----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [WV Preston County] Daugherty/Elliott etc Yes...I am on my way out the door for a family gathering...perhaps someone else will answer before I get back...I am researching Rightmire so what I have on Elliott is not formost in my mind but know their is a story in one of the Preston County Histories about the Elliott's coming to visit the Daugherty's and Abraham being interested in Jane...and eventually she left with him for his home but eventually came back to what became Elliotts Ridge...I hope someone can look it up for you if not I will when I get back...Also is a lot of info in a reference book about a road dispute that went through this parcel of ground after Jane (Elliott) and Elizabeth(Rightmire) Daugherty were heirs to it....You might check the archives for this list as many on the list were very helpful and most of this information should be archived... Alice, > Very interesting. Does anyone have any information on where Abraham Elliott was born? > > I have an Elliott family in PA I'm researching and the dates are a possible for me. > > Ray > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Alice" <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> This information originally came from Jane McMann Walsh >> >> On. p. 77 in that book I cited in my prior email, i.e., Earl Core's second >> volume in his series on Monongalia County, there is mention of the Leading >> Creek Settlement where in 1781 Indians killed Alexander RONEY, Mrs. >> DOUGHERTY, Mrs. HORNBECK and her children, and Mrs. BUFFINGTON and her >> children, taking prisoner Mrs. RONEY and her son and Daniel DOUGHERTY. I >> am not familiar with the location of the Leading Creek Settlement. Was >> this later in Preston Co. or nearby? I'm wondering if this Daniel was the >> husband or son of this "Mrs. Dougherty." Does anyone on this list know? >> >> I have noted in Morton's "A History of Preston County, West Virginia, >> Volume I" that the area called Dority was where the DOUGHERTYs eventually >> lived. On p. 341, Morton writes: >> >> "John DOUGHERTY, whose daughter wedded the pioneer ELLIOTT, was on the >> Cheat in 1774, and two years later was living on ELliott Ridge which >> overlooks Albright. Until recently the surname lingered in Preston. It >> gave designation to Dority Run and Dority postoffice." >> >> Unfortunately, Morton omits any genealogical data for the DOUGHERTY or the >> RIGHTMIRE families in that Chapter (VII) of his book! >> >> Under ELLIOTT, Morton does write that Abraham b. 1773 d. 1845 m. first Jane >> DOUGHERTY. Apparently Jane had ten children before she died but no dates >> are noted. She may have died circa 1814. Her children are listed as: >> William m. Susan JEFFERS >> Mary E. m. Jacob CRANE >> Elizabeth m. Samuel JEFFERS >> Rebecca single >> John b. 1801 m. Elizabeth MEREDITH >> Jane b. 1806 d. 1886 m. Calvin CRANE >> Sarah m. (1) John S. Graham, (2) Jacob CRANE >> Drusilla m. Robert FORMAN >> Susan m. Abraham JEFFERS >> Rachel m. Henry CRESS >> >> In Morton's Appendix E, he lists original land patents covering Preston >> County and on this list is John DOUGHERTY with 205 acres on the Cheat >> adjoining claim of William BIGGS (settlement, 1776) and 400 acres on Cheat >> and Dunkard Bottom (settlement 1774). >> >> In Samuel Wiley's "History of Preston County," on p. 406 in the section on >> the Portland District, there somewhat contradictory information as he >> writes the following: >> >> "William DOUGHERTY, father of Jarvis, lived near what is now St. Joe, and >> owned a large amount of land. In 1794, William [sic] Elliott married Jane >> DOUGHERTY, William's daughter. Abraham ELLIOT got land of Wm. Dougherty, >> his father-in-law, and settled where Elliott Crane now lives. Abraham had >> 11 children. [The eleventh was Margery, dau. of his second wife, the >> former Mrs. Rebecca Dewitt.]" >> >> So, was the original DOUGHERTY in Preston a John who had a son named >> William which confused Samuel Wiley? >> >> And, was Daniel, taken prisoner by the Indians in 1781, another son of John? >> >> Were Elizabeth and Susan daughters of John DOUGHERTY and his second wife? >> >> >> >> >> ==== WVPRESTO Mailing List ==== >> Hoaxes and Urban Legends on the Internet >> http://www.snopes.com/ >> <A HREF="http://www.snopes.com/">Snopes.com</a> >> >> ============================== >> Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >> areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >> Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >> > > > > ==== WVPRESTO Mailing List ==== > List Mom for the WVPRESTO mailing list: > Diana Boothe [email protected] > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >