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Joshua Weaver Sr.
BIRTH April 1716
New Kent County, Virginia, USA
DEATH Dec 1790 (aged 74)
Weavers Ford, Ashe County, North Carolina, USA
BURIAL
William Weaver Cemetery
Ashe County, North Carolina, USA
MEMORIAL ID 127984530 · View Source
MEMORIAL
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*Joshua Weaver, Sr
son of Samuel Weaver and Mary Robinson
was born April 1716 in New Kent Co., VA ?,
died Abt. 1790 in Ashe County, NC.
He married Rachel Seay ?
Married: Rachel McDaniel in 1746, Virginia?
Death Date: 1790, Weavers Ford, Ashe County, North Carolina
Records:
1717 Joshua Weaver
Pioneer: Joshua came from Virginia in mid--1700's when he purchased land on New River called "Hickory Bottoms" near the mouth of Stagg's Creek, in what would later be called Ashe County, N. C. (According to Wilkes Co., N.C. records.)
1749--52: Sons found on Tithes Lists in Lunenburg County. Son, Samuel, served in Militia in various areas.
Active in Land transactions.
Found on Tithes Lists in King William Parish, Goochland Co., Va. Samuel, Sr. and Jr found on various purchases of land together.
1767 Pittsylvania Tax List: Isaac, Joshua and Moses McDaniel appear as neighbors.
Moses appears as a resident Wilkes Co. on the 1787 N.C. Census as a neighbor of William.
Moses is the Father of Rachel?
Isaac Weaver, Sr., William's brother, appears on several rosters for Montgomery County Virginia in Capt. Enoch Osborne's Company.
Isaac was appointed Capt. of a Militia Co. after the Revolution.
He appears as a private soldier and tradition has it that this Militia served in the Battle of King's Mountain.
It was fought by private soldiers like Isaac.
Joshua and William were also compensated for services from Revolutionary War accounts.
They may have also been in the Battle of Kings Mountain.
No other records could be found for Joshua or William though.
1778, March 4: Joshua became one of the first men to legally enter land west of the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.
Grant #31- Hickory Bottom: Joshua Weaver.
Appeared in Wilkes Co., Tax Lists of 1782, 1784, 1785, 1786, and 1787.
Likely in Pittsylvania Co., VA as early as 1762.
First claim at Sycamore Ford renamed Weavers Ford, Ashe Co.-- New River Notes
some Children of Joshua Weaver,Sr and Rachel ? are:
I. William Weaver, Sr, b. Abt. 1750, Lunenburg County, VA, d. December 1836, Ashe County, NC.
ii. Isaac Weaver, Sr, b. Abt. 1747, Lunenburg County, VA, d. 1814, Ashe County, NC.
NOTES
Rachel Seay or
Rachel McDaniel
Birth: 1720
Death: 1790 in Ashe Co, NC
Marriage Joshua Weaver b: 1716 in St. Peters Parish, New Kent Co. Va• Married: 1746
some Children
1 Isaac Weaver b: 1747 in VA
2. William Weaver b: Abt 1750 in Lunenburg Co., Va.
3. Samuel Weaver b: 9 Sep 1759 in Halifax, VA
4. Thomas Weaver b: Bef 1760 in VA
5. John Weaver b: Abt 1760 in VA
6. Absalom Weaver b: Abt 1760 in VA
7. Unknown Weaver b: Abt 1760 in VA
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