Person:Andrew Lammie (1)

Andrew Lamie was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Land Records

Andrew Lamie acquired land (as the "heir-in-law") from the estate of Samuel Lammie on Cove Creek in Washington County, Virginia after Samuel was taken and killed by Indians in 1774. Samuel Lammie was apparently the brother of this Andrew.

Andrew's son John Lamie made the following depostion in Transcript:Lamie Vs Tate, Augusta County, VA High Court, 1805', regarding the timing of his father's acquisition of the other Andrew Lammie's land on Cove Creek:

John Lammie deposed on 23 June 1809 that, in 1770 Samuel Lammie settled on Cove Creek and lived there until 1774, when he was taken by Indians. Andrew took possession and cultivated it 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779. He employed Hugh Hays to cut house logs and in 1780 he hired Edward Jones and deponent to cut briers. He also deposed that "Samuel Lammie was never married. Deponent was born 1st October, 9 a. m., 1763." Andrew deposed that the house was raised [in 1780] and on 25th December, 1780, he moved his family into the house.

Also from "Lamie Vs Tate":

After the Revolution Andrew moved to the place his brother had claimed and settled on it. [Note: record establishes that Andrew and Samuel were likely brothers]

Source

Transcript:Lamie Vs Tate, Augusta County, VA High Court, 1805

Overview

According to 1805 testimony of Andrew Lammie, "In 1770 or 1771 James Anderson made a settlement on [Loust] Cove (Cone) Creek branch of North Fork of Holstein, now in Washington County. Soon afterwards Samuel Lammie or Lamie settled and improved near him and then bought out Anderson. He continued to live there until 1774, when he was killed by Indians, when orator, heir-at-law of Samuel, took possession and has lived there ever since."

Alexander Campbell testified that "In 1770 Andrew and Samuel Lemmie settled 3 or 4 miles higher up Cove Creek." It is not clear where "higher up" was measured, but it may refer to the mouth of Locust Creek.

Other testimony in the same source indicates that Andrew Lammie had a son John, and a son a son James.

On the 16th June,1809, Robert Fowler deposed that his brother's claim lay between Lamie's settlement and mouth of Cove Creek.

John Lammie deposed on 23 June 1809 that, in 1770 Samuel Lammie settled on Cove Creek and lived there until 1774, when he was taken by Indians. Andrew took possession and cultivated it 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779. He employed Hugh Hays to cut house logs and in 1780 he hired Edward Jones and deponent to cut briers. He also deposed that "Samuel Lammie was never married. Deponent was born 1st October, 9 a. m., 1763." Andrew deposed that the house was raised [in 1780] and on 25th December, 1780, he moved his family into the house.

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Vol. 2 - Andrew Lamy vs. Ward--O. S. 179; N. S. 63--Bill 31st July, 1806. Orator previous to 1st January, 1778, made a settlement on a tract in then Fincastle County, now Tazewell, and in 1780 obtained a certificate from the Commissioner. In 1788 John Bowen made an entry in Russell County

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   Andrew Lamie
   was born about 1731 and according to family tradition came from Scotland to America as a British soldier and married in Philadelphia about 1761. (Family tradition is in substantial agreement on this history, much of it based on the statement of Mary Buchanan Shell; tombstone records, Lamie Cemetery, Smyth County, Virginia)
   In 1770 Andrew and his bachelor brother Samuel settled a 300 acre farm on Cove Creek, a branch of the North Fork of the Holston River in Botetourt County (now Smythe County) Virginia. Soon after 1771, Samuel moved about three miles down Cove Creek to land previously cleared by by James Anderson. On September 8, 1774, Samuel was captured by Indians and probably taken to Canada or killed. Andrew and his family fled to Royal Oak Fort- now Marion, Virginia for protection.
   Andrew Lamie died April 3, 1819. He had 6 children; two boys and four girls
   
   http://www.tombuchanan.net/gene/pages/c2-6.html

2.   Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   Andrew came to America as a British soldier. He helped settle a farm in Smyth Co. Virginia in 1770. He got title to land from the Loyal Land Company. He build the house a few weeks before the battle of King's Mountain in 1780 and moved into it on December 25. Andrew served in the Dunmore's War with the Indians and was station in Tazewell County, Virginia, from August 16 to September 4, 1774.
   
   http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/14210000/person/87119060