Person:Edward Thompson (34)

Edward Thompson was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA

Acquisition of Land in Virginia:

• Page 119.--16th November, 1761. James Knox to Edward Thompson, £31.10, 93 acres on Cowpasture opposite land in possession of John Moore.

• Page 220 - Edward Thompson, 217 acres, Cowpasture River. Adjoining William Thompson. April 27, 1773. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 79].

Disposition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 168.--15th February, 1763. Thomas ( ) Thompson to Joseph McClung, £30, 93 acres on Cowpasture river, opposite land of John Moore. [Note: the relationship between Edward Thompson, who purchased this 93-acre tract in 1761 and Thomas Thompson, who apparently sold the same tract needs to be explored].

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Page 123.--11th February, 1763. Robert ( ) Fletcher and Christian ( ) to James Stevenson, £50, 200 acres on Little Calf pasture, part of 460 acres conveyed by Beverley to John Hindman, 9th-10th April, 1745, and recorded in General Court, which descended to Robert and Christian as nephew and heir-at-law of Hindman; cor. James Stevenson. Teste: James Lockridge, Samuel Crockett, Edward Thompson. Delivered: Mr. Stevenson, 31st August, 1787.

• Page 133.--18th August, 1773. Settlement recorded of Thomas Thompson's estate, Edward Thompson, administrator--To paid John Montgomery, William Dougherty, Michael Riney, 15 gallons liquor for the vendue; Mary Moore.

• 1780 - Edward Thompson — Cowpasture to Leonard Bell's. [Source: "Annals of Bath County", Oren Frederick Morton].

1.   Morton, Oren Frederic. Annals of Bath County, Virginia. (Staunton, Va.: McClure Co., 1917, c1918)
   pg. 30.

   Knox, James - 93 - CP [Cowpasture] adj. John Moore - P, 1760 - sold, 1761, to Edward Thompson for 31½p, and by him, 1763, to Joseph McCluing for 30p.