Sir Richard Williams (alias Cromwell)

Notes:

Sir Richard Williams, alias Cromwell (born by 1512 - 1545) was a Welsh soldier and a courtier in the court of Henry VIII. [1] He was a maternal nephew of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex and profited from the Dissolution of the Monasteries in which he took an active part.
(Wilipedia)

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
An indication of the funeral pomp used at his interment can be found by the charges of the heralds, which were the same as those incurred at the burial of some of the greatest knights of his day.
Wikipedia

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Elizabeth Steward on 25 Apr 1599 in England. Elizabeth was born about 1564 in England; died in 1654 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William* Hampden. William* (son of Griffith* Hampden and Anne* Cave) was born on 5 Nov 1570 in Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire, England; died after 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was descended from Katherine Cromwell (born c. 1482), an elder sister of Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell (c. 1485?1540), a minister of Henry VIII, whose family acquired considerable wealth by taking over monastery property during the Reformation. Katherine was married to Morgan ap William, son of William ap Yevan of Wales. The family line continued through Richard Williams, alias Cromwell, (c. 1500?1544), Henry Williams, alias Cromwell, (c. 1524?6 January 1604),[8] then to Oliver's father Robert Cromwell (c. 1560?1617), who married Elizabeth Steward (c. 1564?1654) on the day of Oliver Cromwell's birth. Thomas thus was Oliver's great-great-great-uncle.[9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell#Early_years

Notes:

Despite the high profile role of Colonel Hammond, his wife?s father played an even higher profile role. Mary was the daughter of Elizabeth Simeon and John Hampden, an early and much-celebrated leader of the rebellions that would bring down the Stuart king. As a parliamentarian, he fought skillfully in organizing his fellows against illegal taxes and forced loans imposed by Charles upon his subjects. In 1637, when his daughter Mary was perhaps 7 years old, he personally rose up against the hated ship-money tax (a levy originally intended to preserve England from an invading fleet, but which had been misused that year to raise money for the king?s personal causes), and though in this test case he would lose against the Crown, his defiance in court was seen as a moral victory. By 1643, after Parliament had taken over London and set about contesting King Charles for the rest of the country, John Hampden sought to use his tactical skills on the battlefield. At Chalgrove, he met his fate, and as Officer Jackson had after his last act of service, died from a mortal wound six days later at the nearby village of Thame.


John Hampden and Oliver Cromwell. First cousins ? zero generations removed.
John Hampden was the first cousin of Oliver Cromwell. Hampden?s early bravery inspired his Cambridgeshire cousin to the great fetes later that would propel him to the role of Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. John?s mother, Elizabeth, was the younger sister of Robert Cromwell of Huntingdon, who fathered Oliver. Both siblings were raised by Sir Henry Williams, better known by his alias of Cromwell, the family name of his grandmother. In his late 20s, he rose to greatness when he valiantly served King Henry VIII in suppressing the Pilgrimage of Grace, the pro-Catholic rebellion against the creation of a Protestant Church of England. The success of Henry and his father gave rise to the branch of the Cromwells that ultimately led to Oliver?s rise as Lord Protector.

http://benmangel.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/the-cromwell-ancestry-of-the-only-pasco-police-officer-to-die-in-the-line-of-duty/

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth* Simeon. Elizabeth* (daughter of Edmund* Symeon) was born about 1600. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Col. Robert* Hammond. Robert* was born about 1620; died in 1654. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Archibald's mother Letitia, or Lettice, was born in 1650, the first of three children born from Colonel Robert and Mary Hampden Hammond, a couple who married sometime around the time of King Charles I's execution, the act that set in motion the rise of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth."
Ben M. Angel
http://benmangel.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/the-cromwell-ancestry-of-the-only-pasco-police-officer-to-die-in-the-line-of-duty/

Family/Spouse: Phineas* Preston. Phineas* (son of Alderman of Dublin John* Preston and Mary* Morris) was born before 6 Oct 1650 in Bolton, Lancashire, England; was christened on 6 Oct 1650 in S. Peter, Bolton, Lancashire, England; died after 1680 in of, Tara and Ardsallagh, Meath, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: "Valleyfield" Prestons, north of England

Notes:

"Archibald Preston's parents were Phineas and Letitia Hammond Preston, a Protestant couple born of families that were clearly anti-Royalist. In the Cavalier era, that time that featured the return of the Stuart Prince of Wales Charles II to the English throne following the death of Oliver Cromwell, both Prestons and Hammonds, the latter of which included a "regicide" (an official found guilty of helping to orchestrate the execution of King Charles I in 1649), suffered. Possibly coincidental, but within a year of the departure of the Prestons for the plantations of Ireland, King Charles II attempted in 1672, with overwhelming protests from his parliament, to remove laws that punished religious dissent. The pro-Stuart Anglican backlash against both Protestant and Catholic dissenters no doubt left many Puritans still in England uneasy, and it was said that the family had originally left England because of religious persecution."
Ben M. Angel
http://benmangel.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/the-cromwell-ancestry-of-the-only-pasco-police-officer-to-die-in-the-line-of-duty/

Phineas married Hon., "Mary of Montjoy" Mary* Stewart in 1692 in Mountjoy, Co Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland. Mary* (daughter of 1st Viscount Mountjoy William* Stewart and Hon. Mary* Coote) was born about 1677 in Mountjoy, Co Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland; died on 4 Oct 1765 in Ulster Co, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1690, Derry, Co Cavan, Ulster, Ireland
• Emigration: 1728, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland
• Immigration: 1728, Pennsylvania
• Other-Begin: 22 May 1740, Orange Co, Virginia
• Property: 24 May 1744, Orange Co, Virginia
• Death: 12 Nov 1757, Fishersville, Augusta Co, Virginia

Notes:

"Of the Breckenridge immigrants, Jane Preston carried the Cromwell ancestry. Said to be of the same Prestons that spawned the Valleyfield Preston baronetcy in Perthshire, Scotland, Jane's branch of the family had been in Ireland since at least 1672, when her father, Archibald (or Phineas) Preston was born in the Ardsallagh Townlands below the sacred Hill of Tara. Archibald would find his wife in the daughter of the recently deceased Viscount of Montjoy (one of 8,000 killed at Steenkerke), Mary Stewart, the product of Protestant Ulster landowners firmly affixed in County Tyrone. After Jane's birth, the couple spent a good 11 years together farming in Ulster until he died in 1703. Three years later, the widowed Mary would wed again, this time to the eligible future admiral Viscount of Granard, then a ship captain assigned to the Baltic Sea. Jane, as eldest child, went through her teen years awaiting news of the success of her stepfather before finally meeting George Breckenridge and marrying in 1714, just three years before the great drought first set in."
Ben M. Angel
http://benmangel.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/the-cromwell-ancestry-of-the-only-pasco-police-officer-to-die-in-the-line-of-duty/

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From Wikipedia.org page, "Breckenridge family" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breckinridge_family):

She [Jane Preston] was sister of Robert Preston, first Speaker of Kentucky State House of Representatives. (Added by Evelyn Alexander)

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From RootsWeb page, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dblocher&id=I293991#s2:

Father: John (Archibald) PRESTON b: 1672 in Tara and Ardsallagh, Meath, Ireland Mother: Mary STEWART b: 1677 in Mountjoy, Ireland c: in Also Of Tara, And Ardsallagh, County Meath, Ireland

Marriage 1 Alexander BRECKINRIDGE b: 1690 in Leinster, Dublin, Ireland

See page link for sources.

http://www.geni.com/people/Jane-Breckenridge/6000000001730771754

Other-Begin:
Orange Co Offspring: 1734 > Frederick 1743 > Augusta 1745 > Culpeper 1749 > Greene 1838

Headrights of Orange Co., Virginia

Headrights were grants of 50 acres of land per "head" - or
per white male over the age of 16 who transported himself to the colonies. They appear in the Court of Common Pleas in the county in which the land was granted. The attached file includes the headrights copied from the Orange Co., Va Court of Common Pleas in the 18th Century. These headrights function as the only real immigration record for English, Scot or Irish immigrants in that time period. The headright identifies the country of origin and generally the port of entry in the colonies.
May 1740
Alexander Brackenridge, Jane, John, George, Rober, James Smith, Jane & Letitia Brackenridge
(from Ireland)
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/orange/deeds/orangehe.txt

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HISTORIC FAMILIES OF KENTUCKY:
On the 22nd day of May in 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared in the Orange County, Virginia Court House (Augusta County, Virginia not having been then established, and the territory being embraced in that of Orange) to `prove their
importation.' The first of these was Alexander Breckenridge, who made oath that he had imported himself and John, George, Robert, Smith and Letitia Breckenridge, from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony (Virginia), at his own charges.

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Early in 1740, or shortly before, there was a great influx of population into the Valley. On the 22d of May, 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared at Orange Court to "prove their importation." The first order of the series is as follows:
"Alexander Breckenridge came into Court and made oath that he imported himself, and (blank), John, George, Robert, (blank), Smith, (blank), and Letitia Breckenridge from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony, at his own charges, and this is the first time of proving his and their rights in order to obtain land, which is ordered to be certified." He, however, acquired by purchase from Beverley 245 acres, on March 24, 1741.

The blanks above indicate names which are illegible in the record book. (these blanks would be Adam, Sarah, and James.)

http://archive.org/stream/annalsofaugusta00wadd/annalsofaugusta00wadd_djvu.txt

Property:
Disposition of Land by Widow of Alexander Breckenridge to his younger children, from Chalkley's:

Abatement of an attachment suit brought by Alexander Brakinridge as petitioner, against the estate of Thomas Renox, defendant, in the Court of Orange County, Virginia, caused dismissal of the proceeding September 23, 1743, "on account of the death of the petitioner." This is the nearest discoverable record fixing approximately the date of the death of Alexander Brakinridge. Administration on his estate was not undertaken until May 24, 1744, on which day his widow, Jane Breckenridge, appeared in open court in Orange County and relinquished her right to administer in favor of her son, George Breckenridge. George, in turn, on the same date, gave a bond to his mother, obligating himself to carry out a dying wish of his father (who had died intestate), and bound himself to convey 400 acres of his father's lands to Adam, 300 acres to Smith, and 112 acres to James Breckenridge, his younger brothers "who are under age." The significance of this instrument was that George as the oldest son surviving, was the heir at law of his father and as such inherited all his lands, and by this he relinquished his rights to the measure undertaken, to these minor brothers. Final settlement of the estate of Alexander Breckenridge was made and approved in Orange County Court, May 24, 1750. (Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~breckfamilytree/nti00233.html )

(http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Alexander_Breckenridge_%284%29)

Jane* married Alexander* Breckenridge, (Immigrant) (son?) in 1695 in Newtown Limavady, Limavady, Co Londonderry, Ireland. Alexander* (son of John* Breckenridge and Mrs. Barbara* (..) Breckenridge) was born in 1686 in Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland; died before 23 Sep 1743 in Fishersville, Tinkling Spring, Augusta Co, Virginia; was buried in Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church Cem, Fisherville, Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Philip Barger about 1715. Philip was born in 1695 in Northern Ireland; died after 1730 in Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: 1740, Tinkling Spring Church, Tinkling Spring, Augusta Co, Virginia

Margaret married William Patton about 1717 in Ireland. William (son of Henry Patton, Jr. and Sarah Lynn) was born in 1691 in Newtown Limavady, Limavady, Co Londonderry, Ireland; died in Dec 1742 in Marlboro, Chester Co, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 26 Aug 1738, "The Walpole" Ireland
• Residence: 1742, Calfpasture, Augusta Co, Virginia; "Early Settlers of Augusta"
• Other-Begin: 7 Aug 1744, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: May 1746, Augusta Co, Virginia

Notes:

According to a monument erected by members of the Preston family in 1855, John Preston was buried in Tinkling Springs graveyard in 1747. His wife Elizabeth Patton Preston, eloped with John in 1723 in Ireland before coming to an American colony in Virginia, (Beverley's Manor) and joining Elizabeth's brother James Patton, already there. John and Elizabeth came to America on board "The Walpole", a ship owned by Elizabeth's brother James (their father was Henry Patton of Ireland, a shipping magnate of the time). John was a shipbuilder/carpenter,and was said to be very handsome. His sister Jane married Alexander Breckinridge, while another sister, Margaret Preston married his brother-in-law, William Patton.
(findagrave)

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John Preston came to America with his brother-in-law, James Patton, a brother of Mrs. Preston. It is believed that he lived on the farm a mile N. E. of Staunton, recently known as the Mosby-Taylor farm, and now, (1892), owned by M. E. Miller.

Mrs. Lititia Floyd, daughter of Col. William Preston, granddaughter of John Preston, and wife of the first Governor Floyd, in 1843 wrote an account of the Preston family, from which we take most of the following statements:

Colonel James Patton had four sisters, two of whom married "men of quality" in the old country. The youngest sister, Elizabeth, while crossing the river Shannon in a boat, had as a fellow-passenger a young man of striking appearance, who proved to be a ship carpenter named John Preston. This casual interview led to acquaintance and a runaway marriage. The young lady thus placed herself ''out of the pale of her family." Her brother, James Patton, having afterwards retired from the sea and settled in America, induced Mr. and Mrs. Preston to emigrate also. Mrs. Floyd puts the date of their arrival in the Valley at 1735, and says John Preston died seven years afterwards at "Gibson's old place, eight miles below Staunton." But it appears from the records of Augusta County Court that his death occurred in 1747, and if he lived only seven years after coming, he must have arrived in 1740 with Alexander Breckinridge and many others, as is generally supposed to have been the fact. While living in Augusta, remote from the seaboard, John Preston employed himself as a cabinetmaker, constructing household furniture for himself and neighbors.

William, only son of John Preston, was born in the town of Newton, Ireland, November 25, 1729. He received most of his education in America, from the Rev. John Craig. Mrs. Patton was a haughty woman, says Mrs. Floyd, and kept aloof from the Prestons. A silly prediction of an Irish woman that William Preston would get his uncle's fortune, so impressed her with dread of a marriage between the nephew and one of her daughters, that she allowed no intercourse between the young people. She died soon after the marriage of her daughters,?one to a kinsman of hers named Thompson, and the other to John Buchanan. Colonel Patton then induced his widowed sister to remove to Spring Farm, in the vicinity of Staunton, and went to live with her.

John Preston and other Presbyterian people of Staunton and vicinity of his day, worshiped at Tinkling Spring, and his body was interred at that place. His eldest daughter married Robert Breckinridge, the ancestor of several distinguished men. The second daughter married the Rev. John Brown, pastor of New Providence church, and from them descended John Brown, of Kentucky, and James Brown, of Louisiana, both of them United States Senators, and the latter minister to France. William Preston was the father of a numerous family, male and female, and many of his descendants have been eminent in various walks of life. John Preston, the ancestor, appears to have been a quiet man, and without the bustling energy which characterized other pioneer settlers; but the traits which he and 'his wife Elizabeth," transmitted to their posterity is a noble testimony that the pair possessed more than common merit. He died in 1747, leaving a very small estate, as far as appears. His wife qualified as administratrix, February 6, 1747, and executed a bond, with John Maxwell and Robert McClanahan as her securities, in the penalty of ,£100, indicating a personal estate of only ,£50.

On the day that John Preston "proved his importation," the court ordered that ''Edward Boyle, for damning the court and swearing four oaths in their presence, be put in the stocks for two hours, and be fined twelve shillings," ($2).

At November term, 1746, the court made an allowance to provide small beer, [for the Justices, it is presumed) , and for stabling the horses of justices, attorneys and officers. Persons were licensed to sell liquor in booths and stalls on the court-house lot; and at March term, 1750, commissioners were appointed to inspect the beer sold at every court, "and if it appear that the same is not at least one month old and well hop'd then they presume not to ask more than one penny a quart."

Till the year 1746, no vestrymen had been elected, as provided in the act of 1738. In that year, however, an election was held, and twelve persons were chosen to constitute the vestry of the parish, viz: James Patton, (Col.) John Buchanan, John Madison, Patrick Hays, John Christian, (Mr.) John Buchanan, Robert Alexander, Thomas Gorden, James Lockhart, John Archer, John Matthews, and John Smith.

From the first settlement of Virginia the Church of England had been established in the colony. The inhabited parts were laid off into parishes, in each of which was a minister, who had a fixed salary in tobacco, together with a farm (called glebe) and a parsonage. There was a general assessment on all the inhabitants to meet the expenses.

Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871 By Joseph Addison Waddell

http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=Mrs+Patton+was+a+haughty+woman,+says+Mrs.+Floyd&sig=M_smhTZyznyyEemOQ9XmET_n5gI&ei=zsvYUNq4HISA2wXP-IHgBg&id=rZbEC1kEdpcC&ots=ogDVEf-0mO&output=text

Immigration:
John and Elizabeth came to America on board "The Walpole", a ship owned by Elizabeth's brother James (their father was Henry Patton of Ireland, a shipping magnate of the time). John was a shipbuilder/carpenter, and was said to be very handsome.

James Patton served in the British Royal Navy in Queen Anne's War. After the Treaty of Utrecht, he procured a passenger ship and traded to the Colony of Virginia at Robbs Hole on the Tappahannock. He penetrated the then wilderness of the state as far as Orange County, thence across the Blue Ridge and commenced a settlement near Waynesborough in Augusta County. He crossed the Atlantic 23 or 25 times as Master of a ship in and around 1728. In his private shipping enterprises, Capt James Patton made contracts with promotors of the settlement of the western part of Virginia. He sailed on the ship 'Walpole' to Virginia, arriving August 26, 1738. His first residence was Beverly Manor on the south fork of the Shenendoah.


Residence:
Alexander Breckenridge, (Beverley Manor SW, two tracts of 245 & 112 acres, 1742), (b. abt. 1670 Scotland, d. bef. 23 Sept. 1743, Augusta County), married Jane Preston, sister of John Preston of the Calfpasture)
http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Early_Settlers_of_Augusta_County,_Virginia_-_Surnames_A-E


Other-Begin:
Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia
Volume I
COUNTY COURT JUDGEMENTS
AUGUSTA COUNTY.

George Brackenridge vs. John Preston.--Debt on note. Dated 7th August, 1744.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalkley/volume_1/judge292.htm


Other-Begin:
Gabriel Jones duly appointed in April term to start next court, May term.
May term, 1746 John Preston proved his importation from Ireland, with his wife, Elizabeth, William, his son, and Lettice and Ann, his daughters, at his own charge, "in order to partake of his majesty's bounty for taking up land."
Annals of Augusta County, Virginia from 1726 to 1871
by Joseph Addison Waddell

John married Elizabeth Patton, (Immigrant) in 1723 in Ireland. Elizabeth (daughter of Henry Patton, Jr. and Sarah Lynn) was born on 25 Dec 1700 in Burncrannack, Ireland; died on 25 Dec 1776 in Greenfield, Botetourt Co, Virginia; was buried in Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church Cem, Fisherville, Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Robert Poague on 22 Mar 1721 in Co Antrim, Ulster, Ireland. Robert was born about 1700 in Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland; died on 6 Mar 1774 in Fishersville, Tinkling Spring, Augusta Co, Virginia; was buried in Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church Cem, Fisherville, Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1728, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland
• Immigration: 1728, Pennsylvania
• Residence: Bef 1740, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Other-Begin: 22 May 1740, Orange Co, Virginia

Notes:

He was killed by Indians.

John Breckenridge
Date: Oct 30, 1784
Location: Augusta Co., VA
Record ID: 35283
Description: Neighbor
Book-Page: 25-92

Property: Corner John Breckenridge, who was murdered by the Indians.

This land 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
John Breckinridge
Date: Mar 16, 1784
Location: Augusta Co., VA
Record ID: 35198
Description: Deceased landowner
Book-Page: 24-185

Property: 210 acres in Beverley Manor, corner to graveyard of John Breckinridge, who was murdered by the Indians; corner tract purchased of William Null.

Remarks: James is son of John Brown, deceased. John died seised of property below and devised same to be sold.

This land 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


John Breckinridge
Date: Nov 28, 1750
Location: Augusta Co., VA
Record ID: 31430
Description: Deceased landowner
Book-Page: 3-72

Property: 210 acres; Robert McClenachan's line; corner to graveyard of John Breckinridge, who was murdered by the Indians.

Remarks: John Breckinridge was murdered by the Indians. Part of 650.

This land 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


John Breckinridge
Date: Mar 16, 1784
Location: Augusta Co., VA
Record ID: 35198
Description: Deceased landowner
Book-Page: 24-185

Property: 210 acres in Beverley Manor, corner to graveyard of John Breckinridge, who was murdered by the Indians; corner tract purchased of William Null.

Remarks: James is son of John Brown, deceased. John died seised of property below and devised same to be sold.

This land 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

Residence:
1740, 22 May: Alexander BRECKENRIDGE made oath that he had imported himself and John, George, Robert, Smith and Letitia BRECKENRIDGE from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to VA, at his own charges.


Other-Begin:
Orange Co Offspring: 1734 > Frederick 1743 > Augusta 1745 > Culpeper 1749 > Greene 1838

Headrights of Orange Co., Virginia

Headrights were grants of 50 acres of land per "head" - or
per white male over the age of 16 who transported himself to the colonies. They appear in the Court of Common Pleas in the county in which the land was granted. The attached file includes the headrights copied from the Orange Co., Va Court of Common Pleas in the 18th Century. These headrights function as the only real immigration record for English, Scot or Irish immigrants in that time period. The headright identifies the country of origin and generally the port of entry in the colonies.
May 1740
Alexander Brackenridge, Jane, John, George, Rober, James Smith, Jane & Letitia Brackenridge
(from Ireland)
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/orange/deeds/orangehe.txt

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HISTORIC FAMILIES OF KENTUCKY:
On the 22nd day of May in 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared in the Orange County, Virginia Court House (Augusta County, Virginia not having been then established, and the territory being embraced in that of Orange) to `prove their
importation.' The first of these was Alexander Breckenridge, who made oath that he had imported himself and John, George, Robert, Smith and Letitia Breckenridge, from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony (Virginia), at his own charges.

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Early in 1740, or shortly before, there was a great influx of population into the Valley. On the 22d of May, 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared at Orange Court to "prove their importation." The first order of the series is as follows:
"Alexander Breckenridge came into Court and made oath that he imported himself, and (blank), John, George, Robert, (blank), Smith, (blank), and Letitia Breckenridge from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony, at his own charges, and this is the first time of proving his and their rights in order to obtain land, which is ordered to be certified." He, however, acquired by purchase from Beverley 245 acres, on March 24, 1741.

The blanks above indicate names which are illegible in the record book. (these blanks would be Adam, Sarah, and James.)

http://archive.org/stream/annalsofaugusta00wadd/annalsofaugusta00wadd_djvu.txt

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: French & Indian War - Albemarle Co militia
• Emigration: 1728, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland
• Immigration: 1728, Pennsylvania
• Residence: Bef 1740, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Other-Begin: 22 May 1740, Orange Co, Virginia; oath
• Other-Begin: 1742, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Property: Between 1742 and 1747, Beverley Manor SW, Augusta Co, Virginia; "Early Settlers of Augusta"
• Other-Begin: 7 Aug 1744, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 10 Dec 1745, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 17 Jun 1746, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 19 Jun 1746, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 17 Jul 1746, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: Aug 1746, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Property: 17 Oct 1748, Beverley Manor, Augusta Co, Virginia; "Early Setters of Augusta"
• Residence: 15 Oct 1751, Cathey's River (now Middle River), Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 11 Aug 1757, Albemarle Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: Between 23 Mar 1767 and 18 Mar 1768, Augusta Co, Virginia; petition
• Religion: 1769, Unity Congregation, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Military: 1776, Revolution War - expedition
• Will: 29 Sep 1790, Wythe Co, Virginia

Notes:

After Ann passed away, "The father moved all the children back with family in Augusta County as he himself began tilling a new farm south of Augusta?s new county seat of Stanton. George never remarried, and as the Revolutionary War broke out, the kids left either to fight or be married off to soldiers. Most eventually relocated to Kentucky by the time that George passed away in the Commonwealth of Virginia on 29 September 1790."
Ben M. Angel
http://benmangel.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/the-cromwell-ancestry-of-the-only-pasco-police-officer-to-die-in-the-line-of-duty/

(Vol 2, # 1871)
Included on list of importations in Orange County, VA, Order Book II:155,
22 May 1740. Total list: Alexander Brackenridge, Jane, John, George, Robert,James, Smith, Jane and Letitia Brackenridge (Wilson p. 424).
He purchased 761 acres with brother, Robert, on 26 November 1742, in Tinkling Spring. Entry for father, Alexander, same date, 357 acres (Wilson, p. 418), Orange Co. Deed Books.
His son, Alexander, was baptised at South Mountain (Tinkling Spring), 30 June 1743 (Wilson, P. 471).
George and Robert sold 300 acres in Beverly Manor to David Doack on 10 February 1745-6 (Chalkley, vol. III, p. 261). Remaining 461 acres sold to Samuel Wilson before 3 June 1755.
By 1768 he was appointed a representative to Unity Congregation, serving the people settled on the waters of Holston River and Reed Creek (Wilson, p. 171). On Wythe - Settlement map, is shown near John Finley's Sally Run property and near oaks. Wythe County Will Book 1:1 gives his will; proved 29 September 1790; names wife, Agness, daughter Sary Finley (said to have married John Finley). He was a judge from Fincastle, Virginia.
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Geo. Breckinridge
Date: Jun 3, 1755
Location: Augusta Co., VA
Record ID: 32111
Description: Landowner
Book-Page: 7-165

Property: 461 acres in Beverley Manor; corner David Doak.

Remarks: £55. Part of 761 acres granted by Beverley to George and Robert Breckinridge 26 Nov 1742. Sold by Geo. and Ro. to Saml. 8 Feb 1747.

This land 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
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George Breckinridge
Date: Nov 17, 1772
Location: Augusta Co., VA
Record ID: 34409
Description: Landowner
Book-Page: 19-5

Property: In Beverley Manor.

Remarks: First sold by Beverley to George Breckinridge and by him transferred to David Doak. Delivered to David Humphries, 24 Nov 1774.

This land 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

1769- George, was ordained as Elder of Unity Congregation that served the Reed Creek and Holston area.

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Response to my own post:

angermeyer (View posts) Posted: 2 Apr 2005 10:41AM
Classification: Query
Surnames: BRECKENRIDGE, LINDSAY, DOAK

Sorry its taken me so long to get back to you about the mother of Letitia Breckenridge, who I have as daughter of George Breckenridge and Ann Doak. You said you had her mother as Agnes Watson. I had to go back to find my sources, and I believe there is some conflicting info out there. Agnes Watson married George Breckenridge in 1786, that was one year AFTER his daughter Letitia married Moses Lindsey in Montgomery County. For that reason, I have accepted Ann Doak as the mother of Letitia Breckenridge. It is not certain when Ann Doak died, except presumed to be before the marriage to Agnes Watson. Below are two references that I used.

From book above & other sources: Writings of James Malcom Breckenridge, Jerry Donly Papers, papers & letters Feb & Mar 1992 of John B. Thomas, Jr., & marriages of Bourbon Co, KY.

QUOTE ::George BRECKENRIDGE, s/o Alexander, b c1714 Northern Ireland, d 1790 VA, Will 3 May 1790/ proved 29 Sep 1790. m Ann DOAK 1742 VA. She d by 1786, d/o Doak emigrants from Ulster to PA. He m2) 26 Sep 1786 (bond) Agnes WATSON of Montgomery Co, VA. He came w/parents abt 1730 to Bucks Co, PA, then abt 1738 went with them to Augusta Co, VA. 1744 he Admins. of his father Alexander's estate. Augusta Co, VA 16 May 1747 he conveyed land of Beverley Manor 245A to bro Robert. ?. Colonial military service 1742, Augusta Co, VA, records in the Preston Papers, Library of the WI Hist. Soc., Madison, WI: Alexander Breckenridge & sons George, Robert & James served under Capt. John Christian's Co. He appears in Albemarle Co, VA 1746-1763. French & Indian War he in Albemarle Co militia, Henning's Statutes of VA, Vol VII, pg 203, listed as paid for services Sep 1758 for defense & protection of the frontiers. VA State Library at Richmond records War 23 21 Nov 1788 George paid for VA State Militia at Horsehire, Cherokee, Expedition in the Rev. War Aug 1776. He was 60 yrs old & not sure this is him? George & family res Augusta, Albertmarle, Boutetourt & Fincaslte Cos VA. Ch: Alexander, Robert, John, Jane m ALCORN, Elizabeth m EVANS, Sarah m FINDLEY & Letitia m LINDSEY.

Alexander d 1813 Bourbon Co, KY. m Magdalene GAMBLE.
Robert d 1814 Bath Co, KY. m Mary DOAK.
John d 1824 Bourbon Co, KY. m Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY.
Jane m John ALCORN.
Elizabeth m Jesse EVANS.
Letitia m Mr. LINDSEY.
Sarah m Robert FINDLEY.
END QUOTE

I also have Letitia's parents as George Breckenridge and Ann Doak from Mary Kegley's "Adventures on Western Waters", Page 592 of Vol. III, part 2:

Under the surname "Breckenridge" is found: QUOTE "George is said to have married twice: (1) Ann, daughter of Samuel Doak, and (2) Agnes Watson in 1786. George and Ann had seven children: Alexander, Robert, John, Elizabeth, Lettita , Jane, and Sarah. John and Alexander died in Bourbon Co. KY, and Robert who married his cousin Mary Doak, died in Bath Co. KY. Elizabeth married her neighbor Jesse Evans and died in Virginia before her husband moved to Missouri. Letitia married Moses Lynsey (Lindsey), Jane married John Alcorn of Reed Creek, and Sarah married John Finley (family records; Kennedy, "Seldens of Virginia" pp 588-589)." END QUOTE

I would like to see this reference of the Seldens of Virginia by Kennedy. Also deed searches for George Breckenridge land may have reference to his wife Ann and when she disappears from the scene in Augusta and Montgomery Counties. This does not rule out another wife between Ann and Agnes, but to date no evidence of that. I'm going to Virginia in June and will scour for more information on Breckenridge and Lindsey there. Have a good weekend.

Katie
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.breckenridge/384.1.1.1/mb.ashx

Residence:
1740, 22 May: Alexander BRECKENRIDGE made oath that he had imported himself and John, George, Robert, Smith and Letitia BRECKENRIDGE from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to VA, at his own charges.


Other-Begin:
Orange Co Offspring: 1734 > Frederick 1743 > Augusta 1745 > Culpeper 1749 > Greene 1838

Headrights of Orange Co., Virginia

Headrights were grants of 50 acres of land per "head" - or
per white male over the age of 16 who transported himself to the colonies. They appear in the Court of Common Pleas in the county in which the land was granted. The attached file includes the headrights copied from the Orange Co., Va Court of Common Pleas in the 18th Century. These headrights function as the only real immigration record for English, Scot or Irish immigrants in that time period. The headright identifies the country of origin and generally the port of entry in the colonies.
May 1740
Alexander Brackenridge, Jane, John, George, Rober, James Smith, Jane & Letitia Brackenridge
(from Ireland)
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/orange/deeds/orangehe.txt

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HISTORIC FAMILIES OF KENTUCKY:
On the 22nd day of May in 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared in the Orange County, Virginia Court House (Augusta County, Virginia not having been then established, and the territory being embraced in that of Orange) to `prove their
importation.' The first of these was Alexander Breckenridge, who made oath that he had imported himself and John, George, Robert, Smith and Letitia Breckenridge, from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony (Virginia), at his own charges.

---------------
Early in 1740, or shortly before, there was a great influx of population into the Valley. On the 22d of May, 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared at Orange Court to "prove their importation." The first order of the series is as follows:
"Alexander Breckenridge came into Court and made oath that he imported himself, and (blank), John, George, Robert, (blank), Smith, (blank), and Letitia Breckenridge from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony, at his own charges, and this is the first time of proving his and their rights in order to obtain land, which is ordered to be certified." He, however, acquired by purchase from Beverley 245 acres, on March 24, 1741.

The blanks above indicate names which are illegible in the record book. (these blanks would be Adam, Sarah, and James.)

http://archive.org/stream/annalsofaugusta00wadd/annalsofaugusta00wadd_djvu.txt

Property:
George Breckenridge & Robert Breckenridge (Beverley Manor SW, 761 acres, 1742, corner of land of George Breckenridge (540 acres acquired in 1747)) George Breckenridge and Col. Robert Breckenridge were brothers, both sons of Alexander Breckenridge and Jane Preston.

http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Early_Settlers_of_Augusta_County,_Virginia_-_Surnames_A-E


Other-Begin:
Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia
Volume I
COUNTY COURT JUDGEMENTS
AUGUSTA COUNTY
John Smith vs. George Breckenridge.--Contract, 1742, by George to make 3,000 rails for John, which George did not perform.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalkley/volume_1/judge292.htm


Other-Begin:
Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia
Volume I
COUNTY COURT JUDGEMENTS
AUGUSTA COUNTY.

George Brackenridge vs. John Preston.--Debt on note. Dated 7th August, 1744.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalkley/volume_1/judge292.htm


Other-Begin:
Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia
Volume I
COUNTY COURT JUDGEMENTS
AUGUSTA COUNTY.

George Brackenridge vs. John Smith.--Petition on bond dated 10th December, 1745. Writ dated 14th February, 1745.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalkley/volume_1/judge292.htm


Other-Begin:
"Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta Co. 1745-1800," by Lyman Chalkley.

1746, 17 Jun: George BRACKENRIDGE, yeoman, deeded to Samuel Lusk, farmer, 200 acres on south side Middle River of Shanando. Acknowledged 18 Jun 1746, and Ann released dower, Augusta Co., VA.


Other-Begin:
Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia
Volume I
COUNTY COURT JUDGEMENTS
AUGUSTA COUNTY.

William Lewis vs. James Brackenridge.--Attachment. 19th June, 1746. Defendant absconded. Attachment levied in hands of Robert McClenachan and George Brackenridge. Note of James Breckenridge to Wm. Lewis, £3, 2, 8. Dated 23d December, 1744.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalkley/volume_1/judge292.htm


Other-Begin:
Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia
Volume I
COUNTY COURT JUDGEMENTS
AUGUSTA COUNTY.

James Davis vs. David Morgan.--Attachment 17th July, 1746. George Breckenridge, surety.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalkley/volume_1/judge292.htm



Other-Begin:
Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia
Volume I
COUNTY COURT JUDGEMENTS
AUGUSTA COUNTY.

George Brackenridge vs. Robert Rennick.--Petition August, 1746.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalkley/volume_1/judge292.htm


Property:
After Ann died in spring 1748 in Albermarle county, George moved all the children back with family in Augusta County as he himself began tilling a new farm south of Augusta?s new county seat of Stanton.

http://benmangel.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/the-cromwell-ancestry-of-the-only-pasco-police-officer-to-die-in-the-line-of-duty/

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George Breckenridge (Beverley Manor SW, 540 acres in Beverley Manor, 17 Oct. 1747 from Chalkley's, corner of land of George & Robert Breckenridge (761 acres acquired in 1742)), (b. abt. 1722, County Derry, Ireland, d. bef. 29 Sept. 1790, Wythe County, Virginia), son of Alexander Breckridge and Jane Preston.
http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Early_Settlers_of_Augusta_County,_Virginia_-_Surnames_A-E

Residence:
On 15 October 1741, he (John Finley) received another patent for 300 acres on a draft of Cathey's River. This property was described as being adjacent to land owned by Alexander Breckenridge, whose son, George, married Thankful s sister, Ann Doak, the next year.


Other-Begin:
"Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta Co. 1745-1800," by Lyman Chalkley.

1757, 11 Aug: Commission from Augusta Co., VA to Wm. Harris, Wm. Cabell, Jr., and Wm. Dinguid to take acknowledgment of Anne, wife of Geo. BRECKINRIDGE of Albemarle Co., VA, to deed, 17 Nov 1756, George to Jno. STEEL, dated 10 Jun 1757. Executed 11 Aug 1757.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=adgedge&id=I91582

Religion:
1769- George, was ordained as Elder of Unity Congregation that served the Reed Creek and Holston area.

Will:
Wythe County Will Book 1:1 gives his will; proved 29 September 1790; names wife, Agness, daughter Sary Finley (said to have married John Finley). She received 1/6 of "the remainder part of my household and kitchen furniture with all my stock sold." (Wythe Co., VA WB 1:1).

First will in Wythe Co.

WILL BOOK 1, page1 WYTHE Co., Va.
In the name of God Amen. I George Breckenridge of the County of Wythe in the Coloney of Virginia being sick of body but perfect of mind & memory do make constitute and appoint this my will and Testament in manner and form
following viz. Imprimis first of all I resign my sole to God who first gave it to me & my body to be decently buried by those whom I appoint executors of this my Last Will and Testament. Next I do hereby give and bequeath to my
well beloved wife, Agness during her natural life the third of my plantation whereon I now live, likewise one Negroe wench named Cat two cows one brown mare (known as) her mare, third part of my household furniture. Next I do
hereby give & bequeath unto Robert Brackenridge ten shilling sterling. I do hereby give & bequeath unto my daughter Elesebeath Evans fifteen or eighteen acres land it being part of the tract whereon I now live lying within said
Evans fence including the fence. Item I will and bequeath unto my son John Brackenridge the remainder part of two hundred acres of land whereon I now live and likewise two Negroes Cudg & Amey. Item I give and bequeath unto my
grand child George Brackenridge son of John Brackenridge one plantation known by the name of Walravens place likewise the remainder part of my household & kitchen furniture with all my stock to be sold & the money to be equally divided between my six children Alexander Brackenridge Jane Alcorn
Elisebeth Evans Sary Findly John Brackenridge & Lettis Linsy and likewise after the death of my wife her this part of the land to fall to my son John Brackenridge after the death of my wife & the stock and negroes to be sold and devided as above and furthermore I do hereby Constitute and appoint
Jesse Evans and John Brackenridge both of this County Executors of this my last will and testament and I furthermore revoke and make void all former wills by me made and hereby make & acknowledge this my last will & testament
by witness whereof I have hereafter set my hand and seals this third day of May in the year of our Lord God one thousand seven hundred and ninety.
Signed sealed and acknowledged by the said George Brackenridge as my last will and testament.
Thomas ( ) Suttles
George Oury
George Brackenridge
Jesse Evans
Recorded 29 Sep 1790

George* married Ann* Doak, (Immigrant) in 1742 in Augusta Co (possibly), Virginia. Ann* (daughter of Robert* Doak, (immigrant) and Margaret* (..) Doak) was born about 1719 in Co Antrim, Ulster, Ireland; died in 1763 in Beverly Manor, Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George* married Agnes Watson on 26 Sep 1786 in Montgomery Co, Virginia. Agnes was born about 1725; died after 1790 in of, Wythe Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1728, Pennsylvania
• Residence: Bef 1740, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Other-Begin: 22 May 1740, Orange Co, Virginia
• Property: Between 1742 and 1747, Beverley Manor SW, Augusta Co, Virginia; "Early Settlers of Augusta"
• Other-Begin: 23 Sep 1755, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 12 Mar 1771, Botetourt Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 14 Mar 1771, Botetourt Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 15 Mar 1771, Botetourt Co, Virginia

Notes:

Residence:
1740, 22 May: Alexander BRECKENRIDGE made oath that he had imported himself and John, George, Robert, Smith and Letitia BRECKENRIDGE from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to VA, at his own charges.


Other-Begin:
Orange Co Offspring: 1734 > Frederick 1743 > Augusta 1745 > Culpeper 1749 > Greene 1838

Headrights of Orange Co., Virginia

Headrights were grants of 50 acres of land per "head" - or
per white male over the age of 16 who transported himself to the colonies. They appear in the Court of Common Pleas in the county in which the land was granted. The attached file includes the headrights copied from the Orange Co., Va Court of Common Pleas in the 18th Century. These headrights function as the only real immigration record for English, Scot or Irish immigrants in that time period. The headright identifies the country of origin and generally the port of entry in the colonies.
May 1740
Alexander Brackenridge, Jane, John, George, Rober, James Smith, Jane & Letitia Brackenridge
(from Ireland)
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/orange/deeds/orangehe.txt

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HISTORIC FAMILIES OF KENTUCKY:
On the 22nd day of May in 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared in the Orange County, Virginia Court House (Augusta County, Virginia not having been then established, and the territory being embraced in that of Orange) to `prove their
importation.' The first of these was Alexander Breckenridge, who made oath that he had imported himself and John, George, Robert, Smith and Letitia Breckenridge, from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony (Virginia), at his own charges.

---------------
Early in 1740, or shortly before, there was a great influx of population into the Valley. On the 22d of May, 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared at Orange Court to "prove their importation." The first order of the series is as follows:
"Alexander Breckenridge came into Court and made oath that he imported himself, and (blank), John, George, Robert, (blank), Smith, (blank), and Letitia Breckenridge from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony, at his own charges, and this is the first time of proving his and their rights in order to obtain land, which is ordered to be certified." He, however, acquired by purchase from Beverley 245 acres, on March 24, 1741.

The blanks above indicate names which are illegible in the record book. (these blanks would be Adam, Sarah, and James.)

http://archive.org/stream/annalsofaugusta00wadd/annalsofaugusta00wadd_djvu.txt

Property:
George Breckenridge & Robert Breckenridge (Beverley Manor SW, 761 acres, 1742, corner of land of George Breckenridge (540 acres acquired in 1747)) George Breckenridge and Col. Robert Breckenridge were brothers, both sons of Alexander Breckenridge and Jane Preston.

http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Early_Settlers_of_Augusta_County,_Virginia_-_Surnames_A-E


Other-Begin:
Annals of Augusta County, Virginia p 117
In several letters, Governor Dinwiddie expressed disapprobation of the conduct of Captain Dickinson, of the Augusta rangers, in allowing certain Indians to slip out of his hands. They were called '' praying Indians," because they professed to be Christianized, but were supposed to be partisans of the French. Some friendly Cherokees were expected at Staunton to be employed against the Shawnees, and the Governor wrote to David Stuart and Robert McClanahan to treat these allies well.

A letter written by Robert McClanahan, dated September 23, 1755, relating to supplies for rangers and Indian allies, was found among the papers in an old suit. The name of the person to whom it was addressed, does not appear; but circumstances indicate that it was either William Preston or Robert Breckinridge. The writer speaks of one hundred and fifty Cherokees who were expected, and inquires when and to whom the supplies should be delivered. He says that Capt. Dickinson and his company had "a small scrimmage" with nine Indians, in which one white man and one Indian were killed, and "two small Indian boys belonging to the Cherokees, being captives, were released." The boys were at Fort Dinwiddie, and the Governor had been written to in regard to them. If the Cherokees were informed about the boys, "perhaps it might exasperate them against our enemies," says the writer.


Other-Begin:
Botetourt County Court Minutes March 1771

Annals Of S W Virginia
Written: March 1771

At a Court held for Botetourt County the 12th day of March, 1771.

Present: Robert Breckenridge, Benjamin Hawkins, Francis Smith & Andrew Woods,
Gentlemen Justices.
--




http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/botetourt/court/minutes26gwl.txt

Other-Begin:
At a court held for Botetourt County fourteenth of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy one.

On motion made by Israel Christian, it is ordered William Preston, Robert Breckenridge and Andrew Woods do value the additional five acres of land conveyed by the said Christian to the County for the use thereof and make report
thereof to the next court.
---

Ord. that Joseph Cloyd, Michael Cloyd & John Neeley, Junr., being first
sworn, do view the road from Thomas Madison's Mill to Robert Breckenridge's Mill
and report the conveniences & inconveniences thereof to the next court.

http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/botetourt/court/minutes26gwl.txt



Other-Begin:
At a court contd. & held for Botetourt County the 15th day of March, 1771.

Present: Robert Breckenridge, Isral Christian, John Howard & Stephen Trigg, Gent.

Peter Wright, John Robinson and Edward McMullin being sworn to view the way from the said Wright's up Dunlop's Creek to the Sweet Springs and make report
thereof to the court.
Ord. that this court be adjd. till court in course.
The minutes of these proceedings were signed by
Robert Breckenridge
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/botetourt/court/minutes26gwl.txt

Robert married Sarah "Mary" Poague about 1745, and was divorced before 1768. Sarah (daughter of Robert Poague and Elizabeth Preston) was born in 1732 in Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland; died in 1757 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Letita Preston, (Immigrant) on 10 Jul 1758, and was divorced after 1772. Letita (daughter of Colonel John Preston, (Immigrant) and Elizabeth Patton, (Immigrant)) was born in 1725 in Ireland; died in 1798 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1728, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland
• Immigration: 1728, Pennsylvania
• Residence: Bef 1740, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Other-Begin: 22 May 1740, Orange Co, Virginia

Notes:

Residence:
1740, 22 May: Alexander BRECKENRIDGE made oath that he had imported himself and John, George, Robert, Smith and Letitia BRECKENRIDGE from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to VA, at his own charges.


Other-Begin:
Orange Co Offspring: 1734 > Frederick 1743 > Augusta 1745 > Culpeper 1749 > Greene 1838

Headrights of Orange Co., Virginia

Headrights were grants of 50 acres of land per "head" - or
per white male over the age of 16 who transported himself to the colonies. They appear in the Court of Common Pleas in the county in which the land was granted. The attached file includes the headrights copied from the Orange Co., Va Court of Common Pleas in the 18th Century. These headrights function as the only real immigration record for English, Scot or Irish immigrants in that time period. The headright identifies the country of origin and generally the port of entry in the colonies.
May 1740
Alexander Brackenridge, Jane, John, George, Rober, James Smith, Jane & Letitia Brackenridge
(from Ireland)
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/orange/deeds/orangehe.txt

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HISTORIC FAMILIES OF KENTUCKY:
On the 22nd day of May in 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared in the Orange County, Virginia Court House (Augusta County, Virginia not having been then established, and the territory being embraced in that of Orange) to `prove their
importation.' The first of these was Alexander Breckenridge, who made oath that he had imported himself and John, George, Robert, Smith and Letitia Breckenridge, from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony (Virginia), at his own charges.

---------------
Early in 1740, or shortly before, there was a great influx of population into the Valley. On the 22d of May, 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared at Orange Court to "prove their importation." The first order of the series is as follows:
"Alexander Breckenridge came into Court and made oath that he imported himself, and (blank), John, George, Robert, (blank), Smith, (blank), and Letitia Breckenridge from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony, at his own charges, and this is the first time of proving his and their rights in order to obtain land, which is ordered to be certified." He, however, acquired by purchase from Beverley 245 acres, on March 24, 1741.

The blanks above indicate names which are illegible in the record book. (these blanks would be Adam, Sarah, and James.)

http://archive.org/stream/annalsofaugusta00wadd/annalsofaugusta00wadd_djvu.txt

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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Smith Breckenridge
Year: 1740
Place: Augusta Co., Virginia
Source Publication Code: 3816
Primary Immigrant: Breckenridge, Smith
Annotation: Legal proceedings before Orange County Court, Virginia, where settlers proved their entitlement to enter public lands. Also in no. 5831, Morton; no. 2302, Fry; in no. 720, Boyer, Ship Passenger Lists, the South, pp. 91-95; and in no. 9144, Tepper, New Wor...

Source Bibliography: KING, FANNIE BAYLY (Mrs. W.W.). "Augusta County Early Settlers, Importations, 1739-1740." In National Genealogical Society Quarterly, vol. 25:2 (June 1937), pp. 46-50.
Page: 46
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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Smith Breckenridge
Year: 1740
Place: Virginia
Source Publication Code: 3299.40
Primary Immigrant: Breckenridge, Smith
Annotation: Date and place where land was patented and record was created listing those transported/imported. Only the names of those to be transported were indexed. Abstracted from Patent books 15 through 19, from the Land Office records located at the Virginia Stat
Source Bibliography: HUDGINS, DENIS. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, Vol. 4, 1732-1741. Richmond [VA]: Virginia Genealogical Society, 1994. 355p.
Page: 235

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1728, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland
• Immigration: 1728, Pennsylvania
• Other-Begin: 22 May 1740, Orange Co, Virginia
• Property: 1742, Beverley Manor SW, Augusta Co, Virginia; "Early Settlers of Augusta"
• Other-Begin: 19 Jun 1746, Augusta Co, Virginia

Notes:

Other-Begin:
Orange Co Offspring: 1734 > Frederick 1743 > Augusta 1745 > Culpeper 1749 > Greene 1838

Headrights of Orange Co., Virginia

Headrights were grants of 50 acres of land per "head" - or
per white male over the age of 16 who transported himself to the colonies. They appear in the Court of Common Pleas in the county in which the land was granted. The attached file includes the headrights copied from the Orange Co., Va Court of Common Pleas in the 18th Century. These headrights function as the only real immigration record for English, Scot or Irish immigrants in that time period. The headright identifies the country of origin and generally the port of entry in the colonies.
May 1740
Alexander Brackenridge, Jane, John, George, Rober, James Smith, Jane & Letitia Brackenridge
(from Ireland)
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/orange/deeds/orangehe.txt

--------------

HISTORIC FAMILIES OF KENTUCKY:
On the 22nd day of May in 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared in the Orange County, Virginia Court House (Augusta County, Virginia not having been then established, and the territory being embraced in that of Orange) to `prove their
importation.' The first of these was Alexander Breckenridge, who made oath that he had imported himself and John, George, Robert, Smith and Letitia Breckenridge, from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony (Virginia), at his own charges.

---------------
Early in 1740, or shortly before, there was a great influx of population into the Valley. On the 22d of May, 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared at Orange Court to "prove their importation." The first order of the series is as follows:
"Alexander Breckenridge came into Court and made oath that he imported himself, and (blank), John, George, Robert, (blank), Smith, (blank), and Letitia Breckenridge from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony, at his own charges, and this is the first time of proving his and their rights in order to obtain land, which is ordered to be certified." He, however, acquired by purchase from Beverley 245 acres, on March 24, 1741.

The blanks above indicate names which are illegible in the record book. (these blanks would be Adam, Sarah, and James.)

http://archive.org/stream/annalsofaugusta00wadd/annalsofaugusta00wadd_djvu.txt

Property:
James Breckenridge (1742, # of acres not listed) (b. 1724, d. perhaps 1744, shortly after acquiring land). James was also a son of Alexander Breckenridge and Jane Preston.

http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Early_Settlers_of_Augusta_County,_Virginia_-_Surnames_A-E


Other-Begin:
Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia
Volume I
COUNTY COURT JUDGEMENTS
AUGUSTA COUNTY.

William Lewis vs. James Brackenridge.--Attachment. 19th June, 1746. Defendant absconded. Attachment levied in hands of Robert McClenachan and George Brackenridge. Note of James Breckenridge to Wm. Lewis, £3, 2, 8. Dated 23d December, 1744.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chalkley/volume_1/judge292.htm

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1728, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland
• Immigration: 1728, Pennsylvania
• Other-Begin: 22 May 1740, Orange Co, Virginia

Notes:

Other-Begin:
Orange Co Offspring: 1734 > Frederick 1743 > Augusta 1745 > Culpeper 1749 > Greene 1838

Headrights of Orange Co., Virginia

Headrights were grants of 50 acres of land per "head" - or
per white male over the age of 16 who transported himself to the colonies. They appear in the Court of Common Pleas in the county in which the land was granted. The attached file includes the headrights copied from the Orange Co., Va Court of Common Pleas in the 18th Century. These headrights function as the only real immigration record for English, Scot or Irish immigrants in that time period. The headright identifies the country of origin and generally the port of entry in the colonies.
May 1740
Alexander Brackenridge, Jane, John, George, Rober, James Smith, Jane & Letitia Brackenridge
(from Ireland)
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/orange/deeds/orangehe.txt

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HISTORIC FAMILIES OF KENTUCKY:
On the 22nd day of May in 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared in the Orange County, Virginia Court House (Augusta County, Virginia not having been then established, and the territory being embraced in that of Orange) to `prove their
importation.' The first of these was Alexander Breckenridge, who made oath that he had imported himself and John, George, Robert, Smith and Letitia Breckenridge, from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony (Virginia), at his own charges.

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Early in 1740, or shortly before, there was a great influx of population into the Valley. On the 22d of May, 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared at Orange Court to "prove their importation." The first order of the series is as follows:
"Alexander Breckenridge came into Court and made oath that he imported himself, and (blank), John, George, Robert, (blank), Smith, (blank), and Letitia Breckenridge from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony, at his own charges, and this is the first time of proving his and their rights in order to obtain land, which is ordered to be certified." He, however, acquired by purchase from Beverley 245 acres, on March 24, 1741.

The blanks above indicate names which are illegible in the record book. (these blanks would be Adam, Sarah, and James.)

http://archive.org/stream/annalsofaugusta00wadd/annalsofaugusta00wadd_djvu.txt

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1728, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland
• Immigration: 1728, Pennsylvania
• Residence: Bef 1740, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Other-Begin: 22 May 1740, Orange Co, Virginia

Notes:

She married Elijah McClanahan in September of 1749.

Other-Begin:
Orange Co Offspring: 1734 > Frederick 1743 > Augusta 1745 > Culpeper 1749 > Greene 1838

Headrights of Orange Co., Virginia

Headrights were grants of 50 acres of land per "head" - or
per white male over the age of 16 who transported himself to the colonies. They appear in the Court of Common Pleas in the county in which the land was granted. The attached file includes the headrights copied from the Orange Co., Va Court of Common Pleas in the 18th Century. These headrights function as the only real immigration record for English, Scot or Irish immigrants in that time period. The headright identifies the country of origin and generally the port of entry in the colonies.
May 1740
Alexander Brackenridge, Jane, John, George, Rober, James Smith, Jane & Letitia Brackenridge
(from Ireland)
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/orange/deeds/orangehe.txt

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HISTORIC FAMILIES OF KENTUCKY:
On the 22nd day of May in 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared in the Orange County, Virginia Court House (Augusta County, Virginia not having been then established, and the territory being embraced in that of Orange) to `prove their
importation.' The first of these was Alexander Breckenridge, who made oath that he had imported himself and John, George, Robert, Smith and Letitia Breckenridge, from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony (Virginia), at his own charges.

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Early in 1740, or shortly before, there was a great influx of population into the Valley. On the 22d of May, 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared at Orange Court to "prove their importation." The first order of the series is as follows:
"Alexander Breckenridge came into Court and made oath that he imported himself, and (blank), John, George, Robert, (blank), Smith, (blank), and Letitia Breckenridge from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony, at his own charges, and this is the first time of proving his and their rights in order to obtain land, which is ordered to be certified." He, however, acquired by purchase from Beverley 245 acres, on March 24, 1741.

The blanks above indicate names which are illegible in the record book. (these blanks would be Adam, Sarah, and James.)

http://archive.org/stream/annalsofaugusta00wadd/annalsofaugusta00wadd_djvu.txt)

Letitia married Elijah McClanahan in Sep 1749. Elijah (son of Elijah McClanahan and Ann Ewing Owens, (Immigrant)) was born in 1728 in Orange Co, Virginia; died on 02 May 1794 in Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
some speculation is that she was a Breckenridge, but no evidence to base it on yet found.

Mary married David Doak, Sr (Immigrant) about 1746. David (son of Robert* Doak, (immigrant) and Margaret* (..) Doak) was born in 1710 in Ulster, Northern Ireland; was christened in 1747 in North Mountain, Augusta Co, Virginia; died before 2 Oct 1787 in Black Lick, Montgomery Co (now Wythe Co), Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1728, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland
• Immigration: 1728, Pennsylvania
• Other-Begin: 22 May 1740, Orange Co, Virginia

Notes:

Other-Begin:
Orange Co Offspring: 1734 > Frederick 1743 > Augusta 1745 > Culpeper 1749 > Greene 1838

Headrights of Orange Co., Virginia

Headrights were grants of 50 acres of land per "head" - or
per white male over the age of 16 who transported himself to the colonies. They appear in the Court of Common Pleas in the county in which the land was granted. The attached file includes the headrights copied from the Orange Co., Va Court of Common Pleas in the 18th Century. These headrights function as the only real immigration record for English, Scot or Irish immigrants in that time period. The headright identifies the country of origin and generally the port of entry in the colonies.
May 1740
Alexander Brackenridge, Jane, John, George, Rober, James Smith, Jane & Letitia Brackenridge
(from Ireland)
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/orange/deeds/orangehe.txt

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HISTORIC FAMILIES OF KENTUCKY:
On the 22nd day of May in 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared in the Orange County, Virginia Court House (Augusta County, Virginia not having been then established, and the territory being embraced in that of Orange) to `prove their
importation.' The first of these was Alexander Breckenridge, who made oath that he had imported himself and John, George, Robert, Smith and Letitia Breckenridge, from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony (Virginia), at his own charges.

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Early in 1740, or shortly before, there was a great influx of population into the Valley. On the 22d of May, 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared at Orange Court to "prove their importation." The first order of the series is as follows:
"Alexander Breckenridge came into Court and made oath that he imported himself, and (blank), John, George, Robert, (blank), Smith, (blank), and Letitia Breckenridge from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony, at his own charges, and this is the first time of proving his and their rights in order to obtain land, which is ordered to be certified." He, however, acquired by purchase from Beverley 245 acres, on March 24, 1741.

The blanks above indicate names which are illegible in the record book. (these blanks would be Adam, Sarah, and James.)

http://archive.org/stream/annalsofaugusta00wadd/annalsofaugusta00wadd_djvu.txt

Sarah married Robert McClanahan about 1750 in Augusta Co, Virginia. Robert (son of Elijah McClanahan and Ann Ewing Owens, (Immigrant)) was born in 1730 in Orange Co, Virginia; died after 1755 in Fishersville, Tinkling Spring, Augusta Co, Virginia; was buried in Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church Cem, Fisherville, Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 22 May 1740, Orange Co, Virginia

Notes:

Other-Begin:
Orange Co Offspring: 1734 > Frederick 1743 > Augusta 1745 > Culpeper 1749 > Greene 1838

Headrights of Orange Co., Virginia

Headrights were grants of 50 acres of land per "head" - or
per white male over the age of 16 who transported himself to the colonies. They appear in the Court of Common Pleas in the county in which the land was granted. The attached file includes the headrights copied from the Orange Co., Va Court of Common Pleas in the 18th Century. These headrights function as the only real immigration record for English, Scot or Irish immigrants in that time period. The headright identifies the country of origin and generally the port of entry in the colonies.
May 1740
Alexander Brackenridge, Jane, John, George, Robert, James Smith, Jane & Letitia Brackenridge
(from Ireland)
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/orange/deeds/orangehe.txt

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HISTORIC FAMILIES OF KENTUCKY:
On the 22nd day of May in 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared in the Orange County, Virginia Court House (Augusta County, Virginia not having been then established, and the territory being embraced in that of Orange) to `prove their
importation.' The first of these was Alexander Breckenridge, who made oath that he had imported himself and John, George, Robert, Smith and Letitia Breckenridge, from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony (Virginia), at his own charges.

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Early in 1740, or shortly before, there was a great influx of population into the Valley. On the 22d of May, 1740, fourteen heads of families appeared at Orange Court to "prove their importation." The first order of the series is as follows:
"Alexander Breckenridge came into Court and made oath that he imported himself, and (blank), John, George, Robert, (blank), Smith, (blank), and Letitia Breckenridge from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from thence to this colony, at his own charges, and this is the first time of proving his and their rights in order to obtain land, which is ordered to be certified." He, however, acquired by purchase from Beverley 245 acres, on March 24, 1741.

The blanks above indicate names which are illegible in the record book. (these blanks would be Adam, Sarah, and James.)

http://archive.org/stream/annalsofaugusta00wadd/annalsofaugusta00wadd_djvu.txt

Other Events and Attributes:

• Research Notes: 9 Jan 2015

Notes:

Wife of Robert Doak said to be sister to Robert Breckenridge (not verified as wife or daughter). Ralph Doak thinks maybe Hannah.


Research Notes:
She is shown in some places as Hannah Armstrong; however Hannah Armstong who married a Robert Doak was born too late to be this Hannah.
She is also shown to be Hannah Breckenridge. This is credible and more reasonable.

Looking at the census record for Robert in 1790 he's living near Roddy Hannah. Going back to my file and looking at those named Roddy

- There are two Roddy Breckenridges that go back to Geo & Ann Doak.
- Prudence Roddy Doak comes from line John Doak & Mary Wilson(?)
- Roddy Doak comes from John Doak & Mary Wlison(?)
- Roddy Hannah goes back to John & Mary Wilson (?)
- Roddy Kirkman B 1813 m Nancy Doak (1809). I do not have the Kirkman line entered but he is from Maryland; so just a coincidence on him. His name is Rodger.

Records say "Robert Doak thought to have married Hannah Breckenridge sister to Robert Breckenridge" -- Robert who is in 1790 census living hear Roddy Hannah is also son of Geo and Ann.

I am adjusting Hannah to be wife of our subject Robert instead of a supposed Robert (immigrant)(?) we don't know who he is yet. It's not positive, but makes more sense. I have a lot of records on this Robert Doak (Immigrant)(?) - so more needs to be gone through.

Hannah married Robert Doak on 11 Aug 1760 in Lunenburg Co, Virginia. Robert (son of John Doak, (Immigrant) and Mary Wilson(?)) was born before 1735 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania or Augusta Co, Virginia; died before Nov 1796 in Guilford Co, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married (..) Graham about 1735. (..) was born about 1715; died after 1745. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married (..) Brandon about 1741. (..) was born about 1720; died after 1472. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Letita married Col/Capt Robert Breckenridge, Sheriff on 10 Jul 1758, and was divorced after 1772. Robert (son of Alexander* Breckenridge, (Immigrant) (son?) and Jane* Preston, (Immigrant)) was born in 1720 in Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland; died in 1773 in Fincastle, Botetourt Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Rev. John Brown, (immigrant) about 1748. John was born in 1728 in Co Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland; died on 24 Mar 1803 in Frankfort, Franklin Co, Kentucky; was buried in Frankfort Cem, Frankfort, Franklin Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: 1749, Beverley Manor NE, Augusta Co, Virginia; "Early Settlers of Augusta"
• Other-Begin: 23 Sep 1755, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Residence: 1770, Botetourt Co, Virginia; James John Floyd
• Other-Begin: 13 Mar 1771, Botetourt Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 14 Mar 1771, Botetourt Co, Virginia

Notes:

Soldier, Surveyor. He was a Captain of a Company of Rangers of Augusta County, Virginia in the French and Indian War. He was a Burgess for Augusta County in 1765 and 1766-1768 and for Botetourt County in 1769-1771. He was County Lieutenant, Sheriff and Surveyor of Fincastle County, Virginia 1772-1776 which included the present State of Kentucky. In 1773 he purchased land at Draper's Meadows in present day Montgomery County, Virginia and established a plantation known as "Smithfield". He was County Lieutenant, Justice, and Surveyor for Montgomery County from 1776 until his death. He served as a Colonel of the Virginia State Militia in the Revolutionary War from Montgomery County. He died while attending a muster of the Montgomery County Militia.

The historical marker in Blacksburg, Virginia pictured at the right reads as follows: "One mile west is "Smithfield", old home of Col. Wm. Preston, who materially guided the destiny of the Virginia frontier from the French and Indian War through the Revolution. On this estate two Virginia Governors were born: James P. Preston, 1816-19; John B. Floyd, 1848-52, the latter was the son of another Virginia Governor, John Floyd, 1830-34, who while in office advocated before the Legislature abolition of slavery in Virginia."

Most of the papers of William Preston were collected by Lyman Draper and are portion of the Draper Manuscripts known as the William Preston Papers. His biography, "William Preston and the Allegheny Patriots" was published by Patricia Givens Johnson in 1976. The inventory of his estate included 273 books. His was one of the largest libraries in Virginia.
(findagrave)


Other-Begin:
Annals of Augusta County, Virginia p 117
In several letters, Governor Dinwiddie expressed disapprobation of the conduct of Captain Dickinson, of the Augusta rangers, in allowing certain Indians to slip out of his hands. They were called '' praying Indians," because they professed to be Christianized, but were supposed to be partisans of the French. Some friendly Cherokees were expected at Staunton to be employed against the Shawnees, and the Governor wrote to David Stuart and Robert McClanahan to treat these allies well.

A letter written by Robert McClanahan, dated September 23, 1755, relating to supplies for rangers and Indian allies, was found among the papers in an old suit. The name of the person to whom it was addressed, does not appear; but circumstances indicate that it was either William Preston or Robert Breckinridge. The writer speaks of one hundred and fifty Cherokees who were expected, and inquires when and to whom the supplies should be delivered. He says that Capt. Dickinson and his company had "a small scrimmage" with nine Indians, in which one white man and one Indian were killed, and "two small Indian boys belonging to the Cherokees, being captives, were released." The boys were at Fort Dinwiddie, and the Governor had been written to in regard to them. If the Cherokees were informed about the boys, "perhaps it might exasperate them against our enemies," says the writer.


Residence:
At the age of 18 he married Matilda Burford, daughter of Daniel Burford, sheriff of Amherst County, but she died a year later during the birth of their daughter, Mourning Floyd.[2] In 1770, at the age of 20, Floyd moved to Botetourt County, Virginia to seek employment.[2] He worked as a teacher while living in the home of Col. William Preston.[3] Preston, a prominent frontier Virginian, was the surveyor for the western part of Virginia then known as Fincastle County, Virginia, which stretched as far as the Mississippi River.
Wikipedia




Other-Begin:
William Preston, Executor of John Buchanan, deceased, proved certificates for two thousand three hundred and twenty seven pounds of hemp, which is ord. to be certfd.
Ord. that this court be adjd. till tomorrow morning, eight o'clock.
The minutes of these proceedings were signed.
Andrew Lewis

http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/botetourt/court/minutes26gwl.txt


Other-Begin:
At a court held for Botetourt County fourteenth of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy one.

On motion made by Israel Christian, it is ordered William Preston, Robert Breckenridge and Andrew Woods do value the additional five acres of land conveyed by the said Christian to the County for the use thereof and make report
thereof to the next court.
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/botetourt/court/minutes26gwl.txt

William married Susanna Smith on 17 Jan 1761 in Newtown Limavady, Limavady, Co Londonderry, Ireland. Susanna (daughter of Francis Smith and Elizabeth Waddy) was born on 23 Jan 1740 in Hanover Co, Virginia; died on 19 Jun 1823 in Montgomery Co, Virginia; was buried in Preston Cem, Smithfield Plantation, Blacksburg, Montgomery Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married Francis Smith about 1759. Francis was born about 1739; died after 1765. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John Howard about 1760. John was born about 1740; died after 1770 in of, Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martha married Andrew W. Woods on 31 Jan 1747 in of, Albemarle Co, Virginia. Andrew was born in 1722 in Dunshanglin, Meath, Dunshanglin Castle, Ireland; died in 1781 in Botetourt Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Col/Capt Robert Breckenridge, Sheriff about 1745, and was divorced before 1768. Robert (son of Alexander* Breckenridge, (Immigrant) (son?) and Jane* Preston, (Immigrant)) was born in 1720 in Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland; died in 1773 in Fincastle, Botetourt Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married George Crawford about 1750. George was born about 1730; died about 1780 in Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Col. James Robertson on 3 May 1762 in Montgomery Co, Virginia. James was born on 16 Nov 1738 in Augusta Co, Virginia; died on 28 Aug 1833 in Montgomery Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married John Alcorn on 12 Jun 1776. John was born in 1745 in Wythe Co, Virginia; died after 1804 in Fayette or Madison Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 30 Jun 1743, So Mountain Meeting House, Tinkling Spring, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: Between 23 Mar 1767 and 18 Mar 1768, Augusta Co, Virginia; petition
• Residence: 1769, Washington Co, Virginia
• Military: Between 1775 and 1783, Revolutionary War
• Residence: 1791, Paris, Bourbon Co, Kentucky
• Census: 1792, Bourbon Co, Kentucky
• Census: 1798, Jefferson Co, Kentucky; Kentucky tax list
• Census: 1800, Jefferson Co, Kentucky
• Residence: 1800, Jefferson Co, Kentucky; Kentucky Tax List
• Census: 1810, Stoner, Bourbon Co, Kentucky
• Will: 2 Jun 1813, Bourbon Co, Kentucky; written
• Research Notes: 13 Jun 2014, Augusta Co, Virginia; Court records link

Notes:

Revolutionary War Vet
said to have built the first cabin in Washington Co. in 1769
Residence: Washington Co, Virginia 1773-1792
Paris, Bourbon Co, Kentucky, 1791-1813
Nicholas Co, Kentucky 1830

Family Page source: (Pedigree charts and papers from Mrs. Estella Mary (Breckenridge) Deger of Flint, Michigan and marriage records of Bourbon Co, Kentucky and census records. - submitted by yoko@pclink.com -Roger Carroll Breckenridge)
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(Following rec'd from yoko@pclink.com(Roger Carroll Breckenridge) 7/19/97; Source: "William Clark Breckenridge, His Life, Lineage, and Writings.")

Alexander Breckenridge
son of
George and Ann (Doak) Breckenridge

Alexander Breckenridge, eldest son of George and Ann (Doak) Breckenridge, here termed Alexander Breckenridge of Bourbon County, Kentucky, was born in Augusta County, Virginia, May 16, 1743, and by the record in the baptismal register of theregation at Tinkling Spring, he was baptized by the Rev. John Craig at South Mountain Meeting House,
June 30, 1743. This register covers the period from October, 1740, to September, 1749. The particular entry reads: "George Breckenridge a chd Bapd named Alexander."

He resided with or near his father in 1768, as shown by the petition to Augusta County Court previously cited. In a deposition taken June 10, 1803, in Bourbon County, Kentucky, he stated: "In 1769, Robert Doak said he was agent for Dr. Thoalker to lay off Wolf Hill tract. In November of that year he (Alexander Breckenridge), went and chose a tract and built a cabin and in September, 1770, the removed there." He did not receive his deed
until April 14, 1774, when Thomas Walker conveyed to him the 360 acres on Wolf Hill Creek on which he had settled in 1770, and which has been said to lie within the present limits of the city of Abingdon. The Robert Doak mentioned was a brother of Mary Doak, wife of Robert Breckenridge, and was a surveyor, a profession which Alexander Breckenridge acquired and practiced extensively, together with the conduct of his farm or plantation.

On June 2, 1773, Alexander Breckenridge joined 119 others in signing a "Call to Rev. Charles Cummings from the united congregations of Ebbing and Sinking Springs to Holston's River, Fincastle County," to become their pastor. These were famresbyterian congregations of southwest Virginia, and the Rev. Charles Cummings an outstanding figure in the ministry. "For several years after his pastorate began, he carried his rifle when he went
to church and stood it in the pulpit, while he preached to congregations of which the men were in readiness for an attack by the Indians."

Alexander Breckenridge was a member of the first grand jury empaneled May 27, 1777, at Black's Fort, Washington County, Virginia, upon the formation of that county within the boundaries of which his residence was thrown. The county recordsain occasional mention of similar service by him and of his appointment as appraiser of the estates of decedents.

Alexander Breckenridge, taking with him his eldest son George then little over twelve years of age, participated in the battle of Kings Mountain, one of the decisive victories of the Revolutionary War, October 7, 1780, traversing the distaf more than eighty miles on horseback. They were of the four hundred men in the battle from Washington County, Virginia, under General William Campbell. They first assembled at Wolf Hill Creek, then, on September 25, 1780, at Sycamore Shoals on Watauga River. History related that when gathered there, assembled in a grove, ready for the final march to the scene of conflict, the
Rev. Samuel Doak, Alexander Breckenridge's kinsman, addressed the multitude, and closed his prayer with the words from Holy Writ, "The sword of the Lord and Gideon." A tablet on the courthouse at Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, commemorates the Revolutionary service of Alexander Breckenridge.

A letter written June 6, 1857, by that George Breckenridge who was grand master of Freemasons of Kentucky, states that all three of the sons of George and Ann (Doak) Breckenridge - namely, Alexander, Robert, and John - rendered military se during the Revolutionary War (aside from that of Alexander at Kings Mountain), "under General Greene, in Virginia and North Carolina, while Lord Cornwallis' army lay in Virginia." As understood, all such service was volunteer in character and no pay was ever received for it and none of the brothers ever applied for or received a pension for Revolutionary service.

Alexander Breckenridge and David Looney received a warrant, No. 498, dated October 27, 1783, for 5,000 acres of land in Green County, North Carolina (later within the boundaries of Maury County, Tennessee), issued to them July 10, 1784, by tommissioner's office of east Tennessee, describing the location of the land as on Duck River, Lytle's Creek. As this narrative will show, these lands became the subject of litigation a generation later.

On September 14, 1790, Alexander Breckenridge bought of William Cowan 1,400 acres of land in Bourbon County, Kentucky, situated about four miles from Paris, the county scat. He sold his homestead in Washington County, Virginia, April 28,, his wife Magdalene joining in the deed and both acknowledging it in open court, May 3, 1791. Thus the date of removal of this family from Virginia to Kentucky may be fixed as in the spring of 1791.

Alexander Breckenridge's two cousins, Alexander and Robert Breckinridge, had settled at Louisville, Ky., in 1785. His cousin, John Breckinridge, settled in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1793. His brother, John Breckenridge, evidently lefd Creek,Wythe County, Virginia, and settled in Bourbon County, Kentucky, during 1792 or 1793,while the migration of Robert Breckenridge, brother of Alexander and John from Wythe County, Virginia, to Bath County, Kentucky, was subsequent to August 11, 1795, very probably during the same year.

Note: Tinkling Springs, one of the earliest Presbyterian Churches in Augusta Co, Virginia, located south of Stauton and about 2 miles south of Fishberville.

No record has come to the knowledge of the author of the date of death of Magdalene (Gamble) Breckenridge, but it is assumed to have occurred a number of years after the establishment of residence in Kentucky.
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MARRIAGE TO MARY* CHADD:
On October 16, 1806, Alexander Breckenridge married, a second time, Mary Chadd, said to have been of the Maryland family of that name. He died before September 5, 1813, by a receipt of that date for a certified copy of his will, given his tors. The will is dated June 2, 1813, and was proved in Bourbon County Court at its October term, 1813, disposing of a considerable estate, his sons Alexander and John Breckenridge being named executors. A witness to the will was the family physician, Henry Clay, Jr.

Mary (Chadd) Breckenridge interest in the homestead, February 11, 1815, to the reversioner under his will, his son, Eddy Linn Breckenridge. The date of her death may be fixed as August 21, 1835, by the date of termination of her life intern a negro slave, "Ben," belonging to her husband's estate.
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Event: Biography
Note:

In 1773 signed a call for a minister for the United Congregation of Ebbing Spring and Sinking Spring, covering the area between the present Marion and Bristol, Virginia. He participated in the Battle of Point Pleasant, Governor Dunmore's expedition against the Indians in Virginia in October of 1774. Alexander also served as a private in the Virginia line during the Revolutionary War. When the Revolution ended, the enterprising Scotch-Irish moved westward, the Wilderness Road cut by Daniel Boone going right through their valley into Kentucky. The first settlers of Kentucky were almost entirely from this upper portion of the Virginia Valley, referred to as the Shenandoah Valley today. It seems logical that Alexander resettled about this time in Bourbon County, Kentucky. His cousin, John Breckenridge, had bought 600 acres in adjacent Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1790, and moved his family there in 1793; two of John's brothers were already there. Apparently Alexander's brothers, Robert and John, came to Kentucky too as both are recorded as dying there. On January 20, 1794, Alexander Breckenridge is listed as a witness to a will in Bourbon County, Kentucky. The family settled on a farm in the Clintonville Precinct of Bourbon County, near the city of Paris, and probably attended the Cane Ridge Presbyterian Church established in 1783. Barton Warren Stone was its minister from 1798 to 1803, during which time he was influenced by Alexander Campbell to join the Disciples of Christ Church and leave the Presbyterian ministry. His church went with him and thus this branch of the Breckenridge family joined the Christian Church.

Title: Slater, Patricia




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Note: Marriages of Jefferson Co, TN lists a marriage of Polly Moyers (not yet identified) to Andrew Gass August 13, 1812. One of witnesses to will was a John Gass.

Residence:
said to have built the first cabin in Washington Co. in 1769. Residence: Washington Co, Virginia 1773-1792

Military:
Name: Alexander Brackenridge
Rank - Induction: Captain
Roll Box: 114
Roll State: VA

Catalogue of Revolutionary Soldiers and Sailors of the Commonwealth of Virginia
617 Brackenridge, Alexander 4000 Acres; Rank: Captain; Department: VA. St. Line Term: 3 yrs; Date: May 22, 1783


Brief Note on Alexander Breckenridge, whom fought in the American Revolution.1780 , Virginia, USA; North Carolina & South Carolina, USA

Alexander Breckenridge fought in the battle of King's Mountain along with his son George Breckenridge, who was only a teenager at the time.

Example:

"...Alexander Breckenridge, a prosperous farmer living in the vicinity of Abingdon, was accompanied to this battle by his son, George Breckenridge, who was under fifteen years of age, and that he (George Breckenridge) took an active part in the battle..."

Sources:

History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870: Summers, Lewis Preston; 1903. J.L. Hill Printing Company, held by University of Virginia, page 330.

Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in North Carolina; 1972. Genealogical Pub. Co., North Carolina; page 479.

Great Valley Patriots:Western Virginia in the Struggle for Liberty: Wilson, Howard McKnight; 1976. Augusta County Historical Society, Virginia; page 153.

(from Ancestry.com)


Residence:
owned 1000 acres near Paris, KY

Census:
2nd Census of Kentucky 1800
Alexander Breckenridge Jefferson co.
James Breckenridge Bourbon
James Breckenridge Madison
John Bourbon
Robert Montgomery
Robert Jefferson



Census:
Alex Breckenridge:
males 2 <10 (1800-1810) Preston and Washington
1 26-25 (1784 - 1794)
1 +45 Alex (67 y.o.)

females
1 26-44 (1766-1784) Mary abt 1780 or 30 y.o.



Will:

Alexander Breckenridge, Sr.
of Bourbon County, Kentucky
son of
George and Ann (Doak) Breckenridge
Copy of the will of
Alexander Breckenridge Died
In the name of God amen. I Alexander Breckenridge Senior of the County of Bourbon and state of Kentucky being very weak in body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be to God for the same. Calling to mind the mortality of the body and knowinhat it is appointed for all men once to dye do make and ordain this my last will & testament that is to say principally & first of all I do give and bequeathe my soul in the hands of Almighty God who gave it my body to the dust to be buried in a Christian manner nothing doubting but I shall receive the same at the General Resurrection by the almighty power of God and as touching and concerning such worldly estate wherewith at has ____ and God to belief me, wish. I give bequeath demise & dispose of the same in form and manner following, to wit, first I desire that all my just and lawful debts be levied and raised and paid out of my personal estate.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my beloved wife Polly Breckenridge, one third of all my personal and real estate with her bed, bedstead & furniture & her right of dower in the mansion house so long as she remains my widow and one bed & bedstead and its furniture for the use of my small children.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Eddie Linn Breckenridge the plantation I now live upon his bed, bedstead & furniture and a negro by named Peter.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my sons, George, Robert, James, Alexander & John Breckenridge the land already laid off them, agreeable to their plots and titles.

Item. I give and bequeathe unto my daughters Ann, Rachel & Elizabeth the lands already laid of to them.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my sons Preston, Washington & Roddy H Breckenridge my tract of land lying on Lytles Creek in Maury County in Tennessee State to divided equally, agreeable to quantity & quality between the three brothers and I appoint George Breckenridge their guardian to take care of their land until they come of age. Also it is my will and desire that my daughter Jenny Breckenridge shall have a full share of all my other property equal with her three brothers Preston, Washington & Roddy H. Breckenridge also it is my will & desire that if Eddy L. Breckenridge should died before he has a family that his part of the land which I willed to him be equally divided between my two sons Preston & Washington Breckenridge also it is my will and desire that all my negros except Peter should be sold unless my wife Polly Breckenridge should chose to take her third or a part thereof out of them & if she should it is my desire that she shall have the priviledge of taking her third at the appraisement if she should choose so to do also it is my will and desire that she shall have two hundred dollars out of my estate for the use of raising and schooling my children.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my son John Breckenridge fifty Dollars out of my estate when sold.

Item. I do hereby constitute and appoint my two sons Alexander & John Breckenridge my executors to this my last will and testament in writing whereof I have ________to set my hand & affix my seal this second day of June one thousand eight hundred & thirteen.
Alexander Breckenridge
2 June 1813
signed sealed in the
presence of
John Gass
Henry Clay, Jr
James Alexander
_______________________
Probate: OCT 1813 KY, Bourbon Co 3
Will: 2 JUN 1813 KY, Bourbon Co
Note:

Will Book D, page 416--Those mentioned-wife, Polly; son, Eddy Linn; sons, George Robert, James, Alexander, and John; daughters, Ann, Rachel and Elizabeth; sons, Preston, Washington and Roddy H., land in Murry County, Tennessee; daughter, Jenny. Written June 2nd, 1813. Proved October, 1813. Executors-sons, Alexander and John. Witnesses-John Gass, Henry Clay, Jr., James Alexander.

Title: Ardery, Julia Hoge Spencer, Kentucky Records, vol. I & II (Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing, 1969, 1972)
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Research Notes:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaaugust/doak.htm

Buried:
Internet researcher says he was buried here, but have not as yet found verification. List of interred at findagrave lists no Breckenridges. However, the meeting house was built in 1791 and the Western Great Revival led by Barton Warren Stone took place in August 1801.

http://www.gbccchurch.org/Cane_Ridge.htm

CANE RIDGE MEETING HOUSE
The Birthplace of the Restoration Movement
Religion on the Frontier

The young Presbyterian minister, Barton Warren Stone (1772-1844), arrived on the western frontier to pastor at Cane Ridge in 1796. By the end of the century, Presbyterians in Kentucky, southern Ohio, and northern Tennessee traveled to each other's sacramental communion services which typically began on Friday or Saturday and continued through Monday. Joining them in increasing numbers after a meeting at Red River in Logan County in June 1801 were Methodists and Baptists as well as the "unchurched".
(later to join with Alexander Campbell, the two to become known as the Stone-Campbell movement in 1832.
http://www.therestorationmovement.com/stone,bw.htm )

The Revival of August 1801 at Cane Ridge was the climactic event of the Western Great Revival. It was estimated by military personnel that some 20,000 to 30,000 persons of all ages, representing various cultures and economic levels traveled on foot and on horseback, many bringing wagons with tents and camping provisions. Because of the numbers of people attending and the length of the meeting, Cane Ridge has become the metaphor of the Great Revival. Historical accounts recall the contagious fervor which characterized the meetings that continued day and night. Descriptions abound of individuals, taken by great emotion, falling to the ground, crying aloud in prayer and song, and rising to exhort and assist others in their responses to the moment. Worship continued well into the week following the serving of Communion on Sunday, in fact, until provisions for humans and horses ran out.

The sacramental gatherings of the Presbyterians, already undergoing transformation by the time of the August 1801 Cane Ridge Revival, contributed to the growing camp meeting revivals. Participation by Methodists added an emotional evangelical quality that Presbyterians had previously tried to hold in check. Baptists attended, however, many were in a parallel meeting of the South Elkhorn Baptist Association.

Birth of "The Christians"

In 1804, a small group of Presbyterian ministers from Kentucky and Ohio, including Stone, penned and signed a document, "The Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery", at Cane Ridge that resulted in the birth of a movement seeking unity among Christians along non-sectarian lines. They would call themselves simply "Christians. The Christian Church, the Churches of Christ (non-instrumental), and the Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ), trace their origins here. This movement is often noted as the first one indigenous to American soil.

Colonel Robert Patterson, involved in settlement of KY, related in a letter to Reverend Dr. John King on Sep 25, 1801:
"On the first Sabbath of August, was the Sacrament of Kainridge, the congregation of Mr. Stone. - This was the largest meeting of any that I have ever seen: It continued from Friday till Wednesday. About 12,000 persons, 125 waggons, 8 carriages, 900 communicants, 300 were struck.."
Colonel Robert Patterson, involved in settlement of KY said on Sep 25, 1801.

Alexander* married Magdalene "Polly" Gamble on 6 Oct 1767 in Blount Co, Tennessee. Magdalene (daughter of Gamble and (Mrs.) Gamble) was born on 10 Jan 1746 in Blount Co, Tennessee; died about 1805 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander* married Mary* "Polly" Chadd, (of Maryland family) on 16 Oct 1806 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky. Mary* (daughter of Samuel* Chadd and Mrs. (..)* Chadd) was born between 1771 and 1780 in Washington Co, Virginia; died on 21 Aug 1835 in Putnam Co, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: 29 Sep 1790, Wythe Co, Virginia

Notes:

Alverta Brown Martin in her "Our Grandfathers," Inglewood, CA 1968, says Sarah's parents, George and Ann (Doak) Breckenridge, were married in 1742 when George lived in Albemarle County (St. Anne's Parish). Ann died in 1748; George moved to Austa County in 1763, then on to Wythe County, where he died in 1790. His will, proved 29 September 1790, named daughter Sary Findley. She received 1/6 of "the remainder part of my household and kitchen furniture with all my stock sold." (Wythe Co., VA WB 1:1).

note: Ann was alive in 1757; some sources say she died in 1763, but haven't seen documentation.

"Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta Co. 1745-1800," by Lyman Chalkley.

1757, 11 Aug: Commission from Augusta Co., VA to Wm. Harris, Wm. Cabell, Jr., and Wm. Dinguid to take acknowledgment of Anne, wife of Geo. BRECKINRIDGE of Albemarle Co., VA, to deed, 17 Nov 1756, George to Jno. STEEL, dated 10 Jun 1757. Executed 11 Aug 1757.

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=adgedge&id=I91582

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Born the third child in 1744 when her parents, George and Ann Doak Breckenridge, moved from away from Augusta County across the border to Albemarle County in the British colony of Virginia, Sarah spent four happy years tagging behind her mother. Then, one cruel day, when late winter began to turn to spring in 1748, the mother passed away and the little girl was left with her Irish-born father, three brothers, and younger sister. The father moved all the children back with family in Augusta County as he himself began tilling a new farm south of Augusta?s new county seat of Stanton. George never remarried, and as the Revolutionary War broke out, the kids left either to fight or be married off to soldiers. Most eventually relocated to Kentucky by the time that George passed away in the Commonwealth of Virginia on 29 September 1790.
Ben M. Angel
http://benmangel.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/the-cromwell-ancestry-of-the-only-pasco-police-officer-to-die-in-the-line-of-duty/


Property:
Wythe County Will Book 1:1 her father George Breckenridge gives his will; proved 29 September 1790; names wife, Agness, daughter Sary Finley (said to have married John Finley). She received 1/6 of "the remainder part of my household and kitchen furniture with all my stock sold." (Wythe Co., VA WB 1:1).

Sarah married Robert Osborne Finley, (son?) on 8 Feb 1777 in Augusta Co, Virginia. Robert (son of John (of Beverley Manor) Finley and Mary Caldwell, son of Robert Finley and Martha Henderson) was born on 21 Apr 1745 in Augusta Co, Virginia; died after 14 Jan 1820 in Blount Co, Tennessee; was buried in Eusebia Cem, Blount Co, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: Between 23 Mar 1767 and 18 Mar 1768, Augusta Co, Virginia; petition
• Property: 1795
• Property: Aft 1794, Wythe Co, Virginia; Nathaniel's property (Doak)
• Residence: 1797, Montgomery Co, Kentucky
• Census: 1800, Jefferson Co, or Montgomery Co, Kentucky
• Residence: 1800, Montgomery Co, Kentucky; Kentucky Tax List
• Other-Begin: 15 Oct 1806, Bourbon Co, Kentucky

Notes:

Not verified that either of his wives were Doak sisters, but because he was involved in settling land distribution of the girls' brother, Nathaniel, it is pretty much certain that he was married to at least one of the Doak girls.


Property:
He signed a residual interest, along with siblings of Nathaniel Doak who was brother of his apparently deceased wife Margaret. Nathaniel Doak's property had been divided among his siblings after his death in 1794. The siblings were each transferring their shares to their brother John Doak.

Property:
In 1795 Robert and his wife Mary sold out to Alexander Smithe.

Census:
2nd Census of Kentucky 1800
Alexander Breckenridge Jefferson co.
James Breckenridge Bourbon
James Breckenridge Madison
John Bourbon
Robert Montgomery
Robert Jefferson

Other-Begin:
bonded for his brother Alexander in his marraiage to Mary Chadd.

Robert married Margaret Doak about 1788 in Wythe Co, Virginia. Margaret (daughter of David Doak, Sr (Immigrant) and Mary "Polly" Breckenridge (maybe)) was born about 1768; died after 1794 in of, Wythe Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Mary Doak before 1795. Mary (daughter of David Doak, Sr (Immigrant) and Mary "Polly" Breckenridge (maybe)) was born after 1768; died after 1815 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1800, Bourbon Co, Kentucky
• Residence: 1800, Bourbon Co, Kentucky; Kentucky Tax List

Notes:

Revolutionary War service - never applied for or received a pension for service.

Census:
2nd Census of Kentucky 1800
Alexander Breckenridge Jefferson co.
James Breckenridge Bourbon
James Breckenridge Madison
John Bourbon
Robert Montgomery
Robert Jefferson

John married Elizabeth Willoughby on 19 Sep 1785. Elizabeth was born on 30 Oct 1760; died on 14 Feb 1792 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Margaret Helvey before 1793. Margaret was born about 1750; died after 1794. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Jesse Evans, Sr. about 1771 in Wythe Co, Virginia. Jesse was born on 17 Dec 1759 in Wythe Co, Virginia; died on 29 Jul 1843 in Gasconade Co, Missouri; was buried in Osage, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Presbyterian

Notes:

Author: Katie Angermeyer Date: 23 Jan 2005 6:01 PM GMT
angermeyer@hotmail.com
Surnames: LINDSAY BRECKENRIDGE
Classification: Query
In Reply to: Flora Breckenridge (d/o Cornelius) - Sangamon Co, IL (pictures) by: Sherry Sharp
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I enjoyed seeing the pictures. Am probably a sixth cousin of yours through the Breckenridges. My line goes back to Alexander B Jane Preston > George B Ann Doak > Letitia B Moses Lindsey. I can share what I have with you on earlier Breckenridges if you need it, and have some info on the Sangamon Illinois Breckenridges from other researchers, if that is helpful. What an interesting family!

Katie Angermeyer
_______________________
1769- father George, was ordained as Elder of Unity Congregation that served the Reed Creek and Holston area. Same year her oldest brother, Alexander, had built the first cabin in Washington Co.
Letitia's family probably moved to Reed Creek near Ft. Chiswell around that time.
1785 - married Moses Lindsey Sr. in Montgomery Co. VA
1785 - probably lived on Walkers Creek in what is now Bland Co. VA, somewhere near Green Hill Church.
1785-1795 bore at least 5 children
1797 - moved to Washington Co. at confluence of Laurel Creek and South Holston, near Damascus.
1810 - on Washington Co. VA census
"Letis" or "Letie" Lindsey, widow, resided in 1810 in Washington Co. VA with family of the correct age and correct location to match land records later sold by heirs of Moses Lindsey, deceased. This was the
proof I needed that the Moses Lindsey who married Letitia Breckenridge in Montgomery Co. VA was one and the same as the Moses who bought land on the South Holston River in Washington Co.

Here's my summary of the census snapshot of the Lindsey family in 1810 (Katie Angermeyer 2002):
"Now let me paint the picture, the way my imagination takes the facts as known.
Introducing gggg grandmother, Letitia, Lettice or Lettie Lindsey (Mrs. Moses, widow), 50 something living with 6 teenagers, can you imagine! The oldest son, Isaac is living next door with a new wife and an infant daughter (first grandchild). Lettie is head of household, because Moses Sr. has gone to his great reward. Now one of those young males age 10-25 in Letis LINSEY household could be Moses Jr
(our ggg grandfather who married Catharine Myers), one is likely John (who married Elizabeth Rambo).
These two were to be married within 3 days of each other and go off to war in 1813, John not coming back. The two young women could be
Elizabeth (our ggg grandmother who married Thomas H. Johnson) and Polly (who married Obadiah Neel). Don't know who the other two boys age 10-25 would be. There is one other LINSEY family on the 1810 census, that of James LINSEY . Do not know how or if this James LINSEY family relates to Moses / Leticia LINDSEY and Isaac LINDSEY on page 693. His age is between Moses Sr and Moses Jr , and the
location is in a different area of the county...could be uncle, or unrelated. Need to research more on this family, as could be clues. James LINSEY family is not on 1820 census in Washington Co. and may have moved on (one possibility of a connection is in Roane Co. TN or he could have gone to KY).
1820 - on Washington Co. VA census. She is probably the older woman living with Isaac Lindsey family.

Letitia's has a first cousin Rev. Samuel Doak who was first Presbyterian minister in Tennessee. See .

Letita married Moses Lindsey, Sr on 27 Sep 1785 in Montgomery Co, Virginia. Moses was born about 1755; died before 1810 in Washington Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/state/military/kypen.txt
ROBERT BRECKENRIDGE
JEFFERSON COUNTY
LIEUTENANT
VIRGINIA LINE
$320.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE
$2,408.00 AMOUNT RECEIVED
AUGUST 2, 1828 PENSION STARTED
DIED SEPTEMBER 11, 1833
JAS. D. BRECKENRIDGE EXECUTOR

Notes:

Alexander Breckenridge, son of George and Ann (Doak) Breckenridge, who, as related, fought at the battle of Kings Mountain, October 7, 1780, (see Notes on Alex (George and Ann) has often been confused with his first cousin Capt. Alexander Breckinridge, son of Robert and Sarah (Poage) Breckenridge of Gist's Additional continental Regiment of the Revolutionary Army, who was captured by the British May 12, 1780, and remained in their hands in prison ship in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, until June, 1781, being there on the very day that Kings Mountain was fought.

Alexander married Sally Jane Buchanan about 1787. Sally (daughter of Capt/Gent John Floyd Buchanan and Margaret Belle Patton, (immigrant)) was born in 1759 in Augusta Co, Virginia; died in 1812 in Floyd Station, Jefferson Co, Kentucky; was buried in Floyd-Breckenridge Cem, Plymouth Village, Jefferson Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died young.

William married Mary Gilham about 1789. Mary was born about 1759 in of, Virginia; died after 1790 in of, Fayette Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 18 Feb 1784, Mercer Co, Kentucky; McAfee namesake
• Residence: 1792, Cabell Dale, Iron Works Pike, Lexington, Kentucky

Notes:

Spelled his name "Breckinridge"

US public official, born near Staunton, Virginia. Entered William and Mary College in 1778; elected Member of the House of Delegates, 1780 at age 19, until 1785; admitted to the Bar, 1785; elected to the Third Congress 1793; moved to Kentucky, 1793; appointed Attorney General of the new State, 1795, holding that office until 1798; Member of the Legislature, 1798-1801; United States Senator, 1801-1805; United States Attorney General, 1805-1806, Jefferson's administration. He died while in office. Breckenridge County, Kentucky was named after him. His grandson John Cabell Breckinridge became Vice-President under President Buchanan.

Other-Begin:
General Robert Breckinridge McAfee
Birth: Feb. 18, 1784
Mercer County
Kentucky, USA
Death: Mar. 12, 1849
Mercer County
Kentucky, USA

Son of Robert and Anne (McCoun) McAfee, married Mary "Polly" Cardwell, October 14, 1807, Mercer County, Kentucky.
----------------
"I was the eighth child of my mother and a second son by the name of Robert, a brother of the same name having died only twelve days previous, viz., on the 6th day of February 1784, and my father despaired of having any more sons was anxious for a man, it was immediately bestowed on me with the addition of the letter 'B' for his friend, John Breckinridge, afterward a celebrated lawyer in Kentucky and at his death in 1806 attorney General of the United States under President Jefferson."

The Life and Times of Robert B. McAfee and His Family and Connections.
Written by Himself.

John married Mary "Polly" Hopkins Cabell on 28 Jun 1785. Mary (daughter of Joseph Cabell and Mary Hopkins) was born on 22 Feb 1769 in Virginia; died on 26 Mar 1858 in Fayette Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Ann Cary Selden about 1790 in Rockingham (Augusta) Co, Virginia. Ann (daughter of Col. Wilson Cary Selden and Mary Jennings) was born about 1763 in Elizabeth City Co, Virginia; died on 17 Mar 1843 in Fincastle, Botetourt Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Preston married Elizabeth Trigg in 1790. Elizabeth was born on 23 Mar 1775 in Bedford Co, Virginia; died on 22 Mar 1850 in Louisville, Jefferson Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Samuel Meredith on 07 Oct 1786 in Botetourt Co, Virginia. Samuel was born on 09 Oct 1765 in Virginia; died on 21 Jan 1825 in Fayette Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

genforum post:
Alexander Breckenridge 1670-1743 Augusta Cnty VA
Posted by: Edward E. Mills (ID *****7161)
Date: July 15, 2010 at 17:47:47

James Breckenridge (1722-1756) m. (Unknown); his daughter, Octavia Breckenridge b. 1751, m. 1769 in Augusta County, James Mills b. 1730 in Ireland, d. 11 Mar 1855, Franklin County, VA. Some dates presented above do vary among the various posted family records and none present any source document or record citation identification.

James and Octavia (Breckenridge) Mills were the parents of Arthur, William, James, and it appears a 4th identified son, John Mills, all in Franklin County, VA in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Can any participating Breckenridge Family list member recognize these 3 direct line generations of Alexander, James, and Octavia from within your family ancestry files, and if so, suggest location where to find, validate, and/or cite a source record supporting these surnames, marriages, children, and dates.
Thanks in advance. edemills@aol.com

Octavia married James Mills in 1769 in Augusta Co, Virginia. James was born in 1730 in Ireland; died after 1790 in of, Franklin Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John Tate on 27 Feb 1794 in Augusta Co, Virginia. John (son of Captain James Tate and Sarah "Sally" Hall) was born on 3 Nov 1772 in Augusta Co, Virginia; died on 1 Aug 1854 in Callaway Co, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: Between 23 Mar 1767 and 18 Mar 1768, Augusta Co, Virginia; petition
• Other-Begin: 1768, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Residence: 1773, New River, Virginia; tithables
• Military: 10 Oct 1774, Battle of Point Pleasant; ensign
• Other-Begin: 2 May 1775, Montgomery Co, Virginia
• Occupation: 1779, Montgomery Co, Virginia; weaver
• Residence: 1779, Montgomery Co, Virginia; rent roll
• Other-Begin: 25 May 1779, Montgomery Co, Virginia; justice of the peace
• Military: Abt 1780, Montgomery Co, Virginia; captain, militia
• Other-Begin: 12 Feb 1787, Montgomery Co, Virginia
• Property: 26 Sep 1801, Knox Co, Tennessee; Nathaniel's property

Notes:

WILLIAM Doak

Baptised in 1747, William was already in what became Tennessee when his father's will was written in 1787. In common with his brothers Samuel and David he had served in Captain Robert Doak's company of Fincastle County militia in 1774. During the Revolutionary War he fought at King's Mountain and probably also at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, holding the rank of Captain. He settled in Knox County, "territory south of the river Ohio", and a deed in the Wythe County, Virginia records gives his wife's name as Elizabeth. In 1804, his name appears among those of the first justices appointed in Dickson County, Tennessee. Two of his sons, Thomas and William, settled in Lincoln County, Tennessee and then moved to Madison County, Tennessee. William, who had married Jane Wilson and was a Captain in the War of 1812, died in Madison County in 1849. Thomas had moved to Dyer County, Tennessee, where he died in 1852. His widow, née Elizabeth Edmiston, survived him. The daughters of the elder William included Mary, who married William McMillen in 1792, and Amelia (Milly), who married John Gibson in 1800.

http://thebeardfamilyhistory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Children_of_David_Doak

Other-Begin:
Signed petition in 1768 to improve roads to Holston River (Kegley, p. 51).

Residence:
David was listed on the New River Tithables in 1773, Captain Doak's list, as David Doack and son David. Robert, William, and Samuel Doak were listed separately (Kegley, p. 29).

Other-Begin:
administrator for Robert Doak 2 May 1775.


Occupation:
Orphan, Hugh Pierce bound to him in 1779 to learn trade of weaver. Montgomery County tax list 1782 with 6 horses, 13 head of cattle and land.

Residence:
Name: William Doake
State: VA
County: Montgomery County
Township: No Township Listed
Year: 1779
Record Type: Rent Role
Page: NPN
Database: VA Early Census Index


Military:
Ensign (Samuel) in Montgomery Co. Militia, in company of brother, Captain William Doak;

Other-Begin:
mentioned in his father's will "son William (tract of land he formally lived to be sold) for his part"

William married Mrs. Elizabeth (..) Doak about 1780. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1773, New River, Virginia; Tithables
• Military: 10 Oct 1774, Battle of Point Pleasant; Sergeant
• Residence: 1782, Montgomery Co, Virginia; tax list
• Other-Begin: 2 Oct 1787, Montgomery Co, Virginia; exr father's will
• Residence: 1790, Montgomery Co, Virginia
• Residence: 1790, Montgomery Co, Virginia; tax list
• Property: 1797, Wythe Co, Virginia; Nathaniel's property

Notes:

DAVID Doak (ii) He was married in 1773 to Mary Hanna, an older sister of Margaret, who would marry his brother Alexander. Their mother, Martha, was "reputed" to have been née Doak - it is an intriguing puzzle as to whether she was a daughter of John Doak of North Carolina, which seems more likely, or of David (i). Two of David (ii)'s sons married the Thompson sisters, Lydia and Rachel. John spent some time in Campbell County, Tennessee, before moving on to Pike County, Missouri and then to Pike County, Illinois. In 1850, John's age is given on the census as 69. Robert, however, died in Tazewell County, Virginia, in 1818 and his widow Rachel appears on the 1820 census as a head of household with children.
http://thebeardfamilyhistory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Children_of_David_Doak

Residence:
He was listed on the New River Tithables in 1773, Captain Doak's list, as David Doack and son David. Robert, William, and Samuel Doak were listed separately (Kegley, p. 29).

Residence:
He's lisn Montgomery County Tax list in 1782 with 5 horses, 6 head cattle and land

Residence:
1790 tax list, Montgomery County, only male over 21, no males 16/21

Residence:
1790 tax list, Montgomery County, only male over 21, no males 16/21. Will proved 19 June 1799, Augusta County, VA.

David married Mary Doak Hanna about 1769. Mary (daughter of John Hanna and Martha Doak) was born about 1749; died before 1810 in of, Wythe Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: Mar 1767, Augusta Co, Virginia; signed peition
• Other-Begin: Mar 1768, Augusta Co, Virginia; signed petition
• Property: Between 1769 and 1770, Wolf Hill tract, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 22 Jun 1769, Fincastle Co (now Wythe Co), Virginia
• Residence: 1772, Virginia; Tithables
• Residence: 1773, New River, Virginia; tithables
• Other-Begin: Bef 2 May 1775; Death
• Possessions: 2 May 1775, Montgomery Co, Virginia (?)
• Property: 1787, Wythe Co, Virginia; father's will
• Military: 18 Apr 1787, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 17 Nov 1796, Wythe Co, Virginia; Nathaniel's property
• Residence: 1803, Washington Co, Tennessee; w/ wife Polly
• Property: 5 Jan 1803, Washington Co, Tennessee; Nathaniel's property
• Research Notes: 19 Feb 2013; three Roberts?

Notes:

Other-Begin:
3/1767-3/1768, Robert and William Doack signed an Augusta Co. petition. (S) Chronicles, P497.

Other-Begin:
3/1767-3/1768, Robert and William Doack signed an Augusta Co. petition. (S) Chronicles, P497.

Property:
1769, Robert Doke said he was agent for Dr. Thomas Walker to lay off the Wolf Hill tract. In November same year he went and chose a tract and built a cabin on it and in 1770 moved there.

Other-Begin:
6/22/1769, Following recommended for appointment as Justices: Robert Doage (S) Chronicles P157. [Robert a licensed surveyor and Justice of the Peace of Fincastle Co. (now Wythe Co.)]

Residence:
1772, Robert on list of Tithables for Capt. Doak's Company as David Doack's son.

Residence:
David was listed on the New River Tithables in 1773, Captain Doak's list, as David Doack and son David. Robert, William, and Samuel Doak were listed separately (Kegley, p. 29).

Other-Begin:
Bef. 5/2/1775, Robert died. (S) Brother William granted Letters of Administration for his estate.

http://www.teachergenealogist007.com/2010/03/bell-248.html


Possessions:
brother William granted Letter of Administration for his estate.


Property:
father's will 1787
"my Sons Robert & Thomas have that part of the Patent Land
that Lies on the South side of Reed creek to be Equally [sic] Divided Between them" (linking Robert & Thomas, so they're close in age, grown sons, not little kids.

Military:
4/18/1787, Militia officers recommended: Captains, ?, Robert Doak. (S) Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in VA, P249.
http://www.teachergenealogist007.com/2010/03/bell-248.html

Other-Begin:
17 Nov 1796 Robert witnessed a document for his brother Alexander. He and his wife Margaret, sold his property interest in the estate of Alexander and Robert's deceased brother Nathaniel to their older brother John.
(S) Wythe Co., DB2, P66.

Research Notes:
There are records that indicate Robert, son of David, died in 1774; but David (i) left land to "son Robert" in 1787 - explanation is that there was a 2nd Robert, named after the deceased 1st Robert.

Also, records seem to indicate a 3rd Robert, b bet 1779 and 1780 who also seems to be son of David (i). With this birth date, he would be son of David's 2nd wife, Mary (..)
(see Robert (I53217)
(added 23 May 2015)


Here are some thoughts on why that doesn't seem likely and that David had only one Robert, and the one who died in 1774 was somebody else - perhaps the immigrant.:


robert doak (elder Robert - maybe imm?)
b bef 1746 (c 1720 is certainly before)

signed petition 1767-1768
died 1774
father's will 1787
"my Sons Robert & Thomas have that part of the Patent Land
that Lies on the South side of Reed creek to be Equally [sic] Divided Between them" (linking Robert & Thomas, so they're close in age, grown sons, not little kids.
If the Robert mentioned in the will was named after his deceased brother Robert - he would be no more than 13 when the will was written. This is just not likely.)

1773 tithables: New River (what county is that?)
"Captain Doak's list, as David Doack and son David. Robert, William, and Samuel Doak were listed separately (Kegley, p. 29)."
(Thomas is probably just short of age to show up on 1773 tithables with the other brothers; so born c1753 or after. so if he was at least 21 when his father died, (1766) then born approximately bet 1753 and 1766

entries about Wolf Hill Track 1769
These events are ascribed to Robert, son of David, however, I think these apply to an older Robert, perhaps immigrant Robert (see Robert Doak b c 1720). For these events to belong to this Robert, he would have had to be older than William, even first born, and David's will does not imply that to be the case.

These entries from 1767-1770 have been ascribed to the elder Robert Doak, son of David, who died in 1774; but it doesn't seem logical. For now, I'm looking at the possibility that they are instead referring to the Immigrant Robert.

3/1767-3/1768, Robert and William Doack signed an Augusta Co. petition. (S) Chronicles, P497.

6/22/1769, Following recommended for appointment as Justices: Robert Doage (S) Chronicles P157. [Robert a licensed surveyor and Justice of the Peace of Fincastle Co. (now Wythe Co.)]

8/16/1769, Following recommended as Justices, viz: Robert Doage (S) Chronicles, P158.

1769, Robert Doke said he was agent for Dr. Thomas Walker to lay off the Wolf Hill tract. In November same year he went and chose a tract and built a cabin on it and in 1770 moved there.

1772, Robert on list of Tithables for Capt. Doak's Company as David Doack's son.

Bef. 5/2/1775, Robert died. (S) Brother William granted Letters of Administration for his estate.

http://www.teachergenealogist007.com/2010/03/bell-248.html

- these must be events of the older Robert. They indicate a mature man. I do think the younger Robert was born bef 1752, but not that much before, and he was closer in age to the brothers mentioned together in the tithables of 1773.


There is a marriage license:
3/28/1774, Robert Doack issued a marriage license in Augusta Co -- Doubtful that Robert who died in 1774 was a newly wed.
This newlywed Robert is said to be Robert who died in 1774's son. Maybe. But David's Robert would be right age to marry in 1774, as well.

4/18/1787, Militia officers recommended: Captains, Robert Doak. (S) Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in VA, P249.
This entry is also ascribed to a son of the elder Robert, which could be the case, but again, it could be David's Robert.

What I'm coming up with is David's oldest child was Wm, b bef Nov 1747 (christening date) and his last child was probably Mary b aft 1776 (she's younger than the 3 girls who were under 18 in 1787 at the time of the will.) If David had Wm at, say, 25, then b c1722; 54 when Mary born and dying at age ~62, which is a good age to have grown kids and kids still at home. I think estimating his age at 1710 is maybe too early. He was more likely closer to the younger of the immigrant children.

Lastly, perhaps one wrench the mix is the entry:
Bef. 5/2/1775, Robert died. (S) Brother William granted Letters of Administration for his estate.

My #1 question on this is who included the words "brother William"?
Since Robert and William Doak (I believe uncle and nephew) signed the petition earlier in 1767, it's easy to assume they were brothers, then seeing a William as administrator of the will would lead one to think the same William and conclude a brother. There is no William immigrant known of; so William, son of David, could have been admin for his uncle, though, granted, that's not a likely scenario. Does the document say "brother"? Was it inserted later?
With all the considerations laid out above, this mention of brother William, which we don't know where it came from, and considering the fact that there are certainly some Doaks that we haven't found yet -- this isn't enough to adjust everything else to try to fit this "brother William" citation.

Robert married (Mrs. Robert) Doak on 28 Mar 1774 in Augusta Co, Virginia. (Mrs. was born about 1750; died after 1775 in of, Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1773, New River, Virginia; tithables
• Military: 10 Oct 1774, Battle of Point Pleasant
• Occupation: 1779, Montgomery Co, Virginia; deputy sheriff
• Military: Abt 1780, Montgomery Co, Virginia; ensign
• Military: 7 Oct 1780, King's Mountain, North Carolina
• Residence: 1782, Montgomery Co, Virginia; tax list
• Occupation: Bef 1787, near Knoxville, Tennessee
• Residence: Abt 1787, North Carolina
• Property: Aft 1794, Davidson Co, Tennessee; Nathaniel's property

Notes:

SAMUEL Doak Samuel joined his brother William in Knox County by 1789. He was married to Annas (Agnes), and he fathered at least four sons and three daughters. John, of Lincoln County, Tennessee, died during the War of 1812 at New Orleans in 1815 and his brother Samuel S. Doak was one of two administrators. The other, William Shaw, was a brother of his widow Sarah. Samuel S. Doak died in 1817 and it was David, then of Adair County, Kentucky, who administered his estate rather than either Thomas or William. His known daughters were Betsy, Peggy - both unmarried in 1813, and their sister who had died in 1795 in Knox County, Mary Weakly Doak.
http://thebeardfamilyhistory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Children_of_David_Doak

Residence:
David was listed on the New River Tithables in 1773, Captain Doak's list, as David Doack and son David. Robert, William, and Samuel Doak were listed separately (Kegley, p. 29).

Occupation:
served as deputy sheriff with brother James in 1779 Montgomery County.

Military:
Ensign in Montgomery Co. Militia, in company of brother, Captain William Doak

Residence:
On 1782 tax list with 4 horses, 8 head cattle and land.

Occupation:
Put a ferry over the Holston River in TN down towards Knoxville.

Residence:
said to have gone to North Carolina by 1787.

Samuel married Mrs. Agnes (or Annas) (..) Doak about 1772. Agnes was born about 1752. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1779, Montgomery Co, Virginia; deputy sheriff
• Residence: 1782, Montgomery Co, Virginia; tax list
• Other-Begin: 2 Oct 1787, Montgomery Co, Virginia; exr father's will
• Property: 1 Aug 1797, Harrison Co, Kentucky; Nathaniel's property

Notes:

Birth:
assuming he was about 25 when he made deputy sheriff, making him 33 to be executor of his father's will. He was left one couw and a calf.


Occupation:
served as deputy sheriff with brother Samuel in 1779 in Montgomery County.

Other-Begin:
An executor of his father's will, James received very little in the form of a bequest, indicating perhaps that he, like his brother Alexander, had received a settlement when he married. This, if the analysis can be verified, would have happened in 1786, when he married Janet Fulton, née Dunn.
http://thebeardfamilyhistory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Children_of_David_Doak

James married Janet Dunn in 1786. Janet was born about 1755; died in 1814 in Jessamine Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 12 Feb 1787, Montgomery Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 1793, North Carolina

Notes:

no evidence that Nathaniel married.


Other-Begin:
father's will:
"John & Nathaniel shall provide for and keep the family together until they come of age and shall give my children who is under their care common education"

Other-Begin:
NATHANIEL Doak
He witnessed the 1793 will of John Hanna of North Carolina
http://thebeardfamilyhistory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Children_of_David_Doak

Died:
Nathaniel died intestate in 1794, resulting in a family settlement under which the land he had inherited was transferred to his brother John by his siblings and their spouses ... and perhaps also his step-mother.
http://thebeardfamilyhistory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Children_of_David_Doak

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: 1780, Montgomery Co, Virginia; militia
• Residence: 1790, Surry Co, North Carolina
• Property: 17 Nov 1796, Surry Co, North Carolina; Nathaniel's property
• Property: 22 Sep 1807, Washington Co, Tennessee
• Will: Apr 1821, Warren Co, Kentucky

Notes:

ALEXANDER Doak Alexander, born in 1763, married Margaret Hanna of Surry County, North Carolina, where he lived for a few years. After the death of his father-in-law John Hanna in 1793, he and his family were in Washington County, Tennessee, before moving to Warren County, Kentucky, where he died in 1820.
http://thebeardfamilyhistory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Children_of_David_Doak

Military:
isted as under 18 in the Montgomery county militia.


Residence:
Shown in the 1790 census in Surry County, NC, near wife's father, John Hannah; 4 females, 1 male under 16 and self.

Property:
17 Nov 1796 Robert [the younger] witnessed a document for his brother Alexander. He (Alexander) and his wife Margaret, sold his property interest in the estate of Alexander and Robert's deceased brother Nathaniel to their older brother John. (S) Wythe Co., DB2, P66.


Property:
Washington Co, TN DEED BOOK 10
p. 114
Sep 11, 1807
Loyd Ford SR of WC, TN
To
John Billingsly of same
$200.00 - 78 a - on Sinking Creek
Beginning old corner sd Ford's survey
N56
E56
N40
N67W116 to John Profit's line
W16 with same
S4W116 with John Ford's line crossing creek
S48E66 to Alexander Doak's line
N47E34 to beginning
Wit:
James Chamberlain Loyd (X) Ford SR
Samuel Hall (Hail?)


Will:
Alexander Doak Will
18 Oct 1820 Warren County, Kentucky
son of David Doak, father of Alexander A. Doak
Warren County, Kentucky, Will Book B page 361

Know all men by these presents that I Alexander Doak of the County of Warren and State of Kentucky, being in perfect mind and memory do make this my last will and testament. First of all I commit my soul to Almighty God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried at the descrition of my wife.
Secondly I give to my eldest son John H. Doak one dollar and the lwer end of the tract of land we now live on as far as a conditional line made between him and me he now is living on said lower end of said survey.
Thirdly I give unto my eldest daughter Polly Billingsley one dollar.
Fourthly I give my second daughter Patsy Hunt the some of one Dollar.
Fifthly I give to my third daughtger Istel Doak one bed and furniture and one Big Pot that is now at John H. Doaks.
Sixethly I give to my fourth daughter Nancy Doak one Bed and furniture.
Seventhly I give to my fifth daughter Lucinda Doak one bed and furniture.
Eightly I give to my second sone William Doak one dollar.
Ninthly I give to my third son Alexander A. Doak one dollar. 10th part of the land before mentioned to be sold. My just debts to be paid out of the money of the balance of the money and all my property not mentioned in the will to belong to my wife Margaret Doak forever.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 18th day of October 1820.
his
x
Alexander Doak Seal
mark
Witness:
John Billingsley
John Smith

My wife Margaret Doak is at liberty if she can pay my debts without selling the land to do it and keep the land herself and dispose of it as she pleases.
his
x
Alexander Doak Seal
mark
Witness
John Billingsley
John Smith

Warren County April County Court 1821
This last will and testament of Alexander Doak, decd. was produced in Court and proved by the oath of John Billingsley and John Smith two of the subscribing witness thereto, and the codacil their endorsed was also proved by said Billingsly & Smith and received to record.
Test Jon C. Hobson

Alexander married Margaret Hanna on 9 Aug 1786 in Montgomery Co, Virginia. Margaret (daughter of John Hanna and Martha Doak) was born on 4 Mar 1762 in Whthe Co, Virginia; died on 24 Aug 1840 in Rose Hill, Johnson Co, Missouri; was buried in Strange Cem, Rose Hill, Johnson Co, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Between 1761 and 1770, Virginia
• Birth: Between 1766 and 1784, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 12 Feb 1787, Montgomery Co, Virginia
• Residence: 1790, Montgomery Co, Virginia; tax list
• Property: 17 Nov 1796, Wythe Co, Virginia
• Military: 21 Aug 1798, 2nd Battalion, Wythe Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: Abt 1802, Wythe Co, Virginia
• Census: 1810, Wythe Co, Virginia
• Census: 1830, Wythe Co, Virginia

Notes:

Has descendant, William Nuckles Doak, Secretary of Labor
Wikipedia:
William Nuckles Doak (December 12, 1882 in Rural Retreat, Virginia, October 23, 1933 in McLean, Virginia) was an American labor leader who served as United States Secretary of Labor from December 9, 1930, to March 4, 1933, under Herbert Hoover.

He died from cardiovascular disease at the age of 50 in McLean, Virginia, and is buried in the Methodist Church Cemetery in his birthplace of Rural Retreat, Virginia.





Other-Begin:
father's will:
"John & Nathaniel shall provide for and keep the family together until they come of age and shall give my children who is under their care common education"

Residence:
no male in home 16/21, 8 horses.

Property:
17 Nov 1796 Robert [the younger] witnessed a document for his brother Alexander. He and his wife Margaret, sold his property interest in the estate of Alexander and Robert?s deceased brother Nathaniel to their older brother John. (S) Wythe Co., DB2, P66.

Military:
17 Nov 1796 Robert [the younger] witnessed a document for his brother Alexander. He and his wife Margaret, sold his property interest in the estate of Alexander and Robert?s deceased brother Nathaniel to their older brother John. (S) Wythe Co., DB2, P66.

Other-Begin:
~1802, John signed as security to a land sale of his brother Thomas.


Census:
Name: John Doak
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Wythe, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - < 10: 3 1800-1810 Saml, Jas, Rob
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1 1795-1800 son
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1 1785-1794 Wm
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44 : 1 1766-1784 John
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2 1800-1810 2 dau
Free White Persons - Females - 26thru44: 1 1766-1784 Rebecca
Number of Household Members Under 16: 6
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 9

Name: David Doak
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Wythe, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2 1785-1794
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44 : 1 1766-1784
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 < 1765
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 2 1795-1800
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1 1766-1784
Number of Household Members Under 16: 2
Number of Household Members Over 25: 3
Number of Household Members: 7



Census:
Name: John Doak
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Wythe, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 (1801-1810)
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1 (1761-1770)
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 3 (1811-1815)
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1 (1771-1780)
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49:1
Total Free White Persons: 6
Total Slaves: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 7

also:
Robert
Name: Robert Doak
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Wythe, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 (1801-1810
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 1

Samuel
Name: Samuel Doak
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Wythe, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 (1821-1825)
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 (1791-1800)
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2 (1825-1830)
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1 (1821-1825)
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 (1801-1810)
Free White Persons - Under 20: 4
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 6
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 6

James
Name: James Doak
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Wythe, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 (1801-1810)
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 1

William
Name: William Doak
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Wythe, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 (1825-1830)
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 (1791-1800)
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 (1825-1830)
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 (791-1800)
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 4

John married Rebecca Wilson in 1805. Rebecca was born between 1771 and 1780; died after 1860 in of, Wythe Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: Aft 1794, Wythe Co, Virginia

Notes:

MARGARET Doak A marriage or death record has yet to be found for Margaret. Some folk insist she was the wife of Robert Breckenridge, others marry her off to Francis Beatty ... the usual confusion of our expert Doak research. :-(
http://thebeardfamilyhistory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Children_of_David_Doak

Birth:
Margaret was left a horse and side saddle from father's will. Perhaps 21.

Other-Begin:
He signed a residual interest (unk date), along with siblings of Nathaniel Doak who was brother of his apparently deceased wife Margaret. Nathaniel Doak's property had been divided among his siblings after his death in 1794. The siblings were each transferring their shares to their brother John Doak.

Margaret married Robert Breckenridge about 1788 in Wythe Co, Virginia. Robert (son of Rev. George* Breckenridge, (Immigrant) and Ann* Doak, (Immigrant)) was born in 1743 in Augusta Co, Virginia; died in 1814 in Montgomery Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 1795, Wythe Co, Virginia
• Property: 1797, Wythe Co, Virginia; Nathaniel's property

Notes:

MARY Doak She married Robert Breckenridge. Robert, the son of George Breckenridge and Ann Doak, was Mary's first cousin. Mary and Robert moved to Kentucky, where they raised their family - 14 children, 6 of whom were still living in 1814.
http://thebeardfamilyhistory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Children_of_David_Doak

Birth:
her father's will left her only 50 pounds - probably younger than three daughters mentioned to be under 18, so about 11.


Other-Begin:
appeared in court with Robert in 1795

Mary married Francis Beatty, Jr about 1786. Francis was born about 1766; died after 1787. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Robert Breckenridge before 1795. Robert (son of Rev. George* Breckenridge, (Immigrant) and Ann* Doak, (Immigrant)) was born in 1743 in Augusta Co, Virginia; died in 1814 in Montgomery Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Abt 1776, Fayette Co, Kentucky; not this Robert?

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Southern Division, Guilford Co, North Carolina

Notes:

Census:
1850 United States Federal Census.
Name: James Doak
Age: 78
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1772
Birth Place: North Carolina
Gender: Male
Home in 1850: Southern Division, Guilford, North Carolina
Family Number: 61
Household Members:
Name Age
James Doak 78
Hannah Doak 58

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Buffalo Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, Guilford Co, North Carolina

Notes:

Religion:
Robert Doak, son of John, of Alamance Church section, bought of James McQuiston a farm on the head waters of North Buffalo in 1795 and located there. His wife was Hannah, and their children were Rebecca, John, James, Robert, William, Hannah, Elizabeth, Daniel and Mary. Rebecca married Robert Gorrell, son of Ralph, Sr.; Col. William married Thankful, youngest daughter of Col. Daniel Gillespie, in 1802; Hannah never married; Elizabeth married Thomas Caldwell, son of Rev. Dr. Caldwell; Mary married David Gorrell, son of Ralph, Sr., and died shortly thereafter.
http://ncgenweb.us/nc/guilford/buffalo-presbyterian-members-part-2/

Rebecca married Robert Gorrell on 12 Dec 1793 in Guilford Co, North Carolina. Robert (son of Ralph Gorrell, Sr. (Immigrant) and Mary "Nancy" Kerr) was born on 6 Oct 1772 in Greensboro, Guillford Co, North Carolina; died on 27 Nov 1841 in Guilford Co, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Buffalo Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, Guilford Co, North Carolina

Notes:

Religion:
Robert Doak, son of John, of Alamance Church section, bought of James McQuiston a farm on the head waters of North Buffalo in 1795 and located there. His wife was Hannah, and their children were Rebecca, John, James, Robert, William, Hannah, Elizabeth, Daniel and Mary. Rebecca married Robert Gorrell, son of Ralph, Sr.; Col. William married Thankful, youngest daughter of Col. Daniel Gillespie, in 1802; Hannah never married; Elizabeth married Thomas Caldwell, son of Rev. Dr. Caldwell; Mary married David Gorrell, son of Ralph, Sr., and died shortly thereafter.
http://ncgenweb.us/nc/guilford/buffalo-presbyterian-members-part-2/

William married Thankful Gillespie on 15 Oct 1802 in Guilford Co, North Carolina. Thankful (daughter of Robert Gillespie and Nancy Hanner) was born on 16 May 1786; died on 23 Feb 1845 in Guilford Co, North Carolina; was buried in Alamance Presbyterian Church Cem, Greensboro, Guilford Co, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married David Gorrell on 17 Jan 1790 in Guilford Co, North Carolina. David (son of Ralph Gorrell, Sr. (Immigrant) and Mary "Nancy" Kerr) was born on 21 Nov 1770 in Guilford Co, North Carolina; died on 23 Feb 1848 in Guilford Co, North Carolina; was buried in Old First Presbyterian Church, Uptown, Greensboro, Guilford Co, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: 1843, Presbyterian Church, Clarksville, Virginia; minister

Notes:

Religion:
related info in obit of sister Mary: "Mrs. Denny first joined the Presbyterian Church in Clarksville, Va., in 1843, under the ministry of her brother, Rev. Daniel G. Doak;"

Died:
died of cancer.

Notes:

never married.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Buffalo Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, Guilford Co, North Carolina

Notes:

Religion:
Robert Doak, son of John, of Alamance Church section, bought of James McQuiston a farm on the head waters of North Buffalo in 1795 and located there. His wife was Hannah, and their children were Rebecca, John, James, Robert, William, Hannah, Elizabeth, Daniel and Mary. Rebecca married Robert Gorrell, son of Ralph, Sr.; Col. William married Thankful, youngest daughter of Col. Daniel Gillespie, in 1802; Hannah never married; Elizabeth married Thomas Caldwell, son of Rev. Dr. Caldwell; Mary married David Gorrell, son of Ralph, Sr., and died shortly thereafter.
http://ncgenweb.us/nc/guilford/buffalo-presbyterian-members-part-2/

Elizabeth married Thomas Caldwell in 1813 in Buffalo Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, Guilford Co, North Carolina. Thomas was born about 1793; died after 1820 in of, Greensboro, Guilford Co, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

US Army Brigadier General, US Congressman. Born in Botetourt, Virginia, he was a successful lawyer in practice when he was elected a member of the State Senate of Virginia in 1783. In 1793, he was elected as a Republican to the Third Congress, reelected to the Fourth Congress, serving until 1797, when he declined to be a candidate for re-nomination. Resuming the practice of law, he was elected a member of the Virginia State House of Delegates, serving (1812-14). With the advent the War of 1812, he was commissioned a Colonel in the Virginia Volunteers and was later promoted a US Army Brigadier General. After the war, he served in the Virginia State Senate, (1816-20). He died at age 70 in Columbia, South Carolina. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
(findagrave)

Francis married Sarah Buchanan Campbell on 10 Jan 1793 in Washington, Virginia. Sarah (daughter of General William Campbell and Elizabeth Henry) was born on 21 Apr 1778 in Virginia; died on 23 Jul 1846 in Virginia; was buried in Aspenvale Cem, Seven Mile Ford, Smyth Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married James McDowell about 1794 in Virginia. James (son of James McDowell and Elizabeth Cloyd) was born on 1 Aug 1770 in Augusta Co, Virginia; died on 15 Sep 1835 in Rockbridge Co, Virginia; was buried in McDowell Cem, Fairfield, Rockbridge Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
On January 24, 1821 Mrs. Floyd (Letitia Preston) witnessed the death of her Brother, William. She had to write William's wife the sad news.

"He died as he lived, satisfied with the justice and goodness
of his Creator." Devout but not saccharine, she then added "A friend to all holiest men and the foe of scoundrels." Signing the letter to her sister-in-law "Your afflicted Sister," Mrs. Floyd expressed the belief, "Oh my Sister what a shield and stay his precious family have lost. I hope God will enable them to bear this sad bereavement."

Susannah married Nathan Hart, Jr. about 1801. Nathan was born on 30 Sep 1770 in Caswell Co, North Carolina; died on 7 Feb 1844 in Woodford Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Governor, Soldier. He was educated at William and Mary College. He served as a Colonel in the War of 1812 where he was seriously wounded and crippled for life. He was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates from Montgomery County in 1816 and served as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1816 to 1819. During his administration the University of Virginia was formed. Preston County, Virginia was created in his honor in 1818.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 24 Jan 1821

Notes:

She was born in Smithfield, Montgomery County, Virginia; married to Governor John Floyd; mother of Governor John Buchanan Floyd.
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Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871,
by Joseph Addison
Mrs. Lititia Floyd, daughter of Col. William Preston, granddaughter of John Preston, and wife of the first Governor Floyd, in 1843 wrote an account of the Preston family, from which we take most of the following statements:

Colonel James Patton had four sisters, two of whom married "men of quality" in the old country. The youngest sister, Elizabeth, while crossing the river Shannon in a boat, had as a fellow-passenger a young man of striking appearance, who proved to be a ship carpenter named John Preston. This casual interview led to acquaintance and a runaway marriage. The young lady thus placed herself ''out of the pale of her family." Her brother, James Patton, having afterwards retired from the sea and settled in America, induced Mr. and Mrs. Preston to emigrate also. Mrs. Floyd puts the date of their arrival in the Valley at 1735, and says John Preston died seven years afterwards at "Gibson's old place, eight miles below Staunton." But it appears from the records of Augusta County Court that his death occurred in 1747, and if he lived only seven years after coming, he must have arrived in 1740 with Alexander Breckinridge and many others, as is generally supposed to have been the fact. While living in Augusta, remote from the seaboard, John Preston employed himself as a cabinetmaker, constructing household furniture for himself and neighbors.

William, only son of John Preston, was born in the town of Newton, Ireland, November 25, 1729. He received most of his education in America, from the Rev. John Craig. Mrs. Patton was a haughty woman, says Mrs. Floyd, and kept aloof from the Prestons. A silly prediction of an Irish woman that William Preston would get his uncle's fortune, so impressed her with dread of a marriage between the nephew and one of her daughters, that she allowed no intercourse between the young people. She died soon after the marriage of her daughters,?one to a kinsman of hers named Thompson, and the other to John Buchanan. Colonel Patton then induced his widowed sister to remove to Spring Farm, in the vicinity of Staunton, and went to live with her.

John Preston and other Presbyterian people of Staunton and vicinity of his day, worshiped at Tinkling Spring, and his body was interred at that place. His eldest daughter married Robert Breckinridge, the ancestor of several distinguished men. The second daughter married the Rev. John Brown, pastor of New Providence church, and from them descended John Brown, of Kentucky, and James Brown, of Louisiana, both of them United States Senators, and the latter minister to France. William Preston was the father of a numerous family, male and female, and many of his descendants have been eminent in various walks of life. John Preston, the ancestor, appears to have been a quiet man, and without the bustling energy which characterized other pioneer settlers; but the traits which he and 'his wife Elizabeth," transmitted to their posterity is a noble testimony that the pair possessed more than common merit. He died in 1747, leaving a very small estate, as far as appears. His wife qualified as administratrix, February 6, 1747, and executed a bond, with John Maxwell and Robert McClanahan as her securities, in the penalty of ,£100, indicating a personal estate of only ,£50.

On the day that John Preston "proved his importation," the court ordered that ''Edward Boyle, for damning the court and swearing four oaths in their presence, be put in the stocks for two hours, and be fined twelve shillings," ($2).

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Memoirs of Letitia Preston Floyd
written Feb. 22, 1843.



WRITTEN TO HER SON, BENJAMIN RUSH FLOYD

Cairo, Feb'y 22, 1843

My Dear Rush:

From the extreme rigor of the winter and diminished vision I have postponed answering your letter of Dec. 30, enclosing one from Mr. Lyman C. Draper of Buffalo, N. York. The object of Mr. Draper's letter is to collect materials for a work "Sketches of the Pioneers". Would it be irrelevant in reply to repeat the tradition I have so often interested your childhood with, on the facts of the life and death of Col. James Patton, Dec?d.

He was born in the north of Ireland in the town of Newton, Lenawaddy in the year of our Lord 1690. He was bred to the sea, and in the wars of England with the low countries served as an officer in the Royal Navy. After the treaty of Utrecht he procured a "Passenger Ship" and traded to the Colony of Virginia at Robbes Hole on the Tappahannock. He penetrated the then wilderness of the State as far as Orange County, thence across the Blue Ridge and commenced a settlement near Waynesborough in Augusta County. He crossed the Atlantic twenty-three or twenty-five times - his traffic was paltries and tobacco -- his return cargo was what was then termed "Redemptionary" poor families of Irish who served a given time for the price of the passage. In this way the greater part of the country of Augusta was settled. The descendants of these emigrants have furnished the West with many of its Governors, Senators, Judges, and distinguished literary men, and even intermarried with the "Imperial Family of, Virginia" as the historian Burke terms the Pocahontas descendants of our state.

Gov. Patton had two sisters who married men of "quality" as the nieces termed them. This state of things kept the two other sisters unmarried.

The youngest sister, Elizabeth, crossing the river Shannon in a boat was very much attracted by the beauty and deportment of a young man whose name was John Preston. On inquiry he was found to be a ship carpenter. Nothing daunted by his humble pursuit, and understanding took place and Miss Patton consented to a runaway match. This step placed her out of the pale of her family. Her brother, Col. James Patton, had by this time obtained governmental distinction in Virginia, as well as a grant of land from Governor Dinwiddie of two or three hundred thousand acres. Col Patton determined to remove his family from White Haven to his then residence in Augusta County. He proposed to John Preston, his brother-in-law, to accompany him to America, and for his services as a ship-wright he would secure him four thousand acres of land. Preston did not hesitate. He embarked with his three daughters and his only son, William Preston, who was then eight years old.

In the summer of 1737 both families settled in Augusta - Mr. Preston seven miles below Staunton, and Patton at Spring Hill. As Preston had left the seaboard, his pursuits were changed, and he worked at the cabinet trade. A silly augury of a native Irish woman's to-wit; that William Preston would get his uncle's fortune, so impressed Mrs. Patton (who was a proud, haughty lady) that no intercourse was allowed of in the two families.

Seven years after their landing John Preston died at "Gibson's Old place", eight miles below Staunton. Mrs. Preston's situation was then a straightened one, she sent her son to her brothers with a message; the youngest daughter of Col. Patton knew her cousin, but her mother did not. Peggy, (afterwards Mrs. Buchanan) passed William Preston off as a neighbor's son to prevent her mother from turning him out of doors. By this time William Preston was 15 or 16 years of age. Mrs. Patton's dread of his getting the fortune by a marriage with one of her daughters urged their early marriage with a kinsman of hers by the name of Thompson, who was a rich man, and the youngest to Col. Buchanan. Shortly after their marriage Mrs. Patton died. This event lead her husband to look into the situation of his sister's family. Col. Patton placed his nephew with the Rev. Mr. Craig, pastor of Tinkling Spring congregation, A classical education was not attempted, because William Preston was thought to be too much grown; however, an excellent course of history, mathematics, and penmanship was afforded. Col. Patton had the affairs of the then mountain region of the colony entrusted to him by Gov. Dinwiddie; His sister, Mrs. Preston, was induced to remove to Hargiss, Judge Baldwin's seat, for the purpose of affording her son the opportunity of posting merchant's books, and doing whatever writing her brother needed.

Col. Patton left his seat and removed to Staunton, and lived at his sister's house. Shortly after that he was sent to Logstown somewhere near Pittsburg to make a treaty with the northwestern Indians. Mr. Preston, then eighteen years of age, was made his private secretary.

I remember to have read Col. Patton's journal written by himself, with the speeches of Oconestots, the old Miago chief. After peace was made, Col. Patton came up to the extreme western country, now of this state. He located all the fine lands of upper James river, Catawba and the Amsterdam lands in Botetourt County. He then came to North Roanoke, Strouble's Creek embracing the Blackburg Lands and Smithfield, the present seat of Gov. James Patton Preston. After that he came to Burk's Garden and the rich valley on the Holston in which the celebrated Salt Works of Mrs. Sally Preston and Mr. William King are situated.

Col. Patton tried to rally the settlers to defend the country from the inroads of the Indians on the frontier of Virginia. This he was unable to effect. All the settlers from South Holston to South Roanoke left the country and went below Blue Ridge. Patton maintained his ground as did Col. William Ingles, Phillip Barger and Phillip Lybrook, on Sinking Creek. On the 8th of July, 1755, it being Sunday, a party of Indians came up the Kanawha, thence to Sinking Creek, thence to Strouble Creek. Ingles and Draper, brothers-in-law, were living at Solitude, the present residence of Cot. Robt. P. Preston, Barger half a mile nearer to the mountains. The Indians came to Barger's, cut his head off, put it in a bag (Barger was a very old man) then came to Ingles and Draper's killed old Mrs. Draper, two children of Col. Ingles, by knocking their brains out on the ends of the cabin logs, took Mrs. Ingles and her son Thomas, a boy of ten years of age, prisoners, as her sister-in-taw, Mrs. Draper, who was trying to make her escape with her infant in her arms, but was shot at by the Indians who broke her arm, by which means the infant was dropped the Indians caught it up and dashed its brains out on the end of the cabin logs.

Col. Patton that morning after having dressed himself in his uniform and getting his nephew to sew up in the fold of his small clothes thirty English guineas, told him to go to Sinking Creek to get Lybrook to help take off a harvest which was then ready to cut. Preston went very early after breakfast; Col. Patton had sat down to his table to write. The Indian war-whoop was heard and some five or six of them surrounded the cabin to set it on fire. The Colonel always kept his sword on the table. He rushed to the door with it in his hand and encountered two of them (Patton was almost gigantic in size) he cut two of them down. In the meantime another warrior had leveled his gun, fired and killed the brave old pioneer. The Indians then ran off in the thicket and made their escape; before any pursuers could be brought together. Lybrook and Preston came through the mountains by an unfrequented route, arrived at Smithfield (then called Draper?s meadows) where they found Patton, Mrs. Draper, the mother of Mrs. Ingles, and the children buried. The whole settlement was destroyed.

The Indians on their retreat back stopped at Lybrook's told the old Mrs. Lybrook they had killed two men, one woman and three children. She immediately recognized the head of Philip Barger, who was then aged and very gray. Mrs. Ingles, her oldest son, a boy of ten years of age, Mrs. Draper, her sister-in-taw, were taken to the Indian towns on the other side of the Ohio River; they traveled down the Kanawha, or, as it is sometimes called, "New River", went through the northeastern part of Kentucky. Mrs. Ingles in three months after her capture gave birth to a daughter. Her sister-in-law had been traded off to another tribe of Indians, as was her son. Three months after the birth of her child, she determined to run off from the Indians, who were dreadfully barbarous to her; another strong impulse to return to her husband made her undertake a journey unparalleled in the incidents of pioneer life. She and a Dutch woman, who was taken from the upper part of the Ohio, determined to run away from the Indians. Mrs. Ingles left her child in a bark cradle asleep, knowing as soon as she was missed, the Indians would kill the infant. A series of remarkable events occurred to them on the route. Mrs. Ingles keeping up the watercourses, when she got to the Ohio River, she and the Dutch woman tied logs together with a grape-vine made a raft and crossed the stream, they were near perishing of hunger living on blackberries, sassafras leaves, frogs and in one instance eating a buck they found dead, then a raccoon in a great state of decomposition.

All means failing, a proposition was made that lots should be cast, which of them was to be eaten by the other; the lot fell on Mrs. Ingles, who, understanding her traveling companion's temper, promised her a sum of money if she would refrain from killing her. Col. Ingles was a rich man; this had the desired effect; the Dutch woman forebore; Mrs. Ingles, however, slipped off, leaving the woman to find her way as she could. After many weeks travel, Mrs. Ingles arrived at Ingles' Ferry on New River, the residence of Col. Ingles. She was afterwards the mother of a highly respectable family, who have always been distinguished for bravery and honesty. Her grand-children live on the place she made such wonderful efforts to return to. These transactions took place the year of Braddock's defeat. Mrs. Ingles lived to a very great age. I remember to have seen her fifty years ago at a large Baptist Association, thirty miles from her home, she was then eighty years old looked florid and erect.

Mr. Draper desires to know whatever particulars of my father, Col. William Preston, I may have a knowledge of.

He was the only son of John Preston and Elizabeth Patton; was born in Ireland, in the town of Newton, Linawaddy, on the 25th of December, 1729. When he was seven or eight years of age his father emigrated to the colony of Virginia.

His father was remarkable for fine personal appearance, great industry, and unabated piety. The mother's qualities were masculine understanding, great ambition and impetuosity of humble fortunes, which she brought on herself by marrying a ship carpenter were powerfully resisted. She was, however, left a widow with a family of four daughters and an only son, who was but a stripling at his father's death.

The forest was to conquer; this her young son did by daily labor in cutting down trees and making fences. After Mr. Preston's death, Mrs. Preston removed to Barger's near Staunton. Her daughters were skillful needlewomen; it was the age of cross-stitch, embroider, etc. They wrought diligently at the business, obtained a sufficiency of money to purchase a negro woman.

A little while afterwards a young Presbyterian clergyman from Ireland, by the name of John Brown, settled in Staunton, became attracted to Margaret, Mrs. Preston's second daughter, married her, went to Rockbridge County, took charge of a congregation and preached fifty years in New Providence meeting house.

The eldest daughter, Lettice Preston, married Col. Robert Breckenridge, a man of some wealth, who had been married before, and had two sons by that marriage.

The third sister, Ann Preston was then married to a young gentleman by the name of Francis Smith.

During this period Col. Wm. Preston was employed by Wallace Estill, the high Sheriff of Augusta, to ride as deputy-sheriff. The year after, Preston and Col. John Buchanan were elected Burgesses to the House of Burgesses. Preston was required by the congregation of Episcopalians in Staunton to procure a carpenter to undertake the building of a church in town. A carpenter and undertaker living near Hanover Court-House, by the name of Francis Smith, who kept a tavern a short distance from the Court House, was applied to by Col. Preston to attend to the building. Mr. Smith was a rich old man, had an extremely beautiful daughter by the name of Susanna, who was educated by the Rev. Patrick Henry. Col. Preston was soon attracted by her beauty and manners; he addressed her, and was married the 17th day of July, 1761.

The summer of 1757, Col. Preston had been appointed Commissioner to hold a treaty with the Shawnee and Delaware Indians at the mouth of Big Sandy River, a branch of the Ohio. Col. Thomas Lewis, of Rockingham County was likewise a Commissioner. Lewis, I believe did not accompany the party. The treaty was made, I think with Oconostoto who was now very old, and a chief called Cornstalk. Col. Preston endured singular hardships in the expedition; he had tied his moccasin somewhat too tight; the string chafed the instep of one of his feet, which produced partial mortification. The skill of a physician by the name of Dr. Thomas Lloyd saved his life. Lloyd had been purchased by Preston a year or two previously: found him a man of fine education, with great knowledge of medicine; the Dr. was made the companion, and died very many years thereafter the firm friend of Preston's family.

On their return from the south of Sandy, they took up a fork of the river, which was through a very rugged region, got so entirely out of food as to be compelled to eat the buffalo tugs which tied on their packs, and hence the stream was named by Col. Preston the "Tug Fork of Sandy"

The county of Fincastle was taken off Rockbridge Botetourt County about the year 1764 1772. Col Preston obtained the surveyor's place, which determined him to leave Staunton. He settled on Greenfield, near Amsterdam, a valuable estate yet in the possession of his granddaughters. Having some business to transact in Augusta Court in the month of May, he left his family at Greenfield, early in the morning

Mrs. Preston was startled by the firing of two guns in quick succession at a neighbor's house within a half mile of her. Very shortly afterwards Mr. Joseph Cloyd rode up on his plough-horse with the gears on, telling Mrs. Preston that the Indians had killed his brother John, shot at him; but missed him, although his shirt was powder-burnt; they had gone to the house, and he expected had killed his mother. Mrs. Preston sent a young man living at her house to Captain Francis Smith, who commanded a small fort on Craig s Creek, to bring his troops to pursue the Indians. She wrote a letter to him, which was free from tremor or trepidation. She then sent a white man and two negro men to Mr. Cloyd's, where they found Mrs. Cloyd tomahawked in three places, all the household destroyed and the money carried off (Mr. Cloyd had a large sum of gold stowed away). Mrs. Cloyd was perfectly in her senses, told all the circumstances of the savage revelry in getting drunk, ripping up the featherbeds, and one of them taking a corn cob and wiping off the blood from her temples, exclaiming "Poor old woman". She died the next morning. After this irruption of the Indians, there appeared to be a pause in their deprivations.

I think, about the year 1765, and expedition was ordered by the then governor of Virginia, Lord Botetourt, and the command given to Col. Byrd, who penetrated as far as the Tennessee line. What his success was I am not able to state; I think, however, the settlements were insecure. In 1773, Col Preston became possessed of Draper's Meadows (now Smithfield). The county of Botetourt was divided and Col. Preston determined to follow the surveyor s office.

Whilst Col. Preston lived at Greenfield, John Buchanan determined to leave his residence near Pattonsburg and remove to Reed Creek to settle at Anchor and Rope, a splendid estate Col. Patton had given his daughter Margaret. On his journey he stopped at Greenfield, took sick and died after several weeks illness. Whilst on his death bed he desired Mrs. Preston to take care of his daughter, Jane, then ten years old; this was done. Col. Buchanan made Col. Preston the executor of his immense estate, a long and unbroken friendship existed between them. Buchanan is favorably mentioned by Gen. Washington in Spark's Life of Washington.

During Col. Preston's residence at Greenfield in the year 1770 a young gentleman by the name of John Floyd was introduced to him by Col. Joseph Cabell, of Buckingham County, as very well qualified to assist as a deputy in the Surveyor's office. It was always a rule with Cot. Preston to require of every young man who was employed in his office to teach school six months at least, thereby finding out his temper, diligence, habits and trustworthiness. Mr. Breckenridge's, Smith's children and my sisters and brothers conducted FLoyd's school; when my father removed to Smithfield in 1773. Col. Floyd accompanied him.

In the Autumn of that year Col. Preston with Col. Nathaniel Gist, were appointed to make a treaty with the Cherokees, and I think the Chickamauga Indians at Long Island, on the Holstein River, in the State of Tennessee. The treaty was made, and the Southern Indians were perfectly quiet. In the March of 1774 Col. Preston removed my mother and her children to Smithfield. There was a fort or stockade around the house; several of the neighbors' families came into it for safety, because the Northwestern Indians made constant attempts on the settlements. Major John Taylor, who had married a niece of Col. Buchanan's was one of the families, Mr. Robert Preston, Captain James Charlton, his brother Frank, and Capt. John Lucas were mainly the persons who defended the fort.

In the year of '74 my brother, Gov. James Patton Preston was born at Smithfield. Mrs. Preston's confinement was so protracted from typhus that a nurse for her infant was procured by the kindness of Mrs. Van Lear, who affectionately took upon herself that office; she was the mother of the Rev. John Van Lear.

During the summer and autumn of '74 the entire region of the Northwest of the mountains of Virginia was put in commotion by the movements of the Indians on her borders. The governor of the State, Lord Dunmore, made a visit as far as Fincastle, in Botetourt County, to organize an expedition against the Shawnees, Wuyandottes and Delaware Indians. Gen. Andrew Lewis, who had served in Braddock's War as a Coronet, and in the old French war as a major, was appointed to be commander of the expedition; his youngest brother Col. Charles Lewis of Bath County, Gen. Lewis' sons Samuel and Thomas Lewis, his nephew Thomas Lewis of Rockingham County, and nephew John Lewis and his nephew-in-law Captain Trigg, and Captain John McClannahan, were all in his army. I think Col. William Christian, Col. William Hemming, his brother-in-law, Col. John Stewart and Col. John Floyd, were also in the campaign. The battle of "Point Pleasant" was fought on the 10th of October, 1774; Col. Chas. Lewis was killed. Col. Sam'l Lewis wounded, Capt. John Lewis of Rockingham was killed, Capt. Trigg killed, and Capt. McClannahan as was Capt. Morrow, the brother-in-law of Col. Charles Lewis. Col. Floyd was sent on a foraging expedition and did not arrive until the day after the battle. I remember distinctly to have a letter from Col. Thomas Lewis, of Rockingham County, to my father giving a detailed account of that battle. Col. Preston was detained by the illness of Mrs. Preston, who was not expected to survive.

The year after this battle the country of Kentucky attracted much attention. Col. Preston's surveyor's office comprehended all that beautiful state, he, Col. Preston, sent Col. Floyd out on an exploring expedition, with advice to take up the lands for the benefit of Floyd and himself. For a long time it was supposed Floyd was killed by the Indians, however, he returned to Smithfield by the route of Guyandotte, Coal River, etc., having endured hardships which few men could have survived.

In the summer of 1776 the American Revolution fairly commenced; all plans for a settlement West was suspended; Col. Preston found himself surrounded by a neighborhood of Tories that kept him continually on the alert to prevent their murdering himself and family, as well as every other Whig in the Country. Gen. William Campbell, of Washington County, Col. Arthur Campbell, of the same county, a brother-in-law of General Campbell's, Col. Patrick Lockhart, of Botetourt County, William Madison, the son-in-law of Col. Preston, were all good Whigs and kept the Tories in check. Col. Preston was intently engaged educating his family and improving the valuable estates he had by this time acquired; the effect the first-named purpose; he had purchased a gentleman by the name of Mr. Aaron Palfreman; this person was a poet and a scholar; he was the correspondent and friend of the celebrated Miss Carter, the poetess.

Mr. Palfreman had in a drunken frolic consented to be married to a beautiful woman, who was represented to him as a lady by his companions; next morning, finding he was made a dupe of, and that his wife was a woman of the town, he embarked in a few hours for America. On landing at Williamsburg, Col. Preston met with him, purchased him, and ever afterwards kept him in his family as a teacher.

Col. Preston, Col. Thomas Lewis, of Rockingham, Gen. Andrew Lewis, of Botetourt, Mr. John Madison, of Augusta, and Col. Fleming engaged Mr. Gabriel Jones, an Englishman, to select for them libraries in London. This Mr. Jones was Mr. Jefferson's first partner in the practice of law. A good selection of the classics, ancient history, the distinguished poets of England, "The Dictionary of Arts and Science" a sort of encyclopedia, with much polemic and religious production constituted the libraries. I would observe that the use of these books gave to each family possessing them a station which outranked, very many wealthier families than the above-named.

The multiplicity of business growing out of the surveyor's office, organizing the counties and their civil policy seemed to require all of Col. Preston's energies. In addition, he held extensive correspondence with many of the then active Whig partisans of Revolution, and in this business he was greatly assisted by his nephew, Mr. John Breckenridge, who was undergoing the ordeal of teaching school at Smithfield, Mr. Breckenridge studied law at William & Mary College, married Miss Polly Cabell, the second daughter of Col. Joseph Cabell, received a large fortune with her. In 1793 removed to Kentucky, acquired great celebrity as a lawyer, presented the famous Kentucky resolutions on the Alien and Sedition Laws, was elected to the senate of the United States where he made a great display of political knowledge and an oratory that was not equaled even by Governor Morris who was in the Senate at that time.

Mr. Breckenridge was made attorney of the U. States by Mr. Jefferson, in which office he died, leaving four sons of distinguished talents. His eldest daughter, Letitia, married General P. B. Porter, Secretary of War in Mr. John Q. Adams' administration. After Mr. Breckenridge's leaving Smithfield, his brother, Gen'l James Breckenridge, took his place as teacher, and assistant. Previous to this period there was a company formed called the "Loyal Company" for the purpose of entering lands in the western counties of Virginia -- Dr. Thomas Walker of Albemarle, Judge Edmund Pendleton, and one or two others, and much surveying was required Col. Preston was employed, which still increased his estate. Col. Preston planned many of the military movements of that period. He was a man of consummate judgment and unremitting industry. He planned the campaign which made the demonstration in North Carolina that led to the battles of Guilford and King's Mountain. His health had greatly declined from frequent apoplectic premonitions -- yet he undertook as Commandant of his county to march at the head of his regiment into North Carolina, to join Gen'l Green at Guilford. You will see an account of this matter in Lee's Memoirs of the Revolution.

A skirmish had taken place between the Americans and British at Whitsell's Mills, a short distance from the main battle. Col. Preston was riding a large fiery young horse that took fright at the report of guns, dashed through the mill -pond threw Col. Preston off who was likely to be cut down by the British light horse.

At the critical moment Col. Joseph Cloyd dismounted, put Col. Preston on his horse and thereby saved his friend and officer's life. This signal service was always held in memory by Col. Preston, and a sincere friendship continued during Preston's life. Cloyd was the young man who escaped when his brother and mother were killed near Greenfield. Cloyd married an excellent worthy lady without any fortune, which so displeased his father that he was banished from the paternal roof. Preston furnished money to Cloyd which enabled him to purchase the estate his son, David Cloyd lived on.

After Col. Preston's return from N. Carolina, his health continued to decline. In the month of June, 1783, he had spent the evening with his intimate friend, Gen'l Even Shelby (the father of Governor Isaac Shelby) on the morning of the 28th he prepared to attend a regiment muster at Michael Prince's three miles from Smithfield. His eldest son, Gen'l John Preston then a youth, accompanied him, as did Gen'l Shelby. The day was exceedingly hot; after being on the field for a few hours, he beckoned his son John to him, complained of pain in his head, desired to lie down on Prince's bed. A short time afterwards requested his son to help him on his horse - he wanted to go home. When the horse was brought to the door, he made an attempt to put his foot in the stirrup, sank down, was caught by his son, laid on the bed again, by this time he had lost his speech, but took his son's hand, rolled up his shirt sleeve, and made a sign for his son to bleed him. This John Preston could not do. Mrs. Preston was sent for, who immediately, reached the place. Col. Preston's reason had not been staggered in this conflict. He caught his wife s hand, kissed it, shed tears, and made a motion to be bled; this could not be effected from consternation and ignorance. Soon after, the stertonous breathing of apoplexy came on and about midnight he breathed his last.

Col John Floyd was killed on the 12th day of April, 1783; when the news reached Col. Preston, such was the feeling produced by it that Preston was never seen to smile afterwards.

Col. Preston was above the ordinary height of men, five feet eleven inches, he was large - inclined to corpulency, was ruddy, had fair hair and hazel eyes his manners were easy and graceful. He had a well cultivated intellect and a fine taste for poetry. I remember reading several beautiful productions of his addressed to my mother in praise of her domestic virtues.

On the 18th day of June, 1823, this excellent lady expired, after having lived a widow forty years. She desired to be buried in the same grave with her husband; this was done; a tombstone was placed over the graves by their second son, Gen'l Francis Preston. No portrait of either was ever taken. Col. Preston and wife had twelve children.

The oldest was Mrs. Elizabeth Madison, who married the second son of Mr. John Madison the father of Bishop James Madison, the learned President of William & Mary College. Likewise Mr. Thomas Madison who married the youngest sister of Patrick Henry. Also Governor George Madison of Kentucky, who married Miss Jane Smith, the niece of Col. Preston.

The next child was Gen'l John Preston, who married Miss Polly Radford the daughter of Col. William Radford, an officer of the Revolutionary army.

The third child was Gen'l Francis Preston, who married the only daughter and heiress of Gen'l William Campbell of King's Mountain memory, her mother was the third sister of Patrick Henry.

The fourth child was Mrs. Sarah McDowell, the wife of Col. James McDowell of Rockbridge; she was the mother of Mrs. Susan Taylor, Mrs. Benton, and her only son is Governor James McDowell of this state.

The fifth child, Anne, died at 13 years of age.

The sixth child was Major William Preston who was a captain in Gen'l Wayne's army; he married Col. George Hancock's second daughter. Hancock was a Revolutionary officer.

The seventh child was Mrs. Susanna Hart, who married Mr. Nathaniel Hart of Kentucky, whose father was killed at the siege of Boonesborough.

The eighth child was Governor James Patton Preston; he married the second daughter of Mr. Robert Taylor, a merchant of Norfolk Borough. Governor Preston was wounded at the battle of Christler's Field in Canada during the last war. He is yet living at Smithfield, is a pensioner, a gentleman of exceedingly graceful manners, greatly beloved by his neighbors and relations.

The ninth child was Mrs. Mary Lewis, she was the wife of Captain John Lewis, an officer of the Revolution; he was entitled to half pay during life. He was proprietor of the celebrated Sweet Springs of Virginia.

The tenth child is Mrs. Letitia Floyd, who married General John Floyd of Virginia; the youngest son of Col. John Floyd and Jane Buchanan.

The eleventh child is Thomas Lewis Preston, who married Miss Edmonia Randolph, the second daughter of. Col. Edmund Randolph of Willi (end copy)

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LETITIA PRESTON FLOYD--PIONEER CATHOLIC FEMINIST

by Harry E. Winter O.M.I.

When Alexis de Tocqueville was finishing Democracy in America, about 1835, he asked what was "the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation",,And he wrote succinctly, "the superiority of their women."

Recently, the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, which covers the entire state of West Virginia, decided to honor one of these women, the author and educator Letitia Preston Floyd (1779-1852). She was to the manor horn, with her brother, James Patton Preston serving as the governor of Virginia from 1816-19, her husband, John Floyd Jr., from 1830-341 and her son, John Buchanan Floyd, from 1848-52. How-ever, the manor was not in slave-holding and aristocratic Tidewater Virginia, but in the anti-slavery and populist Appalachian Mountains, near what is now Blacksburg. Virginia. Her childhood home, Smithfield Plantation, borders on the large land grant university Virginia Poly-technical Institute and State University (VPISU), commonly called Virginia Tech, Smithfield was in the Preston family for five genera­tions, was deeded in 1959 to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Beautifully restored, and open to the public, it gives a good insight into what it was to grow up on the frontier, in a powerful, landed family.

Mrs. Floyd herself, with terse and polished prose, described her childhood at Smithfield in a long letter (or perhaps a short history) of Feb. 22,1843 to her son Benjamin Rush Floyd. She wrote 2.

lovingly about the books her father had arranged to be purchased in London. "A good selection of the classics, ancient history, the distinguished poets of England, the Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, a sort of encyclopedia, with much polemics and many religious productions, constituted the libraries." And then she summed up her view of the importance of education on the frontiers "the use of these books gave to each family possessing them a station which outranked many wealthier families."

Letitia's father was the surveyor for much of central and western Virginia. He employed several deputies, and Letitia wrote that every young man whom he employed had to teach school for him "six months at least, thereby finding out his temper, diligence, habits and trustworthiness." One such man was Colonel John Floyd Sr., in 1804, Letitia married his son, John Floyd Jr. (1783-1837).

Trained in both law and medicine, John Floyd Jr. was soon serving in the U.S. House of Representatives (1817-29). A grind-father and great grandfather had been governors of Virginia. A brother had been a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, John tirelessly pushed for the occupation of the Oregon area, both during and after his service in Congress. In 1830 he became the last gov­ernor of Virginia to serve under its pre-Revolutionary War constitu­tion' then, the first to serve under the post-Revolutionary War con­stitution. In the national election of 1832 he received the eleven electoral votes of South Carolina for president of the U.S.A.

It was during his governorship that their children started becoming Catholic, and therein lies a mystery. What led the family to become Catholic in a time when Catholicism was a very suspect religion?

Two people were certainly involved. The first was the very personable pastor of St. Peter's Church, Richmond, Father Timothy O'Brien. Gov. Floyd maintained a pew at St. Peter's during his term of office. The three daughters began to convert at this time, during their teens: three of the four sons eventually became Catholic. Undoubtedly, the sermons they heard from their pew helped. In fact, on May 27, 1832, their father recorded in his journal, "went to the chapel to hear Mr. O'Brien, who is a man of talents and a respectable orator."

The second person involved was Bishop Richard Whelan, second bishop of Richmond and first bishop of Wheeling. His views on slavery, and that of Gov. Floyd's, were remarkably similar: they wanted to stamp it out. Gov. Floyd wrote in his journal on Dec.26, 1831: "I shall not rest until slavery is abolished in Virginia." (The Nat Turner slave rebellion, which Floyd had to subdue, must have been a tragic time for the whole family)., Slavery affected Bishop Whelan no less seriously. One of the main reasons why he left Richmond altogether for Wheeling was his hatred of and opposi­tion to slavery.

So two clergymen undoubtedly influenced the Floyd family. But it is quite certain that the teenage girls could never have joined the Catholic Church without the permission of their mother.

Gov. Floyd had never enjoyed robust health. Mrs. Floyd's sister Mary had married John Lewis, a part owner of the famous resort Sweet Springs. The powerful families of the day summered for several weeks at each of six resorts: a modern historian notes "one HAD to be at the Sweet for the last week in August and the first week in September.

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It was like the salmon, who knew when it was time to go back up the Columbia Raver" (Fishwick, Springlore in Virginia). John Floyd died suddenly at his sister-in-law's home, Lynnside, just outside the village of Sweet Springs, Va. (now W.V.) on August 21, 1897. He was only 54 years old.

Local historians assert that John Floyd was received into the Catholic Church on his deathbed, but no records have ever been found. So the reports have never been accepted by Diocese of Richmond authorities.

The oldest daughter, also named Letitia, had become the third wife of widower William Lynn Lewis, John Lewis' son, in a Catholic marriage on March 19, 1897, They were first cousins, and some 15 years different in age. Letitia Lewis now became mistress of the estate of Lynnside, some five months before her father's death.

They buried her father in the Lewis Family Cemetery, at the Lynnside estate where they had spent so many happy summers. Letitia Lewis set about building a chapel for local Catholics, and securing the services of a priest. The chapel, St. John's, Sweet Springs, stands to this day and is the oldest Catholic Church in W.V. to be preserved in its original form. Bishops, archbishops, and probably even Cardinal Gibbons beat a path to Sweet Springs to stay with the powerful Lewis/Floyd family and celebrate Mass at St. John's.

Letitia Floyd directed the affairs of her family from an estate high in the Appalachians, at Burkes Garden, Virginia. She certainly spent many summers in Sweet Springs, at her sister's and daughter's estate. And she wrote thousands of letters.

Her lengthy correspondence with Bishop Whelan is probably preserved among papers of the Floyd and Preston families in the several archives and state libraries. no one has yet edited the letters and written the definitive biography of this Christian feminist. But four of the letters from Bishop Whelan to her are available in the archives of the Diocese of Richmond; the one of May 8, 1845 is especially revealing. Bishop Whelan had lost patience with her, and used every argument to help her make up her mind. "I feel sure that your intelligent and well informed mind will scarce allow you to admit any resting place between Catholicity and infidelity' I feel equally sure that Christianity carries with it too many evidences of truth to allow you to stake your everlasting hopes upon its rejection." He wanted her to consider the influence of her example' he felt that many had attempted before God to excuse or lessen their own neglect by her example. He concluded these and other arguments by warning her "it is now, my dear friend, the 11th hour for you, and you still have it in your power to repair much of the past, . . . by acknowledging before men that Saviour whom you wish to acknow­ledge you before his Father in heaven." He wrote that it would be a great consolation to him on his approaching visit to receive her and two others he named into the Catholic faith.

Mrs. Floyd put off the final decision for seven more years, not being received into the Church by Bishop Whelan until June, 1852. She died on Dec. 12 of the same year. The pastor of Wythe­ville, Va., her sons and sons-in-law accompanied her body the 80 miles from Burkes Garden to Sweet Springs. A beautiful journey over mountains and streams in good weather, it would have been a torturous one in bad. They buried her next to her husband in the Lewis Family Cemetery on the knoll with the exquisite view behind her daughter's house.

If one reads the historians of frontier religion, particu­larly Methodist historians, one can perhaps understand why it took Mrs. Floyd se long to join an organized religion. One of the signs of fervor during revivals was the amount of barking one could do. Religion in the Appalachians, even up to Civil War times, was very messy and chaotic. The slavery issue affected all churches with great bitterness. It is perhaps to her credit that she allowed her children to join as they approached their late teens, but took much more time for her intellect to accept the reasonableness of the Latin language and other externals of Catholicism at that time.

On January 24, 1821 Mrs. Floyd witnessed the death of her

Brother, William. She had to write William's wife the sad news.

"He died as he lived, satisfied with the justice and goodness

of his Creator." Devout but not saccharine, she then added "A friend to all holiest men and the foe of scoundrels." Signing the letter to her sister-in-law "Your afflicted Sister," Mrs. Floyd expressed the belief, "Oh my Sister what a shield and stay his precious family have lost. I hope God will enable them to bear this sad bereavement." She may not have been quick to join any organized religion, but she was deeply religious.



Other-Begin:
On January 24, 1821 Mrs. Floyd witnessed the death of her Brother, William. She had to write William's wife the sad news.

"He died as he lived, satisfied with the justice and goodness
of his Creator." Devout but not saccharine, she then added "A friend to all holiest men and the foe of scoundrels." Signing the letter to her sister-in-law "Your afflicted Sister," Mrs. Floyd expressed the belief, "Oh my Sister what a shield and stay his precious family have lost. I hope God will enable them to bear this sad bereavement."


Buried:
Gov. Floyd?s grave had been marked with a handsome dressed concrete slab some three feet long, six feet wide and ten inches thick. After discussion with Mrs. Floyd?s direct descendent, Mrs. Jack (Lynn) Spellman, who maintains the Lewis Family Cemetery, this text was agreed for Mrs. Floyd:

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JOHN FLOYD LETITIA PRESTON FLOYD

TWICE GOVERNOR WIFE OF GOVERNOR JOHN FLOYD

OF VIRGINIA MOTHER OF GOV.

AN APOSTLE OF SECESSION JOHN BUCHANAN FLOYD

AND THE FATHER OF AUTHOR AND EDUCATOR

THE OREGON COUNTRY DIED DEC. 12, 1853

DIED AUG. 21, 1837

But a major problem would be to find Mrs. Floyd's grave, for it had been unmarked, with only the understanding that she was buried "next to her husband."

An archaeologist trained in restoring cemeteries had been hired to recover the graves of many early Irish settlers buried in the adjacent Old Catholic Cemetery. Professor Ken Robinson, of Lillington, N.C. spent the weeks of Sept. 26, 1988 and June 11, 1990 restoring both cemeteries and locating the grave of Mrs. Floyd. It was fascinating to watch him and his helpers as they determined the grave areas.

no attempt was made to excavate or exhume any human remains. Rarely did the excavations extend any deeper than 10 inches. Prof. Robinson's report described the prowess,



Detection of grave pits was accomplished by stripping away ground vegetation and topsoil to expose changes in soil color and texture. Grave pits were usually visible as areas of mot-tied orange, yellow and brown earth, which results from the mixing of the various colors of clays and silts that were used to refill the grave at the time of burial. The edges of the grave pits were sometimes distinctly visible due to the con­trast between the grave fill and natural subsoil.

Excavations were conducted mostly with hand tools such as shovels, mattocks and trowels. Excavation areas were marked prior to the excavation and the precise locations of the exca­vated areas were mapped and recorded in order to maintain perma­nent record of where the excavations were conducted.



Since the massive concrete marker to Gov. Floyd was only placed on his grave in the 1930's, some hundred years after his death, it was deemed prudent to see if the marker actually covered his grave. Intensive investigation determined that it was off center by at least two feet. The concrete slab, and a large concrete box supporting it,were both moved 4 feet west and 2 feet north of the original location, since both historical evidence and soil analysis and probing indicated

That was where the governor's grave was, with an identically matching grave on its south side. This unmarked grave gave every indication of being Letitia Preston Floyd's grave. So the new marker was placed on it, and the Most Rev. Bernard W. Schmitt, seventh bishop of Wheeling. was invited to bless it and celebrate the occasion.

On August 15, 1990, direct descendants of Mrs. Floyd from Virginia and West Virginia joined Bishop Schmitt first in the chapel of St. John and then at the newly marked grave itself, to celebrate the memory of this great Christian feminist. A Roanoke. Va. TV station gave the church service

extensive coverage. A van brought officials of the Montgomery County Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, and other interested people from Smithfield Plantation, Letitia's childhood home about 75 miles across the border in Blacksburg, Virginia.

At the grave, Professor Robinson explained how he had operated. Bishop Schmitt blessed the new marker, standing where his predecessor, the first bishop of Wheeling, Richard Whelan had stood when he visited the grave site on October 19, 1859. Even today, the drive from Wheeling is over five hours. Then, the coach ride must have taken at least a week. Bishop Whelan had come to preside at the marriage of one of Mrs. Floyd's granddaughter's, and would not have missed the opportunity to pray at his famous convert's grave.

Did de Tocqueville ever meet this feminist, who embodied his praise of American women? The Floyd's are not listed among the people he interviewed during his 1832 trip up the coast from New Orleans to Washington D.C. But he almost certainly heard of her. His very poor impression of interviewing Andrew Jacksoon coincides remarkably with the opposition which Governor and Mrs. Floyd showed to President Jackson. Being four years older than her husband, and in much better health, she undoubtedly formed a strong partnership of mind and heart and action with John Floyd.

One speaker at the service in the chapel mused that when he first started reading about Mrs. Floyd, he was tempted to call her "the Abigail Adams of Virginia." Then, as he read more, he began to wonder if someday, when Mrs. Floyd's letters are edited and a definitive biography written, we might not be calling Abigail Adams "the Letitia Freston Floyd of New England"!

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=thejohnson10&id=I1918

Letita married Gov John Floyd about 1805. John (son of James John Floyd and Sally Jane Buchanan) was born on 24 Apr 1783 in Floyds Station, Virginia; died on 17 Aug 1837 in Sweet Springs, Monroe Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

About Archibald Woods

DAR Ancestor #: A128820

Son of Martha Poage and Andrew Woods
Pension R11825V Rank Sergeant, Virginia Militia
Married Anne Pogue; 8 children
In 1788 he was sent as a representative to the Constitutional Convention in Righmond, VA.
He also served in the War of 1812 and founded Woodsfield Ohio in Monroe Co.

Biography

from Woods family papers, William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan.

The youngest of Andrew and Martha's children, Archibald (1764-1846), extended the prominence of the family in the social and political circles of western Virginia. Born and raised in Albemarle County, Va., Archibald enlisted in the Virginia Militia at the age of only 16, and was under the command of Gen. William Campbell at Yorktown when he was wounded. At the war's end in 1783, he and two of his brothers followed their father's pioneering ways and emigrated to the Ohio Valley, a region then unsettled by whites that stretched to the Monongahela River and included parts of what today is West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Having received warrants for several thousand acres in the Ohio Valley in remuneration for his service in the war, Archibald, like many of his fellow veterans, availed himself of the lucrative opportunity to speculate in "western" lands, a business in which he was eminently successful. Over several years, he occupied himself in surveying and purveying lands in the Ohio Valley, and in the process, he accrued a very substantial estate.

Still only 22 in 1788, Archibald was sent as a representative to the U.S. Constitutional convention in Richmond, and for twenty years thereafter, he was president of the Northwestern Bank of Virginia and of the County Court of Ohio County. Despite his other activities, Archibald never flagged in his commitment to the military. In 1809, he was commissioned as Colonel of the 4th Virginia Regiment, and remained on duty until the end of the War of 1812.

In 1787, Archibald built the first wing of "Woodsdale," a home on Homestead Lane near Wheeling, W.Va., that would remain the family seat for over 160 years. Plans from 1815-1816 reveal a modest home consisting of "a frame house 26 feet by 34 in the clear two stories high..." It was here that Archibald Woods brought his bride, Anne Poage, in 1789 to live and raise a family, and succeeding generations added their own touches, extending the house and grounds. Archibald's son John J. (b. 1807) continued farming the land, and following his marriage to Ruth H. Jacob in 1848, began raising his own family on the John J. Woods Home Farm. In 1891, Ruth and her children ceded a portion of the original property to establish Woodsdale Park, and in 1897, John's heirs further subdivided the estate. Still, one of John's sons, Archibald (d. 1912), managed to continue the operation of the farm, and even after his untimely death in 1912, his wife, Rebecca, remained there to raise her three daughters.

With the steady growth of the small communities around Woodsdale in the late 19th century, by 1919, the Home Farm had become completely engulfed by the city of Wheeling. Prior to the marriage of Archibald and Rebecca in 1905, several parcels had been sold as building lots for residential purposes. The Woodsdale Children's Home, along with several private residences were built on portions of the Home Farm between the 1890s and 1910s. The original homestead was torn down in 1949, though the entrance and the streets bearing the names of early settlers remain.
Notes

Folder 30 Bills of sale from Geo[rge] Sampson,Northampton County, Virginia, to Archi[bal]d Woods, 15 December 1787. 2 items. "For 2 slaves, a boy named Littleton and a girl named Pink."
Elijah Woods, Sr. was born in Rockingham Co., Virginia, in 1778. He migrated from that county to the Upper Ohio Valley, with his Uncle Archibald Woods. (from a letter from Dr. Tiffin to Worthington, in the Ohio State Library, Worthington Manuscript Collection, and from Thomas Worthington's Biography , "mention is made on page 20 about moving from Virginia to Chillicothe, Ohio, a Mr. Woods and several large boys who were millwrights, with a group of five free Negro servants joining them in their journey, 1798")
Archibald Woods settled about three miles east of Wheeling on a farm which now composes Woodsdale, Woodlawn and some other residential areas. He also had 6,000 acres in Tyler County, Virginia. (according to his will).

Sources

Woods family papers, William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan.
Archibald Woods Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Chronicles of the Scotch Irish Settlement of Virginia by Lyman Chalkey. Vol. 2, pp 290-299

Links

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3349820&id=I06524
Find A Grave Memorial# 75974229


http://www.geni.com/people/Col-Archibald-Woods/6000000000316027433

Archibald married Ann Poage in 1789 in Wheeling, West Virginia. Ann was born about 1760; died after 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: 1780, Battle of Kings Mountain, Cherokee Co, North Carolina
• Residence: 1819, Caledonia, Washington Co, Missouri
• Census: 1850, Belleview, Washington Co, Missouri

Notes:

At a little over age 12, participated with his father in the battle of King's Mountain, one of the decisive victories of the Revolutionary War, October 7, 1780, traversing the distance of more than 80 miles on horseback. He was a Revolutionary War Vet.

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"Some Pennsylvania Families"
contact: M. Ker Hawn mkhawn2@gmail.com
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Breckenridge, George (1764-1852).
Papers, 1804-1863. 2 folders; 1 volume.
George Breckenridge was born in Virginia in 1764. He married Elizabeth Cowan in 1796, and came to Caledonia, Mo., in 1819. He was a representative for Washington County in the lower house in Missouri for the 1832-1833 session. He died in Caledonia in 1852.
Collection contains genealogical information concerning the Stevenson and Phelps families; a document of Antoine Soulard, dated May 15, 1804, certifying that he surveyed and marked for the 31 heads of families by decree of Lieutenant Governor Charles Dehault Delassus the land about 50 miles northwest from the post of Ste. Genevieve and known by the name of "Old Mine"; land indentures of claims in areas of Ste. Genevieve and Caledonia and also Maury County, Tenn., and Bladen County, N.C.; letter from Breckenridge, Jefferson City, to his wife, Elizabeth (Cowan) Breckenridge, dated January 6, 1833, in which he discusses Missouri politics and the first bill relating specifically to divorce laws. This collection includes a volume containing a journal of expenditures and a ledger of accounts of the mining and cattle businesses of George and James Breckenridge in Missouri, 1818-1834.
Cite as: George Breckenridge Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.

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George Breckenridge - SAR Historical Statement
1740-1852 , Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina

The following is copied from a U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application

Application ID:

Descendant: George Breckenridge (b. July 24, 1768 in Southwest Virginia; wife, Elizabeth Cowan, b. in Pennsylvania, February 14, 1779; m. in Bourbon Co Ky, March(?) 14, 1796)

Applicant: James Malcolm Breckenridge (b.1865)

Approve d: February 27, 1940

Historical Statement:
George Breckenridge, applicant?s Revolutionary Ancestor herein, was the oldest child of his parents; his father being a cousin of the first degree to Capt. Alexander Breckenridge & Robert his brother, who were sons of Col. Robert Breckenridge of Augusta & Botetourt Cos. Virginia, by his first wife Sarah Poage; and also first cousin to the children of said Col. Robert Breckenridge by his second wife Letitia Preston, -namely, John Breckinridge, Atty.-General under Jefferson, James Breckenridge, the Virginia statesmen and others.

George Breckenridge accompanied his father Alexander Breckenridge on the removal of the family in 1790 from Washington Co. Va. to Bourbon Co. Kentucky, remained there until about 1806, when he removed with his family to Maury and Williamson Counties, Tennessee, remaining in that State until 1819, when he removed his family to Caledonia, Washington County, Missouri, where he died in 1852. His remains are buried in the Presbyterian Churchyard at Caledonia, and a monument is at his grave. He has many descendants in Tennessee, Missouri and the Western States. Applicant has been informed that records of surveys made by him are frequently to be yet found, wherever he lived, in Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky, and particularly in Tennessee and in Southeast Missouri; he having actively practiced his profession as surveyor throughout his career. He was elected a member of the Missouri State Legislature and served accordingly for the session of the year 1832-1835, a copy of the Journal of the Seventh General Assembly, begun Nov. 19, 1832, being in possession of the applicant. He died an accidental death at the age of more than 84 years, being thrown by his favorite saddle horse, sustaining internal injuries and dying 24 hours thereafter.

By right of primogeniture, George Breckenridge was the head of the Breckenridge family of the South, (Virginia and Kentucky), as the oldest son of the oldest son of the oldest son (surviving and leaving issue), of Alexander Breckenridge, Emigrant Ancestor, who brought his family from the North of Ireland to Philadelphia and ?proved his importation? at Orange Court House, Virginia, May 22, 1740.

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ancestry.com that has his kids:
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Name:
From: D. MARKLEY BRECKENRIDGE
To: Sherry
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:36 AM
Subject: RE: MISSOURI BRECKENRIDGES


I HAVE BOOKS AND LETTERS OF GEORGES WITH THE NAME GEORGE GAMBLE BRECKENRIDGE IN THEM.I COME FROM GEORGES SON JOHN 1804-1843,GEORGE 1836-1913.JOHN FRANKLIN 1863-1949,WALTER 1898-1925,WALTER JR 1925-1986,DON MARKLEY(ME) 1952,JULIE 1982.I HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH LINE FROM GEORGE GAMBLES SONS DAVID,JAMES,SMITH GAMBLE AND ALEXANDER AND GEORGE COWAN.


Military:
Brief Note on Alexander Breckenridge, whom fought in the American Revolution.1780 , Virginia, USA; North Carolina & South Carolina, USA

Alexander Breckenridge fought in the battle of King's Mountain along with his son George Breckenridge, who was only a teenager at the time.

Example:

"...Alexander Breckenridge, a prosperous farmer living in the vicinity of Abingdon, was accompanied to this battle by his son, George Breckenridge, who was under fifteen years of age, and that he (George Breckenridge) took an active part in the battle..."

Sources:

History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870: Summers, Lewis Preston; 1903. J.L. Hill Printing Company, held by University of Virginia, page 330.

Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in North Carolina; 1972. Genealogical Pub. Co., North Carolina; page 479.

Great Valley Patriots:Western Virginia in the Struggle for Liberty: Wilson, Howard McKnight; 1976. Augusta County Historical Society, Virginia; page 153.

(from Ancestry.com)


Census:
1850 Belleview, Washington Co, Missouri
George Breckinridge 82 Virginia farmer $500
Smith Breckinridge 32 Tennessee $600
Jane Breckinridge 30 Virginia
Elizabeth Breckinridge 2 Missouri
George Breckinridge 14 Missouri
James Hughs 24 Indiana
Stephen Hughs 26



Died:
He died an accidental death at the age of more than 84 years, being thrown by his favorite saddle horse, sustaining internal injuries and dying 24 hours thereafter.

George married Elizabeth Cowan on 3 Mar 1796 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky. Elizabeth (daughter of David Cowan and Mary Gray) was born on 14 Feb 1779 in Hopewell, Cumberland Co, Pennsylvania; died on 17 Mar 1844 in Caledonia, Washington Co, Missouri; was buried in Bellevue Presbyterian Cem, Caledonia, Washington Co, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married Silas Chambers on 1 Nov 1792 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky. Silas was born in 1767 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky; died before 6 Dec 1819 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1800, Jefferson Co, Kentucky; Kentucky Tax List

Notes:

Census:
2nd Census of Kentucky 1800
Alexander Breckenridge Jefferson co.
James Breckenridge Bourbon
James Breckenridge Madison
John Bourbon
Robert Montgomery
Robert Jefferson

Robert married Mary Mitchell Wright on 12 Jan 1797 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky. Mary (daughter of Samuel Wright and Mary (Elizabeth?) Mitchell, (dau?)) was born on 24 Sep 1773 in Washington Co, Virginia; died on 20 Jan 1847 in Livingston Co, Illinois; was buried in Rooks Creek Cem, Pontiac, Livingston Co, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rachel married Hugh Cowan on 26 May 1795 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky. Hugh (son of David Cowan and Mary Gray) was born on 10 Jun 1770 in Pennsylvania; died on 1 Jun 1838 in Rush Co, Indiana; was buried in New Zion Church, Spring Hill Cem, Decatur Co, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1800, Bourbon Co, Kentucky
• Residence: 1800, Bourbon Co, Kentucky; Kentucky Tax List

Notes:

Census:
2nd Census of Kentucky 1800
Alexander Breckenridge Jefferson co.
James Breckenridge Bourbon
James Breckenridge Madison
John Bourbon
Robert Montgomery
Robert Jefferson

James married Susanna Taylor about 1798. Susanna was born about 1778; died on 21 Dec 1825 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Martha Todd on 8 Nov 1808. Martha was born about 1778; died after 1809. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 6 Dec 1819, Bourbon Co, Kentucky; guardianship of Silas Chambers' kids
• Census: 1850, Fayette Co, Kentucky
• Will: 4 Nov 1859, Union Co, Kentucky

Notes:

Residence Fayette Co, Kentucky 1850
Union City, Kentucky, 1859
Died in Union City, Kentucky, near Spring Grove, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. James Delaney Howell. His remains lie in Antioch Cemetery, four miles from Morganfield, Kentucky. He was the author of the old chronicle of the family, dated 1858.
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Alexander Jr's children and the Lewis line supplied by Mary Lou Lofgren and Ancestry site:
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/23744100/person/12777759858

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From: "Mary Lou Lofgren"
To:
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 4:02 PM
Subject: Proposed Change: Alexander Breckenridge, Jr (I141)


Proposed Change: Alexander Breckenridge, Jr (I141)
Tree: Roots

Description: I'm researching Alexander Breckenridge, Jr.'s descendents from his daughter Malinda. I see you have the 1850 census which includes Alexander and Malinda. From what I've found, there are errors in the listing that you may be interested in. Thomas Louis is actually Malinda's son Thomas W.A. Lewis (my 2nd greatgrandfather). Margaret Louis is Margaret Lewis, his wife, nee Margaret E Martin. AR Breckenridge is probably Alexander's son by Margaret Tempy, Alexander Randy (b. 1846). The other two children are Margaret and Thomas Lewis', Susan M. Lewis (1848), Almira J. Lewis (1850). If you are interested in what I have, please contact me. I'd love to compare notes since I'm hitting a brick wall tracing the Lewis line back from Malinda's husband Thomas Lewis, who died around the time his son was born.

Mary Lou Lofgren
denverlofgren@yahoo.com


Other-Begin:
Bourbon County Loose Papers 1818-1820 (LDS Microfilm #183083) by Janet Pease
Guardianship: Alexander Breckenridge is appointed guardian to Betsy Daniel John Lilly and Rachel Chambers (no punctuation), orphans of Silas Chambers, deceased. 2 Dec 1819. Sureties: Edylyn Breckenridge, Mathew Duncan

Guardianship: Alex Breckenridge (he signs Alex'r Breckenridge) is appointed guardian to Anne and Phebe Chambers, orphans of Silas Chambers, deceased. 6 December 1819. Sureties: Edylyn Breckenridge, Mathew Duncan.

(note: Silas Chambers, husband of his sister Ann)

Census:
A Breckenridge 70
Malinda Lewis 44
Thos Louis 23
Margaret Louis 24
A R Breckenridge 4
Susan M Breckenridge 3
Elmira Louis 0


Will:
Union Co, Kentucky
Book E. Page 425:
Breckinridge, Alex, Will: 5 Feb 1859. Probated: 4 Nov 1859. Heirs: son, Randy Alex; nephew, James D. Breckinridge, of Graves Co., KY; son-in-law, James Howell of Union Co, KY, Guardian for Randy: James D. Breckinridge. Consultant to James D.: James Howell.


Died:
Kentucky Mortality census states Alexander died from a horsekick.

Alexander married Ann Breckenridge, (dau of who?) on 30 Sep 1802. Ann was born on 15 Jun 1775 in of, Bath Co, Kentucky; died on 14 Jan 1831. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Martha (..) Tempy on 1 Nov 1845. Martha was born about 1780; died after 1859 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Living in Clay County, Missouri, from 1826 to 1844.

Elizabeth married Matthew Duncan on 20 Oct 1803 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky. Matthew (son of James Duncan and Elizabeth Strode) was born on 24 Sep 1778 in Virginia; died on 27 Jan 1844 in Clay Co, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Duncan on 13 Mar 1810. Mary (daughter of James Duncan and Elizabeth Strode) was born on 21 Sep 1787; died in 1818 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Ann Weir Brooks on 3 Feb 1820 in Kentucky. Ann was born on 18 Aug 1798 in Clark Co, Kentucky; died on 25 Jul 1888 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 6 Dec 1819, Bourbon Co, Kentucky; witness

Notes:

Eddy inherited the homestead of his father, Alexander, in Bourbon Co, Kentucky. He served in the War of 1812 under General Harrison.

Other-Begin:
Bourbon County Loose Papers 1818-1820 (LDS Microfilm #183083) by Janet Pease
Guardianship: Alexander Breckenridge is appointed guardian to Betsy Daniel John Lilly and Rachel Chambers (no punctuation), orphans of Silas Chambers, deceased. 2 Dec 1819. Sureties: Edylyn Breckenridge, Mathew Duncan

Guardianship: Alex Breckenridge (he signs Alex'r Breckenridge) is appointed guardian to Anne and Phebe Chambers, orphans of Silas Chambers, deceased. 6 December 1819. Sureties: Edylyn Breckenridge, Mathew Duncan.

(note: Alexander Breckenridge, Jr., brother of his wife, Ann)

Eddy married Eleanor Duncan on 23 Jan 1817 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky. Eleanor (daughter of James Duncan and Elizabeth Strode) was born on 1 Jan 1795 in Bourbon Co, Kentucky; died on 3 Feb 1879 in Clay Co, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1830, Nicholas Co, Kentucky
• Census: 1840, Sangamon Co, Illinois
• Census: 27 Nov 1850, Sangamon Co, Illinois
• Census: 31 Jul 1860, Sangamon Co (District 16), Illinois
• Possessions: 1864, Cotton Hill, (District 8), Sangamon Co, Illinois; Tax assmt list
• Will: 25 Jul 1880, Sangamon Co, Illinois; probate

Notes:

His father was 65 years old when he was born.
Residence: Carlisle, Nicholas Co, Kentucky, 1827, 1830, 1840
Sangamon County, Illinois, 1834-1847 - farm settled by him, in the northeast corner of Cotton Hill Township, 3 1/2 miles west of Breckenridge.
Springfield, Sangamon Co, Illlinois 1850-1860
1850 Sangamon Co., IL P. 504/282 Dwelling 2169 Family 2169
Enumerated 27 Nov 1850 by Inv. E. Aderson
Breckenridge, Preston M 42 b KY Farmer $5000
, Lucy F 35 b IN
, Alex M 22 b IL
, Hugh M 20 b IL
, Cornelius M 19 b IL Attended School
, Joseph M 18 b IL Attended School
, Elmore M 16 b IL A. S.
, Theophilus M 14 b IL A. S. (Cleophas)
, Catherine F 13 b IL A. S.
, Elizabeth F 10 b IL A. S.
, Mary F 10 b il A. S.
, Preston M 8 b IL A. S.
, Jane F 6 b IL A. S.

1860 Census of Springfield, Sangamon, shows Preston, Preston, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane, David, Lucy, Elma (25 m) and Elma's wife Susanna and their daughter Leonor. Also with them are: William Tourrence, 12/m; Margaret Tourrence 16/f, and Eliza Tourrence 13/f.

Preston was living with son Cleophas and family in Sangamon Co, Illinois 1870-1880
1870: Village of Breckenridge, named in honor of Hon. Preston Breckenridge, its village plat being recorded in May 1870, being described as the "north half of the northeast quarter of Section Five, township fourteen, range three." A post office was established shortly after the village was laid out, Alexander Breckenridge being the first postmaster.

Source: (Jerry Donly Papers; family group sheets on Preston Breckenridge and his children; "A History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois." received from yoko@pclink.com - Roger Carroll Breckenridge.)

BRECKENRIDGE, PRESTON,
son of
Alexander and 2nd Mary Chadd Breckenridge
was born Aug. 5, 1807, near Paris, Bourbon county, Ky. The name of Breckenridge originated in a singular manner. In one of the wars in Scotland between the Protestants and Roman Catholics, a family by the name of McIlvain participated on the side of the Protestants, who were defeated. Some of the McIlvain brothers saved their lives by taking refuge under a low shrub, called brack, which grows on the ridges in the Highlands of Scotland. This circumstance so impressed them, that they determined to give themselves a new name, hence Brack-on-ridge. As Protestants, the Breckenridges took part in some of the wars in Ireland at a later period, in which the great, great grandfather of Preston was a leader. The Protestants being again defeated, two of the Breckenridge brothers fled to America. One of them settled in Pennsylvania, and the other in Virginia. Their first names are not preserved, but the descendants of the one who settled in Pennsylvania have retained the original spelling: Brackenridge. The brother who settled in Virginia raised a family, among whom was one son Alexander, who had a son Robert, who had a son John, who had two sons, Robert Jefferson, known as the late Rev. R. J. Breckinridge, D. D., of Kentucky, and Joseph Cabell, the latter whom was the father of John C. Breckinridge, ex-Vice-President of the United States. The first Alexander also had a son George, who had a son Alexander. He was twice married, and the eldest child by the second wife was Preston, whose name heads this sketch.

Preston Breckenridge married Catherine Moler in her home in Nicholas Co. Ky., Nov. 17, 1827. She was born in that county Aug. 30, 1804. They had four children born in Kentucky, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Oct. 1834, in what is now Cotton Hill township, east of Sangamon river, where eight children were born, one of whom died in infancy.

The Breckenridges purchased approximately 300 acres of land in section 1, Cotton Hill Township, which had been owned originally by Joseph and Lydia Moore, for $2,000.00 in cash. The deed was recorded on December 19, 1834.

They erected a log cabin between the present Russell Simpson home and Leslie Simpson home. From a model made by Cleophas Breckenridge in 1888, which is in the Russell Simpson home, it appears to have started as one log cabin to which anothers attached, doubling its size; later a bevel siding addition was made across the front with a recessed porch on one side. This bevel siding is also from the first floor level up with a window indicating this area was used, and a wood shingle roof. There are three chimneys, four doors, two front and two back, and eight windows. It is a little over half again as wide as it is deep, according to the model, but the actual dimensions are unknown.

Preston Breckenridge remembers that the fall of 1834, when he came to the county, was dry, and continued dry through the winter; that May 12, 1835, a great rain storm set in, and rain continued to fall for about forty days and nights, which seriously interfered with plowing and planting that but very light crops were put in. When the rain ceased, and hot weather set in, the stagnant water and decaying vegetation poisoned the atmosphere, and chills and bilious diseases prevailed to such an extent that in many case there were not enough well persons to take care of the sick and bury the dead. that year has ever since been spoken of as the wet and sickly summer and fall.

The wheat crop looked well in the fall of '34, but it nearly all froze out, and in 1835, '6 and '7, the wheat crop was a total failure, and wheat bread was so scarce that a biscuit became an object of interest, so much that women would senm to the children when visiting took place between the families.
The difficulty of obtaining food during the winter of 1835 and '6 was very great, there being nothing for bread in Central Illinois except for frost-bitten corn. Good crops were raised in the southern part of the State, and those who couy for it went there for corn. That is believed to have been the origin of calling the southern part of the State Egypt, and not because of any unusual darkness prevailing there."

Source: [History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois, "Centennial Record," by John Carroll Power, Springfield, Illinois: Edwin A. Wilson and Co., 1876
pages 136 - 138.]

While primarily a farmer, Preston Breckenridge also erected a carding machine and the first water mill on the South Fork of the Sangamon River at Cascade; it was known as Breckenridge Mill, later as Torrence's Mill. He could look at a tree and correctly estimate the board feet of lumber in it. It was from this mill that the oak timbers came for construction of the South Fork Church of Christ in 1852, timbers which are in the original building still in use today. Preston is also recorded as being at a revival meeting in Robert Bell's barn in 1851.

The weather was an important matter to the early settlers as most were farmers. 'The Sudden Change' occuring in 1836 was recalled by many in the 'History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois' in 1876.

"Mr. Preston Breckenridge expressed the opinion that the velocity of the cold wave, given in another part of this sketch, is too slow. He thinks it must have moved at least seventy miles an hour, judging from his present knowledge of the subject. He had just taken his dinner, and was sitting near a window, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, in view of a pool of water, ten or twelve inches deep. He heard a terrific roaring sound. Suddenly the rain ceased and it became quite dark. The first touch of the blast scooped all the water out of the pool. Some pf it returned, but in a moment it was blown out again, and scattered as frost and ice, leaving the pool empty and the bottom frozen dry. He says it had been raining slowly all the fore part of the day, and so warm that he thinks a thermometer would have stood as high as forty degrees above zero, possibly higher, and that the first touch of the tempest would have brought it down to zero in a second of time." (from Powers' History, cited above)

.....In all, the couple had twelve children, one daughter who died in infancy and is buried with her mother on February 4, 1847, in the family cemetery on the original homeplace. One would suspect that both died at the time of childbirth. They rest in an above ground vault which is unusual for this part of the country. It was Catharine's death which is believed to have caused the start of the plot.

In the early 1900's, her son, Cleophas Breckenridge, recalled the time that followed. "When I was a boy," said Breckenridge, "about ten years of age, in the summer of 1846 or 1847, I lived with my father upon the same farm which I now own in Cotton Hill Township in this county. We were very poor. My father was above the average in intelligence, but he had a large family, and was in debt, so that while we had enough to eat, we lived very plainly. My mother had died a short time before I was ten years old, and my father in those days was doing the best he could to be father and mother both to us children." (In the same book, neighbor Moses Martin recalls a temperance meeting at the newly built South Fork School House in 1847): "Mr. Lincoln asked if anyone had anything to say for or against the movement, and Mr. Preston Breckenridge rose up and spoke of the importance of parents taking an interest in the matter. The wife of the said Breckenridge had recently died, and he pointed to his motherless children and spoke of his anxiety for them, and as he spoke, the tears ran down his face. Afterward at various times and places the said Preston Breckenridge held Washingtonian meetings and I went with him and acted as secretary and helped enroll the signers of the pledge." (above quotes from 'The Lincoln Legion', by Louis Albert Banks. New York, New York: The Mershon Company, 1903).


Preston Breckenridge was one of the representatives of Sangamon county in the State Legislature of 1851 and '2. Abraham Lincoln was a candidate before the convention, but Mr. B. beat him. Mr. B. was a member of the Sangamon county Board of Supervisors for 1873.

In 1851 and 1852 Preston Breckenridge served as a Representative of Sangamon County in the Illinois State Legislature. He claimed to have beaten Abraham Lincoln for the nomination of the Whig Party for that post. His son, Cleophas, recalled that Lincoln attended to his father's legal business on numerous occasions. Preston added to the farm: forty acres in 1858 and 161 more acres in 1866. He also served on the Sangamon County Board of Supervisors in 1873. The village of Breckenridge was named in his honor, its plat being recorded in 1870, and in the 1970's, a street in Springfield bore his name too. He continued to farm and saw four sons enter the Civil War on the side of the North. Hugh, Joseph, and Preston Jr. enlisted in Company B, 10th Illinois Cavalry, and Joseph and Preston Jr. lost their lives. Cleophas enlisted in Company D, 33rd Illinois Infantry, and though wounded, recovered.

Preston died July 26, 1880, and his remains are in Breckenridge Cemetery on the land he settled in 1834 and on which his great-grandson, Preston Russell Simpson, resides. Unwilling to divide his debt-ridden acres into many small parcels for each of his living children, as he feared all would fail, he willed his land, and debts, to his sixth son, Cleophas. Some feathers must have been ruffled according to this letter addressed to Mrs. W. Camlage (Cleophas' sister), in Pawnee County, Larned, Kansas dated Oct. 5, 1881.

"Mrs. Camlage,
If yo want to brake your Pa will, you will haft to do it be-fore July no-ets. He was wirth $27550.00. He owed $14000.00. And you sea how much Cleopas is worth. If you want to consult about it you must not get a Springfield Lawyer.
Yours Truly, Cod"

We do not know who "Cod" was, but apparently nothing came of it as the Notice of Final Settlement was published in the "Morning Monitor" in early 1883.


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After Catherine died he remarried LUCY ROBB on 29 March 1849 in Sangamon Co, Illinois. Lucy was born 19 July 1816 in Acworth, New Hampshire, daughter of David Robb and Diane Farr. They lived in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois. In, the Robbs and their six children had settled two miles south of the village of Breckenridge. Lucy died 18 Nov 1854 at the age of 38, also to be buried in the family cemetery. Preston was now left with thirteen living children to raise.


Their children were:
1. David "Daniel" Breckenridge, born December 28, 1850 Sangamon Co, Illinois and died after 1900 in Indiana. In 1860 and 1870 he was living with father. At some point before marriage resided near Cedar Hill, Dallas Co, Texas.
He married Margaret (maiden name unknown). She was born in July 1859 in Utah. Where they were married is not known, but they were living in Indiana when they died.

2. Lucy D. Breckenridge, born August 13, 1854 in Sangamon Co, Illinois. She married William H. Hunter on 13 October 1874. William Hunter was born December 10, 1848 in Muskingum Co, Ohio. William's grandfather, Charles Hunter, was born and married in Scotland; came to America, and settled in Muskingum Co, Ohio. His eldest son, William, was the father of William H. Hunter, the latter of whom, with his wife, reside in Cotton Hill Township.
Their children were:
i. Allen Hunter, who was born 7 Oct 1872 and died 9 Oct 1873, age of 1 year, 2 months.
ii. William Hunter who was born 3 Dec 1875 died 24 July 1876, age 8 mos, 15 days
The children were buried at Breckenridge Cemetery in Cotton Hill.

COURT RECORDS:
Thursday July 29, 1880
Estate of Preston Breckenridge, Deceased:
Cleophas Breckenridge this day filed in Court an affidavit of decease of Preston Breckenridge which is examined by the Court and ordered to be filed and recorded and is as follows to wit:
State of Illinois
Sangamon County
Cleophas Breckenridge being duly sworn deposes and says that Preston Breckenridge late of the County of Sangamon and State of Illinois is dead and that he died on or about the 25th day of July A.D. 1880 after having made and published his ill and testament and that his personal estate will probably amount to the sum of $2000, that said Preston Breckenridge left at the time of his decease no widow and Alexander Breckenridge, Hugh Breckenridge, Cornelius Breckenridge, Elmore Breckenridge, Cleophas Breckenridge, Catherine Randolph, Mary Richton, Elizabeth Abell, Jane Gamage and David Breckenridge, Lucy H

Friday August 24, 1880:
Estate of Preston Breckenridge, deceased.
And now at this day comes Cleophas Breckenridge, Executor of the Estate of Preston Breckenridge, deceased, and presents to the Court an Inventory of said Estate and the appraisement Bill which are examined by the Court approved and ordered toe filed and recorded.

OBIT:
Copy of the Obituary of Preston Breckenridge from the Sangamon Monitor

Gone to Rest, Preston Breckenridge, Born Aug 5 1807; Died Sun July 25, 1880

Life's toils being or'r he retires to rest
No sound will disturbe his slumbers;
His work well done and among the blest
He's one of God's chosen number

Another workman in life's vineyard has wrapped the mantle of a well spent life around the imperfections of nature and gone into the presence of God to deliver up life's stewardship. For 73 years he has been constant in season and out of it, bve in voice for the truth as he understood it, courageous in deeds for his race when duty whispered action. However differeing, and honestly as men may from the sentiments on any subject which interests mankind, there was none who knew the man who would dare question his earnestness nor doubt his actions and utterances as other than the result of candor and conviction.
Preston Breckenridge was in many respects one of the most remarkable men of his age. He belongs to a family of whom one has said "to feel the grandeur of the Breckenridg family you must be thoroughly acquainted." Preston Breckenridge was onf the uncultivate members of the family. He had great force of character from native worth and implanted principles without cultivation. His native good sense was immense and had he been educated and scholarly, he would have been one of the giants of his day. For forty-six years he has been the center of marked characters in this county. Always ready to express his sentiments and being s intensely Democratic in his theory of government and catholic in his views of man's relation to God, that it lead him at times to be victimized into affililiation with those whose sinister motives misled him and his earnestness in effort became lost to the good of the world.
His presence was always an assurance that good-nature and kindness should prevail, if he had the indexing. He was kind and courteous, and would uter his sentiments regardless of friend or foe, and totally indifferent to the size of the man, tally or physically. His figures of speech were crude but forcible, his language plain but emphatic, and his courage to say or do doubted least by those who knew him best. He had no man-fearing spirit when he attempted a religious duty, he never quailed in the presence of an antagonist to his temperance principles, and fearned nothing in uttering his convictions politically. For the possession of these qualities he commanded the respect of his neighbors, however they honestly differed with him, and he woujld go out of his way to show his admiration for an opponent whom he believed earnest in his belife, and who might doal him the hardest blows in defending his sentiments.
It was to his earnest effort that we are indebted for many of the good things we enjoy as a people in the county.
But he has passed away, and paid the debt - in peace and is home - which human nature must liquidate in some way. His name lives in the annals of the county and his memory will be preserved by all who appreciate the life, and the virtures,d courage of an honest man. His remains were interred at the family burial ground on the ?rn y, and the services conducted by the Rev. A.J. King of this city, who was his bosom friend.
Preston Breckenridge was born near Paris, Ky., was married in 1827 and returned to this state in 1843, settling on the farm where he died in Cotton Hill Township in this county. He was the father of eleven children and grandfather to a largemily of that name in this county and other points west. He was the second cousin to John C. Breckenridge, Vice-President of the United States under President Buchanan. He was a member of the State Legislature of this State in 1852, beathing Abraham Lincoln for the nomination of the Whig party, upon which ticket he was elected. He was also a member of the Sangamon County Board of Suprevisors for one or more terms. He took great interest in the meetings of the Old Settlers and was one of the principal parties interested in keeping up the association.

Breckenridge Cemetery:
A Large Monument.
on West Side: Breckenridge
Alexander Breckenridge Oct 31 1828 - July 26 19?
Martha, his wife. Aug 19 1933 - May 18, 1904
on East Side: Elizabeth Mountz, daughter March 28, 1854 - May 15 1883
Infant son 1853
Children of A & M Breckenridge
Infant 1892 - son of R.C. & A.E. Breckenridge

B Large Monument
on West Side: Cleophes C. Breckenridge
Lillian T. Breckenridge
on North Side: Infant son July 2 1880
on South Side: from 1861 to 1865, C.C. Breckenridge, Co. D. 33 Reg D.V.
(Sleep Solider Sleep Thy Warfares O'er."

C Large Monument
Lucy Robb, wife of Preston Breckenridge, Sr.
Died Nov 18, 1854 aged 38 yrs 4 months
Catherine Moler, wife of Preston Breckenridge, Sr. (above-ground vault)
Died Feb 4, 1847 Aged 42 yrs 6 months 1 day
Preston Breckenridge, Sr.
Died July 25, 1880 Aged 72 yrs 11 mons 20 days

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Event: Biography
Note:

In Bourbon County, Ky., near Paris, the late Preston Breckenridge was born August 5, 1807, and in Nicholas County the eyes of Catherine Moler opened to the light, August 30, 1804. This couple were united in marriage at the bride's home November 17, 1827, and spent a few years of wedded life in the county where their marriage took place. They then removed to this county, arriving in October, 1834, and at once taking up their residence on the farm now owned and operated by their son, our subject. The faithful wife and mother died February 4, 1847, and the father subsequently married Lucy D. Robb, who survived until November 18, 1854. Mr. Breckenridge lived until July 26, 1880, reaching a goodly old age. His first marriage was blessed by the birth of seven sons and five daughters. He was a near relation of Hon. John C. Breckenridge, whose connection with politics is well known and belongs to the annals of history.
6
Event: 1850 Census 1850 IL, Sangamon Co 7
Event: 1880 Census 1880 IL, Sangamon Co, Cotton Hill Township 8
Event: 1860 Census 1860 IL, Sangamon Co, Springfield Precinct 16 3
Event: 1870 Census 1870 IL, Sangamon Co, Cooper Township 9

Father: Alexander Breckenridge b: 16 MAY 1743 in VA, Augusta Co
Mother: Mary Chadd b: ABT 1776 in VA, Washington Co


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Subj: Re: Moyers & Breckenrides
Date: 8/9/99 9:48:18 PM Central Daylight Time
From:BhthuesonTo:Lumoto

Dear Sherry,
Thanks a bunch for sending all that info on Preston Breckenridge and family. I did have some of it; some of it I didn't. I had the picture of Preston Breckenridge, but now, because of your sending it, I have it on disk.
By the way, Roger Carroll Breckenridge's email address now is: rogerb@pclink.com.

Thanks for all your help.

Barbara

Census:
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1 1811-1815
another daughter? Mary Jane "Jenny" is already married and listed in Nicholas County with her Husband and young daughter.

Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1 Mary 1771-1780
Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Total Free White Persons: 2
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 2

also son Preston:
Preston Breckenridge
Name: Preston Breckenridge
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Nicholas, Kentucky
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 2 Hugh and Alexander
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 Catherine
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 3
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 3

(looks like they omitted to register Preston, himself)

also son Washington:
Name: Washington Breckenridge
[Washington Breckinridge]
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Nicholas, Kentucky
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 Washingtgon
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1 Melinda
Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 2
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 2

also daughter and son-in-law
Name: Michael Wilson
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Nicholas, Kentucky
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1 Mary Jane "Jenny)
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 3


Census:
Name: Preston Reinhard
[Preston Breckenridge]
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Sangamon, Illinois
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 Cleophas 4
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 3 Elmore 6; Joseph 8; Cornelius 9
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 2 Hugh 11; Alexander 12
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 Preston
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 Catharine 2
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 Catharine
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 7
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 9
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 9


Census:
Breckenridge, Preston 42 5,000 KY farmer
Lucy 35 Indiana
Alex 22 Farmer IL
Hugh 20 IL
Cornelius 19 IL
Joseph 18 IL
Elmore 16 IL
Theophilus 14 IL
Catherine 13 IL
Elizabeth 10 IL
Mary 10 IL
Preston 8 IL
Jane 6 IL



Census:
2285/2302
Preston Breckenridge 52 1807 farmer 16000, 600 KY
Preston 18 1842 IL
Mary 19 1841
Elizabeth 20 1840
Jane 15 1845
David 10 1850
Lucy 5 1855
Elmer 25 male farmer IL 1835
Susana 21 1839
Leanor 1 1859

2286/2302
Cornelius Breckenridge 20 farmer 2000 100 KY
Elizabeth 25 IL
Elizabeth 2 IL



Possessions:
Breckenridge, Preston,
location: Cotton Hill
income: 490
Rate of Tax 5



Will:
Sangamon County Probate Case Files Index
1821-1885
BRECKENRIDGE, PRESTON 7/25/1880 2957


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Preston* married Catharine* Moler on 17 Nov 1827 in Kentucky. Catharine* (daughter of Joseph* Moler, Jr. and Elizabeth* Welty) was born on 30 Aug 1804 in Nicholas Co, Kentucky; died on 4 Feb 1847 in Sangamon Co, Illinois; was buried in Breckenridge Cem, Cotton Hill, Sangamon Co, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Preston* married Lucy D Robb on 29 Mar 1849 in Sangamon Co, Illinois. Lucy was born on 19 Jul 1816 in Acworth, New Hampshire; died on 18 Nov 1854 in Sangamon Co, Illinois; was buried in Breckenridge Cem, Cotton Hill, Sangamon Co, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]