McFarlin/McFarland

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Your help with my Burroughs ancestor has proved so helpful that I now find myself presenting you with another one of my ancestral brick walls. According to the research of Pat Brown and the History of Franklin County, Georgia by the Franklin County Historical Society, two of my direct ancestors are Robert A. (Allen?) McFarland and Mary Quarles. I have read that he emigrated from Scotland that he was either born in Ireland or Virginia. I believe they married at the end of the eighteenth century and that one of my great grandfathers married one of their children. Robert had Elizabeth, born 1803.

Research Results. 7/19/2006.

The name is Scotch-Irish. I found a George McFarlin, pension #S18119, South Carolina Line who was born Ireland and lived in the 96th district of South Carolina at the time of enlistment. His application was dated 10/23/1832 in Abbeville Co., S. C., aged 68 or 69 years. The Abbeville County Wills, Box 59, packet 1406, George McFarland, 6/2/1834, Abbeville district, will probated 8/1/1834, named wife, Peggy and the following childreN; James, Archibald, Rosey and Sally. Grandson was George Weed.

Abbeville Co., SC> Will of John McFarland, Box 61, packet 1443, dated 5/11/1830, probated 11/17/1832, left all of his estate to Colonel Patrick Nobles, my friend. "To Benjamin, who is reputed to be my son.".

1790 York Co. S. C. Census - Robert McFarlin

You said that Robert McFarland married Mary Quarles. There were several Quarles families who resided in Edgefield County, S. C. An intense study into those records might find something. I have very little access to S. C. records.