1. William Young (died before 1754)

• 2. John Young (1730-1802) of Mickelwood, Kilmarnock Parish, Scotland.

  Married 1754 Agnes Wallace (1729-1761), daughter of William Wallace of Rewallen Muir, Timinack Parish.

  Married second, Elizabeth Wallace (1730-1786), and married a third time after her decease.

  • 3. William Young (1755-1829)

    Married ca.1779 Agnes McLaws (1754-1793).

    Married second at Philadelphia or Rockland, Del., Rachel Anderson (1770-1836).

    • 4. John Young, died a child in Philadelphia, 1787.
    • 4. Agnes Young (1785-1866) married 1802 Robert Craig (1773-1835), a native of Scotland. They moved to Scotland where their children were born, and returned to America in 1808. Lived at Indiana, Pa.
      • 5. Robert Craig (b. 1803) married twice.
      • 5. Agnes Craig (b. 1804) married Peter Kinter
      • 5. Helen Craig (b. 1806) married Hans Robinson.
    • 4. Margaretta Marshall Young (1786-1827) married at Rockland, 1807, Rev. Thomas Hamilton (1776-1818), an Associate Presbyterian minister from New York.
      • 5. Eliza Young Hamilton (1809-1834) died unmarried.
      • 5. William Young Hamilton (1811-1860) became a clergyman and died unmarried.
      • 5. Thomas Fenton Hamilton (1814-1837) was in optical business in Baltimore; died on board ship and was buried at sea.
      • 5. Agnes Hamilton (1816-1817)
      • 5. John Hamilton (1818-1820)
    • 4. William Young, died a boy in 1789.
    • 4. Eliza Melville Young (1790-1853) married 1811 John McAllister, Jr. (1786-1877). See list of children in McAllister Family Tree.
    • 4. William Wallace Young (1792-1863) married 1815 Julia E. Anderson (1794-1877).
      • 5. Rachel Sophia Young (1816-1857) died at Memphis, Tenn., unmarried.
      • 5. William Wallace Young (b. 1818)
      • 5. Agnes Alecia Young (b. 1820)
      • 5. Julia Young, died in infancy
      • 5. John McAllister Young (b. 1824)
      • 5. Irenee Dupont Young (b. 1827) became a physician at Bordentown, NJ, married Bethia Allen.
      • 5. Julia Mary Young (b. 1830) married Oliver Miller of Ripley, Mississippi.
        • 6. W. Wallace Miller (d. 1884)
        • 6. Lilie Miller (b. 1857), married 1882 S. Hardie Carter of Dardanelles, Ark.
        • 6. Sarah Etter Miller (b. 1861)
      • 5. Joseph Evans Young (1835-1866) married Elizabeth Bergen who married second Enoch Taylor, and died 1884.
        • 6. Joseph Evans Young Jr., married Katherine Spencer Scovel, 1891.
    • 4. Mary Isabella Young (1803-1833), twin, married 1826 John Steward of New York. She was buried in the Steward lot at Goshen, New York.
      • 5. Daughter, married Mr. Van Allen
    • 4. Jean Stroud Young (1803-1871), twin, married Joseph T. Warner (1799-1877) of Wilmington, Del. No children.
    • 4. Euena Hannah Young (1805-1829)
    • 4. Williamina (b. 1806) married Edward Warner
    • 4. Rachel Young (1808-1815), twin.
    • 4. Craig Hamilton Young (1808-1809), twin
    • 4. Evans John Young (1811-1850)
    • 4. Alexander Stephen Young (1812-1823)
  • 3. John Young (1757-1787) was in medical school at the time of his death. Buried at Paisley, Scotland.
  • 3. Alexander Young (1759-1806) married and left a wife and children at his death. One daughter was born in 1795.
  • 3. James Young (b. 1761) apparently died before his half-brother James was born in 1764.
  • 3. James Young (b. 1764) married and by 1795 had daughters:
    • 4. Mary Young
    • 4. Elizabeth Young
  • 3. Stephen Young (1766-1829/30) married 1806 Jane Loree
    • 4. Janet Young (b. 1807)
    • 4. Elizabeth Young (b. 1809)
  • 3. Agnes Young (1768-1812)
  • 3. Andrew Young (1770-1831)
  • 3. Robert Young (1773-ca. 1855)
  • 3. Anne Young married James Wilson and was living in Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1860.

1. John McLaws (ca.1705-1768) of Arngibbon, near Stirling, Scotland.

Married twice and fathered seventeen children. Only one daughter by his first wife survived childhood. He married second, 1748/49, Elizabeth McCulloch (ca.1728-ca.1770).

• 2. Daughter by first wife, married Michael McCulloch, brother of John McLaw's second wife, Elizabeth.
• 2. Mary McLaws (1750-1827) married, 1780, James Risk
  • 3. John Risk (1780-1857), lived in Glasgow; did not marry.
  • 3. Elizabeth Risk (d. 1827) married 1814 John Gray
    • 4. John risk Gray (1815-1835)
    • 4. Mary, died in infancy
    • 4. Marion
    • 4. James Gray (1821-1857), married, two daughters; lived at Liverpool, England.
  • 3. James Risk died in infancy.
  • 3. Margery Risk did not marry; lived with brother John in Glasgow.
  • 3. Charles Risk married, 1835, Helen Dun
• 2. Janet McLaws (b. 1752) married, 1776, Charles Stewart
  • 3. Sandy Stewart died of smallpox?, 1783
  • 3. Jacky Stewart died of smallpox?, 1783
  • 3. Charles Stewart (b. 1781) did not marry
  • 3. At least one other child died in infancy
• 2. Agnes McLaws (1754-1793) married William Young (1755-1829). See Young Family Tree, above, for list of descendants.
• 2. John McLaws (1756-1792)
• 2. Margaret McLaws (1758/59-1832) married, 1786, William Wilson
  • 3. Elizabeth Wilson did not marry
  • 3. Janet Wilson (d. 1832)
  • 3. Mary Wilson (d. 1832)
  • 3. Margaret Wilson (d. 1837) married 1826 George Henderson. No children.
• 2. Isabella McLaws (1762-1794) married, 1793, her cousin Joseph Morrison.
  • 3. Son (1794-1826) died unmarried
• 2. William McLaws (1764-1830) married. Went to Philadelphia, 1794 and later returned to Scotland where he died.
  • 3. Euphemia McLaws
  • 3. Robert McLaws
  • 3. Arthur McLaws
  • 3. Eliza McLaws
  • 3. William McLaws
  • 3. Beatrix McLaws
  • 3. Colin Sharp McLaws

1. John McAllister Sr. (1753-1830), son of John and Isabel (McAllister) McAllister, first cousins, born in Scotland; to New York, 1775.

Married, 1778, Elizabeth Duncan (1759-1782) by whom he had two children who died in infancy.

Married second, 1783, Frances Wardale Lieber (1746-1814), widow of John Henry Lieber who drowned in the Delaware River, 1782. He married third, 1816, Elizabeth Douglas (d. 1838), a widow.

• 2. Frances McAllister (1784-1823), twin, married 1817 William Stevenson (d. 1844) of Cambridge, New York, son of William and Jane Stevenson. Both were reared in the Associate Presbyterian Church.
  • 3. John Stevenson (b. 1818)
  • 3. James Stevenson
  • 3. William Stevenson, married
  • 3. Anna Maria Stevenson married and had children; was dying in 1851.
  • 3. Frances W. Stevenson lost a leg after an illness in the 1840s.
  • 3. Jane Stevenson?
• 2. Sarah McAllister (1784-1806), twin, was engaged in 1806 to James Kelso but died before the wedding could take place.
• 2. John McAllister Jr. (1786-1877) married 1811 Eliza Melville Young (1790-1853). Lived at Philadelphia. Left the Associate Presbyterian Church and became Episcopalians.
  • 3. William Young McAllister (1812-after 1892) married 1842 Ann Jane Mitchell (b. 1816), daughter of William and Margaret (Conchy) Mitchell.
    • 4. William Mitchell McAllister (b. 1843) m. 1866 Emily Turner
    • 4. Eliza Young McAllister (b. 1845)
    • 4. John McAllister (1846-1863)
    • 4. Anna Mitchell McAllister (b. 1849) became an M.D.
    • 4. Frances Wardale McAllister (b. 1853)
    • 4. James Cook McAllister (b. 1856)
    • 4. Harry McAllister (b. 1858)
    • 4. Oswald McAllister (b. 1860)
  • 3. Frances Wardale McAllister (1815-1892) married George D. Bruce M.D. (d. 1891), son of Robert Bruce (1776-1846) who was an Associate Presbyterian minister. they had no children but adopted a nephew of his.
  • 3. Agnes Young McAllister (1817-1879) was the family genealogist. She left her estate exclusively to several nieces, but no nephews.
  • 3. Sarah Allister McAllister (1819-1870) married 1840 William Robertson Grant, M.D. (d. 1852), son of _____ and Mary (Bobertson) Grant. All their children were dead by 1892.
    • 4. Allister M. Grant (b. 1842?)
    • 4. Mary Robertson Grant (1844-1845)
    • 4. Elizette Melville Grant, living in 1880
    • 4. Jessie Margaret Grant, living in 1880
  • 3. John Allister McAllister (b. 1822) married Ann Mc. Steinbruner
  • 3. Thomas Hamilton McAllister (b. 1824) married Mrs. Warren and adopted her son, who took the name:
    • 4. Caldwell McAllister. Married and had children.
  • 3. Rachel Jane McAllister (1826-1826)
  • 3. Eliza Euena McAllister (1827-1853) died unmarried
  • 3. Wardale Gaskill McAllister (1829-1874) married Henrietta Phillips
    • 4. Estelle Henrietta McAllister
    • 4. Adele Wardale McAllister married James W. Vogdes
  • 3. Julius Wallace McAllister, died in infancy

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