MAIN MAC -- THE FACTS

1740 AHOGHILL PARISH (IN BARONIES OF TOOME, CARY, KILCONWAY AND DUNLUCE POSSIBLE PARENTS - WILLIAM AND MARTHA

1757 MATHEW "MAIN MAC" BORN. POSSIBLY IN COUNTY ANTRIM, IRELAND DATE OF BIRTH ACCORDING TO HIS TESTIMONY ON APPLICATION FOR REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION. IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN A HIGHLAND - SCOT OF THE BUCHANAN CLAN

1766 HOUSEHOLDERS IN AHOGHILL PARISH DIOCESE OF CONNOR, COUNTY ANTRIM -- WILLIAM, MATHEW, JAMES, HUGH (VARIOUS SPELLINGS OF MCCAMMON) POSSIBLY THE SAME ONES BY THOSE NAMES A DECADE LATER IN SOUTH CAROLINA

1767 BY THIS TIME THERE WERE 2 MCCAMMON MEN IN MECKLENBURG CO., NC

EARLY 1770'S POSSIBLE MIGRATION OF MATHEW'S FAMILY TO AMERICA

BET 1775 - 1785 MARRIAGE TO WOMAN NAMED MARY (SOME SAY MARRIAGE IN IRELAND) POSSIBLY NAMED MARY DOUGLAS (WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN MARRIED 3 TIMES AND FATHERED 18 CHILDREN --- POSSIBLY BIG MAC)

1779 DRAFTED INTO SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIA FOR TERM OF 4 MONTHS. DISCHARGED IN EARLY PART OF 1780

LATE 1780 DRAFTED FOR 3 MONTHS

4-15-1781 ENLISTED

4-15-1782 DISCHARGED

1782 FIRST DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE OF MCCAMMONS IN SOUTH CAROLINA MATHEW AND 4 OTHER MCCAMMONS SERVED IN SOUTH CAROLINA UNITS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.

1784 STILL IN CAMDEN SOUTH CAROLINA AREA

JUNE 15, 1785 SOLD CERTIFICATE AWARDING PAY AND BOUNTY FROM STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA (LISTED HIM AS A PLANTER FROM CAMDEN CO., SC) TO JAMES MCCAMMON (POSSIBLY HIS BROTHER) OF MECKLENBURG CO., SC

BY 1788 IN KENTUCKY

1789 PAID TAXES (MATHEW MCCAMRON) IN FAYETTE CO. KENTUCKY (PART OF THIS CO. LATER IN JESSAMINE CO.)

12-18-1789 RECEIVED A COMMISSION IN KENTUCKY MILITIA

1794 IN JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY

1794 MARRIAGE TO POSSIBLY MARTHA WHITESIDE GALLEY OR MARTHA GALLEY