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James McGavock was born in 1728 near Glenarm in County Antrim. Of Scottish Presbyterian stock, the McGavocks farmed about 30 acres of mountain land. The margin between survival and failure on such a holding was always narrow and in the difficult years of 1753-7, the incentive to emigrate was very strong. It was about this time that James McGavock went to America.
He acquired land valued at £50 in Augusta County, Virginia, in 1757, and went on to purchase Fort Chiswell, one of the last frontier outposts on the Wilderness Road. On this busy highway he established an ordinary to accommodate the stream of settlers heading towards the Cumberland Gap and the virgin lands of Kentucky and Tennessee.
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