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Henry Black, of Rockingham Co., VA
Facts and Events
Henry Black/Schwartz was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Disambiguation
Not to be confused with Henry Black (abt. 1740-1811) of nearby Rockbridge County, Virginia. They can sometimes be confused with each other.
Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA
Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's:
- Page 261.-21st June, 1763. Jacob Rollman (mark) and wife Margaret (mark) Rollman and Christian (mark) Rollman to Henry Black, £60, 280 acres on Howell's branch of Bever Creek; corner Robt. Poage. Delivered: George McVey, 31st June, 1774. (Margaret, wife of Jacob.). [AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA - CHALKLEY'S CHRONICLES; Vol 3, p.399, Deed Book No. 11].
- Page 172.—17th November, 1777. Robert Shanklin and Rebecca to Andrew Hutton, of Dunmore County, patent to Robert 20th July, 1768. Delivered: Henry Black. November, 1778
Disposition of Land
- Page 442.--16th March, 1779. Henry Black and Catherine ( ), of Rockingham County, to Stephen Beck, of Shanandore. Chalkley's Vol. 3
- Valentine Saufley purchased an unknown amount of land from Henry Black in 1788. [Rockingham Minute book, p. 485 as cited in Whitten, p. 7.]
Records in Virginia
- 21 May 1765, p. 343 - Henry Black is Appointed Surveyor of the Highway from Abraham Smiths to the foot of the Mountain at Briery Branch Gap and It is Ordered that with the Convenient Tithables he Clear and keep the same in repair According to Law. Source: Augusta County Road Orders 1745-1769
- Land Grant Survey: Page 87. John McVea, 113 acres, Between Beaver Creek and Briery Branch. Adjoining Henry Black. April 22, 1767. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 32.]
- Land Grant Survey: Page O32. Richard Ragan, 50 acres, on the Irish Sink Draft. Adjoining Shelpman, Black, John Harrison. The above entry made by said Ragan. April 14, 1770, for 200 acres. January 28, 1783. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 109.]
- Page 32..-18th November, 1772. Recorded. Jacob Gillasppey's appraisement by Jarod Erwine, Henry Black, John Craford. [AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA - CHALKLEY'S CHRONICLES; Vol 3, p.126, WILL BOOK No. V].
- Page 110.-25th November, 1772. Robert Hill, only son and heir apparent at law to the estate of Jonson Hill, deceased, to Abraham Smith, joining a survey formerly John O'Neal's; two tracts on Dry River, patented to Jonson Hill. Teste: Henry Black, Jared Erwine, Samuel Dunn, John Reynolds. [AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA - CHALKLEY'S CHRONICLES; Vol 3, p.528, DEED BOOK No. 19].
- Page 180.—4th August, 1768. Aron Oliver's will—To wife; to daughter, Jemima Oliver, executrix; to daughter, Anne Pickens. Teste: Abram Pickens. Henry Black, Margaret Black. Proved, 18th November, 1773, by Smith and Henry Black. Jemima (mark) qualifies with Daniel Smith. [Chalkley's Vol. 3].
- Page 172.--17th November, 1777. Robert Shanklin and Rebecca to Andrew Hutton. of Dunmore County, patent to Robert 20th July, 1768. Delivered: Henry Black, November, 1778. Chalkley's Vol. 3
- Rockingham Co. VA Marriage Record: 1783, Johnston, And. & Else Black, dau. of Henry. surety: Andrew Skidmore. [Old Tenth Legion Marriages in Rockingham County, Virginia, from 1778 to 1816, compiled by Harry M. Strickler, pg. 71].
- Land Grant Survey: Page O39. Jacob Whitmore, 5 acres. Adjoining Henry Keplinger, Henry Black. November 17, 1783. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 111.]
- Marriage Record, Rockingham County, VA: 1785: Gragg, Sam. and Ann Black, dau. of Henry Black, spon. Neh. Harrison [Strickler, Harry M. (Harry Miller). Old Tenth Legion marriages: marriages in Rockingham County, Virginia, from 1778 to 1816, taken from the marriage bonds. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1952), pg. 58].
- Marriage Record, Augusta County, VA; 1787--October 16, Jeremiah Salvage and John Black, of Rockingham, surety. Jeremiah Savage and Mary Kelly. Own consent (having neither parents nor guardian). Teste: Henry Black, Thos. Fulton. [Chalkley's Vol. 2].
- Rockingham Co, VA; "Vochers" in the Several Militia Companies of Rockingham County in 1788. [All men, including servants and slaves, herein listed. were above 16 years of age. "Vochers" in Captain Benjamin Smith's Company, No. 1.; Henry Black, son John, 1 slave, 7 horses. [Rockingham Supplement, pg. 98].
- Rockingham Co. VA, Landowners in the year 1789: List by Reuben Moore, Commissioner: 12. Black, Henry, 90 [acres]. [Rockingham Supplement, pg. 45].
References
- Wikitree.com.
Biography
Heinrich Schwartz was born in Pennsylvania about 1743, son of Martin Schwartz and Margaretha Lohrmann. He was given the name of his paternal grandfather, but a baptismal record has not been found. He first appears in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in June1762, with Joseph Reitenauer, and served as chain carriers on a survey for Michael Sommer in the area of Toms Brook, a tributary of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River in what is now Shenandoah County, but at that time it was still Frederick County. At the same time, Henry applied for a survey warrant for 400 acres in the same locality. He is listed as Henry Black in all the records, but always signed his name as "Henrich Schwartz." Henry assigned his warrant for 400 acres to Conrad Slotzer (Schlosser) in 1769 and sometime before 1778 moved further south with some of the Sommers and his brother, Gottlieb, to Augusta County, and took up land in the section that became Rockingham County.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schwartz-4875
- Wayland, John W. (John Walter). A history of Rockingham County, Virginia. (Harrisonburg, Virginia: C.J. Carrier, 1980)
Chapter XIII. RACE ELEMENTS AND POPULATION, pg. 236.
One is constantly con- fronted with instances in which names originally German have been changed into forms that are not now recognized as German. For example, the county records contain entries in which Zimmerman is changed to Carpenter; Yager to Hunter; Swartz to Black; etc. In an inspection of names Carpenter, Hunter, and Black would not usually be counted as German; and many similar cases may be cited; hence the probability that one is apt to underestimate the number of German families, rather than overestimate it, from an inspection of the names in their present forms.
- Wayland, John W. (John Walter). A history of Rockingham County, Virginia. (Harrisonburg, Virginia: C.J. Carrier, 1980).
Early Marriage Records in Rockingham County, VA:
David Hogshead to Cathrine Black - June 25, 1782
Joseph Dunlap to Mary Black - July 29, 1782
John Schwartz (Black) to Barbara Sanger - Aug. 26, 1782
George Argenbright to Elizabeth Black - Oct. 25, 1782
Andrew Johnston to Else Black - Oct. 11, 1783
Henry Black to Elizabeth Hammer - Oct. 16, 1784
Frederick Swartz (Black) to Mary Argenbright - March 25, 1786
John Segfried to Eliz. Black - Feb. 24, 1794
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