General Notes

Name Suffix:<NSFX> Capt.
John b. County Antrim, Northern Ireland March 25, 1737, d. Augusta Co., VA December 5, 1824 became Capt. John Young, aid to Gen. George Washington and ancestor to Senator John McCain. John was married
1) Mary White, daughter of Isaac White, his cousin, and they had six children: Jane who m. a Cunningham, Isaac who never married and had no issue, Hugh, David who m. Mary Ann Hart and became ancestor of Senator John McCain, Thomas who m. Mary Caldwell and had one daughter who m. a Sterrett and John W.; and Capt John m. 2) Mary Sitlington and had ten children: William Sitlington Young, Mary who m. a Kich, Andrew who never married, Agnes, Robert, Elisha I who d. in infancy, Margaret called Peggy who m. William A. Young and had a son John E. Young, Elisha II who m. Strudwick and daughter was Agnes Black Young, Jenny and Alexander St. Clair Young.

5.2. Thomas, killed by Indians and scalped in the battle of Kerr's Creek when he was a young man in 1763, unmarried and left no issue.

5.3. Mary m. John Cartmill, Augusta Co., VA, nothing further is known about Mary or her descendants.

From James Kimble Young's text, "John Young was the first notable of our line in the early colonial American picture.  Early an Indian fighter and one of the "Long Knives" as the frontiersmen were then known, he also distinguished himself in the Revolutionary War.  He was an Indian Scout in the service of the August County militia before the war, and served as Captain of the company during the war.  He was present with Washington's army at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781.  Eight of his sons were Captains in the War of 1812.  Descendants of his have participated in number in every war of our country to present day."