Person:Samuel Byrne (4)

Samuel Byrne 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 Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys:

• Samuel Byrne, son to George of Prince William Co., 4 Jan. 1749/50-14 Mar. 1749/50; 210 acres on North R. or Shannandoah & both sides of Narrow Passage run & the main road; adj. Woolery Caner, Christian Bowman. Chain Carriers - George Seller, Archibell Ruddel. John Ruddel, Senr. present on survey. Surv. (unsigned), but the warrant was directed to Mr. George Washington. [Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Orange & Augusta Counties, with Tithables, Delinquents, Petitioners, 1730-1754, Volume One, Peggy Smomo Joyner, pg. 21].

Acquisition of Land from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants:

• G-460: Samuel Byrne, son of George Byrne of Prince William Co., 210 acres in Augusta County. Surv. Mr. George Byrne. On North River of Shannondoah, adj. Wollrick Caner, Christian Bowman. 20 Oct. 1750. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, pg. 46].

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Vol. 2 - Philip Doddridge, heir at law of Joseph Doddridge, deceased, and John Fairfax vs. Peter Furtney--O. S. 35; N. S. 12--Spa. issued 2d December, 1803. In 1771 Joseph Barker improved 400 acres in Monongalia County, which he sold to Jonathan Coburn, deceased, who sold to Joseph Doddridge, on whose decease before 1779 it descended to Philip. After 1777 Philip moved to Pennsylvania, leaving the land in possession of James Coburn, heir at law of Jonathan. In 179_ Philip sold to James Coburn, who sold to John Fairfax. In 1775 Peter Fortney, John Downer and John Cox made an improvement interfering with above and obtained judgment by ejectment against Peyton Byrnes, tenant of Fairfax. (Peyton was brother-in-law to John Fairfax, and one of the heirs of Samuel Byrnes.)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

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