Person:Ephraim Richardson (1)

Ephraim Richardson was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA

Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's: [unless otherwise listed]

• 1757: Pendleton County Survey/Patent, VA: 200 acres — Parsons, James — mouth, E. Dry Run, purchased by Ephraim Richardson, 1763. [History of Pendleton County, VA, Morton, pg. 376]

• Page 563 — 10th December. 1763. James Parsons and Huldah ( ), of Hampshire County, to Ephraim Richardson, £30, 200 acres at the mouth of the dry branch on the South Branch of Potomac, patented 8d September, 1757, to James. Delivered: 15th October, 1766, to Ephraim Richardson.

• Page 72R.—10th November, 1764. William Preston and Susannah to Peter Cockran. £7.10. .32 acres on James River; Givens' corner. Delivered to Ephraim Richardson. 15th October. 1765.

• 1769, Certificates for lands on which improvements were made by the following persons in the years named: Samuel Owens, Monongahela River; Ephraim Richardson, Cheat; John Downs, Hillin’s Run; Daniel Harris, Mononghela River; William Hannah, Forks of Cheat; Jesse Hollingsworth, Crooked Run; Charles Martin and Jonathan Wright, Monongahela; Richard Harrison, Crooked Run; Thomas Day, Crafts Run; John Collins, Cheat ; John Pierpont (near Easton). [Source: History of Monongalia County, West Virginia]

Disposition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 355.—16th October, 1765. Ephraim Richardson, of Hampshire, to Adam Harper, i32. 200 acres on South Branch Potomac at mouth of Dry Branch patented 22d September, 1767, to James Parsons. Delivered: Adam Harper, May Court, 1774.

Will Abstract/Estate Records

From Chalkley's:

• Vol. 3 - Page 52.———3d August, 1778. Ephraim Richason’s will (of Tygart’s Valley)——To wife, Rachel; to sons, Aron and Abraham, infants; if children be not well used, they are to be taken by Daniel Richason. Executors, brothers Aaron and Daniel Richardson. Teste: William Blair, Aron (mark) Richardson. Proved, 19th January, 1779, by the witnesses, and 20th January, 1779, administration c. t. a. granted Aron Richason.

• Vol. 3 - Page 95.--8th December, 1778. Ephraim Richardson's estate appraised by Daniel Westfall, Francis Wire, Wm. Blair.

• Vol. 3 - Page 96.--Above estate settlement--Due from Watson Clark.

• Vol. 3 - Page 97.--8th December, 1778. Ephraim Richardson's estate sold at vendue, to, viz: Aron Richardson, Anthony Smith, Rachel Richardson, James Lackey, Joseph Pancake, Eliah Fornelson, John Crouch, John Fornelson.

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's: [unless otherwise stated]

• 1769: PIONEERS AND EARLY SETTLEMENTS. From 1769 to 1777, we find the following persons making settlements in Union 2:

PIONEERS. 1769--Eph. Richardson. 1770 - Robert Lowther 1773 —— Samuel Ruble [History of Monongalia County, West Virginia]

• MAY 18, 1774.(?) Ephraim Richardson and Wm. Martin--road surveyors from. Francis Wier's, on Monongahela River, to Thorny Creek, on waters of. Greenbrier. John Warwick, Richard Elliott and Ralph Stewart are exempted from. working on above road until it is built. [Augusta County Court Records, AUGUSTA COUNTY COURT RECORDS. ORDER BOOK No. XV. page 180].

• Soldiers and Public Service in Dunmore's War 1775, "Virginia citizens or soldiers from the counties of Augusta, Bedford, Botetourt, Culpeper, and Fincastle who were compensated in 1775 for supplies or service during Dunmore's Expedition in 1774."

Claims, Augusta County

George Shaver

John Warwick

John Everman

Isabella Stewart

Danial McLean

Ephraim Richardson

William Westfall

John Crouch

Conrade Goode

Charles Fornelson (paid John Fornelson)

Richard Elliot

David Haddon

[Source: http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/Microfilm/DW/001/00233.t

• Vol. 3 - Page 171.--13th February, 1775. John Everman's estate appraised by Ephraim Richardson, Wm. Westfall, George Westfall.

• At a Court continued & held at Augusta Town for the district of West Augusta, September the 18th, 1776. David Rodgers, Isaac Cox, John McDowell, Richard Yeates, Wm. Scott, Dan’l McFarlane, John McDaniel [McDonald], George Morgan, Philip Rosa, James McMahon, Benj. Kuykendall, Wm. Louther, John Evans, David Scott, John Hardin, sen’r., John Swearingen, Thos. Gaddie, Wm. Harrison, Sam'l Newell, Thos. Brown, Thos. Freeman, Joshua Wright, Emsmias Bochias, Henry Enochs, Henry Vanmetre, James Caldwell, John Williamson, Sen'r, Thos. Polka, Oliver Miller, Zechariah Spriggs, Benj. Wilson, Wm. Hanna, Ephraim Richardson, James Walker, James Anderson, Alex`r Maxwell, Amaziah Davidson, Jacob Cook, Matthew Ritchey, Jacob Haymaker, Thomas Crooks, Thomas Waller, James Wherry, Ab'm Inloe, Domes Linley, And'w Swearingen, Wm. Rankin, are recommended as Proper persona to be added to the Commission. Source: Civil and Legal Records of West Augusta Court, HeritagePursuit.com

• 26 September 1776 - Ephraim Richardson signed a petition as a petitioner in Tygart's Valley asking for Militia Protection. [Legislative Petition, Augusta County, Virginia, 26 September 1776, Reel 12, Box 15, Folder 1, Library of Virginia].

To The Speaker, President, and Gentlemen of the Convention of Virginia

The Petition of the Inhabitants of Tigers Valley most Humbly Sheweth. That your Petitioners being in a very remote situation and the very Extent of the Frontiers and not within less than Eighty Miles of any Releif in case of an Emerjancy, which now we Daily expect from the Indians, and as our Inhabitants consist of about One hundred and Fifty Families in the cours of Fifty Miles upon the said River of Tigers Valley, including Buckannan [Buckhannon] – Notwithstanding Our weakness and Inabillity we unamiously are willing to Exact our utmost Endeavours to withstand the Enemy. Therefore we your Petitioners beg leave to lay before your Wisdome our Distressed Condition and hope you will allow us Three Companys as Rangers in the said Bounds to be stationed in Different Forts to suit the said Inhabitants.

And your Petitioners as in Duty Bound shall ever pray &c.

Sept’r. 26th 1776

Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statement, documents pertaining to Benjamin Wilson

1.   MacCabe, Virginia Parsons. Parsons family history and records. (Parsons, West Virginia: McClain Print. Co., 1973).

   The years of 1753 and 1754 must have been a busy time for Thomas Parsons as he was also named as the executor of a will for Daniel Richardson and he was named in the probate proceedings for Isaac Van Meter’s will in the early part of 1754. To me, as my personal opinion, it signifies a long friendship for Thomas to have been named the executor of a will. Rishardson was living in the area as early as 1748 but it doesn’t appear Thomas was there at the time as the paper trail for Thomas begins about 1753. Did they know each other from an earlier area where they lived? There did the Richardson’s migrate from? The Van Meter’s came from NY, NJ, and PA before settling on the South Branch area [of the Potomac River].
   
   What is interesting to note is that to date there is no known proven familial relationship of the early Richardson’s or the early Van Meter’s to our Thomas Parsons. There is an early marriage of an Agnes Parsons to a Daniel Richardson in VA but it hasn’t been proven to tie into our lines and it didn’t take place near where our Parsons were living. Captain James [Parsons, son of Thomas Sr.] also had land that was sold to a Harper and later to an Ephraim Richardson. Still no proven relationship exists yet.