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Facts and Events
Information on Ann Ewing
From "Birthplaces of Pocahontas James Ewing's Children", by Jean McClure:
- 1741 — Ann Ewing was born about 1742, probably at James Ewing’s family cabin on the 44 acres he sold to Moses Moore Sr. for two steel traps and two pounds English Sterling. James Ewing would had to have settlement rights to be able to sell the 44 acres. Settlement rights required the building of a cabin and the planting of a crop so this means that James Ewing and his wife, Sarah Mayse, would have settled on the land by 1741 or before. James Ewing was born in 1721 and would have been twenty years old in 1741. Surveying of the 44 acres did not occur at the time of sale, so Moses Moore Sr. had a survey made on April 19, 1769.[2] Moses Moore Sr.'s neighbors' surveys show that this land was on Ewing’s Creek (sometime after 1853 called Knapp Creek) located in Pocahontas County and a major contributory to the Greenbrier River.
- [Source: http://ewingfamilyassociation.org/documents/McClure/McClure_James_BirthPlaces.html]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kathy Vaughan Brisbin. Brisbin email. (email to Thomas F. Ewing, 10/19/1997).
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