Person:Samuel Kercheval (2)

Records of Samuel Kercheval in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Vol. 2 - Kercheval vs. Robertson--O. S. 26; N. S. 9--Frederick. John and Samuel Kercheval were brothers, 1795.

• Vol. 2 - William Carnagy and Betsy, his wife, vs.. Thos. Bryan Martin's Exrs.-- O. S. 42; N. S. 14--Bill filed in Frederick, 28th February, 1799. Betsy was Betsy Powers, housekeeper of Thomas Bryan Martin and devisee in his will. Thomas Bryan Martin died 1798. Samuel Kercheval deposes at the Public house of Daniel Brown "at the White Post" in Frederick County, 14th April 1801. John Powers, brother of Betsy, deposes 1801.

• Vol. 2 - Samuel Kercheval vs. Hotsinpillar--O. S. 103; N. S. 35--Bill, 25th April, 1806. Many years ago Elizabeth Marker (late Elizabeth Seagle, widow of Dr. Frederick Seagle, deceased, who was a surgeon in Eighth Virginia Regiment, and who died in the service in the Revolutionary Army, applied to him, plaintiff, that she had never been able to obtain a liquidation of her claim for her husband's services; proposed to him to collect on a commission of one-half. Dr. Seagle had an only daughter, who was sole heiress, named Amelia Seagle, who has since married Jacob Hotsinpillar, who afterwards went to Ohio.

About Samuel Kercheval

Historian Samuel Kercheval was born in 1767 in Frederick County, Virginia. He married Susan Chinn of Lancaster County, Virginia, on September 23, 1787, and they had 12 children. Kercheval interviewed longtime residents of the lower Shenandoah, the Potomac, and the South Branch valleys, collecting numerous accounts of the events and customs of frontier life during the Indian wars and the Revolution. He vividly recounted these oral histories in A History of the Valley of Virginia, published in Winchester in 1833.

Source: The West Virginia Encycopedia