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Logan County, KY

22 August 1810, George Finley will, names son-in-law James Glenn and my daughter Rachel, son-in-law Peter Hay and my daughter Elizabeth, son-in-law Hugh Orr and my daughter Mary. Codicil dated 6 August 1812. Penciled note states: George still alive in 1820 as shown by bills of sales.

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THE GEORGE FINLEYS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY, VA.

By Carmen J. Finley, Ph.D.

[Published in The American Genealogist, Vol. 64, No. 4, October 1989,
pp. 216-225]

According to Major Albert Finley France, pioneer Finley researcher,
brothers John and William Finley migrated from Pennsylvania to Augusta
Co., Va., in the late 1730s (untitled ms, [Annapolis, Md., 1940],
hereafter France, p.2 of section on Finleys in Pennsylvania [a copy of
this manuscript is in my possession]). As was the custom in those
days, they carried on family given names as did their children. This
resulted, over a period of three generations, in a preponderance of
John, James, Robert, George and William Finleys both in Augusta Co.
and elsewhere in Virginia as well as other locations. Some of the
Augusta Finleys bearing identical names seem hopelessly intertwined;
others, through careful study and by tracing documents that chain
their various locations together, can be identified properly. The
purpose of this paper is to place correctly and trace the two George
Finleys, each the son of a different John Finley, christened at
Tinkling Spring Church on 20 Jan. 1743 and 4 Jan. 1748 (Howard
McKnight Wilson, The Tinkling Spring: Headwater of Freedom [Verona,
Va., 1974], hereafter Wilson, p. 474).
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BACKGROUND

According to France, John and William Finley, sons of James and
Elizabeth (Patterson) Finley, moved from Chester Co., Pa., to Augusta
Co., Va., in 1737 (p. 1 of section on Finleys in Virginia). Admiral
Herald F. Stout, who used and expanded the work done by France, claims
that John was born in 1706 and William in 1712 (The Clan Finley, 2nd
ed., 2 vols. in 1 [Dover, Ohio, 1956], hereafter Stout, 1:37). Stout
further states that John married Thankful Doak in 1724 and William
married Mary Wallace in 1734 (1:37). John and Thankful's first two
children, according to Stout (1:37), were John, born 1724, and Robert,
born 1726. If Stout is correct, John, Sr., and John, Jr., were only 18
years apart in age and both could easily have been fathering children
during the 1740s.

The baptismal records of Tinkling Spring for children born to John
Finleys follow (Wilson p. 474):

Elisabeth 18 Jan. 1741

William 30 Jan. 1743

George* 30 Jan. 1743

Robert* 21 April 1745

Margaret* Dec. 1746

James 8 March 1747

George 4 Jan. 1748

(George was baptized by Rev. John Thomson)

These records are apparently the children of two fathers named John
Finley; the asterisks in the printed version indicate that Wilson
believed that the children so marked belonged to one family.
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GEORGE FINLEY I

Unlike other common Finley given names in Augusta Co., the name George
is found in only three public documents for the period covered by
Chalkley (1745-1800) (Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish
Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of
Augusta County . . .[Roslyn, Va., 1912], hereafter Chalkley). The
first document is dated 17 Nov. 1767, when John and Thankful Finley
deeded to George Finley, 179 acres, "a part of John Finleys land he
now lives on," for 5s. (Augusta Co. LR 14:104-9; Chalkley 3:462). On
17 March 1772, George and his wife, Jane Finley, deeded this property
to Robert Clendenen for 16 (Augusta Co. LR 18:92-93; not in Chalkley).
This property was sold back to John Finley by the Clendenens on 21
March 1775 for 5s. (Augusta Co. LR 21:17; not in Chalkley). On 1 Feb.
1781, George Finley obtained a grant for 35 acres on Middle River
(referred to in Augusta Co. 27:268). This property was sold by George
and Jane Finley of Washington Co. to David McNair on 20 Dec. 1791
(Augusta Co. LR 27:268; Chalkley 3:594). A comparison of the
description of the land obtained by John Finley by patent in 1741 on
Cathay's River (also known as Middle River) (Va. State Land Office,
patent #20 [Vol. 1(1740-43]) indicates that the 1781 grant to George
Finley is in the same general area as the land he obtained from John
and Thankful Finley in 1767. The only Finley deeds in Augusta Co.
through 1800 are either on South River (around Staunton) or in the
Middle (Cathay's) River area; the only public records in Augusta Co.
for George Finley are found in the Middle River area.

The sale of the 35 acres to David McNair place George and Jane Finley
in Washington Co. in 1791. A search of Washington Co. records revealed
that there was a George Finley in Washington Co. as early as 1777 when
he submitted a voucher as Commissary to the Washington Militia
(Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, hereafter VMHB,
8[1901]:196). Washington Co. was formed in 1776-77 from Fincastle and
Montgomery counties. A George Finley was also found listed among
participants in Dunmore's War of 1774, from Fincastle Co., along with
James and John Finley (Reuben Gold Thwaites and Louise Phelps Kellogg,
Documentary History of Dunmore's War, 1774 [Madison, Wis., 1905] p.
423). However, there was another George Finley living in Montgomery
Co. in 1772-73 and it is not possible, at this time, to determine
which George fought in Dunmore's War (Carmen J. Finley, "David Finley
(1754-1848): Correcting the Record," NGSQ 76[1988]:112-20). George
Finley's presence in Washington is also found in the Calendar of
Virginia State Papers. In 1785 he was a signer of a document presented
to the Congress of the United States and of a document to Patrick
Henry, Governor of Virginia (Calendar of Virginia State Papers & Other
Manuscripts, 11 vols. [Richmond 1875-93], hereafter Cal. Va. State
Papers, 4:5, 76). In May of 1786, he gave a deposition concerning
Arthur Campbell, who was also a signer of the petition addressed to
the Congress of the United States (Cal. Va. State Papers 4:133-34). In
1792, Capt. George Finley was mentioned in the proceedings of a Court
of Inquiry and assessment of fines held at the Washington Co.
courthouse (Cal. Va. State Papers 6:102). In addition, a steady stream
of land records appear in Washington Co. from 1785 to 1805 involving
George and Jean (or Jane) Finley. Brief abstracts follow:

22 Oct. 1785 - John Finley patents 213 acres in Washington Co.,
headwaters of East Fork Wallace's branch, waters of North fork of
Holston River; mentions line of George Finley (Washington Co. LR
1:305).

14 Oct. 1788 - George Finley of Washington Co. buys 264 acres from
Patrick Watson, Sr., on waters of North Fork of Holston River
(Washington Co. LR 1:140).

20 Jan. 1795 - George Finley and Jean, his wife, to Moses White, both
of Washington Co., 127 acres on East side of Wallace's branch the
waters of the North Fork of Holston River (Washington Co. LR 1:407-8).

20 Jan. 1795 - George Finley and Jean, his wife, to John White, both
of Washington Co., 85 acres on East side of Wallace's branch the water
of North Fork of Holston River (Washington Co. LR 1:408).

20 Jan. 1795 - George Finley and Jean, his wife, [residence not given]
to Joseph White, 158 acres on East side of Wallace's branch, waters of
the North Fork of Holston River (Washington Co. LR 1:409).

15 March 1799 - George Finley and Jean, his wife, of Washington Co. to
Hugh Miller, Sr., 12 acres, part of a tract of 68 acres granted to
George Finley by patent, dated 21 Aug. 1798, on waters of Markland's
Mill Creek, a south branch of North Fork of Holston River (Washington
Co. LR 2:201).

21 Oct. 1801 - George Finley and Jean, his wife, to John Greenway,
both of Washington Co., several tracts including: (1) 265 acres on
waters of the North Fork of Holston . . . (2) 44 acres granted to
George Finley by patent. . . (3) 56 acres adjoining (Washington Co. LR
2:467).

5 July 1805 - George and Jane Findley [signed Jean] to William Harley,
the said Findley of the state of Kentucky, 180 acres on Mobley's Creek
[formerly Wallace's branch] a branch of the North Fork of the Holston
River (Washington Co. LR 4:165).

The 1805 deed indicates a move to Kentucky, and George Finley was
readily found in Logan Co., Ky. Logan records indicate that on 14 June
1798 George Finley "of Logan County" bought 200 acres on waters of
Clifty from Robert Ewing (Logan Co. LR A1:165). Clearly there is some
conflict about George's actual residence during the period 1798 to
1801, since deeds executed in Washington Co. in 1799 and 1801 indicate
that he was still a resident there. A closer look at the proving of
these deeds suggests that the scribe who wrote the 1798 deed calling
George "of Logan County" was in error. The closing paragraph of the
1801 deed, for example, state "At a Court Held for Washington county
the 21st day of October 1801. This Indenture of bargain and sale was
acknowledged in court by the above named George Finley and Jean his
wife she having been first privily examined as the law directs. . . .
." Abingdon, the seat of Washington Co., Va., is approximately 275
miles from Russellville, the seat of Logan Co., Ky., and if they had
been living in Logan Co., it is likely that they would have given a
power of attorney rather than traveling back to Abingdon to
acknowledge the deed personally.

Logan Co. claims to have no copy of George Finley's will. The original
will was in the possession of M.L. Glenn of Sharon Grove, Ky., in
1930; a transcript made by Edyth Rucker Whitley in that year is in the
Tennessee State Archives, Nashville, Vertical Files, where it was
discovered by a researcher working on an entirely different family.

The will is dated 22 Aug. 1810; the transcript does not include date
of probate. In it, George Finley of Logan Co., Ky., named:

James Glenn, son-in-law and daughter, Rachel, his wife; Peter Hay,
son-in-law and daughter, Elizabeth, his wife; Hugh Orr, son-in-law and
daughter, Mary, his wife.

James Glenn provides an important link between Washington Co., Va.,
and Logan Co., Ky. In Washington Co. in 1792, James Glenn, a private
in Captain Joseph Henley's company, was named in the same document
with Capt. George Finley in a Court of Inquiry (Cal. Va. State Papers
6:102). Glenn also witnessed the deed between George Finley and Hugh
Miller executed in Washington Co. in 1799 (see abstract above).

From 1814 to 1820, seven land records were found for George Finley in
Logan Co. with one exception involving the settlement of a land
dispute with John Washington (Logan Co. LR E:281), all were deeds made
"in consideration of love & for other good causes," to his three
sons-in-law (Logan Co. LR D:139, 140; E:398; H:183, 195). None of the
deeds mentions George's wife, Jean. Therefore, it is probably safe to
assume she died between 5 July 1805, the last date her name appeared
on a deed, and 22 Aug. 1810 when George wrote his will.

In summary, the George Finley who originally received 179 acres in the
Middle River area of Augusta Co., Va., from John and Thankful Finley,
migrated first to Washington Co., Va., and finally to Logan Co., Ky.
The exact dates of his migration cannot be precisely determined, but
it appears that he left Augusta Co. between 1772 when he sold his 179
acres on Middle River and 1777 when he served as a Commissary to the
Washington Militia. In June 1798, he purchased land in Logan Co. from
Robert Ewing, and he probably moved there sometime between October
1801 and July 1805 (see the discussion above). Now, who were his
parents and when was he christened at Tinkling Spring?
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ASSIGNING GEORGE FINLEY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, VA., AND LOGAN COUNTY,
KY., TO THE PROPER FAMILY

With the background information given so far, it may seem fairly
simple to assign this George Finley as the son of John and Thankful
Finley who migrated from Chester Co., Pa., to Augusta Co., Va., in
1737. I agree that this is where he should be placed. However, Finley
researchers Stout and Monnette claim that there was a second John and
Thankful (or Mary Thankful) Finley couple in the Augusta Co. area
(Stout p. 61; Orra Eugene Monnette, First Settlers of ye Plantations
of Piscataway and Woodbridge Olde East New Jersey [Los Angeles
1930-35], hereafter Monnette, 7:1490 [Monnette should always be used
with caution]). There does exist the will of John Finley dated 17 Aug.
1791 in which wife Thankful is named (Augusta Co. PR Will Book 7:404).
Most Finley researchers believe this to the will of John, Jr., son of
John and Thankful who migrated from Pennsylvania. However, they differ
as to the identity of the Thankful named in the will. Stout believes
that she was Mary Thankful Caldwell, but also says she died in 1787
(p. 61). Monnette believes that Mary Caldwell died in 1787 and that
John remarried a cousin named Thankful (7:1490). Because of this
potential confusion, it is well to state, for the record, why this
George Finley must be the son of the John and Thankful Finley who
migrated from Pennsylvania in 1737.

The earliest record of a John Finley in the Augusta Co. area occurs
when he received a patent for 183 acres, 1 Dec. 1740, "lying and being
in that part of Orange County called Augusta on a branch of Cathey's
River called Finley's Branch" (Va. State Land Office, Patent #19,
1739-41, reel 17, p. 852). On 15 Oct. 1741, he received a second
patent for 300 acres, "in that part of Orange called Augusta on a
draft of Cathey's River" (Patent #20, 1741-43, reel 18, p. 83). John
and Thankful's oldest son, John, born 1724 according to Stout, would
have then been about 16 or 17 years old, not a serious contender to be
holding property at this time. When George received property from John
and Thankful in 1767 for 5s., the description reads in part "one
Certain tract or parcel of Land Containing one Hundred and seventy
nine acres. . .a Part of John Finleys Land he now lives on, BEGINNING
at two white oaks on the old paton Line thence north thirty Degrees
West. . ." (Augusta Co. LR 14:104-9). The 1741 patent of John Finley
also began along a line "north thirty Degrees West," matching the
beginning line direction of the property received by George. Hence,
there can be no doubt the George Finley who migrated through
Washington Co., Va., and Logan Co., Ky., is the son of John and
Thankful Finley who came from Chester Co., Pa.

When was this George Finley born? The two baptismal dates for George
Finleys born to John Finleys were 30 Jan. 1743 and 4 Jan. 1748 (Wilson
p. 474). The 179 acres he received carried a date of 17 Nov. 1767. If
we assume a birth date near the baptismal date, the elder George would
have been approaching his 25th birthday and the younger George would
have been approaching his 20th birthday. Although there were
exceptions, the usual minimum age for a male to own land was 21; thus,
it seems more reasonable to believe that George, son of John and
Thankful, was the one baptized 30 Jan. 1743. Some of the discussion of
the second George baptized a Tinkling Spring, in the next section,
will reinforce this conclusion.
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GEORGE FINLEY II

Attempting to place the second George Finley is not nearly so
clean-cut as our placing of the preceding George Finley. There is
always the possibility that the second George Finley did not survive
to maturity. This would explain the lack of records for him in Augusta
Co. However, there is a contemporary George Finley found in Prince
Edward Co., Va., in 1769 who can be followed through Montgomery (later
Wythe) Co., to the Dix River area of Kentucky and finally to Wayne
Co., Ky. There are also many ties between Augusta Co. and Prince
Edward Co. that suggest that his family may have originate in Augusta
Co.
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THE PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY FINLEYS

In 1765 John Finley and William Finley bought property (400 and 430
acres respectively) on Vaughan's Creek in Prince Edward Co. (Prince
Edward Co. LR 3:1, 21). In 1769, George Finley bought 200 acres on
Vaughan's Creek from his father-in-law, Thomas Fulton (Prince Edward
Co. LR 3:487). In 1772 and 1773 John and George Finley sold their
total acreage and William sold 175 acres of his holdings (Prince
Edward Co. LR 5:54, 63, 184). The discussion and proof showing their
move to Montgomery (later Wythe) Co. has been given in a previous
article (NGSQ 76:117-18). Other relevant documentation in the same
paper shows that John's wife was Mary and that they had at least three
sons: David, Samuel, and Thomas. David claimed 1000 acres in 1776
along the Dix River in what became Garrard Co., Ky. David and his
wife, Elizabeth [Mounts], reared ten children at this location and
moved on to Orange Co., Ind., about 1811 (Montgomery Co. LR A:283-84,
258). From at least 1786 to about 1805 a George Finley is found in
close proximity to David and Elizabeth Finley in the Dix River area:

29 June 1786 - George Finley marries Polly [Mary] Gaines of Lincoln
Co., Va. [later Ky.] (Shirley Dunn and Dorothy A. Griffith, comps.,
Lincoln County Kentucky Marriages, 1780-1850, & Tombstone Inscriptions
[St. Louis 1977] p. 12).

2 June 1789 - George Finley, Madison Co., recommended Captain in
Kentucky Militia (Kentucky Genealogist 15[1973]:62).

24 Oct. 1789 - George Finley, Madison Co., signs petition to lay out
town and allot plats ("Petitions from Kentuckians to the Virginia
Legislature" in The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society,
Frankfort, Kentucky 21[1923; rpt. Easley, S.C., 1980]:347).

1789-1796 - George Finley on tax records in Madison Co. (Madison Co.,
Ky., Tax List, 1787-1807, LDS film #008126).

3 Oct. 1797 - George Finley buys 100 acres on Dicks River from Jesse
Helton (Lincoln Co., Ky., LR C:331).

1802 - George Finley on Garrard Co. tax records with 100 acres on
Dicks River [note: David Finley appears this same year on Garrard
County tax records with 400 acres on Dicks River] (Garrard Co., Ky.,
Tax List, LDS film #007988).

18 Feb. 1805 - George and Polly Finley sell 100 acres on Dicks River
(Garrard Co. LR A:718).

1809 - Mary Finley sues George Finley for divorce (Mercer Co. Circuit
Court Box F-9).

4 March 1809 - George Finley of Wayne Co., Ky., places personal
property with Wm. Gaines, in trust for George's wife, Mary (Mercer Co.
LR 7:229).

19 Dec. 1817 - Obadiah Finley, son of George and M. Gaines Finley,
takes inventory of estate of George Finley, deceased (Wilson Co.,
Tenn., rec. 20 Jan. 1818 [letter from Clerk's Office]).

The reader will note that records for George in Kentucky are found in
Lincoln, Mercer, Madison and Garrard counties. In 1780, Lincoln Co.,
Va., was one of three counties formed from what was Kentucky Co., Va.
In 1790, Madison and Mercer were formed from Lincoln Co., and Garrard
Co. was formed in 1797. These are all in the Dix River area and David
Finley's records were likewise found in all four locations (NGSQ
76:114-15).

While there is no hard proof that this George is the brother of David
Finley, there certainly was a George Finley in the immediate vicinity
of David from 1765 to at least 1805, though perhaps not continuously.
David, born 1754, obviously did not show up in the Prince Edward
records for he would have been aged about 11 to 19. Nevertheless,
David was the son of the John Finley who moved from Prince Edward to
Montgomery Co. in 1773 as demonstrated in an earlier paper (NGSQ
76:112-19).
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TIES BETWEEN THE PRINCE EDWARD FINLEYS AND AUGUSTA COUNTY

As shown earlier, John Finley first purchased property in Prince
Edward Co. on 15 June 1765. On 18 March 1765, a John Finley sold his
remaining share of 297 acres on South River in Beverley Manor to
William Finley (Augusta Co. LR 11:809). A year and a half earlier, in
January 1764, James Gillespy and Elizabeth Finley applied for a
marriage license in Prince Edward Co. The Rev. Richard Sankey wrote a
note to the county clerk, as follows (J.G. Herndon, "Some of the
Descendants of the Rev. John Thomson. . .," VMHB 51[1943]394-404;
reprinted in Genealogies of Virginia Families from The Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography [Baltimore 1981], hereafter Gens.
Va. Fams., 5:454-64):

Sir:

James Gillespy a single man from Augusta County has courted and
proposes to marry Elizabeth Finley a young woman, Sister' Daughter to
my wife [i.e., a daughter of a sister to my wife] who has lived with
me between two and three years last passed. He applies to you for
license to be married by Mr. Garden, wch may be safely granted, as I
am assured is with consent of the friends of both parties

Wch is all from

Sir, Yr humble Servant,

Richard Sankey

(Prince Edward marriage bonds identify Elizabeth as the daughter of
John Finley, Sr. [Catharine Lindsay Knorr, comp., Marriage Bonds and
Minister Returns of Prince Edward County . . .(n.p. 1950) p. 31].)

The note written by the Rev. Mr. Sankey suggests many ties to Augusta
Co. in addition to the explicit statement that James Gillespy was from
there, but let's start with the Gillespys. Importations given by
Wilson list James Gilasby, Jennet, Agnes, John, James and William
Gilasby, 24 July 1740 (O. Bk II, 208) (Wilson p. 426). Hildebrand's
map of the Beverley Grant places the James Gillespie property in close
proximity to the property on South River sold by John Finley in 1765
(J.R. Hildebrand, "The Beverley Patent: 1736. . ." [1954], folded
insert, inside back cover of Wilson). So there is no doubt that the
James Gillespy who applied for a license to marry Elizabeth Finley was
a close neighbor of the Finleys who lived on the South River property
(formerly the Robinson property).

Next, recall that Elizabeth Finley was one of the children of John
Finley baptized at Tinkling Spring in 1741 and that her siblings are
said to have included William, James, and George (1748). As shown
previously, a William and a George Finley also bought property on
Vaughan's Creek in Prince Edward Co. Note also that the George Finley
baptized on 4 Jan. 1748 at Tinkling Spring would not have been old
enough to buy property at the time John and William made their
original purchase (1765), but by 1769 when he did buy, he would have
been about 21. Note also that this George Finley was baptized by the
Rev. John Thomson.

Richard Sankey is also worthy of discussion. Herndon gives a good
summary of the Rev. John Thomson and his descendants, in which Richard
Sankey is presented as Thomson's son-in-law, having married Thomson's
daughter, Sarah (Gens. Va. Fams. 5:459-60). Herndon also states that a
daughter, name unknown, married John Finley (Gens. Va., Fams. 5:461).
Speculation on which John Finley she married will be reserved for a
later time. However, it is well to note that the paths of Richard
Sankey and John Finley, an Elder at Tinkling Spring, crossed in the
business of the presbytery (Wilson pp. 158-59); this is the John
Finley who migrated from Chester Co., Penn.

Finally, the reference to Mr. Garden in Richard Hankey's message may
also have some meaning. The George Finley who bought 200 acres on
Vaughan's Creek in 1769 sold it to Alexander Garden in 1773 (Prince
Edward LR 5:184). Back in Augusta Co., John Finley on Middle River
sold his original patent of 183 acres on Cathey's Creek to Alexander
"Gardner" in 1749 (Augusta Co. LR 2:365).

The evidence supports the conclusion that the Finleys who moved into
Prince Edward Co. could easily have come from Augusta Co.
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SUMMARY

Augusta Co., Va., became the home of several generations of Finleys
beginning with the brothers John and William Finley who came from
Chester Co., Pa., in 1737. Because of the proliferation of given names
used in succeeding generations, it has been difficult to assign
correctly which children belong to which family units. This paper
attempts to sort out the two George Finleys each born to a different
John Finley and baptized at Tinkling Spring Church on 30 Jan. 1743 and
4 Jan. 1748.

The records for one George Finley seem clear. He was the son of the
pioneers John and Thankful Finley who migrated from Chester Co. and
was most likely the one baptized on 30 Jan. 1743. He lived for a while
near his parents in the Middle River area of Augusta Co. Then he and
his wife, Jean or Jane, moved to Washington Co. where they remained
from the mid 1770s to the early 1800s. They are next found in Logan
Co., Ky., where George wrote his will in 1810. Land records continue
to appear for him up through March 1820, although records for his
wife, Jean, disappear after July 1805.

The records for another contemporary George Finley are less clear, but
show that there was a George Finley in close proximity to David Finley
whose path has been more clearly demonstrated. The association between
the two lasted from at least 1765 until 1805. They first appear
together in Prince Edward Co., although David's presence here must be
assume through the presence of David's father. Both George and David
leave records in Montgomery Co. and both are found living near each
other for about twenty years in the vicinity of the Dix River in
Kentucky. There are also numerous ties between the Prince Edward
Finleys and the Augusta Co. Finleys through the Gillespys, the Rev.
Richard Sankey, Alexander Gardner (Garden), and the Rev. John Thomson.
No single document has been found to prove the relationship, but there
is certainly sufficient evidence to give support to the hypothesis
that the Prince Edward Finleys went there from Augusta Co.