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- !NOTES:Birth date of "bef 1720" derived from:
1. Receiving a grant from William Beverely in 1738, assuming he was at least 18 then = before ca 1720.
2. Assuming children named in age order in 1740 importation record, before ca 1720 works with the approximate birth years of the remaining children.
!DEED:27 Sep 1738 Orange Co., VA (now Augusta)
William Beverly of the Essex Co., VA to William Cathey of Orange ... 5 shillings
466 acres in Orange County at Shenandoah, part of Beverly Manor ...
S: Wm Beverly
Wit: Wm Williams, Samuel Hughes, Peter Russell
Cathey Kith and Kin 1957, pp 4-5;
!COURT:28 Feb 1739/40 Orange Co., VA Court Order Bk 2 p. 109
James Cathey made oath that he having (im)ported himself, Ann his wife, and his children William, Elizabeth, Andrew, George, Margaret and Ann at his own charge from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from there into this colony, and that this is the first time of proving his and their rights in order to obtain land. (Thanks to Kyle Wear for this transcription);
!DEED:27 Dec 1751 Augusta Co., VA
John and Jean Cathey lately from Ireland sold to Samuel Wallace 300 acres of land on Cathey's Creek of the Shenandoah River in Augusta Co., VA on Dec 27 1751 intending to settle in Carolina. John had come into posession of this land as the oldest brother of William Cathey who died intestate and who had purchased this plot in Beverley Manor Sep 28, 1738.
Records of Augusta County, Virginia, Lyman Chalkley, Vol III, p. 302
- Kyle Wear's abstract of same record follows:
Augusta Co., VA Deed Bk 4 Page 244.--27th December, 1751. John Cathey and Jaen, lately come from Ireland, now in the County of Augusta, intending to travel and settle in Carolina, to Samuel Wallace, 300 acres. In Beverley Manor, on Cathey's Creek, a middle branch of Shanando, part of 466 acres sold by Beverley to Wm. Cathey, 28th September, 1738, and by death of William (died intestate) descended to John, his oldest brother; corner John Trimble (formerly Wm. King); Hugh Young's and John Jamison's lines; Beverley Manor line; corner Morris O'Friel. Teste: Alexander Blear, Patrick Martin.
Wm. McPhetters, James Scott, Morris O'Friel, James Berry.
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