Person:Robert Buchanan (31)

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Vol. 1 - AUGUST, 1750 (C). - Samuel Smith vs. Beaty.--Mr. Michael Woods, formerly of Paxtunk, Pennsylvania. Account dated 1733. Thomas Renich, on 1st September, 1750, deposed: About 8 years ago, at his own house, he saw and spoke with said Smith and Robert Buchanan, the then Sheriff of Lancaster County. He heard Smith (then merchant at Connoy) say, &c., several accounts: Smith vs. James Cathey, 1737; Smith vs. Adam Thomson, 1736-7-8; Smith vs. William Robinson, 1739; Smith vs. Richard Woods, 1738; Smith vs. Mrs. Margaret McDowell, 1737; Smith vs. Mrs. Mary McDowell, 1737; Smith vs. Michael Woods, 1738-9; Smith vs. John Maxwell; Smith vs. Samuel Woods, 1734-5-8; Smith vs. Francis Beaty, 1735-6; Smith vs. John Christian, 1737; Smith vs. Robert Christian, 1733-4-5-6 Smith vs. Randell McDaniel; Smith vs. William Hutchinson; Smith vs. George Hutchinson. All sworn to by Samuel Smith, late of County of Lancaster, before a Justice, in Philadelphia, 13th October, 1743.

• Vol. 1 - AUGUST, 1750. - 1737.--James Cathey to Samuel Smith, debtor: September 22. 1736.-- October 23, Mr. Adam Thompson, debtor to same, January 18. William Robinson's account, debtor to Samuel Smith, 1739--April 4, one almanac. Richard Wood's ditto, ditto, 1738. Mrs. Margaret McDowell, ditto, 1737-- June 14. Mrs. Mary McDowell, ditto, 1737--January 17, three yards ribbon to sister. Mr. Michael Woods, ditto, 1738--October 7, one dozen catechisms. 1739--Credit by six foxes, seven raccoons, and one beaver. John Maxwell, ditto. Samuel Woods, ditto. 1734--11 1/4 yards masquerade, 31/; 7 1/2 yards sagathee, 32/6. 1735--June 26, credit by 36/ discounted with his son, Richard, by Michael Woods. Michael Woods, formerly of Pextunk, ditto, 1733--February 12; 1734--March 28. Francis Beaty, ditto, 1735--October 16, To 2/4 1/2 in goods more than J. Catherwood's order; 1738--May 1, Credit by William Smiley. John Christian, ditto, 1737--February 22, To James Cook for a gunlock. Robert Christian, ditto, 1733-1734-1735-1736-- Account; 1733--Credit by order on Treasury for two wolfs' heads; 1734-- August 17, By making a coat and britches, 13/; 1736--Credit, October 13, by cash of John; by James Boyle; 1748-9--February 17, Then Robert Christian paid me £1.13.4 Virginia money in part of above debt. (Signed) William Anderson. Samuel Doak, ditto, balance of account given in. Randall McDaniel, ditto. William Hutchinson, ditto. George Hutchinson, ditto. Robert Cunningham, ditto. Alexander Crawford's note, ditto. Above accounts sworn to, 13th October, 1743, in Philadelphia County, Pa., by Samuel Smith, late of Lancaster County. Thomas Renick deposes: On 1st September, 1750, in Staunton, in cause Smith vs. Beatey, that about eight years ago, at his own house, he saw Smith, the plaintiff, and Robert Buchanan, the then sheriff of Lancaster County, and Smith acknowledged having attached and sold Beatey's effects and received satisfaction.

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

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2.   Bell, Raymond Martin. Mother Cumberland : tracing your ancestors in south-central Pennsylvania. (Alexandria, Virginia: Hearthside Press, c1989)
   pg. 32.

   To document the record of Arthur Buchanan and his wife, Dorcas, who were the first settlers of Lewistown, Pa., about 1754. Arthur died at Carlisle, Pa., in September 1760.
   From the Pennsylvania Archives I, I, 504, we learn that Arthur was born in 1711, that his father lived in Ireland, and that his older brother, Robert Buchanan, was Sheriff in Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1735. The marriage records of Gloucester County, New Jersey, lists Arthur's marriage July 22, 1738 to Dorcas Holt. He was then a merchant of Lancaster, Pa. In 1741 he sold furs to Edward Shippen (Shippen Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia).
   The Cumberland Co., Pa., tax lists show Arthur Buchanan in Middleton Township in 1751 and in Carlisle in 1753. In the later year, the Quarter Sessions Court of Cumberland Co. accused him of running a public horse without a license.
   The traditional date of 1754 for settlement of the county is confirmed by an application for land by Arthur Forster in February of 1755. He said the land adjoined that of Buchanan.

3.   Horstra, Warren R. Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration Experience, 1680–1830
   pg. 92.

   John Smith's wife was Mary Buchanan, daughter of Robert Buchanan of Donegal Township, who succeeded Samuel Smith as Sheriff of Lancaster County. Buchananm like Smith, was from County Tyrone. After his second term as sheriff ended in 1742, Robert Buchanan stood for the assembly in a bitter election; his Quaker opponent "trumpeted about the county that Robert Buchanan had two hundred acres of land given to him by the proprietaries and that he and Samuel Smith had taken bribes to give up the liberties of the people. He left Donegal Township for the Marsh Creek Settlement (near present Gettysburg) and died there in 1748. William Buchanan was his son.