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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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