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Note: N24 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mckaughan/combined/fam00103.htm
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mckaughan/combined/nti01287.htm
Found his name (spelled McQuown) on a list of petitioners from Rowan Co., NC along with George Howard. Petition to His Excellency Josiah Martin Esquire Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Province of North Carolina asking him to have an amendment of the act of Assembly so far as to tolerate the Presbyterian Publication. (Concerning marrying of the members of the Presbyterian Church).
From Four Generations of McKaughans in America: There are two stories written or told about Hugh's life. One story states that he left Phoebe and the children when their twins, Jesse Alfred and Forrester were small, presumbly to find a better place for them to live. The twins were born on May 1, 1815. It was told that he went to Tesas to relocate near relatives, prehaps his niece, Jane Mercer Brooks Simpson, daughter of his sister, Rebecca McKaughan Brooks. A letter from Archibald's son, John Wesley McKaughan, to one of his children relates that the family heard from his grandfather (Hugh) two or three times in the next few years and then no more, so assumed dead around 1820.
The other story relates that Hugh was known to have bought land in 1816 in Pulaski Co., Kentucky. While there, it is stated that he married Nancy Riddle in 1820; then moved to Texas to settle near his niece. Divorces were practically unheard of in this era. If there were grounds for divorce, only the rich and/or influential could afford them. Whether or not he ever legally divorced Phebe or just deserted his family is not known. Prehaps if the latter is true, it wwas just easier for Phebe to tell her children that their father was dead than to try to explain the divorce/desertion.
Book 23, page 40: On 11 Sep 1812, Hugh McKaughan -- no wife signs -- lets John Cecil (both of Rowan Co., NC) have 75 acres on Rich Fork of Abbott's Creek next Rachel Cecil, Hoseph Albertson & ---- Collet, for 100 pounds, witnessed by John Wayman & Thomas Cecil & proved by the latter in Feb 1814. (Said Hugh McKaughan bought this of Sherwood Kennedy).
Hugh reared his family in Guilford Co., NC but went to Texas which portion was then Mexico. He wrote his son Archibald from Natchitoces, LA on the border of Texas. A little later word was received that he was dead.
In a note from Raymond Peace, editor of "The Descendants of Silas Peace": In the settling of the estate of George Whitefield Pope, daughter, Phebe McKaughan, was not taken apart from her husband as was her sister. This indicates that Hugh McKaughan is deceased. Date is 5 Oct 1819.
He was on the tax rolls in Texas in 1845 - from Cuz of Sorts by Minniebell McKaughan Perkins
From CUZ of Sorts: HUGH McKAUGHAN, named after his Uncle Hugh McKaughan born in Pennsylvania, went with his parents to what is now Sullivan County, Tennessee after the Revolutionary War. He went to Pulaski County, Kentucky around 1800 with his parents where he was granted 200 acres of land on the East Side of the south fork of the Cumberland River. He apparently kept his land; but he went to North Carolina where he married PHOEBE POPE, 29 March 1804. Phoebe was born 7 August 1783 in Pennsylvania, daughter of Rev. George Whitefield Pope and Mary Haitt. His marriage bond was co signed by his father-in-law, Rev. George W. Pope, Witnesses James Pope, the bride's brother, and Joab Brooks, brother of his sister Rebecca's husband, John D. Brooks. It is possible Hugh and Phoebe knew each other in Pennsylvania before they moved south. Something happened to the marriage of Hugh McKaughan and Phoebe Pope. While I was in North Carolina, I read a letter telling that Hugh went to the Dominion of Mexico (Texas) to try to get land near kin (his niece, Jane Mercer Brooks Simpson), when the twins were a few months old (1815). He was heard from once only so assumed dead. When we were in Pulaski County, Kentucky doing research, we found him having his land surveyed and getting a license to run a sawmill. In 1818, he married POLLY RIDDLE and then they went to Texas where he was on the tax rolls until 1845. If they heard from him in Texas, it was years after he had left North Carolina. I feel the marriage bond had something to do with it for it states that if he leaves his wife, and there are children involved, he would pay the state five hundred pounds, the currency of the day. Since he was nowhere to be found and since his father-in-law had co-signed, it looks like he would be the one to pay. It was just easier for Phoebe to say he had gone and not heard from rather than he had left her. To get married legally in those days, you had to get a marriage bond, which meant you had to pay the state a certain amount of money to take care of your children if you left them, in his case, 500 pounds. This is why common law marriages were so popular.
After Hugh McKaughan left North Carolina, Phoebe took her children to her father's farm where they built a cabin for her down by the spring. The foundation is still visible. They always referred to it as "Widow Phoebe's home" All their children stayed in North Carolina but Rev. William, my great grandfather.
The descendants of Hugh McKaughan span pages 82-270 of the book
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