ID: P2496733956
Name: George Quesenberry
Sex: M
Birth: 1748 in Orange Co., Virginia
Death: 1812 in Virginia
Note: Note: George probably was born and married in Orange County , Virginia. His first child Nancy Quesenberry was born in 1 770 probably in Orange County, Virginia. In 1770 George cam e to Grease Creek in what is now Carroll County. Whilether e he received 400 acres of land from Abner Lester by: a Com missioners Certificate. Part of the land was surveyed in 17 75. George returned to OrangeCounty to get ready to move h is wife and young daughter Nancy to Floyd County, Virginia . In March of 1772 he started on his way to Floyd County an d in Bedford County his second child Frederick was born. Th is is according to the 1850 Floyd County Census, Frederic k was born in Bedford County. George was the oldest son o f Moses Quesenberry, who in the 1700's went with some of hi s other sons to Kentucky. George followed the "Wilderness R oad" from Bedford and through Botetourt Courthouse - Newber n. Before arriving at Ft. Chiswell, Virginia he left the wi lderness road and followed the Big Reed Island Creek andGr easy Creek upstream to where he had earlier received the 40 0 acres. George Quesenberry was the first settler in this a rea of the Quesenberry's. All Quesenberry's of this area ap parently descended from George. In 1779 George and Martha s old some land to Ephraim Dickens and both George and Marth a signed the deed. George served in the County Militia duri ng the Revolutionary War.His unit was responsible for keep ing peace with the local Indians, - unit commanded by Capta in William Bobbett and Captain Jonathon Isom. At one point ,George was identified as being a clergyman - married seve ral couples and at one time was the only one in the southwe st Virginia authorized to perform marriages. This may hav e been the Primitive Baptist Church in its beginnings.
Note: CHAN16 Mar 2004
Father: Aaron Quesenberry b: BET 1715 AND 1720 in Christianburg, Montgomery County, VA
Mother: Joyce Dudley b: 1720 in Spotsylvania Co., Virginia
Marriage 1
Martha "Patsey" Slinker b: 1753 in Christianburg, Montgomery County, VA
- Married:
1769
in Orange County, VA
Children
Nancy Ann Quesenberry b: 1774 in Montgomery Co., VA | |