John LAUGHLIN

Father: John LAUGHLIN
Mother: Jane MATHEWS

Family 1: Mary PRICE

(1) U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 via Ancestry.com

  1. Thomas Price LAUGHLIN
  2. Jane LAUGHLIN
  3. John L. LAUGHLIN
  4. Mary LAUGHLIN
  5. Martha LAUGHLIN
  6. Sarah LAUGHLIN
  7. James Henry LAUGHLIN
  8. Sarah LAUGHLIN
  9. Samuel LAUGHLIN
  10. Hannah LAUGHLIN
  11. Alexander LAUGHLIN
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Notes

Updated December 21, 2022. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) LAUGHLIN, Samuel Hervey, "A Diary of Public Events and Notices of My Life and Family and Of My Private Transactions including Studies, Travels, Readings Correspondence, Business Anecdotes, Miscellaneous Memoranda of Men, Literature, Etc From January 1st, 1845 to August, 1845 and Sketch of my Life from Infancy"

The John LAUGHLIN of this record is the grandfather of the author.

"John LAUGHLIN, my great grandfather, came from Ireland, with his family, consisting of three sons, John, James, and Alexander, James being the eldest, and Alexander the youngest, and three daughters, Jane, Elizabeth and Margaret, and on arriving in the then Colonies, at Philadelphia, about the year 1740, removed first to Chester County and then to the vicinity of where Harrisburg now stands in Pennsylvania, now Dauphin County I believe. About the year 1760, as Benjamin SHARP, my great uncle believes, (see his letter to me in my books of letters of 4 January, 1845, written from Warren County, Missouri) and about the year 1764, as my father remembers from family tradition, my great grandfather and his family, and many of his connections, intermarriages with the SHARPs, DUNCAN's, etc. having been formed, removed from Pennsylvania to Virginia. My grandfather John LAUGHLIN had married Mary PRICE in Pennsylvania, removed to what is now Botetourt County, near the place where the town of Fincastle stands previous to the year 1766, for in that year his second son, John who is my father, was born at that place. All the others, on removing, settled near the same place, or went on farther west and settled in what is now Russell County. My grandfather and great grandfather afterwards also removed to what is now Russell County and before the commencement of the Revolutionary war two or three years, to what is now Washington County, Virginia near Abingdon. There my great grandfather died before I was born. My grandfather, John, finally settled on the head of a creek under the Knobs, as a chain of mountains are called, called I believe, Sharp's Creek. He lived there until his death about 1813 or latter part of 1812."

"My grandfather, John, as I have him repeat often, was sixteen years old when they arrived in the United States, then colonies. My grandfather, as his father was before him, was a man of remarkable piety, benevolence, and active cheerfulness. They were both of the branch of the Presbyterian Church denominated Seceders. In the latter years of my grandfather's life, he contributed himself nearly the entire support of the Rev. Mr. HARPER, a clergyman of his own sect-but his charity, as was that of his father, was universal for all sincere christians. I have a full recollection of the person and character of my excellent grandfather. Up to extreme old age, he had all the cheerfulness and vivacity of a boy. My father is of the same temperament."

"The sons of my grandfather were Thomas, who died in June 1844 in Whitley Co. Kentucky at an advanced age, and married my mother's elder sister, Elizabeth DUNCAN who is yet living... Alexander, the third son of my grandfather, married Lavinia KING, daughter of the late venerable William KING of Sullivan Co., Tenn., and with a numerous family, lives in Illinois."

(2) Family Data Collection - Births via Ancestry.com

- Name: John LAUGHLIN
- Father: John LAUGHLIN
- Mother: Jane MATHEWS
- Birth Date: 1736
- City: Down
- Source: Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.

(3) U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 via Ancestry.com

- Name: John LAUGHLIN
- Gender: male
- Birth Place: IR
- Birth Year: 1736
- Spouse Name: Mary PRICE
- Spouse Birth Place: PA
- Spouse Birth Year: 1745
- Marriage Year: 1762
- Source: Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.

(4) Family Data Collection - Deaths via Ancestry.com

- Name: John LAUGHLIN
- Death Date: 27 Oct 1812
- City: Holston
- County: Washington
- State: VA
- Country: USA

(5) LDS Family Search Ancestral File (AFN:BMF1-FC).

(6) Mostert family records, August 4, 2000.

- Place of birth and death differ from LDS Ancestral File; b. Holston Valley, Washington Co., Virginia.
- "He was about 16 when his family arrived in Penn... quoted by Caroline Beal in the Mercer [Co., MO] Mirror, Aug 30, 1994. Since they were in the Pennsylvania Tax Rolls in 1753 that would make him born in 1737... Marriage from Maellen Ford, Atwater, CA in her King book, revised edition, in Salt Lake Library, call #929.273 K589f... Death also from Ford's book. Ford says he was called John 'Luke' LAUGHLIN... He is also called a lame weaver."