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Subject: [VAFREDER] Woodstock, Edinburg area - need help
Date: 20 Jun 2002 18:08:17 -0600

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Surnames: Turney, Beeler, Matheny, Koontz, Teeter, Nicely, Ramsey, Newland, Bird, Hawkins, Miller, Painter, and others in Woodstock Area 1750-1780s.
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I am going to be driving thru the Woodstock, Edinburg area soon and would like to talk to someone who knows the area.....I know it is in Shenandoah County today, but at one time it was Frederick (also Dunmore and Augusta)....

My Turneys registered land in 1753 on N. R. of Shenandoah.....with a Daniel Nuland/Newland (Sr.) as chain carrier. In 1783 Peter Turney Sr has his son Michael living with him, son Daniel next door, also in neighborhood are Matheny. 1785 Head of Household Shenandoah Co Peter Sr is there again with Michael in his house, Oct 1785 Michael Turney married Elender Matheny d/o Daniel Matheny, marriage performed by Rev. Koontz of White House, but other Koontz/Countz living near Turneys.....Daniel Newland Jr is near (Sr had died that year).....

I know White House is in Page Co today.....but figure with Koontz/Countz living near the Turneys on Shenandoah they knew Rev. Koontz.

Putting this together, I think they were between Woodstock and Edinburg, Painters must have lived near them.
Henry Turney s/o Peter Sr got land 1769 or so near a Barger and I suspect it was on Stony Creek....Eve Turney Teeter and her husband had land about then on Stony Creek. Also Beeler/Beelor/Buehler - John Valentine who maybe married Mary Turney - on Stony Creek. Now that would be closer to Edinburg, but how close? I understand that a Painter's creek flows into Stony Creek? Where might that be located?

I know I will not find exactly where the Turneys lived, but would like some land marks, directions, whatever so I know when I am in the area.

By Feb 1774 several of these families or their children were in Fincastle/Washington Co VA the area around Abingdon Va and Bristol Tn.....Henry and Peter Turney, two Newlands, some of the Beelers, John Teeter.....etc. They seem to be mostly on German Creek of north Holston River. Just thought I would throw that out.....nothing to do with Woodstock or Edinburg - except Sevier was there, and he had married a Hawkins as first wife and lived a short time in Woodstock....and on one of Peter Turney SR deeds it says he lived next to Abraham Bird plantation on Shenandoah......and when he and son Daniel Turney sold their VA land in 1787, they sold to Abraham Bird and a Hawkins who I have been told was Bird's son-in-law.....

Anyway, anyone who knows the area please contact me.

Thank you

Mary

P.S. (Others nearby families: Miller, Nicely/Knisely, Peters....seems it started as a settlement of German speaking people, the Turneys were from Switzerland. Peter Sr had been a linen weaver in Europe, and I have found the Germans around Woodstock in 1750s were growing flax.)

I have also looked the time French and Indian War, and Pontiac's War cause of a reference in a book that a Henry Turney was captured by Indians and released to Col Bouquet at Fort Pitt.....I am still working on that, but have found that the area around Woodstock, there was at least one raid in that area on the Painter group. A Josiah Ramsey of Augusta Co was also released, he was a neighbor of Henry Turney in Washington Co vA and later in Roaring River of Jackson Co TN, hawkins Co TN......so I have worked on that.

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