01411Cecil O'Dell,

Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia

(Marceline, Missouri: WalsworthPublishing Company, 1995).

[page 34]MORGANRichard MORGAN (b. 1700 c.) had two tracts of land surveyed by Robert BROOKE on 12 April 1734;210 acres

mile north of present-day Shepherdstown (Tract 22, Map 1) and 290 acres "standing in the fork of Josiah JONES and Charles ANDERSON path".

(Tract 24, Map 1) The 290 acres is located two miles northwestof present-day Shepherdstown on Jefferson County, West Virginia Highway 5, across the land on the east end; thenthe tract extends northwesterly 1

miles across the Rockymarsh Run into present-day Berkeley County, WestVirginia. He received patents from the Colony for both tracts on 3 October 1734.

Richard sold the 290-acre tracton 23 August 1738 to John VANMETER for 100 pounds

and the 210-acre tract to Van SWEARINGEN on 10August 1744 for 110 pounds.

Richard's wife Jane released her right of dower on both tracts of land. Richard wasappointed "Constable-Sherundo" on 26 February 1737/38, replaced by William MYERS on 27 June 1739 and was"Sworn to his Commission of Captain on 26 March 1742."

Richard sold no land for 18 years after the Van SWEARINGEN sale until August 1762, when he sold 255acres.

Richard, with sons William and Jacob, accumulated 4,046 acres of Fairfax grant land by 9 January 1768.

Purchases included 300 acres from Edward DAVIS on 10 April 1735 (part of DAVIS' 875-acre patent land on"Tulises Branch," (Tract 50A, Map 2); 242 acres on 21 June 1738 from John WELTON

(Tract 23A, Map 1); 108acres from Thomas SHEPHERD on 31 May 1755; and 300 acres f rom Edward TEAGUE on 30 January 1756.

Richard and son William (b. 1723 c.) owned 2,219 acres of land by 4 October 1756

from present-day(Trough Road) Jefferson County, West Virginia Highway 16/1 and 31/1 on the south; Jefferson County WestVirginia Highway 16/5 on the west; across West Virginia

Brooke, Robert, Book of Surveys, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.

Virginia Land Patent Book 15, pp. 320, 321.

Orange County, Virginia Deed Book 2, p. 437.

Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 1, p. 115.

Orange County, Virginia Court Book 1, p. 233; Book 2, p. 22; Book 3, p. 345.

Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 7, pp. 213, 309, 338.

Gray, Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, Vol. 2, G-426, H-83, H-309, H-675, 676, 677, H-692, 693,694, M-8, M-282, N-9, N-194, O-112.

Dorman, Orange County, Virginia Deed Book 1, p. 10; Deed Book 2, p. 413.

Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 4, pp. 24, 244.

Gray, Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, Vol. 2, H-83, H-67, H-676, H-692, H-693, H-694; footnotes39 and 40.[page 35]Highway 480 near Mechlenburg Heights on the northwest; adjacent to the south and east lines of Shepherdstown tothe Potomac River, near Jefferson County, West Virginia Highway 31/1 on the east line.Richard received Fairfax grants for 250 acres in October 1750, about 1

mile north of his 290-acre patentland, and his son William received a Fairfax grant on 23 May 1766 on the west side of Opequon Creek for 410acres, adjacent west of John HIATT Jr.'s 300-acre patent land, about four miles south of present-day Martinsburg,West Virginia.

(Tract 61, Map 4)Richard and his son Jacob received six Fairfax grants from 2 May 1753 to 9 January 1768 for 1,817acres

located on Swan Pond; south of present-day Greenburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia; west to theOpequon Creek at Julep Bend; across the creek to U.S. Highway 11 and then south to the north side of Martinsburg. Included in the above grants was a survey of 206 acres by James WOOD on 13 November 1735, andanother 206-acre survey by WOOD on 15 December 1735. "Richard MORGAN by Bond for 6 pounds, 14shillings, 6 pence Virginia currency in two payments which when paid is for the pay or remainder of pay for thetwo tracts of land surveyed for him containing 450 acres for which I am to procure Patents for at my charge.Witness my hand. Jost HITE."

(Tract 88, Map 2)Richard's will was written on 14 November 1763 and proved on 6 December 1763, leaving 100 acres eachto daughters Mary (wife of Thomas SWEARINGEN, b. 1735 c., son of Thomas SWEARINGEN, b. 1700 c.), Olive

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(wife of John STOCKDON) and Sarah MORGAN. Adjoining the home plantation on the west lay the western partof 242 acres of John WELTON's 442-acre patent land and 211 acres Northern Neck Grant H-694. Son Abelreceived all the home plantation (east part of WELTON's 242-acre patent land adjacent south to present-dayShepherdstown). Son William received 400 acres for the use of his three eldest sons: Ralph, George and Abraham.(Northern Neck Grant H-693 from the Potomac River on the east side of Shepherdstown, near and on Trough Roadsouth to where it turns east, Jefferson County, West Virginia Highway 31/1). Son Isaac received a 250-acre plantation adjoining Captain Van SWEARINGEN. (Northern Neck Grant G-426 located

mile north of Richard's290-acre patent land). Grandson Samuel STOCKDON, son of John and Olive STOCKDON, received 98 acres of land adjoining Edward LUCAS (98-acre part of 198-acre Northern Neck Grant H-692 located north of TroughRoad, Jefferson County, West Virginia Highway 31/1 and 16/1 and Flowing Springs Road, West Virginia Highway230). Grandsons Richard MORGAN and John MORGAN received 211 acres adjoining their father Jacob's land.(Swan Pond area). Granddaughter Jean MORGAN, Jacob's daughter, received a lot bought from Dr. JohnBRISCOE. "To son

Gray, Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, Vol. 2, G-426, N-9.

Gray, Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, Vol. 2, H-309, H-677, M-8, M-282, N-194, O-112.

HITE/FAIRFAX Lawsuit, British Copy, pp. 129-131.[page 36]William three acres of the upper end of my meadow."

William Morgan (b. 1723 c.) married Drucilla SWEARINGEN (b. 1723 c.), daughter of Thomas (b. 1700c.) and sister of Thomas SWEARINGEN, who married William's sister Mary MORGAN. Abel MORGAN, son of Richard and Jane, married Elizabeth BEDINGER and had three sons (Daniel, Joseph and Jacob) and threedaughters (Olive, Polly and Elizabeth). Abel was deceased by 23 November 1784.

William MORGAN's will was written on 9 September 1788 and proved on 21 October 1788, leaving landto sons Abraham, Zacheus, Rawley (Rawleigh), Ralph and George; daughter Sarah WILLIAMS; grandson William(son of George MORGAN). To grandson Abel (son of Ralph MORGAN) he left 100 acres in Kentucky.

SWEARINGENThomas and Van SWEARINGEN were in Prince George County, Maryland, on 17 July 1725 when Van purchased land from William and Anne CLARK. Van sold 100 acres on 3 September 1733 to William HOLMESfor 20 pounds, acreage being "all that tract or parcel of land called Hills Choice," adjacent to a "tract of land calledDarnall's Grove." On 7 March 1733/34, he sold 100 acres to John Smith PRATHER, "all that tract of Land lyingin Prince George County Maryland called Hills Choice being part of a tract of land called Hills Choice" adjacent toa "tract of land called Darnall's Grove."On 15 June 1734, Thomas SWEARINGEN and his wife Sarah sold 68 acres "part of a tract of land calledForrest lying in Prince George County" to Thomas DAVIS of Ann Arundell County for 20 pounds Englishsterling.

Thomas was a witness to the payment of five shillings on 23 July 1730 when William CHAPLINE soldto Joseph CHAPLINE 50 acres called "Ye Forrest" and again on 10 April 1731, when William CHAPLINE sold "4cows and calfs, 11 sheep, 2 feather beds and furniture, 1 pair of millstones and all the rest of my goods andchattels" to Joseph CHAPLINE.

Van SWEARINGEN was in the Monocacy Hundred when he was listed as a taxable in 1733, and on a1734 list of "No Tobacco Burnt." It was probably his son Van Jr. listed as one of the petitioners for division of Prince George's Parish in 1742.

Van Sr. was a witness to Elisha PERKINS' will on 10 September 1741

inOrange County, Virginia. Elisha lived on Opequon Creek near the Potomac River. On 10 August 1744, Van purchased Richard MORGAN's 210-acre

Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 3, p. 159.

Berkeley County, West Virginia Deed Book 8, p. 361.

Berkeley County, West Virginia Will Book 2, p. 5.

Prince George County, Maryland Land Libers, M:661, M:693, Q:693, T:78, T:129.

Ibid.

, Liber Q, Folio 103, 254.

Tracey and Dern, Pioneers of Old Monocacy, pp. 369, 371.

Orange County, Virginia Will Book 1, p. 207.

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[page 37]Orange County, Virginia patent land for 110 pounds

(Tract 22, Map 1) On 21 November 1752, he had 321 acresadjacent on the Potomac River surveyed, for which he received a Fairfax grant on 29 March 1760.

He sold the patent tract to his son Josiah on 3 April 1769 for 200 pounds.

On 14 January 1752, Van received from Lord Fairfax 187 acres

adjacent south of the PAULSON, JONESand MOUNTS 834-acre patent land. (Tract 29, Map 1) He had surveyed on 12 April 1753 a 200-acre tract of landadjacent east of the 187 acres, continuing along the Potomac River on Terrapin Neck, for which he received aFairfax grant seven years later on 9 April 1760.

On 2 June 1756, he purchased from Peter BELLER 317 acres, part of the 834-acre patent land, that BELLER had purchased (by order of County Court May 1746) fromSIMMONS before his death. On 6 October 1762, he purchased 334 acres, part of the PAULSON and JONES 834-acre patent land from Jonathon SIMMONS/SEAMAN, son and heir of Jonathon SIMMONS.

This land was inhis possession by 1753 but he had not paid the 135 pounds until this time. He lived on this tract on 3 April 1769,when he sold it, along with the two adjacent Fairfax grant tracts, to his son Hezekiah for 200 pounds,

less the100-acres (Grant K-100) on Terrapin Neck which Van sold on 23 March 1775.

He also received two other Fairfax grants on Back Creek, for 234 acres on 10 October 1764 (which he sold in 1779) and the other for 384acres on 9 May 1771.

Van SWEARINGEN's will (written 5 April 1788, with a codicil added 6 April 1788) was proved on 17June 1788, leaving three slaves and one-fifth of land to his second wife Pricilla. Pricilla's daughter PeggySWEARINGEN was to receive 400 acres on Sandy Creek (of the Ohio River). This was land surveyed for officersand soldiers of the Virginia Regiment. He willed to his two sons Josiah and Hezekiah all the rest of his lands andreal estate. In the codicil written on 6 April 1788, he willed to his "daughter Susana BENNETT 150 acres whereshe and her husband William BENNETT now dwell on Bank Potomac River" and to his daughter DrusillaRUTHERFORD (wife of Thomas, who was son of Thomas RUTHERFORD, b. 1700 c.) two houses and lots inShepherdstown.

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Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 1, p. 115.

Joyner, Northern Neck Warrants and Surveys Frederick County, p. 152; Gray, Northern Neck Grants K-91.

Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 12, p. 663.

Gray, Northern Neck Grants H-109.

Joyner, Northern Neck Warrants and Surveys Frederick County, p. 152; Gray, Northern Neck Grants K-100.

Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 4, p. 121; Deed Book 7, p. 56.

Ibid.

, Book 12, p. 664.

Berkeley County, West Virginia Deed Book 4, p. 108.

Gray, Northern Neck Grants M-314, p. 39.

Berkeley County, West Virginia Will Book 1, p. 489.[page 38]Van had two sons not mentioned in the will: Thomas SWEARINGEN Jr. whose will was written 18February 1780 and proved 21 March 1780, leaving his wife Hannah 230 acres (conveyed to him by his father Col.Van SWEARINGEN) and after wife Hannah's death, the 230 acres to Sarah BENNETT, daughter of his sister Susana.

Van SWEARINGEN Jr. (son of Van, b. 1700 c.) remained in Frederick County, Maryland near present-day Middletown on Catoctin Creek, where he had a grist mill and sawmill which were probably founded by hisfather. He was deceased by 6 April 1784 when his will was proved, being dated 5 March 1784, leaving four sons:Joseph, second son Thomas Van, third son John Van and Isaac Stull SWEARINGEN; five daughters: Margaret,Eleanor, Mary, Drusilla and Elizabeth. He named his wife Margaret and son Thomas as executors and made a provision if his "father Van Swearingen should be destitute of a living, he should be brought to my house."

Thomas SWEARINGEN (b. 1700 c.) and wife Sarah sold land on 15 June 1734 in Prince George County,Maryland and then are not listed in the record books until Thomas was appointed guardian of John and SarahJONES (orphans of Josiah JONES) on 3 April 1745 in Frederick County, Virginia.

Thomas did not own landuntil 5 April 1748 when he received from Richard PAULSON 222 acres, a part of the PAULSON, JONES,MOUNT 834-acre patent land,

which is included in a Fairfax grant of 6 December 1763 as part of a 324-acretract. On 21 May 1752, Thomas received a 155-acre Fairfax grant adjacent west of this patent land where he lived