Person:Isaac Smith (76)

Isaac Smith, Sr. was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Records in Orange County, Virginia

• 1740 - 24 July. - Pages 204-06. 23-24 July 1740. Thomas Stanton Jr. of St. Mark's Parish, Orange County to Issac Smith of same. Lease and release; for £40 current money. 200 acres, all the land Thomas Stanton Jr. holds on the north side of Stanton River (except 120 acres sold to Jeremiah Yearly)... at the Great Mountains, part of 1,000 acres granted to Thomas Stanton Jr. 28 Sept. 1728... east side of Stanton's River... corner to Jerh. Yearly... Wm. Stanton's line... back lines under the foot of the mountains... (signed) Thos. Stanton Jr. Wit: Zach. Taylor, W. Bell, John Howard. 24 July 1740. Acknowledged by Thomas Stanton Junr. [Orange County Virginia Deed Book 4, Dorman, pg. 47].

• ORANGE COUNTY DEED BOOK 6, Pages 59-62: 26-27 Aug. 1741. Thomas Downer of Orange County to Isaac Smith of same. Lease and release; for £50 current money. 100 acres... below the mouth of a branch... to Beautifull Run... (signed) Thos. Downer. 27 Aug. 1741. Acknowledged by Thomas Downer. [blank], wife of Downer relinquished her right of dower.

• ORANGE COUNTY DEED BOOK 6, Pages 69-71: 26-27 March 1741. Isaac Smith of St. Thomas' Parish, Orange County, merchant, to Benja. Smith of same, planter. Lease and release; for £20 current money. 100 acres at the Great Mountains on Stanton's River... near the foot of a mountain on the river side... to Jeremiah Yearlie's land... (signed) Isaac Smith. Wit: Zachy. Taylor, Thos. Red, Thos. (T) Jackson. 27 Aug. 1741. Acknowledged by Isaac Smith.

• ORANGE COUNTY DEED BOOK, Pages 76-77: 26 October 1742. Isaac Smith of St. Thomas Parish, Orange County, to John Rucker of Same. Mortgage to secure £600 current money, to be paid 25 December 1743. All my lands and tenements and plantations together with my negros Seaser, George, Bess and Moll, horses, cattle and hogs, beds, pots, pewter goods &c, as also all debts due to me. Signed, Isaac Smith. Witnesses: Thomas Chew, Richard Hartswell, Thomas Scott. 29 November 1742. Acknowledged by Isaac Smith.

• Pages 344-46. 27 Nov. 1742. Richard Winslow, Gent., Sheriff of Orange County, to Richard Halcomb and Wm. Sparks. For £25.5.- current money. Richard Halcomb at a Court held 26 March 1742 obtained a judgement against Isaac Smith for debt of £50 current money. A jury, Bryan Scisson, foreman, etc., were impannelled and find for the plaintiff £49.2.6. The Sheriff by John Newport his deputy made return: I have taken of the defendant's estate one tract of land, 275 acres lying on the Robinson River, also 150 acres and one black walnut desk which could not sell for want of buyers. Richard Halcomb had a writ of venditioni exponas 21 May 1742. The Sheriff sold the tract of 275 acres to Richd. Halcomb and Wm. Sparks on 16 June to the highest bidder for £25.5.- current money on the open market. 275 acres... on the south side of the Robinson River... in a swamp... head of a branch... to the Dark Run... down the river to John Gibbs corner... to the river again... (signed) Richard Winslow. 23 June 1743. Acknowledged by Richd. Winslow. [Orange County Virginia Deed Book 7, Dorman, pg. 60].

• ORANGE COUNTY DEED BOOK 10, Pages 180-183: Indenture, 25 July 1745 between Benjamine Smith, Parish of St. Thomas, County of Orange, and Isaac Smith of same .. for five shillings .. sells 100 acres in Orange County at the Great Mountains in Stanton River ... Benjamin (X) Smith Seal. Witness: J. Pendleton. Recorded Orange County 26 July 1745 .. payment of £40 .. received .. witnessed by Wm. Green and Richard Mauldin, and recorded.

• ORANGE COUNTY DEED BOOK 10, Pages 183-188 - Indenture 25 July 1745 between Isaac Smith of Parish of St. Thomas, Orange County, and Jeremiah Yearly of same .. for five shillings ... sells 100 acres in same Parish and County at the Great Mountain in Stanton River ... Witnesses: J. Pendleton and William Green. Recorded Orange County 26 July 1745 .. payment of £40 .. Receipt acknowledged. Margaret, wife of Isaac Smith, personally appeared .. relinquished her right of dower, 26 July 1745.

• AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA ORDER BOOK No. 1, Page 322 - 19 November 1747. John Michael Miller acquitted for enticing away from Isaac Smith a servant man named John Smith.

• FEE BOOKS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA COURT, 1750-51 - Page 26, Isaac Smith, Culpeper County, Virginia, (February), vs. Scot. (Vol. 2, page 397)

• 9th May 1750 - Thomas Jackson to son, Isaac Jackson land adjoining Isaac Smith. Then in same month sold some more to David Jackson .. so all three were neighbors. The parish was mentioned as St. Thomas Parish of Culpeper County.

• ORANGE COUNTY DEED BOOK 12, Pages 117-118 - 1 July 1752. To all Christian People: I, Susannah Rucker and Peter Rucker, Acting Executors of last will and testament of John Rucker, late of Orange County, dec'd, had this present day of Isaac Smith of Culpeper County, the sum of £100, being balance of £600 due John Rucker for all lands, tentements and plantations, together with all Negroes, horses, cattle, hoggs, potts, pewter goods, which Isaac Smith by deed 26 October 1742 mortgaged unto John Rucker for the sum of £600. We assign our interest, right and that Isaac Smith is thereof seised to the use, as in his former estate .. we have released .. 1 July 1752 .. Signed by Susannah Rucker and Peter Rucker. Witnesses: Eras. Taylor, Richard Tyler, Tavnr. Beale, and Thos. Chew. Recorded Orange County, 23rd November 1752.

• 2 March 1753 - Isaac Smith and wife Margaret of Culpeper County sold land to Richard Vernon of Orange County for 20 pounds money.

• April 1754 - Isaac and Margaret of Brumfield Parish plus Robert Harrison & wife Frances sold land. Robert Harrison and wife Frances were from Westmoreland County, Washington Parish. (looks like Frances may have been their daughter).

• Sept. 1754 - Again Isaac and Margaret Smith sold land. Land that Isaac had since 1740. And again they sold more to Benjamin Smith in same month and year.

• AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOK No. 7, Page 375 - 1st May 1756. John Black, plantationer, to John Black, his son, natural love &c, and £5, 210 acres on South River, Shanando in Beverley Manor, part of 375 acres conveyed ny Beverley to George Home and by Home to Gibbons Jennings, 14th March 1740, and by Jennings having afterwards absconded, said land was sold at public aution to James Davise by Richard Winston, sheriff of Orange to satisfy Isaac Smith's judgement on Jennings by deed in Orange dated 24th June 1743, and conveyed by Davise to Black, 21st November 1746, patent line of Beverley Manor, William Bell's line; John Ramsey's line. Teste: Jno. Morten. Livery &c. Delivered: Jno. Black, May 1763. (Vol. 3, page 345)

• Nov. 1761 - Isaac Smith witness to land sale ... all German names in transaction

• On the Culpeper County, Virginia 1764 Rent Rolls is an Isaac SMITH and a Michael Smith who might be relatives of the Mary Margaret Smith who was born in Culpepper County, Virginia in 1760.

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's:

• Page 213.--20th November, 1746. James Davis (Device) to John Black, £_____ current money Virginia; 375 acres in Beverley Manor sold by George Home, of Orange County, to Gibbins Jennings, of Shanando. 14th March, 1740, and recorded in Orange, and afterwards sold at auction by Richard Winslow to satisfy execution vs. Gibbins Jennings; on 21st March, 1742, to satisfy Isaac Smith. Deed by Winslow to Davis in Orange, 24th June, 1743; on South River Shanando in Robert Turk's line; Samuel Gay's line; Beverley Manor line.--James S. Davis. Witnesses, Thos. Lewis, Wm. Wright, Plineeas Griffiths. Acknowledged, 21st May, 1747.

• Page 314.--23d September, 1749. Henry Ayler (Ehler) and Clev. Danner, of Culpeper, to Jacob Harmon. Corner Jacob Stover. Teste: Isaac Smith, Casper Vought, Jacob Harman, Jr. Delivered to Mrs. Harmon, 24th July, 1758.

• Page 375.--1st May, 1756. John Black, plantationer, to John Black, his son, natural love, &c., and £5, 210 acres on South River Shanando in Beverley Manor, part of 375 acres conveyed bv Beverley to Geo. Home and by Home to Gibbons Jennings, 14th March, 1740, and by Jennings having afterwards absconded, said land was sold at public auction to James Davise by Richard Winston, sheriff of Orange, to satisfy Isaac Smith's judgment on Jennings by deed in Orange dated 24th June, 1743, and conveyed by Davise to Black, 21st November, 1746, patent line of Beverley Manor, William Bell's line ; John Ramsey's line. Teste: Jno. Morton. Livery, &c. Delivered: Jno. Black, May, 1763.

Information on Isaac Smith

William Smith, Augusta County, Virginia deed for 135 acres of land 1739. May have been Isaac's father.

John Smith married Margaret Canterbury 1726, in Richmond County, Virginia .

SMITH FILE, LIBRARY OF ROANOKE, VIRGINIA: Isaac SMITH was first an enlistee in Triggs Battalion, Montgomery County Militia; he was discharged in Pittsburg and enlisted in 1777, as a private in the 1st Regiment of the Continental army, was appointed Sergeant of 1st Regiment which was Captain Charles Pelham's Company. He served in the 2nd Virginia Regiment; the 3rd Virginia Regiment, & 10th Regiment which was in the command of Col. Edward Stevens & was paid for 2 months service in December 1777 ($18.90) He was a member of Lafayette's Corp & served with him at the battle of Yorktown where Cornwallis surrendered, ending the war.

In 1780, Isaac SMITH, Jr. owned a thousand acres of land on Fern Creek in Fayette County, West Virginia. In 1780, what became Fayette County, West Virginia was in Greenbrier and Montgomery Counties, Virginia.

Shenandoah Valley Pioneers page 91---Roads opened & overseers 1788 Captain Stead's to Warm Spring Road--Isaac SMITH overseer. Order Book page 185.

THE SMITH FAMILY (ENGLISH DESCENT) OF THE ROBINSON RIVER AREA, by Darryl J. Diemer, 921 Parkway Drive, Louisville, Kentucky 40217.

Isaac Smith, Sr. Was born ca 1720 in Virginia. He was the son of William Smith and Elizabeth Downing. Isaac Smith, Sr. married Margaret Rucker ca 1738. Margaret was the daughter of Captain John Rucker and Susannah Coghill. Isaac served in the militia during the Revolution and he is listed in the DAR Patriot Index, Vol. 1, page 626.

Isaac and Margaret had ten known children. They are proved primarily through land transactions and the will of Isaac's brother, Benjamine Smith (Madison County Will Book 1, pages 342-343). Isaac died in Madison County, Virginia in 1802 leaving a will (Madison County Will Book 1, pages 344-345). Isaac mentions only one child in his will, leaving the majority of his estate to various grandchildren.

The children of Isaac Smith, Sr. And Margaret Rucker are:

1. Winifred Smith, b. Ca 1739, m. Peter Fleshman, Jr. (Beyond Germanna, v. 4, n. 3, p.195) and had three children:

a. Elizabeth Fleshman

b. John Fleshman married Nancy Dunn

c. Benjamin Fleshman married Delilah Shirley

2. Elizabeth Smith married William Rucker, her first cousin, and had seven children (see Rucker histories for further details).

3. Henrietta Smith married Daniel Hollenbeck. She separated from her husband and received a court-ordered maintenance from him. No know issue.

4. Susannah Smith married Thomas Standley in 1781 and had one known child

a. Henrietta Standley married (1) Jeremiah Rucker (2) William Thornton

5. Isaac Smith, alias Sims, married a daughter of William Sims of Culpeper County, Virginia and had one known child. There are said to be others but they are unknown to the author.

a. Isaac Smith, Jr. married Susannah Smith, daughter of Downing Rucker Smith. Among the offspring of Isaac Smith, Jr. And Susannah Smith were:

I. Isaac R. Smith married Matilda Clore

II. Susannah Smith married Abel Carpenter

6. Melinda Smith never married and died in Madison County, Virginia in 1803

7. Mary Smith married Elijah Underwood and had ten children including:

a. Henrietta Underwood m. James Aylor. (See The Underwood Family of Madison County, Virginia by Ben H. Coke for additional information)

8. William Smith married Frances Cave and died in 1802. He apparently had no heirs as he left everything to Downing Rucker Smith's five children.

9. Edwin Smith

10. Downing Rucker Smith married Catherine Boehme (Beam, Beemon). Catherine could be a sibling of Daniel Boehme of the Hebron Church community but proof is lacking. Downing R. Smith and Catherine Boehme had five children:

a. William Downing Smith married Diana Yager and had thirteen children including:

I. Fielding Smith married Rhoda Carpenter

II. Nancy Smith married Benjamin Garr

III. Ellen Smith married Joel Smith

IV. Mary Smith married Jonas Finks Blankenbaker

V. Barbara Jency Smith married John S. Yowell

VI. Robinson G. Smith married Elizabeth Shirley Clore

b. Benjamine Smith married Anna Yowell

c. Susannah Smith married Isaac Smith, Jr., son of Isaac Smith alias Sims

d. Downing William Smith married Elizabeth Bush

e. Asa Smith married Barbara Yager and had four children including:

I. Weeden Smith married Alpha Yager

(editor's note) This family is of special interest because the name Smith occurs also among the residents of German ancestry who were living in the same area. With many marriages between the English and German residents, confusion can develop rapidly. It is hoped that this material will prove useful in sorting and identifying the Smiths.

[From: Beyond Germanna, Vol. 4, Number 4, July 1992, by John Blankenbaker, P. O. Box 120, Chadds Ford, VA 19317. Found by cousin Elizabeth Smith Burden.]