In a message dated 7/12/04 5:03:24 PM, [email protected] writes: > > Can  you give any more specifics about your Moodys in VA?  I, too, have > some Moody's in VA and WV, whose ancestors likely migrated from PA and > whose descendants included a few who went on out west. > Sure thing: Robert Moody and Isabella/Isabelle (-?-) lived in Pennsylvania. Their children Robert, James and Isabella were born ca 1710-1715, but I don't know for certain. I have seen that Robert and Isabella were from Dundee, Scotland, but my research leads me to believe that they were probably Scots-Irish or Scots who settled in County Ulster, Ireland in the 1600s. King James of England and Scotland wanted to settle Scots in Ireland when he was having his tiff with the Irish. So many Scots moved to Ulster and lived there. When they became "churched" some of James' idea/needs/wants/commands started to chaff their independent Scots' bums. So they headed out for the New World. When they got to PA, it was already settled with Germans, Quakers and Dutch. These folks were not keen on new religious zealous Scots joining the party. SO, when land was offered to the Scots-Irish down in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, James and Robert Moody went. They settled in the land once known as the Beverly Manor, or the Beverly Patent, but the portion that wasn't close to the settlement of Staunton where it was mostly Germans. They talked John Frazer and their sister, Isabella his wife into coming there too. Robert Moody didn't marry as far as I can see. He purchased his tract of land from the Manor 22nd Feb 1749. It shared a corner with the property that John Frazer purchased at the same time. It was in a place called Long Meadow Run. James Moody bought property earlier in 1740. James Moody married a widow named Rebecca (?) Wilson and had at least 2 daughters with her. When she died James took in his daughter Rebecca and her husband William Ledgerwood, Jr. He then sold his property to a Wilson stepson. The Ledgerwoods used up James' money and Robert Moody took him in. Because John Frazer died in an accident of some kind prior to 1758, Robert had made his nephew John, Jr. and his niece, Ann his heirs and left his property to them in his will. A lawsuit was brought by the heirs of James Moody to eject John and Ann from the property in 1787. I have to do the research to see if I can find out exactly what happened. I believe that Robert Moody died in 1776 or in 1786 (the lawsuit abstract confuses the dates several times). Obviously, James died earlier than that. Isabella Moody Frazer was alive in 1770, but I haven't found any reference to her after that date. I have no idea where Robert Moody, Sr. lived in Pennsylvania, but the Brownlees of Augusta County came from the same place according to the lawsuit abstracts. Does that help at all? I know only generalities... Constance