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Summers, 1903
From: Summers, 1903
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| | 605 | Samuel Edmiston | 2-Jun 1773 | This call was presented by Samuel Edmiston at a session of the Presbyfery held at Brown's Meeting House on June 2, 1773. Rev. Thomas Brown Craighead took charge of the Ebbing Spring congregation, while Mr. Cummings remained in charge of and served the Sinking Spring congregation faithfully and well until 1812, the date of his death.
| | 810 | Samuel Edmiston | 14-Mar 1774 | 200 ac. WM Fork Holston
| | 402 | Samuel Edmiston | 1785 | The people had been advised and expected that they would be released from the payment of their taxes for the preceding years, upon the organization of the new State, which they confidently believed would take place. Early in the. year 1785, James Montgomery, William Edmiston, Arthur Bowen, James Kincannon, Samuel Edmiston and James Thompson addressed the following communication to the Governor of Virginia, preferring charges of malpractices and misconduct, in his office, as justice of the peace, against Arthur Campbell.
| | 405 | Samuel Edmiston | 1785 | The Governor being plow to act upon the charges preferred by James Montgomery and others against Colonel Arthur Campbell, in the summer of the year 1785, William Kdmiston, James Kin- cannon, Samuel Edmiston, James Thompson and Arthur Bowen addressed the following letter to the Governor of Virginia, preferring additional charges against Colonel Campbell: "Please Your Excellency and the Honorable Council:
| | 420 | Samuel Edmiston | June 1788 | In June of this year, a convention of delegates from the several counties of Virginia assembled in Richmond for the purpose of rejecting or ratifying the Constitution of the United States, as proposed by the Philadelphia ConventioThe delegates from Washington county in this convention were Samuel Edmiston and James Montgomery. At this time such distinguished Virginians as Patrick Henry opposed the ratification of the Constitution as submitted by the Philadelphia Convention, but the Virginia Convention ratified the Constitution by a vote of 89 to 79, the delegates from Washington county voting against the ratification of the Constitution. Colonel Arthur Campbell and his followers were heartily in favor nf the adoption of the Federal Constitution, and no doubt opposed the election of Edmiston and Montgomery.
| | 820 | Samuel Edmiston | 1788 | Member of Virginia Constitutional Convention
| | 817 | Samuel Edmiston | 1790-1791, 1793-1794 | Member of the House of Delegates
| | 609 | Samuel Edmiston | 1792 1792 | In the year 1792, it was decided to remove the church building from the Ebbing Spring to the Old Glade Spring. With the removal of the church from Ebbing Spring the name was changed to Glade Spring. The new church was erected upon property given by Francis Kincannon and deeded, by the direction of Kincannon, by John Robinson on the 15th of February, 1814, to Robert Buchanan, Joseph Snodgrass, David Beattie, John Porterfield, Thomas Edmiston, William Beattie, James Scott, Samuel Edmiston, Leonard Hutton and William Eakin, members of the Presbyterian congregation of Glade Spring. The families constituting this congregation in the early days were among the most patriotic citizens to be found anywhere within the colonies; they were respectable and progressive, and their descendants at this time practice the same ideas that rendered their ancestors distinguished.
| | 447 | Samuel Edmiston | 28-Dec 1803 | On the 28th day of December, 1803, the General Assembly of Virginia incorporated the Ahingdon and Saltville Turnpike, and appointed William King, Francis Preston, William Tate, William Poston, Samuel Edmiston, James White and David Campbell, commissioners to mark out and let to contract the building of a turnpike road from Abingdon to Saltville.
| | | Samuel Edmiston | 1812-1815 | Ensign, Washington Co Militia
| | 138 | Samuel Edmiston | | A considerable number of people had settled in the immediate vicinity of Abingdon, and eastward to the head waters of the Hol- ston, and in the beginning of this year two congregations of Presbyterians had organized in the county—one at Sinking Spring (now Abingdon) and another at Ebbing Spring, on the Middle Fork of the Holston river, near the James Byars farm; and in the month of April, 1773, Samuel Edmiston was commissioned by the two congregations above mentioned to present a call to the Rev. Charles Cummings at the -^wwud Presbytery of Hanover when sitting at the Tinkling S;. ...gs, in Augusta county. This call was reduced to writing and signed by the members of the Sinking Spring and Ebbing Spring congregations. It was presented to the Presbytery by Samuel Edmiston for the services of Mr. Cummings at Brown's meeting-house, in Augusta county, on June 2, 1773
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| | Title: | Source:Summers, 1929 Annals of Southwest Virginia
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| | Title: | Source:Chalkley, 1912a Volume 3 Wills and Deeds
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| | 422 | Page 861.--20th May, 1765. (John ( ) Edmiston and Margret ( ) to
John Stewart, £50, 132 acres in Borden's tract; corner John Stewart; corner
Wm. Edmiston. Teste: Samuel Buchanan, Wm. and Samuel Edmiston.
Delivered: Jno. Stuart, 10th December, 1790.
| | 426 | Page 69.--20th August, 1765. John Edmiston and Margaret to Samuel
Steel, £150, 440 acres in Borden's tract on Moffett's Creek, Buchanan's line.
Teste: David Syer, James Kennedy, Wm. and Samuel Edmiston. Delivered:
Samuel Steel, August Court, 1770.
| | 427 | Page 78.--20th August, 1765. John ( ) Stewart and Mary ( ) to
Samuel Steel, £50, 148 acres in Borden's tract; corner John Stewart; corner
Robert Stewart. Teste: John Stewart, William, Samuel and Jno. Edmiston.
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