Their son, John Maholland, was born in Belfast about 1726. John served under Lt. Col. George Washington in Capt. Lewis' Company of the Virginia Colonial Militia in Augusta County from July to September 1754, and received bounty money for his services. He married Martha Gist in 1749. Her name has not been found among the records of the Christopher Gist family, but she is presumed to be related. She was perhaps a niece of that noted frontiersman born in Maryland in 1706. John and Martha had two known sons: Thomas (c.1748 - 1796) who married Martha Mumford and moved to North Carolina; and John.

     John and Martha's son, John Maholland, Jr., was born about 1755. Nothing is known of his life except that he married Lucy Smith in Greenville (formerly Brunswick) County, Virginia, on December 30, 1785. They migrated to Wilson County Tennessee, where their children were born. He died there May 21, 1830. Their children were: William, who was named guardian to his sister Elizabeth's children when their father died, was executor of his father's will, and known affectionately in the family as "Uncle Billy"; Elizabeth (Betsy), who married Hezekiah Cartwright; Nancy Allen; and Sarah, who also married a Cartwright.

     John and Lucy's daughter, Nancy Allen Maholland, was born on March 5, 1790. In 1814, she married Samuel B. Crutchfield . She died at Shop Springs in Smith County in 1858.