Esther Hopwood married William McClelland and they had 10 children;
Andrew McClelland 1757-
Elizabeth McClelland 1769--1818
James M McClelland 1770-1845
Enos McClelland 1774-1815
Asa or Asha McClelland Sr. 1776-1845
William McClelland Jr. 1781- 9 July 1842
David McClelland 1785-
John McClelland 1795-1840
Robert McClelland
Ephraim McClelland

Esther's birth & death year, Enos' death year, David's birth year, James' middle initial, William Jr., birth & death, Elizabeth's birth & death year courtesy of Robert Mahan. Thank you!

Research has not proven a theory that Moses Hopwood & Elizabeth Hinkley Pridham are her parents, no one else seems to be old enough to be her father.

∼NOTE: Death year and birth years have not yet been sourced. Unsourced death year of 1830 can be found online but again, without any sources.

ESTHER ANNE HOPWOOD was the daughter of an unknown mother and JOHN HOPWOOD. There was a man by this name living in McClellandtown, Fayette County, PA at the right time to be her father.

ESTHER is believed to have married WILLIAM approximately 1763, the year before the birth of their first recorded child, WILLIAM H. MCCLELLAND (1764-1833).

She may have been the second wife of WILLIAM "DOC" MCCLELLAND, following a first wife named ANN, whose name appears on early records with that of DOC.

Children generally attributed to ESTHER:

1) William H. McClelland (1764–1833)

2) JAMES McClelland (1767–1846)

3) Andrew McClelland (1770–1830)

4) John McClelland (1771–?)

5) Asa McClelland (1776–1854)

6) Enos McClelland (1784–1814)

7) David McClelland (?-1851) At least one family of descendants claims this man was a son of WILLIAM and ESTHER MCCLELLAND.

Thanks to: Steve Johnson for sharing his Fayette County records research distinguishing first wife ANN from second wife ESTHER, available online at - http://genforum.genealogy.com/mcclelland/messages/1243.html

Sources: Federal census, The Morning Herald newspaper, column "M'Clellandtown News Budget" by O. E. Hostetler, date unknown.
Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Volume XV, published in New York by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1924.
North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, pg. 17 under Lillian Syfers Welsh, entry 137047.
Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), national # 32315, state # 1450 for lineal descendant James Herter Ballard.