MCEWEN, Daniel

Abt 1752 - 1840  (88 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	MCEWEN, Daniel
  Birth	Abt 1752	Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
  Gender	Male
  Death	1840	Rowan, North Carolina, United States
  WAC	26 Apr 2002	SEATT
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  Person ID	I64490	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

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  Family	SLOAN, Margaret ,   b. 23 Jun 1753, Pennsylvania, United States Pennsylvania, United Statesd. 1790, Rowan, North Carolina, United States (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	24 Feb 1781	Rowan, North Carolina, United States
  Family ID	F30131	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Ramsey, in his Annals of Tennessee, gives the following : "Houston's Station stood six miles from Maryville . . . It was occupied by the families of James Houston, McConnell, MCEWEN, SLOANE and Henry. It was attacked by a party of Indians, one hundred in number. They had, the day before, pursued the survivors of the Citico massacre, in the direction of Knoxville, many of whom they had killed. Elated with their preceding success, they determined, on their return, to take and murder the feeble garrison as Houston's. A vigorous assault was made upon it. Hugh Barry, in looking over the bastion, incautiously exposed his head to the aim of an Indian rifle. He fell within the station, fatally wounded, having received a bullet in his forehead. The Indians were emboldened by this success, and prolonged the conflict more than an hour. The garrison had some of the best riflemen in the country in it, and, observing the number and activity of the assailants, they loaded and discharged their guns with all possible rapidly. The women assisted them as far as it was possible. One of them, Mrs. MCEWEN, Esq., of Nashville, and since the wife of Senior S. Doak, D. D., displayed great equanimity and heroism. She inquired for bullet molds, and was busily engaged in melting the lead and running bullets for different moulds. A bullet from without, passing through the interstice between two logs of the station, struck the wall near her, and rebounding, rolled upon the floor. Snatching it up and melting and moulding it quickly, she carried it to her husband and said: "Here is a ball run out of the Indian's lead; send it back to them as quick as possible. It is their own; let them have it in welcome." At the February term, 1800, the county court ordered the following roads to be laid off and cut out. Daniel McEWEN was to oversee the road from Franklin to Hollow Tree Gap, and the road was ordered to be called the Hollow Tree Gap road. All persons living on the south side of the ridge and north of Big Harpeth were ordered to assist in clearing the road. The first State case in the county grew out of this, but the case was quashed when it was shown that McEWEN'S help failed to assist him. William EDMUNSON, William MARSHALL, John CUMMINGS, Patrick MCCUTCHEN, William MCGAUGH, John JORDAN, John BUCHANAN and William WALKER were ordered to lay off the road from the mouth of Arrington's Creek to Franklin. Robert CARUTHERS, John RIED, John SLOCUM, Henry WALKER, Richard PUCKETT and Jesse WEATHIER were ordered to cut out the road from Robert CARUTHERS' in Franklin, and to the place where the commissioner's trace crosses the Big Harpeth. This road is what was called the Commissioners' Trace road and connected with what was known as the Commissioners road or Natchez trace. The Buford's Ford road was cut out by George NEELY, Joseph PORTER, John MCKINNEY, Samuel MCCLARY and David LONG. This road extended from Franklin to Buford's Ford on the Little Harpeth. The road from Hollow Tree Gap to the Davidson County line by way of Joseph WHITE'S was cut out by direction of David WHITE and "all those living on the west side of the road as far down the Little Harpeth as the Plum Orchard and the head waters of Beech Creek" were ordered to assist. The McCutchen Creek road was marked out by Samuel McCUTCHEN, Samuel EDMUNSON, Ephraim BROWN, M. GERMAN, John MCKAY, Thomas OWENS and James SCOTT. This road extended from McCutchen Creek and the Big Harpeth to Franklin. Natchez trace, the old government road, entered the county from the south near old Harpeth Church, and passed a little east of Beechville postoffice; thence south through Districts Nos. 7 and 6; thence through No. 3 by way of Hillsboro; thence into No. 2 a little west of Boston and out of the county a little east of White Oak postoffice.