Jeanette MacDougal Williamson Stewart
Duncan Stewart’s mother, Jeanette Stewart, and her family are much less visible in this story than others, especially the Stewarts. They did go to Tennessee with the Stewarts and maybe some to Mississippi. They also produced one of the 20th centuries greatest Senators, John S. McCain.
Jeanette MacDougal (1730-1793) was from Argyleshire, Scotland. She is said to have married Daniel Williamson on the boat to America. They questionably landed in Williamsburg according to one source, but I suspect they more likely came into North Carolina.
We note that James Alexander Ventress, Jeanette Stewart’s grandson, when he visited Scotland to study in the 1820’s visited his cousins in Greenoch on the Firth of Clyde. This was the family of John Campbell. Janet McDougal had a sister Margaret who married Alexander Campbell. Their son, John Campbell was collector of customs in Greenoch.[1] One of the Campbells noted that Janet went to America in 1755/60 and one year later Mr. Williamson died leaving her with 2 small children, Mary and Margaret. Therefore the marriage to Mr. Williamson probably produced 2 children in Scotland before immigrating.
Janet Willliamson married about 1760 (their first child was born 1761) a widower, William Stewart (1711-1778 or more likely 1787). They would have several children in Bladen County, NC. including Duncan Stewart. William left a will leaving a Negro to each of 2 grandchildren of his widow, Jeanette McDougal Stewart: Jeanette White and Jeanette Bailey.
We do note David Bailey as a chain carrier with Duncan and an executor of William Stewart’s will. William White bought lands on Cypress Creek in 1785 when Duncan Stewart was a chain carrier.
10 July 1788, New Hanover Co. NC, July term, “ordered that David Bailey, DS Solomon Lee, Bennett Smith overseers to lay off a road from South River at Mr. Stewart’s line to the line of Sampson Co. leading to the road called Tathans (Tatums) all the above persons to work on said road.”
We read from another source that the son-in-law of Jeanette MacDougal was David Bailey of Sampson Co. NC who came from Dundee, Scotland in about 1750. David died in 1794. It appears that he married the daughter Mary Williamson.
William White of Waxhaw, NC married Margaret Williamson of Bladen Co. Their daughter Mary Eliza White married Henry Small of Tennessee as a second wife. Small’s first wife was Anna Bailey, probably the daughter of Charles Bailey, an early settler of Montgomery Co. Tennessee. The two wives of Small were thought to have been cousins.[2] Are these Bailey’s related to David Bailey the brother in law of Margaret Williamson White. If the wives are cousins then perhaps Anna Bailey is a niece of David Bailey and Mary Williamson.
In James Stewart’s will in Montgomery County Tennessee in 1818, Henry Small, the first sheriff of Stewart County, was an executor as was William S. White and Charles Bailey. This suggests that the Whites did go to Tennessee with the Stewarts and even the Baileys though the relationships are still unclear.
Henry Small was associated with Duncan Stewart and moved from Clarksville Tennessee to Stewart County Tennessee. There is a close connection of the Stewarts and Whites in Montgomery County Tennessee.[3] William Stewart White petitioned the court for permission to build a mill on Spring Creek in Montgomery Co. where William Dickson formerly had a mill on the north side of White’s land.[4] Stewart White Small lived Yellow Creek (Dickson Co.).[5]
The Whites do show up in the ancestry of the late Senator John McCain.
John White (b. 1703) m. Mary Jones (1713-1783)
William White (b. 1747) m. (1777) Margaret Williamson (dau of Daniel
Williamson, b. Scotland, d. Bladen Co. and
Jeanette McDougal (b. 1741)
Mary White (d. 1830) m. Henry Small (d. 1832)
Catherine Weeden Small m. (1845) Samuel Hart Young
b. 1827, Tipton Co. TN b. 1820, VA
d. 1915, Grenada MS d. 1861
Elizabeth Ann Young m. (1877) John Sidney McCain[6]
b. 1855, MS b. 1851 MS
d. 1922 d. 1934
John Sidney McCain, Sr. Admiral m. Catherine Davy Vaulx
b. 1884, Teoc, Carroll Co. MS b. 9 June 1876, Fayetteville, Ark.
d. 6 Sept 1945, Coronado CA d. 29 May 1959, San Diego
buried Arlington
John Sidney McCain, Jr. Admiral m. Roberta Wright
b. Council Bluff, Iowa b. 7 Feb 1912 Muskogee, OK
d. 22 Mar 1981, military aircraft enroute from Europe
buried Arlington
John Sidney McCain, III m. (1965) 1. Carol Shipp, Philadelphia
b. 29 Aug 1936, Coco Solo Air Base, Panama Canal b. 1937
d. 25 Aug 2018
buried US Naval Academy, Annapolis MD
Children:
1. Douglas,
adopted, Carol’s 1st marriage
2. Andrew,
adopted, Carol’s 1st marriage
3. Sidney
McCain
m. (1980) 2. Cindy Lou Hensley,
Phoenix
b. 20 May 1954
Children:
1. Meghan
McCain, b. 1984
2. John
Sidney McCain IV, b. 1986
3. James
McCain, b. 1988
4. Bridget,
adopted from Bangladesh, 1991
The genealogy of Jeanette MacDougal with her first husband, Daniel Williamson.
Jeanette MacDougal m. (c. 1754) 1. Daniel Williamson
b. 1741
d. 1793 d. 1756/61
Children:
1. Mary
Williamson m. David Bailey
b. 1754/55
d. 1794
Children:
1. Jeanette
Bailey
2. Mary
Bailey m. Robert Murphy (one of
3 sons and 3 dau. of Patrick Murphy who came from Arran Scotland, 6 wks passage
to Wilmington in 1774)
Children:
1. Patrick
Murphy m. Eliza A.
Faison, Sampson Co.
b. May 1801, New Hanover (now
Franklin Township, Sampson Co.)
d. 1874
Lawyer, represented Sampson Co. in legislature during War.
Children:
1. Dr.
Patrick Livingston Murphy m. (1878)
Bettie W.
Bungardener of Augusta Co. Va.
Soldier in the war as cadet. UVa after the war. 1871 Medical Univ of Maryland.
Locate Sampson then Wilmington, NC. Then to Western State Hosp of VA in
Staunton until 1882. Then to hosp. in Morganton, NC (built by James Walker of
Wilmington).[7]
b. 21 Jan 1793 b. 3 June 1769
d. 27 Sept 1841 d. 22 May 1844
Children:
1.
Margaret Jane Bryan
b. 20 July 1822
2.
David Bailey Bryan
b. 28 Feb 1824
d. 14 Apr 1825
3.
James Hardy Bryan
b. 4 Feb 1826
4.
Charles Bailey Bryan
b. 22 May 1832
d. Aug 1911
5.
Henrietta T. Bryan
b. 15 June 1835
d. 11 Sept 1840
Montgomery Co. TN b. 8 June 1798
d. 2 Feb 1878
Children:
1.
Henry L. Bailey m. (22
Mar 1843) Wilmoth H. Boyd
b. 29 Aug 1818
d. 16 Feb 1848
Children:
(1)
1.
Charles Henry Bailey m. 1.
Alice McKoin
2. Jennie S. MacRae
Children:
1. A.
Robb Bailey
2. Charles
H. Bailey, Jr.
3. Stewart
M. Bailey
4. Alice
Bailey
2.
Lucy Catherine Bailey m.
unmarried
b. 2 Aug 1820
d. 20 July 1867
3.
James Edmund Bailey m. (7 Nov
1849) Elizabeth Lush
b. 15 Aug 1822
d. 29 Dec 1885
Children:
1. Robert
Bailey
2. Lizzie
Bailey, d. young
3. Maude
(Matilda) Bailey m. Henry Merritt
4. Charles
Bailey, d. young
5. James
Edmund Bailey
6. Alfred
Robb Bailey, d. young
7. William
Bailey
8. Thomas
Jennings Bailey
4.
Charles William Bailey
b. 26 May 1826
5.
Charles David Bailey
b. 8 Mar 1820
d. 30 Sept 1830
6.
Charles David Bailey
b. 6 Apr 1836
Children of Jeanette MacDougal con.
2. Margaret
Williamson m. William White
b. b. 1747
Children:
1. Jeanette
White
b.
d. 1830 d. 1832
James Edmund Bailey (1822-1885), senate 1877-1881. Democrat.elected to the Senate to fill the seat of the late Andrew Johnson. He was born in Montgomery Co. Went to Clarksville Academy, University of Nashville, studied law, bar 1843. Practiced Clarksville. Whig in the Tennessee House 1853. Confederate Army, Col. 49th Tenn. Reg. Died Clarksville. Internment Greenwood Cem.
James Hardy Bryan who married Margaret Bailey was married 1st to Lucy Hatch. It was their daughter Polly who married Margaret’s brother Charles Bailey. Their son Willie Bryan married Mary Williamson Bailey (?).
The Bible of James Hardy Bryan is in the UNC, Chapel Hill, Wilson Library. Pub. 1712. Taken from Jones Co. to Robertson Co. TN.
Hardy Bryan m. Sarah
Children:
1. Mary Bryan m. (5 Mar 1772) Edward Hatch
b. 8 Feb 1857
d. 27 Oct 1795
Children:
1. Lucy
Hatch, b. 1773
2. Polly
Bryan Hatch, b. 1776
3. Hardy
Hatch, b. 1881
4. Narcissa
Hatch, b. 1774
5. Edward
Hatch, b. 1783
6. Sally
Hatch, b. 1779
7. Andrew
Hatch b. 1785
8. Lewis
Hatch, b. 1788
9. Elizabeth
Hatch, b. 1788 (twin to Lewis)
……………………………………………m. 2. (1791) Adam
Tooley
Children:
1. Henrietta
Tooley, b. 1793
2. James Hardy Bryan m. (30 Aug 1789) 1.
Lucy Hatch
b. 3 Jun 1769 b. 19 Jan 1773
d. 22 May 1844 d. 7 Sept 1818
Children:
1. Lewis
Cannon Bryan
b. 19 Aug 1790, d. 29 Oct 1814
2. James
Hardy Bryan
b. 12 Oct 1792, d. 14 Jan 1821
3. Elizabeth
Bryan
b. 7 Mar 1795
4. Polly
Bryan m. Charles Bailey
5. Wealthy
Sanders Bryan (dau)
b. 27 Nov 1800, d. 4 June 1830
6. William
Hatch Bryan
b. 18 Aug 1803
d. 7 Apr 1837
7. Sally
Bryan
b. 7 Feb 1805, d. 2 Nov 1867
8. Edmund
Bryan
b. 2 May 1806, d. 4 July 1807
9. Henrietta
Bryan
b. 15 June 1810
10. John Wesley
Bryan
b. 6 June 1812, d. 9 Nov 1812/16
11. Willie
Blount Bryan m. Mary Williamson Bailey
b. 27 Jan 1814
12. Lucy Ann
Bryan
b. 18 Jan 1817
3. William Hatch Bryan
b. 18 Feb 1771
4.
Ann Bryan
b. 10 Apr 1773
5.
Edmund Bryan
b. 19 July 1775
d. 30 Dec 1817
The Bible from which the Bryan data is taken has more information on the Hatches. It does not explain the Lovick Ventress connection. Lovick Ventress according to Ventress data married Hardy Bryan’s sister, Mary Bryan as his first wife. His second wife was Elizabeth Stewart, sister to Duncan. Another source notes that Lovick married Elizabeth Bryan[11], but again we have no Elizabeth that will fit. Perhaps this referred actually to Elizabeth Ventress.
It would appear that along with Duncan’s brothers and sisters, the families of the half sisters of Duncan also moved to Tennessee. David Bailey was dead in 1794. His widow, Mary Williamson Bailey may have gone to Tennessee. Her daughter Mary Bailey who married Robert Murphy seems to have remained in NC. The daughter, Margaret Bailey married Hardy Bryan in Tennessee; the son, Charles Bailey married Mary Bryan in Tennessee. It is not clear if any of the Bailey family further migrated to Wilkinson Co. Mississippi. We do note a James Bailey and a David Bailey in the inhabitants of Wilkinson Co. in 1816. It is highly probable that they are family but I have established no connection as yet.
In following the descendants of Patrick Stewart, uncle to Duncan Stewart, we find his grandson James Stuart (1767-1824) married in 1796 Lucretia Calvit (1778-1832) in Natchez. Their daughter, Clara Lucretia Stuart (b. 1804 NC) married as her second husband in 1827, James Bailey (1779-1829, NC). Probably related to the Bailey family that Mary Williamson married. James and Clara had a son James Bailey, Jr. b. c. 1828. Clara as a widow married a 3rd time in 1831 in Woodville, MS.
The White family is less notable in Tennessee but Mary Eliza White, the daughter of Margaret Williamson White, did marry Henry Small in Tennessee and at least part of the family remained in Tennessee. There are several Whites in the 1816 list of inhabitants of Wilkinson Co.: Robert, Lucy, Andrew, and HG. No connection can as yet be established that they are related. But again I think it likely that some of this branch of the family came to Mississippi as well.
A White family bought Holly Grove in the 20th century but no connection has been made from this family to the Whites that married Jeanette MacDougal’s daughter, Margaret Williamson
Robert Baily and Duncan Stewart witnessed a transfer of land in 1812 by James Carraway[12] (husband to Duncan’s sister Ann Stewart). Who is this Robert Baily?
[1] Lynda
Crist; The N. Carolinian, 10 Feb 1966.
[2] Red
River Settlers: records of the settlers of Northern Montgomery by Edythe John
Rucker Whitler.
[3] Red
River Settlers, p. 73
[4] Will
book Montgomery Co. 1808-1810. p. 84, Sept. 1808.
[5] Red
River Settler, p. 72.
[6] He was
the son of Pvt. William Alexander McCain (b. 1817, Caswell Co. NC, d. 1864,
Memphis, buried Waverly Plantation, Teoc, Carroll Co. MS.) and Mary Louisa.
[7] Bio. Hx
of NC from Colonial times to the..Vol 6. Samuel A’Court Ashe, p. 384.
[8] This
appears to be the brother-in-law of Lovick Ventress whom he was visiting when
he died. Hardy Bryan was the brother of
Ventress’ first wife, Mary Bryan.
[9] An
executor of James Stewart’s will of 1818.
[10] An
executor of James Stewart’s will of 1818. Thomas White was also an executor. ?
a son of William White?
[12] HG deed
abstracts, Vol II, p. 648
Lovic's brother James Ventress lived in Robertson County,Tennessee he had married Jannett Stewart daughter of Jock Stewart and Jannett Stewart sister to Duncan Stewart. Lovic passed while visiting his brother, In present day Coopertown, Robertson County, Tennessee. Lovic was buried on his former farm.
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