Person:William Duff (19)

William Duff was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Will of William Duff

2 AUG 1745 KING GEORGE COUNTY WILL BOOK A-1 (1721 - 1752), 179 - 182. [Note: some notations added]

In the name of God Amen. I William Duff of the Hanover Parish in the County of King George being of sound mind and memory....

Item: I leave to my Loving Wife Elizabeth {Rush} Duff during her natural life all my lands in the Countys of King George and Westmoreland with all my household goods and stock .....and likewise all the Negroes and servants which shall be there at the time of my decease, and after her decease, I lend it to my kinsmen William Duff {son} of the Colony of Virginia and John Duff of the Kingdom of Ireland and to the Friends of the Monthly Meeting at West River in Maryland called Quakers in trust that it shall be for the use of such travelling publick friends as shall come to visit us and have a meeting among the people here....and likewise for to produce a guide to conduct them either to Chesterfield or else to the Cliffs in Maryland over the Patuxen River and to pay their ferriage and to keep the Meeting House in repair (and also to do their endeavour towards keeping the stock of Negroes upon the plantations)....and that my kinsman Willaim Duff live upon the said land in the house where I now do and if at any time they shall slight or neglect the publick Friends that come to visit us then my will is that the whole trust shall be in the Monthly Meeting aforesaid and they shall appoint whom they think fit to come and take possession thereof....

Item: I give and bequeath to my kinswoman Lilly Whitherall....two hundred acres....

Item: I give and bequeath to my kinswoman Jane Brown....one hundred acres....

Item: I give and bequeath to the three younger sons of William Rush (IV) and the heirs of their bodys lawfully begotten all the remaining part of the tract of land it being the last tract I took up at the Ragged Mountain to be equally divided between them according to the approbation of Robert Green of Orange County...

Item: ....

Item: I give and bequeath to my kinsmen William Green, Robert Green and Nicholas Green....all the remaining part of the tracts of land belonging to me in Orange County and under the Ragged Mountain....

Item: I give and bequeath to my kinsmen John Green, James Green and Moses Green all the lands belonging to me on Sherrando River and the branches thereof....

Item: I give and bequeath to my kinsman Duff Green after the decease of my wife my Plantation on Broad Run....

Item: I give and bequeath to Ann Shotwell....Two Hundred acres....

Item: I give and bequeath to my kinswoman Ann Duff, the daughter of William Duff, the remaining part of tract of land on Tin Pot Run in Prince William County....

Item: It is my will and desire that the legacies of land already bequeathed shall be possessed and enjoyed from heir to heir and not to be sold or embezeled away to any whatsoever.

Item: ...do constitute and appoint my Loving Wife Elizabeth Duff Executrix and my kinsmen William Duff and Robert Green Executors to this my Last Will and Testament. This ____day of _____ Anno Dom. 1741.

(Signed) William Duff

Wit: Benjamin Strothers, William Marders, James Maxwell.

{2 AUG 1745 KING GEORGE COUNTY WILLS BOOK, 182. The Last Will and Testament of William Duff, deceased....was approved by the oaths of Benjamin Strothers and William Marders and admitted to record. Robert Green, Executor.}

5 JUL 1745 KING GEORGE COUNTY DEED BOOK 3 (1743 - 1752), page 61. To the Worshipfull Court Elizabeth {Rush} Duff, widdow of William Duff late of this county, deceased, humbly Sheweth that the said William dyed Testate but that she is not Satisfied with the provision made for her by the said Will it being as she conceives greatly to her Prejudice & therefore she hereby declares she will not....take the Legacies....but hereby renounces all benefit....& therefore prays that proper persons may be appointed to set apart her lawful part of all her said husband's estate....Presence Benj. Strother, William Marders. At a court held 2 AUG 1745....Deed of Writing recorded.... Milam in Virginia website

Land Records

1721-1735 King George County Deed Book 1-A, (Antient Press); pp. 145

Indenture made Betwixt WILLIAM DUFF of Hanover Parish King George County and WILLIAM HAMBLETON of same .. -- day of -- 1731 .. to farm let 100 acres bought by WILLIAM DUFF of ROBERT SMITH .. in consideration of Rents .. during term of naturall life of sd WILLIAM HAMBLETON and HANNAH HAMBLETON his wife .. or longest liver .. paying yearly .. Neat sum & Quantity of 500 pounds of Tobacco & Cask .. the Quit rents to the Cheif Lord of the fee ..

(Signed) William x Duff

Presence Rush Hudson, Robt. Strother

Memo .. That WILLIAM HAMBLETON is not to put any Tenant upon the above mentioned land.

7th May 1731 .. Then came WILLIAM DUFF acknowledged Deed of Lease

WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS & WILLS. No. 8. Part 2; 1723-1738 {Antient Press}: pp 20-21

THIS INDENTURE made the Sixteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty two Between WILLIAM DUFF of Hannover Parrish in County of KING GEORGE, Planter, of one part and JOHN WILLIS of the same Parrish & County, Planter, of the other part; Wittnesseth that JOHN WILLIS in consideration of the summe of five shillings Sterling to him in hand paid by WILLIAM DUFF, the receipt whereof JOHN WILLIS doth hereby acknowledge, hath and by these presents cloth bargain and sell unto WILLIAM DUFF all that tract plantation of land where STEPHEN SEBASTIN, deceased, formerly lived as Tennant to CHARLES WILLIS, deceased, by estimation seaventy eight acres of land be the same more or less scituate in County of Westmoreland joyning upon the Land of WILLIAM DUFF and upon the Land late belonging to JOSHUA DAVIS near ROZIERS DAMM, being all the Land JOHN WILLIS hath or layeth any manner of claime unto in a Pattent for a tract of Land granted to ROBERT and JOHN ALEXANDER and CHRISTOPHER LUND by Sr. WILLIAM BERKLEY, Knt., late Governor of Virginia, of fourteen hundred twenty eight acres; To have and to hold the land and premises unto WILLIAM DUFF his heirs dureing the terme of one whole year paying therefore the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corne on the Birth Day of our Lord God next ensueing if lawfully demanded to the intent that by vertue of these presents and by virtue of the Statute for transferring uses into possession WILLIAM DUFF may be in the actual possession of the premises and be thereby enabled to take a Release of the inheritance thereof to him and his heirs; In Wittness whereof JOHN WILLIS have hereunto sett his hand and seale the day month and year first above written (Signed) William [X] Duff

Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of: WILLIAM MARDERS, JOHN WILLIS, WILLM: SARJANT

Received the day of the date within mentioned of WILLIAM DUFF five shillings Sterling being the consideration money within mentioned

Wittness WILLIAM MARDERS, JOHN WILLIS

WILLM. SARJANT

Westmorld. ss. At a Court held for the sd. County the 29th day of May 1733

JOHN WILLIS personally acknowledged this Deed of Lease of Land by him passed to WILLIAM DUFF and the Receipt for the consideration money thereon endorsed to be his proper act and deed which at the instance of the said DUFF is admitted to Record

Test G. TURBERVILE, C. C. W.

Recorded 31th Day of May 1733, pr. G.T., C.C. W.

1721-1735 King George County Deed Book 1-A, (Antient Press); pp. 221

Indenture 28th August 1732 between WILLIAM DUFF of Hanover Parish King George County Planter & WILLIAM WHITE of same .. for 600 pounds of Tobacco and Cask and Four Shillings money to be paid unto him year and Every year at time hereafter mentioned .. to farm lett 200 acres bounded .. Valley by the ferry Roadside; down Branch; to main Swamp to Hudsons Line; ferry road; to near EDWARD TAYLOR'S old field by a path; to the WIDDOW NIGHTSON Spring branch .. having liberty to use what shall be necessary for use of the Plantation for building Tobacco hhs .. during Naturall Lives of WILLIAM WHITE & KATHERINE WHITE his now wife and THOMAS WHITE his son or Longest Liver .. yearly rent on Tenth Decr. yearly ..

(Signed) William x Duff

Presence Isaac Arnold, Wm. Sarjant Wm. White

1st September 1732 .. WM. DUFF & WM. WHITE acknowledged their Lease unto each other ..

1721-1735 King George County Deed Book 1-A, (Antient Press); pp. 282-283

Indenture 8th October 1733 bettween WILLIAM DUFF of Hanover Parish King George County Planter & JOHN ROSE of same Planter .. for five hundred pounds Tobacco & Cask and the Quitrents for 100 acres to be paid yearly hath granted to farm Lett unto JOHN ROSE beginning head of spring Branch where JOHN TAYLOR formerly lived; across EDWARD TAYLORS old field to line of WILLIAM HUDSON; to line of Capt. BENJAMIN STROTHERS .. to hold during natural lives of JOHN ROSE & FRANCES ROSE his now wife .. or Survivor paying on 10th Decr. yearly .. Patys (sic) above do bind themselves to each other .. penal sum of 5000 pounds of Tobacco .. to be paid at Breach or denial of any agreement ..

(Signed) Wm. x Duff

Presence John Brown, Jno. Wetheral, Wm: Sarjant

3rd May 1734 .. Deed of Lease recorded.

Processioning List of 1748

From Chalkley's:

"Processioning" was the periodic review and agreement of property lines between settler's lands. Processioning Lists are useful in determining the general area of a settlers lands and their neighbors at specific time periods:

• Vol. 2 - Page 19.-- Daniel Harrison and Morgan Bryant report, viz: Processioned for Samuel Harrison, present Daniel Love, John Wright; processioned for Robert Cravens, present Daniel Love, John Wright; processioned for Daniel Harrison, present John Rutledge, Richard Wainscot; Daniel Harrison not processioned, there being a dispute; processioned for James Anderson, lines unknown; processioned for Col. James Wood; processioned for Daniel Harrison, present Archibald Hopkins; processioned for Daniel Harrison, present Jacob Dye, Richard Wincot; processioned for Cornelius Bryan, present Thos. and Benj. Bryan; processioned for Charles Robinson, present Adam Reder; processioned for Townsend Robinson, present Adam Reder; processioned for Thomas Moore, present Francis Hughes; processioned for John Miller, present Thos. Hughes, Thos. Moore; processioned for Thomas Moore, present Francis Hughes; processioned for Joseph Hite, present Samuel and David Stuart; processioned for Jacob Chrisman, present David Stuart, Sam'l Harrison; processioned for Robert McKay, present Thomas Bryan; processioned for Robert McKay, present Thomas Bryan; processioned for Jost Hite, present Thomas Bryan; processioned for Jost Hite, present Thomas Bryan; processioned for Robert McKay, present Thomas Bryan; processioned for Wm. Duff's estate, present John Miller; processioned for Robert Green, present John Miller; processioned for Robert Green, present John Miller; processioned for James Robeson, present John Miller; processioned for George Bowman, present Richard Winscot; processioned for Joseph Bryan, present Wm. Bryan; processioned for Morgan Bryan, present James Bryan; processioned for Samuel Wilkins, present Wm. and James Bryan and Samuel Wilkins.

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's: [unless otherwise stated]

• Page 102.-- Robert Green, of Orange County, to Robert McCay, of Augusta, and Jost Hite, of Frederick. Bond in £3000 dated 18th June, 1746. Whereas, Robert McCay, Jost Hite, Robert Green, and Wm. Duff, deceased, did in lifetime of Duff obtain order of Council for one tract of 3,060 acres on north branch of Shanando; one tract of 9,860 acres in a hollow of the mountains in the fork of Shanando; one tract of 2,200 acres on north branch of Shanando; one tract of 7,000 acres on south branch of Shanando; one tract of 891 acres on north branch of Shanando; one tract of 310 acres on south branch of Shanando (in order for the more speedy conveying same to purchasers). Parties agree that patent should be made to Robert Green. Condition that Robert make proper conveyances to purchasers and one moiety of the residue to the other parties. Witnesses, Jno. Smith, Thos. Stevenson, Jno. Hite. Acknowledged, 18th June, 1746.

• Page 104.--18th June, 1746. Robert McKay, Josh Hite, Robert Green, and Robert Green, executor and heir-at-law of Wm. Duff, deceased, to William Linwell, £62.10.0 current money Virginia; 1,500 acres, part of 7,009 acres patented to grantors 26th March, 1739. Witnesses, Gabriel Jones, Jno. Madison. Acknowledged, 19th June, 1746.

• Page 110.--Jost Hite, Robert Green, and Robert Green, executor and heir of Wm. Duff to Robert McKay, £119 current money Virginia; 1,190 acres on west side Blue Ridge part of 7,009 acres patented to grantors and grantee, 26th March, 1739; north side Linwell's Creek, including the 9th and 10th lots. Acknowledged, 19th June, 1746.

• Page 115.--18th June, 1746. Hite, McKay, Robert Green, sole heir and executor of Wm. Duff, to Robert Craven, £40.4.0 current money Virginia; 670 acres on north side Linville's Creek, part of 7,009 acres patented 26th March, 1739. Witnesses, Thomas Chew, Gabriel Jones. Thos. Slaughter. Acknowledged by all, 19th June, 1746.

• Page 148.--5th August, 1746. Robert McCay, of Augusta, and Jost Hite, of Frederick, to Robert Green, of Orange, surveying partners of a certain tract patented 26th March, 1739, to McCay, Hite, Duff and Green, 7,009 acres, £100 current money; 1,000 acres including lots 2 and 3. Witnesses, Thomas ( ) Linwell, Valentine Sevier, Gabriel Jones. Proved by all witnesses, 20th August, 1746.

• Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys: Capt. Robert Green, 2 Oct. 1747 - 18 Nov. 1747; 336 acres on Hugh's Road near Ragged Mt., Landrum's Run; adj. John Popham, land formerly Wm. Duffs (now Mr. Greens). CC - Gabriel Loving & John Hitt. Marker - George Gent. Surv. James Genn. [Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Orange & Augusta Counties, with Tithables, Delinquents, Petitioners, 1730-1754, Volume One, Peggy Smomo Joyner, pg. 7].

• Page 297 - NOVEMBER, 1747 (A). - Robert McCoy, Jost Hite, Robert Green, Robert Green, being executor of William Duff, deceased, vs. William Linwell, Thomas Linwell and Morgan Bryan.--Debt on bond dated 18th June, 1746. Writ dated 24th August, 1747. Returned not found as to W. and T. Linwell.

• Page 262.--22d August, 1749. John Hopes (Hays?) (Hope?) of Frederick, and Mary to Patrick Quin. On Naked Creek. Corner Jost Hite, Robert McKay, William Duff, Robert Green's line. 200 acres, patented to said John Hopes, 12th January, 1746. Teste: David Logan, John Homes.

• Vol. 2 - Hite vs. Snapp-O. S. 21; N. S. 7--Filed 20th September, 1796. Isaac Hite, executor of Isaac Hite, deceased, Jonathan Clerk, Isaac H. Williams, John C. Williams, Nimrod Long and Eleanor, his wife, devisees under the will of Isaac Hite, deceased; Abraham Hite, devisee and executor of Abraham Hite, deceased; Mary Hite, Theodorick Lee and Catherine, his wife; Alexander Pitt Buckhannon and Sarah, his wife (said Mary, Catherine and Sarah), are daughters and co-heirs of John Hite, deceased (who was eldest son and heir of Jacob Hite, deceased); John Hite, executor and devisee of John Hite, deceased; John Hite, Jr.; William Hite, Thomas Cartmill and Ann, his wife (which said John, William and Ann are children and devisees of Joseph Hite, deceased); which said John, Isaac, Jacob, Abraham and Joseph are children and devisees of Jost Hite, deceased; Andrew McKay, eldest son and heir of Robert McKay, deceased, who was son and heir of Robert McKay, Sr.; James and Zackeriah McKay, who are sons and devisees of Robert McKay, Sr.; Isaac McKay, son and heir of Isaac McKay, who was son and heir of Moses McKay, a son and devisee of Robert McKay, Sr.; Leah Leith (?), daughter and devisee of Robert McKay, Sr.; Enoch Job, eldest son and heir of Margaret Job, a daughter and devisee of Robert McKay, Sr.; George Hollingsworth, son and heir of Abraham Hollingsworth, who was son and heir of Hannah Hollingsworth, a daughter and devisee of Robert McKay, Sr.; George Robinson, son and heir of George Robinson, who was son and heir of Mary Robinson, a daughter and devisee of Robert McKay, Sr.; Moses Green, executor and devisee of John Green, deceased; James Green, James Williams, William, James and Sarah Williams, children of James and Eleanor Williams, who was only daughter of Moses Green, deceased, which said John, James and Moses Green were devisees of William Duff, deceased; Robert Green, assignee and devisee of Eleanor Green, widow of Robert Green, deceased; Robert Green, Moses Green, executor and devisee of John Green; James Green, Robert Green, Jr, heir of Nicholas Green, deceased; James Williams, William, James and Sarah Williams, children and heirs of Eleanor Williams, deceased, who was only daughter and heiress of Moses Green, deceased, by James Williams, their next friend, which said Eleanor, Robert, John, James, Nicholas and Moses Green were devisees of Robert Green, Sr., vs. Lawrence Snapp.

• Vol. 1 - Rockingham County, 12th September, 1801. By order of Rockingham County Court, surveyed for Benjamin Harrison, 1,129 1/2 acres on both sides of Cook's Creek (including the spring of the main branch of said creek), including the ten following tracts, viz: 83 1/2 acres, part of 100 acres, part of 1,264 acres, patented, 26th March, 1739, to McKay, Hite, Duff and Green, and conveyed by deeds, 18th June, 1749, to Robert McKay, Jost. Hyte, Robert Green, and Robert Green, sole heir of the will of William Duff to Samuel Wilkins, and by him to Daniel Harrison, 27th February, 1749; ____ acres patented to ____ Harrison, 25th September, 1746; ____ acres patented to Daniel Harrison, 10th September, 1755. These three tracts willed by Daniel Harrison to said Benjamin Harrison by will, 8th June, 1767. 165 acres patented to John Edwards, 20th September, 1768, and by him willed to Benjamin Harrison, 31st October, 1775. 130 acres patented to Thomas Gordon, 19th August, 1758, and by him deeded to Benjamin, 20 January, 1793. 32 1/2 acres, new survey, dated 21st February, 1801, as assignee of Alexander Herring, of George Lang, Jr., of George Picket, part of said Picket's warrant for 3,000 acres, dated 13th August, 1763. 38 3/4 acres, a new survey, dated 21st February, 1801, for 16 acres as assignee of Alexander Herring, of William Russell, part of said Russell's warrant for 1,000 acres, dated 13th February, 1782, and for 23 3/4 acres as assignee of Jacob Bare, part of his warrant for 1,000 acres, dated 27th June, 1783. 16 1/2 acres, a new survey, as to 11 1/2 acres, assignee of John Harrison, part of his exchange warrant for 750 acres, dated 29th May, 1800. One acre, new survey, by warrant for 3,000 acres, dated 13th August, 1783, assignee of Alexander Herring, of George Lang, Jr., of George Picket. 421 acres, new survey, dated 20th March, 1801, by these warrants, for 50 acres he is assignee of Alexander Herring, of William Oliver, of William Russell, part of his warrant, 13th August, 1783; for 371 acres he is assignee of John Harrison, part of his warrant, 8th May, 1800. 41 acres surplus bond by warrants, viz: For 29 acres he is assignee of John Harrison, part of his warrant for 752 acres, dated 8th May, 1801. For 12 acres he is assignee of Alexander Herring, of George Lang, Jr., of George Pickett, part of his warrant for 3,000 acres, dated 13th August, 1783. Of the whole, plat and metes and bounds.

• Vol. 2 - Tipton vs. Werner--O. S. 302; N. S. 108--Copy of record from Shenandoah. Bill filed 1804 by John Tipton. Defendants are, viz: Henry Keller, Michael Copp, administrators of Philip Werner; Barbara Werner, widow of Philip, and Philip's children, viz: Philip, Sophia, Elizabeth, Catharine, Peter, Sarah. Philip was in 1796 resident in Berks County, Penna. Deed, 25th August, 1797, by Jonathan Clarke, Philip Williams and Andrew McKay, Commissioners to John Tipton. Sale under Act of Assembly, 4th December, 1795, to sell certain lands of Jost Hite, Robert Green, William Duff and Robert McKay, 400 acres on Tom's Brook adjoining Augustine Borden, Jacob Keller et al. Recorded in Shenandoah, 12th December, 1797. Deed, 12th September, 1797, by John Tipton and wife Elizabeth to Werner's heirs. Recorded.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties, in RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project
   William Duff ID: I32284, updated 15 Juy 2014; accessed 15 Jul 2014.

   KING GEORGE COUNTY VIRGINIA WILL BOOK A-1;1721-1752 {George Harrison Sanford King}; Pages 179-182

2.   Tayler, Alistair Norwich (Alexander Alistair Norwich), and Helen Agnes Henrietta Tayler. The book of the Duffs. (Edinburgh: W. Brown, 1914)
   pg. 592.

   Early in the eighteenth century, a William Duff went to settle in King George County, Virginia, and with him went his sister Eleanor, married to William Green, one of the bodyguard of King William iii., as shown in the Census of the Officers of the Court, 1093-1694. According to American tradition, William and Eleanor were the children of Alexander Macduff of Keithmore, died 1700, and his wife Helen, died 1694, daughter of Alexander, second son of James de Grant of Freuehie. It is tradition that William assumed the name of Duff because his father had been obliged to do so, having been outlawed because of his services with Montrose. There is, of course, something wrong with the story here, because, though Alexander Duff of Keithmore was outlawed, he did not change his name; moreover his son William remained in Scotland and founded the family of the Earls Fife; but William Duff of Virginia may, quite possibly, have been a nephew, son of one of Alexander's younger brothers, or some remoter relative.
   Eleanor Duff and William Green had a son Robert, born 1695, died 1747, whose son. Duff Green, was a General in the American War of 1812.
   William Duff made his will in 1741, and it was proved in 1745. In it he mentions his wife Elizabeth, and his kinsmen William and John Duff and William's daughter Anne, Robert Green, his nephew, and his seven sons, William Green, Duff Green, Robert Green, Nicholas Green, John Green, James Green, and Moses Green. There is a town Macduff in Texas, and towns of Duff in the states of Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska and in Orange County, Virginia, which probably show that members of the family were once settled in those parts.