Person:Job Gastineau (2)

Nothing is known about Job's movements or activities between his early years on the Chesapeake and his middle age in Washington County. Did he make the move to the Valley of Virginia all at once, or did he move his family across the state incrementally, over a period of years? No surviving records have been found for him anywhere else in Virginia or Maryland (though a great many were lost in the Civil War).

Pulaski County Tax Lists (all on Flat Lick Creek):^[9]

22 Mar 1808 - Gaskins, Job, Sr.: 200 A. & 50 A.; 1 white male 21+; 3 horses.

17 Jul 1808 - Gaskin, Jobe, Sr.: 200 A.; 1 white male 21+; 3 horses.

          Gaskin, Jobe, Jr.: [no land]; 1 white male 21+; 2 horses.

Jun 1810 - Gastineau, Job, Sr.: 250 A.; 1 white male 21+; 4 horses.

          Gastineau, Job, Jr.: [no land]; 1 white male 21+; 2 horses

1811 - Gastineau, Job, Sr.: 250 A.; 1 white male 21+; 4 horses.

          Gastineau, Job, Jr.: 1 white male 21+; 3 horses.

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Was George Gastineau (b. c.1774) a son of Job, Sr. & perhaps his first wife, Elizabeth? The dates fit, more or less, but no evidence has been found one way or the other. The only certainty, really, is that two men surnamed "Gastineau" in rural eastern Kentucky at the beginning of the 19th century MUST have been closely related. George Lewis Gastineau is not known to have had any other sons than Job, Sr., so the younger George apparently was not a nephew of George Lewis. The only other Gastineau known to have been in the colonies at an early date is George Lewis's older brother, Mathurin (Jr.). The names of Mathurin's wife and children (if any) are not known -- but Mathurin was sixteen years older than George Lewis and so, presumably, was his wife. But Mathurin could have been the grandfather of George (b. c.1774). --Mike^Talk 08:41, 22 December 2010 (EST)

1. ↑ Tibbals, Alma Owens. A history of Pulaski County, Kentucky. (Bagdad, Kentucky: G.O. Moore, 1952)
   p. 40.

   "Job Gastineau, Sr., was of the Huguenot family that came with emigrants brought over from England and France by the Ohio Land Company of Virginia under George Mercer and George Washington. These people made settlements on a large tract of land granted them by the King of England prior to 1776."
   
   NOTE: This is manifestly incorrect and is taken mostly from unsourced family tradition. The family was already present in Maryland & Virginia before George Washington was born.

2.   Daughters of the American Revolution. DAR patriot index. (Washington, District of Columbia: N.S.D.A.R., c1994)
   p. 261.

   GASTINEAU, Job: b. 1760, d. 1856. m. Elizabeth Mercer Brown. Pvt., VA
   
   NOTE: The Revolutionary service record is for Job GASKINS, who enlisted at Middle Brook, Princess Anne County, Virginia, on 2 Jan 1777 for 3 years (but served only until the end of Dec 1779). There is no indication, contemporary or otherwise, that "Gaskins" can be accepted as the equivalent of "Gastineau," and no indication that Job Gastineau was ever anywhere near Princess Anne County.

3. ↑ Pulaski County Historical Society. Pulaski County, Kentucky, Cemetery Records. (Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States|Somerset, Kentucky: Pulaski County Historical Society, 1976).

   There is no surviving marker for Job Gastineau, and no source given for these dates, which probably come from local tradition. The cemetery is on the old family farm and has not been used or maintained in a very long time. It is extremely unlikely that he lived to be more than 100 years old, and probably he has been confused with his son, also named "Job."

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Budd, Janice. Ancestors of George (Sr.) Gastineau. (np: The Author, nd).
5. ↑ Pulaski, Kentucky, United States. Tax Lists.

   Job appears in all the tax lists up to and including 1811 -- but in no list after that. There is no evidence whatever that he lived to be older than ~65 years old.

6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 Summers, Lewis Preston. History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870. (Richmond, Va: J.L. Hill Print. Co, 1903).

   17 Feb 1790: Survey for Joab Gastineau, 316 acres, south side of Middle Fork, Holston River. (p. 1219)
   
   19 Oct 1799: Job Gastineau, received 279 A. on Neil Branch, Middle Fork, Holston River, Washington County. Witnessed by his brother, George Gastineau. Originally granted (5 Jun 1774) to John Hopton, later sold to James Anderson, then inherited by his son, William Anderson. (p. 812)

7. ↑ Washington, Virginia, United States. Deeds
   Book 3, p. 120, 1803.

   From Job and Elizabeth Gaskenew to James Grimes, 175 A.

8. ↑ Washington, Virginia, United States. Deeds
   Book 4, p. 64, 1807.

   Job and Elizabeth Gastinian to William Stalcup, 125 A.

9. ↑ Pulaski, Kentucky, United States. Tax Lists.