John Sr. WADE

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  • d. > 14 Jun 1819 (will)
    
    probate document:
    
    Will found in Utah (May 25,1998) for John Waid of Washington County,
    Kentucky
    
    Waid, John - Will - W:  2 Nov 1816, P: 14 June 1819
    
    Leg:  To eldest daughter Nancy Gray, wife of Thomas Gray of Cumberland
    (I question the name of this county - note by Mary Ann Wade) County, Tenn.
    To Martha Harding, wife of Robert Harding of state of Ohio
    To Sally Owens, wife of James Owens
    All my children:  Nancy Gray, Martha Harding, Joseph Waid,
    John Waid, Druscilla Bosworth, wife of Henry Bosworth, Greenbury Waid, Sally Owens, wife of James Owens and William Waid.  (Mentions son in law Evan Watkins.)
    
    Ex:   James Owens and Greenbury Waid
    
    Wit:  James Graham, Samuel Smith, David Graham
    
    Signed John Waid
    
    D-263  -  14, 1813 - division of property of John Wade to his children: 
    eldest daughter Nancy Gray, wife of Thomas Gray of Cocke County, Tenn.,
    daughter Martha Harding, wife of Robert Harding of Ohio, each to have
    $30 and an equal share of balance with other children, to wit:  John Wade, Joseph Wade, Drucilla Bosworth wife of Henry Bosworth, Greenbury Wade, Sally Owen wife of James Owen, and William Wade.  son Greenbury Wade & son in law James Owens attorneys appointed to "divide my estate and to dispose of my Negro girl Maria as they see fit and what I retain for myself to go to James
    Owens at my death, as I intend to live with him and my son in law Evan
    Watkins to have $1.00
    S:   John x Wade
    W:   None
    
    Will of John Waid as transcribed by Mary Ann Wade  July 13, 1998
    
    In the name of God, Amen.  I John Waid of Washington County and
    state of Kentucky, being weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and
    memory, before the Almighty God, for the same do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say, first, I
    recommend my soul to God.  Secondly, my body to be buried in a good Christian like manner. 
    Thirdly,  I do bequeath unto my eldest daughter Nancy Gray, wife of Thomas Gray of the county of Cocke and state of Tennessee, and unto Martha Harding, wife of Robert Harding of the state of Ohio, thirty dollars. 
    And fourthly, I also give and bequeath the balance of my estate after giving my household and furniture to Sally Owens, wife of James Owens, to be equally divided amongst all my children here after as intended,  Nancy Gray, wife of Thomas Gray, Martha Harding, wife of Robert Harding, Joseph Waid, John Waid, Drusilla Bozworth, wife of Henry Bozworth, Greenbury Waid, Sally Owens, wife of James Owens, and William Waid. 
    Fifth, I give and bequeath to my son-in-law Evan Watkins one dollar with what I have already given him.  Lastly, I do nominate and appoint James Owens and Greenbury Wade my lawful Executors.  In witness whereof I have hereunto my hand and seal this second day of November 1816.  Interlined before signed,
    sealed and acknowledged in presence of us    
         James Graham
         Samuel Smith
         David Graham
    
    At a county court begun and held for Washington County on Monday the
    14th of June 1819 this last will and testament of John Waid was proven by the oaths of James Graham and Samuel Smith, two subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
    James Graham
    Samuel Smith
    David Graham
    
    Mary Ann Wade:  John Wade and his family lived in the West Augusta district before moving to Kentucky.  This area comprised some of the southwest Pennsylvania Counties as well as part of West Virginia.
    
    The Wade and Watkins families lived close together in Monongalia
    County, Virginia.  This may have influenced them to both go to Nelson County, Virginia, which became Washington County, Kentucky.    Also, John Waid was listed in 1787 Census of Virginia in Youghigeny County. The Wade family moved to southwestern Pennsylvania (then claimed by Virginia) right after the Revolution, and stayed there until moving south across the border to Monongalia County.  John Wade probably loaded his family on a flatboat and went down the Monongahalia and Ohio Rivers to Louisville, and then eastward on the Wilderness Trail to Washington County, Kentucky.
    
    Taken from Mary Ann Norris e-mail 
    
    Hi Folks,
         According to Mary Ann Norris, the book Virginia Colonial Soldiers by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, has names of individuals who had military service in the Colony of Virginia prior to the Revolution.  It is interesting to note that this might be our John Waid/Wade.  The dates and locations in Monongalia and Augusta are about right.
    
    Mary Ann       
    
    On page 449:  Virginia Militia:  Size Roll of the Seventh Company of the Virginia Regiment, Commanded by Captain Joshua Lewis, July 1757:
    
    Nr.   Name          Age   Size           Country    Trade        Enlistment
    19    Waid, Jn:o   21      5' 4 1/2"    England   Seaman    North Cumberland
    
    On page 451:
    List Jn:o Waid on a Necessary Roll of the Seventh Company of the Virginia Regiment, Commanded by Captain Joshua Lewis, July 1757.
    
    Page 465:
    Private John Waid listed on a Pay Roll of Captain Joshua Lewis' Company for June, July, August 1757.
    
    Page 478:
    Private John Waid listed on Return for the Month of October of Necessaries Belonging to the 7th Company of the Virginia Regiment Commanded by Captain Joshua Lewis, 1757.  A footnote states that John Waid lost a haversack when out with the Catawbas. 
    
    Page 603:
    "The following persons are found among the Lists of those who received the pistole given by the country as an acknowledgment of their sense of the bravery of defense at the Meadows, and are nowhere else to be met with neither in the returns at Wills Creek among the Pay Rolls nor no where else."
    
    George Swiney
    Daniel Bellott
    Elisha Ward
    John Lee
    John Waid
    
    Virginia Historical Magazine: (vol. 1)
    
    Page 282 - 284 gives the same info.
    "The foregoing contains a List of all the Soldiers which rare to be found either upon the Pay Rolls, or Muster Rolls.  The party of Recruits which join at Wills Creek after the Battle of the Meadows - the Men who received the present of a Pistole from the Country as an acknowledgment of their Gallant Behaviors upon that occasion-and the Detachment which marched to Augusta sometime after the Defeat.  By which (there appearing to be 350 upon the Roll) it is evident there are many men (here) included those are not entitled (strictly) to a share of the 200,000 acres of Land under Gov. Dinwiddies Proclam'n and scarce possible that can be omitted which are- this being carfully attended to least any might be deprived of their Right by not appearing on the list when they applied to G'e Washington
    
    The Virginia Frontier, 1754 - 1763 by Louis K. Kootz, Ph.D:
    
    Page 50:
         Having passed through the towns of Fredericksburg, Alexandria, and Winchester, Washington reached Wills Creek on the 14th of November.  here he found Christopher Gist whom he induced to accompany him on his journey.  In Gist, Washington secured a faithful guide and one familiar with the country.
         Washington's route lay past Gist's new house near the Big Yough, and thirty miles further, John Frazier's on the Monongahela, at the mouth of Turtle Creek.  The latter they reached on November 22.
         From Frazier's Washington pushed on to the "Forks of the Ohio."  On this spot where the Ohio Company intended to build a fort and which Washington noted with so much pleasure, Shingiss, King of the Delaware's was found living.  A fort at that place would be well situated on the Ohio, and would have the entire command of the Monongahela. 
         Wills Creek (aka. Fort Cumberland) where present Cumberland, Maryland stands, was an important point.  The Ohio Land Company built a warehouse there as early as 1750.  The location lay directly across the path westward from Virginia, Maryland, and even southern Pennsylvania, to the "Forks of the Ohio.
    
    (...) Evan and Prudence Watkins continued to live in the same area of Pennsylvania until 1787, and during that time seven children were born into the family.  in February 1787, Evan bought 310 acres on Scotts run in Monongalia County, Virginia, just across the state line from his Pennsylvania home.  The family lived there until the winter of 1791-1792, when they moved by flat-boat down the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers to the falls of the Ohio, at present day Louisville, Kentucky.  From there, they traveled south to Nelson County, in the Kentucky territory of Virginia.  Apparently the Wade Family traveled with them.
    
    source for above citations:  Mary Ann Wade

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