Martha Woods

Andrew married Martha Preston Poague on 31 Jan 1747 in of, Albemarle Co, Virginia. Martha (daughter of Robert Poague and Elizabeth Preston) was born in 1728 in Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland; died on 15 Apr 1818 in Ripley, Brown Co, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1739, Ireland
• Religion: 1739, Augusta Stone Church, Augusta Co, Virginia; Elder
• Occupation: 1745, Augusta Co, Virginia; Justice first Commission of the Peace
• Will: 20 Oct 1773, Augusta Co, Virginia

Notes:

There is no reliable source that provides information on his Irish parentage. All we seem to know is that he arrived around 1739 to Virginia from Ireland, and became a notable figure around Stanton, Augusta County, Virginia.

http://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Poage/6000000001944739870


Will:
Robert's will:

per Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800:

Page 216.--20th 8ber, 1773. Robert Poack's will--To sons, John and Thomas, "My real estate, 260 acres, lying upon a branch of Linvel's Creek; to daughter, Martha Woods, 1 pistole; to sons, Robert, George, and William, 1 pistole; to daughters, Elizabeth Crawford, Margaret Robertson, 1 pistole. Executors, William Lewis and son John Poage. Teste: John Craig, Isabella Helena Craig, Charles Baskin. Proved, 16th March, 1774, by John Craig, Clerk, and Baskins. (No administration order.)

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Buried:
From his Find A Grave page:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Poage&GSfn=Robert&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=d&GRid=59231465&df=all&

Birth: 1700, Ireland

Death: 1774 - Augusta County, Virginia, USA

Taken from Inscriptions from Augusta Stone Church (oldest cemetery), Ft. Defiance, Augusta Co., Virginia, by Mrs. C. F. Rudolph, Washington, DC., 1953.

Immigrant from Ireland-1739. Elder in Augusta Stone church- 1740. Justice, First Commission of the Peace. Augusta County- 1745. Died in 1774. And to the memory of his wife Elizabeth Preston.

(Monument erected by J. G. Bishop, Nyack, NY, a descendant.)

Burial: Augusta Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Fort Defiance, Augusta County, Virginia, USA

Robert married Elizabeth Preston on 22 Mar 1721 in Co Antrim, Ulster, Ireland. Elizabeth (daughter of Phineas (Archibald)* (or John) Preston and Hon., "Mary of Montjoy" Mary* Stewart) was born in 1702 in Co Donegal, Ulster, Ireland; died in 1780 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:

• 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:

• Other-Begin: 24 Aug 1734, Ireland; Countess of Granard
• Other-Begin: 24 Aug 1734; styled "Countess of Granard"
• Death: 4 Oct 1758, Ireland

Notes:

Hon. Mary Stewart was born circa 1677.[2] She was the daughter of William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy and Hon. Mary Coote.[1],[2]

She married, firstly, Phineas Preston in 1692 at Mountjoy, Ireland.[2],[1]

She married, secondly, Vice-Admiral George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard, son of Arthur Forbes, 2nd Earl of Granard and Mary Rawdon, in 1709.[1]

She died on 4 October 1765.[1] She was also reported to have died on 4 October 1758.[2]

From 1692, her married name became Preston.[2]

From 1709, her married name became Forbes. As a result of her marriage, Hon. Mary Stewart was styled as Countess of Granard on 24 August 1734.

Children of Hon. Mary Stewart and Phineas Preston

1. Jane Preston+[2] b. c 1690, d. a 12 Nov 1746
2. Mary Preston [2] b. 1696, d. 1749
3. Colonel John Preston+[2] b. 1699, d. 1747
4. Nathaniel Preston [2] b. c 1700

Children of Hon. Mary Stewart and Vice-Admiral George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard

1. Lady Mary Forbes [1] d. 27 Nov 1797
2. Lt.-Gen. George Forbes, 4th Earl of Granard+[1] b. 15 Mar 1710, d. 16 Oct 1769
3. Admiral Hon. John Forbes+[1] b. 1714, d. 10 Mar 1796

Citations

1. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 1628. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
2. [S2664] Liberty unknown, "re: Preston Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 5 February 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Preston."

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Other-Begin:
As a result of her marriage, Hon. Mary Stewart was styled as Countess of Granard on 24 August 1734.