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329:'s grandson in February, 1743. The grandson claimed that suspicious white settlers, thinking that this war party planned to raid Virginia settlements, attacked them. The settlers later reported that the Indians had killed several hogs and horses belonging to the settlers, and "went to Peoples houses, Scared the women and Children took what they wanted." The militia were called in, and Patton ordered them to escort the war party out of Augusta County. The militia followed the warriors for two days, until one of the Indians made a detour into the forest near
448:) was issued in the spring of 1745 to Colonel James Patton, with Buchanan being appointed agent and surveyor. Patton immediately formed the Wood's River Company, known later as the New River Company. Among his 20 company members were John Buchanan, George Robinson, James Wood, Adam Harman, Israel Lorton, and Peter Rentfroe. Patton wanted corporate power to negotiate profitable purchases and sales and to participate in treaties with Native Americans, but the company made only a few purchases and dissolved after Patton's death in 1755.
374:, "to meet and consult on the most proper places to build forts along the fronteers for the protection of the Inhabitants." Present were Colonel David Stewart, Major John Brown, and ten captains, all officers of the Augusta County militia. The council decided on the locations of fifteen forts to be built in a "chain" across the county. The council determined that 680 men would need to be recruited to man these and several other existing forts.
333:, possibly to relieve himself, and a militiaman fired at him. The Indians then attacked and killed the militia captain, John McDowell. In the battle that followed, three or four of the Indian warriors and eight or ten militiamen were killed. According to Colonel Patton, the Indians fled into the forest and were pursued for "several hundred yards" by Captain Buchanan and eight militiamen.
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was duly commissioned by the masters of the
Colledge to Survey. I suppose you know he was not, he only gave a bond to me for ye due performance of deputy. All this was done not indeed with my approbation but at ye pressing instance of Col Patton, a circumstance that my giving way to has given me many times much uneasiness."
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presented me with a
Summons to appear before the Court of Commissioners in September as a witness with regard some claims of Wm. Ingliss relative to Burks Garden in Consequence of some contract with one Burk by Col. Patton...I understand by Trigg what is wanted from me is to say whether Col. Buchanan
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Greenfield, John Buchanan determined to leave his residence near Pattonsburg and remove to Reed Creek to settle at Anchor and Hope, a splendid estate Col. Patton had given his daughter Margaret. On his journey he stopped at Greenfield, took sick and died after several weeks illness. Whilst
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that was forty percent longer than the legally standardized chain, in order to complete their surveys. Other landowners, including Dr. Thomas Walker, probably knew that the measurements were inaccurate, and took advantage of the deception to defraud the colonial land office of the amount of payment
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On 23 August 1756, Governor
Dinwiddie wrote Peter Hog: “I have recommended Colo. Buchanan to him for Augusta Coty. I have a bad Opinion of Colo. Stewarts Conduct, & before he receives any Mony, I shall make a Strict Scrutiny into his Demands, & think it must go through Buchanan's Hands."
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Little is known for certain of
Buchanan's birthplace or his life before 1741. Buchanan may have been born in Ireland or in Pennsylvania. His date of birth is disputed, with sources variously citing 1699, 1716, and 1728. Several sources say he was the son of James Buchanan and Jane Sayers, and that
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America, he "had figured in the wars of Scotland," although no details or source is given, and Draper may have confused John Buchanan with his father James. Lyman Draper's collected papers of William Preston (1731-1791) contains information suggesting that Buchanan
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now stands. Buchanan had inherited this "small stone house" from his father-in-law James Patton. Buchanan was planning to move to their 1,200 acre Anchor and Hope plantation on Reed Creek when he died in mid-1769. Buchanan had surveyed the plantation in 1748 and patented it in 1753.
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and exterminator of wolves. On 9 December 1745, Buchanan was appointed justice in the newly formed
Augusta County, and on 9 December, 1745 he qualified as a deputy sheriff. On 16 July 1746, he qualified as sheriff. At that time Buchanan was also a deputy surveyor under Thomas Lewis.
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on his death bed he desired Mrs. Preston to take care of his daughter, Jane, then ten years old; this was done. Col. Buchanan made Col. Preston the executor of his immense estate, a long and unbroken friendship existed between them."
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McCleskey, Nathaniel Turk, "Across the first divide: Frontiers of settlement and culture in
Augusta County, Virginia, 1738-1770". Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539623794, College of William and Mary,
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Buchanan's and Preston's survey measurements with modern-day measurements show that both Preston and Buchanan underreported the acreage that they surveyed for James Patton, in order to reduce the amount of
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Carole Hammett, "Doctor Thomas Walker's Journal (6 Mar 1749/50 - 13 Jul 1750) A Record of His Travels in Present-day Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky," introduction. The Tennessee Genealogical Network, Inc.
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Action at the Galudoghson December 14, 1742; Colonel James Patton, Captain John McDowell and the First Battle with the Indians in the Valley of Virginia; with an Appendix Containing Early Accounts of the
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B. Scott Crawford, "Economic Interdependence Along a Colonial Frontier: Capitalism and the New River Valley, 1745-1789." Master's thesis, Dept. of History, Old Dominion University, December 1996
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of July 1755, Buchanan sent a company from the Augusta County militia to pursue the Shawnee warriors responsible for the massacre, but they were unable to locate them. On 11 August
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Nathaniel Mason Pawlett, "A Brief history of the Roads of Virginia, 1607-1840," Virginia Highway & Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 1977
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to survey lands for the Woods River Company. As a surveyor, he was able to locate some of the best lands in western Virginia and purchased nearly 5,000 acres for himself.
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Buchanan is often referred to in official documents as "John Buchanan, Gent.", while his brother-in-law, Captain John Buchanan, is usually referred to as "John Buchanan,
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Augusta County magistrate, Augusta County Sheriff, Justice of the Peace, coroner, surveyor, collector of duty on skins and furs, tax collector and exterminator of wolves
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He moved to Orange (now Augusta) County, Virginia in 1740. Buchanan became an assistant surveyor for James Patton and worked closely with Patton's nephew
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On 18 November 1752, Buchanan qualified as coroner. In 1759 he was appointed collector of duty on skins and furs, and in 1761 Sheriff of Augusta County.
1110:"George Washington Papers, Series 4, General Correspondence: Augusta County, Virginia, War Council, July 27, 1756, Proceedings," US Library of Congress
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Brenda Lynne Payne Rose, "A Brief Biographical Sketch of Colonel James Patton," Colonel James Patton Chapter, NSDAR, Waynesboro, VA, September 5, 2021
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Virginia Transportation Research Council, Virginia Department of Transportation and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, June 1998
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A 1932 historical marker, located on the west side of US 52, just south of I-81, commemorates Buchanan's home at the Anchor and Hope Plantation.
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On 17 June 1749, John Buchanan married Margaret Patton, daughter of Colonel James Patton. They built a log cabin on the bank above Reed Creek in
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On 24 September 1741, he bought 784 acres in Beverley Manor adjoining James Patton, Patrick Campbell and land already in his possession from
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Colonial Series, vol. 3, 16 April 1756–9 November 1756, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984, pp. 430–435.
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Colonial Series, vol. 3, 16 April 1756–9 November 1756, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984, pp. 312–323.
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On 28 November 1750, he bought 416 1/2 acres on Nutt Creek from William Nutt and renamed it "Mill Creek." He operated a mill on the site.
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J. J. Prats, Anchor and Hope Plantation historical marker, west side of US 52, south of I-81. Historical Marker database, June 12, 2011
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1205:"Proclamation, 10 October 1746." Historical Society of Western Virginia, History Museum of Western Virginia / O. Winston Link Museum
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A historical marker commemorating Looney's Ferry, Buchanan's Cherry Tree Bottom home and Fort Fauquier, is located on Main Street (
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Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800,
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Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800.
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Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800.
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In May 1745, John Buchanan and his future father-in-law James Patton conducted a survey for "a Road from the County line of
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Hannah Austin, "Research show Looney's Ferry site along the James has a long history; a Colonial one that dates to 1740s,"
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King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of King's Mountain, October 7th, 1780, and the Events which Led to it
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if it was revealed that he was unlicensed. Thomas Lewis wrote to William Preston in a letter dated 7 August 1781:
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in Pennsylvania, under the command of an Iroquois chief named Jonnhaty, to participate in a campaign against the
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On 22 January 1767, Buchanan purchased six slaves at a cost of £337.10 total, as a gift for his daughter Mary.
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Ryan S. Mays, "Adam Harman, the New River, and Tom's Creek: An Analysis of the Earliest Documentary Records,"
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was killed in 1755. Buchanan had replaced Patton in several key roles by the time of his own death in 1769.
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The Official Records of Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1751-1758.
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Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest, The Roanoke of Colonial Days 1740-1783,
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Nathaniel Mason Pawlett, Ann Brush Miller, Kenneth Madison Clark, and Thomas Llewellyn Samuel,
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A Seed-bed of the Republic: A Study of the Pioneers in the Upper (Southern) Valley of Virginia,
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Kathy Walker, "Looney's Ferry" historical marker, Historical Marker Database, December 24, 2019
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magistrate for the Augusta district from 3 November 1741 to 10 October 1745, at which time the
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Vol I, Augusta County Court Records, order Book No. 1. Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999
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and are frequently confused. Captain Buchanan married Colonel Buchanan's sister Martha.
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Alexander Canaday McLeod, "A Man for All Regions: Dr. Thomas Walker of Castle Hill."
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The Smithfield Review, Studies in the history of the region west of the Blue Ridge,
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represented the Holston Settlement and recommended that stockade forts be built at
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Vol I, Augusta County Court Records, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1912
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Rice, Otis K., "The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia Beginnings, 1730–1830."
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Richard Osborn, "William Preston: Origins of a Backcountry Political Career,"
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Orange County, Virginia Deed Book 10, Virginia Land Office, Richmond, Virginia
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William D. Bennett, "Early Settlement Along the New River (NC and VA) Basin,"
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Vol. II. Robert Alonzo Brock, ed. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1884.
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Anna Buchanan (b. 1765), married Ephraim Drake, brother of Joseph Drake.
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Ryan S. Mays, "The Draper's Meadows Settlement (1746-1756) Part II,"
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Margaret "Peggy" Buchanan (1755 - 1827), married Joseph Drake, 1773.
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Allaire, Anthony; Draper, Lyman Copeland; Shelby, Isaac (1881).
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Surveyors and Statesmen: Land Measuring in Colonial Virginia.
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History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia: 1748-1920.
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and John Preston, emigrated from the north of Ireland, near
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James Buchanan (b. about 1752 - d. before 1816), living in
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Children: Mary, James, John, Margaret, Jane, William, Anna
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Patent Book 20, Virginia Land Office, Richmond, Virginia
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Executive journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia,
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Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871.
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Ryan S. Mays, "New Maritime Records of James Patton,"
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William Buchanan (b. after 1760), killed in Kentucky.
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John Buchanan (b. about 1754 - 1777), killed at the
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1340:Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society,
611:Winchester to Staunton and later down to Roanoke
1220:New River Symposium 1984, National Park Service
1033:The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
972:vol IV, 1735-1745, Theo. Fenn, Harrisburg, 1851
711:Buchanan died between June and August 1769, in
689:Jane Buchanan (b. about 1759 - 1812), married
605:." They began laying out the road through the
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1081:"Sandy Creek Expedition,"
1018:James Patton Letters, 1742
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203:Augusta County, Virginia
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1342:April 1931, pp. 77-178
856:R. A. Brock, ed.
613:and what would become
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430:Governor William Gooch
400:Buchanan served as an
361:Sandy Creek Expedition
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554:over his holdings in
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428:In 1746, by order of
319:Battle of Galudoghson
255:The Richmond Standard
251:Robert William Hughes
170:Battle of Galudoghson
128:Years of service
1624:American magistrates
627:Knoxville, Tennessee
619:Great Indian Warpath
424:Religious activities
271:Alexandria, Virginia
249:, wrote a letter to
228:Birth and early life
207:Colonel James Patton
55:, Colony of Virginia
1599:History of Virginia
1066:Dinwiddie, Robert.
637:Marriage and family
522:from William Curry.
440:Woods River Company
1609:Irish slave owners
1594:Colony of Virginia
1589:American surveyors
1399:Smithfield Review,
1386:Vol 2, No. 2, 2007
1262:Smithfield Review,
1190:Wilmer Hall, ed.,
813:Paul C. Buchanan,
738:Buchanan, Virginia
681:Battle of Saratoga
651:Cherry Tree Bottom
484:Colony of Virginia
453:John Peter Salling
189:(died 1769) was a
122:Colony of Virginia
1614:American coroners
1551:Chalkley, Lyman.
1495:Fincastle Herald,
1175:Chalkley, Lyman.
1051:Chalkley, Lyman.
983:Draper, Lyman C.
625:" which ran from
607:Shenandoah Valley
528:Dr. Thomas Walker
365:Lower Shawneetown
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166:Battles/wars
1584:1769 deaths
745:US Route 11
655:James River
603:Woods River
510:Woods River
396:Legal roles
350:James River
279:Cameron Run
275:Belle Haven
267:Londonderry
1578:Categories
754:References
691:John Floyd
615:Blacksburg
599:Frederick
410:John Lewis
327:Shikellamy
305:and seven
263:John Lewis
118:Allegiance
536:Kingsport
502:Richlands
446:New River
218:New River
131:1742-1769
101:Relatives
93:Parent(s)
64:1741-1769
36:, Ireland
722:"Whilst
676:in 1799.
659:Buchanan
582:quitrent
572:Mr Trigg
479:for £24.
311:Shamokin
303:Onondaga
220:and the
172:(1742),
986:Battle.
645:, near
532:Holston
315:Catawba
161:militia
467:under
434:Vestry
214:yeoman
176:(1756)
85:Spouse
1005:1990.
707:Death
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144:Unit
136:Rank
45:1769
42:Died
29:Born
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