Person:John Montgomery (66)

Rev. John Montgomery was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Records

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

From Chalkley's Augusta County, VA Court Judgements:

• File No. 926.--Montgomery vs. Montgomery. John Montgomery, Jr., and William H. Montgomery complain that on __ February, 1818, their father, John Montgomery, Sr., died, leaving Widow Agnes and children, viz: Thomas, Hetty, Isabella, Hughart, Rebecca E. Montgomery, and orators. Isabella, Hughart and Rebecca are infants. John died intestate, excluding those of his children who had received anything from their grandfather, Thomas Hughart. Bill for division.

Notes

Rev. John Montgomery (ca. 1753-1818) He was born in the bounds of the New Providence congregation in Rockbridge County, Virginia, son of John Montgomery and Esther Houston. He graduated at Princeton in 1775, was a tutor and student at Liberty Hall Academy under Rev. William Graham and was licensed by Hanover Presbytery, October 28, 1778, with Benjamin Erwin. He was ordained April 27, 1780 and in October, 1781, given calls to Bethel Church, Washington Co., Virginia, concord and Providence in Campbell and Louisa counties, Reed Creek in Montgomery Co., and to the united congregations of Opequon, Cedar Creek and Winchester. He accepted the last and served there until May 24, 1789, when he informed Lexington Presbytery he had removed to Wahab and Rocky Spring Churches on Calf Pasture River. He owned land there and there he remained to his death on February 10, 1818. His wife was Agnes Hughart.

John Houston, father of Esther, and John Montgomery, her husband were the prime movers in the organization of the New Providence Church; Esther H. Montgomery, sister of Rev. John, married Rev. Samuel Doak , pioneer Presbyterian minister and founder of Churches and colleges in Tennessee.

Source: http://sdss4.physics.lsa.umich.edu:8080/~mckay/amckay/presbiom.htm#Rev.%20Andrew%20McClure

1. ↑ John and Esther Houston Montgomery, 1719-1973, compiled by Beulah Henry Anderson, et al., pub. 1974, by Brazos Printing Co., Maryville, Tennessee
   p. 30.
2. ↑ Ernest Elder Crownover, Author and Compiler. Matt and Daisy Dell Kuykendall Crownover, Their ancestry and Posterity. (National Press, Santa Rosa, California, 1986)
   pg. 82.
3. ↑ John and Esther Houston Montgomery, 1719-1973, compiled by Beulah Henry Anderson, et al., pub. 1974, by Brazos Printing Co., Maryville, Tennessee
   p. 47.
4. ↑ Ernest Elder Crownover, Author and Compiler. Matt and Daisy Dell Kuykendall Crownover, Their ancestry and Posterity. (National Press, Santa Rosa, California, 1986)
   pg. 82.

   date of death given as 2/10/1819.

5.   Augusta County, Virginia. Staunton Spectator
   Vol. 50, Number 24, 18 March 1873.

   Rev. John Montgomery, of Frederick County, Va., married the daughter (and only child) of Col. Thomas Hughart, near Rocky Spring. He was a wealthy farmer of that day.
   
   Mr. Montgomery came to Rocky Spring in 1791 and preached there until 1816, when feeble health caused him to quit preaching. He died in 1818.