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Facts and Events
Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:
- Vol. 2 - Conrad vs. Kirtley--O. S. 112; N. S. 38--Bill, 31st July, 1806. Orator is Stephen Conrad of Rockingham. About 1769 Honorius Powell of Orange County died. The widow, Jennett Powell, compromised with the children as to the property. Nathaniel Allen and Robert Royston intermarried with two of the granddaughters of Jennett, and were living in Georgia. St. Clair Kirtley was also Jennett's grandson, with whom she lived, but became dissatisfied and lived at orator's house until her death. (On the cover of this bill is the following: "I put this cover on between 7 and 8 o'clock on Thursday morning, September 26, 1839, and a very cold morning it was. The Clay Convention is in session in Staunton at this time and is the second day of its meeting. A. R. St. Clair, aged 39 years, against the 22d of October next. Lord! Whose eye will this meet when I am in eternity".) Jennett Powell's will of Rockingham County, dated 16th March, 1803, proved in Rockingham November, 1807. To daughters of James Riddles, viz: Wineford married to Hillas Oliver; Mary, Frances, Lucy; to daughter of James Riddle, Jr., named Mary; to daughter of Francis Kirtley named Jennett; to John Bell's and Francis Kirtley's children.
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