3) Melissa Shaw (these marriages come from an unconfirmed source). He witnessed a deed in Warren Co., GA. 31 August 1797 (Warren Co. GA. Deed Book A, p. 603). There is no record of his marriage or death, but there is mention of a family in 1803. He was baptized into the Island Creek Church, March 1, 1800. In 1803, he received two draws in the land lottery, showing that he was married at the time. He has a military record and a report dated April 13, 1804, that reads: "Joseph McGinty, Sergeant to Captain Graybill's Company, Hancock Co, being duly called as a delinquent for not attending the muster of officers on the 6th, is fined three dollars".  In December 1805, he left the Island Creek Church and possibly departed at this time for Amite Co., Mississippi. He is found in the Zion Baptist Church in Amite Co. (History of Amite County in two volumes), and also listed on land tax records and the census. In the census of 1810, he is listed with nine slaves and a family of grown children. Two of his girls were married in this church and some of his sons are mentioned in the church minutes. Rev. Thomas Mercer and his family came to Mississippi with Joseph at this time. Some of his children were James, possibly Basil, Joseph, Polly (Mary) and Elizabeth. There could have been more. Joseph's land records show two draws in Hancock Co. in the Land Act of May 11, 1803, for a fee of $8.10. He sold this land after moving to Mississippi. In the Amite Co. tax report of 1816, Joseph Jr., his son is shown with 154 acres, and paid taxes of $307.00. In the Amite Co. tax report of 1825, Joseph (or Jr.) had 70 acres and paid taxes of $98.00. He is found in the Madison Co., Mississippi census of 1830.

Joseph MCGINTY had the following children:

child 15 i. James M.4 MCGINTY .

child 16 ii. Basil MCGINTY .

child 17 iii. Joseph MCGINTY .

child 18 iv. Mary MCGINTY 

child 19 v. Elizabeth MCGINTY. 

6. Robert3 MCGINTY (Robert Earl2 John1) was born in Georgia about 1782. Robert died in Grimes Co., TX. Married (1) (Eleanor?) Penelope Moore, July 5, 1807 in Hancock Co., Georgia, (2) Eleanna (last name unknown). She was from Maryland and they were married before 1850.  He had one draw in the Ocmulgee Lands of 1806. Robert and Penelope were baptized at the Island Creek Baptist Church on December 1, 1837 and they departed by letter on October 24, 1835, but Robert returned in 1851.  Penelope probably had died or something else happened before 1851 because she did not re-join with him.  We know that they did raise a very large family. Robert is shown married to a second wife, Eleanna, in the 1850 census and she re-joined Island Creek with him as Elan as shown on the church records. She came by letter from another Baptist church. Robert is shown as a house carpenter in the 1850 census. Robert did receive two land draws in Baldwin Co., GA under the Act of 1820 and he must have settled there on the eastern edge of the County, just a few miles from Island Creek Church in Hancock Co. There are many references to him in Milledgeville, Georgia as an executor of estates.  He was a county commissioner there. Two of his sons appear on the church records and later these same two, John Moore McGinty and William Augustus McGinty, joined him when he moved to Texas, taking his letter out of Island Creek Church, September 7, 1853.  John Moore McGinty and his wife, Mary L. Brown McGinty are later found in Central Texas on the Brazos River.  William and his wife Lucinda came to TX at the same time. It is thought that Robert died in Grimes Co., Texas, and the date as yet unknown.

Robert MCGINTY and Penelope MOORE had the following children:

child + 20 i. William Augustus4 MCGINTY was born July 2, 1809.

child + 21 ii. John Moore MCGINTY was born November 10, 1823.

7. Thomas3 MCGINTY (Robert Earl2 John1) was born in Wilkes Co., GA September 29, 1784. Thomas died about 1868 in Morehouse Parish, LA.  He was raised in Hancock Co. and married Sarah Castleberry, the daughter of John and Mary Ann Castleberry, in 1804.  They produced a large family of eight girls and three boys. Four of his sons fought in the Civil War, Cornelius, Richard W., John T, and Sidney F. The Island Creek Church records show that both of them were baptized into that church on September 1, 1804.  He had two land lottery draws in the Ocmulgee Lands in 1806. On July 2, 1808, they took out their letters and moved to Wilkinson Co., GA. and raised a large family of ten children.

The story of Thomas in Wilkinson Co. has been told partly in The History of Wilkinson County by Victor Davidson and partly by other sources.  Thomas McGinty was one of the first settlers in that part of Wilkinson Co., on the west side of the Old Indian Boundary Line when the limits of the county were extended by the Legislature following the Treaty of Washington in 1805. He made his home on the “Ridge” separating Commissioner and Big Sandy Creeks, where the old Hartford Road crosses the Irwinton and Macon Highway. With him were families connected by blood and marriage including the Gays and the Castleberrys. Together these Baptists from Wilkes Co. early settlements, and then from Hancock Co. and Baldwin Counties, organized the Ramah Church, and Thomas was one of the charter members; having at his own expense built the church on his land.  In 1810 he was selected by the Georgia Legislature as one of the Commissioners from Wilkinson Co. to construct the Hartford Road from Hartford in Pulaski Co. to Milledgeville, the State Capital. There was an urgent necessity of building this road with the least possible delay in order to avert the great crisis about to confront Georgia.  Hartford at the time was a frontier town situated at the head of navigation on the Ocmulgee River.  British agents, stationed beyond the Ocmulgee were constantly stirring up trouble with the Creek Indians.  This road became necessary so that troops, artillery and ammunition could be rushed to Hartford as well as other points. The assignment of this task shows the confidence of the Legislature in his ability and his patriotism.  It was necessary to draft able bodied men subject to such duties, assign into squads, direct clearing of the underbrush, the cutting of the big trees to a level with the ground, the leveling of the rough places, the making passable of boggy places and streams, and all the other things essential to the construction of a road through “forest primeval”. Recently, when the John Ball chapter of the DAR erected the marker on the Old Hartford Road, the site of his old home was selected. 

The growing travel between Milledgeville, Marion and Hartford and the establishing of a line of stage coaches made it necessary for stations to be established every ten miles where the tired horses having been driven at a gallop the greater part of the way were exchanged for fresh ones, which had been hastily harnessed and gotten ready when the stage driver’s bugle was heard in the distance announcing his approach.  Quick to grasp the opportunity, McGinty built a tavern which tradition says was well equipped to satisfy the hunger as well as the thirst of the wayfarer.” He also received an appointment to supervise and build a stage road on the ridge called the Ridge Road between the East Coast and Macon, which was the western frontier at the time. He lived in Baldwin Co., GA until sometime after 1830 when he moved the family to Monroe Co., GA near Montpellor Springs. After the death of Sarah, when they were then living in Muscogee Co., and late in his life, he went with his son William and some of his married daughters and their families to Morehouse Parrish in upper Louisiana, and on the Red River, and the border of Arkansas.” He was also a Grand Juror in Wilkinson Co. in 1812.  He was not listed in the 1840 census but was “known to be in the county”, (Wilkinson County Historical Collection). He is then found in the 1850 Muskogee Co., GA census.  He is listed as a Tax Collector in Wilkinson Co. in 1817 and again in 1821 for a four-year term. He was a justice of the Inferior Court. He is buried in the old churchyard at the McGinty Cemetery on the border of Arkansas and Louisiana in Morehouse Parrish.

Thomas MCGINTY and Sarah CASTLEBERRY had the following children:

child 22 i. Polly4 MCGINTY was born in Wilkinson Co., GA November 6, 1806.

child 23 ii. Mary Anne MCGINTY was born in Wilkinson Co., GA January 8, 1808.

child 24 iii. Elizabeth Jones MCGINTY was born in Wilkinson Co., GA September 28, 1809.

child + 25 iv. Millie MCGINTY was born January 17, 1811.

child 26 v. Robert MCGINTY was born in Wilkinson Co., GA May 23, 1812. He married Jemima MOORE.

child + 27 vi. William Jones MCGINTY was born June 22, 1814.

child 28 vii. Nancy MCGINTY was born in Wilkinson Co., GA August 23, 1816.

child 29 viii. Jackson MCGINTY was born in Wilkinson Co., GA January 15, 1818.

child + 30 ix. Deborah MCGINTY was born August 17, 1818.

child 31 x. Catherine MCGINTY was born in Wilkinson Co., GA January 26, 1822.

8. George Washington3 MCGINTY (Robert Earl2 John1) was born in Wilkes Co., GA. about 1786. Washington died March 14, 1874 in Randolph Co., Ala. Married 1st Nancy Thompson October 26, 1810, 2nd Tabitha Moore, daughter of Ephraim Moore, August 12, 1813, 3rd Naomi Moore and 4th Elizabeth Harrington Northrop, April 22, 1838 in Chambers Co., Ala., Samuel Roth pastor.

It is almost certain that Washington’s first wife was Nancy Thompson.  On October 26. 1810, a marriage license was issued in Hancock Co., Georgia for Washington to marry Nancy.  Also, on September 1, 1810, the minutes of the Island Creek Baptist Church have an entry that “application was made by Brother Washington McGinty for a letter for Sister Nancy”, and that it was granted.  Also of note is that the pastor of this church was Benjamin Thompson who was probably the father or possibly brother of Nancy.

Naomi Moore, another possible wife, does not show by name on any known records directly linking her to Washington.  If she actually existed, she could have been the daughter of Ephriam Moore, father of Tabitha, whose Will in Hancock Co., Georgia, dated July 7, 1801, mentions Tabitha by name but does not mention a Naomi.  It is interesting that one of the children by whoever the wife is named Naomi Elvira McGinty. Was she named for her mother?  Also, as mentioned before, her step-grandson, Wiley P. McGinty Sr. (1865-1957) said that she, being his step-grandmother, was named Naomi Elvira McGinty. It is also possible that Naomi was not a Moore and was from another family.

He was known as “Washington”, the 6th son of Robert McGinty and Ann Moore.  His father, Robert was a prominent Baptist minister in Georgia.  When he was a young man, he accompanied his father on trips through the Indian lands, receiving a passport in 1808 from the Governor of Georgia to travel to the Creek Nation.

He married Tabitha Moore, daughter of Ephraim Moore, August 12, 1813 in Baldwin Co., Georgia.

A lifelong Baptist, Washington often was at odds with fellow church members.  The 1814 minutes of Island Creek Baptist Church in Hancock Co., Georgia shows that he was excluded for “drinkingness, swearing and a neglect of attending church – excommunicated without a dissenting voice”.  In 1816, he was restored to membership having “admitted the correctness of the charges” for his expulsion.

He joined the Ramah Baptist Church in Wilkerson Co., Georgia in 1817. Both he and Tabitha show on the membership roll between 1809 – 1819.  The Ramah church was founded in 1809 as a primitive Baptist church.  Like other Baptist churches of the day, Ramah was involved in the dispute over Indian reform, missions and the encouragement to abolish slavery.  When the church separated over these issues, Ramah became associated with the newly formed denomination, the Primitive Baptist.  Thomas McGinty, b. September 29, 1784, Washington’s brother is listed as one of the founders.  Thomas was also elected to the Georgia Legislature in 1809.  He died in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana at age 84. 

In 1818, at the age of 32,  Washington was drafted to serve in the Seminole Indian War in Florida in the unit commanded by Captain David Childs.  There were actually three Seminole wars and he served in the first one. It was short, beginning in December 1817 when General Andrew Jackson received orders to move into the area where fierce Seminole Indians, some discontented Creek and groups of escaped slaves and vagabonds had been raiding settlements north of the Florida/Georgia border.  Jackson's army defeated them and pursued them into northwest Florida.  The war was over in 1818. Washington was honorably discharged on April 07, 1818.  On November 11, 1850, when he was 64 years old, he made a declaration for the purpose of obtaining Bounty Land under a recent "Act Granting Bounty Land to certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in Military service of the United States", passed September 28, 1850.  He received 40 acres.

On October 27, 1855 at age 69, he applied for additional Bounty Land under the act approved on March 03, 1855.  He was granted an additional 120 acres for a total of 160 acres.

He is shown on the 1820 census in Wilkinson Co., Georgia along with his father and several of his brothers. 

He is shown in the 1830 census in Pike Co., Georgia along with his father and several brothers.  It is thought that his first wife, Tabitha died prior to this because her name is not shown in the census. 

Between 1833-35, Washington moved his family to Chambers Co., Alabama.  This part of eastern Alabama now embraced by Chambers, Randolph, Tallapoosa, Lee, Macon and Russell counties was owned and occupied by the Creek Indians up until 1832 and was almost unbroken wilderness.  Up until this time only a few hardy pioneers had ventured into the land occupied by the red men and they had come since Alabama was admitted to the Union in 1819.  On March 24, 1832, at Cusseta, Georgia, the Indians signed a treaty by which they ceded the land to the United States.  A tide of immigration began to flow into the new territory, now called “New Alabama”.  This movement began in the spring of 1832 and continued for several years.  The government had the land surveyed as rapidly as possible.  When the Alabama General Assembly met in its 1832-33 session, it organized the new counties mentioned above. 

Washington was one of the first McGinty's into the "New Alabama" territory. He established our family in the area that became known as McGinty's Crossroads and then McGinty, Alabama.  It is now part of Valley, Alabama.  It is interesting to note that there are no records showing his initial land holdings.  There are no deed records in the Chambers Co. Deed Book No. 1 - 1834 to 1876 in his name.  According to the census, all of his children who were born in Chambers Co. were born in Osanippa, Alabama, which is near River View.  He may have settled here initially and the family moved to the McGinty, Alabama farm later.

On April 28, 1838, Washington married the widow, Elizabeth C. Harrington Northrop, daughter of Jepta Harrington in Chambers Co., Georgia. Jepta was a well to do citizen and is shown as owning 33 slaves in the 1840 Chambers Co., Alabama census. Elizabeth was formerly married to a Northrop. On August 21, 1846, Washington is listed as a charter member of the Ephesus Primitive Baptist Church.  In 1850, Ephesus Church charged Washington with accusing Tyre Freeman and Levin Moore (believed to be his brother-in-law), commissioners of the township school fund, of dealing unjustly with him in the distribution of school funds.  After “laboring with him according to the order of the Gospel” the church excommunicated Washington for refusing to give satisfaction.  

A successful farmer, he is shown in the 1840 census in Chambers Co., Alabama with 7 white males and 9 white females in his household along with 10 slaves.  The ages are also shown but no names appear.  A letter written by his grandson, John Franklin McGinty in 1930 and published in “A Twig of the McGinty Family Tree” by Garnie McGinty, says that Washington was married 4 times and also that he was a “cancer doctor of some fame, and very successful in the treatment of that disease”. In those days, a person might be a self appointed “doctor or dentist” without formal training.  Washington’s son, Pinckney H. McGinty, was also a dentist. 

Washington is shown on the 1850 census of Chambers Co., Alabama as a Farmer with wife, Elisabeth, 45 (born in S.C.), Narcissa E. 19 (born in GA), Pinckney 10, James 8, Missoura A.6 and Salina A. 2.  His worth is shown as $2,000.00

In March of 1853, a document shows that Washington sold some land in Berlin, Chambers Co., Alabama area to Brokaw and Clemmens for $500.00.  

He is shown again in the 1860 census as a farmer at age 74, living with wife Elizabeth and four children, Pinckney 21, James 19, Missouri 16 and Salina 12.  His worth is shown as $1500.00.

He is shown in the 1870 census at age 84, as head of the household living with his daughter, Narcissa Carpenter and her two children, Elisabeth and William. Narcissa's husband Franklin Carpenter died in 1869.  Washington was not living with his wife, Elizabeth at this time.  She is shown living with her Son, Pinckney.

He died March 14, 1874 in Randolph Co., Alabama, probably then living at the home of one of his children.  His body was taken back to McGinty, Alabama where it lay in state and he was buried in Fairview Cemetery.  He left no formal Will or testament.  According to a document dated March 30, 1874, concerning his estate, he still owned the 160 acres received as Bounty for serving in the military and it was valued at $300.00. In this document, his heirs were listed as Elizabeth, his widow, and children, Nancy Means, Robert McGinty, William McGinty, Frank McGinty, George W. McGinty, Narcissa Carpenter, Dora Ann Harroll, Pinckney H. McGinty, Missouri A. Webb and Salina A. Webb.  The administrator of his estate was son-in-law, John A. Webb

According to relatives Rev. Basil B. McGinty and Wiley P. McGinty Sr., except for a cedar tree, which eventually became an old stump, his grave at Fairview Cemetery was unmarked for over 100 years, the knowledge of it’s location preserved by Basil and Wiley.  Sometime in the 1980’s it was marked with a headstone. 

Washington MCGINTY and Nancy THOMPSON had no known children:

Washington MCGINTY and Tabitha MOORE had the following children:

child + 32 iii. Franklin MCGINTY b. 1815, Macon, Georgia, d. unknown. One source says that he lived to be an old bachelor before marrying. Another says he married a sister of John Means. John had married his sister, Nancy. He remained in the Macon, GA area when his brother left for Alabama. He spent his life as a lumber and timber dealer.

child 33 iv. Nancy MCGINTY b. 1817, Macon, Georgia, d. unknown. She married John Means. They lived in Barnesville, Pike Co., Georgia and raised a large family all of who were said to be “reliable and prominent citizens”.  She was the Mother of Joshua S. McGinty who died in the Civil War.

Joshua enlisted as a Private in Company "A" of the 14th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment on July 26, 1861.  He was 18 years old. See the complete history of the 14th Alabama under the notes on Pinckney H. McGinty.  In January of 1862 he was listed on the military records as "sick at Fredericksburg" and he died February 5, 1862 in Richmond, Virginia.  His mother, Nancy B. McGinty received his back pay consisting of 4 months and 5 days pay at $11.00 per month, the balance on his first commutation of $4.00 and his 2nd clothing allowance of $25.00.  The total was $74.83 and it was paid to her August 1, 1862. [His records are in the National Archives]

child + 34 v. William Pitts MCGINTY b. June 04, 1819 in Macon, Jones Co., Georgia, d. January 01,1901. He married (1) Mary Ann Freeman, November 30, 1843, and after her death, (2) Ann Moore, April 8, 1846. Whether his name was “Pitt” or “Pitts” has not been proven.  A letter from his son, John Franklin, written in 1930 refers to him as “Pitt”.  My father, Wiley P. McGinty Jr. told the author that his grandfather was called “Pitt” McGinty, not “Pitts”.

child + 35 vi. Robert Alexander MCGINTY b. March 08, 1821 in Georgia, d. January 10, 1892. He married Jane Elizabeth Sharman, b. November 1826, on April 03, 1845 in Russell Co., Alabama. The 1870 census shows them with eight children.  There is a deed showing his purchase of land in Chambers Co. from A. A. Robinson, March 15, 1852, Chambers Co. Deed Book 10 – Page 474.  The 1900 census shows Jane living with her son William F. McGinty in Camp Hill, Tallapoosa Co., AL. Both are buried in the Wyatt-Fargason Cemetery near Camp Hill in Talapoosa Co., Alabama.

child 36 George Washington4 MCGINTY b. ca. 1827 in Georgia. The 1870 Alabama census shows Geo. W. McGinty, age 44 living in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana living with wife Mary, age 39 and three children: George, age 13, Sarah, age 5, Mary, age 8. His wife Mary could have been Mary Adeline Davis. The 1880 census of Morehouse Parish show George, age 52 with wife Julia, age 37, Lizzie, age 19, Adeline, age 15. Julia was probably Julia Sawyer. Both wives are mentioned on his tombstone. He was a private in the Hancock Co. Calvary in 1836.  He married Lavitus Rowe, November 1, 1838 in Hancock Co., Wm. A. McGinty, Justice of the Peace.

Washington MCGINTY and Naomi Moore had the following children:

child 36a. Elizabeth S. McGinty b. about 1830. She married Frank Carpenter, July 2, 1850 in Chambers County, Ala. Shows up with her husband Frank in the 1850 Chambers County census, but apparently died soon after their marriage for Franklin Carpenter married her sister Elenora Narcissus McGinty.

child 37 vii. Elenora Narcissus MCGINTY     b. 1831(this year confirmed), Georgia, d. unknown. She married Frank CARPENTER March 5, 1852. The pastor was W. D. Harrington. He was the brother of her stepmother, Elizabeth Harrington.  Franklin Carpenter died in 1869 and Narcissa and her two children moved into the home of her father, Washington. was born in Osanippa, Chambers, Ala about 1831.  

child 38 ii. Dorian MCGINTY b. 1834(confirmed in 1850 census) in Georgia, d. unknown. She married James S. Howard in Chambers Co., November 22, 1849.  Jesse Carpenter, J.P. was the pastor. In a document dated 1874, she is shown as an heir to her father’s estate under the married name of Harroll.

child 38b. Naomi Elvira McGinty, b. 1825 Georgia. Married John M. Davis in Chambers Co., Ala., March 21, 1848. Tyre Freeman was the pastor.

Washington McGinty and Elizabeth Harrington Northrop has the following children:

child + 39 viii. Pickney Harrington MCGINTY was born July 6, 1839, Osanippa, Chambers Co., Ala, died January 8, 1918 in Beulah, Chambers Co., Ala.. He married Celia Tolen Pitts on September 11, 1860 in Chambers Co., AL, W. D. Harrington, and pastor. She was b. January 02, 1839, d. February 18, 1915. They are both buried in the Beulah Baptist Cemetery, Chambers Co., Alabama.

child 40 ix. James M. MCGINTY was born in Chambers Co., Ala about 1841. He married Martha SPINDLIN July 18, 1869. He died May 15, 1862. James enlisted as a Private in Company “A” of the 14th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment on September 9, 1861.  He was 20 years old. The complete history of the 14th Alabama is recounted under the notes on Pinckney H. McGinty.  James was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital No. 3 in Richmond, Virginia, May 10, 1862 with “Remittent Fever”.  He died 5 days later.  [These records are in the National Archives]

child 41 x. Missoura A. MCGINTY was born in Osanippa, Chambers Co., Ala May 18, 1844. Missoura died February 22, 1907 at 62 years of age. She married Bluford W. WEBB in Alabama. Before she was married to Bluford Webb she was married to a Mr. Foster.

child 42 xi. Salina A. MCGINTY was born in Osanippa, Chambers Co., GA about 1848. She married John WEBB March 7, 1867. Salina (pronounced "Sa-Line-ey") married John Andrew Jackson Webb, a Confederate Army veteran. They were married in her father's, Washington McGinty's home. After the war, they married and settled down to farming and raising a family in Chambers County, Alabama. When Salina was young and still living in her father's house she had a Personal maid. After she was married she said "she was her own slave". She was a fun loving gal and one got "churched" or censored by the Beulah Baptist Church for buck dancing, which she loved to do. Buck dancing is a very energetic form of "clogging". After she and her sister apologized they were reinstated. She died March 21, 1932 in Tallapossa County, Alabama. 

9. Isaac 3 MCGINTY (Robert Earl2 John1) was born in Wilkes Co., GA about 1787. He married first Sarah Samples July 7, 1807 in Baldwin County, Georgia. He married second, Mary Malone, February 2, 1832 in Pike County, Georgia.

Isaac McGinty and Sarah Samples had the following children:

child9a. Shadrach L.4 McGinty, born May 7, 1815 in Georgia

10. William3 MCGINTY (Robert Earl2 John1) the eighth son, was born in Hancock Co., ca 1792, died after 1858 as his Will was prepared February 1, 1858. His first wife's name is unknown, but they had three children, Robert, Elijah and Lewis. His second wife was Martha Grant, they had six sons and four girls. They married in Baldwin Co., Ga. at the house of Levi Speights 14 March 1824. They both joined the Island Creek Church in 1827. They moved to Monroe County, GA, around 1835 and affiliated with the church there. He is shown in the 1820 census living in Baldwin Co. One of these sons, John Thomas was Editor of the Monroe Advertiser , a schoolteacher and was Ordinary of Monroe Co., GA for many years. William’s grandson, George Banks McGinty was Secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington, D.C. It is interesting to note that in William’s Will, he specifically mentions John T. as follows;  “It is my will that my son, John shall not come in for any part of my Estate as I have provided him with a liberal education which I consid