McCOSKRY, SAMUEL ALLEN, D.D„ D,C.L„ b. Carlisle, Penn., 1804; was a cadet at West Point for one year; graduated at Dickinson college, and became ft successful lawyer, but left that profession to become a minister of the Episcopal church. He was a rector first in Reading, Penn., then in Philadelphia, and consecrated bishop of Michigan in 1836. In,1878 lie was deposed upon charges affecting his moral character.
McCRACKEN, a 0: in vv. Kentucky, bounded by the Tennessee and Ohio rivers, and traversed by the Clark river and the Paducah and :Memphis railroad; 232 sq.m.; pop. '80, 16,260. It has a level surface and fertile soil, the productions beinp-, Irish and sweet potatoes, butter, tobacco, Indian corn, and wheat. There .are manufactures of ligricultural implements, carriages and wagons, tobacco, etc.
.3fcCREA, JANE, 1754-77, b. N. J.; after the death of her father, a Scotch Pres byterian clergyman, she lived near fort Edward with her brother, who, on the arrival of 13urgoyne in 1777, wishing to take her to some more protected place, sent for her to the house of a 3Irs. McNeil at Fort Edward. His sister was engaged to David
Jones, a tory and an officer in a loyalist regiment. In the hope of meeting him, whom she believed to be with 13urgoyne's army, she put off In•r departure for some time, till, on the day it was to take place, the McNeil house was surrounded by Indians, and its intnates taken to Burgoyne's camp. 3frs. McNeil arrived there in safety, but a fresh party of Indians soon brought in the scalp of Miss _McCrea. The manner of her death, WillCh \YRS the subject of a sharp correspondence between Burgoyne and Gates, is not known. The Indians pretended that she was killed by- a stray shot from tho Americans; and according to another story she was tomahawked in a dispute among the Indians as to whom she belonged. A later legend affirmed that the Indians had been employed by Arles to bring her to the British camp, and that they had murdered her in a quarrel as to the reward promised.