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Facts and Events
Early Land Acquisition in Orange County, VA
Acquisition of Land from Orange County, Virginia Records:
- Pages 38-41. 26-10 [sic]. Nov. 1742. Jost Hite of Orange County to Samll. Glass of same. Lease and release; for £45 current money. 900 acres on the head of Opeckon Creek on the west side of the creek, granted by pattent unto Jost Hite... in the uppermost fork of the run... (signed) Jost Hite. Wit: David Vance, Wm. Dobbin [Dobbyn in release]. 26 9ber [Nov.; February in lease] 1742. Acknowledged by Jost Hite. [Orange County Virginia Deed Book 7, Dorman, pg. 41].
Records of Samuel Glass
- 19 February 1745, Frederick Co., Virginia Deed Book 1, Page 274. - William Hoge Sr., of Frederick Co., Virginia leases to David Vance, Joseph Colvill, Robert Willson, Robert Allen, William Reid, John Wilson, William Chambers, Thomas Marquis, David Vance, Gent James Vance, Robert Smith, James Hogg Jr., Robert White, William McMachen, Gent. Samuel Glass and David Glass, all of Frederick Co., Virginia, for five shillings, two acres, near the Presbyterian Meeting Place. Signed William Hog, in the presence of William Marquis, James Brown and Joseph Colvill younger.
- Frederick County Deed Book 10 pg. 462 - 4 Aug. 1765 - Between John Beckett of County of Frederick and Sarah his wife [to] John Beckett the younger of the said County... consideration of five Shillings Sterling... Tract of land Situate lying and being on the South side of the Opechon... Granted by Pattent to Jost Hite who conveyed the whole Tract to Samuel Glass who dying Intestate the same Descended to John Glass his son & Heir at Law who by his Last Will and Testament recorded in county of Orange Devised same to John Beckett... Containing one Hundred Acres... Wit: Saml. Pritchard, John Beckett, John Steel, Sarah (S) Beckett. Recorded: 8 Aug. 1765.
- Frederick County Deed Book 10 pg. 463 - 4 Aug. 1765 - Between John Beckett of the County of Frederick and Sarah his wife [to] Joseph Beckett of the same County...consideration of five Shillings Sterling and also natural love and affections which they bear unto said Joseph Beckett their Son...Tract of Land situate lying and being on the South side of the Opechon... being part of a Tract of Land Granted by pattent to Jost Hite who Conveyed the whole Tract to Samuel Glass who dying Intestate the same descended to John Glass his Son and Heir at Law who by his last Will and Testament Recorded in County of Orange devised the same to John Beckett... Containing one Hundred and fifty Acres.... Wit: Saml. Pritchard, John Beckett, John Steel, Sarah (S) Beckett. Recorded: 8 Aug. 1765
Information on Samuel Glass
Inscription on monuments at cemetery ot Opequon Chuch:
- To the memory of Samuel Glass and his wife Mary Gamble, imigrants from Banbridge County Down Ireland, AD 1736. Their children John, Eliza, Sarah, David, Robert, Joseph, were all born in Ireland and came with them.
From "Pioneers of Old Frederick Country, Virginia", by Cecil O'dell, pg. 303:
Samuel Glass (b. 1690c) purchased 900 acres near the head of Opequon Creek from Jost Hite for 45 pounds on 26 November 1742. This tract, part of Hite's 5,018-acre patent land of 1734, is located on the south side of Opequon Creek approximately four miles southwest of Winchester, Virginia on Cedar Creek Grade/County Highway 622.
Samuel sold 150 acres of the 900-acre tract to his son-in-law John Beckett and Sarah Glass Beckett for 50 pounds on 12 February 1749/50. The 150 acres is located west of Cedar Creek Grade/County Highway 622. Samuel sold 250 ares of the 900-acre tract to his son David on 5 June 1749 and another 250 acres of his 900-acre tract to his son Joseph (b. 1722) for 30 pounds on 21 May 1751. The remaining 250 acres became the property of his son John Glass who lived on a 236-acre tract in Beverlay Manor which he purchased from William Beverley on 28 February 1749.
References
- Cartmell, Thomas Kemp, 1838-1920. Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: a history of Frederick County, Virginia. (Berryville, Virginia: Chesapeake Book, 1909, 1963)
pg. 413-414.
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