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T.K. Cartmell, Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: A History of Frederick County, Virginia, (Berryville, VA: Chesapeake Book Co., 1963).


Downing

Dr. P.B. Stickley, of Stephens City, married a daughter of Justice Downing. p. 488




Finley

The following persons were indicted "for selling liquors without License: Robert Craft, James Findley, Shinn, and Cuthbert Harrison, and James Burns ... p. 23 - May term 1744

Dr. Graham also gives a list of pastors of the Romney Church [Presbyterian]... George W. Finley, 1870-1891 ... p. 173

Succeeding him [Rev. R.S. Hough], came I.R. Finley [after 1966] ... p. 203

Revolutionary soldiers entitled to pensions or Bounty Land Warrants, then living [1835] ... in Shenandoah County ... Archibald Finley ... Benj McKnight ... p. 517




Fullerton

John B. Tilden an aged Revolutionary officer, proved that Robert Chambers of Kentucky, Joseph Chambers of Cincinnati, Mary wife of John Cain of Philadelphia, Catherine wife of Wm. Nichols of Philadelphia, and Jane deceased wife of Jno. B. Tilden, were brothers and sisters and only heirs of Annie McKnight of Berkley County, widow and devisee of Doct. Humphrey Fullerton of Fredk. County, a soldier of the Revolution. Jno. Bell Tilden died July 21, 1838 ... p. 114




McFarland

His will [Isaac Zane, d. 1795], recorded in the old District Court, mentions two sisters, Hannah Pemberton and Sarah Zane, to whom he left the bulk of his estate in Frederick County, with annuity to Isaac Zane McFarlane. p. 437

Along the Turnpike to Winchester, we pass through Petticoat Gap, where on either side of the road lived several families that belong to the Colonial period. Leonard McFarlane and Benjamin Cabbage the writer remembers as queer characters. p. 443




McKnight

Annie McKnight ... see Fullerton above

That in 1739 Mr. John Thompson, as an evangelist, preached at Opecquon and the new settlements on the frontiers of Virginia ... We find these churches [Presbyterian] for some years after the withdrawal of Mr. Hoge were supplied by Revs. Vance, McKnight, Thompson ... Craighead ... p. 167

John McKnight was the first pastor, 1776, served until 1782 [Elk Branch Church] ... p. 172

Benjamin McKnight ... see Finley above, p. 517


Mounts

Sarah Mounts, widow of Richard Mounts, a soldier in the Continental Line, allowed pension [between 1779 and 1780] ... p. 90

 

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