David McClure was born in Scotland, and died 1770 in Candia, New Hampshire. He married Martha Glenn on June 11, 1730 in First Presbyterian Church in Candia, NH.
Notes for David McClure: Notes from Eaton's History of Candia, p. 89-90
First marriage performed by Rev. Dr. Morehead at First Presbyterian, now Federal Street Church. Most of their childrem were there born and baptised.
Moved to Chester, NH about 1740 when fear of Indians compelled the inhabitants to seek the security of a garrison.
Moved to Candia about 1773, bought lot #80 in second part of second division. Built log house near the center of the lot and dug well.
Mr. McClure once contrived to fall a large tree on his only cow, at which he was so much disheartened that he would have given up his location, had it not been for the persuasion of his wife. Bears and wolves greatly infested the place and rattle snakes were plenty. In later days, a grandson of the family killed an enormous wild cat, after the creature had destroyed a whole flock of sheep in the barn now standing. Mr. McClure was past middle age when he came to Candia. About the winter of 1770, while returning, an old man, from a visit to his daughter, in Raymond, he became bewildered in a severe snow storm, and sunk exhausted but a few rods from the path he had lost. His voice, borne by the fitful gusts over the drifting hill sides was heard at a mile's distance. A pine, at whose foot he fell, had the bark bruised off as far as the old man could reach, in the vain effort to keep off the chill which bound his aged limbs in death.
His only epitaph, written by a stranger: DAVID McCLURE An old man, A native of Scoltland and the first settler of Candia, FELL AND PERISHED BY THE WAYSIDE about the winter of 1770
More About David McClure: Emigration: Abt. 1720, To Boston from Edinburgh, Scotland.283 Fact 1: First settler in Candia, NH. Fact 2: Perished on green in Candia, NH in snowstorm..
More About David McClure and Martha Glenn: Marriage: June 11, 1730, First Presbyterian Church in Candia, NH.
Children of David McClure and Martha Glenn are:
+Elizabeth McClure, b. September 20, 1738, Raymond, New Hampshire, d. July 09, 1817, Raymond, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA284.
David McClure (d. 1770)
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