General Notes

Richard Bramham (Branham): born circa 1728 in Spotsylvania County,
Virginia; served as Sergeant in the First Virginia Regiment, Frenchand
Indian War, in Spotsylvania County, in the year 1758; received abounty
of land for his service on February 17, 1780; (7) was an appraiser in
Dunmore County (8) on November 29, 1775; (9) was commissioned asJustice on
Donmore County, by Governor Patrick Henry on August 27, 1778; (10) was
tax-payer and census-taker in Shenandoah County, in 1782, at whichtime his
family consisted of sic persons; (11) was on a list of slave-owners in1783
and 1785. (12).

SOURCES:
(7) Ibid., page 23.
(8) Dunmore County was formed in 1772 from Frederick; Frederick wasformed
in 1734 from Spotsylvania. In 1778 the name of Dunmore County waschanged
to Shenandoah County.
(9) John W. Wayland: A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia(Strasburg
Virginia; Shenandoah Publishing House, 1927) Pg 110.
(10) Ibid, Pg 121.
(11) 1790 Census of Virginia, page 105. The so-called 1790 Census of
Virginia is really a list of tax-payers in Virginia during 1782, 1783and
1787, published by the United States Government to take the place ofthe
1790 Census that was destroyed by the British in Washington during theWar
of 1812.
(12) John W: Wayland: Op. cit., page 217. On page 225 of the samework,
the following statement is made concerning Richard Branham ascensus-taker.
"Branham's list was probably made in the upper end of Page Valley, inthe
district including Marksville, S'anley, Leaksville, Alma, Honeyville,
and Newport."