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      Fugate Family Genealogy



      There has been much speculation of which Fugate member was the very first immigrant to America. Peter LaFougate from France has been given this honor in most genealogy researches. He was born in 1650 france, died 1695 Baltimore Maryland. He was married to: Frances Mould dau of John Mould and Ann Posey. They were married around 1675-1680.The Fugate family is reputed to be of French Huguenot extraction in the "Chronicles of New England Settlers", this would support Peter being from France, and the time frame is when many French Huguenots came to America. Peters children are listed several places as: James Fugate,Josias Josiah Fugate,Easter Fugate,John Fugate,and Ann Fugate.

      A James Fugette is mentioned in several genealogy lines as well. This James was a mariner and often as not, mariners never married. this one however is listed as marrying Martha Poel. Va.
      JOSIAS JOSIAH FUGATE is the first documented and researched Fugate, so this is where this line starts.


      FIRST GENERATION:
      1...JOSIAS JOSIAH FUGATE B:1690. BRUNSWICK CO PARRISH MARYLAND
      DIED: 18 MARCH 1757 KING GEORGE CO VA
      MARRIED: MARY MARTIN, DAU OF JOHN MARTIN.
      LISTED AS BEING BORN 1692-1703 PERRY COUNTY KY. THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE:
      KENTUCKY DID NOT BECOME A STATE UNTIL 1792 FROM SEVERAL COUNTIES IN VA; HIS WILL DATED 18 MARCH 1757 LISTS HIS CHILDREN: AND HIS WIFE MARY.
      MARRIED: 1715 WESTMORELAND CO VA, LATER KING GEORGE CO.
      CHILDREN LISTED IN WILL

      1. 2 1...FRANCIS FUGATE B: WESTMORELAND CO VA. B: 1716 WESTMORELAND CO VA
        DIED: 1791 STAFFORD CO VA . STAFFORD WAS FORMED FROM WESTMORELAND
        MARRIED: CYNTHEA GARRARD; B? DIED: AFTER 1791
        SETTLED AT MOCCASIN CREEK.
        CHILDREN:
        1. 3 1...FRANCIS FUGATE JR B: 1750 DIED 1825 FAQUIER CO VA
          3 2...GERRARD FUGATE
          3 3...JEREMIAH FUGATE
          3 4...B: 1754 STAFFORD CO VA DIED: 1 SEP 1847 ALEXANDRIA VA
          3 5...DANIEL FUGATE B 1760
          3 6...BENJAMIN FUGATE B 1762


        2. 2 2...JOHN ZACHARIAH FUGATE B: 14 MAR 1718 WESTMORELAND CO VA
        D: 1801 WASH COUNTY VA. ANOTHER SOURCE SAYS DIED: AUG 1786 WILKES CO NC.
        MARRIED: #1 ELEANOR MORGAN
        MARRIED: #2 SARAH HENSLEY (HENLEY).B: 1720 WESTMORELAND CO VA
        2 3...JOSIAS JOSIAH FUGATE (CAPTAIN) B 1720 KING GEORGE CO:
        (KING GEORGE WAS NOT FORMED UNTIL 1721 SO PROBABLY WESTMORELAND )
        A MARINER.
        2 4...RANDOLPH FUGATE B: 1722 KING GEORGE CO VA. .
        DIED: 1778 WASHINGTON CO VA.
        MARRIED: MARYANN DEELWOOD 1735 .ORANGE COUNTY VA. ORANGE COUNTY
        WAS FORMED IN 1734
        2 5...MARTIN FUGATE B: 1725 KING GEORGE CO VA. DIED: 29 JUN 1803 RUSSEL CO
        RUSSEL WAS FORMED IN 1786 FROM WASHINGTON COUNTY
        HISTORY OF FREDERICK CO VA STATES MARTIN FUGATE WAS THERE IN 1755
        DUNMORE COUNTY AT THAT TIME. SHENANDOAH CO, THEN DIVIDED AGAIN.
        EXEMPT FROM TAXATION LISTS IN 1789 NOTED MARTIN FUGATE. ESTATE WAS PROVEN
        29 JUN 1803 RUSSEL COUNTY VIRGINIA.
        CHILDREN MENTIONED IN COURT RECORDS: B: MARRIED ABOUT 1850: WHO:????CHILDREN LISTED:
        1. 3 1...FRANCIS FUGATE
          3 2...NANCY ANN FUGATE
          3 3...BENJAMIN FUGATE LISTED 1788 RUSSEL CO TAX LIST
          3 4...HENDLEY FUGATE LISTED 1788 RUSSEL CO TAX LIST
          3 5...ZACHARIAH FUGATE LISTED 1788 RUSSEL CO TAX LIST
          3 6...COLBERT FUGATE LISTED 1788 RUSSSEL CO TAX LIST
          LISTED AS ONE OF THE PROTECTORS OF THE FORTS THAT CAPT WILLIAM RUSSEL BUILT.
          FORT BLACKMORE, TATES FORT, ELK GARDEN FORT.
          LIVED IN MOCCASSIN CREEK RUSSEL CO VA
          CHILDREN:
          1. 4 1...ISAAC BEVERALY FUGATE B: 4 MAY 1804 MOCCASIN VALLEY RUSSEL CO VA
            ISAACS SON FERDINAND JOSEPH COLBERT FUGATE IS LISTED AS BEING
            IN TEXAS COUNTY MISSOURI IN 1880'S. HOG CREEK AREA. 3 7...SARAH FUGATE MARRIED JAMES MCARTY (KILLED IN INDIAN RAID)
            3 8...WILLIAM FUGATE LISTED 1788 RUSSEL CO TAX LIST
            3 9...ANN FUGATE MARRIED: SAMUEL HADDIX OF MOCCASSIN CREEK.

          2. 2 6...ANN FUGATE SWILLAVANT B: 1727 KING GEORGE CO VA
          DIED: SPOTSYLVANIA CO VA MARRIED:???SWILLAVANT 1757



        MOST OF THE FUGATE FAMILY AT THIS POINT SETTLED IN THE MOCCASSIN VALLEY. LOCATED IN SWEST PART OF RUSSEL COUNTY VIRGINIA.THE NAME IS ASSOCIATED WITH DANIEL BOONE. AROUND 1770 SETTLERS FOUND INDIAN MOCCASIN FOOTPRINTS IN THE SOFT MUD OF THE CREEK BANKS. RESULTING THE AREA BEING CALLED MOCCASSIN CREEK. FORTS WERE BUILT TO PROTECT THE SETTLERS, MANY OF THE FUGATE FAMILY DEFENDED THESE FORTS.

        SECOND GENERATION:
        RANDOLPH FUGATE B: 1722 KING GEORGE CO VA.
        DIED: 1778 WASH CO VA.
        MARRIED: MARYANN DEELWOOD 1735 .ORANGE COUNTY VA. ORANGE COUNTY
        WAS FORMED IN 1734
        CHILDREN:

        1. 2 1...JAMES FUGATE B: 1729 DIED AFTER 1792
          MARRIED: ANNE WILLIAMSON LISTED 1788 RUSSEL CO TAX LIST
          2 2... RANDOLPH FUGATE B 1734 DIED WYTHE COUNTY VA 1814
          MARRIED CHARITY??? DIED: 1773 ONE CHILD LISTED FRANCIS FUGATE
          LISTED 1788 RUSSEL CO TAX LIST
          2 3...JOSIAH FUGATE B 1740 ORANGE COUNTY VA
          DIED: 18 MARCH 1823 RALLS COUNTY MISSOURI>
          MARRIED: ELIZABETH SMITHERS. 1760 FREDERICK CO VA(FREDERICK MADE FROM ORANGE)
          2 4...RACHEL FUGATE B 1753 MARRIED WILLIAM ROSS

        POSSIBLY WERE OTHER CHILDREN: GAPS BETWEEN DATES OF CHILREN BORN:


        THIRD GENERATION
        .JOSIAH FUGATE B 1740 ORANGE COUNTY VA
        DIED: 18 MARCH 1823 RALLS COUNTY MISSOURI>
        LISTED 1788 RUSSEL COUNTY VA TAX LIST
        MARRIED: ELIZABETH SMITHERS. 1760 FREDERICK CO VA(FREDERICK MADE FROM ORANGE)
        CHILDREN:
        1. 2 1...JOHN FUGATE
          2 2...ELIZABETH FUGATE
          3 3...RANDALL F. FUGATE
          3 4...SARAH MARTHA FUGATE
          3 5...MARYANN FUGATE B 1763 RUSSEL CO VA
          MARRIED: #2 WIFE OF GEORGE BELCHER OF RUSSEL CO VA.
          3 6...RACHEL RUGATE
          3 7...JOSIAH FUGATE
          3 8...SUSANNAH FUGATE
          3 9...WILLIAM C. FUGATE
          3 10..REUBEN FUGATE B: 1780 VA DIED: 13 JUN 1833
          MARRIED: MARY ?
          3 11..JAMES FUGATE



        FOURTH GENERATION
        MARY ANN FUGATE B: 1763 RUSSEL CO VA
        MARRIED: GEORGE BELCHER 1795 RUSSELL CO.VA., SON OF ISHAM E. BELCHER. GEORGE WAS BORN: 1760 BEDFORD CO VA.
        THERE IS A MARY ANN FUGATE AS BEING BORN 1770, DAU OF J FUGATE::::COULD BE THIS MARY ,PIKE COUNTY KY LIST MARY FUGATE AS WIFE IN 1795 IN THE
        KENTUCKY DEEDS AFTER KENTUCKY HAD BECAME A STATE.
        VA DEED BOOK PAGE 357 GRANTORS
        GEORGE AND MARY HIS WIFE, FEB 25, 1795 :MARY IS LISTED IN THE 1850 RUSSEL
        COUNTY VA PERSONAL TAX LIST:AGE 87 LIVING IN HOME OF WILLIAM BELCHER AGE 50:
        GRANT 32 ACRES TO ROBERT MASSEY ON CLINCH RIVER FOR 17 POUNDS, ONE SHILLING.
        IN 1787 LISTED IN RUSSEL CO VA ALSO JOSIAH FUGATE, MARY'S FATHER:
        (THE JOSIAH FUGATE FAMILY IN: HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
        ARE LISTED AS BEING: OF FRENCH HUGUENOT EXTRACTION; WERE IN
        WESTMORELAND COUNTY AS EARLY AS 1664: AND SETTLED IN BOTETOURT IN
        THE EARLY 1700'S 1781 OWNED LAND IN POWELLS VALLEY


        THIS IS THE END OF MY RESEARCH IN THE FUGATE FAMILY
        WITH MARY ANN FUGATE MARRYING GEORGE BELCHER IN 1795.
        INFORMATION SOURCES:
        1788 russel co tax lists:
        "chronicles of sw virginia"
        kentucky and va land grants
        maryland parish records
        taxation records for various va counties
        william russells history
        chronicles of new england settlers.


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