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Greathouse of Berkeley County, WV

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Greathouse or associated ancestor records found in the county:

1772, May 19 - Berkeley County Court

The minutes of the proceedings of the first session of the County Court are, in part, as follows: "Berkeley County, ss.

"Be it remembered that at the house of Edward Beeson, the 19th day of May, 1772, a commission of the peace, and a commission of Oyer and Terminer, from his Excellency, Lord Dunmore, dated the 17th day of April, in the year aforesaid, directed to Ralph Wormeley, Jacob Hite, Van Swearingen, Thomas Rutherford, Adam Stephen, John Neville, Thomas Swearingen, Samuel Washington, James Nourse, William Little, Robert Stephen, John Briscoe, Hugh Lyle, James Strode William Morgan, Robert Stogdon, James Seaton, Robert Carter Willis, and Thomas Robinson, Gentlemen, and also a dedimus for administering the oath directed to the same persons, or any two of them, were produced and read, whereupon the said Van Swearingen, having first taken the usual oath to his Majesty's person and government, repeated and subscribed the test, taken the oaths of a justice of the peace, of a justice of the county court in chancery, and of a justice of Oyer and Terminer, which were administered to him by the said James Nourse and William Little, he, the said Van Swearingen, then administered the same oaths unto Thomas Swearingen, Samuel Washington, etc., gentlemen, who severally took the same, and repeated and subscribed the test."

Colonel Adam Stephen owned all the land upon which Martinsburg was laid out. Thomas Rutherford, Samuel Washington, James Nourse, and John Briscoe lived in the neighborhood of what is now Charles Town. The Swearingens and Colonel William Morgan lived near Shepherdstown. James Strode, Robert Stockton, and Robert Carter Willis lived between Shepherdstown and Martinsburg. Jacob Hite owned much land in the vicinity of Leetown, and the possessions of the other gentlemen were scattered over other parts of the county.

Footnotes:

1) Dr. John Briscoe and his sons, Parmenus and John Jr. settled along the Ohio River, at Brisoe's Run about 6 miles north of the mouth of the Little Kanawha River in 1772. They came to the Little Kanawha River in a party led by Joel Rees and Marcus Hardin, both of Springhill, Bedford County, PA.

2) Thomas Rutherford was the brother of Robert Rutherford, for whom along with Dr. John Briscoe, William Crawford registered warrants for land along the Little Kanawha River at the surveyor's office in the home of John Pierpont, near Ice's Ford, Augusta County, VA, in 1771 or 1772.

Sources:

Danske Dandridge, Historic Shepherdstown, Michie Co., 1910. Original from Harvard University, Digitized Sep 27, 2008. Page 60, Oaths of Justice of the Peace taken Van Swearingen, Thomas Swearingen and Samuel Washington. Witness, John Briscoe. Google Book.

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