The Carson Family
From Washington County,
Virginia
To Rockcastle County, Kentucky
To Jellico, Tennessee
To Davie, Broward County, Florida
James Holman (Holdman, Holeman)
Born: about 1814 in Madison County, Kentucky
Died: about 1886 in Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Kentucky
James Holman (Holdman,
Holeman) was born about 1814 in Madison County, Kentucky. He lived in the area of Brodhead
and Crab Orchard, Kentucky, which are on the border of three Kentucky counties: Lincoln, Garrard, and Rockcastle.
On June 4, 1835 in Garrard County, Kentucky, James Holman was married to Martha
Ramsey, the daughter of Alexander Ramsey, by Baptist minister Benjamin Polston.
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The results of the DNA tests show that the descendant of James Holeman, b. 1814 is:
"very tightly related" to the descendant of the Daniel Holman who was born about 1787 in North Carolina, had children in Tennessee, and homesteaded in Douglas, Missouri;
"very tightly related" to the descendant of the Kenneth Holeman who died in 1871 in Upperfreehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey who is thought to be a descendant of Robert Holeman, died 1709 in New Jersey;
"related" to a descendant of the Elias Holeman (1759 - 1827, Burlington County, New Jersey); and
"related" to the descendants of Thomas Holeman, born about 1723, who moved from the Shenandoah Valley to North Carolina in 1752.
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Any Holman from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, or the Lord Fairfax controlled area of Virginia who wanted to go to North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Ohio River Valley during the period 1730 to the Revolutionary War passed through all or part of the Shenandoah Valley.
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Christopher L. Coleman in "TRACING THE HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF PAUL FROMAN Sr. AND ELIZABETH HITE" corrects many of the errors regarding the descendants of Solomon Froman, a French
Protestant who fled to Germany seeking religion freedom. Paul Froman, Sr, a son of Solomon Froman, married Elizabeth Hite, a daughter of Jost Hite, and migrated to America.
Mr. Coleman points out that most of the old errors on the Fromans come from either TK Cartmell’s book: “Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and their descendants; a history of Frederick County, Virginia from its Formation in 1738
to 1908” or the research conducted by Colonel Matthew Reasoner’s Manuscript dated 1930 and “The Reasoners and Their Kin Historical and Genealogical”, dated 1960. [See below].
Based on Mr. Coleman's research, we made the following corrections:
Paul Froman, Sr, was not a Quaker, and he was not from New Jersey.
Joist Hite was married to Anna Maria Mercklin, daughter of Abraham Mercklin, not to Anna Maria DuBois.
Excerpts from
"TRACING THE HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF PAUL FROMAN Sr. AND ELIZABETH HITE"
pages 8-9
Hite Origins
Johannes (Hans) Heyd(t) and Magdalena, parents of Jost Hite; were married in the village near Jagstfeld on 7 Jun 1679. The church book reveled that Johannes (Hans) Heyd(t) and Magdalena had the following children:
1. Anna Dorothea – b: 15 Feb 1680 - Heinsheim
2. Anna Maria – b: 22 Jan 1782 - Heinsheim
3. Anna Catharina – b: 17 Oct 1683
4. Han Justus “our Jost Hite” – b: 5 Dec 1685, and baptized 6 Dec 1685.
5. Johann Jeremias – b: 17 Jan 1688
6. Anna Barbara - baptized 24 Jan 1689
7. Anna Rosina - baptized 1 Nov 1691
8. Anna Maria
9. Maria Dorothea
On 6 Apr 1695, Jost Hite's mother, Anna Magdalena, dies at the aged 42. On 6 Mar 1697, Jost Hite’s father marries Anna Maria, the widow of Caspar Schultze. They had the following children:
10. Anna Eva Catharina - baptized 19 Jun 1699
11. Anna Maria – b: 23 Oct 1701
12. Anna Barbara – b: 4 Jan 1705
13. John Martinus – b: 3 Aug 1707
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On 11 Nov 1704 at Bonfeld, Johan Justus Heyd (Jost Hite), linen weaver and son of Johannes Heyd, butcher and civil councilor - is married to Anna Maria Mercklin, daughter of Abraham Mercklin. Children born to them were:
1. Anna Maria – b: 22 Feb 1706 and d: 24 Feb 1706
2. Maria Barbara – b: 28 Jan 1707 and d: 1 Mar 1707
List of emigrants from the Bonfeld church book, dated 1709 list Justus Heyd (Jost
Hite) departing with his family.
The Palatine Subsistence Lists of Governor Robert Hunter 1710-1712 in New York, shows Johann Jost Hayd (Jost
Hite) as one of the names listed for 30 Jun 1710, 4 Aug 1710, and again on 4 Oct 1710. In addition to the civilian records,
church records of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston list the baptisms of two of their children, first Elizabeth - baptized 4 Nov 1711, to Johann Joost Hayt and wife Anna Maria; sponsored by Cornelius Eltinge and Rebekka
Eltinge; and Madalena, baptized 6 Sep 1713 to Johannes Joosten Haeyt and Anna Maria; sponsored by Jacob Capoesyen and Madalena Capoesyen.
Jost Hite was in the Hudson River Valley and remained around Kingston, New York, until 19 May 1714 when he purchased 150 acres of land in Skippack township from Johannes Kolb; Skippack was an outgrowth of the original
Germantown area near Philadelphia. By 1717 he had bought additional land and built a grist mill on Perkiomen Creek, just outside of what is now Schwenksville, Pennsylvania. Jost Hite sold the mill on 8 Jan 1730 to John
Pawling for £540, the transaction was witness by Paul Froman Sr (his son-in-law).
pages 10-11
Jost Hite negotiated the transfer of land rights of 30,000 acres from John VanMeter and 10,000 acres from his brother
Isaac VanMeter in the Shenandoah Valley on 5 Aug 1731, which the VanMeters had obtained orders for from
the Governor and Council of Virginia on 17 Jun 1730. With his partner Robert
McKay, Jost Hite went to Williamsburg and obtained the rights for another 100,000 acres on 31 Oct 1731, with the provision that they settle 100
families within two years. Jost Hite located himself on the Opequon Creek, about five miles south of Winchester, and gave his three sons-in-law, George Bowman, Paul Froman Sr, and Jacob Chrisman; choice homesteads near
his on Opequon Creek. Jost Hite was appointed one of the magistrates of Orange County in 1734 and by 12 Jun 1734 the council had recognized that he and his partners had provided proof of compliance with the conditions of
the VanMeter grants. Jost Hite was granted an extension until 25 Dec 1735 for the settlement of the rest of the 100,000 acres of land.
A dispute arose between Jost Hite and Lord Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax claimed that all of the land granted to Hite was
included in his grant. Fairfax entered a caveat (warning) against Jost Hite in 1736 which was followed by
a suit against Lord Fairfax by Jost Hite on 10 Oct 1749, which was not decided until 1786, long after the death of both Hite and Lord Fairfax. The
judgment was decided in favor of Hite - Lord Fairfax’s estate should make compensation to the Hite heirs.
Jost Hite’s wife Anna Maria Merkle died in 1739, two years later Jost Hite married Maria Magdalen the widow of Christian Neuschwanger. Prior to the wedding, a marriage contract was entered into on 10 Nov 1741, it contained
an inventory of her property and in the event of her death, half was to go to Jost Hite and half to her own heirs.
Children of Jost and Anna Maria Merkle
Born Death Marriage
Anna Maria b: 22 Feb 1706 24 Feb 1706 -
Maria Barbara b: 28 Jan 1707 1 Mar 1707 -
Mary b: 1708-1709 - George Bowman
Elizabeth bp: 4 Nov 1711 Dec 1794 Paul Froman, Sr
Magdalena bp: 13 Sep 1713 - Jacob Chrisman
John b: ~1714 1792 Sarah Eltinge
Jacob b: 1719 1776 Catherine O’Bannon
Isaac b: 12 May 1721 Sep 1795 Eleanor Eltinge
Joseph b: ~1727 1758 Elizabeth McKay
Abraham b: 10 May 1729 1790 Rebecca VanMeter
Paul Froman, Sr married Elizabeth Hite before their arrival in Virginia. The earliest document signed by Paul Froman Sr, is on 8 May 1730 as a witness to a deed for his father-in-law Jost Hite in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This
document suggests that Paul Froman, Sr was already married to Elizabeth Hite, putting his marriage to her between 1728 and 1729, when Elizabeth was 17 to 18 years old. Jost Hite and sons-in-law,
Paul Froman Sr, George Bowman and Jacob Chrisman, were part of the family movement to the Shenandoah Valley in the spring of 1732. When Paul Froman, Sr arrived in Virginia, he is granted land by Jost Hite; he selected for his homestead a large
tract of land on the north side of Cedar Creek, in what then was Orange County.
The county of Frederick, Virginia had not yet been organized in 1741, deeds and court orders were originally recorded in Orange County, Virginia. In 1743 Frederick County was established, and the next year the deeds and orders
were recorded in Frederick County. On 25 Apr 1758 Jost Hite made his will; in it he provided that his whole estate, both real and personal after payment of his debts and funeral charges, was to be divided into five equal parts and
one part to be given to each of his sons: John, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham. Named in this order, and the fifth part, to his deceased son Joseph’s children. No mention is made of his daughters. Jost Hite’s will was probated on 7 May
1761, Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 2, pp. 487-488.
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Notes on
Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and their Descendants
A History of Frederick County, Virginia
T.K. Cartmell
[See above: TRACING THE HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF PAUL FROMAN Sr. AND ELIZABETH
HITE.]
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King William III for thirteen years made grants to people who wanted to go to his colony in Virginia. Mary II continued the pattern. Queen Ann, starting in 1701, confirmed all previous grants
When the Crown gave grants for the coastal part of Virginia they were for large geographic areas (Major Grants). King Charles II in 1664 gave a grant to
Lord Colepeper for the "Northern Neck" of Virginia. Thomas Fairfax, the father of
Lord Fairfax, through marriage inherited this large tract with the rights to sell
or lease land and to collect taxes. Lord Fairfax made his first trip to America in 1736, stayed three years (near Mount Vernon), then returned to England. He returned to America in 1748 and opened an office twelve miles southeast of Winchester. He died 1782
When the Valley became available for settlement, the Governor and Council gave persons a large number of acres (not necessarily
contiguous) with the condition that a fixed number of families would be settled in a fixed time period. The Governor and Council could also give a grant to an individual for a specific tract
of land. (Minor Grants) A person could also "squat" on un-claimed public land by marking the boundaries. Lord Fairfax and other persons holding grants for large acreage treated
the settlers with these "tomahawk" claims as squatters, and tried to evict them or collect payment from them.
At the time, land boundaries were not well marked and some of grants may have overlapped. From 1730 to 1750, the Valley appears to be the "wild west" for real estate, with lots of "game playing". It appears that grant holders were selling tracts back and forth to each other. (Was this necessary to meet the
minimum number of settlers in different grants?)
* Peter Stephens (part of German contingent of the Hite party) received an "order" from Council for a tract. When he failed to implement the "order" it defaulted to
Joist Hite, who then sold it to Lewis Stephens, the son of Peter Stephens (1738). This tract became became Stephensburg.
* Jacob Stover received an "order" from Council on June 17, 1730. He received his
"grant" on Dec 15, 1733 by giving his farm animals human names and claiming them as settlers in order to satisfy the minimum requirements. Later,
Adam Miller (Mueller) and fifty other settlers at Massanitting complained that
Stover would not (could not?) issue proper deeds.
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Van Meter brothers: John and Isaac received "orders" from Council in June 17, 1730 and in May 1732, received
"grants" to survey 40,000 acres on both sides of Shenandoah River.
Isaac Van Meter was living in Old Salem, New Jersey
Requested 10,000 acre grant west of Blue Ridge for him and other German families (total ten families) within two years. Said he (and brother) had viewed the land.
Lying between the lands of Robt Carter and the fork of the Shenandoah and the Operkon River. (The Shenandoah River forks into north and south branches near present day Fort Royal, Virginia)
John Van Meter living on 200 acres granted by Lord Baltimore on Nov 3, 1726 (Monocacy Junction, near present day Frederick, Maryland)
John born 1683 in New York, relocated to New Jersey, then to Maryland 1726, and then Valley in 1730, died 1745. Eleven children.
Asked for grant of ten thousand acres within the fork of the Shenandoah. Condition, within two years, settle the Van Meter family plus twenty other families.
John in 1727 was in Germania in old Spotsylvania County. (T.K. Cartmell in this
book appears to confuse John Van Meter with his father (the Indian Trader.)
When Van Meters got their Virginia grant everyone assumed that Fairfax grant did not go west of the Blue Ridge Mountains
Lord Fairfax did not learn that his Northern Neck grant went beyond the Blue Ridge until 1736-1737.
Because of his travels with the Indians into the valley (prior to 1725), the father of the Van Meter brothers may have known that the head waters of the Potomac River were located west of the Blue Ridge. The brothers may have avoided litigation with Fairfax by assigning their "orders" to Joist Hite in order to have
Hite sell them their properties (on the south branch of Potomac River).
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Joist Hite
Immigrated from Germany. In 1710 was at Kingston, New York.
Relocated to New Jersey and was a fur trader. He knew the father of the Van Meter brothers (an Indian trader) in New Jersey.
In 1717, settled near Philadelphia, PA (Germantown). Was involved with land transactions (some with William Penn).
With support of Pennsylvania Governor Penn, got a grant from Virginia Governor and Council
for 100,000 acres west of Blue Ridge on land not previously
granted. In 1730, organized a group in Philadelphia to travel to the Valley and resettle. Under his grant he needed
forty families (late reduced to twenty).
Crossed Potomac River at Old Packhorse Ford (near where a village later settled. First called Mecklenburg, then renamed Shepherdstown)
His group stayed near the Potomac River while they explored the Valley to pick tracts of land to claim. (The process was that Hite held the grant; specific tracts for each settler would be surveyed; then Hite would give each settler his certificate; then Council would ratify; and then settler would get deed.)
Under his grant Hite needed needed twenty families, but only had sixteen families. Identities of the sixteen hard to determine, but these are thought to be part of the
original sixteen:
Joist Hite's immediate family. wife: Anna Maria
Sons: John, Jacob, Isaac, Abram, Joseph
Sons-in-law: Paul Froman (Elizabeth), George Bowman (Mary), and Jacob Chrisman (Magdelena)
William Hogue (on Opecquon Creek)
John White (on Hogue Creek)
Nathaniel Thomas (at the head of the Opecquon Creek)
Benjamin Borden ( located first near Shepherdstown; then received a grant in Augusta County)
David Vaunce (on Opecquon Creek)
Stephen Hansbella (Hotsinpeller)
Christian Nisewanger (Joist Hite married second in 1741to Maria Magdalena, relict and widow of Christian Nuschanger)
Lord Fairfax challenged that Joist Hite did not have the required twenty settlers.
Hite then in 1734 tried to satisfy the conditions of the Van Meter Grants.
Then, he returned to working on the Hite claim to protect the original sixteen
settlers.
Joist Hite in 1736 began making deeds to those who came with him in 1732, or followed soon afterward. Recorded at Williamsburg and the Orange County Courthouse.
Joist Hite changed his residence frequently.
First, Shepherdstown, then moving south on Opecquon Creek (near present day Winchester)
In 1753 son Col. John Hite built stone house
Son Isaac built large house (Long Meadow) near Shenandoah River
Moved back to Shepherdstown
Joist Hite settled on the grants he purchased 1731 from Van Meters, dated 1730 (forty families for 40,000 acres)
1731 Virginia Governor and Council gave Joist Hite and Robert McKay permission to have surveyed 100,000 acres west of Blue Ridge, condition 100 settlers within two
years (later extended to 1734)
1732 in the Valley on his own grant land (Joist; wife Anna Maria; four sons-John Jacob, Isaac, Abraham, Joseph- and three daughters and sons-in-law)
1734 Council accepted Hite claim of compliance with the Van Meter claim (54 families by Christmas 1735) and authorizes
proceeding with surveys and issuing patents.
1734 Orange County created out of Spotsylvania County. Hite appointed one of the Justices, but never qualified.
By 1736, Hite had more than enough settlers to satisfy terms of grants (his and the Van Meters). Most were in the Van Meter grant.
Hite and his sixteen families and others coming into valley at that time settled on the Opecquon (near Bartonsville and Kernstown)
The tracts were not bunched together; they were spread out to cover all the prime spots - junction of north and south branches of the Shenandoah
River (near Front Royal) westward toward the Little North Mountain, and along the Opecquon Creek towards its
mouth near Shepherdstown.
Orange County records, March 1736
Hite made forty-six conveyances for land located west of the Blue Ridge
some refer to his own grants (Jun 12 and Oct 3, 1734)
some refer to Van Meter purchase (June 17, 1730) (See Daniel
Holman)
Deeds to:
Stephen Hansonbella (Hotsinpeller?)
Christian Nisswanger (Nisewanger, Nuschanger?)
Thomas Wilson
John Van Meter
John Lilburn
Thomas Chester
Louis Stuffey
Robt Desarfe
These two deeds were dated and admitted into the record in Feb 1739:
Christian Blank for sixty acres on north side of north branch of Shenandoah River (part of John Van Meter grant (June 6, 1730) for 10,000 acres sold to Hite (Oct 1734).
Hendery Hunt
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Joist Hite children:
son: Col John Hite married in 1737 Sara Eltinge of Frederick Maryland, daughter of Cornelius Eltinge and
Rebecca Van Meter
settled on the Opecquon Creek (six miles south of Winchester)
died 1792
Children:
Anna Maria Hite born Dec 25, 1738
Rebecca married Chas Smith
Margaret married Isaac Brown
Elizabeth married first Major Hughes, second Reverend E Phelps
John born June 25, 1751 married first Susanna Smith, married second Cornelia Reagan
son: Jacob Hite
settlement first called Hite's town, then Leetown
visited Ireland to recruit settlers for Hite claims. Between 1737-1740 brought "Irish Immigrant Party"
married first Catherine O'Bannon and had three sons
married second Mrs. Frances Madison Beale (daughter of Ambrose Madison)
relocated to South Carolina and killed by the Indians
son: Isaac Hite
born May 12, 1721 (or 1728); died Sept 28, 1795
April 12, 1745 married Eleanor Eltinge (died Nov 10, 1792), sister of Sara, the wife of Col John Hite
home called "Long Meadows"
Isaac and Eleanor daughter, Sarah Clarke Hite married Mark Byrd, son of George Byrd and
Hannah Allen
Isaac and Eleanor daughter, ___ married Jonathan, the brother of Gen George Rogers
Clarke, and lived in Louisville, Kentucky
son: Abraham Hite
born May 10, 1729
married Dec 3, 1751 Rebecca Van Meter, daughter of Isaac Van Meter
Abraham Hite mentioned in Isaac Van Meter will (dated Feb 15, 1754, probated
1757)
lived in Hampshire County (then Hardy County) near Moorefield
relocated to Kentucky
died Jan 17, 1790
son: Joseph
born 1731
married Elizabeth
both died, left children.
George Bowman, a German
prior to 1731 married Mary Hite
located on a heavily timbered section on north branch of the Shenandoah River (near Strasburg)
thirteen children
some children moved into Augusta (now Rockingham) county
son: John George Bowman (1732-1749)
son: Capt John Jacob Bowman born Dec 2, 1733; killed in battle at Remson's Mill, June 20, 1780. Married Grizel Greenlee (widow Grizel Greenlee Bowman then married
Gen Charles McDowell)
daughter Emma Maria Bowman born 1735
daughter Elizabeth Bowman born 1737. Married Isaac Rudell (an officer under
Gen George Rogers Clarke)
daughter Johannes Bowman born 1738
daughter Sarah Bowman born 1741
daughter Regina Bowman born 1743
daughter Rebecca Bowman born 1745 Married George Briscoe
son George Bowman born 1747
son Abraham Bowman born Oct 16, 1742 (?) Colonel of the German regiment on American side in
Revolutionary War
son Major Joseph Bowman born 1752, died 1779 (second in command to Gen George Rogers
Clarke)
daughter Catherine Bowman born 1757, died 1826 (twin)
son Isaac Bowman born April 1757 (twin) captured and escaped from Indians. Married first Elizabeth Gatewood; married second Mary Chinn
Jacob Chrisman, a German
married Magdalene Hite (baptized 1713)
part of the Joist Hite emigrant train to the Valley (1730)
Spent year near Shepherdstown waiting for Joist Hite to get approval from Council to make surveys
settled at "Chrisman's Spring" on the grass lands prairie (purchased from George Bowman some land to timber for building purposes)
son Abraham Chrisman born Oct 15, 1733
daughter Sarah Chrisman born Sept 23, 1734
daughter Ann Marie Chrisman born Nov 9, 1735
son Isaac Chrisman born Nov 9, 1736
daughter Johannes Chrisman born Mar 9, 1739
son Jacob Chrisman
son George Chrisman
son Henry Chrisman married sister of Gen Charles McDowell
daughter Rebecca Chrisman
Paul Froman
married Elizabeth Hite (baptized Nov 4, 1711)
settled on north side of Cedar Creek in Valley
relocated to Pittsburgh
daughter Sarah Jane Froman born Nov 15, 1732; died about 1750 (first white child born in the valley)
son John Paul Froman born Oct 16, 1734
daughter Maria Christina Froman born March 1, 1736
daughter Elizabeth Froman born May 8, 1738 Married Nathaniel Cartmell
son Jacob Froman, with father relocated to Pittsburgh, then floated down the Ohio River on raft and landed in Kentucky
son John Paul Froman, Jr followed his brother, Jacob, to Kentucky (Later, father and family joined them) On same jury in Lexington, Ky with
Daniel Boone and John Bowman in 1784.
Mr. Coleman points out that most of the old errors on the Fromans come from either TK Cartmell’s book: “Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and their descendants; a history of Frederick County, Virginia from its Formation in 1738
to 1908” or the research conducted by Colonel Matthew Reasoner’s Manuscript dated 1930 and “The Reasoners and Their Kin Historical and Genealogical”, dated 1960. [See
above].
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Even though Joist Hite was the first settler in the Valley, he was not the first to receive an "order" from the Council.
process:
Order from Council based on petition filed.
Grant once proof that families had been seated and land surveyed.
Deeds to families seated, recorded in Spotsylvania County until 1735, then Orange
County until 1743, then Frederick County.
Other Players:
The Mecklenburg settlement (along the Potomac): Richard ap Morgan, a Welshman, did not receive his grant from Council. In 1734,
Morgan Morgan and Thomas Shepherd bought part of the Joist Hite original grant (not the Van Meter grants).
"King Carter" as agent for Lord Fairfax made many land
transactions east of the Blue Ridge.
"King Carter" (as agent for Lord Fairfax?) in 1729 got a grant for 50,000 acres west of the Shenandoah (southern part of Clarke County). However, he secured his land through Lord
Fairfax
William Russell and Larkin Chew
10,000 acres between Blue Ridge and Shenandoah river (near Front Royal), 1728
Jacob Stover
Council Order: June 17, 1730. Actual grants Dec 15, 1733 (claimed his farm animals were humans in order to satisfy minimum settler requirement)
5,000 both sides of south branch of Shenandoah river
5,000 south side of the north branch of Shenandoah river
one tract covered Stover's town (now Strasburg)
Adam Miller (Mueller) and 50 other settlers at Massanitting complained that Stover would not issue proper deeds
Alexander Ross. Oct 1730, 100,000 acres of un-granted or un-settled land (no conditions on minimums or time) for Quakers.
Slow to implement. April 13, 1744 deed recorded from Ross to Joseph Bryan for 214 acres north of Winchester
Some settlers on the north and south branches of the Shenandoah River 1734-1736
Benjamin Allen
Reily Moore
Wm White
John Branson
Levi Fawcett
Briscoe
Calvert
Crawford
Newman
Walker
Sibert
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Even though it is likely that Daniel Holman's March 26, 1736 patent for 319 acres on the north side of the north branch of the Shenandoah River was part of the John Van Meter grant (June 6, 1730) for 10,000 acres sold to Hite (Oct 1734), Mr. Cartmell in this book makes no mention of
Daniel Holman or Holman's Creek. This may be that at the time, Holman's Creek was thought to be in old Augusta County, not old Frederick County.
In this book, Mr. Cartmell does have a brief discussion of old Augusta County.
Early settlers, starting near present day Fort Royal, could have followed either the south branch or the north branch of the Shenandoah River to get to old Augusta County.
Going south on the south branch of Shenandoah river were English, Scotch and Irish settlers (near Bentonville).
The Luray Valley (near Elkton) located along the south branch of Shenandoah river, between Blue Ridge and Massanutting mountains, was predominated by Germans.
Adam Miller and other Germans located here. (Did they relocate from the Germania settlement in Virginia?)
John Lewis
settled on a grant in the Western part of Orange County prior to 1735 (near Port Republic) [Was this part of the Beverly Grant?]
sons:
Samuel
William
Charles B
Beverly Grant issued 1736 to William Beverly of Essex Co; Sir John Randolph of Williamsburg; Knight Richard Randolph of Henrico
County; John Robinson of King and Queen County for 118,491 acres in Orange beyond the mountains.
(Augusta County line south to the head springs of the Shenandoah River)
Benjamin Borden
1734 grant for several thousand acres on the James River in Orange (Augusta) county
1744 his widow, Zeuriah, living in New Jersey
sons: Benjamin, John, Joseph
Selected names from a long list of names of settlers living south of the Fairfax line prior to 1745:
John Lewis
William Cathey
Samuel Givens
George Hutchinson
Thomas Black
John and Samuel Davison
James McClure
Andrew and Fra McClure
John Moffett
Robert King
Sarah Ramsey
Wm Johnston
Moses Thompson
Wm Vance
Joseph Reid
Robert Crockett
Frederick Beatty
Wm. Thompson
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