Week 5 "Invite to dinner"

This week's prompt is "Invite to dinner", and it's pretty easy to guess I would choose one of my brick walls.  This guy has been pretty hard to find records on before 1803, when he moved from North Carolina to eastern Kentucky.  He died in about 1816, leaving no will or probate record, no headstone, no land records, no church records.  The only records we have are a few marriage records of his daughters and a couple tax lists.  I don't even know the first name of his wife, though I see an older female on the one census record in Kentucky.
His name is Francis McIntire. According to a grandson, he fought all through the Revolutionary War, receiving 5 wounds, though no record of him in the war has been found.  One of his daughters reports in the 1850 census that she was born in Pennsylvania.  Younger children of the family report being born in North Carolina, including my ancestor Hugh.  So I think he probably fought from Pennsylvania, married and lived there a while, then moved to North Carolina until 1803, when it is said he moved to Clark County Kentucky.
He is on the tax lists for a few years until 1816, so I think he died late 1815 or early 1816.
Y-DNA tests match us with other McIntires from North Carolina, and one claims to be a descendant of Philip McIntire, b. abt 1630 in Argyll, Scotland, fought at battle of Dunbar, and was transported and sold as a slave in Boston. After a few years, he gained his freedom and married, eventually dying in Reading, MA in 1719.
My great-grandmother was a McIntire, and I claim Clan MacIntyre as my clan.  Cruachan!

I have found a few interesting websites about the history of Clan MacIntyre. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-204000-732000/page/1

http://ardchattan.wikidot.com/clan-macintyre   (which includes link to 157 page document written by Martin MacIntyre)

http://blackbookofglenoe.blogspot.com/      

https://www.scotweb.co.uk/info/macintyre/



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