Lettie Lucinda Chance

Lettie married James W. Hyatt about 1885. James was born in 1860; died in 1912. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jennie M. Hyatt was born in 1889; died in 1978.

John married Lettie Finley about 1850. Lettie (daughter of James B. Finley, Sr. and Margaret Pickens) was born in 1829; died in 1905. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Margaret Pickens on 15 Feb 1816 in Blount Co, Tennessee. Margaret was born on 12 Sep 1792 in Blount Co, Tennessee; died on 28 Aug 1846 in Monroe Co, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Revolutionary War militia, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Census: 1787, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Residence: 1796, Blount Co, Tennessee

Notes:

He was baptized April 21, 1745, Augusta Co, Virginia.
Received 5 shillings from his father's estate. This Robert is most likely the ancestor of Alverta Brown Martin who wrote "Findley Family History; Our Grandfathers," Inglewood, CA: author, 1968, on file at Salt Lake City Mormon Library. e and Stout say he went to Lincoln County, NC prior to 1766 with his brothers John and Thomas [James].

While a Robert did appear in the 1790 census of Lincoln County, nothing has been found to tie him to the Augusta County Finleys. In addition, the Robert Finley found in Lincoln County died in 1791/92 leaving five minor children. He was too young to have been the son of John and Thankful. Martin believes Robert died in Blount County, TN.

Alverta Brown claims he was living in the vicinity of George Breckenridge, his wife's parents, when he and Sarah were married in 1777. Montgomery County records do confirm there was a Robert Finley in the area. On 6 September 1777, both Finley and George Breckenridge appeared on John Montgomery's list of persons who took the Oath of Allegiance (Kegley, "Militia of Montgomery County," p. 53).

On 8 April 1778, Robert was fined for refusing to go out to the Frontier after being called on (OB 1778-1780, p. 338).
On 5 May 1779, Robert Finley was on jury in Montgomery County (OB 2, 1774-1782, p. 197).
On 27 March 1783, Robert Finley had a survey made for 148 acres on Cove Creek, waters of Reed Creek, in Washington and Montgomery Counties; Breckinridge's line was mentioned in the description (Montgomery Co Survey Book C:118).

Alverta Brown claims Robert and his new family moved southward into the valley of the Holston River to the western border of North Carolina and then on to Blount County, Tennessee, where he first appeared on the tax records in 1800. No records have yet been found for him between the period 1783 (last appearance in Montgomery County) and 1796 (first appearance in Blount County), with the possible exception of the militia noted below. However, by 1792 he would have been getting a bit old to serve as a private in the militia.

Bount County was formed in 1795 from Knox County, which was formed from Greene and Hawkins in 1792. Greene was formed from Washington in 1783 and Hawkins from Sullivan in 1786; Sullivan from Washington in 1779. During the period 1792-17- John and a Robert Finley appeared as privates in McGaughey's Company, Hamilton District Militia, Territory south of the Ohio (Virgil D. White, "Index to Volunteer Soldiers, 1784-1811," Waynesboro, TN: National Historical Publishing Co., 1987, p. 218).

In Blount County Robert Finley first appeared in the records in 1796, along with John Finley, James Gillaspy and Alexander Read in a Grand inquest (LDS #888867, A-24).

In May 1801, Robert Finley appear in court along with John Trimble, James Montgomery, Jr., Alex Reid, Wm. Gillaspie, Sr., Wm. Henderson (LDS #888867, A-251).

In November 1806, Robert Finley and Hugh Hackney appeared in court (LDS #888867, B-259).

He appeared on the tax records in Blount County in 1800, 1801 and 1805.

On 22 December 1818, Robert Findley sold 271 acres on waters of Nails Creek to Alexander Shadden of Jefferson County, TN (Blount Co. DB 2:53).

This is the last record in Blount County for Robert Finley up through 1834.


Military:
he would be fined for refusing to leave his wife and home to serve on the frontier as directed a year later

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Census:
p. 110, Augusta County, list "A"

Finley, Benjamin 0 0 0 0 0

p. 121, Augusta County, list "B"

Finley, John 0 1 0 9 13
Finley, David - - - - -
son of John (above)
Finley, John 1 1 0 6 15
- wheelright
Finley, John 1 1 0 11 25
Finley, Robt. 0 1 0 10 23
Finley, William - - - - -
- Robert pays tax
Finley, William 0 0 3 6 20
- [Capt.)
Finey, Robert 0 0 0 2 2

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Robert married Sarah Breckenridge on 8 Feb 1777 in Augusta Co, Virginia. Sarah (daughter of Rev. George* Breckenridge, (Immigrant) and Ann* Doak, (Immigrant)) was born about 1744 in Albemarle Co (possibly), Virginia; died after 1800 in Blount Co, Tennessee (possibly). [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.

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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.
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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).