Small Notebook - Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Part 2

Surry County, VA

Chiarello, Susan. "List of Debts Due to Cabin Point Store, 1 November 1775," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2011, p. 311+. [Auditor's Office 13/30, Loyalist Claims, Series II, Virginia Claims, Folder G1;  Colonial Records Project mf #252 LVA, Richmond.]

Page 311 - Unlike the vast majority of the merchant claims, this list was created between 1 November 1775 and 29th March 1776 when it was sworn to before John Watkins, a justice of the peace for Surry County. The maker of the list, John Stewart, was apparently the factor for the Cabin Point store operated by Mess'rs Dunmore Blackburn & Company, merchants of Glasgow. The list is found among the claims made in 1784, 1788 and 1789 by Robert Gilmour for compensation for losses incurred as a British subject. He states that he was a principal partner in Logan Gilmour & Co. of Norfolk and Logan and Dunmore & Co. and had incurred heavy losses. Heavily in debt in Britain, Gilmour had lost his private fortune and had brought ruin to his other partners. He does not explain why the list was compiled. Although used to support his claim for losses, the list was obviously not compiled for that purpose and indeed appears not to deal with either company with which he notes an involvement.  Perhaps a transfer of ownership occurred between the creation of the list and Gilmour's first claim some eight years later. 

Caing Point Ledger C 

• Col. John Cocke, folio 1, good debt 75.4.0 
• Page 312 - Lemuel Cocke, folio 5, good 102.5.3 3/4

Small Notebook - Magazine of Virginia Genealogy

[Little, Barbara.?] "Augusta County Delinquents 1771, 1772," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 48, No. 4, 2010, pp. -259+ [No, I didn't keep the introduction page . . . ]

• Page 259 - Wm McDowell - Greenbrier - 2
• Sworn to me this 19th November 1772 Sam'l McDowell 
• A List of Supernum[er]aries
• Page 260 - Seath Wilson - 1
• Nenian Cloyd - 1
• Sworn to before me Novbr 19th 1772 Sam'l McDowell
• A List of Thomas Patterson Delinquents for 1772
• John Butler - 1
• Page 262 - Thomas Morgan - 1
• George Robertson - 1
• Peter Sout [could this be Stout?] - 1
• Page 263 - David Wilson - 1
• John Wilson - 1
• John Wilson - 1
• 193 Delinquent allowed
• A List of Thomas Pattersons Supernumerys for 1771
• And'w Wilson - 1

Small Notebook - New England / Virginia

Brooke, Ted, trans. "Buckingham County 1788 Personal Property Tax List, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 55, No. 3, 2017. [Virginia Personal Property Tax List, Buckingham Co., 1783, mf RG48: Auditor of Public Acconts, Library of Virginia, Richmond]

Continued from Volume 55, No. 2, Column headings:

• Date 1788
• Persons Nameds Charged with the Tax
• Names of White Tithes
• [Number of White Tithes]
• Blacks Above 16 [number]
• Blacks Under 16 & Above 12 [number]
• Horses [number]
• Studs
• Rate pr season
• Carriages

Note: No quantities are given for the last three columns: Studs, Rate pr Season and Carriages except in rare cases and are only shown here where they appear in the tax list. It appears that "Names of White Tithes" are given only where different from the name of "Persons names

Book Purge - Scotland

Edinburgh, Scotland

Dobson, David. The Original Scots Colonis of Early America 1612-1783, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. 1989.

Page vi - The record for each individual contains a maximum of twenty-three points of information in the following order: name, date of birth/baptism, place of birth, occupation, place of education, cause of banishment (where applicable), residence [res], names of parents [pts], date of emigration and whether voluntarily shipped [sh] or involuntarilty transported [tr], port of embarkation, destination, name of ship, place of arrival [arr], date of arrival, place of settlement, name of spouse, names of children, date of death, place of death, where buried, probate record & source citation. 

I've excluded the Darien Colony settlers and most of the island settlements such as Barbados, Jamaica and Leeward Islands. 

Book Purge - The Story of Winchester in Virginia

Morton, Frederic. The Story of Winchester in Virginia: The Oldest Town in the Shenandoah Valley, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2001.  First published in 1925.

p. 22 The business quarter of Winchester lies in the basin of the little stream known as Town Run. It is therefore depressed, but the gradual improvement of the streets and lots has made it almost level throughout. In every direction is slightly rising ground; For Hill in the north, Church Hill in the east, Potato Hill in the south and Academy Hil and Powell's Ridge in the west. But these elevations are gentle in ascent, and are broadtopped belts of tableland rather than tre hills. Even the tower of the Handley schol does not rise high enough to permit a quite satisfactory examination of the field of view. . . . 

Running twenty miles southward, a little more than twenty miles northward, and a similar distance east and west, lies the Lower Shenandoah Valley, as distinguished from the Middle Valley between Strasburg and Harrisonburg.  To speak accurately, it is not a true valley, but a long and relatively narrow plain, separated by the narrow rampart of the Blue Ridge from the plain of Piedmont Virginia. The watercourses around Winchester are not tributaries of the Shenandoah, bu turn directly to the Potomac.

[Shenandoah River flows from southwest to northeast entering the Potomac River at Harper's Ferry, WV.  The "upper river" is in the south, the "lower river" is in the north.]

p. 31 [Lord Fairfax owned land around Winchester and gave out 99 year leases which allowed him to

Notebook - Virginia #7 - Part 1

Bell, Landon. Charles Parish York County, Virginia History & Registers Births 1648-1789 Deaths 1665-1787, Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library Board, 1932.  Available on Ancestry.

• Morgan, Charles son of William by Ann b. Sep. 25, 1710
• Morgan, Elinor dau. of Thomas by Elinor b. Aug. 24, 1690
• Morgan, Gerrard son of Humphrey & Anne b. Dec. 15, 1762, bapt. Jan. 15, 1763.
• Morgan, John son of William by Ann b. May 24, 1714
• Morgan, Martha dau. of Humphrey & Anne, b. Oct. 15, bapt. Nov. 18, 1764
• Morgan, Mary dau. of John by Ann b. Dec. 8, 1734
• Morgan, Roger son of Thomas by Elinor b. Aug. 2, 1688
• Morgan, Samuel son of Simon by Elizabeth bapt. April 30 [1703] Denbeigh Parish
• Morgan, Sarah dau. of Thomas by Elinor b. March 10, 1684
• Morgan, Thomas son of Thomas by Elinor b. Jan. 1, 1679
• Morgan, Thomas son of John by Ann b. Oct. 25, bapt. Nov. 26, 1732
• Morgan, William son of Thomas by Elizabeth b. Nov. 17, 1677
• Morgan, William son of William by Alice b. July 12, 1690

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First Marriage Record of Augusta County Virginia, 1785-1813, Augusta Co., VA: Col. Thomas Hughart Chapter, DAR, 1992. - available on Ancestry.

• Aug. 18, 1785 Samuel Blackburn to Ann Mathews - Rev. Archibald Scott

Notebook - Virginia No. 6, Part 5

Kegley, Mary & F.B. Kegley. Early Adventures on the Western Waters, Vol. I The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1800, Orange, VA: Green Publishers, Inc., nd

• Map - The Beckoning Land on the Western Waters - New River and tributaries 
• Map - The Mountain Empire - showing present counties and county seats - Augusta, Botetourt, Greenbrier, Montgomery, Fincastle, Washington, Kanawha, Kentucky
• Map - Col. Patton's Survey for 7500 Acres at a Place Called Draper 1747 Patent, 1753 Subdivision for Settlers by William Preston, 1754 - includes: William Taylor, John Taylor, George Taylor, Charles Taylor, John Draper
• Map - The Beginnings of the Radford Neighborhood - includes: John Taylor
• Map - On East Side New River & Little River, New River tributaries
• Map - Early Crossings of New River - includes: Cloyd's Mountain, Tom's Creek

Before the homeseekers of Pennsylvania and Maryland began to expand into the Valley of Virginia in the 1730s, little was known about the region farther to the southwest, including the New River valley. Interest in discoveries had been stimulated by trading merchants of Eastern Virginia, but the planters there had remained very well satisfied with the opportunity for expansion east of the Blue Ridge. It appeared that the governing officials were concerned more with extension of the fur trade than they were in opening the land for prospective homeseekers. However, when the traders began to venture

Notebook - Virginia #4, Part 2

Prince William County, Virginia

Adams, Lela, comp. Marriages of Patrick County, Virginia, 1791-1850, Bassett, VA: Adams, 1972

• 1 May 1802 James Dove & Avice Davidson, Surety Richard Davidson
• 1 Sep 1803 Richard Dove & Elisabeth Taylor, Surety Daniel Martindale

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Dorman, John. Essex County, Virginia Deeds & Wills No. 13 1707-1711, Washington, DC: Dorman, 1963.

4 April 1706. John Morgan received payment from an estate

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Dorman, John, comp. Essex County, Virginia Records 1706-1707; 1717-1719 Washington, DC: Dorman, 1963.

20 Jan. 1717/18. John Taliaferro of St. Mary's Parish, Essex County, to John Taliaferro Junr. son to the aforesaid John, of same. For natural love and affection. Two plantations with 1000 acres on the upper side of Snow Creek in the forke thereof which was formerly given to me by my brother Fra[ncis] Taliaferro late of said parish by deed of gift. Jno. Taliaferro. Wit: Robt. Parker, Jno. Ellitts. 21 Jan. 1717/18 Acknowledged by John Taliaferro

16 Jan. 1717/18 Samuel Ward of St. Ann's Parish, Essex County, planter to John

Ahnentafel #594 & #606 - Robert Cook

Robert Cook

Born: by 1700, Virginia
Died: between January and May 1780, Surry County, NC

Buried: Unknown

Married: Mary (--?--) by 1720

Records:
1772 - Surry Co., NC - tax roll - a Robert Cook is listed with 5 polls

1780 - Jan. 1, Surry Co., NC, Robert Cook wrote his will:

In the name of God amen, I Robert Cook of Surry County and State of North Carolina being sick and week but of perfect mind & memory thanks be to the Almighty God, calling to mind the Mortality of my Body knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and Testament, that is to say first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of almighty God that gave it my Body I recommend to the Earth to be Buried in a decent manner at the Descression of my Exr nothing Doubting but

Notebook - North Carolina No. 4

Carpenter, Reva. Anson County North Carolina Abstract of Wills 1750-1880, San Diego, CA: Grasshopper Press, nd

Anson County was formed from Bladen County in 1750 which was 39 years prior to statehood, and the birth of our nation. The first permanent settlement in North Carolina Territory was established in 1653 by settlers coming south from Virginia. It was not until 80 years later that the population reached 14,000 persons. Prior to the revolution North Carolina experienced three great waves of immigrants.  In a matter of a few years came more than 20,000 Highland Scotch immigrants they settled mostly in the southeastern section of the state. Later large groups of Scotch Irish came from Pennsylvania.  Most of them settled in the western section of the state. By the year 1760, there were approximately 15,000 German immigrants in Forsyth and Guilford counties.

Will Book II, 1750-1880

page 47 Wiliam Gurley - probated Oct. session, 1804, wife, Milinder. Sons: James, Willis and William Gurley. Daughters: Eldest Elizabeth Austin, Jean Pool, Sarah Lauhorn (land adj. John Lauhorn), Dorcas and Ferabee. A calf to Charloty Austin and mentions Jaen Pool's three sons - Alexander, William and Nathan Pool. Executors: Willis Gurley and Leonard Musselwhite.  Wit: Richard Austin & William Gurley.

page 49 Jacob Gurley - June 19, 1820, sons: Josiah, Daniel, Nedham, Jesse, William, David and Benjamin Gurley.  Daughters: Susanna Gurley and Unity Whitley.  Grandson Joseph Gurley. Executor: Jesse & William Gurley.  Wit; Richard Austin & Willis Gurley.

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DenBoer, Gordon. North Carolina: Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, nd.

Chronology of Anson County

17 Mar 1749/1750 - Anson created from Bladen - includes all of modern Union, Stanly, Montgomery, Richmond, Scotland and portions of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Rowan, Davidson, Randolph and Robeson

Ahnentafel #297 & #303 - Martha Cook

Martha Cook

Born: ca. 1735 probably in Virginia
Died: after 1804 in either North Carolina or Kentucky

Buried: unknown

Married:  1754 Richard Beasley in Caroline Co., Virginia

Notebook - North Carolina Book #3

1790 Census - North Carolina

Perquimans County, Edenton District
Gurley, Frederick 1 wm 16+, 2 wm -16, 3 wf

Anson County, Fayette District
Gurley, William 2 wm 16+, 1 wm -16, 4 wf, 3 slaves
Girley, Jacob 1 wm 16+, 4 wm -16, 3 wf

Moore County, Fayette District - Richmond County between Anson and Moore County.
Cagle, David 1 wm 16+, 2 wf
Cagle, Leonard 1 wm 16+, 7 wm -16, 3 wf
Cagle, Christian 1 wm 16+, 1 wm -16, 1 wf
Cagle, John 2 wm 16+, 2 wm -16, 3 wf
Cagle, Roger, 1 wm 16+, 1 wm -16, 2 wf
Cagle, George, 1 wm 16+, 2 wf
Cagle, George, 1 wm 16+, 2 wm -16, 2 wf
Maulding, Richard, 1 wm 16+, 1 wf
Cagle, Jacob , 1 wm 16+, 3 wm -16, 3 wf
Cagle, William, 1 wm 16+, 1 wm -16, 2 wf
Morehead, Turner, 1 wm 16+

North Carolina

Counties:

Burke
Bute
Cabarrus
Davidson
Duplin
Franklin
Hertford
Johnston
Lincoln
Mecklenberg
Moore
New Hanover
Pender
Perquimans
Rowan
Stokes
Warren
Wilkes