Person:John Black (88)

John Black 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:

• John Black received a tract of 54 acres by patent on 16 March 1771, as listed in the dispositions below.

• DEED BOOK No. 18. - Page 26.--19th November, 1771. John Madison, Jr., to John Black. Delivered: James Black, January, 1773. [Note: this is the 200-acre tract mentioned in the disposition listed below].

Disposition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Augusta Co., VA Deed Book 29, page 245: "Martha Black, widow of John Black, deceased, of the county of Bourbon, State of Kentucky; Robert Black of Woodford County, Kentucky; Samuel Black and William Black of Bourbon County, Kentucky, heirs of the said John Black, deceased, appoint John Patrick of Augusta County, Virginia as their lawful attorney to sell two tracts of land in Augusta now in the possession of occupation on Nicholas Farhart. One tract of 200 acres bought of John Madison Nov. 19, 1771 and one tract of 54 acres granted to John Black by letters Patent March 16, 1771. Recorded March 20, 1797."

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's:

• Page 90.--10th August, 1761. Robert Patrick's will--Sons, Charles and John Patrick; son John's son, Robert; daughter, Martha Black, and her 8 sons, Robt. and John; daughter, Isabell McCulloch, and her daughter, Rachel; wife, Rachel. Executors, sons Charles and John. Guardian, wife Rachel. Teste: James Wharey, John McCulloch. Proved, 17th November, 1761, by the witnesses. Charles Patrick refuses to execute. Jno. Patrick qualifies, with Jno. McFeeters, Wm. McFeeters. [Note: Robert Patrick was the father-in-law of John Black. Since John Black only named 3 sons in his will, it is probable that the others did not reach adulthood or died before John Black wrote his will].

1.   Ancestry.com - Message Boards.

   http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BLACK/1998-02/0886522859

2. ↑ Will Abstract, in Ardery, Julia Hoge Spencer. Kentucky records: early wills and marriages, copied from court house records by regents, historians and the state historian; old bible records and tombstone inscriptions; records from Barren, Bath, Bourbon, Clark, Daviess, Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mason, Montgomery, Nelson, Nicholas, Ohio, Scott, and Shelby counties. (Lexington, Kentucky: Keystone Printery, Inc., c1932)
   1:20 (Bourbon County).

   JOHN BLACK-Will Book A, page 332-Those mentioned-wife, Martha, our two sons, Samuel and William; grand-son, John Black, son of my son Robert; eldest son, Robert, land in Woodford County, adjoining Robert Gwinn; son, Samuel, land in Bourbon and Mason Counties; son, William, land in Bourbon and Mason Counties. Written May 22nd, 1795. Proved January 1797. Executors-wife, Martha, sons, William and Robert; kinsman, Alexander Black. Witnesses-Walter Cunningham, Samuel Thompson, William Erwin.

3.   Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800. (Rosslyn, Virginia: The Commonwealth Printing Company, 1912-1913 in Three Volumes).