Sarah Finley

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.
Ben M. Angel
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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).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1738, Beverley Manor, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Residence: Bef 1738, Pennsylvania
• Religion: 14 Aug 1741, Tinkling Spring Meeting House, Beverley Manor, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Residence: 30 Oct 1745, Augusta Co, Virginia; Augusta co. court
• Property: 1746, South River, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Property: Mar 1765, Fishersville, Tinkling Spring, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Religion: Oct 1765, Fishersville, Tinkling Spring, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Residence: Aft 1765, Prince William Co, Virginia
• Residence: Abt 1772, Reed Creek, Montgomery Co (now Wythe Co), Virginia
• Other-Begin: 1779, Reed Creek, Montgomery Co (now Wythe Co), Virginia
• Other-Begin: 19 Aug 1782, Montgomery Co, Virginia
• Census: 1787, Augusta Co, Virgina; this John?

Notes:

John Finley, Elder at Tinkling Spring

John Finley (? - 1782) was, most likely, a first generation Scotch-Irish who arrived in America as a child in the early part of the eighteenth century.

The earliest records that could be found for him were in Beverley Manor, Augusta County, Virginia, in 1738. He had come to Virginia from Pennsylvania with his two brothers, William and Robert, just a few years after the movement of Scotch-Irish to this area was started by John Lewis. While we do not have a date of birth for him, we do know that he had five children born between 1740 and 1749 and an elder son born before 1740. From this one would assume that he was a fairly young man when he settled in Beverley Manor, born probably not later than 1710.

His first wife was a daughter of the Reverend John Thomson, her given name unknown. John took an active role in establishing Tinkling Spring Meeting House, a Presbyterian congregation for the Scotch-Irish settlement in and around Beverley Manor. In the first action recorded, John Finley was appointed one of five commissioners charged with purchasing property on which to build their meeting house and collecting money to pay a minister. His brother, William, was one of the signers of this act, dated "August ye 14th 1741."

However, as early as 1737, the people of Beverley Manor had petitioned the Donegal Presbytery to establish a meeting house. As a result a Christian Society called "The Triple Forks of the Shenando Congregation," was formed.

Interestingly, their first request was for the services of Reverend John Thomson:

The Christian Societies in the back part of Virginia on September 5, 1739, united in presenting a supplication to the Presbytery of Donegal for the ministerial services of Rev. John Thomson, Chestnut Level pastor, as an "Itinerant Preacher to Virginia."

However, the Donegal Presbytery refused Thomson's petition to release him from Chestnut Level, where he was stationed at that time, and the Reverend John Craig was assigned in his place.

A site to build the first log structure was selected about five miles southwest of where the Finleys were living:

A cool spring of water issuing from beneath a rock, gathering into a pool from which man lives, overflowing into a stream by which the plains are made alive is a delightful work of nature.

The earliest pioneers in the Valley of Virginia found a bold spring, whose emerging waters made a musical sound upon the cavernous rocks, and they called it the tinkling spring. The church, located near this spring and named for it, is like "a spring of water willing up to eternal life" for multitudes who have passed this way.

The first sanctuary was twenty-four by fifty feet, with a simple interior.

"The floor was the ground over which the sanctuary was constructed. The pews were backless hand-made benches, probably small logs split with the smooth-hewn surface up and supported by wooden legs driven into auger holes. . .[and it was] without heating facilities."

The Tinkling Spring Commissioners posted their first notice for payment on the log building on 12 November 1744, calling for twelve shillings per family.

The congregation was divided into three quarters, with John Finley heading one quarter. This was an administrative device for organizing and collecting money 66rom the parishioners. John's brothers, William and Robert, were both listed as members of his quarter at this time.

Those must have been busy years in the settlement of Augusta County.

Estimated population of the territory, authorized as Augusta County, was estimated at 2500 in 1742, including about 500 in the bounds of the

Tinkling Spring Congregation. The first court of law was established in late 1745 and John Finley [Finla in the records] was among those who took the oath of office on 30 October that year. The Augusta County Court was located at "Beverley's Mill Place," now Staunton, contrary to advice of local citizens who were ordered to view the land offered by William Beverley. Prior to that time, Augusta County citizens were served through the Orange County Court and John Finley had been a justice there as well.

An early road order showed that the Finleys operated a mill, "A Road be cleared from Finley's Mill to the Tinkling spring and thence to McCords Mill That John Finley and Archibald Stewart, John Christy and Robert Cunningham oversee the Same." John and his family had been living on property near South River adjacent to the property he bought in 1746, 892 acres purchased from George Robinson, directly on South River. By then John and his wife had at least two children and brother William had at least three. Presumably the three brothers were living close together. Four years after the purchase of the Robinson property, formal deeds were drawn up in which John split his property into equal thirds and sold two of them to his brothers, William and Robert.

In 1748 John was made an elder of Tinkling Spring, a position he held until about 1764. Between 1740 and 1749, the only years for which Tinkling Spring baptismal records are available, John and his wife had at least four, and possibly five, children; Elisabeth, William, James, George, and possibly another James (christened 26 March 1749). These are the children listed by Wilson as belonging to one of the two John Finley families in the area (the other being the John Finley family on Middle River). However, John's first wife died prior to 22 May 1750 when he divided his 892 acres and deeded two portions to his brothers. At that time, John's wife was named Mary, and while we do not know the given name of his first wife, we do know it was not Mary, since the Reverend John Thomson had another daughter named Mary who was living at that time.

Son George was baptized on 4 January 1748 by his grandfather, Reverend John Thomson. One might speculate that Reverend Thomson may have made the trip from Prince Edward County to Augusta County to baptize the last child of this daughter.

John's second wife was Mary Caldwell, whose cousin Martha Caldwell was the mother of John Caldwell Calhoun. What is known about the Caldwells is discussed in the previous chapter.

The people of Augusta County lived in relative harmony until the beginning of the French and Indian War in 1755. Augusta County men were then called upon to strengthen the lines at the frontier, but were reluctant to leave their families without protection against the Indians. When George Washington made a tour of inspection in 1756, in and around Staunton, Augusta County, his evaluation was that, "the militia are under such bad order and discipline, that they will go and come when and where they please, without regarding time, their officers, or the safety of inhabitants, but consulting solely their own inclinations."

Through all this John Finley, as a representative of Tinkling Spring, continued actively in the cause of the church, attending special meetings of the presbytery at Rockfish Meeting House beyond the Blue Ridge in 1759 and in Prince Edward County in 1760. At the next meeting of the presbytery, held at Tinkling Spring on 1 April 1761, the Reverend Richard Sankey of Buffalo, in Prince Edward County, son-in-law of Reverend John Thomson, was "continued" as moderator of the group. Tinkling Spring continued to be a favored meeting place and the Reverend John Craig also often served as the moderator. However, problems mounted after the end of the French and Indian War in 1763. Craig's original mission included serving the Stone House just north of Beverly Manor, as well asTinkling Spring, with the understanding that he would become a full time pastor for whichever could first afford his services. At the spring meeting held 5 May 1763 at Tinkling Spring, the Stone Meeting House asked for a separati on from Tinkling Spring, with a decision deferred until the next meeting.

At the fall meeting of the presbytery in Cumberland County, 3 October 1764, the first item of business, following "Suplications for Supplies," was that:

Mr Craig is dismissed from the Tinkling Spring, and sustains the pastoral relation as to the Congregation of Stone meeting House only.The elder representing Tinkling Spring at this meeting was John Finley.

He put in a request for a supply assignment at Tinkling Spring but none was made except, ". . .ministers in Augusta County, are left to their own discretion, in supplying." . . . Mr. Craig preached his farewell sermon at Tinkling Spring in November 1764.

Wilson, in discussing post war problems of the French and Indian War, summarized the situation succinctly:

Tinkling Spring people, with Rev. John Craig as their pastor, pioneered in the practice of religious freedom in the Colony of Virginia . . .

Her men, though reluctant in aggression, were invaluable in defense against Indian cruelty. They were among the stalwart leaders that turned the tide in the frontier phase of the French-British struggle out of which grew the short- lived English rule over America. Tinkling Spring's first quarter of a century of service left her a changed and weakened meeting house group.

Alexander Breckenridge, James Patton, John Preston, Archibald Stuart and John Lewis were dead by this time; John Finley, an active elder, disappears from the record, probably transferring his efforts to Brown's Meeting House; and families now removed entirely, or in part, were the Breckenridges, Lewises, Prestons, Campbells, Bells, Thompsons and others.

Wilson, who published his book in 1954, probably made the same assumptions that earlier Finley researchers made and did not realize there were two distinct contemporary John Finleys in the area. The John Finley who showed up in the records of Brown's Meeting House was the John Finley who lived on South River.

One can imagine the feelings of dismay which probably overcame John after devoting a good twenty-five years of his life to the building of Tinkling Spring. He sold his remaining interest in the Robinson property, 297 acres, to his brother William in March 1765. It is not surprising that he chose to go to Prince Edward County. This was another Scotch-Irish Presbyterian settlement adjacent to that developed by John Caldwell and the Reverend John Thomson contributed to the Buffalo settlement in Prince Edward County for a while in the late 1740s. John Finley was related by marriage to both the Thomsons and the Caldwells, and while neither were living at the time, his first wife's brother-in-law, Reverend Richard Sankey, was still actively engaged in church work there. In fact, his daughter, Elisabeth, had been living with the Sankeys before John made the move and until her marriage in January of 1764. John purchased 400 acres on Vaughan's Creek on 15 June 1765 from Jacob and Honour Garrett, and his son William bought 430 acres on Vaughan's Creek from John Caldwell on 19 August 1765. Just where this John Caldwell fits into the family in unknown, but he was most likely related to John Finley's second wife, Mary Caldwell.

John and his family lived in Prince Edward County for only about seven years and then moved on to Reed Creek area in Montgomery County (now Wythe), Virginia. It is unknown what prompted this move, but again he was moving into territory where other family and friends had located. There were two James Finleys already living there and it is strongly suspected that the elder James was a younger brother of John. Reverend Thomson's oldest daughter, Sarah, was living there with her second husband, William Sayers, who was also active in the affairs of the local Presbyterian Church at Reed Creek.

George Breckenridge, son of Alexander, who had also been one of the original commissioners of Tinkling Spring, was nearby. John settled on a 327 acre parcel on Sally Run, waters of Reed Creek, which he bought from John McFarland in November 1773. Six years later, John and "Meary", his wife, drew up articles of agreement giving their property to sons, David and Samuel, in exchange for life care. John died sometime prior to 19 August 1782, when the court ordered a deposition be taken of Mary to testify the document they drew up in 1773 was done according to his wishes.

All of the children of John Finley by either marriage have most likely not been identified.
Carmen Finley
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Religion:
John took an active role in establishing Tinkling Spring Meeting House, a Presbyterian congregation for the Scotch-Irish settlement in and around Beverley Manor.
A site to build the first log structure was selected about five miles southwest of where the Finleys were living.



Property:
John and his family had been living on property near South River adjacent to the property he bought in 1746, 892 acres purchased from George Robinson, directly on South River. By then John and his wife had at least two children and brother William had at least three. Presumably the three brothers were living close together. Four years after the purchase of the Robinson property, formal deeds were drawn up in which John split his property into equal thirds and sold two of them to his brothers, William and Robert.


Property:
. He sold his remaining interest in the Robinson property, 297 acres, to his brother William in March 1765.

Religion:
At the fall meeting of the presbytery in Cumberland County, 3 October 1764, the first item of business, following "Suplications for Supplies," was that:

Mr Craig is dismissed from the Tinkling Spring, and sustains the pastoral relation as to the Congregation of Stone meeting House only.The elder representing Tinkling Spring at this meeting was John Finley.

He put in a request for a supply assignment at Tinkling Spring but none was made except, ". . .ministers in Augusta County, are left to their own discretion, in supplying." . . . Mr. Craig preached his farewell sermon at Tinkling Spring in November 1764.
(snip)

Alexander Breckenridge, James Patton, John Preston, Archibald Stuart and John Lewis were dead by this time; John Finley, an active elder, disappears from the record, probably transferring his efforts to Brown's Meeting House; and families now removed entirely, or in part, were the Breckenridges, Lewises, Prestons, Campbells, Bells, Thompsons and others.



Residence:
This was another Scotch-Irish Presbyterian settlement adjacent to that developed by John Caldwell and the Reverend John Thomson contributed to the Buffalo settlement in Prince Edward County for a while in the late 1740s. John Finley was related by marriage to both the Thomsons and the Caldwells, and while neither were living at the time, his first wife's brother-in-law, Reverend Richard Sankey, was still actively engaged in church work there. In fact, his daughter, Elisabeth, had been living with the Sankeys before John made the move and until her marriage in January of 1764. John purchased 400 acres on Vaughan's Creek on 15 June 1765 from Jacob and Honour Garrett, and his son William bought 430 acres on Vaughan's Creek from John Caldwell on 19 August 1765. Just where this John Caldwell fits into the family in unknown, but he was most likely related to John Finley's second wife, Mary Caldwell.


Residence:
John and his family lived in Prince Edward County for only about seven years and then moved on to Reed Creek area in Montgomery County (now Wythe), Virginia. It is unknown what prompted this move, but again he was moving into territory where other family and friends had located. There were two James Finleys already living there and it is strongly suspected that the elder James was a younger brother of John. Reverend Thomson's oldest daughter, Sarah, was living there with her second husband, William Sayers, who was also active in the affairs of the local Presbyterian Church at Reed Creek.

George Breckenridge, son of Alexander, who had also been one of the original commissioners of Tinkling Spring, was nearby. John settled on a 327 acre parcel on Sally Run, waters of Reed Creek, which he bought from John McFarland in November 1773.

Other-Begin:
Six years later, John and "Meary", his wife, drew up articles of agreement giving their property to sons, David and Samuel, in exchange for life care. John died sometime prior to 19 August 1782, when the court ordered a deposition be taken of Mary to testify the document they drew up in 1773 was done according to his wishes.


Other-Begin:
upon John's death court ordered a deposition be taken of Mary to testify the document they drew up in 1773 was done according to his wishes.


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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John married Mary Caldwell on 21 Apr 1741 in Augusta Co, Virginia. Mary (daughter of (..) Caldwell) was born in 1728 in Virginia; died in 1787 in Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 19 Aug 1782, Reed Creek, Montgomery Co, Virginia

Notes:

Other-Begin:
After John died, 19 August 1782, when the court ordered a deposition be taken of Mary to testify the document they drew up in 1773 was done according to his wishes.

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
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(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
_________________
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.

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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:
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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: Bef 1740, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland
• Residence: Abt 1740, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Property: 15 Oct 1741, Cathey's River (now Middle River), Augusta Co, Virginia
• Property: 15 Oct 1741, Cathey's River (now Middle River), Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 17 Jun 1746, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 11 Aug 1757, Albemarle Co, Virginia

Notes:

Ann has never been bonefide confirmed as an Immigrant Doak, but tradition and centuries of researchers have accepted her as a Doak immigrant and the wife of George Breckenridge.


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rootsweb - Breckenridge board
Classification: Query
NOTE: info included in this communication on Rootsweb more lore that has been spread on the internet and not at all verifiable. ~SS

In Reply to: Re: Ann Doak & Agnes Watson w/o George Breckenridge by: Sherry Sharp
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Hello Sherry,

Just read your emails and replies. Very interesting. I have added some Breckenridge data to my Doak database.

FYI in case you did not know - Ann Doak was the daughter of Robert Doak of Londonderry, N.H.. Robert and his large family arrived at Boston aboard the ship "Elizabeth" and Ann was one of the children. Ann left Londonderry with her mother and siblings in 1725 and went to Donegal, Pa in Chester County where she probably met George Breckenridge. I have them marrying in 1742 and I do not have a death date for Ann other than what you have already been told.

I am always interested in Doak info so shoot it my way if you run across anything on the early Doak's.

Best Regards,

John Doak
doak@doak.ws

Property:
On 15 October 1741, he 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.

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, 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

Died:
some sources have 1763 as her death year; but haven't seen documentation.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1728, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland
• Immigration: 1728, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Religion: 1740, Tinkling Spring Church, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Residence: Bef 1740, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Other-Begin: 22 May 1740, Orange Co, Virginia
• Property: 24 Mar 1741, Beverley Manor, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Will: 24 May 1744, Orange Co, Virginia; Intestate
• Property: 16 May 1749, Beverley Manor, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Research Notes: 5 Aug 2013

Notes:

After several of the children were born they moved to Raloo, Antrim Co., Ireland (not that far apart).
http://genforum.genealogy.com/breckenridge/messages/1306.html


http://www.cruithni.org.uk/overview/over_9.html
Between about 1717 and 1775, large numbers of people, mostly Protestants, left Ulster to settle in America. Bad harvests in 1726-29 led to a famine, and there was another terrible famine in 1741. Harvest failures, high rents and payment of tithes were some of the factors which convinced many Presbyterians to risk the hazardous sea crossing to America. In 1776, Benjamin Franklin estimated that the Scotch-Irish formed one third of Pennsylvania's 350,000 inhabitants. Many fought against the British in the American War of Independence.
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Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871 By Joseph Addison Waddell

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.

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

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According to the biography of John Breckenridge, the Kentucky senator of the Civil War period, his family came to this country in about 1728 from Ulster, Ireland. The family originated in Ashire, Scotland, migrated to the highlands of Scotland to Breadalbane, Scotland, later to the North of Ireland. As Protestants, the Breckenridges took part in some of the wars in Ireland in which Alexander's father was a leader. The Protestants being again defeated, Alexander and his brother fled to America into Philadelphia. They remained for some years in Pennsylvania. Alexander moved on to Virginia by way of Staunton, then east again to Albemarle County and was living in Augusta Co, Virginia in 1738. His brother remained in Pennsylvania and retained the original spelling of Brackenridge.
(source unk)


Subj: Re: Breckenridge
Date: 12/11/00 3:59:28 PM Central Standard Time
From: Genealogy4999
To: Lumoto

Hi Sherry,
Here is what Bill Putman wrote:

SOURCE-BACKGROUND-BROTHERS-IMMIGRATION-SON:
PAT-003: The Patterson Family History by William B. Putman, jr.; 288
Scudder Avenue; Hyannis Port, Massachusetts 02647; Updated through
February 1993"; 'The Breckenridge Family History' p 69.

"Other mentions, specifically in Knott's 1900 letters, refer to three brothers, but I can only figure out two. This Robert Breckenridge is my lineage. He arrived in Philadelphia, probably with his brother(s), and then remained in Pennsylvaa.

The two brothers probably landed in Philadelphia and then moved west to Lancaster and Cumberland counties like most other Scotch-Irish families. Alexander went south to Virginia, another favored path of these peoples, while Robert remainedn Cumberland County.

I know nothing more about the elder Robert other than that he had a son, also named Robert. There had to be two Roberts as the younger one was born in 1735 about the same time the two older men came to America."

On May 24, 1744, his widow (Jane Preston) relinquished administration of his estate to her eldest son George Breckenridge.

__________________
Alexander Breckinridge
Location: Augusta Co., VA
Record ID: 34839
Description: Deceased landowner
Book-Page: 21-538

Remarks: Property conveyed by Beverley to Alexander Breckinridge, recorded in Orange, and by Alexander's decease intestate became vested in his eldest son and heir, George Breckinridge, who conveyed the same to Robert Breckinridge, 17 May 1749, and by Robert and Lettice, his wife, to Stephen Loy, 21 Oct 1765.

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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Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breckinridge_family
Alexander Breckenridge (1686?1743), First Breckenridge in New World, emigrated to Philadelphia PA c. 1728. Married to Jane Preston in 1695 in County Londonderry, Ireland. She was sister of Robert Preston, first Speaker of Kentucky State House of Representatives.

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"George?s parents, Alexander and Jane Preston Breckenridge, brought the family to the New World from Irish Ulster around 1728. Part of a second wave of a drought-induced Scot-Irish migration, they passed through Pennsylvania on their way to Virginia. In keeping with the observation that ?no Scot-Irish family would feel comfortable until it had moved twice,? the Breckenridges settled only after a decade in the New World, finally arriving in Virginia?s Orange County, predecessor to Augusta County, by February 1738. Alexander, said to have been born in Ayrshire in Scotland, married the Preston girl in the north of Ireland and worked plantations in County Cavan before deciding that his family?s fortunes would be better suited in the New World."
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/

from "History of Early Settlers of Sangamon Co, Centennial Record)
Source: (Jerry Donly Papers; family group sheets on Preston Breckenridge and his children; "A History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois."

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."



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

Property:
Alexander Breckenridge, (Beverley Manor SW, two tracts of 245 & 112 acres, 1742)

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

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Acquisition of Land from Orange County, Virginia Records:


Pages 88-92. [Page 87 blank]. 24 March 1741 [1742]- 24 March 1742. William Beverley, Esq., of Essex County to Alexa. Breakinridge of Orange County. Lease and release; for [blank] current money. 245 acres... also 112 acres... in the Manner of Beverley on the west side of Blew Ridge of mountains. (signed) Wm. Beverley. Wit: Robt. Ramsay, James Cathey, Chas. Campbell. 25 March 1742. Acknowledged by William Beverley, Esq. [Orange County Deed Book 5, pg. 6].


Acquisition of Land from "History of Augusta County, Virginia", by John Lewis Peyton:

Deed granted from William Beverley to Alexander Breckenridge, bet. 29 February, 1739 and 1744, in "Beverley Manor" on the road from Staunton to Tinkling Spring.

Alexander Breckenridge also acquired nearby land (112 acres), which was undated on the Hildebrand Map.

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


Will:
Estate Settlement of Alexander Breckenridge

Alexander Breckenridge died intestate (without will). The date of his death can be estimated from the 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: "Alexander and Jane (Preston) Breckenridge, Emigrant Ancestors", http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~breckfamilytree/nti00233.html )

Pages 325-26. Bond of George Brackenridge unto Jane Brackenridge. for £500. 24 May 1744.

Whereas Alexr. Brackenridge dec. (father of the above bound George Brackenridge) on his death bed declared that he intended to give his sons Adam Smith and James Brackenrige each a pice [sic] of land to wit to Adam Brackenridge four hundred acres, to Smith three hundred acres and to James one hundred and twelve acres, then died without a will in writing and whereas the above bound George Brackenridge heir at law of the said deceased (to whom administration is granted on the relinquishment of the said Jane Brackenridge widow of the deceased and mother of the above bound George) is willing to comply with the declaration made by his said father, now he binds himself to Jane Brackenridge in behalf of her said sons Adam, Smith and James Brackenridge who are under age. (signed) George Brackenridge. Wit: Philip Clayton, James Porteus. 24 May 1744. Acknowledged. [Orange County Virginia Will Book 1, 1735-1743, Dorman, pg. 60].

Page 148. Alexander Brackenridge. Estate account.

Payments made to Col. Wm. Beverley, Henry Downs, Thomas McCullock, Andrew Moor, Dr. Lunn, Robert Bratton, Robert Brackenridge, John Pickens, James Miller, Moses Thompson, James Armstrong, John Doack, Joseph Teas, John Hollanshade, Saml. Gau, George Campbell, Leather Deale, Silas Hart, Geo. Hutchison, Robert McClenahan, Alexr. Maxwell, Thomas Shields, Andrew Lewis, Robt. Cristy, James Leeper, Thos. Gordon, Robt. Davis, Colo. John Lewis, John Lawny, Robert Arwin, Thomas Fitzpatrick, the Rev. Mr. Craig, Mrs. Lewis, Robert McClanahan, John Hawkins (on account of Leatherdale judgment).
Received from Jane Brackenridge widow, Robt. Brackenridge, Thos. McCullock, Robt. McClanahan, John Pickins.
Signed by Taverner Beale and William Taliaferro.
24 May 1750. Returned and settled.
[Orange County Virginia Will Book 2, 1744-1778, Dorman, pg. 32].

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


Property:
Disposition of Land from "Annals of Augusta County, Virginia", by Joseph Addington Waddell:

Alexander Breckenridge conveyed 245 acres of land in "Beverley Manor" to Robert Breckenridge, May 16, 1749.

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

(note: he died 1743. Another Alexander?)

Research Notes:
Some historians seem to have that John and Barbara are parents of Alexander. However, birth dates of John and Barbara are established by headstone inscriptions; and Alexander's birth date is recorded. There isn't enough time between parents and child to be logical. Breckenridges are said to be from Scotland.

Alexander* married Jane* Preston, (Immigrant) in 1695 in Newtown Limavady, Limavady, Co Londonderry, Ireland. Jane* (daughter of Phineas (Archibald)* (or John) Preston and Hon., "Mary of Montjoy" Mary* Stewart) was born about 1690 in Newtown Limavady, Limavady, Co Londonderry, Ireland; died after 12 Nov 1746 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:

• 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)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 3 Nov 1718, The Elizabeth, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts; warned out
• Residence: 1728, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
• Emigration: Bef 1738, Ulster, Northern Ireland

Notes:

(Also spelled Doach, Doage, Doack)

"The most likely number of immigrant Doak brothers was four (David, John, Robert & Samuel) together with perhaps three sisters: definitely 'the original Thankful Doak', and, probably, also Ann & Mary. A brother Nathaniel and a sister Julia are to be discounted - they appear to have made their entrance courtesy of one Janie P C French, vol 6 (Doak) in a series entitled Notable Southern Families. To be polite, that should have been published by, say, Balderdash, Bunkum & Claptrap (under license from Hogwash Inc) - it's probably the single 'greatest' source of conventionally-published misinformation concerning Doak genealogy, and there is regrettably strong competition for that 'accolade'.

"The year of immigration is a seriously-vexed question: 1704 is a perennial favourite but arises from a mistaken reading of a source which never offered that date as anything other than speculative. 1740, which some have quite seriously preferred as a 'typo' revision of 1704, is demonstrably too late, probably by at least 12 years (see below), although it is by no means certain that the Doaks and the Mitchells arrived in America even in the same year, let alone on the same ship.

"1718 is one strong contender, with a ship called the Elizabeth having become almost Ark-like as the fons et origo for all the immigrant Doaks - but, according to one deafeningly-trumpeted hypothesis, only if the parents are Robert & Margaret rather than James & Elizabeth ... or Samuel & unknown, or unknown & the Widow Doak, or James-Samuel (desperation setting in there, I've always suspected) and so on and so on, ad nauseam almost ad infinitum - hey, guys, relax, will youse ... there's nothing at all wrong about not being sure until you really can be, OK? Bit of a downer about the 'and perhaps we never will be sure', bit, admittedly, but if that's the way it is, to my mind those as-yet-unidentified ancestors deserve the honesty of uncertainty rather than to be 'honoured' by demeaning delusional squabbles among a bunch of gamblers.

"[minor outbreak of fulmination ends]

"Samuel Doak and Jane Mitchell almost certainly married in Lancaster Co, PA, not long before they set out for the Shendandoah Valley - and the same applies to Samuel's brother-in-law John Finley and Samuel's sister, Elizabeth Thankful Doak. Lancaster Co was until 1728 part of Chester Co and the 1728 petition which brought about the creation of Lancaster Co was signed by Thomas Mitchell (Jane's father, who died in 1734) and a James Doke, who may have been father of the immigrant Doak brothers. There is a will surviving for Thomas Mitchell which provides corroboration as to the identification of both Jane and her mother but, alas, no such record regarding James."

http://www.cwcfamily.org/idl/robtdoak.htm
(Ralph Doak)

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"Bible Records & Marriage Bonds" gives James and Elizabeth Doak as parents of the immigrant Doaks; Thankful born on ship coming over, about 1704.


French in "Notable Southern Families" gives father as Samuel; arrival date as about 1740 (to Northern Neck). Says Samuel Doak received grant in Beverly Manor 23 September 1741.

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Rootsweb tree of Carmen J. Finley, Ph.D., C.G.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=finleyc&id=I1441

ID: I1441
Name: Samuel Doak
Sex: M
Birth: Abt 1690 in Antrim,Ulster,Ireland
Death: in Antrim,Ulster,Ireland
Note:

!Acklen in "Bible Records & Marriage Bonds" gives James and Elizabeth Doak as parents of the immigrant Doaks; Thankful born on ship coming over, about 1704. French in "Notable Southern Families gives father as Samuel; arrival date as about 1740. Says Samuel Doak received grant in Beverly Manor 23 September 1741.

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From: Ralph Doak
Date: 10/17/16 10:49:01
To: Doak List
Subject: Londonderry, Ulster, 1719

Thanks to the unwelcoming Selectmen, we know that Robert Doak(e) was, along with 29 others, 'warned out' from Boston, MA, on November 3rd 1719

The names were not arbitrarily selected - they were 'heads of household' travelling on the ship 'Elizabeth' from Londonderry in Ulster and all were labelled 'farmers'

All were also probably labelled 'pox-riddled' to boot, as a Massachusetts Resolve dated November 4th makes clear - the 'Elizabeth' was carrying smallpox in addition to its passengers, and treatment for said infestation required more than Spectacle Island and the established 'pest-house' could provide - hence that Resolve dated November 4th 1719

We do not know the nature of the treatment and nor do we know the fate of the party headed by Robert Doak(e), but we do know that he and two sons, James and John, were in 1720 granted land at Nutfield, later Londonderry, NH, and that Robert, a weaver, and his wife Margaret, sold their Londonderry, NH, land to John Campbell of Boston, MA, in December 1725 ... or, perhaps, in December 1724, when John Doak, then of Donegal, PA, sold his half-share of 60 acres at Londonderry, NH, to his brother James, then ALSO of Donegal, PA

Donegal, PA, was then in Chester County, PA, but in 1729 it became part of Lancaster County, PA - we have access, courtesy of the State of Pennsylvania archives, to a copy of the petition, signed it seems by one 'Jas Doke'

The tax list of 1726-7, for the year ending on March 24th 1727, for Chester Co, PA, includes John Doak 'and Mother' in a section headed 'Donegal rate' ... but that is the ONLY surviving record of Mother Doak in PA, although it is possible that she was named Margaret and was the wife, or by then perhaps the widow, of Robert Doak(e), 'warned out' from Boston, MA, November 3rd 1719 by Selectman John Mar(r)ian

From Lancaster Co, PA, we have surviving records of John and Samuel Doak, and from the court in Augusta Co, VA, in 1746 we have evidence that John and Samuel Doak were brothers

Our dna evidence confirms that 3 Doak lines come from John, Samuel, and David (i) Doak (1710-87), all of which trio can be placed in Augusta Co, VA, in the 1740s ... and both John and Samuel can also be shown in Lancaster Co, PA, in the 1730s

According to one 'scholar', we are blighted with the unwholesome taint of Welsh ancestry, but my x4gtgdfather John Doak mayhap be to blame there - he settled at last and died in 1770 at Bleating House, Bleating Creek, Rowan County, North Carolina

We are sure our ancestors arrived in America from 'the North of Ireland' - the anciente province of ULSTER - and, probably, that Scotland was 'home' before Ulster came a'calling them

We are certain that a weaver named Robert Doak(e), his wife Margaret, and sons James and John, arrived at Nutfield, later Londonderry, NH, in time to be granted land there in 1720

We are also certain that Robert Doak(e) was a passenger on the 'Elizabeth', captain/sailing-master Robert Homes, which sailed to 'Hull and Boston' in time to be 'warned out' by the puritanical inhospitality of John Mar(r)ian, Selectman of Boston, MA, from Londonderry in Ulster, Ireland, late in July or early in August of 1719 ... and I very strongly suspect Robert Doak(e) of having been father to James, John, Samuel, David, Thankful, Ann, and perhaps also Mary ..... and my own x5greatgrandfather
Ralph


From: Ralph Doak
Date: 10/24/2016 5:39:49 PM
To: Sherry
Subject: The Patriarch

Robart Doake, weaver

Sailed into 'Hull and Boston', MA, on 3 November 1719 on the 'Elizabeth' with wife Margarett, sons James, John, Samuel, and David, also daughters Thankful, Ann, and perhaps a Mary
Ralph

Immigration:
Robert Doak arrived Nov 1718 with his family, but was "Warned Out" and had to leave. He went 40 miles north/west to Londonderry to farm.
http://fragilethings.fr.yuku.com/topic/2430/Map-of-Boston-1772#.WBCNkWWECcQ (see attached)

From: Ralph Doak
Date: 10/24/2016 5:39:49 PM
To: Sherry
Subject: The Patriarch

Robart Doake, weaver
Sailed into 'Hull and Boston', MA, on 3 November 1719 on the 'Elizabeth' with wife Margarett, sons James, John, Samuel, and David, also daughters Thankful, Ann, and perhaps a Mary
Ralph

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Robert Doak(e) was, along with 29 others, 'warned out' from Boston, MA, on November 3rd 1719

The names were not arbitrarily selected - they were 'heads of household' travelling on the ship 'Elizabeth' from Londonderry in Ulster and all were labelled 'farmers'

All were also probably labelled 'pox-riddled' to boot, as a Massachusetts Resolve dated November 4th makes clear - the 'Elizabeth' was carrying smallpox in addition to its passengers, and treatment for said infestation required more than Spectacle Island and the established 'pest-house' could provide - hence that Resolve dated November 4th 1719.
Ralph

Residence:
Lancaster Co was until 1728 part of Chester Co and the 1728 petition which brought about the creation of Lancaster Co was signed by Thomas Mitchell (Jane's father, who died in 1734) and a James Doke, who may have been father of the immigrant Doak brothers.
(Ralph Doak)


Emigration:
from Ralph Doak (2/7/2013)
The Doaks of Augusta Co, VA

We (f)actually know very little of the prior activities in America of the Doak siblings who came into the Shenandoah valley ca 1738.

We know even less about their parentage and provenance - in these matters there is essentially just those oral traditions which constitute the minefield known as Doak "family lore" .. at least in polite circles.

One otherwise worthy antiquarian has even made the assertion that the Doaks are Welsh - marginally preferable to the vile slander that we might be English, but a low blow for a' that

The imbalance of improbabilities suggests the following:

The Doaks are of Scots stock, but probably Lalland rather than Hieland - alluring though the notion of my ancestors as Celtic warriors is, and will remain.

Some Doaks went into the North of Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster and it is from these that the Augusta Co, VA, Doaks descend.

Where in Ulster did they live before emigrating to America?
Cos Antrim, Derry & Down have all been nominated for that dubious honour but Antrim has been - and for me remains - the clear favourite for too many years to be cast aside

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"The Mathews (Mathes) Family in America" by I.C. Van Deventer -- Alexander Printing Co., 1925.

Alexander Mathews came with the Doak family in the Scotch-Irish immigration from Northern Ireland to Pennsylvania,

James Doak, his wife Elizibeth, and five children, Samual, David, John, Robert and Thankful emigrated from North of Ireland to America, landing in Newcastle, Delaware in 1708 and settled in Chester Co., PA.
( strongly disputed)
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from Ralph Doak (2/7/2013):
One unfortunate aspect:
Ms Ida Christabelle Van Deventer (pub. 1925) expects readers to believe that the ship landed its illustriously ancestral cargo in America in 1708. So sorry - not - Ms Van-Denter, but that's just not the way it was.

Only a few groups of Ulster Scots emigrated to America before 1718 and it takes only a few of the few facts we know to show that our 'Doaks of interest' were of the rule rather than of the exception thereto.

At this point I feel the need to bring up my heavy artillery so, to the sound of elephants tap-dancing, enter William Henry Foote, who in 1846 published a work entitled, for the sake of brevity "Sketches of North Carolina:"

During the course of this work it is disclosed that Samuel, father of Rev Samuel Doak (1749 - 1840) emigrated 'very young'

Game over..
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Robert* married Margaret* (..) Doak about 1706 in Ireland. Margaret* was born about 1690 in Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland; died after 1741 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1740, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland

Notes:

"Elizabeth" as the wife's name is more tradition than proven.