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Facts and Events
Acquisition of Land in Orange County, VA
- Pages 173-75. 20-21 July 1740. Jost Hite of Orange County to Charles McDowl of same. Lease and release for £18 current money. 600 acres granted 3 Oct. 1734 to Jost Hite... just below the head spring of the Long Meadow which runs into Sedar Creek... (signed) Jost Hite. 24 July 1740. Acknowledged by Jost Hite. [Orange County Virginia Deed Book 4, Dorman, pg. 45].
Record of Will in Frederick County, North Carolina
Will proved 4 June 1754 in Frederick County, North Carolina. witnesses-- Evan Morgan and John Davis. Land grant issued 4 April 1751 and is located in Cherokee County, South Carolina.
Information on Charles McDowell
From "Pioneers of Old Frederick Country, Virginia" by Cecil O'Dell, pg. 318:
- McDOWELL
- Charles McDowell (b. c1690) purchased 600 acres from Jost Hite (part of Hite's 3,395-acre patent land) for £18 on 20 July 1740. This tract is located on the west side of Meadow Brook, a branch of Cedar Creek.
- Charles and his wife Rachel sold 290 acres of the 600-acre tract to their son John McDowell for £20 on 2 May 1745. Charles and Rachel sold the remaining section (still refered to as 600 acres) of the 600-acre tract to Casper Measner for £100. Son John McDowell sold the 290-acre section to John Hite for £100 on 3 October 1749.
- Shortly after the 1749 transaction, Charles, Rachel and John McDowell moved to South Carolina. Charles received a grant for 200 acres on Broad River in Anson County, North Carolina (Fairfield County, South Carolina) on 4 April 1751. In his will, dated 24 January 1754 and proved in Frederick County Court, Virginia on 4 June 1754, he bequeathed the 200-acre tract to his daughter Rachel Eagon/Aigon of Augusta County. He was recorded as being of Anson County, North Carolina at the time of probate. Charles appointed his wife Rachel and George Cather/Cathey to serve as executors. He bequeathed £10 Virginia money to his son John and to his (Charles') brother Joseph McDowell of Frederick County, Virginia "one brown cloath coat and one beaver hat, and one pare of show bootes. He listed four daughters: Anne Evans, Elizabeth Barnes, Mary McPeters and Hannah Calloe.
- Rachel Eagon, wife of Barnaby Eagon, sold the 200-acre tract through their attorney John McDowell after 1762. Barnaby and Rachel lived on the South River Shenandoah where her will (dated 18 November 1780) was proved on 30 November 1780. (addition information on this family in this publication)
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