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   Gilbert Scotland Gilchrist & wife Nancy McPherson
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Sources:
• Lumber River Scots, Purcell, 1941;
• Mrs. Vernon Townsend, St. Pauls, NC 1976;
• Daniel McPherson estate settlement, 1825-41, Robeson Co., NC, Gilbert Gilchrist's statement about his family;
• Robeson Co. court minutes, 1804.
• Colin McPherson estate settlement, 1836, Cumberland Co., NC, statement by Sidney Gilchrist for his children.
HUSBAND

  Gilbert Scotland Gilchrist

Birth 1780 Place Bladen (now Robeson) Co., NC
Chr – Place –
Death 1857 Place Mt. Andrew, AL
Burial – Place Mt. Andrew, AL
Father John Gilchrist of Mill Prong House Mother Effie McMillan
Marriage – Place Probably Robeson Co., NC
Other spouses Mary Currie Marriage c.1825 (nine children)
WIFE   Nancy "Nannie" McPherson
Birth c.1786 Place Bladen/Robeson Co., NC
Chr – Place –
Death c.1823 Place Old McPherson home on north edge of Raft Swamp, south of Shannon, Robeson Co., NC
Burial – Place Robeson Co., NC
Father Daniel McPherson Mother Marian McNeill
Other spouses – Marriage –

Notes: According to his own statement, in 1820 Gilbert Gilchrist moved his family onto the lands of his wife Nancy McPherson's family, those of her deceased father and mother Daniel and Marian McPherson, on the north edge of Raft Swamp about a mile west of today's McLeod's Crossing (Godfrey's Crossing) but above the old Patterson cemetery. At that time, only her unmarried brother Colin McPherson lived there. Colin died in 1823, and it appears likely that Nancy also died with him or shortly after, perhaps of a disease common at the time. Gilchrist remarried about 1825 to Mary Currie, but continued to live on the McPherson lands. Gilchrist stated that he moved to Alabama in 1835, leasing the McPherson lands to his son-in-law, Alexander H. Currie, son of Randal Currie.
Children Birth Death Spouse Cht #
1. Flora Gilchrist
1808
1892
John Little, 1 Feb 1827
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2. Effie Gilchrist
1810
20 Sept 1890
John McIntosh Hughes
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3. Sarah "Sallie" Gilchrist
1811
1905
Alexander H. Currie, 14 Mar 1833
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4. Daniel Gilchrist
1813
1902
Elizabeth Williams, 13 Dec 1847
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5. Mary Gilchrist
1814
1855
David McNeill, moved to MS, no children
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6. Malcolm Gilchrist
9 Jan 1815
22 Sept 1882
Eliza Jane Head, 31 Dec 1846
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7. Margaret Gilchrist
?
May 1857
__?__ Quattelbaum
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8. Isabella Gilchrist
?
?
died in childhood
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9. Margaret Gilchrist
1820
31 July 1901
Samuel DeLoach, 6 Mar 1846
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