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Facts and Events
John Emmett 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:
- Page 363.--20th September, 1786. John Brooks, Jr., and Ann ( ) to John Emmett, of Pennsylvania. Delivered: John Emmett, 21st January, 1790, part of plantation John Brooks, Sr., now lives on.
Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley's:
- Vol. 2, Marriage Bond: 1789--May 9, Samuel Brooks and Mary Penrose, guardian and next friend, John Emmitt (consent); surety, John Emmitt.
- Vol. 2, Marriage Bond: 1789--August 18, Isaac Hudson and Sarah Love; surety, John Emmitt. Isaac is son of George Hudson (consent); witnesses, William Gllkeson, David Williams.
- [12th June, 1789]. Page 239.--List of debts by bonds, bills, notes, and acceptances due to above estate-[Thomas Stuart's estate]-By Francis Allison and son, Andrew; George Burton; Francis Bogs, assigned by John Hardy; Thomas Bates (Holston); Wm. Butt; Isaac Burns; John Boal; Jno. Creely; Wm. Currance; David Clerkston; Wm. Dandridge; Jno. Emmitt; Jno. Earskins; Edward Harkins; Jno. Jack; James Walker (Samuel's son).
- Page 73.--John Mills' estate appraisement taken 22d September, 1800, by John Emmitty et als.
- Page 196.--24th September, 1801. John Hall's will--To wife, Elizabeth; to daughter. Fanny, and her nine children; to Fanny's son, John; to daughter, Elizabeth, and her son, John Hall Allison; to son-in-law, Andrew Allison; to daughter, Nancy, and her son, John Hall van Lear; to brother's son, John Hall; to Benjamin Harrison, $1 _____. Executors, John Bell, John Gamble. Teste: John Emmitt, Joseph Mathews, John Blair. Proved, 22d February, 1802. Executors qualify.
References
- ↑ Lacy Moffett Notes.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
- Find A Grave.
Rev John Emmett
Birth 1759
Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, USA
Death 1847 (aged 87–88)
Utica, Licking County, Ohio, USA
Burial
North Lawn Cemetery
Utica, Licking County, Ohio, USA
Revolutionary War Veteran
He was a Methodist minister and the first to hold relifious services in the township, resulting in the organization of a society in 1810.
Ohio Legislator
Licking County History states "In 1806, quite a number of preachers of different denominations made their appearance in Newark and vicinity. Among them was Rev. John Emmett, a Methodist, who preached a number of sermons under a tree which stood on the public square. Mr. Emmett officiated as chaplain on the Fourth of July, 1807, the first Fourth of July ever celebrated in Licking county. He spent the subsequent years of his life in the Scioto valley, and represented Pickaway county several sessions in the legislature."
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33536241/john-emmett
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