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Here is yet another LC clue regarding Robert (A) Patterson:
Deeds of Augusta County, Virginia, pages 55-56
Sold 143 acres of land for five shillings
August 11, 1766This indenture made the 11 Day of August in the year of our Lord 1766 between SAMUEL STEWART of the Province of NORTH CAROLINA yeoman of the County of ROWAN of the one part and JACOB COPLIN of the County of Augusta and colony of Virginia of the other part witnesseth that the said SAMUEL STEWART for in consideration of the sum of 5 shillings current money of Virginia to him in hand paid by the said JACOB COPLIN at or before the sealing and delivery of these present the receipt whereof hereby acknowledged hath granted, bargained and sold unto the said JACOB COPLIN and to his heirs forever a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the County of Augusta on the south forks of Linnville Creek containing 143 acres granted to said Stuart by patent bearing the date 5 Sept. 1749 bounded as follows:
Beginning at a white oak and a red oak on the east side of the branch and runneth thence north 80 degrees and west 19 poles to Ralson’s line and with the same 48 degrees west 136 poles to his corner and thence with his line North 3 degrees West 111 poles to a white oak thence north 80 west 53 poles to a white oak and thence south 10 degrees west 68 poles to a white oak in Patterson’s line and with the same south 19 East 119 poles to a white oak corner to said Patterson’s and south 80 west and 99 poles to a white oak and thence north 24 degrees East 180 poles to the beginning. And all house buildings orchards waterways, water courses, profits commodities hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to the said premises hereby granted or any part thereof belonging or any wise appertaining and the revision and revisions remainder and remainors rent of issue and profits thereof to have and to hold the said and all and singular other the premises hereby granted with all the appurtenances unto the said JACOB COPLIN his executors, administrators, and assigns from the day before the date thereof forever and during the full term and time of whole one year from thence next ----- to be complete and end yielding and paying therefor the rent of one pepper corn on said day next if the same shall be lawfully demanded to the intent and purpose that by virtue of these present or of the statue for transferring use unto possession of the said JACOB COPLIN may be in actual possession of the premises and he hereby enabled to accept and take grant and lease of the reversion and inhabitance thereof to him and his heirs in witness thereof the said Samuel Stewart hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year aforesaid above written and seal and deliver in presence of
William Cravens
Samuel Stewart
Lydia Stewart
Robert Black
Maggie M. BlackCourt held 20 Aug. 1766 this base for land from Samuel Stewart to Jacob Coplin [Calpin] was proven by the oath of William Craven & Robert Black.
(A similar deed of the same conveyance was also made out 11 Aug. 1766 from SAMUEL STEWART AND LYDIA STEWART to JACOB COPLIN.)
This writer is unclear if there was any relation between Samuel and Lydia (Harrison, presumed daughter of Isaiah Harrison, JR) Stewart and the Patterson family there at LC. Lydia MAY have been related but there is no proof at this time. It is known that these Stewarts were from Sussex Co DE prior to the 1740’s, as were these same Harrisons and Cravens and many other families in this specific locale. The Wrights (remember the William Wright vs. Thomas Linville suit above) were very much a close relation to the Harrisons.
It is a fact that the “Patterson” who was a neighbor to Samuel Stewart in 1766 was this very same Robert Patterson of LC. Samuel Stewart was patented this land in 1749, as follows:
27-377. 5 September 1749 Samuel Stewart, 180 acres in Augusta County on middle Branch of Linwells Creek adjacent Robert Patterson (extracted by Harald Reksten from the "Cavaliers and Pioneers" series by permission from the Virginia Genealogical Society)
The above record shows that the Pattersons and Stewarts were neighbors on Linville Creek. This writer also knows that they were living near or possibly next to each other in Sussex Co DE in the 1730's. A neighbor of Robert Patterson in Sussex Co DE was a Thomas Black. Was he related to the Blacks of Linville Creek? This is yet to be determined.
Samuel Stewart had actually left Augusta Co. for Rowan Co., NC about 1753.9 Who were the other individuals who signed the Deed (William Cravens, Robert Black, Maggie M. Black)? William Cravens was a brother of “Maggie M. Black”. She was Madge Cravens, daughter of Robert and Mary Harrison Cravens. This writer believes her name was pronounced as it was sometimes spelled “Majey”. This would make sense with the “Madge” spelling as well. She had a sister who was named Margaret, so this was NOT a nickname “Maggie” for Margaret in the traditional sense that we sometimes think. The Cravens were also from Sussex Co DE prior to moving to the LC area about 1740. Robert Black is believed by most genealogists (who have followed this Black family to SC) to have been the son of Mathew and Mary _____ Black.
William Cravens owned land around LC and Cooks Creek. Robert Black owned land not too far from LC. These Blacks, Harrisons, and Cravens here were all kin to each other. Evidence will be presented later that shows where many of these families moved to land on Clark’s Fork of Bullocks Creek (York Co., SC) in the mid 1760’s in what was then referred to as Mecklenburg Co., NC until about 1768. From 1768/69 it was claimed by the newly formed Tryon Co., NC until the mid 1770’s. From then on Clark’s Fork of Bullocks Creek (CFBC) was known as lying in York Co., SC. Robert Patterson of LC, Nathaniel Harrison (believed to be the son of Isaiah Harrison Jr.), Robert and Madge Cravens Black, and Robert and Esther Harrison Cravens all owned land on CFBC beside each other, beginning about 1766. The latter family (Robert Cravens) never actually lived there though. However, his brother William Cravens of LC did live there on CFBC in Mecklenburg Co., NC for about seven years. The evidence for this will be presented later, but for now the importance of their relationships to each other has been identified.
There were many other records in the Augusta Co., VA books involving Robert Pattersons, but most of them (if not all) were not this Robert Patterson of LC. However, it is important to this writer to distinguish Robert of LC from the others in an attempt to disclaim many other genealogists’ notions to assume that any reference to a Robert Patterson must be their Robert Patterson. There is plenty of evidence to support the above suggestions that the said court records from Augusta Co., VA do in fact refer to Robert Patterson of LC, as indicated.
