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Robert Denton, of Hampshire County, [W]VA
b.1714
Facts and Events
Robert Denton was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA
Acquisition of Land from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants:
- G-528: Robert Denton of Augusta Co., 386 acres on Lost River of Cackopeon in said Co. Surv. Mr. G. Washington. 3 June 1751. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 49].
- M-57: Robert Denton of Hampshire Co., 323 acres on Thorn Bottom Branch of Lost River of Great Cacapehon in said Co. Surv. Mr. John Mauzy. 28 Sept. 1762. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 145].
Will of Robert Denton
- Robert Denton's Will
- Be it remembered that on the sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven 1777, I Robert Denton of Hampshire County in the colony of Virginia yeoman being very sick and weak of Body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of god that gave it and for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian like decent manner at the discretion of Executors and for any such worldly estate where with it hath pleased God to Bless me with in this life I give and devise and depose of the same in the following manner and form.
- IMPRIMIS it is my will and I do order that in the first place all my last debts and funeral charges be paid and satisfied
- Item I give and bequeath unto Jane Denton my dearly beloved wife the use and benifit of the Plantation which I now lives on during her natural life as she continues my widow and after her death or marage to go to my son-in-law Joel Robinson unto him his Heirs and assigns forever. The said Joel Robinson to pay unto my son Jacob Denton oldest son Robert Denton the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds good and lawfull money of Virginia to be paid at my beloved wife's decease if the said Robert should become of age of twenty one years-but not to be paid till he comes to that age. Item I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved wife one full third part of my moveable estate to her own proper use for ever.
- Item I give and bequeath unto my oldest son Jacob Denton a certain track of land containing eighty acres that lies joining his own plantation to him his heirs and asigns for ever.
- Item I give and bequeath unto my second son John Denton one negro boy two year old next May the boys name is Gilburd to him his heirs and assigns for ever.
- Item I give and bequeath unto my third son Thomas Denton the sum of five shilings as an acknowledgement.
- Item I give and bequeath unto my son-in-law John Crow the sum of five shilings as an acknowledgement.
- Item I give and bequeath unto my son-in-law David Williams the sum of five shilings as acknowledgement.
- Item I give and bequeath unto my son Jacob Denton and John Denton and my son-in-law Joel Robinson all the remaining part of my moveable estate to be equally divided amongst them three and their heirs but to be continued on the place and not divided till after my beloved wife's decease.
- Item I do hereby constitute make and ordain my liveing sons Jacob Dentain and Joel Robinson my only and sole executors of this my last will and testament and I do hereby verily disallow revoke and disanull all and every other former testament wills legacies and executors by me in any Ways before this named willed and bequeath ratifying and confirming this and other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written.
- (Signed) (his mark) Robert 'RD' Denton
- Signed Sealed Published Pronounced and Declared by the said Robert Denton as his last will and testament in the presents of us the subscribers
- Stephen Ruddell
- John McNeer
- George Claypool
- by Jacob Denton and Joel Robinson the executors therein named Proved by the oaths of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of the said Executors who made oath according to Law. Certificate is granted them for obtaining a probate thereof in due form giving security. Whereupon they together with Stephen Ruddell and John McNeer. Their securities entered into and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of two thousand pounds for their due and faithful administration of the said decendents estate and performances of his will.
- Test: Gabriel Jones (Clerk)
Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley's: [unless otherwise listed]
- Vol. 1 - MAY 24, 1750. - (373) Joseph How directed to set up sign posts and keep it up with these: John Elswick, Andrew Viney, John Dunbarr, William McBride, Francis McBride, Robert Denton, James Thomas, James Scot, James Hamilton, William Miller and Valentine Sevier.
- Augusta County Road Orders 1745-1769: 24 May 1750 O.S., p.373 - On the Petition of Sundry the Inhabitants for a Road from the County line to John Staley Mill It is ordered that Joseph How, Set up posts of directions and with the titheables persons within one Mile of the sd Road and John Elswick, Andrew Viney, John Dunbarr, William Mcbride, Francis Mcbride, Robert Denton, James Thomas, James Scot, James Hamiltons, William Miller and Valentine Sevier, the Subscribers he Clear & keep the Same in repar According to Law.
- Page 130.--5th December, 1754. Appraisement of Richard Tictom, in the Gap of the North Mountain upon Sorondo, sold by Daniel Love, 5th December, 1754 To James Bagge, Jacob Richards, Nicholas Mase, Uriah Humble, Ephraim Love (part of a tramble), Daniel Love, Wm. Pickins, John Davis, Howel Jones, Jacob Bear. Robert Denton, John O'Neal, John Miller, Edward Megary, Mathew Waters, James Bryant, Jacob Sword, Robert Williams, William Carrill, Thomas Wast, Zephli Joseph, Mathew Waters. Joseph Zrepbli, Andrew Seduskay, Charles Witman, Abraham Bird, Nicholas Custert. Arnold Custard, Jacob Richards, James Claypole.
- Page 270.--18th August, 1758. Wm. McBride's appraisement, by John Dunbar, Robert Denton, James Thomas.
References
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Robert Denton
1714-1778
Robert DENTON was born in 1714. Died in 1778 in Hampshire CO, VA (Now Hardy CO, WV). Robert owned land by 1751 in present-day Hardy CO, WV on both the Lost River and Cacapon River west of Strasburg, VA. Following the last Indian uprising in 1766, Robert was involved in the purchase of more land in the Great North Mountain Range in what is now West Virginia. Robert stayed in this area though his brother James and others found Tennessee alluring, as well as Kentucky. He amassed some 1,600 acres of land in the area. He must have become ill in the late 1760s for he began to sell off the Lost River parcels, mostly to his family. In 1768 he sold 323 acres to his daughter Margaret and her husband, Joel Robinson. At his Lost River Plantation he began to see the great migration into the countryside begin. Surveyors were in Kentucky laying out the best lands for those who participated in the long conflict with the French and the Indians.
The English crown still forbade movement across the Alleghanies, but their Virginia governor, John Murray, Lord of Dunmore, instituted an expansionist attitude after he took office in 1771. The land-greedy pioneers were impatient with the "rights" ascribed to the Indian tribes.
Robert died in the early part of 1778.
He married Jane MOON on 13 Feb 1738 in Burlington CO, NJ. Jane MOON was born in 1714. Died in 1787 in Hampshire CO, VA. "License of Marriage on the thirteenth Day of February A.D. 1738 was granted by his Excellency Lewis Morris Esq. Gov. unto Robert Denton of Evesham in the County of Burlington, Yeoman, of one party and Jane Moon of the same Township, Spinster of other party. Arch Home, Secry"
They had the following children:
Margaret DENTON
Jacob DENTON
John DENTON Sr.
Sarah DENTON
Thomas DENTON
Elizabeth DENTON
Mary DENTON
http://www.dentongenealogy.org/robert.htm
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