Person:James Eakin (1)

James Eakins was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

Contents 1 Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA 2 Will of James Eakins 3 Processioning List of 1760 4 Records in Augusta County, VA		Welcome to Old Augusta Early Settlers Beverley Manor Borden's Grant Register Data Maps Places Library History Index
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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA

James Eakin's land (Borden Tract SE, 522 acres, 1742) as shown on the map meticulously drawn by J.R. Hildebrand, cartographer. This map is copyrighted©, used by permission of John Hildebrand, son of J.R. Hildebrand, April, 2009. (Note: the tract shown may not be entirely to scale).

Acquisition of Land from Orange County, Virginia Records:

• Pages 96-100. 26-27 June 1742. Benjamin Borden of Orange County to James Eakins of same. Lease and release; for ₤1.13.8 current money. 522 acres 3 rood, part of 92,100 acres of land pattin (patented) 6 Nov. 1739... corner to Robt. Dunlap's land... near the head of the spring... side of a narrow dry meadow... (signed) Benja. Borden. Wit: Samll. Dunlap, Robt. Dunlap, John Moore. 26 Aug. 1742. Acknowledged by Benjamin Borden, Gent. [Orange County Virginia Deed Book 8, Dorman, pg. 72].

Disposition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 179.--2d November, 1768. John Eakin and Elizabeth, his wife, and James Eakin and Anne Eakin, of Bedford, £120, 261 acres, part of Borden's 92100 acres, corner Andrew and Samuel Eakin. Teste: John, James and Mathew Lyle. (Note: John and James Eakins listed in this record were sons of James Eakins, Sr., who had died a few years prior).

Will of James Eakins

• Page 381.--7th January, 1765. James Eakin's will--To wife Agness; to daughter Mary; to son John, 30 acres that John's uncle Walter formerly lived on; to daughter Margaret; to son James; to young sons Andrew and Samuel; testator's brother, Walter Eakin, and Jno. Wardlaw. Teste: Jno. Wardlaw, Jno. Montgomery, Jno. Eakin. Executors, Agnes Eakin, Mathew Huston.

• Page 388.--19th March, 1765. Executors above qualify, and will proved by the witnesses. Sureties, Wm. Lockridge, James Henry. (Note: James Eakin's son John married Elizabeth Lockridge, daughter of William Lockridge, nephew of the William Lockridge that acted as surety in the record above. The Eakin family seemed to have a close relationship with the Lockridge family).

• Page 392.--21st May, 1765. James Eakin's appraisement, recorded, by Thos. Beard, Jno. Lusk, Wm. McCanless.

Processioning List of 1760

"Processioning" was the periodic review and agreement of property lines between settler's lands. Processioning Lists are useful in determining the general area of a settlers lands and their neighbors at specific time periods:

• Page 276.--1760: Processioned in Capt. Moore's Company by John Stephson, Nathaniel Evins: For Nathaniel Evins, for Wm. McCreerey, for Thos. Willson, for John Stevenson, for John McClung, for Wm. McClung, for Alex. Moore, for Adam Reed, for Wm. Hays, for Wm. Paris, for Thomas Bard, for John Cunningham, for Mathew Huston, for John Mountgumery, for Wm. Moore, for Wm. Lockridge, for Thomas Boyd, for John Boyd, for Thomas Hill, for Robert Ware (Wire), for Wm. Hays, for Wm. Beard, for Wm. Wardlaw, for Andrew Steel, for James Steel, for Joseph Kennedy, for John Lowry, for Samuel Huston, for James Eakins, for John Hanly, for John Logan, for Alex. Logan, for Alex. McNutt, for James McNutt, for John Rosman, for Andrew Dunkin, for John Wardlaw, for Wm. McCanless, for James Cowdan, for John Moore.

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's Augusta County Records:

From Chalkley's: [unless otherwise stated]

• 1742 Petition to Gov. Gooch: Petition of the frontier inhabitants for appointment of proper officers, etc. for their defense, July 30, 1742.

To the Honorable William Gooch, Esq., His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor, ect.

Sir, We your petitioners, humbly showeth, that we, your Honor's loyal and dutiful subjects, have ventured our lives and all that we have in settling the back parts of Virginia, which was a very great hazard, and dangerous, for it is the Heathen's road to war, which has proved hurtful to several of us that were the first settlers of these back woods, and we, your honorable petitioners, some time ago petitioned your Honor for to have commissioned men amongst us, which we, your Honor's must dutiful subject, thought properest men, and men that had heart and courage, to head us in time of peril and to defend your country, and your poor subjects' interest from the violence of the Heathen. But yet again we humbly presume to put your Honor in mind of our great want of them in hopes that your Honor will grant a Captain's commission to John McDowell, with following officers, and your Honor's compliance in this will be great satisfaction to your most dutiful and humble petitioners, and we, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.

So please your Honor, we your humble petitioners, understand that your Honor has left John McDowell out of your Commission of the Peace, for which we, your humble petitioners, are very much troubled, for he has been very good and useful to the poor and loved to oppress all vice, therefore, we humbly pray that your Honor will afford us the same blessing, and we, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.

[Signed]: Andrew Moore, David Moore, James Eakin, William Candless, David Moore, Jr., Alexr. Moore, William Mitchell, George Henderson, William Lockridge, Samuel Dunlap, James Eakin, Walter Eakin, Robert dunlap, Solomon Moffett, Charles Dunlap, John Moore, George Moffett, John Goof, James Sutherland, Matthew Paxton, James Milo, James Greenlee, James McDowell, John Mitchell, Ephraim McDowell, William Moore, William Humphreys, Edward Boyd, John Anderson, Joab Anderson, Matthew Lyle, Robert Houston, John Gray, William Armstrong, Batis Armstrong, William McClure, Alexr. McClure. Names on back of petition: Moses McClure, Michael Dougherty, Moses Whiteside, ____ McCleary, Charles Quell, Samuel M. Roberts, Michael Milo, Andrew Boyd, Arthur Donnelly.

• Page 157.--17th March, 1748-9. David Moore's inventory by James Fulton, John Mountgomery and Patrick Hays. Ro Coulton, due for 2 gallons whiskey at 3 shillings; Jno. Shields, due; Jno. Carr, due; Jas. Aikin, due; Benj. Watson, due; Jonathan Brown, due; James Walker, due; John Lowry, due; Jno. Edmiston, due; Wm. McCreerey, due; James Shields, due; Wm. Worthclaw, due.

• Page 500.--18th May, 1748. £7.10.0. Benj. Borden, &c., to John Huston (sold in testator's lifetime), 228 acres, part of 98,100 acres; corner to James Eikins and Richard Consard; corner to Consard and Samuel Dunlap. Teste: Robt. Davis, Jas. Caldwell, George Gardner. Acknowledged as above.

• Page 119.--17th January, 1748-9. William Cowden's will--Sons, James and William, plantation when they are sixteen; wife, Jane. Executors, James Eakin, Jno. Moore. Teste: Walter Eakin, Alex. Moore, Saml. Moore. Proved, 16th February, 1748, by Saml. and Alex. Moore.

• Page 39.--24th April, 1748-9. John Huston's will--Wife (to act with advice of John Moore); sons, Samuel and Mathew (infant); rest of children; Mary Blair to have a share with the rest (of the children). Executors, wife and John Moore. Teste: James Eakin, Joseph Kennedy, Walter Eakin. Proved, 15th May, 1755, by the witnesses; wife Margaret and John Moore qualify, with sureties Mathew Lyle and Wm. Lockridge.

• Vol. 1 - ORIGINAL PETITIONS AND PAPERS FILED IN THE COUNTY COURT. - 1750 -Petition for road from Joseph Kennedy's Mill to John Huston's, and from John Huston's to the great road from Timber Grove to Woods Gap: James Hill, Joseph Kenedy, John Wilson, James Eakin, John Handly, William Wardlaw, William Lockridge, John Edenston, William McConnell, Walter Eakin, Robert Stewart, Robert Dunlap, Andrew Duncan, John Huston, Samuel Huston, Robert Alexander, Patrick Hays, John Mountgomery, Andrew Steel, John Stewart.

• Page 390.--19th August, 1752. Richard Cousart and Martha to Jno. Cunningham and Robert Weir, 333 acres. In Borden's tract; corner James Eckins, Samuel Dunlap's line; corner Wm. McCanless, Robert Dunlap's line. Teste: Samuel Huston, James Eakin, Andrew Lockridge.

• Page 60.--10th August, 1754. John Huston's appraisement, by Jas. Eakin, Wm. McCaules.

• Page 120.--Joseph Paxton's will--Brothers, Samuel and William; mother; sister's two children, 1 pistole each to be sent the first opportunity. Executors, brother John and cousin Thomas Paxton. Teste: James Eakin, Jos. Paxton. Proved, 19th November, 1755, by both witnesses. John and Thomas Paxton qualified executors, with sureties Joseph and Thos. Paxton.

• Vol. 1 - MARCH, 1758 (A). - James Eaken vs. Thomas Paxton.--Trespass for taking and conveying away Elizabeth, daughter of James.

• Page 1.--28th September, 1760. James Rogers' appraisement, by James Eakin, William Moore, David Moore.

• Page 251.--22d February, 1763. Alexander Andersen's estate appraised, by Jas Eakin, Wm. McCanless, Jno. Montgomery, Mathew Huston.

• Page 364.--18th June, 1763. John Cunningham and Robert Weir to Hugh Weir, £100, 333 acres in Borden's tract; corner James Eckins, Samuel Dunlap's line; corner William McCanless, Robert Dunlap's land. Teste: John Neill, Robert Reed, Samuel ( ) Loge, John Mountgomerey, Samuel and Mathew Huston.

• Page 204.--2d November, 1768. Same (From Borden's executors) to James Cooper, 5, 112 acres, part of 92100, corner Cap. Joseph Kenady, Andrew Steel's line; John Lowry's old corner; James Akin's corner; corner John Lusk. Delivered: James Cooper, April, 1773.

• Vol. 2 - James Young vs. Eakin--O. S. 148; N. S. 51--Bill, 23d February, 1808. Complainant was son-in-law of Andrew Kennedy (of Rockbridge?). James Aiken bought land from Borden, Sr. (died in Orange), devised (will in Augusta) it to son John 30 acres which his uncle Walter formerly lived on, to son James, to sons, Andrew and Samuel. John and James (before Andrew and Samuel came of age)conveyed to a distant relation, Anne Aiken. Ann sold to George Weir, father of Thomas Weir, who conveyed to orator. Andrew Aiken is dead, also James Aiken. Thomas Weir lives in Tennessee. Ann Eakin was widow of Walter. Margaret Pollax deposes: Was daughter of John Aiken. Thomas Beard was father-in-law of George Weir. James Houston deposes: He was born in 1751. William Alexander deposes in 1769 he heard his grandfather Thomas Beard say. George Weir's will of Rockbridge, dated 8th August, 1781. Wife, Jean; sons, Thomas; children. Recorded in Rockbridge, 6th November, 1781.

1. ↑ Drumbo Presybterian Church, Drumbo Parish, Co Down, in Baptismal Record.

   "Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F51S-FQY : accessed 15 Nov 2014), James Eakin, ; citing PRESBYTERIAN,DRUMBO,DOWN,IRELAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 0823750 IT 1.

2.   Church Records, in Communicants at Timber Ridge
   1753.

   James and Walter Eakin signed call for Rev John Brown of Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church.

3.   Find A Grave.

   James Eakin
   BIRTH 8 Nov 1702
   Northern Ireland
   DEATH 19 Mar 1765 (aged 62)
   Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA
   BURIAL Timber Ridge Presbyterian Churchyard
   Timber Ridge, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA
   
   Son of John Ekin and Mary Marshall
   
   
   
   Husband of Agness Houston
   
   
   
   Father of:
   
   
   
   Mary Eakin (b. 1732)
   
   John Eakin (1734-1818) m. Elizabeth Paxton
   
   James Eakin (1736-1815) m. 1st: Ann Beard; m. 2nd: Isabella Moore
   
   Margaret Eakin (b. 1747)
   
   Andrew Eakin (1750-1808)
   
   Samuel Eakin (1752-1817) m. Sarah Wilson
   
   
   
   James Eakin and his brother Walter emigrated from Northern Ireland to North America, arriving in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania about 1730, later migrating south to Augusta Co., Virginia, where James Eakin purchased 522 acres of land from Benjamin Borden for ₤1.13.8 current money on June 26, 1742.
   
   
   
   In the church records of communicants at Timber Ridge in 1753, James and Walter Eakin signed a call for Rev. John Brown to serve as the minister of Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church.
   
   
   
   In his will written 7 January, 1765, in Augusta Co., Virginia, James Eakin mentions his wife Agness, his daughters Mary and Margaret; his sons John and James, along with his young sons Andrew and Samuel; and his brother, Walter Eakin.
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/266632734/james-eakin

4.   Ages of children are best guess based on birth of James, probable marriage in Drumbo, years spent in Pennsylvania, 1870 Census reports of ggrandchildren who list PA as birth place of James Jr., VA law on minor male children age being under 16, family tradition that Samuel is the name given to last male child.