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Facts and Events
Estate Records
- 1809, 26 Jun: Division of the estate of Charles GWATKIN deceased, lands in the county of Bedford, amongst his heirs after deducting the widow's dower, which includes the mansion house tract, and a small part cut off of the Squirrel Mountain tract, making 386 as pr. platt No. W: Lucinda GWATKIN, place called Taylors, 71 acres, as pr. platt No. 1; Waddy COBBS who m. Peggy GWATKIN, place called Millers, 8 acres as pr. platt No. 2; Thomas LOGWOOD Jr., who married Kitty GWATKIN, part of the place called Wilson's, 115 acres as pr. platt No. 3; Simon NOEL who married Fanny GWATKIN, part of the place Wilkersons, 122 acres as pr. plat No. 4; James GWATKIN, place called Strattons, 86 acres as pr. platt No. 5; Edward GWATKIN, place called Milams, 84 acres as pr. platt No. 6; Polly GWATKIN, place called Squirrel Mountain, 171 acres as pr. plat No. 7, also 8 acres and 16 po. as pr. and plat No. 7, as well as 224 acres on the west side of Nobusiness Mountain as pr. patent granted Charles GWATKIN dec'd 18 Feb 1805; Nancy GWATKIN, land on Nobusiness Mountain as pr. 3 patents granted to Charles GWATKIN dec'd, one for 590 acres, one for 96 acres, both dated 26 Mar 1805, & one other for 470 acres dated 18 Feb 1805; Charles GWATKIN, Jackson Mountain tract __ and 63 acres to be added as pr. plat No. 9, this lot to pay lot No. 10, 10.0.0. to Elizabeth GWATKIN; Elizabeth GWATKIN, place called Godfreys __ and to receive from Lot. No. 9, 10 from Charles GWATKIN.
Records in Virginia
- 1760: Edward and Charles GWATKINS were on the ledger of the Dumfries, VA store of John Glassford and Company.
- 1768, 9 Mar: Indeture, Charles GWATKIN of Prince William Co., VA deed to James GWATKIN of the same place, for 110 pounds, 269 acres of land in Prince William Co., bounded beginning at a box oak a corner tree to land of Charles GWATKINS and Henry FELKINS extending thence So. E. to another box oak in Thoms. WHITLEDGEs line, thence along said line So. E. to a white oak, corner to said WHITLEDGE, thence E. to a small white oak on east side of a Branch, thence So. to two white oaks, thence S.W. to another white oak and Spanish oak standing in line of Lewis TACQUETT, thence binding with said land No. Wt. to a poplar in a Branch, thence No. Et. to a small white oak on edge of a hill standing in the above said GWATKINS line, thence along said line No. E. to the beginning, with all appurtenances. Signed Chas. GWATKIN. Wits. Alexander BIGBY, Geo. TEBBS, James CARBERRY. Deed of feoffment acknowledged by Charles GWATKIN and Molley his wife , said Molly GWATKIN the feme being first privately examined relinquished her dower therein, 9 Mar 1768, Prince William Co., VA.
- Charles Gwatkins had a grant from the King of England and owned more than 3,000 acres of land. Built his home and settled near Charlemont, Bedford Co., VA. The home descended from generation to generation in the family.
- Charles Gwatkins was a Captain, VA Militia, Revolutionary Army.
- 1777: Charles Gwatkins' served as Justice of the Peace, Bedford Co., VA.
- 1780, Mar: George HARDWICK, resident of Lawrence Co., KY, age 75 years, gave a deposition 13 Mar 1834 for Revolutionary War pension application. In the Spring of 1780, in March, a call was made for men to engage to go to Kentucky, which at that time was a part of Virginia. He engaged as a volunteer under Capt. Charles GWATKINS. His name was always pronounced WATKINS but he spelled his name GWATKINS. The company consisted of 33 men. It was in Bedford the company started from. GWATKINS lived in that county also in Marsh 1780 as [?] he marched across the blue ridge and through the western part of Virginia, crossed New River and marched on to Powels? Valley. There was in this valley but a few settlers and they were chiefly all [?]. He states there was no settlement from Cumberland Gap to Boonsboro on the Kentucky River, a distance between one and two hundred miles and that an entire wilderness. On the way the company would sometimes keep on the old track, but generally keep off of it for fear of the Indians. He at length arrived at Boonsboro in the month of April 1780, about the 20th. The buckeye and sugar trees were the only timber?. Col. BOONE was in the first (Battallion?) and Col. (Richard) Dick CALLAWAY also. There was not more than thirty? men in the first (Company?) and the company of GWATKINS who was a son-in-law of Col. (Richard) Dick CALLAWAY, was raised for the express purpose of protecting Boonsboro.... In Mar 1781 he received his discharge from GWATKINS at Boonsboro.
- 1787: Charles Gwatkins was Lt. Colonel of Militia, Bedford Co., VA.
- 1788: Charles Gwatkins was Sheriff, Bedford Co., VA.
- 1791: Charles Gwatkins was Colonel of Militia, Bedford Co., VA.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
- Wikitree.com.
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