Notes for: David MCFADIN
The eldest of the children of John McFadin, David was born in Maryland before the family departed for old Tryon Co. (later Rutherford Co.), North Carolina. By 1782 his father, John, moved the family to the area of Silver Creek, a branch of the Red River, northwest of Nashville in what would become the state of Tennessee. Four McFadin brothers, William, James, John, and Andrew resided there until late 1784 when John sold his land to this son David and within a short time moved to Christian Co., Kentucky, not far away. William and Andrew soon departedf or Warren Co., Kentucky.
David McFadin appaears on the 1787 tax list of Davidson Co., Tennessee,and in 1798 was listed as having taxable property in newly formed Montgomery Co. (It was recorded as "450 acres whare (sp) he now lives" in (tax) Captain Willson Gibson's Company by Robert Helson, Esq.)
On 3 DEC 1805 he was appointed by the County Court of Pleas of Montgomery Co., Tennessee, a "valuer (appraiser) of property taken for debt" in Stephenson's Company.
David and his son William both signed a petition in 1812 from the citizens of several counties to the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee "for the privilege of building flour mills on the Red River between the junction of Sulphur Fork and the Kentucky line . . ."
David was also a clerk of the Miller Creek Baptist Church in Montgomery Co. [email David McFadden]