01411 Cecil O'Dell, Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia (Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth

Publishing Company, 1995).

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MORGAN
Richard MORGAN (b. 1700 c.) had two tracts of land surveyed by Robert BROOKE on 12 April 1734;
210 acres 2 mile north of present-day Shepherdstown (Tract 22, Map 1) and 290 acres "standing in the fork of
Josiah JONES and Charles ANDERSON path".33 (Tract 24, Map 1) The 290 acres is located two miles northwest
of present-day Shepherdstown on Jefferson County, West Virginia Highway 5, across the land on the east end; then
the tract extends northwesterly 12 miles across the Rockymarsh Run into present-day Berkeley County, West
Virginia. He received patents from the Colony for both tracts on 3 October 1734.34 Richard sold the 290-acre tract
on 23 August 1738 to John VANMETER for 100 pounds35 and the 210-acre tract to Van SWEARINGEN on 10
August 1744 for 110 pounds.36 Richard's wife Jane released her right of dower on both tracts of land. Richard was
appointed "Constable-Sherundo" on 26 February 1737/38, replaced by William MYERS on 27 June 1739 and was
"Sworn to his Commission of Captain on 26 March 1742."37
Richard sold no land for 18 years after the Van SWEARINGEN sale until August 1762, when he sold 255
acres.38 Richard, with sons William and Jacob, accumulated 4,046 acres of Fairfax grant land by 9 January 1768.39
Purchases included 300 acres from Edward DAVIS on 10 April 1735 (part of DAVIS' 875-acre patent land on
"Tulises Branch," (Tract 50A, Map 2); 242 acres on 21 June 1738 from John WELTON40 (Tract 23A, Map 1); 108
acres from Thomas SHEPHERD on 31 May 1755; and 300 acres f rom Edward TEAGUE on 30 January 1756.41
Richard and son William (b. 1723 c.) owned 2,219 acres of land by 4 October 175642 from present-day
(Trough Road) Jefferson County, West Virginia Highway 16/1 and 31/1 on the south; Jefferson County West
Virginia Highway 16/5 on the west; across West Virginia
33
Brooke, Robert, Book of Surveys, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.
34
Virginia Land Patent Book 15, pp. 320, 321.
35
Orange County, Virginia Deed Book 2, p. 437.
36
Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 1, p. 115.
37
Orange County, Virginia Court Book 1, p. 233; Book 2, p. 22; Book 3, p. 345.
38
Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 7, pp. 213, 309, 338.
39
Gray, Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, Vol. 2, G-426, H-83, H-309, H-675, 676, 677, H-692, 693,
694, M-8, M-282, N-9, N-194, O-112.
40
Dorman, Orange County, Virginia Deed Book 1, p. 10; Deed Book 2, p. 413.
41
Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 4, pp. 24, 244.
42
Gray, Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, Vol. 2, H-83, H-67, H-676, H-692, H-693, H-694; footnotes
39 and 40.

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Highway 480 near Mechlenburg Heights on the northwest; adjacent to the south and east lines of Shepherdstown to
the Potomac River, near Jefferson County, West Virginia Highway 31/1 on the east line.
Richard received Fairfax grants for 250 acres in October 1750, about 12 mile north of his 290-acre patent
land, and his son William received a Fairfax grant on 23 May 1766 on the west side of Opequon Creek for 410
acres, adjacent west of John HIATT Jr.'s 300-acre patent land, about four miles south of present-day Martinsburg,
West Virginia.43 (Tract 61, Map 4)
Richard and his son Jacob received six Fairfax grants from 2 May 1753 to 9 January 1768 for 1,817
acres44 located on Swan Pond; south of present-day Greenburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia; west to the
Opequon Creek at Julep Bend; across the creek to U.S. Highway 11 and then south to the north side of
Martinsburg. Included in the above grants was a survey of 206 acres by James WOOD on 13 November 1735, and
another 206-acre survey by WOOD on 15 December 1735. "Richard MORGAN by Bond for 6 pounds, 14
shillings, 6 pence Virginia currency in two payments which when paid is for the pay or remainder of pay for the
two tracts of land surveyed for him containing 450 acres for which I am to procure Patents for at my charge.
Witness my hand. Jost HITE."45 (Tract 88, Map 2)
Richard's will was written on 14 November 1763 and proved on 6 December 1763, leaving 100 acres each
to daughters Mary (wife of Thomas SWEARINGEN, b. 1735 c., son of Thomas SWEARINGEN, b. 1700 c.), Olive

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(wife of John STOCKDON) and Sarah MORGAN. Adjoining the home plantation on the west lay the western part
of 242 acres of John WELTON's 442-acre patent land and 211 acres Northern Neck Grant H-694. Son Abel
received all the home plantation (east part of WELTON's 242-acre patent land adjacent south to present-day
Shepherdstown). Son William received 400 acres for the use of his three eldest sons: Ralph, George and Abraham.
(Northern Neck Grant H-693 from the Potomac River on the east side of Shepherdstown, near and on Trough Road
south to where it turns east, Jefferson County, West Virginia Highway 31/1). Son Isaac received a 250-acre
plantation adjoining Captain Van SWEARINGEN. (Northern Neck Grant G-426 located 2 mile north of Richard's
290-acre patent land). Grandson Samuel STOCKDON, son of John and Olive STOCKDON, received 98 acres of
land adjoining Edward LUCAS (98-acre part of 198-acre Northern Neck Grant H-692 located north of Trough
Road, Jefferson County, West Virginia Highway 31/1 and 16/1 and Flowing Springs Road, West Virginia Highway
230). Grandsons Richard MORGAN and John MORGAN received 211 acres adjoining their father Jacob's land.
(Swan Pond area). Granddaughter Jean MORGAN, Jacob's daughter, received a lot bought from Dr. John
BRISCOE. "To son
43
Gray, Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, Vol. 2, G-426, N-9.
44
Gray, Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, Vol. 2, H-309, H-677, M-8, M-282, N-194, O-112.
45
HITE/FAIRFAX Lawsuit, British Copy, pp. 129-131.

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William three acres of the upper end of my meadow."46

William Morgan (b. 1723 c.) married Drucilla SWEARINGEN (b. 1723 c.), daughter of Thomas (b. 1700
c.) and sister of Thomas SWEARINGEN, who married William's sister Mary MORGAN. Abel MORGAN, son of
Richard and Jane, married Elizabeth BEDINGER and had three sons (Daniel, Joseph and Jacob) and three
daughters (Olive, Polly and Elizabeth). Abel was deceased by 23 November 1784.47
William MORGAN's will was written on 9 September 1788 and proved on 21 October 1788, leaving land
to sons Abraham, Zacheus, Rawley (Rawleigh), Ralph and George; daughter Sarah WILLIAMS; grandson William
(son of George MORGAN). To grandson Abel (son of
Ralph MORGAN) he left 100 acres in Kentucky.48

SWEARINGEN
Thomas and Van SWEARINGEN were in Prince George County, Maryland, on 17 July 1725 when Van
purchased land from William and Anne CLARK. Van sold 100 acres on 3 September 1733 to William HOLMES
for 20 pounds, acreage being "all that tract or parcel of land called Hills Choice," adjacent to a "tract of land called
Darnall's Grove." On 7 March 1733/34, he sold 100 acres to John Smith PRATHER, "all that tract of Land lying
in Prince George County Maryland called Hills Choice being part of a tract of land called Hills Choice" adjacent to
a "tract of land called Darnall's Grove."
On 15 June 1734, Thomas SWEARINGEN and his wife Sarah sold 68 acres "part of a tract of land called
Forrest lying in Prince George County" to Thomas DAVIS of Ann Arundell County for 20 pounds English
sterling.49 Thomas was a witness to the payment of five shillings on 23 July 1730 when William CHAPLINE sold
to Joseph CHAPLINE 50 acres called "Ye Forrest" and again on 10 April 1731, when William CHAPLINE sold "4
cows and calfs, 11 sheep, 2 feather beds and furniture, 1 pair of millstones and all the rest of my goods and
chattels" to Joseph CHAPLINE.50
Van SWEARINGEN was in the Monocacy Hundred when he was listed as a taxable in 1733, and on a
1734 list of "No Tobacco Burnt." It was probably his son Van Jr. listed as one of the petitioners for division of
Prince George's Parish in 1742.51 Van Sr. was a witness to Elisha PERKINS' will on 10 September 174152 in
Orange County, Virginia. Elisha lived on Opequon Creek near the Potomac River. On 10 August 1744, Van
purchased Richard MORGAN's 210-acre
46
Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 3, p. 159.
47
Berkeley County, West Virginia Deed Book 8, p. 361.
48
Berkeley County, West Virginia Will Book 2, p. 5.
49
Prince George County, Maryland Land Libers, M:661, M:693, Q:693, T:78, T:129.
50
Ibid., Liber Q, Folio 103, 254.
51
Tracey and Dern, Pioneers of Old Monocacy, pp. 369, 371.
52
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Orange County, Virginia patent land for 110 pounds53 (Tract 22, Map 1) On 21 November 1752, he had 321 acres
adjacent on the Potomac River surveyed, for which he received a Fairfax grant on 29 March 1760.54 He sold the
patent tract to his son Josiah on 3 April 1769 for 200 pounds.55
On 14 January 1752, Van received from Lord Fairfax 187 acres56 adjacent south of the PAULSON, JONES
and MOUNTS 834-acre patent land. (Tract 29, Map 1) He had surveyed on 12 April 1753 a 200-acre tract of land
adjacent east of the 187 acres, continuing along the Potomac River on Terrapin Neck, for which he received a
Fairfax grant seven years later on 9 April 1760.57 On 2 June 1756, he purchased from Peter BELLER 317 acres,
part of the 834-acre patent land, that BELLER had purchased (by order of County Court May 1746) from
SIMMONS before his death. On 6 October 1762, he purchased 334 acres, part of the PAULSON and JONES 834-
acre patent land from Jonathon SIMMONS/SEAMAN, son and heir of Jonathon SIMMONS.58 This land was in
his possession by 1753 but he had not paid the 135 pounds until this time. He lived on this tract on 3 April 1769,
when he sold it, along with the two adjacent Fairfax grant tracts, to his son Hezekiah for 200 pounds,59 less the
100-acres (Grant K-100) on Terrapin Neck which Van sold on 23 March 1775.60 He also received two other
Fairfax grants on Back Creek, for 234 acres on 10 October 1764 (which he sold in 1779) and the other for 384
acres on 9 May 1771.61
Van SWEARINGEN's will (written 5 April 1788, with a codicil added 6 April 1788) was proved on 17
June 1788, leaving three slaves and one-fifth of land to his second wife Pricilla. Pricilla's daughter Peggy
SWEARINGEN was to receive 400 acres on Sandy Creek (of the Ohio River). This was land surveyed for officers
and soldiers of the Virginia Regiment. He willed to his two sons Josiah and Hezekiah all the rest of his lands and
real estate. In the codicil written on 6 April 1788, he willed to his "daughter Susana BENNETT 150 acres where
she and her husband William BENNETT now dwell on Bank Potomac River" and to his daughter Drusilla
RUTHERFORD (wife of Thomas, who was son of Thomas RUTHERFORD, b. 1700 c.) two houses and lots in
Shepherdstown.62
53
Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 1, p. 115.
54
Joyner, Northern Neck Warrants and Surveys Frederick County, p. 152; Gray, Northern Neck Grants K-
91.
55
Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 12, p. 663.
56
Gray, Northern Neck Grants H-109.
57
Joyner, Northern Neck Warrants and Surveys Frederick County, p. 152; Gray, Northern Neck Grants K-
100.
58
Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 4, p. 121; Deed Book 7, p. 56.
59
Ibid., Book 12, p. 664.
60
Berkeley County, West Virginia Deed Book 4, p. 108.
61
Gray, Northern Neck Grants M-314, p. 39.
62
Berkeley County, West Virginia Will Book 1, p. 489.

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Van had two sons not mentioned in the will: Thomas SWEARINGEN Jr. whose will was written 18
February 1780 and proved 21 March 1780, leaving his wife Hannah 230 acres (conveyed to him by his father Col.
Van SWEARINGEN) and after wife Hannah's death, the 230 acres to Sarah BENNETT, daughter of his sister
Susana.63 Van SWEARINGEN Jr. (son of Van, b. 1700 c.) remained in Frederick County, Maryland near present-
day Middletown on Catoctin Creek, where he had a grist mill and sawmill which were probably founded by his
father. He was deceased by 6 April 1784 when his will was proved, being dated 5 March 1784, leaving four sons:
Joseph, second son Thomas Van, third son John Van and Isaac Stull SWEARINGEN; five daughters: Margaret,
Eleanor, Mary, Drusilla and Elizabeth. He named his wife Margaret and son Thomas as executors and made a
provision if his "father Van Swearingen should be destitute of a living, he should be brought to my house."64
Thomas SWEARINGEN (b. 1700 c.) and wife Sarah sold land on 15 June 1734 in Prince George County,
Maryland and then are not listed in the record books until Thomas was appointed guardian of John and Sarah
JONES (orphans of Josiah JONES) on 3 April 1745 in Frederick County, Virginia.65 Thomas did not own land
until 5 April 1748 when he received from Richard PAULSON 222 acres, a part of the PAULSON, JONES,
MOUNT 834-acre patent land,66 which is included in a Fairfax grant of 6 December 1763 as part of a 324-acre
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on the Potomac River, north of present-day Scrabble, Berkeley County, West Virginia. His son Thomas received a
97-acre Fairfax grant adjacent west of the 155 acres.67
Thomas (b. 1700 c.) received three Fairfax grants: 15 October 1750 for 444 acres, 18 October 1750 for
478 acres and 1 April 1754 for 400 acres, all being west of Richard MORGAN's 210-acre patent land. (Tract 22,
Map 1) The only other grant he received was on 25 November 1756 for 189 acres "on the Waggon Road" from
Vestall's Gap to Watkins Ferry, four miles north of present-day Martinsburg on U.S. Highway 11.68
Thomas SWEARINGEN's will was written on 4 April 1760 (proved 3 June 1760) listing daughters
Drusilla MORGAN (wife of William who was son of Richard MORGAN); Sarah SWEARINGEN (married Capt.
Thomas TURNER in 1763); and Eleanor SWEARINGEN (married Isaac FRIEND and had two sons, Jacob and
Isaac). His son Thomas received the plantation and was executor. Sons Andrew, Van, Zachariah, Joseph and
Benoni SWEARINGEN all received land.69 Sarah, wife of Thomas
63
Ibid., p. 186.
64
Frederick County, Maryland Wills Liber GM 2, p. 66.
65
Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 1, p. 68.
66
Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 1, p. 396.
67
Gray, Northern Neck Grants, H-181, M-215, M-415.
68
Ibid., G-457, G-444, H-430, H-747.
69
Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 2, p. 402.

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Sr. had her will written 27 June 1783 listing sons Thomas, Andrew, Van, Joseph and Benoni SWEARINGEN and
daughters Elenor, Sarah and Drusilla to receive her big Bible.70
Thomas SWEARINGEN's (son of Thomas and Sarah) will was written on 15 October 1780 (proved 21
February 1786) leaving to sons Thomas, Van and Andrew lands in Berkeley County; to daughters Drusilia and
Lydia 400 acres each in Kentucky; to "my brother Benoni SWEARINGEN a 2 acre lot at ferry landing"; and land
in the West to brother-in-law William MORGAN.71 Thomas and Van SWEARINGEN were in Strode's Station,
Clark County, Kentucky.72
Thomas and Van SWEARINGEN (both born 1700 c.) had a sister whose son Henry DOSSETT came to
Virginia and left a will written on 20 May 1750 (proved 7 August 1759) listing his cousins Thomas, Andrew, Van
and Zachariah. To his Aunt Sarah, wife of Capt. Thomas, later referred to as Uncle, he left one barrel of rye
brandy. He willed to his grandmother Lidia SWEARINGEN (mother of Van, Thomas and his {DOSSETT's}
mother) silver sleeve buttons.73
On 25 November 1725, a John SWEARINGEN (possibly a brother of Thomas and Van) sold 73 acres
(part of a tract of land called Ryley's Neglect in Prince George County, Maryland) with his wife Mary releasing her
right of dower.74

CHAPLINE
William CHAPLINE Sr. (b. 1690 c.) lived on the Potomac River when the river was surveyed on 25
October 1736 to determine the headwaters in the Thomas Lord FAIRFAX dispute with the Colony of Virginia. The
survey lists William as having a house near the river about 3/4 mile east of Richard MORGAN's 210-acre patent
land and two miles southwest of present-day Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland. (Tract 22, Map 1)
According to the survey, he also had a house 22 miles west of present day Sharpsburg on the Virginia side of the
river, about 3/4 of a mile north of MORGAN's patent land.75
70
Berkeley County, West Virginia Will Book 3, p. 282.
71
Ibid., Book 1, p. 414.
72
Bedford, A. Goff, Land of Our Fathers, History of Clark County, Kentucky, Vol. 1, p. 78.
73
Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 2, p. 356.
74
Prince George County, Maryland Land Liber M, Folio 693.
75
Winslow, Benjamin, Field Notes of the Survey of Potomack River.

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STRODE
Edward STRODE (b. 1700 c., probably the father of John, Jeremiah, Samuel and James) in a deposition
given on 25 August 1770 in the "HITE/FAIRFAX Lawsuit stated he purchased about 30 years ago (1740) a tract of
land containing 360 acres from Derby McEVER on the Lick Branch" (Shaw/Spa Creek) and on the decease of his
eldest son, gave the tract to John STRODE "who at present is in possession of it."219
John STRODE, son and assignee of Edward STRODE, received a 400-acre Fairfax grant on 22 June 1751
which included most of the 360-acre tract.220 Jost HITE had given Francis LILBURN his Bond for 100 pounds to
guarantee a patent from the Colony221 and LILBURN passed the Bond to Edward who passed it to son John. John
STRODE (b. 1730) and his wife Mary of Bourbon (Clark) County, Kentucky sold the 400-acre tract of land to
Adam STEPHENS for 1,000 pounds on 15 September 1789.222 (Tract 83, Map 4)
Edward STRODE also owned land about four miles northwest of this tract, located on the south side of
present-day Martinsburg, West Virginia on Interstate 81 at the junction with West Virginia Highway 45 and on U.S.
Highway 11 ("the Wagon Road to Watkins Ferry"). This was a 409-acre tract surveyed for Edward on 1 April 1752
and assigned (sold) to Isaac Evans on 18 March 1762.223
Edward purchased 360 acres of Morgan BRYAN's 1,250-acre patent land from Joseph BRYAN for 200
pounds on 13 May 1752.224 This 360-acre tract is located about six miles northeast of the 409 acres that he
assigned to EVANS. Edward and his wife Eleanor sold one acre of this 360 acres to Richard and Lewis PEARIS
for 40 shillings on 29 November 1761.225 Edward conveyed the remainder of the 360-acre patent land to Jeremiah
STRODE for 100 pounds on 9 June 1773.226 Jeremiah received a Fairfax grant for 580 1/8 acres which
219
HITE/FAIRFAX Lawsuit, British Copy, p. 118.
220
Joyner, Northern Neck Warrants and Surveys, Vol. II, pp. 150, 151; Gray, Northern Neck Grants, H-9.
221
Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky, "HITE Family Papers".
222
Berkeley County, West Virginia Deed Book 9, p. 142.
223
Joyner, Northern Neck Warrants and Surveys, Vol. II, p. 51.
224
Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 2, p. 461.
225
Ibid., Book 6, p. 439.
226
Berkeley County, West Virginia Deed Book 2, p. 84.

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included the conveyed part of the 360 acres on 29 April 1775.227

Jeremiah's will, written in September 1784 and proved 13 March 1785, listed daughters Mary (wife of
Isaac EVANS) and Ann STRODE and sons George, John, Jeremiah and William with each receiving 227 acres;228
300 acres were left to Edward STRODE. Jeremiah's wife Margaret received 1/8,229 laid off on 21 January 1799
containing 217 acres.230
Samuel STRODE purchased 100 acres, part of the 450-acre patent land, from Morgan BRYAN for 20
pounds on 6 September 1748.231 (Tract 46, Map 2) Samuel was in Loudoun County, Virginia on 14 September
1764 when he received a Fairfax grant for 225 acres adjacent east of the 100 acres and adjacent west of John
WILSON.232 (Tract 79, Map 2)
Samuel STROWD's (STRODE) will, written the 6th day of the 4th month 1765 (Quaker method) and
proved in Loudoun County on 13 May 1765, listed his wife Ann, his daughters Martha PITTS, Mary POTTS,
Phebe BEESON, Ann and Susan STROWD; the only son listed was George REDMAND alias STROWD, the son
of his wife. The Executors were Jonas POTTS (son-in-law), James STROWD and Samuel POTTS with witnesses
Thomas HATFIELD, Ezekiel PITTS and William DILLON.233 Samuel probably had a son Samuel Jr. who was
listed as "heir-at-law" of Samuel STRODE when he sold all of his father's land in Berkeley County on the 12th and
20th of March 1775.234
James STRODE (b. 1726/27) received three Fairfax grants for land from near Pikeside across the
Martinsburg Airport, the head of Sulphur Spring Branch to Buzzard Run. These three tracts were: 400 acres
surveyed in 1751, granted 1760; 172 acres surveyed 1753, granted 1756 and 275 acres "where he (James) lives"
surveyed 1766, granted 1767.235 These tracts are all adjacent and are 12 miles south of a Fairfax grant for 289
acres adjacent Isaac EVANS which he received in 1760.236 James also owned land adjacent east of James DAVIS
near the Potomac River.237
James STRODE and his first wife Ann sold 248 acres on the west side of Back Creek north of present-day
Glengary to James McGOWEN (son-in-law) on 20 April 1778; STRODE had purchased this land from
227
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 228
Berkeley County, West Virginia Deed Book 12, p. 496. 25 June 1796.
229
Berkeley County, West Virginia Will Book 1, p. 377.
230
Berkeley County, West Virginia Deed Book 15, p. 113.
231
Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 1, p. 423.
232
Gray, Northern Neck Grants, M-302.
233
Loundoun County, Virginia Will Book A, p. 124.
234
Berkeley County, West Virginia Deed Book 3, pp. 223, 226, 227, 229, 232, 233, 235, 239, 335.
235
Gray, Northern Neck Grants, H-730, K-60, O-27.
236
Ibid., K-127.
237
Ibid., O-26, O-28, P-113.

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Dennis SPRINGER.238 At the age of 68, STRODE married his second wife Elizabeth FRYATT, aged 19. They
were married by 13 January 1794 when they sold 400 acres adjoining James DAVIS to Henry BEDINGER (son-in-
law).239
James STRODE's will, written 20 February 1795 and proved 28 April 1795, left 500 acres to daughter
Susanna MAGOWEN and the remaining 500 acres of a 1,000-acre tract on Fleming Creek in Kentucky to
grandson James MAGOWEN.240 To daughter Eleanor SHEPHERD (wife of Abraham), the land called the Baldwin
tract in Berkeley County. To daughter Rachel BEDINGER (wife of Henry), a tract of 100 acres called Bradfords
and other acreage which was part of the Fairfax land. To daughter Anna, land in Ohio County, Virginia (West
Virginia). To granddaughter Eleanor SWEARINGEN (daughter of Phoebe SWEARINGEN, deceased), 101 acres
west of North Mountain. To granddaughter Nancy MAGOWEN, two lots in Bucklestown. To son James
STRODE, land which was part of Mansion tract (part of the 275-acre Fairfax grant). To son John STRODE, a
brick house in Martinsburg and to both James and John STRODE, the whole tract of land adjoining Strode's
Station in Kentucky.241
James STRODE was administrator of his brother Edward Jr.'s estate with his father Edward and John
EVANS signing James STRODE's Bond for "faithful Administration of the Estate."242
By 1776, James owned 1,000 acres of land on the drains of the Kentucky River called Howard's Creek,
located adjacent south of present-day Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky and adjacent to his brother John
STRODE which was referred to in James' will as Strode's Station. John STRODE (b. 1730) owned 1,000 acres on
Strodes Fork, a branch of the South Fork of Licking River near Winchester, Kentucky.243 Both the Kentucky River
and the Licking River drain into the Ohio. John STRODE's will was written 23 April 1805 and he died on 18
August 1805 in present-day Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky.244 The will listed his wife Molly (Mary), son
John and daughter Nellie LAFFERTY with the residue of his estate to be divided equally among his children not
listed. The Executors of his will (proved 26 August 1805) were his son John STRODE and his son-in-law Thomas
238
Berkeley County, West Virginia Deed Book 4, p. 728.
239
Ibid., Book 11, p. 729.
240
Mason County, Kentucky in 1794, then Fleming County in 1798.
241
Berkeley County, West Virginia Will Book 2, p. 300; and Chalkey, Extracted Court Records of Augusta
County, Vol. II, pp. 72, 135. Judgments.
242
Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 1, pp. 317, 332.
243
Bedford, History of Clark County, Kentucky, Vol. 1, p. 52. A list by Willard Jillson in his early Clark
County, Kentucky of preempted land in Kentucky prior to 1780, as published by Kentucky State Historical Society
Registry, Vol. 21, 1923.
244
Information from STRODE Tombstone.

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Lafferty.245
A family Bible published in 1838, and owned by Nelson STRODE of Winchester, Kentucky, recorded the
following information: John STRODE Sr. was born 11 January 1730; his wife Mary BOYLE was born 22 February
1739; their children were: Elizabeth, born 25 December 1759; Edward, born 2 November 1761; Elenor, born 27
August 1763; James, born 22 May 1765; Mary, born 27 December 1766; John, born 25 September 1768; Nancy,
born 2 May 1770; Susanna, born 28 December 1771; Jeremiah, born 5 October 1773; Letitia, born 5 February

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1775; Stephen, born 26 February 1777 and Wellsey (or Waller), born 16 February 1783.246
245
Clark County, Kentucky Will Book 2, p. 57.
246
Kathryn Owen of 423 Fast Broadway, Winchester, Kentucky, 40391 states in a letter dated 12 February
1991 that Nelson STRODE has been deceased for many years and she does not know at present time where the
"Family Bible" is located.

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