The McSwain Family: {Descendants of Donald McSwain}

The earliest record of McSwain families in the U.S. can be found in the 1790 census that lists 20 McSwain households numbering 90 persons, all in NC. Of these, 15 households with 58 persons were in Robeson and Cumberland counties within a five mile radius of the present day town of St. Pauls, NC. By 1850, most if not all, of the McSwain families had moved on elsewhere. Donald McSwain and his wife, Peggy, left Scotland with their children, Malcolm, James, and Kitty, sometime between 1775 and...