EIGHTH GENERATION

134. Judge William Maclin ⁽⁷⁾ was born about 1730 in Brunswick County, Virginia. He died in Mar 1803 in Davidson County, Tennessee. William Maclin, known as Judge Maclin although the title was apparently honorific, was granted four hundred acres in Brunswick County, Virginia, the year he was married. In 1763 he inherited much acreage in Dinwiddie and other counties in Virginia from his father.

But immediately after the Revolutionary war, he moved to Nashville and became one of that city's earliest inhabitants and one of its major property owners. There are many documents dealing with his real estate transactions with family and others. He was married to Sarah Clack on Sep 25 1754 in Brunswick County, Virginia.

135. Sarah Clack ⁽⁷⁾ was born in 1731 in Brunswick County, Virginia. She died between 1803 and 1807 in Davidson County, Tennessee. Sarah Clack seems to have been "ancestor proud," and claimed her own descent from Pocahontas, although it is highly unlikely that this is true.

According to this theory, the wife of the Rev James Clack, her grandfather, was Jane Bolling, sister of John Bolling. He was the progenitor of the Red Bollings, those with the Pocahontas descent, so-called to distinguish them from the "White Bollings," the descendants of his half-siblings, who lack the descent.

The problem is that there is not a scintilla of corroborating evidence that there ever was a full sister of John Bolling named Jane or anything else. The vital records that would prove or disprove this claim are lost and it is altogether likely that the descendants of the Rev. James Clacxk will have to settle for a tantilizing possibility. Children were:

67 i. Anna Maclin.

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