Glenna Milligan <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote February 27, 2000 10:30 PM > Jemima: > Can you identify who the Rachel belonged to that was referred to > in the will? Was she a daughter of Thomas, John or Rachel? > > Glenna > Glenna, There are two: evidently a daughter, who married an Anderson, and a granddaughter, who had to be the dau. of Thomas, or maybe of another child who is not mentioned in the will. Here's all I have for the first generation. I do have lots of stuff for John, II, who is the father of Mary Elswick, b. 1741, m. Archibald Thompson, my grandparents. He died young, and had lots of horses. Please let me know if you have further information. Thanks, Jemima Descendants of John Elswick Generation No. 1 1. JOHN2 ELSWICK (UNKNOWN1)1,2,3,4,5 was born Abt. 1690, and died 1759 in Along Capor R., Hardy Co., W.V.. He married RACHEL UNKNOWN6. Children of JOHN ELSWICK and RACHEL UNKNOWN are: i. JOHN3 ELSWICK II7,8,9, d. Abt. 1749, Augusta Co., VA10; m. LYDIA UNKNOWN10,11,12, Bef. 1741; b. 172113; d. October 179813. ii. THOMAS ELSWICK14. iii. RACHEL ELSWICK15, m. UNKNOWN ANDERSON. Endnotes 1. Garrett M. (Gary) Elswick, John Elswick, II, Winchester, VA, 1967, Family Records (hereafter Gary Elswick, John Elswick, II), John Elswick Will, Hampshire County, Romney, W. VA. Deed Book 1, Page 22.Will dated Jan 23 1756. I give to my son Thomas . . . to my daughter Rachel Anderson. . . and to my son John, deceased, heirs . . . and to my grand daughter Rachell Elswick . . . . The over to be the real and absolute Estate of my dearly beloved wife Rachel Elswick . . ordain Henry Oldacre and my beloved wife Rachell Elswick to be the executors of this my Last Will and Testament. . . .Witness: Joseph W. Howe & James Scott. (Full text in note section for John Elswick). 2. George Washington, Copied from the Original with Literal Exactness and Edited with Notes by J.M. Toner, M.D., Journal of My Journey Over the Mountain While Surveying for Lord Thomas Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, in the Northern Neck of Va Beyond the Blue Ridge, (Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers, 1892), November 5th 1749 Then Surveyd for Mr. John Ellswick a certain Tract of Waste and ungranted Land Situate in Augusta County on the Waters of Cacapehon and bounded . . . (See Notes for full text of entry). 3. Garrett M. (Gary) Elswick, John Elswick, II, Winchester, VA, 1967, Family Records (hereafter Gary Elswick, John Elswick, II), 1742, Granted 180 Acers of Land, Prince Georges Co., Md.; 1 Feb 1747 Sold 180 A Land in Md. to Joseph Smith; 24 May 1750, on Committee to lay out and keep up roads, Augusta, Hampshire-Hardy Co., W. Va.; 3 Jim 175-. Granted 406 acres on Lost River, Hampshire Co., Va./W. Va.; 23 Jan 1756, John Elswick makes his Will; 13 Nov 1759, John Elswick Sr. Will probated Hampshire Co., Va./W. Va.; 23 Nov 1759, Deed of Gift by John Elswick to son Thomas, Tract of Land; 8 Sept 1761, Rachel, wife of John Elswick, deceased, sells 200 acres on Lost River to John Keplinger. 4. Garrett M. (Gary) Elswick, John Elswick, II, Winchester, VA, 1967, Family Records (hereafter Gary Elswick, John Elswick, II), Source: Newspaper clipping "Elswick Reunion" [n.d.]. Program given by Gary Elswick of Winchester, Va., and Rev. Al Elswick, Wallkill, N.Y. "to commerate the 225th anniversary of Elswick land ownership on the soil of the United States. On Aug 4, 1742 the Colony of Maryland granted 180 acres of land just outside Sharpsburg to the founder of the American branch of the family. John Elswick, Sr., over which the famous battle of Antieiam was fought in 1863. 5. Garrett M. (Gary) Elswick, John Elswick, II, Winchester, VA, 1967, Family Records (hereafter Gary Elswick, John Elswick, II), Source: "Tazwell Co., Va., Heritage Book, 1966.""Ancestory of all American Elswicks was John Elswick, who left Sharpsburg, MD in 1747, and settled on Lost River, Hardy County, WV, where he had received a 406 acre land grant from Lord Halifax . . .but most descendants are from his son John, Jr., who died near Blacksburg, VA in 1749. 6. Garrett M. (Gary) Elswick, John Elswick, II, Winchester, VA, 1967, Family Records (hereafter Gary Elswick, John Elswick, II), Wife named in John Elswick Will, Hampshire County, Romney WV Deed Book 1, p. 22., Jan. 23, 1756. 7. Garrett M. (Gary) Elswick, John Elswick, II, Winchester, VA, 1967, Family Records (hereafter Gary Elswick, John Elswick, II), John Elswick 1756 will, Hampshire County, Romney, WVA Deed Book 1, p. 22.". . . to my son John, decesased,heirs, five shill, and to my grand daughter Rachell Elswick thirteen pounds, ten shill . . . 8. Mary B. Kegley, New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days 1745-1800, Vol. 2, Early Adventurers On The Western Waters, (Orange, Virginia: Green Publishers, Inc.) n.d. (hereafter cited as Kegley, New River of Virginia, vol. 1). 9. Kegley, New River of Virginia, vol. 2. 10. Robertson, John Thompson Family, Family Group Chart #12. 11. Mary B. Kegley, New River of Virginia, (vol. 1), 213-215. 12. Archibald Thompson Family Diary, Unpublished. Copy at William B. Harlan Memorial Library, Monroe Co., Ky.) (hereafter cited as Archibald Thompson Diary) <http://www.public.asu./edu/~moore>, Lydia Lorton wife of Jacob Lorton was born in the year of our lord 1721 and departed this life October 1798 her age doth amount to 77 years. 13. Thomas T. Thompson.FTW, Date of Import: Apr 10, 1999. 14. Garrett M. (Gary) Elswick, Elswick Family Records, Winchester, VA, 1960s-1990s (hereafter cited as Garrett (Gary) Elswick, Will of John Elswick, Hampshire County, Romney, WV Deed Book 1, p. 22.John names son, Thomas Elswick. 15. Garrett M. (Gary) Elswick, John Elswick, II, Winchester, VA, 1967, Family Records (hereafter Gary Elswick, John Elswick, II), John Elswick will, Hampshire County, Romney, WV,Deed Book 1, p. 22.To my daughter Rachel Anderson Five Shill, . . .