Person:Casper Moyers (1)

Casper Moyer was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Will Abstract

WILL: Casper Moyars Sr. of Frederick Co, VA died and left will: names wife Mary to have one third and to sons Gasper, Charles, John who received their inheritance already to get one 1 shilling and 2 pence. to sons Henry and Jacob a 430 acre plantation to be equally divided between them. To daus. Mary, Cathy, and Ann to get 15 lbs each and my moveable estate. Will dated July 7 1792 and proved Oct. 2, 1792 wife Mary and son John executors (Frederick Co Will Book #5 p. 364 and 421). Citation: Find-A-Grave

Land Records

DEED: 1750 - September 4th, *Augusta County Warrant issued to "Casper Mire" authorizing a property survey where Joseph Hayes lived on Dry Run. The reference indicates that he may have had a previous adjoining tract of land.

DEED: Casper Mire Sr. received a grant from Lord Fairfax for land on Middle River in Augusta Co on Jun 9 1763 and an additional grant of at least 416 acres near Middletown in Frederick Co near the Frederick/Shenandoah Line on July 6, 1766.

DEED: Gasper Mires Sr. and wife Mary conveyed 154 acres part of the 416 acres granted by patent in 1766 in Frederick Co, VA to his sons Gasper Jr., John and Charles on West Run on Aug 1 1777. (Frederick Co Deed Book #17 p. 354, 359)

DEED: Charles and his wife Barbara of Frederick Co, VA sold their part of 132 acres to John Sowers of Frederick Co in 1796 [Land from his father] (Frederick Co Deed Book 24 p. 381)

DEED: Jacob Moyers sold his portion to his brother Charles (Frederick Co Deed Book 24 B p. 358 and Book SC7 p. 57.)

1.   Find A Grave.

   Casper Moyer Sr.
   Birth 1730
   Death Oct 1792 (aged 61–62)
   Frederick County, Virginia, USA
   
   Casper Moyers of Augusta Co in 1750 had a warrant for 470 acres where Joseph Hays lived on Dry Run a branch of the North River Shenandoah adjacent to his own land and that of Capt. John Hite. In 1751 Casper Mire of Frederick Co, VA had this land surveyed. Other warrants and surveys show Casper with land adjoining George Bowman and John Duckworth on a branch of Crooked Run in 1753, of George Goose on drains of West Run in 1764, of Nicholas Sperry on drains of West Run in 1764, of Thomas and Jane Barrow sons William and John in 1764, of Abraham Millard of Licking Branch in 1769, of Jacob Shiverdecker on Dry Run in 1769 and of William Barrow of Dry Run in 1775 (per Joiner, in Northern Neck Vol. 2 pp. 7, 16, 35, 63, 108,, 140, 145, 163)