Thomas Mitchell

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 14 Oct 1805, Augusta Co, Virginia

Notes:

married (1) Elizabeth McClenachan Moor and (2) Elizabeth Wales

Other-Begin:
Apr 1806 Augusta County, Virginia
Volume 2, CIRCUIT COURT RECORDS, SECTION "I." JUDGMENTS. page 32 - April 1806

Peter R. Beverley vs. John Doake--Deposition of Thomas Mitchell, 14th October, 1805, aged 73, says: Samuel Doak lived on the land in dispute upwards of sixty years ago and John has lived on it ever since Sam's death. Deposition of Hugh Fulton, 14th October, 1805, aged 77, says: He was acquainted with Samuel, father of John.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: Abt 1740, Beverley Manor, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 28 Nov 1750, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Will: 20 Aug 1771, Beverley Manor, Augusta Co, Virginia

Notes:

Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Early_Settlers_of_Augusta_County%2C_Virginia

Property:
After Thomas Mitchell's death, his widow, Eleanor, and her children moved to Augusta County, Virginia. Jane had married Samuel Doak and her sister Mary had married John Tate. John, their brother, took up land next to Samuel and Jane Doak. Eleanor had land joining John and wife, Mary Mitchell Tate. Martha Mitchell had a farm near by. The farms listed above were all in the Beverly Patent that joined the Borden Tract where Houston had his farm.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rarichar&id=I4975

Other-Begin:
will of John Greer, brother in law, proved 28 Nov 1750. John Mitchell and Samuel Doage (Doak) were named guardians of his children, Rebecca, Alexander, Martha, and Mary, with surety Francis Beatey, 24 Aug 1752.
http://jliptrap.us/gen/mitchelltate.htm

Will:
The book "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia - Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County 1745-1800" by Lyman Chalkely and published in 1966 has this will Vol. III, page 444:

14th February 1771 John Mitchell's will, farmer, To wife, Elizabeth, plantation acquired from his mother by verbal will;. to third son John; to fourth son, James, executor, to youngest daughter, Elizabeth; to eldest son, Thomas, to eldest daughter, Elenor Wilson; to second son, Robert; to second daughter, Mary Right. Teste: John Tate, Andrew Moore, Thomas Wilson. Proved 20th August, 1771, by Moore and Wilson.

Name: James Mitchell
Date: 14 Feb 1771
Location: Augusta Co., VA
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.
Remarks: John Mitchell's will, farmer -- To wife, Elizabeth, plantation hired (?) from his mother by verbal will; to third son, John; to fourth son, James, executor; to youngest daughter, Elizabeth; to eldest son, Thomas; to eldest daughter, Elenor Wilson; to
Description: Executor
Book: WB4-444
Prove Date: 20 Aug 1771

John married Elizabeth Wilson about 1730 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth (daughter of John Wilson) was born about 1710; died after 1760. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1720, of, Ulster, Ireland; Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
• Residence: 1728, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
• Will: 4 May 1734, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania

Notes:

The book "Kentucky Genealogy and Biography" Vol. 5, p. 209 edited by Thomas Westerfield has a biography of Thomas Mitchell b. 16 June 1768 Rockbridge Co., VA. Thomas was the son of John Mitchell and Margaret Porter. John Mitchell was the son of John Mitchell and Mary Boyd. The book states "John
Mitchell and Mary Boyd immigrated from Ireland when their two children were very young. They appeared in Lancaster Co., PA in 1721. They lived there until 1737 when they moved over to the Virginia frontier to the area known as Augusta Co., VA. The area in Virginia later became Rockbridge County. In 1744 John, Jr. with his father's money selected a tract of land south of the Borden Grant for his father. The grant was for 400 acres being as stated in the patent, on a Branch of the James River called Broad Spring Branch." (The book states two children which would have been John and William.)
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website regarding Thomas Mitchell:
http://jliptrap.us/gen/mitchelltate.htm




Residence:
signed petition in 1728 to form Lancaster County from part of Chester County. Also signed by James Doke, who may have been the father of the Doak immigrant children.

Will of Thomas Mitchell confirms identification of Jane and her mother.


Will:
Lancaster Co Will Book A, Vol 1, pg 17
THOMAS MITCHELL / Deceased
May 4th: 1734 [May th: 1734 (no day shown)] IN the Name of God Amen I being weak of Body but in Perfit sence thought good to make my last Will and Testament I asigne my Soul to God who gave it me and my Body after my Decess to be desently Entered in the Meeting house Yard at the Discration of my Friends and well Beloved Son John Mitchell & my Wife Elloner Mitchell to be my Exetors & Administerators I do bequath and leave to my Wife Elloner Mitchell the Plantation while she is alive and the two working Horses with Plough and all Implements belonging therto and a Mare Caled Beefs [Bess] and three her choice of the Cows and two two year old Hefers and a Black Bullock and the Sheep But Jeam [but Jean's] till [at] her dispossel as [and] also the Houshold goods to her own Discretion amongst her Daughters And to my well Beloved Son my best Wearing Sutte of Apperell with Hatt and one Three Old Hefer and one Year Old Bullock and to my Elldest Daughter Martha the Black Horse and Brown Mare but not the foal She is now with and two two year old Hefers and one year old and to my Second Daughter Mary [McCary] one Cow besids the one called her own and one year old Bullock and the young Sorrel Mear

And to my third Daughter Jean one two year Old mear and one year old Heffer and all the sheep Called her own and and to my Fourth Daughter Jenat the Brown Mears foal and one year old Bullock and to her Mothers care and alow what Money is due to me when Sothe Pay'd for the Land I do leave to my Brother John Mitchell my Second best wearing Coat.

The above is the Last Will & Testament of Thomas Mitchell Late of Donnegal Dessesed as the same was Spoken by him in the Presents of us the Subscribers at which he was prevented by Death from Saying any more

Witness our hands this 14 Day of Nov. 1734.
:IT](Willi:IT]am Mitchell) (James Cook) LANCAST.CO:
The 14th Day of November 1734

Lancast Co: The 14th Day of November 1734.
Then Personally appeared William Mitchell and James Cook and on their Oaths Did Declare that the within Will was written in the time of the last Sickness of Thomas Mitchell the Testator and in his Presence and at his Special Request as his Last Will and that at the time of the Pronounceing and writing thereof he was of Sound mind and Understanding according to the best of their Knowledge but that he was Prevented by Death from Saying anymore.
Coram: Sa: Blunston Dep. Regis.

BE IT REMEMBERED that on the 14 Day of November A D 1734 The Last Will and Testament of Thomas Mitchell Deced was proved in due form of Law and Probate and Letters Testamentary were granted to John Mitchell and Elliner Mitchell Having first Sworn well and truly to Administer the said Deceds Estate and bring an Inventory thereof into the Registers Office in Lancaster Co. at or before the 14th. Day Dec. next And also to Render an Acct. where thereunto Lawfully Required Given under the Seal of the said office. P Sa: Blunston Dep. Register.


(credited to The late Elaine M Doak, co-Editor of "The Doak connection" and provided by Ralph Doak)

Thomas married Eleanor (..) Mitchell in 1707 in Ulster, Northern Ireland. Eleanor was born about 1687 in of, Ulster, Ireland; died about 1760 in Augusta Co, Virginia; was buried in North Mountain Presby cem, Greenville, Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: Aft 1734, Beverley Manor, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Property: Abt 1740, Beverley Manor, Augusta Co, Virginia

Notes:

After Thomas Mitchell's death, his widow, Eleanor, and her children moved to Augusta County, Virginia. Jane had married Samuel Doak and her sister Mary had married John Tate. John, their brother, took up land next to Samuel and Jane Doak. Eleanor had land joining John and wife, Mary Mitchell Tate. Martha Mitchell had a farm near by. The farms listed above were all in the Beverly Patent that joined the Borden Tract where Houston had his farm.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rarichar&id=I4975


Other-Begin:
Eleanor & son John are said to have moved to Augusta Co, VA after Thomas' death. If so, they probably made the move about the same time as the Doaks, ca 1739. There were definitely people by those names as well as bunches of other Mitchells who owned considerable property in the same general vicinity of the Doak land in Beverley Manor. Nearly every "Doak Document" you pick up has a Mitchell involved in some way witness, named as neighber, friend, etc.) and several of the Doak men supposedly married Mitchell women. I don't have all this sorted out; just about everything I have on the VA Mitchells has come from Chalkley's abstracts and that really doesn't give enough detail -- To get the story pieced together & documented, we're have to go to Augusta Co and go thru the records w/ a fine tooth comb. Then if we're really, really lucky, we might even prove that Mrs Samuel Doak was, as family lore tells us, Thomas & Eleanor Mitchell's daughter Jane!

source:
Elaine M Doak Special Collections Librarian/Archivist Pickler Memorial Library Truman State University, Kirksville, MO emdoak@truman.edu (816) 785-7368


http://tinasreflections.com/getperson.php?personID=I489&tree=tree1&PHPSESSID=d0d75745d2381f5c20d087b40997fcf0



Property:
After Thomas Mitchell's death, his widow, Eleanor, and her children moved to Augusta County, Virginia. Jane had married Samuel Doak and her sister Mary had married John Tate. John, their brother, took up land next to Samuel and Jane Doak. Eleanor had land joining John and wife, Mary Mitchell Tate. Martha Mitchell had a farm near by. The farms listed above were all in the Beverly Patent that joined the Borden Tract where Houston had his farm.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rarichar&id=I4975