Notebook - Virginia No. 6, Part 4

Wayland, John. A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1969.

Table of Dates:

• 1670 - August John Lederer explores vicinity of Front Royal
• 1705 - Virginia Assembly encourages trade with Valley Indians
• 1707 - Louis Michelle explores the lower Shenandoah Valley
• 1716 - Spotswood & his knights visit the Valley
• 1720 - Spotsylvania County formed
• 1722 - Michael Wohlfarth goes from Pennsylvania to North Carolina through the Valley
• 1727 - Adam Miller at Massanutten
• 1728 - William Russell & others take up land near Front Royal
• 1729 - beginning of Masanutten Colony
• 1731 - Jost Hite & others settle in the lower Valley
• 1731 - John Fishback & others granted 50,000 acres in limits of present Warren & Page Counties
• 1732 - William Russell granted 20,000 acres in & about the forks of the Shenandoah 

Ahnentafel #856 - (--?--) Durall

(--?--) Durall

Some say Jean Baptiste Durell of southern France who immigrated to New Orleans.

Some say David Durell who married (--?--) Roby.

Born: ca. 1724
Died: between 1784 & 1790

Buried: unknown

Married: Rhoda (--?--) before 1750

Records:
There are two Durells, David & Stephen in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania. It is thought that they may have been the sons of this Durall.

1784 - Duplin Co., North Carolina - Ordered that John Dural in Capt. Whitehead's Company exempted from militia duty.  Men were exempted after age 60.  This could be our man,

Notebooks - Virginia No. 6, Part 3

Drew, Toby. Genealogies of Virginia Families, Vol. IV Healy - Pryor, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1981.

From the Virginia Magazine of History & Biography.

Bannerman, Mrs. Robert. John Morgan of Virginia & Tennessee - John Morgan (2) who was called Squire & Captain, arrived in what is now Sumner County, Tennessee on the Cumberland River, Nov. 2, 1785. To-gether with his two sons John (3) & Charles (3) built Fort Morgan. In the spring of 1787 he was killed by an Indian. (See Governor William Hall's Narrative [Drapers Papers] and Cisco's Historic Sumner County.)  That he was the son of Charles Morgan (1), of that part of Prince William County, which in 1759 was formed into Fauquier County, Virginia, is proved by establishing, from two different sets of records, the identity of two of Charles (1) Morgan's great-grandchildren.

In the will of Charles (1) Morgan, dated 5 Dec. 1758 probated 22 Sep. 1766, (Will Book I, p. 107, Fauquier Co., VA Wills) he named "My beloved wife Anna" and children: Charles (2), Simon (2) William (2), Benjamin (2), James (2), Alice

Ahnentafel #855 - Anne Stribling

Anne Stribling

Born: 1716 St. Paul's Parish, Stafford County, Virginia
Died: 1793 - I don't have a source for this, may be earlier, see affidavits below

Buried: unknown

Married: Bushrod Doggett, October 6, 1737, St. Paul's Parish, Stafford Co., Virginia

Records:
1737 - Oct. 6 - St. Paul's Parish, King George Co., VA - marriage record states that Bushrod was of Brunswick Parish and Anne Stribling of "this" parish meaning St. Paul's Parish. The parish was in Stafford County at the time.  Because of county boundary changes it is now located in King George County.

1765 - Apr. 22 - Culpeper County, VA - Anne is listed as Nanny in a deed of land from Bushrod Doggett to William Morgan.

1770 - Fauquier Co., VA - the family was living here as Bushrod paid taxes here.

Notebook - Virginia No. 6, Part 2

Bushman, Katherine, comp. Supplement to First Marriage Record of Augusta County Virginia 1785-1813, Staunton, VA: Col. Thomas Hughart Chapter DAR, 1978.

Part I - First Marriage Record, Augusta County, Virginia, 1785-1813 Published 1930, by Colonel Thomas Hughart Chapter, DAR, Staunton, VA - [corrections to original]

• 1789 - 20 July - (instead of May) John Gardner to Rachel Wilson
• 1786 - 22 Feb - Isaiah Slaven to Patty Steward
• 1804 - 26 July - John Kale & Barbara Slusher
• 1805 - 9 Jan. - Abraham Litten & Esther Forsythe
• 1805 - 24 Oct - Jacob Yost & Esther Slusher
• 1805 - 6 May - Jacob Raab & Milly Robinson
• 1806 - 17 Apr - Windle Grove & Jane Bolls
• 1806 - 16 Jan. - Thomas Denney & Polly Hedebough

Back section of book, I don't have the heading for it.

• 1787 - 8 Jan. - William Herring & Hanah Robertson
• 1789 - 30 Jul - John Slaven & Elizabeth Hodge

In Memoriam - Darrell Blakey

Darrell Lee Blakey

Born: October 20, 1951, Highland, IL
Died: April 6, 2020, St. Louis, MO

Married: Debra Shelton, December 9, 2000

Children:
Michael md. Verbal (--?--)
Matthew 
Mark md. Chrissy (--?--)
Jacqueline Tannahill md. Steve Withrow

• Brittney
• Conner
• Benjamin

Nickolas Tannahill

Ahnentafel #854 - Bushrod Doggett

Bushrod Doggett

Born: ca. 1707 probably St. Mary's Parish, Old Rappahannock Co., VA
Died: Nov. 1791 Culpeper Co., VA

Buried: Unknown

Married: Anne Stribling October 6, 1737, Saint Paul's Parish, Stafford Co., VA.  Bushrod is said to have been of Brunswick Parish at the time of the marriage. Sometimes the marriage is listed as having been in King George County which is where the parish is now located. Both are correct.

Parish / County Formation:

The earliest counties in a colony / state tend to be quite large and can be an entire state.  Kentucky was created as Kentucky County, VA and then slowly subdivided as the population increased and eventually it gained commonwealth status on its own in 1792. The same process happened in Virginia where counties were subdivided into Church of England / Anglican parishes.  The Anglican church was the "state church" of Virginia.  These parishes were also subdivided and had boundary changes as new counties were formed that split them or "moved them" into a new county. All citizens paid tithes to the

Notebooks - Virginia No. 6, Part 1

Burns, Annie. Virginia Genealogies & County Records, Vol. 7, Washington, DC: Burns, nd

Census of 1810, List of Persons Residing in Frederick County

• Clark, George
• Cornwall, William
• Crockwell(?), John Jr. 
• Robertson, John 
• Robinson, Andrew
• Robertson, James
• Smith, Patrick Jr.
• Smith, Jabez
• Smith, Bartholomew
• Smith, Michael
• Smith, George H.
• Smith, John - 4
• Smith, Thomas - 2
• Smith, Edy
• Smith, William - 4
• Smith, Edward