The Erwin Patterson-Harbison place on Looney’s Mill Creek was the well-known Waskey Mill Place of later days. William Harbison came there in 1751 and as a justice in Augusta County was an important man. He died in 1775 leaving his wife, Mary; sons David, William and George; daughters, Hannah, Agnes, Mary, Jean, Grizzle, Rebecca and Elizabeth. David was to have the home place and support his mother. The other children had been provided for and received now only five shillings each. The executors were wife, Mary and son-in-law, Nathaniel Evans2. David Harbison and wife, Catherine, sold the land to Mathew Wilson, of Augusta County, whose widow, Mary Wilson, sold it in 1812 to her son,John L. Wilson, of Bedford county.
2William Herbison’s Will, Botetourt Will Book, A, 48.
