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Facts and Events
William Graham was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley's:
- Vol. 2 - Isaac Trimble, James McLaughlin, John Mathews (of Greenbrier County), Francis McLaughlin, ____ McLaughlin and ____ McLaughlin, the three latter children and heirs of Sally McLaughlin, late Sally Trimble, deceased, who sue by James McLaughlin, their father and next friend, vs. Graham--O. S. 48; N. S. 16. Sally Trimble was daughter of Isaac. Rev. William Graham died intestate, leaving children and heirs. Jane Graham married James Murdock and lives in Pennsylvania. Polly Graham married Reid Bracken and lives in Pennsylvania. Susannah Graham married ____ Rice and live in Kentucky. William Graham. The other children died without heirs.
- Vol. 2 - Roush vs. Graham's Heirs--O. S. 205; N. S. 72 -- Petition, 1806, by Jakob Graham, James Mordock and Jenny, his wife, (late Graham) ; Susanna Graham;----- and Polly, his wife, (late Graham); William Graham; Peggy Graham (called Rebecca or Pecky Graham), who are heirs and children of Wm. Graham, deceased. In 1805 John Roush and others sued above in Mason County. William Graham died intestate. Jakob and Susanna are the only heirs of age living in Virginia at any time during the suit, and confided the management to their near relation, Edward Graham, an attorney. Prays an appeal. Susanna lives in Bedford. Amended bill by John, Jacob, Harry, Daniel, George, Jonas Roush. Answer by William Hay says that on 3d March, 1"198, he as attorney for Major John Poison, who resides in England, sold to Rev. Wm. Graham 6,000 acres on Ohio River in Kenawha County (deed recorded in General Court). Edward Graham deposes in Rockbridge County, 18th September, 1805, that he has known the children of Wm. Graham from their infancy. William never had a child named Rebecca Graham and William Graham, Jr., is under age. Snyder vs. Munger--O. S. 206; N. S. 73 -- Rockingham. Deed dated 1794, by Henry and David Munger, sons to William Munger, deceased, to Gasper Snider, fL20 acres on Naked Creek, patented to William in 1771. Deed dated 19th October, 1802, by Henry and David Monger, Wm. Monger, Leonard Scratch and Mary his wife, Martin Thophill (Hophill?) Myres and Eve, his wife, surviving heirs of Wm. Munger, late of New Virginia, to Gasper Snider, 220 acres above. Acknowledged in Wayne County, Territory northwest of Ohio River. Recorded in Rockingham, September, 1804.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Find A Grave.
Rev William Graham
Birth: Dec. 19, 1746
Paxton
Dauphin County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Jun. 8, 1799
Richmond
Richmond City
Virginia, USA
Reverend William Graham (1746-1799) was the Founder and first President of Liberty Hall Academy, which was the forerunner of Washington and Lee University.
William Graham was born in Paxton, Pennsylvania on December 19, 1746 to Scots-Irish parents. William graduated from what is now Princeton University in 1773 and later studied theology. He would eventually became a Presbyterian minister in Hanover, Pennsylvania in 1775.
Within a few years of the outbreak of the American Revolution, Reverend Graham moved to Virginia where he began teaching in a school, which was first known as "the classical school" in Mount Pleasant. In a few short years, Reverend Graham moved the school to the Timber Ridge Area of Rockbridge County, but eventually moved to the area of what is now known as Lexington, Virginia.
While in Lexington, Graham taught from his house until 1772, when the school was incorporated under the name of Liberty Hall Academy. The academy grew at a rapid pace, was granted a charter in 1782 by the Virginia State Assembly, and in time was renamed Washington College because it had been endowed by General George Washington (the very school is most recently known as Washington and Lee University).
In 1789, Reverend Graham became the first minister of the Lexington Presbyterian Church. Though the congregation originally met out of doors - finding coverage under tents or in the county court house as weather demanded - by 1799 the Lexington attendees eventually met in a newly constructed church building located within a portion of the current Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery.
The Reverend William Graham was to die in Richmond, Virginia on June 8, 1799. His body was initially interred in the churchyard of St. John's Church in the city (the site of Patrick Henry's famed speech where he exclaimed "give me liberty or give me death"), but his body and original gravestone was relocated to the Washington and Lee University campus in 1911, where he was laid to rest beside the Lee Memorial Chapel.
Family links:
Children:
Mary Graham Bracken (1785 - 1863)*
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=111051532
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