Charles McCall
Charles McCall, son of Francis McCall, was born 1732 near Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, that is in Cumberland County and the Cumberland Valley. He removed with his parents to the New River Settlement in Virginia, and then to Cheraw District in South Carolina where he obtained a Royal Grant in South Carolina on February 21, 1772. In 1775, he was married at the Welsh Neck Bapatist Church (now in Society Hill, South Caroliina) Celete Ann Williams, sometimes called Nancy, a daughter of Rev. Robert Williams, Pastor of the Welsh Neck Baptist Church. They settled on Lynch's Creek near the Great Peedee River in Cheraw District.It was on the plantation of Charles McCall that a skirmish was fought on Lynche's Creek during the Revolutionary War. The place is referred to as "McCall's Old Field. "
Charles McCall removed to Effingham (now Bulloch) County, Georgia, and was known as one of the wealthiest and most influential men in Georgia, having owned many acres in Effingham, Bulloch and Screven Counties, Georgia. In 1785, Charles McCall was a Judge of the Inferior Court, State Senator 1799, 1801, 1802, and Magistrate of Bulloch County and Commissioner in 1792. He died 1814 and he and his wife were buried in the old family burial ground in Bulloch County.
Source: McCalls Roster of the Revolution, Vol. I, p. 112-116; McCall-Tidwell and Allied Familiess by Howard Henry McCall, III of Atlanta; The Austin Collection by Jeannette Holland Austin, pp. 288-289, McCall genealogies.
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