Catherine FROST

Notes:

(1) O'Dell, Cecil, Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia, Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1995, pp. 196-197:

William Frost's will was written on 21 August 1774 and proved on 7 May 1776. He willed the 239-acre tract and 114-acre tract (350 acres) located at Shanghai, Berkeley County, West Virginia to his son William. William Jr. died in 1800 in Frederick County, Virginia.

William Sr. willed 400 acres on Back Creek to be equally divided between his sons John and Thomas Frost. John died in 1777 and Thomas (b. 1745) [sic, should be Isaac (b. abt 1746)] died in 1774 en route home from an expedition of Dunmore's, an Indian campaign led by the British Colonial Governor of Virginia. Thomas left his wife Elizabeth [sic; Thomas did not die until 1822].

Sons Isaac and Abraham Frost received the other 400-acre grant land on Back Creek. Isaac died intestate in 1774.

Sons Jacob and Amos Frost were willed the 455-acre and 61-acre tracts in Clarke County, Virginia. Their mother Hannah, wife of William Sr., was to receive income from the two tracts. William listed seven daughters in his will; Frances, Elizabeth, Martha, Ellen, Anna, Mary (wife of Jacob Larew in Kentucky by 1807) and Hannah (wife of John Mason).

(2) Vogt & Kethley, Virginia Historic Marriage Register-Frederick County Marriages, 1738-1850:

Frost, Amos & Betsy Taylor, 29 May 1788; minister, John Montgomery

[According to Kerns, Frederick County, Virginia-Settlement and Some First Families of Back Creek Valley-1730-1830 (1995), p. 111, the Rev. John Montgomery was a Presbyterian minister.]

(3) Amos FROST is listed in V. 1, p. 495 of the 1787 census of Frederick County, VA. Listed in William's household were 1 white male above 16 and under 21; 0 blacks above 16; 1 black under 16; 2 horses, mares, colts and mules; and 0 cattle.

(4) Amos FROST is listed in a 1790 personal property tax list of Frederick County, VA. Following is the information in the list relating to Amos:

Date of Receiving Lists from Individuals: 15 June
Names of Persons Chargeable with the Tax: Amos Frost
Number of White Males above 21 Years: 1
Blacks above 16:
Blacks above 12 & under 16:
Horses, Mares, Colts & Mules: 13[?]
Carriage Wheels:
Ordinary Licenses:
Number of Stud Horses:
Rates of Covering Season:

(5) Amos FROST and Philip PERFAITER are listed in a 1800 personal property tax list of Frederick County, VA. Following is the information in the list relating to Amos and Philip:

Persons Names Chargeable with Tax: Amos Frost & Philip Perfaiter
White Males over 16: 2
Slaves over 12 under 16:
Slaves over 16: 2
Horses etc.: 5
Riding Carriages:
Ordinary Licenses:
No. of Studs:
Rate of Studs:
Amount of Tax: 1.48

Amos married Elizabeth Bushrod TAYLOR on 29 May 1788 in Frederick County, VA. Elizabeth (daughter of William TAYLOR and Catherine BUSHROD) was born about 1768 in "Green Hill," Frederick [now Clarke] County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Elizabeth Bushrod "Betsy" TAYLOR

Notes:

(1) Source: "Riely," a Public Member Tree on Ancestry.com.

(2) McIlhany, Hugh Milton, Jr., Some Virginia Families, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1962, p. 220:

Elizabeth Taylor, m. Amos Frost.

[Children:]

I. Patty Frost.

II. Catherine Frost.

III. Sarah Frost.

IV. Dilly Frost.

V. Hannah Frost, m. Thomas Castleman. . . .

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 21 Aug 1774, Frederick County, VA
• Probate: 7 May 1776, Frederick County, VA

Notes:

(1) John FROST and William FROST, Sr. have been proven, based on DNA tests of their descendants, to have had a common FROST ancestor, although the compiler does not know who that ancestor was. Most persons who have considered the question believe that William FROST, Sr. was a son of John FROST, but the compiler has no conclusive proof of such relationship. William FROST, Sr. is shown here as a son of John FROST in order to stimulate further research.

(2) O'Dell, Cecil, Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia, Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1995, pp. 196-197:

FROST

On 10 February 1735/36, James Wood surveyed 1,632 acres for William Frost (b. 1710 c.); this land which Wood designated as being on Little Cape Capon was actually on Back Creek. Frost did not get a Colonial patent or Fairfax grant for this land. He did acquire several Fairfax grants later, including 400 acres (a part of his old 1735/36 survey and where Frost lived), surveyed on 27 October 1750, and a grant was issued on 3 March 1753). This tract was located in Berkeley County, West Virginia on Back Creek, ¾ mile south of Glengary, West Virginia on County Highway 22 at the junction with County Highway 22/1. . . .

On 20 November 1754, he received another grant for 400 acres (surveyed on 29 October 1750) on both sides of Back Creek where he had a settlement. . . . This 400 acres is located about one mile south of the other 400 acres in Frederick County, Virginia at DeHaven, Virginia at the mouth of Babb's Creek on County Highway 671, 740 and 741.

William also received two other Fairfax grants. One was for 239 acres granted on 26 April 1753 (surveyed 19 March 1749/50) which he purchased from Joseph Botchum, and the other was for 114 acres located adjacent to the 239-acre tract and to Philip Dorset, granted on 3 October 1766 (surveyed on 13 March 1754). These tracts are located in Berkeley County, West Virginia on the east side of Back Creek about ¼ mile northeast of Glengary, West Virginia. West Virginia Highway 45 is on the south side and Berkeley County Highway 7/25 runs north to south through the land.

William had moved from the Back Creek area by 9 July 1756 when he purchased 455 acres from John Casine/Cazine and his wife Deborah for 60 pounds in present-day Clarke County, Virginia. On 1 August 1774, he purchased 61 acres adjacent west of the 455 acres from Warner Washington and his wife Hannah. These tracts are located north of Webbtown, Virginia, on County Highway 608 at the junction with 609 and 612, north of Virginia Highway 7 about 1½ miles.

William Frost's will was written on 21 August 1774 and proved on 7 May 1776. He willed the 239-acre tract and 114-acre tract (350 acres) located at Shanghai, Berkeley County, West Virginia to his son William. William Jr. died in 1800 in Frederick County, Virginia.

William Sr. willed 400 acres on Back Creek to be equally divided between his sons John and Thomas Frost. John died in 1777 and Thomas (b. 1745) [sic, should be Isaac (b. abt 1746)] died in 1774 en route home from an expedition of Dunmore's, an Indian campaign led by the British Colonial Governor of Virginia. Thomas left his wife Elizabeth [sic; Thomas did not die until 1822].

Sons Isaac and Abraham Frost received the other 400-acre grant land on Back Creek. Isaac died intestate in 1774.

Sons Jacob and Amos Frost were willed the 455-acre and 61-acre tracts in Clarke County, Virginia. Their mother Hannah, wife of William Sr., was to receive income from the two tracts. William listed seven daughters in his will; Frances, Elizabeth, Martha, Ellen, Anna, Mary (wife of Jacob Larew in Kentucky by 1807) and Hannah (wife of John Mason).

(3) Dorman, John F., Orange County, Virginia Will Book I, 1735-1743, Washington, DC: 1958, p. 28:

On or about November 23, 1740, William Frost, Sr. attended a sale of items from the estate of Micah Shepherd, deceased. William bought the following items at the sale: pockett [sic] compass, £0.4.0; pare [sic] of boots, £0.4.0; and sundry rubbage [sic], £0.1.1.

John Frost was also present at the sale. He bought the following items at the sale: common prayer book and book of notes, £0.13.6; knife and other small articles, £0.1.3; razor, £0.3.6; pare [sic] shoes, £0.4.0; and saddle, £2.0.0.

Other purchasers at the sale were Richard Abrell, John Downey, John Littler, William McMahon, John Mead, John Neill, Hugh Parill, Isaac Parkins, Joseph Stanley and Edward Sweetapple.

(4) Northern Neck Grants Book H, p. 249:

Fairfax Deed Dated 3 March 1753 to William Frost [Sr.] for 400 Acres of Land in Frederick County, VA:

The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Cameron in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland & proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia: To all to whom this present Writing shall come, sends greeting, Know ye that for good Causes; for and in Consideration of the Composition to me paid, and for the annual Rent hereafter Reserved, I have given granted and Confirmed, and by these presents for me, my heirs & Assigns, do give grant and Confirm unto William Frost of Frederick County a Certain Tract of Waste and ungranted Land, in the said County Lying on Both sides [of] Back Creek, and bounded as by a Survey thereof Made by Mr. John Mauzy as followeth: Beginning at A a large poplar on the S.W.[?] side of Back Creek, thence S.W.[?] 160 poles to B a Corner White oak on a hill side, thence N.W. 220 poles to C a young White Oak, & a young pine, thence N.W. passing the said Creek 291 poles to D four young pines on the side of a piney hill, thence S.W. 220 poles to E three pines and a scrubby White oak on the side of a piney hill, thence S.W.[?] 131 poles to the beginning. Containing four hundred Acres, Together With all Rights, Members, and Appurtenances thereunto belonging; Royal Mines excepted and a full Third part of all Lead, Copper, Tinn [sic], Coals, Iron Mines, and Iron Ore, That shall be found thereon: To have and hold the said four hundred Acres of Land; Together With all Rights Profits and Benefits to the same belonging, or in any Wise appertaining: Except before & Except: to him the said William Frost his heirs and Assigns for Ever, He the said Wm. Frost his Heirs and Assigns therefore yielding and paying to me My heirs and assigns, or to my certain Attorney or Attornies [sic], Agent or Agents or to the certain Attorney or Attornies [sic], Agent or Agents of my heirs or assigns, proprietors of the said Northern Neck; yearly and Every year on the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel; The Fee Rent of one shilling sterling for Every fifty Acres of Land hereby granted; and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity; Provided that if the said William Frost, his heirs or assigns shall not pay the before Reserved Annual Rent or that the same or any part thereof shall be behind or unpaid by the space of two Whole years after The same shall become due, if lawfully demanded, That then it shall and may be lawful for me my heirs or assigns, proprietors as aforesaid; my or their Certain Attorney or Attornies [sic], Agent or Agents, into the above granted premises to reenter and hold the same as if this Grant had never passed. Given at my Office in the County of Fairfax Within my said proprietary under my hand [and] seal. Dated this third Day of March in the twenty seventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith A. D. one thousand seven hundred and Fifty three.

Fairfax

(5) Northern Neck Grants Book H, p. 302:

Fairfax Deed Dated 26 April 1753 to William Frost [Sr.] for 239 Acres of Land in Frederick County, VA:

The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Cameron in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland & Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia; To all to Whom this present Writing shall come, sends greeting Know ye that for good Causes for and in Consideration of the Composition to me paid and for the Annual Rent hereafter Reserved; I have given granted and Confirmed & by these presents for me my heirs and Assigns do give grant and Confirm unto William Frost of Frederick County a Certain Tract of Waste and ungranted Land, in the said County and on the Et. side of Back Creek which he purchased of Joseph Botchum and bounded as by a Survey thereof made by Mr. John Mauzy as followeth. Beginning at a Corner Ash on the Et. side of the said Creek, thence So. 66° Et. seventy Eight Poles to Two Corner Pines on the side of [a] hill Thence No. 2° Et. three hundred and seven poles to a hickory; thence No. 66° Wt. Eighty two Poles to a spanish [sic] Oak, by the said Creek, thence up its Several Courses to the Beginning. Containing two hundred thirty Nine Acres. Together With all Rights Members and Appurtenances thereunto belonging Royal Mines excepted and a full Third part of all Lead, Copper, Tin, Coals, Iron mines and Iron Ore that shall be found thereon: To have and hold the said two hundred thirty nine Acres of Land together With all Rights profits and benefits to the same belonging or in any Wise appertaining. Except before Excepted, to him the said William Frost his heirs and Assigns for ever. He the said William Frost his heirs & assigns therefore yielding and paying to me my heirs & assigns, or to my Certain Attorney or Attornies [sic], Agent or Agents or to the Certain Attorney or Attornies [sic] Agent or Agents of my heirs & assigns Proprietors of the said Northern Neck, Yearly and Every year on the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel the fee Rent of one shilling sterling for every fifty Acres of Land hereby granted and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity: Provided that if the said William Frost, his heirs or assigns shall not pay the before Reserved Annual Rent so that the same or any part thereof shall be behind or unpaid by the Space of two Whole years after the same shall become due if Lawfully Demanded That then it shall and may be lawful for me my heirs or assigns Proprietors as aforesaid, my or their Certain Attorney or Attornies [sic], Agent or Agents, into the above granted premises to reenter and hold the same as if this grant had never Passed. Given at my Office in Fairfax County within my said Proprietary under my hand and seal. Dated this twenty sixth day of April in the twenty _____ year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King & Defender of the Faith A. D. one thousand seven hundred and fifty three.

Fairfax

(6) Northern Neck Grants Book H, p. 640:

Fairfax Deed Dated 15 June 1755 to William Frost [Sr.] for 239 Acres of Land in Frederick County, VA:

The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Cameron in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia To all To whom this present Writing shall come sends Greeting Know ye That for good Causes for and in Consideration of the Composition to me paid and for the annual Rent hereafter reserved I have given granted and confirmed and by these Presents for me my Heirs & Assigns do give grant and confirm unto William Frost a Certain Tract of Waste and ungranted Land in the County of Frederick on the East Side of Back Creek which he purchased of Joseph Botchum and bounded as by a Survey thereof made by Mr. John Mauzy as followeth: Beginning at a Corner Ash on the East Side of the said Creek Thence So. 66° Et. Seventy eight Poles to two Corner Pines on the Side of a Hill Thence No. 2° Et. three hundred and seven Poles to a Hiccory [sic] thence No. 66° Wt. eighty two Poles to a Spanish Oak by the said Creek thence up it's [sic] several Courses to the Beginning Containing two hundred & thirty nine Acres together with all Rights Members and Appurtenances thereunto belonging Royal Mines excepted and a full third Part of all Lead Copper Tin Coals Iron Mine and Iron Ore that shall be found thereon to have and to hold the said two hundred and thirty Nine Acres of Land together with all Rights Profits and Benefits to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining except before excepted to him the said William Frost his Heirs and Assigns forever; he the said William Frost his Heirs and Assigns therefore yielding and paying to me my Heirs or Assigns or to my certain Attorney or Attornies [sic] Agent or Agents or to the certain Attorney or Attornies [sic] of my Heirs or Assigns Proprietors of the said Northern Neck Yearly and every Year on The Feast Day of St. Michael the Archangel the Fee Rent of one Shilling Sterling Money for every Fifty Acres of Land hereby granted and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity; Provided that if the said William Frost his Heirs or Assigns shall not pay the before reserved annual Rent as aforesaid so that the same or any Part thereof shall be behind or unpaid by the Space of two whole Years after the same shall become due if lawfully demanded that then it shall and may be lawful for me my Heirs or Assigns Proprietors as aforesaid my or their certain Attorney or Attornies [sic] Agent or Agents into the above granted Premises to reenter and hold the same as if this Grant had never passed Given at my Office in the County of Fairfax within my said Proprietary under my Hand and Seal. Dated this 15th Day of June on the twenty eighth Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Second Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and fifty five.

Fairfax

(7) Clark, Murtie June, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774, Baltimore, MD: 1983, pp. 328-332:

POLL FOR FREDERICK COUNTY, Dec 11, 1755, LIST OF VOTERS . . .

Frost, William . . .

FOR MR. HUGH WEST: . . .

Frost, William . . .

FOR COLO: GEO: WASHINGTON: . . .

FOR CAPT. THOMAS SWEARENGEN: . . .

For:

Colo George Washington - 40
Capt Thomas Swearengen - 270
Mr. Hugh West - 271

Id. at pp. 513-519:

Poll taken in Frederick County, Jul 24, 1758 [Alphabetical List]

Colonel [George] Washington: . . .

Frost, Will:m . . .

Total 309

Colonel F. B. Martin: . . .

Total 239

Mr. Hugh West: . . .

Frost, Will:m . . .

Total 199

Captain Thomas Swearington: . . .

Total 45

[It appears that Will:m Frost voted twice in this poll.]

Id. at pp. 546-556:

Poll taken at the Election of Burgesses, Frederick County, May 18, 1761

COLONEL GEO: WASHINGTON: . . .

Frost, William . . .

COLONEL GEORGE MERCER: . . .

Frost, Will:m . . .

The following is the number of the poll taken at the election of Burgesses for Frederick County, 18 May 1761:

Colonel Geo: Washington - 505
Colonel Geo: Mercer - 399
Colonel Adam Stephen - 294
Robert Rutherford - 1
Colonel John Hite - 1
Henry Brinker - 1

Signed by Tho:s Wood, Poll taker

[It appears that William/Will:m Frost voted twice in this poll.]

(8) Jantz, Virginia Copeland, Copeland, Bostick, Patton, and Allied Families, Waco, TX: privately published, 1981, p. 12:

By 1756 John and Mary Frost had moved to South Carolina with other Quaker families. They may have moved there at an earlier date, but John Frost's first grant was surveyed on 8 December, 1756, and was located on the Wateree River. It contained 65 acres. A William Frost, who may have been a brother to John Frost, also obtained a grant in this area on 2 April, 1752.

[See also Note (9), below.]

(9) On 22 January 1759, William FROST, Sr. obtained a land grant 200 acres on the Wateree River in SC. (See http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives, Series: S213019, Vol. 0009, Page 00012, Item: 000, Record 3 of 25 records.) In 1762, Willliam FROST, Sr. and his wife executed deed of lease and release of this land to Abraham ODAM. (See http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives, Series: S372001, Vol. 02Y0, Page 00562, Item: 000, Record 6 of 25 records.)

(10) Deeds of Lease and Release Dated July 9, 1756 and July 10, 1756, respectively, from John Cazine and Deborah Cazine, husband and wife, to William Frost, Sr., Frederick County, VA Deed Book 4, pp. 138-141:

Deed of Lease:

This Indenture made the ninth Day of July in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and Fifty Six Between John Cazine of Frederick County in the Colony of Virginia and Deborah his wife of the one part and William Frost of the County aforesaid yeoman of the other part Witnesseth that the said John Cazine for and in Consideration of the Sum of Five Shillings Current money of Virginia to him in hand paid by the said William Frost at or before the Sealing and Delivery of these presents the Receipt Whereof is hereby acknowledged Hath Granted Bargained and Sold and by these Presents Doth Grant Bargain and Sell unto the said William Frost a certain Tract of Land containing Four hundred and Fifty five acres be the same more or Less Lying Scituate and being in the aforesaid County of Frederick Granted by Patent to the said John Cazine bearing Date the twenty Fifth Day of October in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and Fifty one Surveyed by Mr. George Washington and adjoining the Land of Colonel George Wm. Fairfax: Beginning at a Hickory and Red Oak marked FX corner of the said Colonel Fairfax's Land and Extending thence with his Line South 30 Degrees West two hundred and twenty Poles to two Red Oaks in his Line thence South Sixty Degrees East one hundred Eighty two Poles to a Hickory on a Levill thence north 30 Degrees East Three hundred and Ten Poles to George Smiths Line about Eighty [?] poles from his Corner thence with his Line north Forty five Degrees west two hundred and Ten poles to a White Oak in Thomas Loftin's Line thence with his Line South Seven Degrees West twenty poles to three Small Locusts by a Path thence north 83 Degrees west one hundred twenty Eight poles to two Red oaks his Corner in Colonel Fairfax's Line thence with his lines South Seven Degrees west ninety poles to a Large white Oak Markd. FX thence South 60° East ninety poles to the Beginning and all Houses Buildings orchards ways waters water Courses Profits Commodities Hereditaments and Appurtenances Whatsoever to the said Premises hereby granted or any part thereof belonging or in any wise Appurtaining and the Reversion and Reversions Remainder or Remainders Rents Issues and Profits thereof To Have & To Hold the said Tract of Land and all and Singular other the Premises hereby granted with the appurtenances unto the said William Frost his Executors Administrators and Assigns from the Day before the Date hereof and During the Full Term and Time of one Whole year from Hence next to be fully Completed and Ended Yielding & Paying therefore the Rent of one Ear of Indian corn on Lady Day next if the same shall be Lawfully Demanded To the Intent and purpose that by virtue of these presents and of the Statute for Transfering uses into Possession the said William Frost may be in Actual Possession of the Premises and be thereby enabled to accept and Take a grant and Release of the Reversion and Inheritance thereof to him and his heirs. In Witness whereof the said John Cozine and Deborah his wife wife have hereunto set their hands and Seales the Day and year first above written.

John X Cazine [his mark] {Seal}
Deborah X Cazine [her mark] {Seal}

Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of

Thos. Speake
William Jolliffe
Hugh Hartley

* * *

Deed of Release:

This Indenture made the Tenth Day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Fifty Six Between John Cazine of the County of Frederick in the Colony of Virginia & Deborah his Wife of the one part and William Frost of the County aforesaid yeoman of the other part Witnesseth that for and in Consideration of the Sum of Sixty pounds Current money of Virginia to the said John Cazine in hand paid by the said William Frost at or before the Sealing and Delivery of these presents the Receipt Whereof he Doth hereby Acknowledge and Doth thereof Release & Discharge the said William Frost his Executors and Administrators by these presents for the said John Cazine and Deborah his wife have granted Bargained and Sold aliened Released and Confirmed and by these Presents Do Grant Bargain Sell Alien Release and Confirm unto the said William Frost a certain Tract of Land containing Four hundred and Fifty five acres be the same more or Less Lying Scituate and being in the aforesaid County of Frederick granted by patent to the said John Cazine bearing Date the 25th Day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Fifty one Surveyed by Mr. George Washington and adjoining the Land of Colonel George William Fairfax Beginning at a Hickory and Red Oak marked FX Corner of the said Colonel Fairfax's Line and Extending thence with his Line South 30 Degrees West two hundred and Twenty poles to two Red Oaks in his Line thence South Sixty Degrees West [?] one hundred Eighty two Poles to a Hickory on a Levill thence north 30 Degrees East three hundred and ten poles [part of the legal description omitted here] to a White Oak in Thomas Loftin's Line thence with his Line South Seven Degrees West twenty poles to three Small Locusts by a Path thence north Eighty three Degrees west one hundred twenty Eight poles to two Red oaks his Corner in Colo. Fairfax's Line thence with his lines South Seven Degrees west ninety poles to a Large white Oak Marked FX thence South 60 Degrees East ninety poles to the Beginning & all houses Buildings ways waters water Courses profits Commodities Hereditaments and Appurtenances whatsoever to the said premises hereby granted or any part thereof belonging or in any wise Appurtaining and the Reversion or Reversions Remainder and Remainders Rents Issues and Profits thereof and also all the Estate Right Title Interest Use Trust properly Claim and Demand Whatsoever of him the said John Cazine and Deborah his wife of in and to the said Premises and all Deeds Evidences and Writings Touching or in any wise Concerning the same To Have & To Hold the said Four hundred and Fifty five acres of land and all and Singular other the Premises hereby Granted and Bargained and Every part and Parcell thereof with their and Every of their Appurtenances unto the said William Frost his heirs and assigns forever to the only proper use and behoof of him the said William Frost and of his heirs and assigns forever and the said John Cazine for himself his heirs Exrs. & Admrs. Doth covenant promise and grant to and with the said William Frost his heirs and assigns by these presents that he the said John Cazine now at the Time of Sealing and Delivery of these presents is Seized of a good Sure Perfect and Indefeasible Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple of and in the premises hereby Granted and Bargained & that he hath good power and Lawfull and Absolute Authority to Grant and Convey the Same to the said William Frost in manner and Form aforesaid and that the said premises now are and so forever hereafter shall Remain and be free and Clear of and from all former and other Gifts Grants Bargains Sales Dower Right and Title of Dower Judgment Executions Titles Troubles Charges and Incumbrances Whatsoever made Done Committed or Suffered by the said John Cazine or any person or persons whatsoever (the Quit Rents hereafter to Grow Due and Payable to the Chief Lord or Lords of the Fee their heirs and Successors for and in Respect of the said premises only Excepted and Foreprized) and Lastly that the said John Cazine and his heirs all and Singular the premises hereby Granted and Bargained with their appurtenances unto the said William Frost his heirs and assigns against him the sd. John Cazine and his heirs and all and Ever other person & persons Shall and will warrant and forever Defend by these Presents. In Witness whereof the sd. Joh Cazine and Deborah his wife have hereunto set their hands & Seals the Day & year first above written.

John X Cazine [his mark] {Seal}
Deborah X Cazine [her mark] {Seal}

Sealed & Delivered in the Presence of

Thos. Speake
Hugh Hartley
Wm. Jolliffe

(11) http://www.rootsweb.com/~scnewber/text/misc/crumleyjohnfamilyfile.htm:

William FROST was one of the witnesses to the will dated June 17, 1757 of James CRUMLEY. [According to O'Dell, Cecil, Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia, Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1995, p. 180, the will was dated June 27, 1757 and proved August 9, 1764.]

(12) Northern Neck Grants Book N, p. 256:

Fairfax Deed Dated 3 October 1766 to William Frost [Sr.] for 114 Acres of Land in Frederick County, VA:

The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Cameron in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia To all To whom this present Writing shall come sends Greeting Know ye That for good Causes for and in Consideration of the Composition to me paid and for the annual Rent hereinafter reserved I have given granted and confirmed and by these Presents for me my Heirs & Assigns do give grant and confirm unto William Frost of Frederick County A Certain Tract of Waste and ungranted Land on the So. Et. Side of Back Creek in The said County And bounded as by a Survey thereof made by John Mauzy Beginning At an Ash by the said Creek the Beginning Tree of his 239 Acres Thence up the Courses of the said Creek So. 27 Et. Forty Poles So. 47 Et. Twenty Poles to another Ash at the Mouth of a Branch Thence No. 77 Et. Eight two Poles to two young White Oaks on a Hill Thence No. 2 Et. Ninety four Poles to a White Oak by a Valley Thence No. 88 Et. Forty Poles to a Pine and White Oak Sapling Thence No. 2 Et. One Hundred and forty nine Poles to three White Oaks in a Valley Thence No. 88 Wt. Sixty Poles to three Spanish Oaks in Philip Dorset's Line Thence with it So. 30 Wt. Six Poles to two White Oaks on a Hill Thence with another of his Lines of his 239 Acres Thence along his Lines So. 27 Et. Two Hundred and fifty Poles to two Pines on a Hill Side Thence No. 60 Wt. Seventy eight Poles to the Beginning Containing One Hundred and fourteen Acres Together With all Rights Members and Appurtenances thereunto belonging Royal Mines excepted And a full Third Part of all Lead Copper Tin Coals Iron Mine and Iron Ore that shall be found thereon To have and to hold The said One Hundred and fourteen Acres of Land together with all Rights Profits and Benefits to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining Except before excepted To him The said William Frost his Heirs and Assigns Forever He The said William Frost his Heirs and Assigns therefore Yielding and Paying to me my Heirs or Assigns or to my Certain Attorney or Attornies [sic] Agent or Agents or to the Certain Attorney or Attornies [sic] of my Heirs or Assigns Proprietors of the said Northern Neck Yearly and every Year on The Feast Day of St. Michael the Archangel The Fee Rent of One Shilling Sterling Money for every Fifty Acres of Land hereby granted and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity Provided That if the said William Frost his Heirs and Assigns shall not pay the said reserved annual Rent as aforesaid so that the same or any Part thereof shall be behind and unpaid by the Space of two whole Years after the same shall become due If legally demanded That then it shall and may be lawful for me my Heirs or Assigns Proprietors as aforesaid my or their Certain Attorney or Attornies [sic] Agent or Agents into the above granted Premises to reenter and hold the same as if this Grant had never passed Given At my Office in the County of Frederick under my Hand and Seal Dated the 3d Day of October AD 1766.

Fairfax

(13) Last Will and Testament of William Frost, Sr., executed on August 21, 1774 in Frederick County, VA, proved on May 7, 1776 in Frederick County, VA [Frederick County, VA Will Book 4, pp. 323-324]:

Whereas I William Frost of the County of Frederick & Colony of Virginia being in poor state of health but in my proper senses and Considering the uncertainty of Life do think fit to make this my Last Will & Testament and by these Presents do make and ordain this my last will & Testament in manner and form Folowing [sic] that is to say First of all it is my will that my Executors hereinafter named do pay all my Just debts and Funeral Charges as soon as possible out of my personal estate, Secondly I give and bequeath unto my Son William Frost his heirs and assigns forever two Tracts of Land laying [sic] and being in the County of Frederick & Colony of Virginia on the South East and East side of Back Creek Containing three hundred and fifty three acres agreeable to two deeds from under the hand and Seal of the Right Hons. Thos. Lord Fairfax bearing date the Twenty sixth day of April one Thousand seven hundred and Fifty three & and third day of October one Thousand seven hundred & sixty six, Charging the said William Frost Junr. with a Legacy to be paid to his Sister Francis [sic] in two years after my deceas [sic] the sum of Fifty pounds Current money of Virginia & in the case the said Francis [sic] should die before the said Legacy hereby allowed is due & payable then and in that case it my Will that my said Son William Frost shall be free and Clear of paying of such Legacy Thirdly I give and Bequeath to my two sons John & Thomas Frost their Heirs and assigns for ever a Certain Tract or parcel of Land laying [sic] in the County of Frederick & Colony aforesaid Containing Four Hundred acres as will appear by Deed &c. from the proprietor of the Northern neck, Virginia a bearing date the 17th day November 1752 the same to be Equally divided Quantity & Quality agreeable to the discretion of my Executors. Fourthly I give & bequeath unto my two sons Isaac & Abraham Frost & their Heirs and Assigns forever a Certain Tract of Land Laying [sic] and being in the County of Frederick & Colony aforesaid Containing four Hundred acres as by Deed &c. bearing date the fourth day March one thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty three Fifthly I give & Bequeath unto Jacob and Amos Frost whereon I now Live the Plantation & Tract of Land Containing Four Hundred & Fifty Five acres as also one other Tract which I have obtained a Bond for under the Hand & Seal of Warner Washington, Senr. & Warner Washington Junr. under the Penalty of one Hundred & Sixty Pounds to convey the sd. Tract of Land Containing sixty one acres agreeable to the said Bond bearing Date the 14th April 1774. Sixthly I give & Bequeath unto my Dear and beloved Wife Hannah Frost all the Profits of the last two mentioned Tracts of Land during her natural life for the support of herself & bringing up the small Children & duly Educating of them And Seventhly I do hereby nominate & appoint my trusty & Loving sons William John & Thomas Frost my whole & sole Executors of this my last Will & Testament hereby disannulling all former Wills by me made. Eighthly I do hereby order and it is my Will that Jacob & Amos Frost do pay (after they are in Possession of the Lands bequeathed to them) unto Abraham Frost the sum of Fifty pounds at or upon two years after the said Possession and I do hereby order my Executors to pay unto my Daughters Mary and Hannah the wives of Jacob Larew & John Mason Five pounds each out of my Personal Estate and the Remainder of my Personal Estate after my Funeral Charges & Just Debts are Paid & Legacies paid I do hereby order my Executors before mentioned to equally Divide the Remainder between my loving wife & Elizabeth Martha & Ellen & Ann Frost my Daughters.

William Frost (LS)

Signed Seal'd & Publis'd &
Declared as his last Will &
Testament in the Presence of

Joseph Day
Nathan Littler
John Adams
William Drago (his mark)

At a Court held for Frederick County the 17th day of May 1776 This Last Will and Testament of William Frost dec was proved by the affirmation of Nathan Littler and John Adams (being two of the people called Quakers) witnesses thereto and ordered to be Recorded and on the motion of William John & Thomas Frost the Executors therin named who made oath according to the Certificate is granted them for obtaining a probate thereof in due form, they with Security having entered into and acknowledged bond Conditions as the Law directs.

By the Court

J. A. Keith C. of Court

(14) Chalkley, Lyman, The Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: 1745 to 1800 [Reprint, Originally Published, 1912], Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980 , Vol. II, pp. 133-134:

Frost vs. Frost's Administrator - O. S. 162; N. S. 57 - Orator, Abraham Frost of Frederick County, son of William Frost, Sr., who died testate in Frederick, devising land to Abraham and his brother Isaac. Isaac died 1774 intestate, leaving (beside orator) two other brothers, viz: Thomas and William. In 1795 William had a nephew, Isaac McCormick. William died in 1800, testate. Isaac Frost died before his father, who died 1775. John Frost, another devisee of Wm. Sr., died 1777. Answer by Mitcham C. Repass and Frances, his wife, a child and devisee of William Frost, deceased, Jr. Thomas Frost deposes at tavern of Griffith Yeatman's in Cincinnati, May, 1803, aged 58 years; son of William Frost, Sr., who died 1775 (his will dated 25th August, 1774). John Frost died 1777. Sigismund Stribbling, aged 63, deposes in Winchester, 5th June, 1810. Isaac Frost was out with deponent in Dunmore's Expedition in 1774, and died in fall of that year coming in home. William Frost was with him. John Lindsey, aged 64, deposed ditto. Andrew McCormick, aged 63 or 64, deposed ditto. Jacob Larue and George Rust live in Kentucky in 1807. William Frost's will of Frederick County: Daughter, Frances Hickman, sometimes called Frances Frost; tract conveyed to William by Martin Baker and Elizabeth, his wife, of Hanover County, by deed, 17th September, 1781. Frances is a base-born child, begotten by William on Elizabeth Hickman, widow of Isaac Hickman, Elizabeth being now the wife of Capt. Peter Rust of Frederick; nephew, Isaac McCormick, son of Francis McCormick, dated 16th June, 1797; proved June (May), 1801, in Frederick. William Frost of Frederick, will: Sons, William, John, Thomas, Isaac, Abraham; daughters, Frances, Elizabeth, Martha, Ellen, Anna. Devisees Jacob and Amos Frost: Wife, Hannah; daughters, Mary (wife of Jacob Larew), and Hannah, wife of John Mason. Dated 25th August, 1774; recorded 7th May, 1776. Deed by Benj. Berry and Thomas McCormick and Anne, his wife, to Robert Dunlap, recorded in Winchester District Court. 398 acres included in a patent 17th November, 1752, by Fairfax to Wm. Frost. Deed 24th February, 1795, by Thomas Frost and William Frost and Elizabeth Frost, wife of Thomas, to Benj. Berry and Thos. McCormick. Recorded in Berkeley County, 24th February, 1795.

[Note by compiler: Chalkley is not without its problems. Not all documents are included. There are not only errors of omission, but errors of transcription have also been documented.]

(15) Black's Law Dictionary, 4th ed., St. Paul, MN: 1951, p. 1246:

The plaintiff in a cause or matter in chancery, when addressing or petitioning the court, used to style himself "orator," and, when, a woman, "oratrix." But these terms have long gone into disuse, and the customary phrases now are "plaintiff" or "petitioner."

(16) The compiler (a descendant of William FROST, Sr.) has had his Y-DNA tested for the FROST DNA Project. The results of that test are posted at http://frostdnaproject.home.comcast.net/index_files/Page450.htm, where the compiler is listed as a member of FROST Family Group 5, alias 88079. The test results identify the compiler, and, therefore, William FROST, Sr., as a member of haplogroup R1b1c, which is a subgroup of haplogroup R1b.

The compiler has been provided the following information regarding haplogroup R1b by The Genographic Project :

Your Y-chromosome results identify you as a member of haplogroup R1b.

The genetic markers that define your ancestral history reach back roughly 60,000 years to the first common marker of all non-African men, M168, and follow your lineage to present day, ending with M343, the defining marker of haplogroup Rib.

If you look at the map highlighting your ancestors' route, you will see that members of haplogroup Rib carry the following Y-chromosome markers:

M168 > M89 > M9 > M45 > M207 > M173 > M343

Today, roughly 70 percent of the men in southern England belong to haplogroup R1b. In parts of Spain and Ireland, that number exceeds 90 percent.

What's a haplogroup, and why do geneticists concentrate on the Y chromosome in their search for markers? For that matter, what's a marker?

Each of us carries DNA that is a combination of genes passed from both our mother and father, giving us traits that range from eye color and height to athleticism and disease susceptibility. One exception is the Y chromosome, which is passed directly from father to son, unchanged, from generation to generation.

Unchanged, that is unless a mutation a random, naturally occurring, usually harmless change occurs. The mutation, known as a marker, acts as a beacon; it can be mapped through generations because it will be passed down from the man in whom it occurred to his sons, their sons, and every male in his family for thousands of years.

In some instances there may be more than one mutational event that defines a particular branch on the tree. This means that any of these markers can be used to determine your particular haplogroup, since every individual who has one of these markers also has the others.

When geneticists identify such a marker, they try to figure out when it first occurred, and in which geographic region of the world. Each marker is essentially the beginning of a new lineage on the family tree of the human race. Tracking the lineages provides a picture of how small tribes of modern humans in Africa tens of thousands of years ago diversified and spread to populate the world.

A haplogroup is defined by a series of markers that are shared by other men who carry the same random mutations. The markers trace the path your ancestors took as they moved out of Africa. It's difficult to know how many men worldwide belong to any particular haplogroup, or even how many haplogroups there are, because scientists simply don't have enough data yet.

One of the goals of the five-year Genographic Project is to build a large enough database of anthropological genetic data to answer some of these questions. To achieve this, project team members are traveling to all corners of the world to collect more than 100,000 DNA samples from indigenous populations. . . .

Your Ancestral Journey: What We Know Now

M168: Your Earliest Ancestor

Fast Facts

Time of Emergence: Roughly 50,000 years ago

Place of Origin: Africa

Climate: Temporary retreat of Ice Age; Africa moves from drought to warmer temperatures and moister conditions

Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: Approximately 10,000

Toots and Skills: Stone tools; earliest evidence of art and advanced conceptual skills

Skeletal and archaeological evidence suggest that anatomically modern humans evolved in Africa around 200,000 years ago, and began moving out of Africa to colonize the rest of the world around 60,000 years ago.

The man who gave rise to the first genetic marker in your lineage probably lived in northeast Africa in the region of the Rift Valley, perhaps in present-day Ethiopia, Kenya, or Tanzania, some 31,000 to 79,000 years ago. Scientists put the most likely date for when he lived at around 50,000 years ago. His descendants became the only lineage to survive outside of Africa, making him the common ancestor of every non-African man living today.

But why would man have first ventured out of the familiar African hunting grounds and into unexplored lands? It is likely that a fluctuation in climate may have provided the impetus for your ancestors' exodus out of Africa.

The African ice age was characterized by drought rather than by cold. It was around 50,000 years ago that the ice sheets of northern Europe began to melt, introducing a period of warmer temperatures and moister climate in Africa. Parts of the inhospitable Sahara briefly became habitable. As the drought-ridden desert changed to a savanna, the animals hunted by your ancestors expanded their range and began moving through the newly emerging green corridor of grasslands. Your nomadic ancestors followed the good weather and the animals they hunted, although the exact route they followed remains to be determined.

In addition to a favorable change in climate, around this same time there was a great leap forward in modern humans' intellectual capacity. Many scientists believe that the emergence of language gave us a huge advantage over other early human species. Improved tools and weapons, the ability to plan ahead and cooperate with one another, and an increased capacity to exploit resources in ways we hadn't been able to earlier, all allowed modern humans to rapidly migrate to new territories, exploit new resources, and replace other hominids.

M89: Moving Through the Middle East

Fast Facts

Time of Emergence: 45,000 years ago

Place: Northern Africa or the Middle East

Climate: Middle East: Semiarid grass plains

Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: Tens of thousands

Tools and Skills: Stone, ivory, wood tools

The next male ancestor in your ancestral lineage is the man who gave rise to M89, a marker found in 90 to 95 percent of all non-Africans. This man was born around 45,000 years ago in northern Africa or the Middle East.

The first people to leave Africa likely followed a coastal route that eventually ended in Australia. Your ancestors followed the expanding grasslands and plentiful game to the Middle East and beyond, and were part of the second great wave of migration out of Africa.

Beginning about 40,000 years ago, the climate shifted once again and became colder and more arid. Drought hit Africa and the grasslands reverted to desert, and for the next 20,000 years, the Saharan Gateway was effectively closed. With the desert impassable, your ancestors had two options: remain in the Middle East, or move on. Retreat back to the home continent was not an option.

While many of the descendants of M89 remained in the Middle East, others continued to follow the great herds of buffalo, antelope, woolly mammoths, and other game through what is now modern-day Iran to the vast steppes of Central Asia.

These semiarid grass-covered plains formed an ancient "superhighway" stretching from eastern France to Korea. Your ancestors, having migrated north out of Africa into the Middle East, then traveled both east and west along this Central Asian superhighway. A smaller group continued moving north from the Middle East to Anatolia and the Balkans, trading familiar grasslands for forests and high country.

M9: The Eurasian Clan Spreads Wide and Far

Fast Facts

Time of Emergence: 40,000 years ago

Place: Iran or southern Central Asia

Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: Tens of thousands

Tools and Skills: Upper Paleolithic

Your next ancestor, a man born around 40,000 years ago in Iran or southern Central Asia, gave rise to a genetic marker known as M9, which marked a new lineage diverging from the 1489 Middle Eastern Clan. His descendants, of which you are one, spent the next 30,000 years populating much of the planet.

This large lineage, known as the Eurasian Clan, dispersed gradually over thousands of years. Seasoned hunters followed the herds ever eastward, along the vast super highway of Eurasian steppe. Eventually their path was blocked by the massive mountain ranges of south Central Asia the Hindu Kush, the Tian Shan, and the Himalayas.

The three mountain ranges meet in a region known as the "Pamir Knot," located in present-day Tajikistan. Here the tribes of hunters split into two groups. Some moved north into Central Asia, others moved south into what is now Pakistan and the Indian subcontinent.

These different migration routes through the Pamir Knot region gave rise to separate lineages.

Most people native to the Northern Hemisphere trace their roots to the Eurasian Clan. Nearly all North Americans and East Asians are descended from the man described above, as are most Europeans and many Indians.

M45: The Journey Through Central Asia

Fast Facts

Time of Emergence: 35,000 [years ago]

Place of Origin: Central Asia

Climate: Glaciers expanding over much of Europe

Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: Approximately 100,000

Tools and Skills: Upper Paleolithic

The next marker of your genetic heritage, M45, arose around 35,000 years ago, in a man born in Central Asia. He was part of the M9 Eurasian Clan that had moved to the north of the mountainous Hindu Kush and onto the game-rich steppes of present-day Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and southern Siberia.

Although big game was plentiful, the environment on the Eurasian steppes became increasing hostile as the glaciers of the Ice Age began to expand once again. The reduction in rainfall may have induced desertlike conditions on the southern steppes, forcing your ancestors to follow the herds of game north.

To exist in such harsh conditions, they learned to build portable animal-skin shelters and to create weaponry and hunting techniques that would prove successful against the much larger animals they encountered in the colder climates. They compensated for the lack of stone they traditionally used to make weapons by developing smaller points and blades microliths that could be mounted to bone or wood handles and used effectively. Their tool kit also included bone needles for sewing animal-skin clothing that would both keep them warm and allow them the range of movement needed to hunt the reindeer and mammoth that kept them fed.

Your ancestors' resourcefulness and ability to adapt was critical to survival during the last ice age in Siberia, a region where no other hominid species is known to have lived.

The M45 Central Asian Clan gave rise to many more; the man who was its source is the common ancestor of most Europeans and nearly all Native American men.

M207: Leaving Central Asia

Fast Facts

Time of Emergence: 30,000 [years ago]

Place of Origin: Central Asia

Climate: Glaciers expanding over much of Europe and western Eurasia

Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: Approximately 100,000

Tools and Skills: Upper Paleolithic

After spending considerable time in Central Asia, refining skills to survive in harsh new conditions and exploit new resources, a group from the Central Asian Clan began to head west towards the European subcontinent.

An individual in this clan carried the new M207 mutation on his Y chromosome. His descendants ultimately split into two distinct groups, with one continuing onto the European subcontinent, and the other group turning south and eventually making it as far as India.

Your lineage falls within the first haplogroup, R1, and gave rise to the first modern humans to move into Europe and eventually colonize the continent.

M173: Colonizing Europe The First Modern Europeans

Fast Facts

Time of Emergence: Around 30,000 years ago

Place: Central Asia

Climate: Ice Age

Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: Approximately 100,000

Tools and Skills: Upper Paleolithic

As your ancestors continued to move west, a man born around 30,000 years ago in Central Asia gave rise to a lineage defined by the genetic marker M173. His descendants were part of the first large wave of humans to reach Europe.

During this period, the Eurasian steppelands extended from present-day Germany, and possibly France, to Korea and China. The climate fostered a land rich in resources and opened a window into Europe.

Your ancestors' arrival in Europe heralded the end of the era of the Neandertals, a hominid species that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia from about 29,000 to 230,000 years ago. Better communication skills, weapons, and resourcefulness probably enabled your ancestors to outcompete Neandertals for scarce resources.

This wave of migration into Western Europe marked the appearance and spread of what archaeologists call the Aurignacian culture. The culture is distinguished by significant innovations in methods of manufacturing tools, more standardization of tools, and a broader set of tool types, such as end-scrapers for preparing animal skins and tools for woodworking.

In addition to stone, the first modern humans to reach Europe used bone, ivory, antler, and shells as part of their tool kit. Bracelets and pendants made of shells, teeth, ivory, and carved bone appear at many sites. Jewelry, often an indication of status, suggests a more complex social organization was beginning to develop.

The large number of archaeological sites found in Europe from around 30,000 years ago indicates that there was an increase in population size.

Around 20,000 years ago, the climate window shut again, and expanding ice sheets forced your ancestors to move south to Spain, Italy, and the Balkans. As the ice retreated and temperatures became warmer, beginning about 12,000 years ago, many descendants of M173 moved north again to repopulate places that had become inhospitable during the Ice Age.

Not surprisingly, today the number of descendants of the man who gave rise to marker M173 remains very high in Western Europe. It is particularly concentrated in northern France and the British Isles where it was carried by ancestors who had weathered the Ice Age in Spain.

M343: Direct Descendants of Cro-Magnon

Fast Facts

Time of Emergence: Around 30,000 years ago

Place of Origin: Western Europe

Climate: Ice sheets continuing to creep down Northern Europe

Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: [not provided]

Tools and Skills: Upper Paleolithic

Around 30,000 years ago, a descendant of the clan making its way into Europe gave rise to marker M343, the defining marker of your haplogroup. You are a direct descendent of the people who dominated the human expansion into Europe, the Cro-Magnon.

The Cro-Magnon are responsible for the famous cave paintings found in southern France. These spectacular paintings provide archaeological evidence that there was a sudden blossoming of artistic skills as your ancestors moved into Europe. Prior to this, artistic endeavors were mostly comprised of jewelry made of shell, bone, and ivory; primitive musical instruments; and stone carvings.

The cave paintings of the Cro-Magnon depict animals like bison, deer, rhinoceroses, and horses, and natural events important to Paleolithic life such as spring molting, hunting, and pregnancy. The paintings are far more intricate, detailed, and colorful than anything seen prior to this period.

Your ancestors knew how to make woven clothing using the natural fibers of plants, and had relatively advanced tools of stone, bone, and ivory. Their jewelry, carvings, and intricate, colorful cave paintings bear witness to the Cro-Magnons' advanced culture during the last glacial age.

This is where your genetic trail, as we know it today, ends. . . . As additional data are collected and analyzed, more will be learned about your place in the history of the men and women who first populated the Earth.

William married Hannah (FROST) about 1738. Hannah was born between 1712 and 1714; died in Frederick [now Clarke] County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

(1) The compiler has seen no proof of the ancestry of Hannah (FROST), the wife of William FROST, Sr. of Frederick County, VA.

(2) According to a hypothesis of Mrs. Irene S. Donohoe, 9414 Woodland Drive, Silver Spring, Maryland, the maiden name of Hannah (FROST), the wife of William FROST, Sr. of Frederick County, VA, was "possibly Dawson." Mrs. Donohoe did not specify her reason for her hypothesis.

As far as the compiler can determine, Mrs. Donohoe's hypothesis is based on (1) the first name of Dawson McCORMICK (born October 19, 1786), the second son of John McCORMICK and Ann/Anna FROST (a daughter of William FROST, Sr. and Hannah FROST); and (2) the then current naming pattern of naming a couples' second son for the mother's father.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~iashelby/genbegin.htm:

ENGLISH NAMING PATTERNS 1700-1875

From approximately 1700 to 1875, the naming convention for children born to English speaking families often followed a pattern. Although the naming convention does not always work, many children's first names originated from their ancestors. For example, the 1st son was usually named after the father's father.

ENGLISH NAMING PATTERNS 1700-1875:

1st son............father's father
2nd son...........mother's father
3rd son............father
4th son............father's eldest brother
1st dau............mother's mother
2nd dau...........father's mother
3rd dau............mother
4th dau............mother's eldest sister

(3) Some sources claim that the maiden name of Hannah (FROST), the wife of William FROST, Sr. of Frederick County, VA, was TAYLOR. The compiler has seen no proof of that claim, which appears to be based on family lore.

(4) Some sources assert that Hannah's name was Hannah DAWSON TAYLOR, without specifying whether (a) her middle name was DAWSON and her maiden name was TAYLOR, or (b) her maiden name was DAWSON and her prior married name was TAYLOR. The compiler has seen no proof of that assertion.

Notes:

(1) Source: "Riely," a Public Member Tree on Ancestry.com.

(2) McIlhany, Hugh M., Some Virginia Families, Staunton, VA: Stoneburner and Prufer Printers, 1903, pp. 216-217:

William Taylor married Catherine Bushrod . . . about 1762, and settled at "Green Hill", Frederick County, near Berryville, which estate remained in the possession of his descendants till after 1870. It is said that during the Revolutionary War he was captain of the home guard to protect Battletown, now Berryville, from the depredations of British soldiers. Who his ancestors were has never been handed down, but it is thought that he was of the Tayloe family of Westmoreland County, a change of spelling occurring after he removed to Frederick County. He is said to have been a man of great force of character. He had six children, as follows: . . .

A. John Bushrod Taylor, d. Jan. 27, 1834, aged about 70; m. Sarah Kennon, daughter of William Kennon and a Miss Gardener; he was buried at "Green Hill". . . .

B. Col. Griffin Taylor, inherited "Green Hill", his father's estate; m. Mary Kennon, sister of Sarah Kennon. . . . He is said to have been an officer in the Revolutionary War. . . .

C. Bushrod Taylor, d August 26, 1815, aged 43, and was buried at "Green Hill"; m. Jan. 29, 1801, Martha Peyton Stubblefield (b. Feb. 9, 1784; d. in 1853; see ??182. On Jan. 7, 1828 she married Thomas Castleman, ??191, as his second wife. After his death, she removed in 1835 to Slickaway, Fayette County, Kentucky, where she purchased the plantation of Elijah Milton. She is buried in the Pisgah graveyard, Woodford County, Ky.). His home was at "Morgan Spring", near Berryville. He was a trustee of the town in 1798, Justice of the Peace in 1811, and a soldier of the War of 1812. . . .

D. Eben Taylor, m. Nancy Shipp. . . .

E. Elizabeth Taylor, m. Amos Frost. . . .

F. Catherine Taylor, m. ELIJAH MILTON. . . .

(3) The compiler has found no documentation substantiating the speculation that William TAYLOR "was of the Tayloe family of Westmoreland County, a change of spelling occurring after he removed to Frederick County."

William married Catherine BUSHROD about 1762 in Frederick County, VA. Catherine (daughter of John BUSHROD and Jane CORBIN) was born about 1731 in "Bushfield," Westmoreland County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

(1) Source: "Riely," a Public Member Tree on Ancestry.com.

(2) Ritchie, Ruth and Wood, Sudie Rucker, Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck, Virginia, Charlottesville, VA: Jarman Printing, 1952, pp. 208-209:

John Bushrod . . . inherited "Bushfield" and married Mildred Corbin of King and Queen County, a first cousin of Colonel Thomas Lee of Stratford. They had a daughter Hannah Bushrod, who married John Augustine Washington, brother of General George Washington. Their son, Bushrod Washington, born June 5, 1762, at "Bushfield," was an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court and it was to him that George Washington left Mt. Vernon and all his books and papers. He married Julia Anne Blackburn. As they had no children, upon his death in 1829 he left Mt. Vernon to a nephew, John Augustine Washington, son of his brother, Corbin Washington, who married Hannah Lee, a daughter of Hon. Richard Henry Lee. He in turn left it to his son, John Augustine Washington III, who was the last private owner of the estate. Thus all the private owners of Mt. Vernon after George Washington's death were descendants of Thomas and Mary Keene of Northumberland County. George Washington visited numerous times at "Bushfield." The first John Augustine Washington and his wife, Hannah, who was the second mistress of Mt. Vernon, are buried at "Bushfield."

(2) "The Corbin Family," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 29 (1921), pp. 521:

Issue [of Gawin CORBIN] (which marriage uncertain): . . .

Jenny, or Jane, married John Bushrod, of Westmoreland county. She is not mentioned in Gawin Corbin's will and the only evidence for her existance [sic] is the account of the family given by Bishop Meade in his Old Church and Families of Virginia. The John Bushrod, she is stated to have married, died in Westmoreland county and his will proved Dec. 30, 1700, names a wife Mildred. As he makes Richard Corbin an executor and as the name Corbin appeared as a Christian name among his descendants, it is probable that Jenny Corbin was his first wife.

(4) McIlhany, Hugh M., Some Virginia Families, Staunton, VA: Stoneburner and Prufer Printers, 1903, p. 215:

John Bushrod lived at "Bushfield", and was a vestryman of Cople Parish in 1755, High Sheriff of Westmoreland County in 1759, and a member of the House of Burgesses, 1748-1755. He probably married his cousin Anne, daughter of Thomas Bushrod; she dying, he married Jane Corbin . . . , and left two daughters, Hannah and Catherine. About 1760 Hannah married John Augustine Washington, a brother of George Washington, and had four children, - Bushrod, Corbin, Mildred and Augustine.

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: Member of the "70 Families"

Notes:

(1) John FROST and William FROST, Sr. have been proven, based on DNA tests of their descendants, to have had a common FROST ancestor, although the compiler does not know who that ancestor was. Most persons who have considered the question believe that John FROST was the father of William FROST, Sr., but the compiler has no conclusive proof of such relationship. John FROST is shown here as the father of William FROST, Sr. in order to stimulate further research.

(2) According to lore in the families of several descendants of John FROST, the FROSTs came to America from Wales.

One example of such lore is the following:

"In 1683 several members arrived in America from the Parish of Llainhaugel yr. helyge Radnorshire (Wales) and resided in Pennsylvania as Quakers. From there, they migrated to Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina and Texas." [See: http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cwh001&id=I01162]

[The compiler has not located "the Parish of Llainhaugel yr. helyge" in Radnorshire, Wales. The closest the compiler has come is the parish of Llanfihangel Helygen. See: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/RAD/LlanfihangelHelygen/index.html. Several members of the MILES family arrived in PA in 1683 from Llanfihangel Helygen, Wales, but the compiler has found no evidence that several members of the FROST family also arrived in PA in 1683 from Llanfihangel Helygen, Wales.]

Another example of such lore is the following:

"My father's people originally came from Wales." [Frost, William Anderson, notes dated July 30, 1943, provided to the compiler by William's 2nd great-grandson, Dr. John W. Frost, Jr. .]

Still another example of such lore is the following:

"We know nothing of the appearance or characteristics of Thomas Lindsey, but a description of his first wife, Mary Frost, has come down to us.

"'She was remarkable for her beauty, her heavy suite of raven black hair which came to the calves of her legs, her very white complexion and wondrous dark eyes. She was of Welsh descent.'" [Brown, Ferrell A., The Lindseys: A Genealogy of Thomas and Mary Lindsey and Their Descendants, Point Lookout, MO: School of Ozarks Press, 1970.]

The compiler has not verified such lore.

(3) Marianna Frost :

Miles Goodlett FROST, a descendant of John FROST, reported that according to family lore, a widow FROST, who was a Quaker, came to America with her seven sons.

The compiler has not verified such lore.

(4) Tracey, Grace L. & Dern, John P., Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721-1743, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987, pp. 79, 87:

The beginnings of a small Quaker settlement in the area near today's Buckeystown paved the way for the organization of the first religious establishment in western Maryland. The resulting "Monquesey Meeting" of the Society of Friends thus preceded the churches organized by the far more numerous German Lutherans and Reformed, as well as the Established Church of England. . . .

Thomas Curtis and his wife Mary Bryan, daughter of Morgan Bryan, came from Pennsylvania into today's Berkeley County, West Virginia. Isaac Perkins, likewise from Pennsylvania, became a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and a friend of Lord Fairfax. He devoted his life to the Society of Friends. Thomas Anderson built one of the first mills on Mill Creek in Virginia. John Mills, Sr. described himself in 1743 as a farmer from Prince George's County, Maryland; his son John Mills, Jr. was a cordwainer. John Richards was born in England, was taxed in Chester County, Pennsylvania from 1720-1726 and then moved to Virginia, joining the Hopewell Quakers. Cornelius Cockerine likewise owned property in Chester County, then moved to the mouth of the Opequon. William Hogg was a taxable in East Nottingham Township of Chester County, Pennsylvania from 1718 to 1730 and appeared in the Hopewell Minutes sometimes as Hoge, sometimes as Hogue. John Littler was a business partner of James Wright. He kept a tavern in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1729-1730, where his records in 1731 show "he is going away." His daughter married a daughter of Alexander Ross. Thomas Branson in his will of November 21, 1744 identified himself as from Burlington County, New Jersey. He devised his land "on Shannandow River" to his sons who were then living on it. Evan Thomas was a Quaker minister who came from Wales in 1719. His son Evan Thomas, Jr. married the daughter of Alexander Ross. Abraham Hollingsworth according to the Minutes of the Nottingham (Pennsylvania) Monthly meeting in 1729 was "under dealings and absent from home." Family tradition claims he paid first "a cow, a calf and a piece of red cloth to the Shawnee Indians for his land." But on November 23, 1732 he received a survey for 582 acres "within the limits of an order of Council granted to Alexander Ross." John Willson, Nathaniel Thomas, John Haitt [Hiatt?], Jr., John Peteate, George Robinson, Robert Luna, Luke Emelen, Francis Pincher, John Frost, George Hobson and John Calvert were other Quakers who moved through Maryland to Pennsylvania. [Note: Should this read "through Maryland to Virginia."?]

(5) Hinshaw, William Wade, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. VI [Reprint], Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1994, pp. 357-360:

HOPEWELL MONTHLY MEETING
(Sometimes called Opeckan in early records)

Frederick County, Virginia

A number of historians have written accounts of the first settlement of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia by certain members of the Society of Friends, and of the establishment of various meetings on its fertile limestone soil, one of these meetings being known at first as Opeckan and later called Hopewell Meeting, it being the earliest meeting established in this particular region. The exact date of its establishment has never been settled upon. In 1875, in "An Account of the Meetings of the Society of Friends within the Limits of Baltimore Yearly Meeting", Levi K. Brown, the narrator, says: "Hopewell Meeting is situated in Frederick Co., Virginia, five miles north of Winchester and Harper's Ferry Railroad. It was established about the year 1730 and was for many years attached to Concord Quarterly Meeting, Pennsylvania". It is known, however, that Opeckan (Hopewell) Meeting for Worship was not officially established until 1734; and that Hopewell Monthly Meeting was established in 1735, all of which is definitely shown by Quarterly and Yearly Meeting minutes. In about the year 1730 Alexander Ross, Morgan Bryan, and other Friends, secured a grant of land (a tract of 100,000 acres) on the Opeckan River and its vicinity to be settled by a large number of families of Friends from Pennsylvania, some of whom had already migrated to the Valley of the Monocacy, in Maryland. It stands to reason that Alexander Ross and Morgan Bryan had made extensive surveys of the region in the years previous to 1730 when they applied for the huge land grant. Although this grant had not been made final until 1732, the migration of Families of Friends into the valley seems to have been started soon after application had been made for it, and that by 1732 not less than seventy such families had settled in this wild region. The heads of the families have been called "Fathers of the Colony". It has ever been the custom of Friends, upon arrival in any new settlement, to immediately hold meetings, sometimes out of doors, but usually held in the house of a Friend, as soon as such a house could be built and made available. Friends, everywhere, anywhere, had in early times, little need of shelters in order to hold meetings; their meetings were usually held in silence. When two or more Friends might meet on the road or in a forest, they were almost certain to stop and hold a meeting if circumstances permitted. They could sit down together under the shade of a tree and, "going into silence" have the experience of feeling the Presence of God amongst them. That the Friends who went first into the Shenandoah Valley held their first meeting almost immediately after they arrived, and on the very first day of their arrival, I have no doubt. For that is exactly what they would have done. The terrain was wild and entirely uncultivated; houses had to be built of logs, after clearings were made for them, but the new land, -"The Promised Land", as it were, was beautiful. Can anyone doubt that their spirits were uplifted when they reached their new homeland, which they had travelled long days to find, and that their first thought would have been to assemble together in praise and thanksgiving to God? We do not know what families formed the very first Caravan; but we must assume that Alexander Ross led them into this wilderness of beauty and fertility; and we know that however many families went in the first caravan, others soon followed, and that within two years some seventy families of Friends had settled themselves in that lovely valley, and that in their thriftiness they had soon created a large community, built houses of logs, set up sawmills and grist mills and had brought about a condition of orderly living, such as Friends have always established in every new wilderness into which they migrated, One has only to read over the names of the "Fathers of the Colony", all of whom are well known to history, to realize the great strength of this remarkable community of Friends. There were: Alexander Ross, Morgan Bryan, Caleb Pusey, John Wilson, Thomas Curtis, Nathaniel Thomas, Isaac Perkins, John Hiatt, Thomas Anderson, John Mills, John Mills, Jr., John Beals, John Peteate, George Robinson, Richard Beeson, Robert Luna, John Richards, Giles Chapman, James Brown, Luke Emlen, Cornelius Cochrine, Josiah Ballenger, William Hogg, Benjamin Borden, John Littler, James Wright, John Frost, Thomas Dawson, Thomas Branson, George Hobson (Sr. & Jr.), Evan Thomas, John Calvert, Morgan Morgan, Hugh Farrell, James Davis, Thomas Babb, Edward Davis, John Hood, Abraham Hollingsworth, Simeon Taylor, and many others, together with their wives, sons, and daughters, all brought together in this wonderful Shenandoah Valley. Many others soon followed them. Is it, therefore, any wonder that this community, now a large part of what became Frederick Co., Va., became one of the greatest strongholds of the whole of America for the up-building of character and civic virtue and Faith in God and in His Truth? The generations of the early families of this community have moved on southward and westward, spreading ever outward and going ever onward, generation after generation, until millions of descendants of these great families literally cover the entire face of the United States, mingling their precious blood with the descendants of other great Quaker families of Maryland, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and all New England States, going on to Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and all Middle Western States and up and down the Pacific Coast, thus linking together the genealogical lineages of many millions of our sturdiest Americans of today. Ohio, once called the Northwest Territory, was the "bottleneck" (or Gateway) through which all Quaker families passed in their migrations Westward, whether from the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and/or the New England States; they all met in Ohio, where they mingled their bloods through marriages between their children; and then they migrated to Indiana, from whence they spread northward and westward until they covered all states, with the exceptions of a few states to the South: Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, where few Friends have ever lived, on account that the Quakers could not live contentedly where slavery existed.

Hopewell Meeting was first known as Opeckan Meeting; and the records and minutes of many other meetings, both north and south, list many certificates of removal from Opeckan Meeting, even as late as 1751/52. The official name of "Hopewell" was given to the meeting, however, in 1734 when the meeting was authorized by the Quarterly and Yearly Meetings under which Hopewell was established. Hopewell Monthly Meeting was authorized to be established in 1735. To it were attached Hopewell Meeting and Providence Meeting, these two meetings comprising Hopewell Monthly Meeting after 1744, prior to which, both Monocacy and Fairfax Meetings belonged to Hopewell Monthly Meeting. By 1744 the Friends belonging to Hopewell Monthly Meeting had become so numerous that it was decided to divide the meetings and a monthly meeting was established under the name Fairfax Monthly Meeting which were assigned Monocacy and Fairfax Meetings.

FROM: Samuel Smith's History of Pennsylvania, a part of which was printed in the Register of Pennsylvania, Vol. VII, p. 134, edited by Samuel Hazard, is quoted here from Hopewell Friends History (1936). (Smith's History of Pennsylvania was compiled at the direction of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1752.)

"About the year 1725, Henry Ballinger and Josiah Ballinger, from near Salem, in West Jersey; and soon after them James Wright, William Beals, and others from Nottingham, settled in the upper parts of Prince George's County, Maryland, near a large creek called Monoquesey [Monocacy]. About the year 1726, they applied to New Garden Monthly Meeting for liberty to hold a meeting for worship on first days, which was granted, and held at the house of Josiah Ballinger, and others till the year 1736, when a piece of ground was purchased and a meeting-house built, which is called Cold Spring meeting-house, where meetings are still kept.

"About the year 1732, Alexander Ross and Company obtained a grant from the Governor and Council at Williamsburgh in Virginia, for 100,000 acres of land near a large creek called Opeckan in the said colony, which about that time was settled by the said Alexander Ross, Josiah Ballinger, James Wright, Evan Thomas, and divers other Friends from Pennsylvania and Elk River, in Maryland, who soon after obtained leave from the quarterly meeting of Chester, held at Concord, to hold a meeting for worship, soon after which land was purchased and a meeting-house built, called Hopewell, where meetings are still held twice a week.

"About the year 1733, Amos Janney from Bucks County, and soon after divers other Friends settled about forty miles lower in Virginia than Opeckon, who obtained leave to hold a meeting for worship on first days, which was held at the said Amos Janney's and other Friends houses till the year 1741, when a piece of land was purchased, and a meeting-house built thereon, called Fairfax, where meetings are since held twice a week.

"About the year 1733 or soon after, Richard Beeson and divers others settled near a branch of Opeckon, called Tuscarora, where a meeting was held at said Beeson's house for some time, till the number of Friends being increased, land was purchased and a meeting-house built, called Providence, where meetings are since held twice a week.

"About the year 1736, Friends in those back settlements applied to Chester quarterly meeting for liberty to hold a monthly meeting, which was granted, and was held twice at Hopewell, and once at Cold Spring, alias Monoquesy, and so continued till the year 1744, when the number of Friends being much increased, they applied to the said quarterly meeting to have the monthly meeting divided, which was granted, so that since the year 1744, Hopewell and Providence make one monthly meeting, which is held by turns at Hopewell and Cold Spring, and the meeting at Fairfax makes another".

It is apparent, from the foregoing statements that the historian was not certain of the dates, since in each paragraph he begins with "About the year". Therefore, we cannot take his dates as the exact dates at which such occurrences came to pass. The full statement, however, is worth recording in any history of Hopewell and/or Fairfax.

Nottingham Monthly Meeting, in Cecil County, Maryland, was "set off" from New Garden Monthly Meeting, Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1730, and held its first monthly meeting on 20th of 4 mo. 1730. This being the nearest monthly meeting to Hopewell, Fairfax, Providence and Cold Spring (Monocacy), their monthly reports were made to Nottingham Monthly Meeting until Hopewell Monthly Meeting was firmly established in 1736. Their records of births, deaths and marriages, therefore, before 1736 should be found in the books of Nottingham Monthly Meeting. In fact, they are so found. So, to get a fair understanding of the activities of these meetings before Hopewell was established, one needs only to study the minutes and records of Nottingham Monthly Meeting. In these records we find items as follows:

1730-6-15. Alexander Ross appointed on a committee

1730-8-17. Richard Beeson and Ann Brown declared marriage intentions

1730/31-11-16. Alexander Ross again on a committee - with John Gartrill

1730-31-1-20. John Butterfield and Mary Brown declared marriage intentions

1731-2-17. Rachel Oldham, Mary Eiger and Katharine Ross to attend quarterly meeting 1731-7-18. Katharine Ross and Dinah Brown on committee to disown Sarah Morgan

These minutes show that Alexander Ross and others of the Shenandoah Valley were already there as early as the first above date.

1733-9-17. Elizabeth Renfro (widow of Joseph Hollingsworth) was complained of for marrying out of unity and Katharine Ross and Mary Littler were appointed to "labor with her". The first marriage at Hopewell.

1735-Oct.11. Ross, John, was married to Lydia Hollingsworth, daughter of Stephen. They had to go to Nottingham to declare their marriage intentions; such appearances had to be made before monthly meetings.

Unfortunately, the first book of minutes of Hopewell Monthly Meeting covering activities of the meeting from 1735 to 1759, inclusive, was burned in a fire at the house of the Clerk, Wm. Jolliffe, Jr.; but all other books from that day to this have been carefully preserved and their records and minutes have been meticulously extracted and compiled from the original books for this compilation. Since it has ever been the custom of all monthly meetings to register all certificates issued by them, and also all certificates received by them from other meetings, it has been possible to recover from those meetings closely connected with Hopewell a fairly good record of certificates of removal to and from Hopewell during that "lost" period of some 24 years. These have been collected and placed in this compilation in proper chronological order. A large number of these certificates we have taken from the historical department of a splendid book, "Hopewell Friends History", published in 1936 by "The Joint Committee of Hopewell Friends" and printed by Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., Strasburg, Virginia. I wish here to express my appreciation to Mr. and Mrs. Walker McClun Bond, of Winchester, Virginia, who, acting for their Committee, graciously offered us the privilege of using as much of their material as we might find helpful to this compilation. They went to a great deal of trouble to collect a vast amount of historical data from other meetings and from individual descendants of early members of Hopewell Meeting to be published for their celebration of the 200th anniversary of Hopewell Meeting in 1936. Those desiring a more detailed history of Hopewell than is possible to include in this compilation will find the above named book highly informative.

During the two centuries of the life of Hopewell Monthly Meeting, there have been some 30 meetings for worship and preparative meetings which were at one time or another under its oversight. These meetings covered a large terrain, including all of northern Virginia, and all of what is now West Virginia, as well as parts of western Pennsylvania and one meeting in Maryland (Monocacy).

The original books of minutes of Hopewell Monthly Meeting show almost a complete record of certificates of removal to and from that meeting with the exception, as stated, of its first 24 years. The books of records of births and deaths, however, are incomplete, and only a comparatively small part of all births and deaths are listed. This was probably caused by the fact that so many families belonging to meetings for worship lived so far away (hundreds of miles in many cases) that it was scarcely possible to send in the family records to be recorded. Travel was exceedingly difficult over mountainous roads running through wild terrain fraught with great danger. Committees were appointed periodically to go out and collect such data; but although they made faithful efforts to do so, they could not visit all families living in so many remote places. Marriage records covering the entire life of Hopewell Monthly Meeting seem quite complete. In the book of marriage records we find more than 300 full marriage certificates. Children listed as born to such marriages will be found directly under the data taken from each such marriage certificate with the dates of birth and other information alluding thereto where such has been found.

But a great number of marriages were of young people residing in remote places, and although it stands to reason that children were born to these parents, their births have not been registered. In many such cases, however, the names of such children are found listed in certificates of removal; and in other cases, names of children of parents not listed in the Register of Births and Deaths are found in their own marriage certificates which give the names of their parents. In writing up the data from marriage certificates, we have inserted the dates of births and deaths of the parties thereto, when possible, taking the dates from the record of births and deaths, doing this to aid searchers in identifications.

During the first 150 years of the life of Hopewell many families migrated to southern Virginia and to the Carolinas; when the Northwest Territory (Ohio)was opened up great numbers of Hopewell families migrated to that region, some of whom stopped enroute for a time at Redstone and Westland Meetings in western Pennsylvania, where their certificates were deposited. The names of hundreds of Hopewell families are found in the records of many meetings in Ohio and Indiana, and even on into Iowa, Illinois, Kansas and still farther west. Many hundreds of families now living in California and Oregon and other western states seek their ancestral lineages in the records of Hopewell and all other Virginia Meetings. The people now living in Virginia, Maryland, and other eastern states scarcely realize that they have some millions of cousins now living in those western states, from Ohio to the Pacific Coast.

Hopewell Monthly Meeting at Winchester, Virginia is still in existence as an active meeting; it has flourished continually since its organization over 200 years ago. Its labors and influence have spread in an ever widening and continuous wave to cover the entire United States; descendants of its early families are now living in every state of the Union. The meeting was divided by the Hicksite separation but both branches continued to use the same meeting house. In 1910 the branches began holding their services together and have continued to do so since that date.

William Wade Hinshaw

(6) An article by Thomas H. Fawcett entitled "Quaker Migration from Pennsylvania and New Jersey to Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1732-1759," Bulletin of Friends Historical Association, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Autumn 1937), pp. 102-108, lists a number of Quakers who migrated to the Hopewell Monthly Meeting from Pennsylvania and New Jersey during the period from 1732 to 1759. However, John FROST is not listed in that article. Following are possible reasons for the absence of such listing:

• John FROST might have migrated to the Hopewell Monthly Meeting from a place other than Pennsylvania or New Jersey.

• John FROST might have been a member of the Nottingham Monthly Meeting in 1735, when the Hopewell Monthly Meeting was set up, and then became a member of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting without formal record being made of the change.

• John FROST, like the NEILLs, might have had a Quaker background before he came to the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, but did not bring a certificate with him.

• John FROST, like the JOLLIFFEs, might have not had a Quaker background before he came to the Hopewell Monthly Meeting.

(7) John FROST and at least some of his children were Quakers. Unfortunately, the first book of minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, covering activities from 1735 to 1759, was destroyed in a fire in the house of the clerk, William JOLLIFE, Jr., in 1759. Accordingly, any information about John's family that appeared in that book is unavailable.

(8) O'Dell, Cecil, Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia, Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1995, pp. 239-240:

FROST

John Frost purchased a 380-acre tract (surveyed on 25 September 1734) from the Colony on 12 November 1735. He lived on this land located about ¾ miles south of present-day Stephenson, Frederick County, Virginia. On 10 January 1737, he sold 200 acres to Peter Falkner, "Opechon store keeper," of Orange County for 20 pounds. . . . After Frost had moved to the Back Creek area, the remaining 180 acres were sold on 20 September 1743 to John Milburn of West New Jersey for 100 pounds. . . .

The 380 acres lies on Hiatt Run, a branch of Opequon Creek. Robert Brooke, surveyor, stated that the northeast corner of the survey is "about 22 poles above (south) the path that leads from John Littlers to Abraham Hollingsworth." This path would later become County Highway 761 and U.S. Highway 11. In the Orange County Deed of 1737, the 200-acre south section is described as "on the west side the road from Potomack River to the forks of Shanando." This road is now County Highway 664; it was formerly part of the Watkins Ferry to Kersey Ferry Road ordered viewed and laid off by Orange County Court in 1741. In 1737, however, this road would have run west from Williams Ferry at the north side of the mouth of Opequon Creek to present-day U.S. Highway 11 south to Stephenson and then across the Opequon at Burnt Factory to Kersey's Ferry. (U.S. Highway 50 at Shenandoah River)

Frost owned 291 acres of land on Elk Lick Branch, west of Back Creek. By 13 April 1751, he had sold it to Dennis Springer who subsequently sold it to Moses Lumbart. This tract is located one mile north of Shanghai, West Virginia on Berkeley County Highway 7. Frost sold a 378-acre tract adjacent east of the 291 acres on Back Creek to Robert Heaton who received a Fairfax grant for it on 21 October 1754.

There was a John Frost, Stay-maker, who lived in the town of Philadelphia in the 1730's, and a John Frost is mentioned in a Bucks County, Pennsylvania Deed Book in 1720.

(9) Kerns, Frederick County, Virginia - Settlement and Some First Families of Back Creek Valley?1730-1830 (1995), p. 168:

John and Mary Frost were first settlers and grantees in the Bryan-Ross, Opequon Settlement.

(9) MacDonald, Rose M. E., Clarke County, a Daughter of Frederick - A History of Early Families and Homes, Berryville, VA: Blue Ridge Press, 1943:

One of the oldest mills in Clarke County is the one erected by William Frost. Though unused for many years, it is still in a good state of preservation, much of the machinery being intact. The father of William Frost, John Frost, had also erected a mill shortly after his settlement in Frederick County in 1734.

(10) VA Patents Book 16, pp. 374-376 [12 November 1735]:

George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland, the Defender of the Faith &c. To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting: Know Ye that for divers good Causes and Considerations but more Especially for the Consideration mentioned in an Order of our Lieut. Governor and Council of our Colony & Dominion of Virginia bearing Date the three and twentieth Day of April one thousand seven hundred & thirty five granting Leave to Alexander Ross and Morgan Bryan to reconvey in such manner as they should think fit one thousand acres of Land for each Family of seventy Families by them brought into our said Colony and settled upon the Lands in the said Order mentioned and to Issue out Patents for the same We have Given Granted and Confirmed and by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors do Give Grant and Confirm unto John Frost one certain Tract or Parcel of Land containing three hundred and eighty Acres and bounded as followeth to wit: Begining [sic] at a white Oak in Hugh Parril's Line twenty two Poles above the Path from Litler's [sic] to Hollingworth's [sic] and running thence along the said Parril's Line South sixty two Degrees East one hundred & sixteen Poles to a white Oak Thence North fifty Degrees East seventy eight Poles to a White Oak by a Valley Thence North seventy Degrees East fifty two Poles to a white Oak on a Hill Thence North eighty Degrees East thirty eight Poles crossing sevenlick Branch to a white Oak Saplin [sic] Thence North twenty Degrees East one sundred and sixty Poles [portion of page missing] Thence North sixty Degrees East sixty eight Poles to a [portion of page missing] Thence North West sixty four Poles to a white Oak Thence North sixty Poles to a Hiccory [sic] Corner of John Litler's [sic] Land Thence North West along the same one hundred Poles to his Corner white Oak Thence South thirty seven Degrees West four hundred & eight four Poles to the begining [sic] With all Woods underWoods Swamps Marshes LowGrounds Meadows Feedings and his due Share of all Veins Mines and Quarries as well discovered as not discovered within the bounds aforesaid and being Part of the said Quantity of three hundred and eight Acres of Land and the River Water and Water Courses therein contained within [?] with the Privileges of Hunting Hawking Fishing Fowling and all other Profits Commodities and Hereditaments whatsoever to the same of any Part thereof belonging or in any wise Appertaining To have hold Possess and Enjoy the said Tract or Parcel of Land and all other the before Granted Premises and every Part thereof with their and every of their Appurtenances unto the said John Frost and to his Heirs & Assigns forever To the only Use and Behoof of him the said John Frost his Heirs and Assigns forever To be held of us our Heirs and Successors as of our Mannor [sic] of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in fee and common Soccage & not in Capite or by Knights Service Yielding & Paying unto us our Heirs and Successors for every fifty Acres of Land and so proportionably for a lesser or greater Quantity than fifty acres the fee Rent of one Shilling Yearly to be Paid upon the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch Angel and also Cultivating and Improving three Acres Part of every fifty of the Tract abovementioned within three [sic] after the Date of these Presents Provided always That if three Years of the said fee Rent shall at any Time be in Arrear and Unpaid of if the said John Frost his Heirs or Assigns do not within the Space of three Years next coming after the Date of These Presents Cultivate and Improve three Acres Part of every fifty of the Tract abovementioned Then the Estate hereby granted shall Cease and be utterly Determined and thereafter it shall and may be lawful to and for us our Heirs and Successors to Grant the same Land and Premises with the Appurtenances unto such other Person or Persons as we our Heirs & Successors shall think fit In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters Patent to be made Witness our Trusty and Well[?] beloved William Gooch Esqr. our Lieut. Governor and Commander in Chief of our said Colony and Dominion at Williamsburgh Under the Seal of our said Colony the Twelfth Day of November one thousand seven hundred and thirty five In the Ninth Year of our Reign.

William Gooch

(11) Greene, Katherine Glass, Winchester, Virginia and Its Beginnings--1743-1814, Strasburg, VA: 1926, pp. 383, 384:

LIST OF FREDERICK CLK. FEES BELONGING TO JAMES WOOD,
ANNO DOM. 1744 . . .

Frost, John . . . . . 25 [pounds of tobacco]

(12) Dorman, John F., Orange County, Virginia Will Book I, 1735-1743, Washington, D. C.: 1958:

P. 20:

John Frost was one of three appraisers who inventoried the estate of John Smith, deceased, on April 27, 1739.

Id., p. 23:

John Frost was one of three appraisers who inventoried the estate of Peter Falkner, deceased, on February 28, 1740.

Id., p. 25:

On July 24, 1740, John Frost posted a £50 bond in connection with his serving as administrator of the estate of Micah Shepherd, deceased.

Id., p. 28:

On or about November 23, 1740, John Frost attended a sale of items from the estate of Micah Shepherd, deceased. John bought the following items at the sale: common prayer book and book of notes, £0.13.6; knife and other small articles, £0.1.3; razor, £0.3.6; pare [sic] shoes, £0.4.0; and saddle, £2.0.0.

William Frost, Sr. was also present at the sale. He bought the following items at the sale: pockett [sic] compass, £0.4.0; pare [sic] of boots, £0.4.0; and sundry rubbage [sic], £0.1.1

Other purchasers at the sale were Richard Abrell, John Downey, John Littler, William McMahon, John Mead, John Neill, Hugh Parill, Isaac Parkins, Joseph Stanley and Edward Sweetapple.

Id., p. 32:

John Frost was one of three appraisers who inventoried the estate of John Lilburn, deceased, on June 25, 1741.

Id., pp. 43-45:

On or about September 21, 1742, John Frost attended an auction of items from the estate of Edward Glover, deceased. John bought the following items at the auction: spoke shave, £0.2.1; howell [sic], £0.0.11; crocus bagg [sic], £0.2.10; and gridiron, £0.2.10.

Other purchasers at the auction were Charles Barne, Arthur Barrett, Benjamin Carter, Joseph Colvill, William Colvin, Thomas Doster, William Glover, Richard Hilland, George Hobson, William Hogg, George Hollingsworth, John Littler, Isaac Malon, William McMahon, James O'Neill, Isaac Parkins, Alexander Ross, William Taylor, Evan Thomas, William Vance and James Wood.

(13) Dorman, John F., Orange County, Virginia Deed Books 5, 6, 7 and 8, 1741-1743, Washington, DC: 1971, pp. 47-48:

On February 25, 1743, William Jesper, John Frost and Morganan? were witnesses to the execution by Simeon Woodrow of Chester County, PA of a deed of lease and release from Mr. Woodrow to Edward Southwood of Orange County, VA, covering 200 acres of land which was "part of tract on the west side of Sharrando River and on Opeckon Creek and on the south east side thereof . . . by the creek side." The entry does not specify where Mr. Woodrow and the witnesses were when Mr. Woodrow executed the deed.

(14) O'Dell, Cecil, Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia, Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1995, p. 179:

CHAPMAN

On 12 November 1734, Robert Brooke surveyed 400 acres for Giles Chapman, "near the head of a Branche that runs into the Creek over the Short Hills and near the Western End of the Short Hills." This tract is located ¾ miles north of White Hall on Frederick County, Virginia Highway 739, on a branch of Green Springs Run on the west side of Apple Pie Ridge. . . . On 12 November 1735, Giles received a patent from the Colony. He and his wife Sarah sold 150 acres of the tract to Ulrick Ruble on 30 August 1744 for 10 pounds, 2 shillings, 2 pence. . . . On 3 June 1745, Giles sold the remaining 250 acres to James Cromley/Crumley for 60 pounds.

According to Joint Committee of Hopewell Friends, Hopewell Friends History 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia: Records of Hopewell Monthly Meetings and Meetings Reporting to Hopewell, Strasburg, VA: 1936, p. 22, the deed conveying the 250-acre portion of the 400-acre tract was witnessed by John Littler, James Carter, John Frost and W. Rannells [Reynolds?].

(15) Frederick County, Virginia, Hopewell Friends History [database online], Orem, UT: Ancestry.com, 1997:

In the State Land Office at Richmond are to be found recorded in Book 16, pages 315-415, inclusive, the patents issued to the settlers who came to the Shenandoah Valley under authority of the Orders in Council made to Alexander Ross and Morgan Bryan. All bear date of November 12, 1735, and recite that the grantee is one of the seventy families brought in by them, and excepting location and acreage, are alike in wording and conditions, and are signed by William Gooch, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony at that time. . . .

These patents were issued under the seal of the colony and were grants from the Crown, free of any obligation of feudal services to the Fairfax family, who claimed the land as lords proprietors of the Northern Neck of Virginia. The sixth Lord Fairfax, who later established his home at Greenway Court near Winchester, instituted many suits against early settlers in the Shenandoah Valley, but it does not appear that any Friend who claimed under Ross and Bryan was ever ejected from his land.

Although it is specifically stated that seventy families have been "by them brought in to our said Colony and settled upon the Lands in the said Order mentioned," only thirty-six patents issued to thirty-four grantees have been found. The names of these grantees are here given, together with sundry information gathered from the minutes of various Friends' meetings, from the records of the counties of Orange and Frederick in Virginia, and Chester County, Pennsylvania. . . .

John Frost, 380 acres, described as "being above the path that leads from John Littler's to Abraham Hollingworth's." On September 20, 1743, John Frost sold this land to John Millbourne, and to the former description is added "the sd. 380 acres being betwixt John Littler & Hugh Parrell, and being the plantation where John Frost formerly lived." Witnesses to this deed were Alexander Ross, Thomas Wilson, John Littler, and William Jolliffe. It would appear from the records of Frederick County that John Frost owned other lands on Long Marsh in what is now Clarke County, Va., and also lands on Back Creek in Frederick County.

It is not known when John Frost died, but the records of Frederick County show that administration upon the estate of John Chambers was granted to John Frost, with Robert Worthington and Richard Morgan as sureties, on June 18, 1748. . . .

John Frost did not witness the marriage of his daughter Sarah to John Lupton in Frederick County, VA on June 26, 1755.

(16) The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800 [database online], Accessible Archives:

Philadelphia, November 5, 1747.

Strayed away on the 6th of July last, from Francis Baldwin, living near John Frost's, on Back Creek, in Virginia, a sorrel mare, branded with T on the near Shoulder; and with her a yearling colt, branded with WB on the near shoulder and buttock, with some white down his face; and with them a spring colt, all naturals pacers. Whoever takes up the said creatures, and secures them so that the owner may have them again, shall have Forty shillings reward, and reasonable charges, paid by FRANCIS BALDWIN.

(17) Jantz, Virginia Copeland, Copeland, Bostick, Patton, and Allied Families, Waco, TX: privately published, 1981, pp. 12-14:

John Frost was probably born between 1710 and 1715, and he died in South Carolina some time before 1766. His place of birth is not known. The maiden name of Mary Frost is not known. It is estimated that she was born between 1715 and 1720 and that she died some time after 1771 when she deeded land to her son, Jonathan Frost. Mary Frost's place of birth is not known. The Frosts were members of the Quaker Church and belonged to the Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Frederick County, Virginia, after their marriage. Many of the members of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting came from Pennsylvania. Hopewell Monthly Meeting was officially established in 1734, but was originally called Opeckan. In 1735, the meeting was called Hopewell. This meeting was established after a group of Friends obtained a grant for 100,000 acres of land in about the year 1730. John Frost was among the group of Friends to take up land in this area of Virginia. He continued to live in this area of Virginia for some twenty years.

A deed recorded in Frederick County, Virginia, by John Frost in which he sold land to John W. Millburn on 9 March, 1743, stated that John Frost had acquired the land on 12 November, 1735. This was about the time that the Hopewell Monthly Meeting was established. John Frost's children were born in Frederick County, Virginia. The Hopewell Monthly Meeting first book of minutes, covering activities from 1735 to 1759, was destroyed by fire in the house of the clerk, William Jollife, Jr., and therefore the birth dates for the children of John Frost are not known, with the exception of the daughter, Mary.

By 1756 John and Mary Frost had moved to South Carolina with other Quaker families. They may have moved there at an earlier date, but John Frost's first grant was surveyed on 8 December, 1756, and was located on the Wateree River. It contained 65 acres. A William Frost, who may have been a brother to John Frost, also obtained a grant in this area on 2 April, 1752. The book by Willard Heiss, Quakers in the South Carolina Backcountry, Wateree and Bush River, gives information about these early Quaker settlements in South Carolina. The Wateree Monthly Meeting was also called Fredericksburg Monthly Meeting, and no records exist for this meeting and another called Kershaw Monthly Meeting. The Friends who established the Wateree or Fredericksburg Monthly Meeting seemed to have been the ones who established the Bush River Monthly Meeting in Newberry District where the Frosts later lived.

John Frost must have died some time before 2 September, 1766, as Mary Frost had a tract of land surveyed on this date. It was located in Berkeley County in the fork between Broad River and the Saluda River and contained 150 acres of land. On 22 November, 1771, Mary Frost transferred this land to her son, Jonathan Frost. No further record was found on Mary Frost after this date. Her son, Jonathan Frost, obtained a grant for 100 acres of land in Craven County on a branch of the Saluda River on 17 January, 1772. It is possible that this 100-acre tract was confiscated when Jonathan Frost joined the Loyalist Militia, but the 150-acre tract which he obtained from his mother was heired by Jonathan's son, John Frost.

The names of the following children of John and Mary Frost were obtained from various records such as family records and Quaker records. There may have been children other than the four listed below.

CHILDREN OF JOHN AND MARY FROST:

i. Sarah Frost was born about 1735 in Frederick County, Virginia, and she died 22 May, 1775. On 26 June, 1755, she was married to John Lupton in Frederick County. John and Sarah Lupton remained in Frederick County when the other members of the Frost family moved to South Carolina. The children of John and Sarah Lupton were Grace Lupton, born 9 June, 17 5 7; Joshua Lupton, born 12 September, 1759, married to Lydia Rees; Nathan Lupton, born 7 August, 1761, married to Margaret Rees; Mary Lupton, born 8 June, 1764, married to Eli Raley; John Lupton, born 3 January, 1769; Joseph Lupton, born 3 June, 1771; and Sarah Lupton, born 28 April, 1773.

ii. Mary Frost was born 16 May, 1738, in Frederick County, Virginia, and died 11 December, 1809, in Newberry District, South Carolina. On 17 May, 1758, she married William O'Neall, who was born 5 November, 1734, at Christiana, Delaware, and died 5 November, 1786, in Newberry District, South Carolina. Their children, born between 1762 and 1781 were Abijah O'Neall, who married Anne Keller; Sarah O'Neall, who married Elisha Ford; Hugh O'Neall, who married Anne Kelly; William O'Neall, Jr., who married Mary Elmore; John O'Neall, who married Hepsabah Gilbert; Henry Frost O'Neall, who married Mary Miles; Thomas O'Neall, who married first Sarah Evans and second a woman whose name was Pearson; and Mary Ann O'Neall, who died at about one year of age.

iii. Grace Frost was born in Frederick County, Virginia, and later moved to South Carolina. She was married to John O'Neall, the brother of William O'Neall. John O'Neall fought on the side of the British during the Revolutionary War and was killed by the Americans during the war. Their known children were Sarah O'Neall, Rebecca O'Neall, and William Warren O'Neall. It is felt that this list is incomplete. William Warren O'Neall was married to Margaret Iler and they lived in Rapides Parish, Louisiana.

iv. Jonathan Frost was born between 1745 and 1750 in Frederick County, Virginia, and died 13 December, 1780 in South Carolina. He was married to Mary Benson about 1772 in South Carolina.

(18) King, Junie Estelle Stewart, Abstracts of Wills, Inventories and Administration Accounts of Frederick County, Virginia?1743-1800, Scottsdale, AZ: J.E.S. King, 1961, p. 21:

John "Froast" was a witness to the will of John Milbourn, dated 14 August 1761, and proved in December 1761.

John + Sarah (FROST). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

(1) Brown, Ferrel A., The Lindseys - A Genealogy of Thomas and Mary Frost Lindsey and Their Descendants, Point Loookout, MO, School of Ozarks Press: 1970, p. 22:

. . . Elizabeth Frost . . . was the daughter of William and Hannah Frost of Frederick County, Virginia, and granddaughter of John and Sarah Frost of Frederick County, Virginia.

Notes:

(1) Source: "Riely," a Public Member Tree on Ancestry.com.

William married Elizabeth BROWN on 8 Oct 1730 in VA. Elizabeth was born in 1709 in VA; died in 1746 in VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

(1) Source: "Riely," a Public Member Tree on Ancestry.com.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 14 Feb 1760, Westmoreland County, VA

Notes:

(1) There is some uncertainty as to who John BUSHROD's wives were. His wives may have included any or all of the following women: Anne BUSHROD, Jenny (or Jane) CORBIN, and Mildred SEATON. The only wife of John BUSHROD mentioned in his will was named Mildred.

(2) Ritchie, Ruth and Wood, Sudie Rucker, Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck, Virginia, Charlottesville, VA: Jarman Printing, 1952, pp. 208-209:

John Bushrod . . . inherited "Bushfield" and married Mildred Corbin of King and Queen County, a first cousin of Colonel Thomas Lee of Stratford. They had a daughter Hannah Bushrod, who married John Augustine Washington, brother of General George Washington. Their son, Bushrod Washington, born June 5, 1762, at "Bushfield," was an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court and it was to him that George Washington left Mt. Vernon and all his books and papers. He married Julia Anne Blackburn. As they had no children, upon his death in 1829 he left Mt. Vernon to a nephew, John Augustine Washington, son of his brother, Corbin Washington, who married Hannah Lee, a daughter of Hon. Richard Henry Lee. He in turn left it to his son, John Augustine Washington III, who was the last private owner of the estate. Thus all the private owners of Mt. Vernon after George Washington's death were descendants of Thomas and Mary Keene of Northumberland County. George Washington visited numerous times at "Bushfield." The first John Augustine Washington and his wife, Hannah, who was the second mistress of Mt. Vernon, are buried at "Bushfield."

(3) "The Corbin Family," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 29 (1921), pp. 521:

Issue [of Gawin CORBIN] (which marriage uncertain): . . .

Jenny, or Jane, married John Bushrod, of Westmoreland county. She is not mentioned in Gawin Corbin's will and the only evidence for her existance [sic] is the account of the family given by Bishop Meade in his Old Church and Families of Virginia. The John Bushrod, she is stated to have married, died in Westmoreland county and his will proved Dec. 30, 1760, names a wife Mildred. As he makes Richard Corbin an executor and as the name Corbin appeared as a Christian name among his descendants, it is probable that Jenny Corbin was his first wife.

(4) McIlhany, Hugh M., Some Virginia Families, Staunton, VA: Stoneburner and Prufer Printers, 1903, p. 215:

John Bushrod lived at "Bushfield", and was a vestryman of Cople Parish in 1755, High Sheriff of Westmoreland County in 1759, and a member of the House of Burgesses, 1748-1755. He probably married his cousin Anne, daughter of Thomas Bushrod; she dying, he married Jane Corbin . . . , and left two daughters, Hannah and Catherine. About 1760 Hannah married John Augustine Washington, a brother of George Washington, and had four children, - Bushrod, Corbin, Mildred and Augustine.

(5) "Bushfield" History :

John Bushrod, the younger, married first Jenny Corbin and second Mildred Seaton. He fathered a daughter, Hannah, by his first marriage, who married John Augustine Washington. At the death of John Bushrod, Bushfield was left to his daughter Hannah Washington for her lifetime and then the property to go to her first born son.

(6) Westmoreland County, Virginia Wills, 1654-1800 [database online], Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000:

Name: John Bushrod
Description: Decedent
Date: 14 Feb. 1760
Notes: Bushrod, John, gent. 14 Feb. 1760; 30 Dec. 1760. Wife Mildred part of est.; dau. Hannah Washington 35 slaves, furniture and land; grand daus. Mary and Jenny Washington 3 slaves each; dau. Elizabeth Bushrod land and 41 slaves; to Lydia Bushrod Pettit dau. of John ??10 yearly if her father spend her est.; friends Hon. Richard Corbin and John Washington exrs.
Title: Gentleman
Prove Date: 30 Dec 1760

John married Jane CORBIN in 1735 in Westmoreland County, VA. Jane (daughter of Gawin CORBIN and Jane LANE) was born in 1717 in Westmoreland County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Jenny CORBIN

Notes:

(1) There is some uncertainty as to who John BUSHROD's wives were. His wives may have included any or all of the following women: Anne BUSHROD, Jenny (or Jane) CORBIN, and Mildred SEATON. The only wife of John BUSHROD mentioned in his will was named Mildred. See the notes regarding John BUSHROD in this database.

(2) Jenny (or Jane) CORBIN is placed here as a daughter of Gawin CORBIN and Jane LANE. However, there is some uncertainty as to who the mother of Jenny (or Jane) CORBIN was.

(3) "The Corbin Family," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 29 (1921), pp. 521:

Issue [of Gawin CORBIN] (which marriage uncertain): . . .

Jenny, or Jane, married John Bushrod, of Westmoreland county. She is not mentioned in Gawin Corbin's will and the only evidence for her existance [sic] is the account of the family given by Bishop Meade in his Old Church and Families of Virginia. The John Bushrod, she is stated to have married, died in Westmoreland county and his will proved Dec. 30, 1760, names a wife Mildred. As he makes Richard Corbin an executor and as the name Corbin appeared as a Christian name among his descendants, it is probable that Jenny Corbin was his first wife.