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Thomas Cochran, of Greenbrier & Bath County, VA
Facts and Events
Thomas Cochran was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA
Land Grant Surveys in Virginia:
- Page 241 - Thomas Cockran, 400 acres, 400 acres, between Jennings and Moffett Branch. Adjoining Michael Hogshead, James Campbell, John Hogshead. April 5, 1775. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 85].
Estate Records
- pg. 412 Inventory - Thomas Cochran
- Submitted Sept. 6, 1808 by Robert Rhea, John Jordin, and William Edmiston before Richard Hill
- Bonds of Thomas and John Cochran, account with the widow, furniture, farm implements, loom, calfskin, horses 4, cattle 4, geese 10, hogs 3.
- [Abstract of Wills and Inventories of Bath County, 1791-1842, Bruns, pg. 53].
- pg. 466 Statement of estate of Thomas Cochran, Jonathan McNeel adm.
- Submitted December 1810 court by Robert Gay and William Poage.
- Note of Thomas Cochran Jr. for a new wagon, showing payment by Elener Cochran, accounts of John Davis for Kincade, Joshua Buckley, William Oldridge, David Kinison and wife, John Clutter, Aaron Moore, William Cackley, John Bradshaw, David James and John Salsbury, David Cochran, James Brindley (for crying sale).
- [Abstract of Wills and Inventories of Bath County, 1791-1842, Bruns, pg. 58].
Records in Virginia
- 16 January 1800 - Thomas Cochran listed as having a balance due of the store owned by John Oliver, dec. [Abstract of Wills and Inventories of Bath County, 1791-1842, Bruns, pg. 21]
- 14 July 1801 - William Salberry, Thomas Cochran, John Duffel and James Searight listed as having an account in the estate inventory of James Ewing, dec. of Bath County, Virginia. [Abstract of Wills and Inventories of Bath County, 1791-1842, Bruns, pg. 25]
References
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John Hogshead purchased land from Thomas & Ellen Cochran, 370 ac. for 64 pounds lawful money of VA on 30 Oct 1795 in Augusta Co., VA. (3)Lying between Jennings & Moffetts Branches, cor. to Michael Hogshead's and with his line, cor. said Hogshead, James Campbell's line, Campbell's corner, Edmiston's corner, John Hogshead's line.
He sold land with wife, Martha, to James Robertson for $6,360, a tract of 474 ac. on 9 Dec 1817 in Augusta Co., VA. (4)Includes 92 ac. part of 108 ac. granted to John Hogshead, and 397 ac. part of 400 ac. granted to Thomas Cochran 12 Jan 1780.
https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/u/n/Peggy-D-Munson/BOOK-0001/0019-0005.html
- Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
- Pocahontas County Historical Society (West Virginia). History of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, 1981 : birthplace of rivers. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985).
THOMAS COCHRAN. Among the persons who have been identified with our county history, the Cochran relationship claim recognition.
For more than a hundred years the name has been a familiar one. The Pocahontas Cochrans are the descendants of Thomas Cochran, Sr., a native of Ireland, one of three brothers who came over together.
One of these brothers settled in Augusta and his descendants are highly respected in that county. Another of these Cochrans went to Kentucky, it is belived. Thomas Cochran, the subject of this sketch, married a Miss MacKemie, near Parnassus, in Augusta county, and settled on the Rankin place on the Greenbrier, near the mouth of Locust Creek. Thence he moved to the place now held by Mathews Ruckman.
The relationship is so widely extended that it is only possible to trace his descendants to a degree where the present generation can take up the line and complete it.
By the first marriage there were two sons and three daughters. One daughter, name not known, became Mrs William Caraway and lived on Muddy Creek, Greenbrier county; Nancy became Mrs Masters and went to Ohio; Mary was married to William Auldridge.
John Cochran married Elizabeth (Betsy) James, daughter of David James, Sr., from Droop Mountain, and settled near Marvin, on property recently occupied by the late Michael Scales. (Note: He says David James Sr was her father - there is MUCH confusion on this point)
There were four sons and four daughters. David James married a Miss Betsy Corby, in Augusta, and went to Clay county, which his son William represented in the legislature a few years since; Thomas married Miss Skeene and lived near Marvin. Their children were Franklin, America, Eliza and Harriet, now Mrs T. C. Wooddell. J o h n had two other sons, John and William, about whom we have no information. As to the daughters, Margaret (Peggy) became Mrs Jacob Shue; Sally became Mrs James Waugh, late of Verdant Valley; Fannie became Mrs John Smith, on Stoney Creek; and Elizabeth. Thomas Cochran, jr., son of the pioneer, married Mary Salisbury, settled on the side of Droop Mounttain, near Locust, and finally went West. Their children were Gordon, Robert, William, Richard, Deemie and Sabrie—two daughters and four sons.
Thomas Cochran's, the pioneer, second marriage was with Nellie James, daughter of David James, Sr, already mentioned. The fruit of this marriage was seven sons and four daughters, viz: William, Samuel, Isaac, David, Solomon, James, Jesse, Rebecca, Mary and Nellie. Rebecca's first marriage was with William Salisbury on Droop Mountain. Mary was married to William Cochran; Nellie was married to John James and went to Ohio. Samuel went to Ohio. Isaac Cochran married Jennie Salisbury.
Source: History of Pocahontas County, by William T. Price, Marlinton, West VA, Prick Brothers Publishers, 1901.
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