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Lilly, Robert D., 285, 332, 334 Lincoln, President, assassinated, 335, 336.
Links company in 1813, 232. Logan, Indian chief, 135, 138.
Logstown, treaty of, 48. Londonderry, siege of, I. Lottery in Staunton, 243. Loudoun, Earl of, 102. Loyalty of the people, 42, 89. Lunenburg county, 41. Lyford, William G., 221,
McAden, Rev. Hugh, 65. \Macaslin, Mrs., 250.
McClanahan, Alexander, 116, 125, 135, 139, 148, 160, 199. McClanahan, John, 116, 125.
McClanahan, Robert, 41.
McClanahan, Robert, Jr., 136, 137. Mccutchen, Wm., 155. McCue, Rev. John, 197, 239. McCue, John, 244, 281. McCue, John H., 289, 333. McCue, J. M., 257, 274, 313, 346. McCue, M. H., 274. McCue, Moses, 226, 227.
McClung, Henry, 216, 234. McCoy, Wm., 222, 229, 243.
McCormick's reapers, 266. McDowell, Ephraim, 16.
McDowell, Col Jas., 224, 230, 23I. McDowell, James, (Governor) 267.
McDowell, John (Ist), 31.
McDowell, John (2d), 220. McDowell, Samuel, 148, 179, 191.
McDonald, Col. Angus, 135.
McFarland, Rev. F., 24I.
McKamy, Wm. C., 332.
Mclaughlin, Wm., 358. McMillan, Rev. Dr., 152.
McNutt, Alex., 82, 84. McPheeters, Rev. Wm., 177. Madison committee in 1808, 221.
Madison, John, 26. Madison, Rev. Dr., 53.
Madison, Thomas, 130, 132.
Manassas, first battle, 285.
Manassas, second battle, 304.
Manufactures in the county, 207, 258, 259. Marlin, John, 10.
Marquiss, James C., 313.
Marriages by Dissenters, 85, 175.
Martin, Dr., 262,
Marylanders. 303.
Mason, C. R., 313, 332, 334.
Massacre of Indians, 58. Massie, Nathaniel, 274.
Mathews, George, 107, 135 148, 160, 178, 190.
Mathews, Sampson, 109, 148, 161, I66.
Mauzy, R., 320.
Maxwell, Audley, 107.
Memorial Day, 347.
Memorial of County Committee, 154. Merchants in 1800, 213.
Merritt, C. G., 332
Methodist Church, 202. Mexican war, 27I.
Michie, Thomas J., 241, 244, 265, 311.
Middlebrook and B. turnpike, 273. Military District No. 1, 347. Militia called out, 293. Militia musters, 256.
Mill, First at Staunton, 48.
Mill place, Beverley's, 26. Miller, Alexander, boycotted, 151.
Miller's Iron Works, 224. Miller, Samuel, 246. Missionaries to the Valley, 17.
Moffett, George, 179, 191. Monroe Committee in 1808, 221.
Moore, Andrew, 139, 143. Moore, Dr. J. K., 237.
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Moore, S. McD., 243, 262. Mosby, Armistead, 258. Mossy Creek Academy, 273. Mt. Tabor church, 202. Muddy Creek massacre, III.
Navy of Virginia, 161. Necessity, Fort, 57.
Negroes after the war, 337, 341, 342.
Nelson, Alexander, 216, 225.
Nelson, Wm. J., 359
New Movement, 354, 355.
Newest Movement, 356.
New Providence church, 36, 202.
New-side Presbyterians, 37.
Newton, James W., 283, 332.
Newtown, 199.
North Mountain meeting-house, 50.
O'Ferrall, Chas. T., 329, 347. Officers in the Revolution, 159. Old-side Presbyterians, 37. Opie, John N., 321.
Order book of Capt. Gamble's com- pany, 169.
Ordinance of secession, 282.
Ordinaries in 1746, 30; in 1787, 199. Overton, Capt., 82.
Page, Capt., 228.
Paine's pistols, 262.
Paper mill at Staunton, 207, 220.
Parish buildings, 40. Parish church, 105, 107, II0.
Paris, John, 359. Patents for land, 22.
Patrick, Wm., Jr., 283, 304, 332.
Patrick, Wm., Sr., 226.
Patriotic resolutions in 1775, 148.
Patterson, James F., 356.
Patteson, D. W., 264, 265.
Patton, James, 16, 22, 38, 48, 57, 70, 71, 72, 73,74. Paul, Audley, 120. Paul's Fort, 108.
Paul, Samuel, 359.
Paul, Willianı, 135.
Paupers, care of, 105, 109, IIO.
Peace of 1815, 236.
Pearis, Richard, 60, 84, 85.
Peck, Jacob, 178, 198. Pendleton county, 199.
Perkins, Ute, 46. Persecution in Ireland, 2.
Petersburg mine sprung, 323. Petersburg volunteers, 229. Peyton, Henry J., 214. Peyton, John H., 219, 234, 238, 244, 263, 269.
Peyton, John L., 280, 282, 333. Phillips, Rev. R. H., 320. Physicians in country, 23, 199, 2 37. Pickens, Gen. Andrew, 28. Piedmont, Battle of, 316, 317. Pierpoint, Governor, 336, 340. Point Pleasant, battle of, 135, 139. Points, B. F., 319.
Politics in 1840, 267 ; in 1844, 27I.
Poor-house, 109, 130.
Population in 1756, 86 ; in 1810, 223. Porterfield, Robert, 178, 197, 223, 227, 228, 234, 267, 268.
Posey, Maj. Thos., 168, 178.
Post-office at Staunton, 203.
Preston, John, 31, 32.
Preston, William, 83, 90, 98, 116, 117, 131, 132.
Prices in 1745, 29; in 1780, 178; in 18II, 224; during war of 1861-'5, 290, 292, 294, 305, 306, 307, 312, 313, 314, 323, 3 28. Prisoners, Federal, 288, 298, 300, 303, 304, 306, 308, 310, 323, 324, 327, 328.
Puffenbarger, Michael, 249.
Radical State Convention, 355. Raid Guard, 313, 314, 315.
Raid of Indians east of Blue Ridge, 106.
Randolph, John, 219.
Rangers, 100,
Read, Col. Clement, 93, 96.
Redemptioners, 17.
Registration of voters, 347, 357.
Religious liberty, 155, 185.
Renix, Mrs., 107, 125.
Republican Farmer, 221.
Reserves called out, 323. Resolutions in 1775, 148.
Richardson, D. D., Rev. W. T., 276.
Richmond evacuated, 329.
Roads family massacred, 129.
Robbers in Valley, 46. Roberts, St. Francis, 283.
Robertson, Geo. C., 233, 264.
Robinson, George, 26. Robinson, Rev. Mr., 37.
Rochefoucault in Staunton, 209.
Rockbridge county, 164.
Rockfish Gap, 183, 224.
Rockingham county, 165.
Ross, John D., 287.
Rosser, Gen., 327, 328. Rouse's Psalms, 201.
Running the blockade, 306. Rush, Wm T., 359.
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Ryan, Joseph N., 308, 356, 359.
Sabbath-breaking, 42. Sail duck, 161.
St. Clair, Alexander, 41, 155, 161, Stephen, Lt .- Col. Adam, 77.
162, 175, 178, 199, 203, 207, 212. Salling, John, 10.
Salt, scarcity of, 290, 292, 294, 305, 328 Sandy Creek expedition, 81, 87.
Scalawags, 354.
Scarcity in 1863, 313; in 1864, 327, Stocks, Use of, 32. 328.
Scene in church, 339.
Scholl, Peter, 26.
Schools for females, 268.
Scotch-Irish, I.
Scott, Rev. Archibald, 176, 182. Sehon woman killed, 106.
Seig, Henry B., 359.
Selim, the Algerine, 126, 128.
Sermon, first in country, 17.
Seventh brigade of militia, 227.
Sevier, Lieut., 220.
Seybert's Fort massacre, 102.
Sheffey, Daniel, 214, 224, 269.
Sheffey, Hugh W., 274, 281, 284, 237, 345- Shellebarger bill. 347. Shelton, Thos. W., 359
Shenandoah Val. R. R., 359.
Sheridan's raid, 329
Sick soldiers, 285, 290, 298, 312
Skillern, George, 131, 140.
Skinner, James H., 289, 316, 332.
Slavery in Augusta. 244.
Smith, Abraham, 103. Smith, Rev. Adam, 133.
Smith, Rev. B. M., 276.
Smith, Daniel, 222. Smith, Ex-Governor, 337, 338.
Smith, John, 83, 84.
Smith, J. W. G., 358. Smith, Lieutenant William, 159. Snow storm of 1750, 47 ; of 1857, 275. Snyder, Henry. 257.
Soldiers' families in Revolution, 175. Sorghum molasses, 326. Southall, James C., 348. Sowers, John C .. 219, 226, 231.
Spectator newspaper, 241. Speece, Rev. Conrad, 340. Spotswood's expedition, 7. Statistics of 1789, 199; of 1800, 212 ; of 1815 237, Staunton Academy, 203, 222. Staunton Female Seminary, 268.
Staunton, town of, 38, 39, 40, 45, 46, 108, 199.
Steele, David, 180, 186. Steele, Samuel, 180. Steele, Captain Samuel, 227, 229, 230.
Stephens, Rev. Daniel, 277.
Sterrett, F. F., 283, 285, 332.
Stewart (or Stuart), David, 83, 90, 92, 94.
Stewart, Federal Colonel, 342.
Stofer, Henry, 258.
Stone Church, 50, 70.
Stony Point, storming of, 167-9.
Stribling, Erasmus, 199, 219.
Stribling, Dr. F. T., 243.
Strickler, Rev. G. B., 276.
Stuart, Alexander, 180.
Stuart, Alexander H. H., 263, 265, 267, 280, 282, 338, 343, 344, 346, 348, 354.
Stuart, Archibald, 179, 197, 199, 203, 204, 214, 246.
Stuart family, 192.
Stuart, G. B., 281.
Stuart, John, 113, 117, 140.
Stuart, Rev. S. D., 321.
Stuart, Thomas J., 244.
Stuart, William D., 333.
Stuart's company in 1813, 231.
Suit of Cloyd vs. Montgomery, 126. Supernatural story, 136.
Surrender of General Lee, 329.
Supervisors elected, 359.
Swoope, Jacob, 198, 221, 228.
Syme, Captain John, 159.
Synod to Governor Gooch, 18.
Tapp, Vincent, 204. Tarlton's invasion, 181, 184.
Tate family, 192.
Tate, James, 179.
Tate, Wm. M., 284, 337.
Taverns in Staunton, 253.
Taxes, first imposed, 22. Taxes payable in produce, 187.
Teaze's tavern, 186.
Thackeray on Braddock's defeat, 67.
Thompson, Lucas P., 244, 274, 311, 343, 345. Thompson, Rev. Horatio, 278.
Thompson, Smith, 249. Thornrose Cemetery, 306. Timber Ridge church, 36.
Tinkling Spring, 21, 38.
Tithables in 1747, 36.
Todd's company, 1813, 231.
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Todd, Rev. John, 47.
Toleration of Dissenters, 19.
Tombstone inscription, 23.
Tories ordered to Staunton, 152. Traditions, 125.
Tremper, L., 198, 204. 244.
Trick of Federal soldiers, 339.
Trimble, James, 27.
Trimble, James B., 258.
Trinity Lutheran church, 202.
Troops, how raised in Revolution, 156, 159, 163, 166, 167, 174.
Troops in 1812, 227.
Trout, N. K., 319, 343.
Tuckahoes, 16.
Wayt, John, 198, 217.
Weld's account of Staunton, 207.
Weller. Charles L., 333.
Wesleyan Female Institute, 268.
West Augusta, district of, 161.
Western Lunatic Asylum, 243. West Virginians exiled, 310. Whiskey insurrection, 205, 206.
Wilderness road, 207.
Will, the first recorded, 29. William. Fort, 91.
Williams, Hazel J., 283, 333.
Williamson, Robert, 212.
Willson, Burgess, 35.
Wilson, Rev. James C., 24I.
Wilson, Joseph A., 333.
Wilson, Peter E., 333.
Wilson, Rev. Wm , 135.
Wilpert, John . David, 48.
Winchester stages, 223.
Wirt on war of 1812, 234, 236.
Wise, John, 205, 267.
Wolf heads, 42.
Woods, Michael, 16.
Woodson, Captain, 82. Wounded soldiers, 311, 312.
Waddell, L., Sr., 223, 238, 246, 265, Young's Fort, 119.
274.
Wagons, army, 290, 293, 324. Wagons for transportation, 242.
Walker, James, 284.
Walker, James A., 333, 353.
Walker, Mary, trial of, 164.
Wallace, Andrew, 179.
Washington, 57, 61, 77, 78.
Washington College, 185.
Washington Tavern, 205.
.Water supply, 266.
Waters, James H., 333.
Watts, John B., 257.
Wayne, Anthony, 167, 204.
Wayne tavern, 204, 266.
Tucker, St. George, 216, 217.
Tug river, 86. Tunker church, 202.
Turk, R., 283.
Turnpikes, 241, 243, 244, 265, 272, 273.
Underwood Convention, 348, 352. United States Court, 255.
Valley of Virginia, 6, 13.
Valley Railroad, 244, 345, 359.
Valley Turnpike, 265.
Van Lear, Rev. J. A., 241.
Vanmeter, John and Isaac, 9. Vass's Fort, 75, 76, 91, 98. Vestrymen elected, 32 ..
Vestry dissolved, 130, 131, 174.
Vindicator newspaper, 27I,
Virginia Female Institute, 268.
Waddell, Dr. A., 238, 258, 270. Waddell, Dr. J. Alexander, 284, 313. Waddell, Rev. James, 154, 185, 196, 2IO. Waddell, James G., 222-3. Waddell, Dr. Livingston, 287.
WVythe, George, 36.
Young, John and Thomas, 114.
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ANNALS
OF
Augusta County, Virginia
BY
JOS. A. WADDELL.
SUPPLEMENT.
J. W. RANDOLPH & ENGLISH, PUBLISHERS, RICHMOND, VA. 1888.
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PREFACE.
The chief object of this Supplement is to preserve some ac- count of many pioneer settlers of Augusta county and their immediate descendants. It would be impossible, within any reasonable limits, to include the existing generation, and hence the names of living persons are generally omitted. The writer regrets that he cannot present here sketches of other ancient and worthy families, such as the Andersons, Christians, Hamiltons, Kerrs, McPheeterses, Millers, Pattersons, Pilsons, Walkers, etc. The genealogies of several of the oldest and most distinguished families-Lewis, Preston, Houston, etc .- are omitted, because they are given fully in other publications. For much valuable assistance the writer is indebted to Jacob Fuller, Esq., Librarian of Washington and Lee University, and especially to Miss Alice Trimble, of New Vienna, Ohio.
J. A. W. Staunton, Va., March, 1888.
CONTENTS.
Early Records of Orange County Court 381
The Rev. John Craig and His Times 388
Gabriel Jones, the King's Attorney. 392 The Campbells. 396
The Bordens, McDowells and McClungs.
398
The Browns.
-Mrs. Floyd's Narrative.
400 40I 404
The Floyds
The Logans.
Colonel William Fleming.
The Estills.
Colonel William Whitley
The Moffetts
The Allens.
The Trimbles
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Fort Defiance
The Smiths.
The Harrisons, of Rockingham
The Alexanders and Wilsons.
415 416
The Raid upon the Wilson Family
The Robertsons
417 420
Treaties with Indians.
The Mckees
The Crawfords.
The Bells.
Capture and Rescue of Mrs. Estill and James Trimble.
Massacre of Thomas Gardiner and His Mother
Some Curious Orders of Court.
The Acadian French-Alexander McNutt.
The Cunninghams.
The Poages
Revolutionary War Measures
An Incident of the Revolution
Andrew Wallace
Thomas Adams
Errata
Captain William Moore
Colonel John Allen
Emigration to Kentucky-Perils by the Way.
Hanging for Horse-Stealing.
A Night Alarm.
450 45I 454 456 457
The Black Hawk War
The Hunter Raid. 457
Travels About Home.
458
421 422 423 430 433
438 439 440 442
443 446 447 448 449
449 450
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EARLY RECORDS OF ORANGE COUNTY COURT.
The County Court of Orange was opened January 21, 1734, and among the justices included in the "Commission of the Peace," issued by Gov- ernor Gooch, were James Barbour, Zachary Taylor, Joist Hite, Morgan Morgan, Benjamin Borden and the ubiquitous John Smith.
James Barbour was the grandfather of Governor James Barbour and Judge P. P. Barbour.
Zachary Taylor was the grandfather of the twelfth President of the United States of the same name.
Joist Hite (see page 10) and Morgan Morgan lived in the lower Valley. The latter was a native of Wales, and about 1726 (it is said) removed from Pennsylvania to Virginia, and erected the first cabin in the Valley south of the Potomac, and in the present county of Berkeley. He also erected the first Episcopal church in the Valley, about 1740, at the place now called Bunker Hill. He died in 1766, leaving a son of the same name.
According to tradition, Colonel John Lewis met Benjamin Borden in Williamsburg in 1736, and invited him to accompany him home, which led to the acquisition by Borden of a large tract of land in the present county of Rockbridge, known as "Borden's Grant " (see page 16). We think it likely, however, that Colonel Lewis first encountered Borden at Orange Court. In 1734, Borden probably lived in the lower Valley, then a part of Orange county, as he certainly did ten years later. When
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justices of the peace were appointed for Frederick county, in Novem- ber, 1743, he was named as one of them, but did not qualify, having died about that time. His will was admitted to record by Frederick County Court at December term, 1743, and his son, Benjamin, succeeded to the management of his Rockbridge lands.
John Smith cannot be located. We only know certainly that he was not the Captain John Smith, of Augusta, who figured in the Indian wars after 1755. He may have been the "Knight of the Golden Horseshoe," named Smith, who accompanied Governor Spotswood in his visit to the Valley in 1716.
The first allusion in the records of Orange to Valley people is under date of July 20, 1736. On that day Morgan Morgan presented the peti- tion "of inhabitants of the western side of Shenando," which was ordered to be certified to the General Assembly. What the petition was about is not stated. The name now written "Shenandoah " was formerly put in various ways-" Shenando," " Sherando," "Sherundo," etc.
On May 21, 1737, the Grand Jury of Orange presented the Rev. John Beckett " for exacting more for the marriage fee than the law directs." On publication of the banns heexacted fifteen shillings. The trial came off on the 22d of September following, and the minister, being found guilty, was fined five hundred pounds of tobacco. But Mr. Beckett's troubles did not end there. On November 25, 1737, he was reported to court "for concealing a tithable."
In his work called "Old Churches and Families," etc., Bishop Meade says that the Rev. Mr. Beckett was regularly elected minister of St. Mark's parish, in May, 1733, and continued until the year 1739. He says further : " From something on the vestry book a year or two before, there would seem to have been a serious cause of complaint against Mr. Beckett." The proceedings in court above mentioned give a clew to the cause of trouble.
Under date of 'September 22, 1737, we have the following : "William Williams, a Presbyterian minister, Gent., having taken the oaths ap- pointed by act of Parliament," etc., "and certified his intention of holding his meetings at his own plantation and on the plantation of Morgan Bryan," it was admitted to record, etc. From subsequent men- tion of Mr. Williams, it appears that he lived in what is now Frederick or Berkeley. He was engaged in trade, probably as a merchant, and was evidently too busy a trader to do much preaching. For several years he furnished more business to the court than any other person. He brought suit after suit against his customers, it is presumed, and was uniformly successful, obtaining judgment in every case. On the 23d of February, 1738, two men " sent up " by Morgan Morgan, J. P., on the charge of robbing the house of Mr. Williams, were examined and acquitted. At July court, 1738, a suit brought by Mr. Williams against the inevitable John Smith and some thirty or forty more, "for signing a certain scandalous paper reflecting on ye said Williams," came on.
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The preacher was again triumphant. Many of the signers of the "scandalous paper " " humbly acknowledged their error, begging par- don, were excused, paying costs." At September Court the suit was abated as to John Smith on account of his death. Which John Smith this was we have no means of ascertaining. He probably was a neigh- bor of Mr. Williams.
We next find John Smith (probably the Squire) and Benjamin Borden in limbo. On October 22, 1737, "Zachary Lewis, Gent., attorney for our Sovereign Lord, the King, informed the Court that, at the houses of Louis Stilfy and John Smith, certain persons, viz : the said John Smith, John Pitts, Benjamin Borden" and others "do keep unlawful and tumultuous meetings tending to rebellion," and it was ordered that the sheriff take said persons into custody, etc. At November Court, " Ben- jamin Borden, Gent," and his roistering and rebellious companions ap- peared, were examined, and, "acknowledging their error," were dis- missed with costs .. Whether the Benjamin Borden referred to was the father, or his son of the same name, we do not know.
On the 28th of April, 1738, it was "ordered that ordinary keepers at Shenendo sell their Virginia brandy at the rate of six shillings per gal- lon." All the country west of the Blue Ridge was then know by the various names afterwards written Shenandoah
William Beverley's deed to "William Cathrey," the first of a long series of deeds by Beverley to various persons, was admitted to record Sep- tember 28th, 1738.
On the same day it was " ordered that the Sheriff of Sharrando give public notice "-exactly what cannot be made out from the writing. It related, however, to tithables, a list of whom was to be delivered to William Russell, Gent. It is presumed that a deputy sheriff of Orange county lived west of the Blue Ridge.
The Act of Assembly, constituting Augusta and Frederick counties, was passed November 1, 1738, but the business of the people of Augusta was transacted at Orange Courthouse till December, 1745, when the Court of Augusta was organized. In the meantime all persons in the Valley "having suits to prosecute, pleas to enter," etc., had to take the long trip on horseback, through the gaps in the mountain and by "bridle paths " to Orange, spending two or three days on the way. Moreover, as there was no minister of the Established Church in the Valley till 1747, all couples living here and wishing to be married, had to travel across the Blue Ridge to Orange, or elsewhere, in search of a minister authorized by law to perform the service.
William Beverley's deeds to John Lewis, George Hudson, George Robertson and Patrick Campbell were admitted to record February 22, 1739.
On the same day, "John Lewis, Gent., having taken the oaths and subscribed the Test, was sworn into his military commission accordingly." The title, or rank, is not given, but it was no doubt that of Colonel.
Zachary Taylor obtained license to keep an ordinary, March 22, 1739.
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And now we have the first reference to a public road west of the Blue Ridge. June, 1739, "John Poage, David Davis and George Hutchison having, according to an order of Court, viewed and laid off a road from Beverley Manor " etc., " It is ordered that the said road be cleared from John Young's at the North Mountain to the top of the Blue Ridge to the bounds of Goochland county." The order of court directing the laying off of the road was not found.
Early in 1740, or shortly before, there was a great influx of popu- lation 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 -, John, George, Robert, -, Smith,
, 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, 174I.
The blanks above indicate names which are illegible in the record book. Of only one of Alexander Breckenridge's children, Robert, have we any particular account. (See page 140.) Possibly most of the others died young. There is no mention in the order of the daughter named Sarah, but she was the wife of Robert McClanahan when the family came to the Valley.
On the same day with Breckenridge, the following settlers in the Valley appeared in Court and proved their importation in like manner, all having come from Ireland through Philadelphia, viz :
James Bell and his children, John, Margaret and Elizabeth. These were the "Long Glade Bells."
John Trimble and his children, Ann, Margaret and Mary.
John Hays and his children, Rebecca, Charles, Andrew, Barbara, Joan and Robert
Patrick Hays and his children, Francis, Joan, William, Margaret, Catharine and Ruth.
William Brown and his children, Mary, Robert, Hugh and Margaret.
Robert Patterson, his wife Grace, and his children, Thomas, Mary and Elizabeth. .
David Logan, his wife, Jane, and his children, Mary and William.
Robert Poage, his wife, Elizabeth; and his children, Margaret, John, Martha, Sarah, George, Mary, Elizabeth, William and Robert.
John Anderson, his wife, Jane, and his children, Esther, Mary and Margaret.
George Anderson, his wife, Elizabeth, and his children, William, Margaret, John and Frances.
Samuel Scott, his wife, Jane, and son, John.
Robert Scott, his wife, Ann, and his children, Mary, George and Esther.
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David Wilson, his wife, Charity, and son, James.
James Caldwell and his children, Mary, Jean, Agnes, John, Sarah and Samuel.
John Stevenson and his children, Sarah and Mary.
John Preston came in with Breckenridge and others, but postponed proving his importation till 1746, when he appeared before the court of Augusta, " to partake of his Majesty's bounty for taking up lands." (See page 31.)
On the 26th of June, 1740, the following Augusta people "proved their importation," having come from Ireland through Philadelphia, viz :
Hugh Campbell and his children, Esther and Sarah.
Robert Young and his children, Agnes, John, Samuel and James.
John Smith, his wife, Margaret, his children, Abraham, Henry, Dan- iel, John and Joseph, and Robert McDowell. This was Captain John Smith, of Augusta, who became prominent during the Indian wars, as did his sons, Abraham, Daniel and John.
Henry Downs was presented by the Grand Jury, November 27, 1740, " for Sabbath-breaking by traveling with loaded horses to Sharrendo," on the information of John and William Dewitt.
Benjamin Borden (probably Benjamin, Jr., ) next appears as a peace- able citizen, or rather "subject of the King," in fear of his life. On February 26, 1741, he " swore the peace against George Moffett, making oath that " he goes in danger of his life, or some bodily hurt, by the said George Moffett." The latter appeared in court, and was regularly "bound over," his securities being James Cathrey and John Christian. This can hardly be the prominent citizen of Augusta, know as Colonel George Moffett, who died in 1811, aged seventy-six years, and who was therefore only six years old in 1741.
We now come to the mention of the first preacher of the Gospel who lived in Augusta :
February 26, 1741, "John Craig, a Presbyterian minister, in open Court took the oaths appointed by act of Parliament to be taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy and the oath of abjuration, and subscribed the Test: which is ordered to be certified."
William Beverley, on February 14, 1742, conveyed to Mr. Craig 335 acres of land-no doubt the tract on Lewis's creek, where Mr. Craig lived, afterwards owned by Benjamin T. Reid and now (1887) by the heirs of Robert S. Harnsberger.
James Patton brought sundry suits in 1741, and from that time till 1746, he and Beverley often appeared in court as litigants.
William Thompson qualified as administrator of John Campbell in 1741, John Lewis security. The decedent was the ancestor of Colonel Arthur Campbell, General William Campbell and many others.
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