Person:William Nash (55)

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William Nash, Sr., of Rye Cove, Washington & Russell Co., VA
b.Bef 1753
d.Aft 1805
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  • H.  William Nash, Sr., of Rye Cove, Washington & Russell Co., VABef 1753 - Aft 1805
m. Bef 1774
  1. William Nash, II1774 - Bef 1825
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Name William Nash, Sr., of Rye Cove, Washington & Russell Co., VA
Gender Male
Birth? Bef 1753
Marriage Bef 1774 to Unknown
Death? Aft 1805
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Land Records in Virginia

  • Washington Co., VA Deeds: Page 145 - William Nash, 400 acres...Commissioners Certificate...in the Rye Cove on the waters of Clinch River...November 23, 1782 USGenWebArchives
  • Washington Co., VA Deeds:: William Nash, 400 acres...at the north side of Clinch in the Rye Cove, includes improvements, actual settlement made in 1775...August 23, 1781 USGenWebArchives
  • Washington Co., VA Deeds: Page 147 - William Nash.160 acres...Preemption Warrant...in the Rye Cove on the waters of Clinch River...November 26, 1782 USGenWebArchives
  • Washington Co., VA Deeds: Page 147 - William Nash, 343 ac...Preemption Warrant...in the Rye Cove on the waters of Clinch River...Beginning above Tye Burtons spring...near the Camp Spring...November 25, 1782 USGenWebArchives
  • Washington Co., VA, Survey Book, page 147, a statement reads: "A survey for William Nash of 343 acres, lying in the Rye Cove on the waters of Clinch River, and beginning on a barren ridge above Tye Benton's Spring... dated 20 November, 1782. Rootsweb.com
  • Washington Co., VA Deeds: Page 194 - William Nash, 465 ac...Preemption warrant...in the Rye Cove on the waters of Clinch River...Beginning corner to his settlement right...November 23, 1782 Rootsweb.com
  • Russell Co., VA Land Grant: 217 - William Nash - July 9, 1795 - 98 ac - part Treasury Warrant 14415 dated September 25, 1782 - on Cedar Creek, branch of Clinch River - corner to James Scott - crossing Cedar Creek. New River Notes
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Records in Virginia

[Note: some may belong to his son William]

  • After Patrick Porter built a Mill in 1774 on Falling Creek, on the waters of the Clinch River, William Nash owned and operated this mill for a number of years and it was sometimes called Nash's Mill. When the mill was rebuilt is unknown, but it was torn down after the turn of the century. This old mill heard the "war whoop" of many Indians as it creaked its way through more than a century of services to the pioneer settlers. on Mar 2, 1774. [1]
  • Washington Co., VA Deeds: Page 156 - Reuben Smith...400 ac...Treasury Warrant...on the waters of Clynch River in the Rye Cove...Beginning corner to William Nash's land...Warrant #15861, dated February 4, 1782...November 23, 1782 Rootsweb.com
  • Washington Co., VA Deeds: Page 10 - Robert Preston...assignee of Joseph Morton...assignee of Patrick Henry...320 ac...Land Office Treasury Warrant...in the Rye Cove on the waters of Clinch River...Beginning on William Nash's line...corner to the land Nash formerly lived on...November 26, 1782 USGenWebArchives
  • Washington Co., VA Deeds: Page 154 - Edward Duglas...230 ac...Commissioners Certificate...on both sides of Clinch River at the Flower Ford...Beginning on the north side of the river and on the south side of a knob...by the Flower Road...April 2, 1783 - Edward Duglas, assignee of William Nash...400 ac...on Clinch River at the flower Ford, includes improvements, actual settlement made in 1776...August 21, 1781 Rootsweb.com
  • Russell County, VA Deeds: 320 - Thomas Tate - October 18, 1798 - 534 ac - part Treasury Warrant 8129 dated February 2, 1782 - on Tanners Branch, waters of Clinch River - corner to William Nash. NewRiverNotes
  • 1805, Russell Co. VA Order Book: P367 - Indenture from William Nash to William Kilgore, oaths of Dale Carter & John Carter, continued for further proof. Rootsweb.com
  • 1805, Russell Co. VA Order Book:, Court, P375, March 26, 1805. Present: James Dickenson, John Smith, William Nash, Patrick Kindrick & John Stinson. Rootsweb.com
  • 1805, Russell Co. VA Order Book: P380 - John Colley surveyor of the road in place of William Gillespie and that William Nash furnish him with a list of tithables. Rootsweb.com
  • 1805, Russell Co. VA Order Book: P380 - Court of Quarterly Sessions, April 23, 1805. Present: Samuel Ritchie, Samuel Robinson, Harry Smith & William Nash. Rootsweb.com
  • May 7, 1805. Russell Co. VA Order Book: P401 - 2 Indentures from William Nash, 1 to Dale Carter and 1 to William Kilgore, oath James Moss, recorded. Rootsweb.com
  • August 7, 1805, Russell Co. VA Order Book: P434 - William Nash, Sr. for 1 day as witness for proving the will of John Carter, decd, some time ago. Rootsweb.com
References
  1.   THE FUGATE FARM OF RYE COVE, VIRGINIA ITS LAND TITLE ORIGINS & A HISTORY OF ITS OWNERS.

    The next series of grants (LO Q-118, Q-116, Q-109, & P689) that were later to be included within the Fugate Farm were awarded to William Nash. Virginia had several men of that name in that era, most were of the same family. They were neighbors of Dr. Thomas Walker, the head of the Loyal Company; and of General Joseph Martin, that company’s major promoter. The region concerned is near the border between Culpepper and Orange County. The William Nash of significance to the Fugate Farm likely was the IVth based on age. He was awarded LO Q-118 as his settlement right, which he got because he held the position with the Loyal Company
    of ‘adjustor of patent titles’ for Washington and Montgomery Counties. This important position was usually awarded to a well connected FFV, and such a person held significant power and prestige. Certainly Nash picked for himself the best lands in Rye Cove, lands which straddled the Clinch Valley route of the Wilderness Road, especially the one that came to be used after wheeled vehicles began to travel it. The dates of his tenure in Rye Cove are uncertain. Preston’s grant’s corner that touches Nash’s settlement right was surveyed in 1782 and mentions that Nash had ‘once lived’ there. Either Nash had moved to another site on his Rye Cove estate, or had left the region completely, and finished the process of buying his grants in 1785 after he had left. A William Nash got a grant near Lebanon in 1799 (LO 41-331), and a person of the same name about the same time period got grants on Elk Horn
    Creek, Kentucky and in Tennessee. He wound up in Missouri.

    Colbert was the first Fugate to be connected with Rye Cove. Colbert never lived in Rye Cove, but paid for a farm there for his son, Zachariah. Rye Cove and the head of Big Moccasin Creek are the width of Clinch Valley apart. The seller of the farm, John Gibson, Sr., had gotten a land grant just south of Rye Cove (LO 59-504) for 234 acres in 1810. This grant touched the complex of grants to William Nash located to Gibson’s north, and as noted elsewhere in this article. It is not known whether Gibson had bought directly from Nash, or if there had been an intermediate owner. Colbert became terminally ill in 1819, and wrote his will.

    http://www.bigstonegappublishing.net/The%20Fugate%20Farm%20of%20Rye%20Cove.pdf

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