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_SRCT:
_FIELD: TX-AUTHOR
Text: Marion J. "Jim" Laughlin and Julia Laughlin
_FIELD: DT-PUBLICATION_DATE
Date: 1992
_FIELD: TX-TITLE
Text: Descendants of John Laughlin and Tabitha Trimble
_FIELD: TX-PUBLISHER
Text: self-published
_FIELD: TX-REFERENCE
Text: 52
_FIELD: RP-REPOSITORY
Repository:
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[S1405] Laughlin/Trimble Book page 52
second edition, Staunton, Va. published by C. Russell Caldwell 1902
Over the Mountain Men, Their Early Court Records in Southwest Virginia, compiled by Anne Lowry Worrell
Virginia Wills and Administrations 1632-1800 (and index of Wills recorded in local Courts of Virginia) compiled by Clayton Terrance. Published by the William Byrd Press Inc., Richmond, Virginia.
Virginia Valley Records (materials of Rockingham County, Va and related regions) by John W. Wayland, Harrisonburg, Va. Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc. 1930
Augusta County Virginia records show:
dated 27 September 1740
a court record:
Henderson vs. Colvin -- James Colvin, James Trimble, William Trimble, David Trimble, all of New Castle, Province of Pennsylvania
Bond to Valentine Henderson of Belfast, County of Antrim, Ireland.
Our Trimble Ancestors in America 1730/40
The Trimble family about which this is the story of our lineage. It is the most widely known of all the colonial Trimble families. From reliable sources, it is known that five brothers, James, Moses, David, John, and Alexander Trimble left Armaugh, Ireland, sometime between 1730 and 1744 for America. One source says they arrived at the Port of Baltimore, Maryland with the Hays and Moffett families, in their own boat. But this is not confirmed in records.
It is believed, but not proved, that the father of these Trimbles was John Trimble of Armaugh, Ireland, and that he did not migrate to America with his sons. It is not known, either, if any of these brothers brought wives with them.
All five men went first to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were surveyors by profession and brought from Ireland a certificate signed by Sir Archibald Atcheson. When the four eldest left Philadelphia Alexander, the youngest, was left with the Rev. Gilbert Tennent, a relative and minister of the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia.
The Governor of Virginia opened the Shenandoah Valley for settlement to the Scotch-Irish, allowing them religious toleration. James, Moses, John, and David Trimble migrated to the area of Augusta County in the 1740s. Augusta Co. Va. covered a large territory, some of which is today, in West Virginia and Kentucky. These four Trimbles are mentioned in some of the earliest Records of Augusta County Virginia. They were owners of large tracts of land and leaders in their area.
By 1800 our Trimble ancestors were in Bourbon County Kentucky where Tabitha Trimble married John Laughlin.
Our known lineage:
John Trimble b ca 1690 Scotland or Ireland. Children all born Armaugh, Ireland and migrated to America 1730/40: John, James, Moses, David, Alexander.
David Trimble b ca 1720 Ireland m 1742 Augusta Co. Va. ?? Huston. Children: Fergus, David, Tabitha, Betsy, Ella, John G., Isaac P., Arthur H., Mary, Sally.
Tabitha Trimble b 1800 Bourbon Co. Ky. m 1821 John Laughlin. Children: Patsy, William, John Jr., Robert L., James, Isaac, Elizabeth, Eli Laughlin.
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