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Greathouse of Augusta County, VA

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Greathouse of Ice's Ford

Greathouse kith and kin records found in the area of Ice's Ford between 1771 and 1776:

1766 - Land: Richard Falls settled on Buffalow Creek, known as Mahan's Camp in 1766

Richard Falls.

We the Commissioners for adjusting the Claims to Unpatented lands in the Counties of Monongalia Yohogania and the Ohio do hereby Certify that Richard Falls is Intitled to four hundred acres of Land in Monongalia County in the right of residence to Include his improvement made on Buffalow Creek a place known by the name of Mohons [Mahans] Camp, made in the year 1766.

Given under our hands at Collo John Evanses this 22nd day of March in the fifth year of the Commonwealth.

John P. Duvall
James Neal
Willm Haymond

Test Wm. McCleery Clk Comr

This Certificate canont be Enter'd with the Surveyor after the 26th day of October 1781.

Ent'd 8th Oct'r 1781.

1767 - Land: Frederick Ice settled at Ice's Ford in 1767

Regarding the settlement at Ices's Ford, a description of the settlement by Andrew Ice was recounted in Virginia Conaway's book "Ice's Ferry", excerpt follows:

I do not remember when we came to the Ferry. There were several families living there who had their houses close together. When the men went out into the woods to work they took the women and children along as well as their guns. Daddy never let the women and children out of his sight because he had lost his family once. The Ferry settlement was never troubled by Indians. There were a good many men and they stayed close together for a good many years.

West Virginia's Historical Highway Marker for Ice's Ferry is located on the eastern side of Cheat Lake, on county road 73, which crosses the lake towards Morgantown, WV, at that point. The marker states:

Ice's Ferry was settled by Frederick Ice in 1767. His son, Adam, born the same year, was the first white child born in Monongahela Valley. Andrew Ice in 1785 started the first authorized ferry in western Virginia.

Footnotes:

1) Frederick Ice of Augusta County, VA

2) Photo Gallery: Ice's Ford

1770 - Land Office: John Pierpont settled along Cheat River and opened the first land office in Northwestern Virginia

John Pierpont, a native of New York settled four miles east of present-day Morgantown, WV, where he erected a dwelling and a blockhouse for protection against the invasion of the Indians and opened the first land office in Northwestern Virginia in 1770. John Pierpont married a daughter of Colonel Zackwell Morgan, the founder of Morgantown, who had emigrated from Eastern Virginia. Pierpont's land office was located within two miles of Ice's Ford, which would have made the area a hub of activity.

1770 - Land: John Ice settled at the Forks of Buffalo

Excerpts from Arthur C. Prichard, An Appalachian Legacy: Mannington Life and Spirit

Page 6

Mannington, our community has had several names. Located where two streams Pyles(Piles) Fork and Warrior Fork came together to form Buffalo Creek, the place was first known as Forks of Buffalo. Buffalo Creek received its name, obviously, as did many other streams in western Virginia, from frontiersmen seeing buffalo along its banks.

John Ice settled at the Forks of Buffalo around 1770. There are varying accounts of John Ice, but each one reveals a rugged, frontiersman. He was a son of Frederick, Jr. and Mary Galloway Ice, and may have been born in 1728 in the South Branch Valley of Virginia. While he was still young, his mother, two sisters and a brother, William, were carried off by a raiding party of Indians. This event affected his character and life.

1770 - Land: Richard Morris settled on the waters of Sandy Creek in 1770

Richard Morris.

We the Commissioners for adjusting the Claims to Unpatented lands in the Counties of Monongalia Yohogania and Ohio do hereby Certify that Richard Morris is Intitled to four hundred acres of land in Monongalia on the waters of Sandy Creek to include his Settlement made thereon in the year 1770 with a Preemption of four hundred acres adjoining there unto.

Given our under our hands at Colo John Evans the 8th day of March in the 5th Year of the Commonwealth.

Test Wm. McCleery Clk

Com:
John F. Duvall
James Neal
Willm Haymond

Memo this Certificate cannot be enter_d with the surveyor after 26th of Octo 1781.

Entered 13th April 1781 Wm. McCleery Clk Comr.

1771, Mar 11 - Captain William Crawford was hired as a surveyor

William Crawford of Stewart's Crossing, Bedford County, PA, under the authority of the Executive Council of Virginia in 1769 and 1771, was hired to survey most of the lands on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers for the military land grants, which were due soldiers who fought in the Virginia Militia, commanded by Colonel George Washington after the French and Indian War.

Article: 1771 - Captain William Crawford was hired as a surveyor, Bedford County, PA

1771, Summer - Simon Kenton arrived at Ice's Ford in the summer of 1771

At Ice's Ford, on Cheat river, a branch of the Monongahela, located about seven miles east of present-day Morgantown, WV, which in 1771, was in Augusta County, VA, Simon Kenton joined a hunting party which consisted of Jacob Greathouse, William Grills and two Mahan brothers who were preparing to go on a hunting expedition into Kentucky.

Article: Hunting with Greathouse and Kenton 1771 - 1774

1772 - Land: Andrew Ice settled on Cheat River in 1772

Andrew Ice.

We the Commissioners for adjusting the Claims to Unpatented lands in the Counties of Monongalia Yohogania and the Ohio do hereby Certify that Andrew Ice assee to Jacob Clark is intitled to four hundred acres of land in Monongalia County on Cheat River adjoining lands claimed by John Ramsey to include his settlement made thereon in the year 1772.

Given under our hands at Colo John Evans this 3d day of March in the 5th year of the Commonwealth.

Test Wm McCleary Clk Com.

James Neal
Charles Martin
Wm. Haymond

This Certificate cannot be entered with the Surveyor after the 26th day of October 1781.
Entered 23d April 1781.

Wm. McCleery Clk.

1772 - Land: John W. Mahon [Mahan] settled on Crooked Run in 1772

John W. Mahon [Mahan]
March 2d 1780.

John W. Mahon [Mahan] produced a certificate from the Commissioners of Yohogania Monongalia and Ohio for 400 acres of land on Crooked Run to include the Settlement made in 1772 also a right in Preemption to 1000 acres dated 19th February 1780 and entered the same with me accordingly.

Footnotes:

1) Crooked Run flows into the Monongahela River on the western side about 14 miles northwest of Ice's Ford, near the Mason Dixon Line.

1773 - Land: Robert Harkness settled on the Sandy Creek Glades

Article: 1773-1774 - Land: Robert Harkness

1773 - Land: Anthony Mahan settled on Buffalo Creek in 1773

Anthony Mahan.

We the Commissioners for adjusting the Claimes to Unpatented Lands in the Counties of Monongalia Yohogania and Ohio do Certify that Anthony Mahan is intitled to four hundred acres of Land in Monongalia County on Bufflow Creek a_joining lands Clam'd by [Robert] Rutherford to include his Settlement made in the year 1773.

Given under our hands at Colo. Evans this 15th day of March in the 5th year of the Commonwealth.

Test John Evans Clk pro

John P. Duvall
James Neal
Chas Martin

This certificate cannot be entered with the surveyor after the 26th day of October 1781.

Ent September 7th, 1781. John Evans Clk pro.

1773 - Land: John Mahon [Mahan] awarded preemption land adjoining his settlement on Buffalo Creek in 1773

John Mahon [Mahan].

We the Commissioners for adjusting the Claims to Unpatented Lands in the Counties of Monongalia Yohogania and Ohio do hereby Certify that John Mahon [Mahan] is intitled to one thousand acres of land in Monongalia County adjoining his Settlement on Buffalo Creek made in the year 1773.

Given under our hands at Colo John Evans this 17th day of March in the fifth year of the Commonwealth.

Test John Evans Clk pro

John P. Duvall
James Neal
Willm Haymond

This Certificate cannot be Entered with the Surveyor after the 26th day of October 1781.

John Evans Clk pro.

John Mahon to Silas Baley. (Bailey)

I do assign over all my Right and titel of the within to unto Silas Bailey.

John Mahon

Tested Simon Troy

1773, fall to Mar 1774 - Hunting Party: Simon Kenton joined the party of William Grills, Jacob Greathouse, Samuel Cartwright and Joseph Lock at Ice's Ford, to go on a hunting trip along the Big Sandy River during the winter of 1773/1774.

Article: Hunting with Greathouse and Kenton 1771 - 1774

1774 - Land: Robert Harkness settled along the Cheat River in 1774

Article: 1773-1774 - Land: Robert Harkness

1774 - Land: John Mahon [Mahan] settled along Buffalo Creek in 1774

We the Commissioners for adjusting the Claims to Unpatented lands in the Counties of Monongalia Yohogania and Ohio do hereby certify that John Mahon [Mahan] is titled to four hundred acres of land in Monongalia County on Buffalo Creek adjoining the lands of John Gray to include his settlement made in the year 1774.

Given under our hands at Colo John Evans this 17th day of March in the fifth year of this Commonwealth.

Test John Evans Clk pro.

John P. Duvall
James Neal
Willm Haymond

1774, May 15 - Captain Zackquil Morgan's Company of Virginia Militia

Captain Zackquil Morgan's Roll, 4 Oct 1775.

Capt. Morgan's Company was raised from the area of Morgantown, Augusta County, VA, on about 15 May 1774, or 174 days prior to soldiers of the Company receiving their discharge at Fort Gower along Hockhocking Creek on 5 Nov 1774.

Footnotes:

1) 1774, May 15 - Captain Zackquil Morgan's Company, Augusta County, VA Militia

1776 - Land: Daniel Greathouse settled on the waters of Sandy Creek in 1776

Gabrial Greathouse (Daniel Greathouse's Heir)

We the Commissioners for adjusting Claims to Unpatented lands in the Counties of Monongalia Yohogania & Ohio do hereby Certify that Gabrial Greathouse Heir at Law to Daniel Greathouse Decease'd is entitled to four hundred acres of land in Monongalia County on the waters of Sandy Creek adjoining to Richard Morris to include his [Daniel Greathouse] Settlement made thereon in the year 1776.

Footnotes:

1) Gabriel Greathouse declared, in a chancery suit he brought against his step-father and mother, Andrew and Mary Morris Greathouse McCreery; his grandfather, Richard Morris; and others, in Bourbon County, KY, in 1799, "your Orator Gabriel Greathouse That your Orator is the Son and only Heir and Relic tentative of a certain Daniel Greathouse dec'd and who departed this Life sometime in the year 1777 at the County of ... in the State of Virginia Intestate and without will in writing or other wise." Based upon this evidence, the death of Daniel Greathouse has been established to have occurred sometime in the year 1777.

2) The time of Daniel Greathouse's death was further supported on 25 Mar 1778, when John Greathouse was appointed Administrator of Daniel Greathouse deceased by the Yohogania County Court. An administrator being appointed for the estate of Daniel Greathouse, deceased, supports his death occurred before 25 Mar 1778. John Greathouse was named by Gabriel Greathouse in the 1799 chancery suit as, "a certain John Greathouse Brother to dec'd [Daniel Greathouse]".

1776, Nov 8 - MONONGALIA (W.Va.), OHIO (W.Va.) and YOHOGANIA (extinct) created by Virginia from West Augusta District and HAMPSHIRE (W.Va.); MONONGALIA, OHIO and YOHOGANIA overlapped territory claimed by Pennsylvania. (Cappon, Petchenik, and Long, 93; Hening, 9:262-274)

Sources:

Monongalia County, W. Va., Reports of Commissioners for Adjusting Claims to Unpatented Lands in Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio Counties, Virginia. Transcribed by John M. Gregg, Clerk of the County Court, Monongalia County, W. Va., 1929. Page 170, Richard Falls settled on Buffalow Creek, known as Mahans Camp in 1766.

Rob Ice, Ice Family History. Frederick Ice. Online: http://www.svic.net/robice/frederick_ice.htm

West Virginia State Historical Highway Marker Program, Marking Our Past, West Virginia's Historical Highway Markers, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, 2002. Page 106, Ice's Ferry, Monongalia County, WV. Frederick Ice settled at Ice's Ferry in 1767.

Thomas Condit Miller, Hu Maxwell, West Virginia and its people, Volume 2, Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1913. Original from Harvard University, Digitized Feb 12, 2009. Page 418, John Pierpont settled along Cheat River and opened the first land office in Northwestern Virginia. View @ Google Books

Arthur C. Prichard, An Appalachian Legacy: Manington Life and Spirit. Mannington, WV. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 1983. John Ice settled at the Forks of Buffalo in 1770.

Monongalia County, W. Va., Reports of Commissioners for Adjusting Claims to Unpatented Lands in Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio Counties, Virginia. Transcribed by John M. Gregg, Clerk of the County Court, Monongalia County, W. Va., 1929. Page 28, Richard Morris settled on the waters of Sandy Creek in 1770.

Roy Bird Cook, Washington's Western Lands, Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1930. Page 37, 43; William Crawford surveyed most of the lands on the Ohio and the Kanawha.

John McDonald, Biographical sketches of General Nathaniel Massie, General Duncan McArthur, Captain William Wells, and General Simon Kenton: who were early settlers in the western country, Volume 188 of American culture series, E. Morgan and son, 1838. Original from: Harvard University. Digitized Apr 1, 2009. Page 200-206. View @ Google Books

Monongalia County, W. Va., Reports of Commissioners for Adjusting Claims to Unpatented Lands in Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio Counties, Virginia. Transcribed by John M. Gregg, Clerk of the County Court, Monongalia County, W. Va., 1929. Page 6, John W. Mahon [Mahan] settled on Crooked Run in 1772.

Monongalia County, W. Va., Reports of Commissioners for Adjusting Claims to Unpatented Lands in Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio Counties, Virginia. Transcribed by John M. Gregg, Clerk of the County Court, Monongalia County, W. Va., 1929. Page 12, Page 12, Robert Harkness settled along the Sandy Creek Glades in 1773, Land Grant 1; and along the Cheat River in 1774.

Monongalia County, W. Va., Reports of Commissioners for Adjusting Claims to Unpatented Lands in Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio Counties, Virginia. Transcribed by John M. Gregg, Clerk of the County Court, Monongalia County, W. Va., 1929. Page 158 - 159, Anthony Mahan settled on Buffalo Creek in 1773.

Monongalia County, W. Va., Reports of Commissioners for Adjusting Claims to Unpatented Lands in Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio Counties, Virginia. Transcribed by John M. Gregg, Clerk of the County Court, Monongalia County, W. Va., 1929. Page 178, John Mahon [Mahan] awarded preemption land adjoining his settlement on Buffalo Creek in 1773.

Monongalia County, W. Va., Reports of Commissioners for Adjusting Claims to Unpatented Lands in Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio Counties, Virginia. Transcribed by John M. Gregg, Clerk of the County Court, Monongalia County, W. Va., 1929. Page 12, Robert Harkness settled along the Sandy Creek Glades in 1773, Land Grant 1. Robert Harkness settled along the Cheat River in 1774, Land Grant 2.

Monongalia County, W. Va., Reports of Commissioners for Adjusting Claims to Unpatented Lands in Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio Counties, Virginia. Transcribed by John M. Gregg, Clerk of the County Court, Monongalia County, W. Va., 1929. Page 37, John Mahon [Mahan] settled Buffalo Creek in 1774, Land Grant 1.

Library of Virginia, Dunmore's War (1774): Pittsburgh payrolls -1775. Part of Record Group #1, Colonial Government. Microfilm of original documents (Miscellaneous Reel 78) and original documents. Richmond, VA http://www.lva.lib.va.us. Page 21, Zackquil Morgan's Roll, 4 Oct 1775. View @ Virginia Library

Monongalia County, W. Va., Reports of Commissioners for Adjusting Claims to Unpatented Lands in Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio Counties, Virginia. Transcribed by John M. Gregg, Clerk of the County Court, Monongalia County, W. Va., 1929. Page 109, Daniel Greathouse settled on the waters of Sandy Creek in 1776.

Bourbon County, KY, District Court Records, 1799: Chancery Case # 3166. Depostion of Gabriel Greathouse, Page 1 - 12.

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Volume 2, Publications of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum, 1904. Page 133, Administrator appointed for estate of Daniel Greathouse deceased. Page 135, John Greathouse on jury duty. View @ Google Books

The Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, Chicago, IL. Monongalia, Ohio and Yohogania County Chronology.


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