Francis McDougle (1753-1808) was a Scottish-American Loyalist who fought in the American Revolutionary War. Born in Uwharrie, North Carolina to the Jacobite exile Finbar McDougle of Achnasaul and his Scottish immigrant wife, Francis attended school in Albemarle and worked on his father's small corn farm. When the Revolutionary War broke out, the McDougles remained loyal to the Crown out of a sense of indebtedness, as the Crown had pardoned the family for their former Jacobite allegiance. Francis fought at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, at which he was captured. The kindness shown to him by the Patriots resulted in his decision to not rejoin the struggle once Charles Cornwallis' army entered the region in 1780, and he instead returned to his farm. After independence, McDougle and most other frontier subsistence farmers became supporters of Jeffersonian democracy. McDougle died in 1808, leaving behind five children, including Ewan McDougle.