Person:Charles Ewing (18)

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Robert Ewing came to the colonies with his brother Charles Ewing, who married Mary's sister Martha Baker. Robert and Mary Ewing and Charles and Martha Ewing later moved to the Peaks of Otter in Bedford County, VA. In Bedford, Robert was an Elder in the Presbyterian Church, the County Clerk, and Justice of the County Court from 1754. At the time of his death, he supposedly owned more than 7,200 acres, including a 514 acre tract on the south end of Ewing's Mountain in present-day Wythe County, Virginia, and "vast tracts" in present-day Kentucky, which was then Augusta Co, Virginia. [1]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Cumberland.org.

   1. Charles Ewing
   born: c1715 - Coleraine, Londonderry County, Ireland
   died: 1770
   wife: Martha Baker
   [daughter of Rev. Caleb Baker, Sr. and Martha Brooks]
   born: c1725
   died: after July 1770
   
   Children of Charles Ewing and Martha Baker Ewing:
   
   1.1. Charles Ewing
   1.2. George Ewing
   1.3. Robert Ewing
   1.4. Samuel Ewing
   1.5. David Ewing
   1.6. Caleb Ewing
   1.7. Mary Ewing
   1.8. Martha Ewing
   1.9. William Ewing
   
   http://www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/minister/Ewing.htm

2.   Ewing Family Association.

   Charles Ewing, whose will is dated May 31, 1770, and which was probated in Bedford County, Virginia, July 24, 1770, was the same splendid type of citizen as his brother, Robert. This is not mere theory. Nor is it simply family tradition. The positions these two brothers filled as well as those held by their children after them and the testimony of such men as R. D. Buford, who knew their neighbors and who spent years studying the family records of his county, furnish us undisputed proof.
   
   This Charles, the immigrant, and his son, Charles, were the only Ewings of that Christian name in all that part of Virginia in their day, so far as I can learn. So it is the more easy to identify them. Undoubtedly it was the immigrant who bought land in Augusta County, Virginia, December 13, 1744 (3 Chalkley, Augusta County Records, p. 9); but so far as known he never lived in that county, -- a vast region once covering all the south-western part of Virginia. But Charles and his brother, Robert, undoubtedly had located in Virginia much earlier than that date. It was earlier than this that Charles located on lands near the Peaks of Otter in what is now Bedford County and established what in Mr. Buford's early day (before 1850) was known as Chestnut Grove. Until sold very recently by the mother of Miss Sallie O. Ewing, of Roanoke, Virginia, this old home came down through his descendants. "I have been at the sweet old home," wrote Mr. Buford of it in his 86th year. Continuing he adds: "It is now owned and occupied by my friend, Mr. M. L. Hatcher. Not a member of the Ewing family now remains in the county." With his brother Charles resided in Prince Edward County before locating in the newer Bedford at least as early as 1761.
   
   This Charles by his last will leaves the home place of one hundred acres and Negroes to his wife during widowhood; and then provides for the following children, in the order named, which, of course, is no index to their respective ages:
   
   William, Robert, Samuel, George, David, Caleb, Charles, Mary and Martha.
   
   https://www.ewingfamilyassociation.org/books/EwingEWR/ewr_Chapter_25.htm