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William Wardlaw[1]

Male 1746 - 1819  (73 years)


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  • Name William Wardlaw  [1] 
    Born 1746  Augusta Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    • He died "aged 72 years", yielding a probable birth year of 1746 [2]
    • William Wardlaw, aged 60 years, deposes, [26 Apr 1806]. Has lived near Saml. Steel's land since birth. [3]
    Gender Male 
    Possessions 28 Oct 1765  Augusta Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Buys from brother Joseph Wardlaw, for five shillings, 171½ acres in Borden's Grant; this is half of the land that he and Joseph inherited from their father in 1762. 
    Possessions 2 Mar 1778  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Sells the 343 acres of land that his father had purchased out of Borden's Track for £300 to James Johnson. 
    Possessions 9 Oct 1778  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Purchases a 156 acre tract from William and Jain (sic.) Patterson for £550. 
    Possessions 9 Oct 1778  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Purchases a 300 acre tract from James and Mary Culton for £700. 
    Possessions 11 Oct 1791  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    Purchases a 127 acre tract from (heirs of) heirs of Benjamin Borden, Sr. for £10. Dower rights were not relinquished against this purchase till 2 Nov 1799. 
    Possessions 1 Apr 1794  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Purchases a 410 acre tract from brother Robert Wardlaw for £600; it is likely their father's former residence, which Robert had inherited. 
    Possessions 18 Sep 1801  Rockbridge Co.., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Purchases a 675 acre tract from brother James for $5000; likely the same tract he wills to son Hugh in 1819 
    Possessions 6 Mar 1802  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Sells two small parcels, a half acre parcel to John Raredon for $50, and a parcel of "thirty square poles" to John McCroskey for $13.  
    Possessions 26 Sep 1804  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    Purchases a half-acre lot in Brownsburg from Joseph Walker for $40. 
    Possessions 7 Sep 1807  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    Sells a parcel of 21 acres, 3 roods, 14 poles for $200 to John Withrow. 
    Possessions 7 Sep 1807  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [15] 
    Sells a parcel of 33 acres, 1 rood, 32 perches for $400 to John Withrow, adjoining the "town" of Brownsburg. 
    Possessions 7 Sep 1807  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [16] 
    Sells a parcel of 68 acres, 1 rood for $852.70 to Andrew Finley. 
    Possessions 4 Jul 1808  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [17] 
    Sells a 33 acre, 3 rood, 23 perch tract of land adjoining the "town" of Brownsburg for $100 to Samuel Patterson. 
    Possessions 4 Jul 1808  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [18] 
    Sells a 33 acre, 3 rood, 30 pole tract of land adjoining the "town" of Brownsburg for $200 to Samuel Patterson. 
    Possessions 23 Aug 1808  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [19] 
    Sells a 200 acre tract to Samuel Campbell for $2x12 (one number cannot be read in the record). 
    Census 1810  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [20] 
    Residence 1810  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [20] 
    With two men and one woman age 16 to 25 and eight slaves 
    Possessions 4 Apr 1814  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [21] 
    Sale of an 11¼ acre tract for $1 to Joseph White; deed indicates the land was part of a purchase from Robert Wardlaw 
    Possessions 15 Aug 1814  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [22] 
    Sells a half acre lot in the "Town of Brownsburg" to Andrew Hines for $50. 
    Possessions 18 Apr 1817  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [23] 
    Sells a 56½ acre tract to William Patterson for $339. 
    Possessions 5 Oct 1817  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [24] 
    Purchases a two acre tract for $1 from John Coalter. Note the same surname as William Wardlaw's deceased wife. 
    Possessions 18 Apr 1818  Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [25] 
    Sells a 224 acre tract to John Walker for $1. 
    Probate 24 Dec 1818  Rockbridge Co.., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [26] 
    Will was made. Bequests, to daughter Jenny Stuart wife of John Stuart: an enslaved man Adam and an enslaved girl Serah; to son Michael Wardlaw: 330 acre tract where he now lives, except a small portion set aside for New Providence Pres. Church; to son Joseph Wardlaw: $2295 of debt owed to the estate and £100 to be paid by "my son Hugh" and one enslaved boy Mose; to son William Wardlaw: in lieu of an enslaved boy, $1200 to be paid by Hugh; to daughter Betsy: an enslaved girl Edd and £500 to be paid by Hugh; to daughter Margaret: an enslaved woman May and £50 from Hugh; to grandchildren Samuel William Wardlaw, Mary Coulter, and Eliza "his sisters": $50 each, paid by Hugh; to son Hugh Wardlaw: a great deal of debt obligation (see above) plus between 600 and 700 acres of land; executors: neighbor Robert McKee and son Hugh Wardlaw 
    Died 7 Feb 1819  Brownsburg, Rockbridge, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Probate 3 May 1819  Rockbridge Co.., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [26] 
    Will proved. Executors bonded for $30,000. 
    Probate 13 Aug 1819  Rockbridge Co.., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [27] 
    Estate inventory 
    Buried Raphine, Rockbridge, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • New Providence Presbyterian Church Cemetery
      Row 8 [2]
    William Wardlaw (1747 - 1819) - Find A Grave Memorial    		 William Wardlaw (1747 - 1819) - Find A Grave Memorial
    Includes headstone photo.

    Created by: LSP
    Record added: Dec 16, 2010
    Find A Grave Memorial# 62967497
    Person ID I1070  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 Mary Coalter,   b. 1751, Augusta Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 May 1808  (Age 57 years) 
    Married Augusta Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F509  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. [S40191] Find a Grave, Jim Tipton, founder, (http://www.findagrave.com), Memorial# 62967497 (Reliability: 2), 2 Apr 2013.

    3. [S4] Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Lyman Chalkley, (Mary S. Lockwood, 1912), LoC 65-15351., v. 2, p. 273 (Reliability: 2), 3 Apr 2014.

    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. 13, pg. 1 (Reliability: 3), 17 Aug 2023.

    5. [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. A, pp. 92-93 (Reliability: 3), 19 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. A, pp. 89-90 (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. A, pp. 88-89 (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. 343-345 (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. D, pp. 234-235 (Reliability: 3), 20 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. C, pp. 28-29 (Reliability: 3), 19 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. [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. 22-24 (Reliability: 3), 19 Aug 2023.

    13. [S295] Rockbridge Co., Virginia Deed book, 1809-1814, Virginia. Superior Court of Law (Rockbridge County) , (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1953), vol. E, pg. 317 (Reliability: 3), 20 Aug 2023.

    14. [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. F, pp. 208-209 (Reliability: 3), 19 Aug 2023.

    15. [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. F, pp. 209-210 (Reliability: 3), 19 Aug 2023.

    16. [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. F, pp. 210-211 (Reliability: 3), 19 Aug 2023.

    17. [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. F, pp. 335-336 (Reliability: 3), 19 Aug 2023.

    18. [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. F, pp. 336-337 (Reliability: 3), 19 Aug 2023.

    19. [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. F, pp. 361-2 (Reliability: 3), 19 Aug 2023.

    20. [S40182] 1810 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), p. 409, Rockbridge Co., Virginia (Reliability: 2), 07 Sep 2010.

    21. [S295] Rockbridge Co., Virginia Deed book, 1809-1814, Virginia. Superior Court of Law (Rockbridge County) , (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1953), pp. 57-59 (Reliability: 3), 19 Aug 2023.

    22. [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. J, pp. 168-169 (Reliability: 3), 20 Aug 2023.

    23. [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. L, pp. 242-244 (Reliability: 3), 20 Aug 2023.

    24. [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. L, pp. 221-222 (Reliability: 3), 20 Aug 2023.

    25. [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. L, pp. 223-224 (Reliability: 3), 20 Aug 2023.

    26. [S293] Rockbridge Co., Virginia Will books, 1778-1902, Virginia. County Court (Rockbridge County), (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1953), vol. 5, pp. 1-2 (Reliability: 3), 18 Aug 2023.

    27. [S293] Rockbridge Co., Virginia Will books, 1778-1902, Virginia. County Court (Rockbridge County), (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1953), vol. 5, pp. 9-10 (Reliability: 3), 18 Aug 2023.


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