"In 1797 John McMullan (born in Ireland in 1740) sold his 310 acres ofl and17 in Swift Run Gap, Orange County, Virginia, and moved with hissec ond wife Elizabeth (Stowers) and children to Elbert County,Georgia. Th ree of his five children from his first marriage (toTheodocia Beasley) c ame with them: Patrick, Catherine Shiflet (wifeof Powell Shiflet) and J ohn."
