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Facts and Events
Col. Samuel Weir was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:
- Vol. 1 - AUGUST 18, 1768. - (335) Saml. Weer, Saml. Steel and Robert Steel (miller) -- to view a road from Steel's Mill to James Telford's.
Land Grants in Tennessee
- Greene Co. TN Land Grant: Page 276, No. 957. Samuel Wear - 700 acres on Crooked Creek. Alexander Martin at Newbern, 26 December 1791. [North Carolina Land Grants recorded in Greene County, Tennessee, compiled by Goldene Fillers Burgner, pg. 122].
Information on Samuel Weir
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mabry&id=I1045
ID: I1045
- Name: Samuel Wear
- Sex: M
- Birth: 26 FEB 1753 in Augusta County, Virginia
- Death: 3 APR 1817 in Sevier County, Tennessee
- Note: Col. Samuel Wear moved with his parents, Robert and Rebecca Carrell Wear, to Sevier County, TN.
- Father: Robert Wear b: ABT 1715 in Ulster, Ireland
- Mother: Rebecca Carrell b: 25 MAY 1725 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- Marriage 1 Mary Lyle Thompson b: 1 NOV 1758 in County Antrim, Ireland
- Married: 2 NOV 1779 in Rockbridge Co VA
- Children
- Elizabeth Wear b: 4 OCT 1780
- Robert Wear b: 4 NOV 1781
- Rebecca Wear b: 28 OCT 1787
- Samuel Wear , Jr. b: 16 APR 1790
- John Wear b: 14 MAR 1793
- Mary Wear b: 10 SEP 1795
- Marriage 2 Mary Gilliland
- Married: 1799 in v
- Children
- Melinda Wear b: 12 NOV 1800
- Minerva Wear b: 20 OCT 1807
- Diana Wear b: 28 APR 1810
- Pleasant Wear b: 28 APR 1810
- Margaret M. Wear b: 4 APR 1813
- Franklin Wear b: 27 JUN 1815
References
- Samuel Wear, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- Col Samuel Wear, in Find A Grave.
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