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Facts and Events
Walter Drennon was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley's:
- Vol. 1 - AUGUST, 1753. - Caldwell vs. Drening.--Walter Drening gone to Greenbryer.
- Vol. 1 - MARCH, 1754 (B). - Scull vs. Drening.--Walter Drenning was living in Greenbrier, 1752.
- Vol. 1 - APRIL, 1763 (A). - Cresap vs. Drenning.--Walter Drenning, of Prince George's County, Maryland, trader, to Hugh Parker of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1740.
- Vol. 2 - Valentine White's List of Delinquents in Second Battalion of Augusta County, 1784: Richard Bennett, West Fork; Jacob Bennett, West Fork; John Bennett, West Fork; Thomas Bland, West Fork; Wm. Baxter, dead; Erwin Benston, removed; Zachariah Calloway, New River; Jno. Denniston, Carolina; Walter Drennon, Greenbrier; James Ellis, Carolina; Jeremiah Frame, Kentucky; Sam'l Gregory, removed; Geo. Hufman, removed; Thos. Hicklin, Jr., Kentucky; James Hickling, Kentucky; Wm. Hickling, Kentucky; Wm. Jordin, dead; James Kilpatrick, removed; Andrew Kilpatrick, removed; Wm. McCutchen, New Purchase; David Moore, removed; Hugh McDonald, Botetourt; Aaron McCafferty. dead; John Nelson, Rockingham; John Painter, removed; John Pullen, Kentucky; Wm. Robertson, New River; Robert Ross, Rockbridge; Geo. Stout, French Broad; Daniel Stout, French Broad; Francis Tackett, New River; Lewis Tackett, New River; Thos. Wamsley, West Fork; Wm. Young, Kentucky; Jacob Bean, removed; Moses Blackburn, Kentucky; Adam Blackburn, Kentucky; Alex. Black, Kentucky; Hugh Brown, French Broad; Wm. Crawford, Botetourt; Frederick Cromete, removed; Laurence Drennon, dead; Jacob Elsworth, West Fork; James M. Earley, Botetourt; John Gillam, Carolina; James Gregory, Carolina; Wm. Hawkins, Greenbrier; Jacob Hearsh, removed; John Hansberry, removed; Widow Jewell, Carolina; John Kelly, New Purchase; John Kinkade, Jr., Kentucky; Alex. Lowry, Kentucky; Jno. Mullenax, Jr., dead; Robert McMullan, Carolina; Jno. Miller, Rockingham; Henry Null, French Broad; Jno. Moore, Rockbridge; James Peebles, Greenbrier; Chas. Ramsey, French Broad; James Rucker, Sr., Greenbrier; Wyatt Rucker, Greenbrier; Hezekiel Stout, New River; Sebastian Smith, Hardy County; Mark Smith, Hardy County; Jas. Tanner, Carolina; Ralph Wilson, Greenbrier; John Ramsey, Rockbridge.
- Vol. 1 - MARCH, 1789 (L to Z). - John Poage vs. William Elliott.--In 1772 plaintiff was at Greenbrier and met Walter Drinnen, who claimed he had title to the place on Tyger's Valley which Nicholas Nutt had settled and lived on two years until he was driven away by Indians. Nutt had sold land to Jacob Marlin, father-in-law to Drinnen. Walter was old and infirm.
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John and Margaret's daughter, Ann, married William Drennen. Robert V. E. Drennen, the researcher on that family states: "Many of the 'Drennen' were from Pennsylvania and Virginia. Walter Drennen, settler of Greenbrier County, VA came from County Antrim, Ireland sometime around 1730 or 1740. He is the father of many, many of the Virginia/West Virginia Drennens (and I believe my ancester was William b. 1757 in PA, but I can't prove it). Many Drennens settled in Cumberland County Pennsylvania, then moved to Allegheny Westmoreland Co., PA. One, Samuel Drenning, settled in Bedford Co., PA. Peter Hildebrand was in Ohio County, VA in 1779 along with Jacob Drennen, son of Walter Drennen. Peter Hildebrand was in Pittsburg, PA (Then Augusta Co., VA) in 1775. Jacob Drennen and my 4th grt grandfather, William Drennen, both served as Indian spies along the Ohio River under George Rogers Clark.
https://www.geni.com/people/John-Hildebrand/6000000008746149992
- Drinnon, Kenneth C. Drinnons of Mulberry Gap: A Century of Family History.
Walter Drinnon, who surely is the beginning of our lineage in the United States, was born in Ireland. No definitive information on his birth (probably between 1710 and 1720) or death has been located although it is known that he was still living in 1789. He came to the colonies from County Antrim and settled in Prince George's County, Maryland.
There are sufficient records of Walter's dealings in the colonies for one to draw the conclusion that his first decade in America was spent in the extreme northern part if Virginia, northern Maryland, and the southern part of Pennsylvania. Because of this, one could speculate that he came on a ship to the New World through the port of Philadelphia. His later migration seems to have taken him down Virginia's Shenandoah Valley then to Greenbrier, Virginia, where it appears to have lived his final years. He may have been in the colonies in the early 1730's, four decades before the revolution.
It is confirmed that Walter Drinnen was in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia on July 24, 1738, when he signed a petition opposing Thomas Chester's wagon road (Orange County, Virginia, loose paper, see Frederick Dorman's Orange County, Virginia, Deed Books 3-4, 1738-1741, page 113). All the names on this petition appear to be in the same handwriting as in the words of the petition, which makes one speculate that is was recopied by a penman for the official record. This would also lead you to speculate as to the accuracy of the spelling of the names.
Walter married a Ms. Marlin, the daughter of Jacob Marlin and possibly an Indian woman. (Source is Afton Greene, Sanger, Texas).
On June 8, l748, Walter Drennon gave a mortage to William Mitchell for fifteen pounds, both from Frederick County, Virginia (formed from Orange County). This mortgage was on two horses, two cows, two heifers, one yearling, one feather bed, two blankets one rug, two sheets, four pewter dishes, ten pewter plates, one box heeters, one woman's sidesaddle, and one full set of copper tools as security with interest on June 4, 1751. He signed by mark, WD, and witnesses were George Johnson and Andrew Caldwell. Also court order books of Frederick County show the following: Walter Drenning versus Thos Rennick for fifteen shillings, two-pence debt on August 7, 1746 (book 2, p. 154); Walter Drenning versus William May, not guilty in August 1749 (ibid, p. 150); and on February 14, 1749, Walter Drening versus Francis Yoakum (ibid, p. 206).
Historical records of Augusta County, Virginia, compiled by Lyman Chalkley, confirm that he was living in the colonies from 1740 to 1784. These records have his name spelled variously as Drening, Drenning, Drinen, Drennon and Drinnen. These records also indicate that Walter was a trader and landowner who lived in Greenbrier, Virginia, from 1752 to 1789. This part of Virginia later became West Virginia in 1863.
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