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James Wardlaw[1]

Male 1735 - 1816  (81 years)


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  • Name James Wardlaw  [1] 
    Born 1735 
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1745  Augusta Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    James Wardlaw deposes, 8d April, 1806, aged 60 (sic.), came to Augusta County in 1745, when he was about eleven years old. 
    Possessions 16 Nov 1761  Augusta Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Leases a 236 acre farm from Joseph Kennedy for a one year term for five shillings 
    Possessions 17 Nov 1761  Augusta Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Agrees to purchase the 236 acre property from Joseph Kennedy for £100. 
    Possessions 17 Feb 1762  Augusta Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    On this date the lease of 16 Nov 1762 and the purchase agreement of 17 Nov 1762 are proved. It is likely that the purchase was actually finalized on this date with the £100 being handed over to Joseph Kennedy. 
    Possessions 14 Nov 1771  Augusta Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Agrees to sell 8½ acres of land to the trustees of New Providence Presbyterian Church for £50. The deed went unproved till 1796, representing a generous twenty-five year payment plan. 
    Residence 6 Apr 1790  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    On this date an earlier (14 Nov 1789) power of attorney was proved, the power being granted from John Edminston of Davison County, North Carolina, to Samuel Steel and James Wardlaw. 
    Possessions 17 Jun 1792  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Purchases a 60 acre tract, adjoining lands he already owns, from (the attorney for the heir of) the heir of Benjamin Borden, Sr. for £30. 
    Possessions 17 Jun 1792  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Purchases a 697 acre tract of land from (the attorney for the heir of) the heir of Benjamin Borden, Sr. for £25. 
    Residence 15 Sep 1795  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    On this date, gives power of attorney to two brothers and a neighbor, possibly in preparation to move away 
    Possessions 2 Nov 1799  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Achieves clear title to the 60 acre purchase of 17 Jun 1792, by virtue of Martha Harvey relinquishing her dower rights on this date. She was daughter and heir at law of Benjamin Borden, Junior. Her right in the much larger purchase of the same date is not addressed. 
    Possessions 18 Sep 1801  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Sells a 675 acre tract, which appears to include the 1762 purchase, to brother William for $5000. 
    Residence 18 Sep 1801  Fayette Co,. Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Census 1810  Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Residence 1810  Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    With two men age 26 to 44 and four slaves 
    Possessions 6 Dec 1813  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    Sells a 321 acre tract to George and William Houston for $3925; son Andrew Wardlaw acts with power of attorney to conclude the deed 
    Will Bef 2 Mar 1816  Fayette Co., Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    [NOTE: Will is not dated.]
    To sons John, James: all possessions to share equally except those otherwise disposed of; to grandchildren Anderson, Peggy, and Martha McPheeters: one slave woman named Peg "and her increase (NOTE: her children) to be divided equally between them"; my religious books brought from Virginia to my four sons and my daughter; to my grandchildren a pocket bible; sons John and James executors 
    Died 2 Mar 1816  Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Probate Jan 1817  Fayette Co., Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  [15] 
    Will proved and recorded 
    Probate 13 Mar 1818  Fayette Co., Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  [16] 
    Estate appraised at $303.50 (excluding the slaves mentioned in the will, they having been in possession of the proper legatees for "near twenty years"); appraisal filed in the court session of May 1818 
    Notes 
    • Available online probate records of Fayette Co., Kentucky do not include the date of death, if correct... (20 Mar 2014)
    • A copy of the purchase deed of 17 Nov 1761 was sworn to by the clerk of the court on 2 Feb 1791, which may indicate an approximate date for James Wardlaw's move to Kentucky.
    Person ID I1067  Wm L Gann Ancestors
    Last Modified 20 Aug 2023 

    Father William Wardlaw,   b. Abt 1700, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Oct 1761 - 17 May 1762, Augusta Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 62 years) 
    Mother Jane Harper,   b. 1710, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Earlier children were likely born in Pennsylvania; many Scots-Irish families first settled in the Chester/Lancaster county area of Pennsylvania in the early 18th century before resettling in Augusta Co., Virginia
    Family ID F486  Group Sheet

    Family Martha Steele,   b. 1735 
    Married 1760  Augusta County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F505  Group Sheet

  • Sources 
    1. [S291] Augusta Co., Virginia Will Books, 1745-1871, Virginia. County Court (Augusta County), (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1952), vol. 3, pp. 131-132 (Reliability: 3), 17 Aug 2023.

    2. [S4] Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Lyman Chalkley, (Mary S. Lockwood, 1912), LoC 65-15351., v. 2, p. 272 (Reliability: 2), 3 Apr 2014.

    3. [S292] Augusta Co., Virginia Deed Books, 1745-1866, Augusta County (Virginia). County Clerk, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1952), vol. 10, pp. 141-142 (Reliability: 3), 17 Aug 2023.

    4. [S292] Augusta Co., Virginia Deed Books, 1745-1866, Augusta County (Virginia). County Clerk, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1952), vol. 10, pp. 142-143 (Reliability: 3), 17 Aug 2023.

    5. [S292] Augusta Co., Virginia Deed Books, 1745-1866, Augusta County (Virginia). County Clerk, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1952), vol. 18, ppg. 253-256 (Reliability: 3), 18 Aug 2023.

    6. [S294] Rockbridge Co., Virginia Deed books, 1778-1915, Virginia. County Court (Rockbridge County), (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1953), vol. B, pp. 122-123 (Reliability: 3), 20 Aug 2023.

    7. [S294] Rockbridge Co., Virginia Deed books, 1778-1915, Virginia. County Court (Rockbridge County), (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1953), vol. B, pp. 379-380 (Reliability: 3), 20 Aug 2023.

    8. [S294] Rockbridge Co., Virginia Deed books, 1778-1915, Virginia. County Court (Rockbridge County), (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1953), vol. B, pp. 381-382 (Reliability: 3), 20 Aug 2023.

    9. [S294] Rockbridge Co., Virginia Deed books, 1778-1915, Virginia. County Court (Rockbridge County), (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1953), vol. C, pg. 203 (Reliability: 3), 19 Aug 2023.

    10. [S294] Rockbridge Co., Virginia Deed books, 1778-1915, Virginia. County Court (Rockbridge County), (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1953), vol. D, pp. 230-232 (Reliability: 3), 20 Aug 2023.

    11. [S294] Rockbridge Co., Virginia Deed books, 1778-1915, Virginia. County Court (Rockbridge County), (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1953), vol. E, pp. 110-112 (Reliability: 3), 19 Aug 2023.

    12. [S40182] 1810 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), p. 789, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky (Reliability: 2), 07 Sep 2010.

    13. [S294] Rockbridge Co., Virginia Deed books, 1778-1915, Virginia. County Court (Rockbridge County), (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1953), vol. H, pp. 448-450 (Reliability: 3), 19 Aug 2023.

    14. [S3588] Kentucky Probate Records, 1727-1990, FamilySearch, (FamilySearch), Fayette Co., Mixed Land and Probate Records, vol. D, pp. 150-151 (Reliability: 3), 25 Oct 2017.

    15. [S88] Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Fayette Co., Order Book v. 3 p. 496 (Reliability: 3), 19 Feb 2016.

    16. [S3588] Kentucky Probate Records, 1727-1990, FamilySearch, (FamilySearch), Fayette Co., Mixed Land and Probate Records, vol. D, pp. 346-47 (Reliability: 3), 25 Oct 2017.


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