Marty and Karla Grant

!NAMED:1750
Land Ownwers of Frederick Co., VA 1750
Charles McDowell
From: p. 109, Abstracts of Wills, Inventories, and Administration Accounts of Frederick County, Virginia compiled by J. Estelle Stewart King, 521 West First Street, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1961



!WILL:24 Jan 1754 Anson Co., NC pp 2-3 Charles McDowell of Anson pr 4 Jun 1754
Wife Rachel exr and George Cathee her assistant.
To wife Rachel one third part of Estate and desire she make her homem with her daughter Hannah Callow ...
to son John McDowell, L10 VA money
to daughter Rachel Eagan of Augusta Co., VA 200a on Broad River in Anson Co., NC.
To brother Joseph McDowell of Frederick Co., VA, one brown broad cloath coat & one beaver hat andn one pare of Show bootes
my four daughter Anne Evanes, Elizabeth Barns, Mary McPeters, & Hannah Calloe ...
S: Charles McDowell.
Wit: Evan Morgan, John Davis.
At court held for Frederick County on Tuesday the 4th day of June 1754 ... Evan Morgan and John Davis proved will. Test. J. Wood
Note from published version:
The land on Broad River bequeathed to Rachael Eagan was sold by Rachel and her husband Barnaby Eagan by their attorney John McDowell. See Mecklenburg Co., NC Deeds Vol II pp 471-474. The land was granted to Charles McDowell 4 Apr 1751 and is now in Cherokee County South Carolina;

!NOTES:Rachel isn't a proven Cathey. Lawrence Wood and others speculated that she was. Her family followed the same migration path with the Catheys, Ireland - PA/MD/VA/NC and were associated.


Charles McDowell's 1754 Will included his "friend and neighbor" George Cathey as his executor along with wife Rachel McDowell.


I don't think Rachel was a Cathey. I do suspect either she or Charles were blood related to the Catheys somehow. My main reason for thinking she wasn't a Cathey is that there are NO other Rachel Cathey's in the family back then. Surely she would have had some namesakes.