Person:James Fisher (40)

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

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Records in Delaware

• Liber 1; f 11 26 July 1729. Simon Kollock, John Jacabs, Samuell Davis, Robert Shankland, Justices. John Fisher came regarding his father’s estate. Thomas Fisher & James Fisher (minors, sons of John Fisher (dec’d)) chose as their guardian, their brother, John Fisher.

• Liber 1; f 13 21 November 1729. Simon Kollock, Enoch Cummings, Robert Shankland, Justices. Jacob Kollock Registrar. Petition of Enuch Cummings, Esq. Who married Hannah Fisher (daughter of John Fisher (dec’d)). Request division of land. Simon Kollock, Anderson Parker, Abraham Potter, William Crage, & Samuel Davis were appointed.

• Liber 1; f 32 22 February 1731. John Rodes, And. Parker, & Robert Shankland Justices. Jacob Kollock Registrar. 5 persons appointed on 21 Nov 1729 per request of Mr. Enoch Cuming & his wife Hannah (daughter of John Fisher (dec’d)) for division of land returned. Date: 21 November 1729. Land on south side of Broad Kill Creek, called “Maidenhead”. Date: 16 December 1729. Land on south side of Broad Kill Creek bought of Josep Piles. Adjoining land of heirs (unnamed) of John Fisher & Abraham Potter.

• Liber 1; f 33. Surveyor: Robert Shankland. Portion to William Fisher. Portion to Mr. Enoch Cummings & his wife Hannah. Portion to James Fisher.

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Vol. 1 - MAY, 1753. - Abraham Potter vs. Robert Craven.--In 1744, bought of James Fisher 350 acres. Fisher executed a bond and Potter agreed to make payment by last of August, 1745, at request of Robert Craven and Fisher, because Fisher was then going out of the Country, and Craven undertook to give Potter a good title. Land was on Cook's Creek. Fisher went to Carolina. Abraham Potter, otherwise called "Abraham Potter of Sussex upon Delaware." Bond by him to Robert Craven, dated 1745.

1.   Harrison, J. Houston (John Houston). Settlers by the Long Grey Trail: Some Pioneers to Old Augusta County, Virginia, and Their Descendants of the Family of Harrison and Allied Lines. (Dayton, Virginia : J.K. Ruebush Co., 1935).

   [pg. 134]
   Another early settler on this creek [Cook's Creek], near Cravens, was Abraham Potter, "otherwise called 'Abraham Potter of Sussex upon Delaware', bond by him to Robert Cravens, dated 1745." (Chalkley, Vol. 1, p. 309). Potter bought his land from James Fisher, who too was probably from Delaware. It will be recalled that one John Fisher sold land in Delaware to Gideon Harrison.
   
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   James Fisher was probably the first owner of the spring. ONe of this name was an early acquaintance of the Harrisons in Delaware (see page 51), and assuredly James of Augusta in the early days of the county, was no new acquaintance of the elder Cravens. In 1744, while preparing to remove from Augusta, Fisher sold 550 acres of land on Cook's Creek; to Abraham Porter; arranging with Robert Cravens to give Porter a good title. Porter agreed to make payment, at the request of Fisher and Cravens, by the last of August 1747.
   
   Following the sale of his Augusta land, James Fisher "went to Carolina". Porter failed to pay, and instead signed a new bond to Robert Cravens in 1745. In May 1755, the matter was brought to court for adjustment. (see page 134)