| Birth | <1721-1730> | <Augusta Co., VA> |
| Death | Aft Aug 1808 | |
| Spouse | 6 Jun 1762 | Augusta Co., VA |
| m.2nd Thomas Rafferty (-1780 VA), on 6 Jun 1762 in Augusta co., VA, and had possibly: Elizabeth and Margaret [note: don't know if Elizabeth and Margaret were Thomas' children by a prior marriage. Was there one? --gjr] | ||
| Court | 20 Aug 1771 | Augusta Co., VA |
| ``Turk vs. Raferty Chalkley reports a lawsuit titled Turk vs. Rafferty under "County Court Judgments, March 1772, Vol. I, p. 365". The case involved a dispute over the estate of "Matthew Grove". Bob Allen obtained a copy of the original records in the Augusta County, Virginia Courthouse that Chalkley viewed in writing his abstract of this lawsuit. The actual record reveals that the family involved in the lawsuit is "Glave", not "Grove". Although the document is quite lengthy and overly verbose, the key points are listed below. Most documents from this time period were drafted using little or no punctuation and sometimes-random capitalization. This document is no exception to that trend. This author has attempted to transcribe this text exactly as it appears in the original lawsuit. You will notice that the spelling of the name appears with and without the "S". Turk & wife v Raferty & wife "George the Third by the Grace of God of great Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith To the Sherif of Augusta County Greeting we command you that you summon Thomas Raferty and Esther his wife To appear before the Justices of our said County Court at the Court House of the County on the third Tuesday in next month to Answer a Bill in Chancery (illegible) whereby Thomas Turk and Mary his wife, William Glave and Elizabeth Glave, and Michael Glave, Esther Glave and Matthew Glave. Infants by William Glave their guardian of this they shall in no wise omit under the penalty of 100 (pounds)" "To The Worshipful his Majesties. Justices of the County Court of Augusta (illegible) on Chancery Humbly Complaining their (illegible) of the Worships Your orator, Thomas Turk and Mary his wife, William Glaves, Elizabeth Glave, Michael Glave, Easter Glave, and Matthew Glave, infants by William Glave their guardian -- That sometime on or about the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty your orators' father Matthew Glaves departed this life intestate without making any disposition of his estate or effects and who at the time of his death was possessed of a very considerable personal estate. Orators having been informed consisting of Horses, Cattle, Hog's, Sheep, Household goods, and all kind of implements of Husbandry. That upon the Orator's father's death their mother Esther, since intermarried with Thomas Raferty the Defendants hereafter named possessed herself of the whole estate (your orators then being infants of very tender years) without ever taking out Letters of administration, soon after which before she disposed of the same intermarried with the other Defendant Thomas Raferty by virtue of which intermarriage he took the whole of your Orators estate into his custody and possession and used possessed and disposed of the same without ever rendering any account to either of your orators or to this worshipful Court. Your Orators Mary Turk and William Glaves since having come of age have often and in a friendly manner requested him so to do as such on his own account as on behalf of his infant brothers and sisters...." Although there is no record of a judgement, this single document provides a wealth of information about the Matthew Glaves family. It establishes Matthew's approximate date of death and names his wife Esther and his children. It tells us that Matthew died intestate, having no will. The document mentions "horses, cattle, pigs and household items", but no land. The family had probably settled on unclaimed land but had not had the necessary survey done in order to patent it and gain title. The actual lawsuit was dated August 20, 1771, although the case was not heard until the following March.'' | ||
| Property | 19 Oct 1771 | Augusta Co., VA |
| ``Name: Esther Rafferty Date: Oct 19, 1771 Location: Augusta Co., VA Property: 18 acres on north side South River of Shanidore. Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley. Remarks: 32. Property part of 330 acres patented to George Anderson, 1741. Delivered to Andrew Moody, 18 Apr 1775. Grantor's wife, Esther/Easter Rafferty. Description: Grantor's Wife Book date: 17-470 '' | ||
| Moved | <1760-1772> | Washington Co., VA |
| Moved to Washington co., Va sometime after she remarried and before 1772 | ||
| Property | 9 Jan 1786 | Washington Co., VA |
| ``On January 9, 1786, Esther Rafferty received a Land Grant in Washington County from the Commonwealth of Virginia. �Know ye that by virtue of a certificate in Rights of Settlement given by the Commissioners for adjusting the titles of unpatented lands in the District of Washington and Montgomery and in consideration of the Ancient Compensation of two pounds sterling paid by Esther Rafferty into the Treasury of the Commonwealth, there is granted�a certain tract of land containing four hundred acres�on a branch of the Southfork of the Holstein River, called Mill Creek adjoining Francis Whitney and John Gross' land.� The grant goes on to describe the boundries of the property measured in �poles�. The Grant was signed Patrick Henry, who was the Governor of Virginia at the time. It's not clear if he actually signed the document or if some other official signed for him. It was somewhat unusual for a woman to receive a Land Grant although not unheard of. A scanned copy of this and many other documents pertaining to Virginia family land records may be found on the Virginia State Library Internet site at: http//image.vtls.com/. The Library of Virginia Land Records'' | ||
| Spouse | 14 Mar 1786 | Washington Co., VA |
| m.3rd Elias Woolman (-1795 VA), on 14 Mar 1786 in Washington co., VA | ||
| Administrator | 15 Dec 1795 | Augusta Co., VA |
| ``upon Elias Woolman's death in 1795, his widow, Esther, was granted her motion to be the Administrator of the estate in Augusta County, Virginia. The motion was granted on December 15, 1795. '' | ||
| Power of Attorney | 19 Apr 1797 | Buncombe co., NC |
| ``executed a Power of Attorney in Buncombe County, North Carolina on April 19, 1797. The document was later recorded in Washington County, Virginia on February 19, 1799. '' | ||
| Mentioned | 3 Aug 1808 | Augusta Co., VA |
| Mentioned in son-in-law Thomas Turk's will dated 3 Aug 1808 | ||
| Allen, Turk queries dated Jan, Feb, Mar 1998 Robert M. Allen <BobBecAlln@aol.com> |
| The Glaves/Gleaves Family in America Dennis Glaves <dennis@glaves.org> |
| Turk Family http://genforum.genealogy.com/turk/messages/265.html found: 31 Jul 2000 dated: 21 Apr 2000 Darlene Henson <dhenson@lcc.net> |
| Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850 Lyman Chalkley |
| Virginia Marriages to 1800 Jordan Dodd |
| Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia orignial: Lyman Chalkley |
| How to cite this page as a source | |
| author: | Michael Sheppard < sheppard@cs.unm.edu > |
| title: | Genealogical events for Esther _____ |
| url: | http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~shep/shep/I610.html |
| updated: | 23 Jan 2005 |