This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRATTON DUNLAP Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FdF.2ACEB/242.243.259 Message Board Post: Perhpas we can fix some of this information. Here is what I have on this group. Captain in the French and Indian War. Member of the Council of War for the protection of the Virginia Frontier, 1756, the owner of 2284 acres of land in Augusta county and elsewhere. Married in 1745 to Anne MacFarlane Dunlap, widow of Capt. Alexander Dunlap. Anne had at least four children by her 1st marriage and at least 6 children by her marriage to Capt. Robert Bratton who was a Captain of Foot in the French and Indian Wars, and maintained that rank the remainder of his life, serving in the VA state militia. He also served on the Council for the Protection of the Virginia Frontier during the Franch and Indian Wars The earliest BRATTON immigrants in the mid-Atlantic area show up on the eastern shore of Maryland in the mid-to-late 1600s. Offshoots of this group comprise some of the Pennsylvania BRATTON lines. There are numerous BRATTON immigrants prior to 1800 and most are unrelated to each other. Unfortunately, there is a lot of published material on the surname which includes undocumented family tradition, not supported by any documentation located to date. Will: 10 MAY 1783 Augusta Co., VA Note: In his will he mentions wife, Ann, sons James, George, John and Adam, daughters Agnes (husband William Givens) and "unhappy daughter" Mary. Son John named trustee of £200 designated for support & maintenance of dau Mary. Proved 18 Oct 1785 by John Poage & John Dunlap. Sources: Abbrev: Va 00-03 to 05 Chalkley I to III Title: Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta Co. 1745-1800, v. I-3 Author: Lyman Chalkley Publication: orig. 1912. GPC reprint 1980. Repository: Name: Jean T. Gillett personal library Page: v. I, p. 368 Abbrev: Will Book Page: Augusta Co., VA Will Bk. 6, pp. 492-494 Abbrev: Va 00-03 to 05 Chalkley I to III Title: Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta Co. 1745-1800, v. I-3 Author: Lyman Chalkley Publication: orig. 1912. GPC reprint 1980. Repository: Name: Jean T. Gillett personal library Page: v. I, p. 51 Abbrev: Va 00-03 to 05 Chalkley I to III Title: Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta Co. 1745-1800, v. I-3 Author: Lyman Chalkley Publication: orig. 1912. GPC reprint 1980. Repository: Name: Jean T. Gillett personal library Page: v. III, p. 298