Person:Michael Gore (1)

Records in Virginia

Rockbridge County, VA Deed Book A, pg. 713, 4 Feb. 1788. James Seers (Sayers) of Rockbridge 'for.. love & good will towards my beloved son Michael Gore of the state aforesaid.. slave & ... land in Maryland in Montgomery County near the mouth of Minomsey..."

Rockbridge County, VA Deed Book B, pg. 21-32; 3 Feb. 1789. Michael Gore and James Sears (Sayers).

Marriage Record, Botetourt County, VA; Smith, Abraham and Anne Gore, Michael Gore, surety - May 13, 1788. [Worrell, Anne Lowry. Early marriages, wills, and some Revolutionary War records, Botetourt County, Virginia. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., c1976), pg. 43].

Rockbridge County, VA Deed Book C, pg. 488, 3 Oct 1797. Michael Gore to James Gore, both of Rockbridge County, 70 acres more or less.

1.   Pearlman, Agnes Branch. The Gore Family Search via a Circuitous Route.

   Michael Gore, son of James and Elizabeth (?Dowden?) Gore, born about 1742 or before in
   Prince Georges County, Maryland; married Priscilla Sayres, daughter of James. May have
   lived briefly in Chester County, South Carolina. By 1784 they were living in Botetourt
   County, Virginia. He died after 1797, location not known.
   
   Michael seemed to have appeared suddenly in southwestern Virginia without parents, without siblings, with no connection to the thousands of the Gore surname on whom I had collected information in Virginia's counties! I then began an intensive search for information about him in Rockbridge, Botetourt, Montgomery, and other surrounding counties that had had numerous boundary changes. Following are the major finds:
   1783 - Member of Capt. Frazier's Company (James River Community) of Botetourt County, Virginia
   1784- 8 April: 4601/2 acres Fayette County, Kentucky, on Licking
   1785 - 17 September: 100 acres on Beaver Creek, military survey
   1785 - February & March: Botetourt County, Virginia, Tax List (6 whites, 1dwelling,2 other buildings)
   1788 - 4 January: James Seers of Rockbridge County, Virginia, "for the love and goodwill I have toward my beloved son Michael Goare" his part of tract of land called Progress lying and being near the mouth of "Monocrasey" in Montgomery County, Maryland
   1788 - 27 October: Will of James Sare named his "children to wit William Sare, Mary B....... [illegible] and Priscila Gore .... "
   1788 - 5 December: Granted Kentucky properties to Michael Gore and Heirs
   1789 - 17 October: Michael Gore of Botetourt County, Virginia, sold to William Sayres of Montgomery County, Maryland, land called Progress received of James Sayres
   1790 - 5 October: John Hill and Katee, his wife, of Rockbridge County deeded to Michael Gore of Rockbridge County 70 acres in the forks of the James River, etc.
   1797 - 3 October: Michael Gore deeded to James Gore, both of Rockbridge County, 70 acres more or less, etc.
   Michael Gore, son of James and Elizabeth (?Dowden) Gore, born about 1742 or before in Prince Georges County, Maryland; married Priscilla Sayres, daughter of James. May have lived briefly in Chester County, South Carolina. By 1784 they were living in Botetourt County, Virginia. He died after 1797, location not known.
   
   https://occgs.com/projects/rescue/compiled/Agnus%20Pearlman%20Research/Gore%20Family%20Research-Virginia.pdf