Name |
Jane* Preston |
Suffix |
(Immigrant) |
Birth |
Abt 1690 |
Newtown Limavady, Limavady, Co Londonderry, Ireland |
Gender |
Female |
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 |
- 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 |
24 May 1744 |
Orange Co, Virginia |
- 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)
|
Death |
Aft 12 Nov 1746 |
Fishersville, Tinkling Spring, Augusta Co, Virginia |
Death |
12 Nov 1757 |
Fishersville, Augusta Co, Virginia |
Burial |
Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church Cem, Fisherville, Augusta Co, Virginia |
|
Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery North section of the cemetery. It is separate from the South section. It has older stones up to the modern day. |
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Tinkling Springs Presbyterian Church Cemetery Entrance Entrance to the North section of the cemetery |
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
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Person ID |
I5807 |
Roots |
Last Modified |
1 Jan 2015 |
Family |
Alexander* Breckenridge, (Immigrant) (son?), b. 1686, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland d. Bef 23 Sep 1743, Fishersville, Tinkling Spring, Augusta Co, Virginia (Age 57 years) |
Marriage |
1695 |
Newtown Limavady, Limavady, Co Londonderry, Ireland |
Children |
| 1. John Breckenridge, b. Abt 1717, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland d. Aft 1740, of, Orange Co, Virginia (Age ~ 24 years) |
+ | 2. Rev. George* Breckenridge, (Immigrant), b. Abt 1719, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland d. Bef 29 Sep 1790, Wythe Co, Virginia (Age ~ 71 years) |
+ | 3. Col/Capt Robert Breckenridge, Sheriff, b. 1720, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland d. 1773, Fincastle, Botetourt Co, Virginia (Age 53 years) |
| 4. Smith Breckenridge, b. Abt 1722, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland d. Aft 1740, of, Orange Co, Virginia (Age ~ 19 years) |
+ | 5. James Breckenridge, b. Abt 1724, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland d. 1756, of, Augusta Co, Virginia (Age ~ 32 years) |
| 6. Adam Breckenridge, b. Abt 1724, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland d. Bef 16 Mar 1756, Augusta Co, Virginia (Age ~ 32 years) |
+ | 7. Letitia Breckenridge, (immigrant), b. Abt 1726, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland d. Aft 1750, of, Augusta Co, Virginia (Age ~ 25 years) |
+ | 8. Mary "Polly" Breckenridge (maybe), b. Abt 1729 d. 1763 (Age ~ 34 years) |
| 9. Sarah Breckenridge, (immigrant), b. Abt 1730, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland d. Aft 1746, Fishersville, Tinkling Spring, Augusta Co, Virginia (Age ~ 17 years) |
| 10. Jane Breckenridge, b. Abt 1730, Pennsylvania d. Aft 1840, of, Orange Co, Virginia (Age ~ 111 years) |
+ | 11. Hannah Breckenridge, b. Abt 1735 d. Aft 1780 (Age ~ 46 years) |
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Family ID |
F10 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
22 Jul 2013 |