General Notes

He mentioned wife Elizabeth, son Robert, daughters Peggy A.
, Betsy, Nancy, Susy F., Patsy W., Sally, and on July 28t
h adds codicil stating that Elizabethhas been delivered o
f another daughter.   His will was presented for probate,p
roved and recorded on 22 Dec 1800.
Adam Bratton married again in July 1788, so Agnes must hav
e died prior
to that date. Only one child, Margaret "Peggy", is listed a
s a
Hogshead descendant. He had other children by second wife
. James
Bratton, brother of Adam and husband of Agnes (Hogshead) Br
atton's
sister, Rebecca, was named as guardian for Margaret "Peggy
" Bratton,
but not for any of the children of Adam's second marriage.
Adam Bratton was on Dumore's War listing:
Dunmore' War was a conflict between the Colony of Virgini
aand the Native Americans of the Ohio Valley. Following in
creased raids and attacks on frontiersmen in this region, t
he Royal Governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, organized a la
rge force of militia and marched to Fort Pitt arrivingat t
he end of August 1774. Dunmore also ordered Colonel Andre
w Lewis, commander of the southwestern Virginia militia, t
o raise an army in the south andmeet Dunmore's force alon
g the Ohio River. Lewis formed militia companies from Augus
ta, Bedford, Botetourt, Culpeper, Dunmore, Fincastle, and K
entucky counties. After Colonel Lewis' victory at the Battl
e of Point Pleasant, Dunmore successfully negotiated a peac
e treaty with the Delaware, Mingo, and Shawnee chiefs tha
t prevented them from settling or hunting south of the Ohi
o River.