Person:Robert Ritchey (3)

Robert Ritchey was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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About Robert Ritchey

• Historic Roads of Virginia, Botetourt County Road Orders, 1770-1778, by Ann Brush Miller, Senior Research Scientist, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Page 19.

8 September 1772, BCOB 3, p. 4 Ordered that William McMullan Philip Barriger & Robert Ritchey being first sworn do view the Way from the Foot of the Mountain above Lipperds[?] old Place to the Corner of Michael Price’s Field and report the best and nearest Way to the Court.

Source http://www.virginiadot.org/vtrc/main/online_reports/pdf/07-r22.pdf

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Page 476.--28th February. 1776. John Henderson's will, of County and Parish of Botetourt, joiner--To wife, Jean, and 10 children; to son, John, the tract said John, Jr., lives on; to son, Jones Henderson, to son-in-law, Robert Ritchey, executors. Teste: John and Robert Henderson. Codicil, 1st April, 1783. Appoints wife Jean as one of the executors. Proved, 16th August, 1785, by Robert and John McCutchen. Jones Henderson qualifies.

1.   Austin, J. William, and Rebecca H.R Austin. Related families of Botetourt County, Virginia. (Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield, c2000 (Baltimore : Genealogical Pub.))
   Pages 260-266.

   Robert Ritchey, lived in the North Fork area of Botetourt in 1771, and was a trustee of the New Derry Congregation. One son: Robert Lewis Ritchey