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Walter Cunningham was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Records in Augusta County, Virginia

There are records in Augusta County, Virginia concerning Jane’s father, Walter Cunningham, but those records often get consolidated with, and applied to, the "younger" Capt. Walter Cunningham, son of John Cunningham. Once the "younger" Capt. Walter Cunningham comes of age (c1761) it is hard to decipher which Augusta records pertain to which Walter.

From Chalkley's:

• Page 448.--9th June, 1753. Robert Coningham, Esq., and Martha to Walter Davis, 328 acres in Beverley Manor on Cedar Spring. Teste: Pat Cunningham, Wm. Johnston, Walter Coningham .

• 1754---(Augusta County Fee Books) Page 3, Robert Jackson, Merchant, (March, 1754); page 15, Wm. Miller, Frederick, (March, 1754), Record Dunbarr's deeds; page 19, John Buchanan, Miller, (March, May); Walter Cunningham, Hampshire (among others)

• The records from the Augusta County, Virginia court session on 20 November 1754, provides a list of numerous individuals wherein "the Court proceeded to lay the County Levy" -- Walter Cunningham for 1 ditto 160

[NOTE: this is a non-alphabetized list so it could be assumed that it reflects neighbors and that the various tax amount reflects the size of the estates]

• Order Book 4, Page 361, 1753-1755, Augusta Virginia -- Walter Cunningham Plaintiff against John Johnson (sic) Defendant ⎬ William Preston undertook for the deft in case he should be cast in this suit he would pay the condemnation of the Court or surrender his body to prison for the same or must he met Preston would do for him and thereupon _____ by John Harvie his attorney payd yo of the ___ing in the Declaration mentioned and unto him it was granted of this suit is cont untill next court

• Page 156.--28th May, 1755. William McCutchen to Thos. Meek, plantationer, £40, 310 acres on Little River in Calf Pasture, part of William's 895 acre tract; corner Ro. McCutchon. Teste: David and Walter Coningham.

• Order, Book 5, Page 158, 1755-1757, Augusta Virginia -- Walter Cuningham Plaintiff against Erwin Patterson Defend ⎬ This suit being agreed is dismissed.

• Order, Book 5, Page 220, 1755-1757, Augusta Virginia -- Walter Cuningham Plaintiff against William Preston Defend ⎬ On a Writ of Scire facias the Deft having put in his plea time untill the next Court is given thee to consider it

• Order, Book 5, Page 290, 1755-1757, Augusta Virginia -- Walter Cuningham Plaintiff against William Preston Defend ⎬ The Plaintiff having put in a demurrer to the plea of the Deft and this Deft joining in the same it is continued for Argument till the next Court

• Order, Book 5, Page 427, 1755-1757, Augusta Virginia -- Walter Cuningham Plaintiff against William Preston Defend ⎬ This suit being agreed is dismissed.

Notes for Walter Cunningham

Both wife, Martha, and daughter, Jane, have a date of death of 1759. Stepson Arthur Hamilton's land patent is neighbor to Nathaniel Davis and James Gilmore (two Beverley Manor men that remove to Kerrs Creek and are later killed in the Kerrs Creek Massacres 1759 & 1763)... perhaps Walter & Martha Cunningham make the move south to Kerrs Creek with the rest of the congregation, where James & Hugh Cunningham already resided... it would explain why Walter & Martha Cunningham & David and Jane Campbell disappeared from Augusta County records in 1759... perhaps they are in southern Augusta in what was to become Rockbridge County... needs more research