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Facts and Events
James Graham was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Records in Virginia
- 1782 James Graham and his wife Sarah lived on the 328A at Marley's Creek. [Source: Franklin County VA Deed Book 1:378 and 7:309].
- 1782 (Sep 2) It was ordered that the church wardens bind out the orphans of Sarah Graham, naming Jasper, Pricilla, Robert, Molley, John, Debe, Jonathan, Sally and Betty Graham. [Source: Bedford County VA order Book 7:3].
- 1787 (Nov 27) Sarah Cox and John Furrow applied for a marriage bond, with James Slone as security. [Source: Franklin County VA Marriage Bonds 1786-1850:1483]. (Note: James Graham's widow Sarah re-married John Furrow)
- In Franklin County, VA - Deed Book 1, p 441: John Furrow to his stepchildren - To all people to whom these presents come. I John Furrow of Franklin County and State of Virginia, do send greeting. Know ye that the said John Furrow, for and in consideration of the love, goodwill and affection which I have and do have toward my wife Sarah's former children, namely, Jesse, Pricilla, Robert, Molly, Sally, Elizabeth, William, Deborah, John and Jonathan Cocks (Cox), of the above-said state, have given and granted and by these presents do freely give and grant unto the said (above named) One Hundred and Twenty-eight acres... it being part of a tract patented to Jacob Graham for 328 acres, and the place whereon James Graham formerly lived, and where the above-named Robert Cocks now lives. (The older children were to have use of the land until the youngest came of age, when it was to be equally divided). Deed dated 4/22/1788. Signed in own handwriting: John Furrow.
- [Source: http://www.family-genealogy-online.com/Jewell/graham-family.htm].
- 1809 (Apr 1) Several of the children of James Graham (Adam Furrow and his wife Mary, Charles Furrow and his wife Deborah, William Crimes alias Cox, Jonathan Grimes alias Cox, Robert Grimes alias Cox, and David Howard and his wife Sarah: all were residents of Montgomery County VA) sold their interests in the 128A on both sides Marley's Creek to John Grimes alias Cox.
- [Source: http://www.geocities.ws/sabrinakaye_99/coxevidence.html].
Notes
- The discovery of new evidence strongly suggest that Jester Cox was the father of Sarah Graham Furrow, "so his story is presented here to promote further research. Jester Cox was an early settler in what is now Franklin Co VA. In 1748 he was on the tax list of John Phelps for Lunenburg Co VA, the part that became Bedford County in 1752. On 11 Mar 1755 he had a survey made of 148A on White Oak Bottom Creek, a fork of Maggotty Creek in Bedford Co VA, and the same day had a survey made of 328A on both sides of Marley's Creek, a south fork of Maggotty Creek. That land was near the Carolina Road which ran through Maggoty Gap to North Carolina, and today is approximately Rte 220: this was the old Great Warrior Path of the Iroquois. On 24 Nov 1776 his line was mentioned in a survey made for James Slone of 677A at Maggotty Creek in Bedford Co VA. In 1778 his line was mentioned in a survey made in Bedford Co VA for William Mead: nearby landowners were Grimes, Simmons, Charter, Richardson, Allison, Taylor, Holland, Meador and Holloway. 1782-1788 his daughter Sarah and her children used the surname Cox in the court case with Grahams and Arthurs in Bedford Co VA. When his daughter Sarah Cox remarried 27 Nov 1787 in Bedford Co VA, Sarah Farley was identified as her mother, and surety was the neighbor James Slone."
- [Source: http://www.geocities.ws/sabrinakaye_99/graham.html].
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