In 1732, Edward Lucas, II came to the Shenandoah Valley, from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He had been granted land in Jefferson County, Virginia, by Lord Fairfax, and was one of the Valley's first settlers. The date of 1732 is evident by the engravings on a boundary stone near the estate that he named "Elmwood." Because of a lawsuit between Jacob Hite and Lord Fairfax, Edward did not gain full ownership of the land until 1760, and therefore he did not build a permanent house there. He established his home on a plantation which he called "Cold Spring."
"He was the grandfather of Robert Lucas, 11th governor of Ohio, and the great-grandfather of Edward and William Lucas, both of whom represented the Valley District in Congress. Another descendant, Daniel Bedinger Lucas, was U.S. senator-elect from West Virginia but was never seated." [1]
Edward was married three times, to Mary Darke (1709-1743) and Mary Elizabeth Corn (1730-1768) and Elizabeth Cram (1710-?), not necessarily in that order. Edward died October 3, 1777, and is buried in the Lucas Family Cemtery at Elmwood, in Shepherdstown. [2]
In 1797, twenty years after his father's death, Edward's son, Captain Edward Lucas, born in 1738, and a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, built a two-story Federal brick structure with an attic, stone foundation, and basement, 2.4 rniles south of Shepherdstown on W.Va. County Route 17 (Flowing Springs Road) and .3 west of 17, in Virginia, in what is present day West Virginia. The estate is known as "Elmwood," and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Captain Edward Lucas would die, in 1809, but the house would mark its place in history by serving as a hospital, during the American Civil War. [3]
He wrote his will in 1777 in Berkeley, Virginia. Names sons Edward, William, Robert, David, Isaac, Andrew, John, Job; daughters Ann Baldwin, Mary Lucas, Hannah Lucas, Elizabeth Hall (deceased), Margaret. Desires that daughter Ann "take care of Margaret and my executors to help with money at any time when wanted for her comfort or when sick." Appoints sons Edward and David executors. Presented for probate on 21 Oct 1777
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