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1 Major Sources For Southwest Virginia [28 May 2008]
2 Miscellaneous Sources

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Major Sources For Southwest Virginia [28 May 2008]


Title:	Source:Summers, 1903 History of Southwest Virginia and Washington County
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388	John Tate	1786	Washington	gentleman, commissioned and added to the court
389	John Tate			Qualified as Lieutenant in the Militia (probable the son of John Tate)
431	Captain Tate			In the month of December, 1792, Captain Tate and forty men were passing though the wilderness on their way to Kentucky, when they were attacked by a company of Creek and Cherokee Indians [presumably this is Captain John Tate, appointed captain of militia 5 years previously, but he would now be 50 years of age, so it is possible this is one of his sons. This attack was one of the last large scale attacks in Powell's valley. Indian hostilities in this area would cease after 1794]
813	John Tate	Dec 12 1774	Washington	145 acres on Mockison Creek
834	John Tate		Washington	Deputy Sheriff Washingotn Co
864	John Tate			Rev. War Soldier at Kings Mt. 1787 appointed Captain in the militia for newly created Russell County; took Oath of Allegiance to the newly drafted Constitution of the United States. (Need source---probably Summers, 1903).

Title:	Source:Summers, 1929 Annals of Southwest Virginia
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Title:	Source:Kegley and Kegley, 1980 (vol 1 Southwest Virginia)
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Title:	Source:Kegley, 1982 (vol 2 Fincastle, Montgomery, and Wythe Counties)
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Title:	Source:Kegley, 1995 (vol 3 Montgomery and Wythe Counties)
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Title:	Source:Kegley, 1998 (vol 4 Evansham)
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Title:	Source:Addington, 1932 History of Scott County
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Title:	Source:Chalkley, 1912a Volume 1. Augusta county Court Order Books and Judgements
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Title:	Source:Chalkley, 1912a Volume 2
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Title:	Source:Chalkley, 1912a Volume 3 Wills and Deeds
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Robertson 1998 [28 May 2008]


Title:	Robertson, 1998 Washington County Surveyor's Records
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p. 129	John Tate			June 13, 1831 - Isaac Tate - 290 ac - part treasury warrant 10572 dated April 22, 1831 - on both sides of Mockerson Creek, being part of the land excluded in Hugh McClungs 57,000 ac survey for John Tate & Thomas Hobbs - corner to Isaac Tates land - corner to Robert Dickenson
184	John Tate			May 4, 1795 - Hugh McClung - 57,000 ac - part 2 Treasury Warrants: 7000 ac by 1159 dated February 7, 1795 & 50,000 by 1160 dated February 7, 1795 - Russell & Washington, the greater part in Washington Co. - beginning near the nead of Bushes Mill Creek - north side of the poor Valley Road - included within the boundary: 300 ac for Zachariah Fugate, 400 ac for John Tate, 300 ac for Charles Dever, 200 ac for William Fugate, 500 ac for Thomas Hobbs, 300 ac for David Cain, 300 ac for Widow Taylor, 400 ac for Joel Hobbs, 500 ac for James Dickenson, 1400 ac for Benjamin Astill, 666 ac for Timothy Burgess, Henry Dickenson, 300 ac for John Anderson, 200 ac for Richard Price, 234 for Robert Preston, 3000 ac for Thomas Stepleton, 28 ac
221	John Tate			September 11, 1795 - Call McGriger - 76,593 ac - part 2 Treasury Warrants 1340 dated May 5, 1795 & 1210 March 6, 1795 - on the waters of Morqueson Creek, Copper Creek & Clinch River - on the bank of Copper Creek, at the mouth of Valey Creek - corner Hugh McClung survey - on the south bank of Clinch River - mouth of Bushes Mill Creek - on copper Ridge at the head of Bushes Mill Creek - crossing Copper & Morqueson Creeks - includes the following: James Ally, Sr., 230 ac - Thomas Ally 345 ac - John Back 420 ac - William Boling 300 ac -Charles Beckley 264 ac - Jacob Casel 200 ac - William Dorton 500 ac - William Dortons Estate 350 ac - John Davidson 170 ac - John English 300 ac - Benjamin Fugate 100 ac - Frederick Friley, Esquire 969 ac - Zachariah Fugate 180 ac - Ambrose Fletcher 100 ac - William Huston 200 ac - John Harris 140 ac - Charles Kilgore 100 ac - Robert Kilgore 226 ac - Henry Mohons Estate 200 ac - Robert M. McCoys Estate 400 ac - James McKenny 385 ac - James Osburne 400 ac - Thomas Osbourns Estate 600 ac - James Ovelton 460 ac - Abram Oxer 230 ac - Patrick Porter 185 ac - Samuel Porter 260 ac - Joshua Pennix 74 ac - William Russells Estate 600 ac - William Robinsons 200 ac - John Smith 358 ac - John Salliers 60 ac - Henry Smith 160 ac - Robert Tate 250 ac - John Tate 150 ac - Robert Vickers 200 ac - James Whartons Estate 200 ac - Henry Dickenson 550 ac - James Bush 100 ac - Charles Devers Estate 100 ac - William Fugates Estate 100 ac - Johnson V. Dickensons 1000 ac - James Lemarrs 100 ac - Henry Smith 150 ac - Henry Bowens 9700 ac - William Tate 145 ac
Washington County Survey records The Russell County Surveyors Book 2 1799-1808, by Rhonda Robertson
Page 47	John Tate			Joel Hobbs, assignee of William Gill...180 ac...Commissioners Certificate...on both sides of Moccasin Creek, waters of the north fork of Holstein...Beginning on the south side of the creek...May 1, 1782 - William Gill, assignee of William Tate...200 ac...on Mockison Creek adjoining John Tate above and Alexander Montgomery below, includes improvements, actual settlement made in 1775...August 16, 1782 - Assigned to Joel Hobbs by purchase on May 21, 1782. Signed: William Gill. Witnesses: John Tate
Page 155	John Tate			...100 ac...Treasury Warrant...on the north side of the place he now lives on, on the waters of Mockeson Creek, north branch of the north fork of Holston River...Warrant #9059, dated November 21, 1781...May 1, 1782
Page 342	John Tate			145 AC - Commissioners Certificate - on both sides of Mockison Creek - beginning on the north side of the creek - crossing the creek at the mouth of suck? run - November 7, 1785...John Tate - 145 ac on Mockison Creek surveyed December 12, 1774 - actual settlement made in 1772 - August 21, 1781

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Waddell 1902 [28 May 2008]


Title:	Source:Waddell, 1902 Annals of Augusta County
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Title:	Source:Bales and Laningham, 1977 Early Settlers Of Lee County And Adjacent Counties
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Title:	Source:Bickley, 1852 History of the settlement and Indian wars of Tazewell County, Virginia
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Title:	Source:Clark, 1999 Colonial Soldiers of the South
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Title:	Source:Dodderidge, et al. 1912Notes on the settlement and Indian wars of the western parts of Virginia
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Title:	Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly
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Nov 20 1781, appointed with Robert Tate, William Houston, and Jonathan Wood to appraise estate of Francis Fugate (Summers, 1929:1090).

February 1782, appointed with William Houston and Joseph Davidson to view and cut road from Little Moccasin Gap to Big Moccasin Gap (Gate City), connecting to the Wilderness Road near Gate City. Summers, 1929:1098

Oct 28, 1782, served on grand jury Summers, 1929:1124

Nov 20 1782, appointed constable in Capt. Barnett's Company Summers, 1929:1130

April 15, 1783, appointed to view road from houston's Mill to the head of Mockison Creek. Summers, 1929:1138

Aug 17, 1784, Abraham Oxar chooses John Tate as his guardian, with approbation of court Summers, 1929:1190

28 September 1798, listed as one of the trustees of the town of Dickinsonville Summers, 1929:1337

May 1786 John was appointed an overseer of the poor, a constable, and a Lieutenant in the militia in Russell County. (Need source---probably Summers, 1903)

Russell County, VA Court Order Book 1 15 June 1786 p. 8. At an Election held at Samuel Haddoxes for the appointment of overseers of the poor for the lower district of Russell County Thomas Carter, John Tate and Samuel Ritchie was appointed for that office.

1787, Appointed a "Gentleman Justice" on the Russell County Court. One descendant describes his service:

"he served with great devotion to duty for most of his remaining life of 41 years. Again and again he rode his horse to successive places of county government meetings at Castlewood, Dickensonville and Lebanon; served many times, one to three days per month, sometimes presided over and wrote the minutes of the meetings, and signed them more than 150 times with a bold and attractive signature. By virtue of his position as Justice, he was often referred to as John Tate, Gent., or John Tate, Esq.

Unsourced: Also in 1782 his second tract of land of 100 acres was surveyed and recorded in the records of Washington County at Abingdon.

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