Person:Robert Farris (3)

Record of Robert Farris in Washington County, VA

• Page 37 - Robert Stevenson...272 ac...Commissioners Certificate...on the south fork of Holstein River...Beginning corner on John McCathrons line...corner with Gideon Farris...corner to Robert Farris land...May 15, 1782 - Robert Stevenson, assignee of William Hayes, assignee of Dawson Ware...400 ac... on the south fork of Holstein River, includes improvements, actual settlement made in 1774...August 17, 1781

• Page 41 - Robert Faris...153 ac...Commissioners Certificate...on the south fork of Holston River...Beginning on Robert Stevensons land...corner to Gideon Farris...may 28, 1782 - Robert Faris, assignee of Thomas Hammond, assignee of William Poy (Boy?), assignee of Andrew Meek...400 ac...on the south fork of Holstein, includes improvements, actual settlement made in 1772...August 29, 1781.

Information on Robert Farris

Husband:Robert FARIS

Birth:1745/1750 Death:28 Nov 1784Place:Union Co., SC Father:John FARIS (1720-) Mother:Unknown Other spouses:Hannah

Marriage:About 1770/1771

Wife:Dorcas MEANS

Birth:5 Sep 1753 Death:1816Place:Union Co., SC Father:James MEANS Mother:Sarah FOSTER (-1759)

Children...

1. F Child:Sarah FARIS Birth:5 Sep 1772 Spouse:Henry FOSTER

2. M Child:James FARIS Birth:28 Mar 1774

3. F Child:Margaret FARIS Birth:29 Apr 1776Place:Union Co., SC Death:30 May 1855Place:Parke Co., IN Burial:Place:Martin Cemetery, Parke Co., IN Spouse:John MARTIN

4. F Child:Isabella FARIS Birth:24 Jun 1778 Death:After 1803 Spouse:Joseph KELSO

5. F Child:Rachel FARIS Birth:8 Sep 1780 Spouse:Edward MAYES

6. F Child:Dorcas FARIS Birth:10 Mar 1783 Death:31 May 1846Place:SC Spouse:William JACKSON Marriage:28 Feb 1804

7. F Child:Elizabeth FARIS Birth:18 May 1785 Spouse:Samuel KELSO

Husband's Notes...

Notes: From Frank E. Block, Atlanta, Ga: It is believed that Robert Faris was one of a group of Lancaster County, PA Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who went in the 1740s to Augusta Co. VA and later to SC. An early group was in Union Co. by 1751, but Robert did not acquire a grant that early. He first appears in Union Co., SC in 1765 when he and others formed the Fair Forest Presbyterian Church. LAter he moved up Fair Forest Creek into Spartanburg Co. He served in the Tryon County Militia in 1771. He was a Captain during the Revolution. His estate administration dated 1 Jan 1785 lists Dorcas Faris, Hugh Means, William Patton and Andrew Mayes as administrators, bound in the sum of 2000 pounds, a sizeable estate. (Abbeville Dist. Old 96 SC)

Also from Frank Block: Faris-Jackson Family Record from SC Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol XIV, sp 1986, #2 listed children of Robert and Dorcas Means Faris and their birth dates.

Notes on Dorcase Means:

birthdate from Frank E. Block, Atlanta, Ga.; revised birthdate from Pauline McKinney; death location also from Pauline from SC Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol XIV, sp 1986, #2...Dorcas Means was twin sister of Hugh Means. Will proved and recorded 4 Mar 1816 Execu 4 Jan 1816

Source: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/FARRIS/1997-11/0879138658