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Subject: [VAFREDER] Re: John Bruice (b. 7 SEP 1690), Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Date: 20 Feb 2003 13:30:52 -0700
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PARRELL
Hugh Parrell (b. 1705 c.) received a patent from the Colony of Virginia for 466 acres on 12 November 1735; this tract was surveyed for him by Robert Brooke on 28 October 1734. 106 (Tract 65, Map 7) This land is located in close proximity to the north side of Redbud Run (a branch of Opequon Creek). Frederick County Highway 661 and 662 join on the west section at the head of Lick Run.
Hugh was deceased by 5 October 1748 when his will (written 14 September 1748) was proved in Frederick County Court. He willed 200 acres to son Edward Parrell and 133 acres each to sons Joseph and John Parrell. He bequeathed 300 acres on the southwest side of Redbud Creek (Run) Lo John Bruce (Kinsman). In his will, Hugh mentioned his daughter Christian and appointed his wife Ann, son Edward and cousin Robert Calvert as executors. Guardians were appointed for his minor children Joseph, John and Christian; Edward was the only child of legal age. 107
Joseph and his wife Anne Parrell and John and his wife Elizabeth Parrell sold 24 acres (of the 466-acre tract) to Robert Rutherford for 65 pounds on 13 September 1765; Edward was deceased by then. On 2 and 5 October 1765, Joseph and John divided the remaining 442 acres between them. Joseph received 219+ acres and John received 222+ acres.108
Joseph (b. 1735 c.) was deceased by 6 May 1815 when his will (written 12 January 1814) was proved in Frederick County Court. He listed children: Hugh, John, Joseph, Mary, Sarah Sexton, Ann, Elizabeth Grimes, Rebecah Cooper and Ruth Hodge. To his son Hugh, he willed the 219+-acre plantation "on which I now live, provided he and my 3 daughters, who now live with me, Mary Parrell, Sarah Sexton and Ann Parrell, live together."109
John Parrell (b. 1740 c.) was living in Hampshire County, West Virginia by 22 May 1765 when he bought 413 acres on Dillons Run (a branch of Cacapon River), south of Capon Bridge, West Virginia from Isaac and wife Mary Foster. John was deceased by 19 August 1811 when his will (written 8 May 1809) was proved in Hampshire County Court. His will listed wife Elizabeth and five children: Edward, William, Ann Beals, Jane Crumpton (deceased, granddaughter Jane C.) and Joseph.110
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105 Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 9, p. 220.
106 Virginia Land Patent Book 16, p.400; Brooke, Robert, Book of Surveys, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.
107 Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 1, pp. 195, 200, 208, 209.
108 Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 11, pp. 4, 36, 41.
109Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 9, p. 340.
110 Sage & Jones, Early Records of Hampshire County, Virginia (West Virginia), pp. 19, 128.
BRUCE
Hugh Parrell willed 300 acres to John Bruce in 1748; Parrell engaged James Wood to survey this land (recorded at the time as 402 acres) on 10 March 1735/36. James and George Bruce, sons of John Bruce, comissioned another survey on 26 April 1753. 111 Out of the 402-acre survey, George Bruce received 315 acres (Tract 16713, Map 7) and James Bruce received 310 acres (Tract 167A, Map 7) from Lord Fairfax on 12 and 14 April 1760. 112 George's 315 acres is on Ash Hollow Run, with part of Shenandoah Hills on the south leg of the land and Fairfax Road (Virginia Highway 7) and County Highway 656 on the southeast section of the tract. James' 310 acres is on the south side of Redbud Run served by Frederick County Highway 656, north from Virginia Highway 7 on the southeast part of the tract.
John Bruce was in Orange County, Virginia by 24 July 1740 when he was appointed to make an inventory of the estate of Michael Sheppard, deceased; Hugh Parrell, Robert Calvert and William Glover were delegated also and any three of them were required to form the audit comission.113 John was deceased by 1 November 1748 when his will (written 4 November 1747) was proved in Frederick County Court. He willed 150 acres ("the plantation I now live on") to his wife Ann and son George. His will mentioned daughters Margaret Carter (wife of Richard) and William (son-in-law) and Mary Albin.114
John Bruce (son of Thomas Bruce/Bruice) was christened in the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) on 7 September 1690. In Aberdeen, Scotland, three of John's children were also christened: James on 20 May 1720, George on 27 April 1722 and Margaret on S March 1727. 115
George and his wife Rachel Littler Bruce sold the 315-acre grant land to Robert Rutherford for 150 pounds on 4 April 1761. On 1 June 1761, George purchased 255 acres from his mother-in-law Mary Littler for 200 pounds; 116 this land was part of a 420-acre tract situated on both sides of Evan Thomas Run. 117
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111Cognets, English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records, p.
118; Joyner, Northern Neck Warrants and Surveys, Frederick County, Virginia, Vol. II, p. 21.
112 Gray's Northern Neck Grants, K-103, K-104.
113 Orange County, Virginia Court Book 2, p. 210.
114 Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 1, p. 205.
115 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, microfilm of Parrish Records of the Church of Scotland.
116 Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 6, pp. 220. 365.
117 Gray, Northern Neck Grants, 11-126 (3 April 1756).
By 1740, John Bruce and Mary Littler were operating grist mills, sawmills and carding and fulling mills on this land. 118 The 255-acre tract is located on Turkey Run - a branch of Opequon Creek (headwaters Evan Thomas/Branson/Spring).
The south corner of the 250 acres is present-day Brucetown. Frederick County Highway 667 (Braddocks Road/Great Road from Winchester, Virginia to Shepherdstown, West Virginia) and Highway 672 cross the south and east section of this tract.
George Bruce (b. 1722 c.) was deceased by 30 June 1800 when his will (written 25 January 1797) was proved in Frederick County Court. He willed the dwelling house and other houses with a one-acre lot to his wife Rachel Bruce, "for her natural life." He bequeathed the section of the plantation northwest of the Great Road (Highway 667), with grist mill and all buildings, to his son George. He willed the remainder of the plantation on the southeast side of the road, Nith grist mill, sawmills and other improvements (including present-day Brucetown), to his son James. The will stipulated that James, who was downstream, was prohibited from raising the water level to the disadvantage of his brother George. James was also to receive land adjacent to and on the south side of the Monongahela River. George was instructed to pay his mother Rachel Bruce one-third of the mill and plantation profits and James was to pay her 10 pounds annually for the use of the sawmill. George willed fiv!
e shillings each to daughters Sarah Walker and Leah Hanry. After the death of Rachel Bruce's daughter Rebeckah Chenowith was to receive the house and lot. 119
James Bruce (b. 1722 c.) and his wife Margaret sold their 310-acre ~ant land to Robert Rutherford for 275 pounds on 20 March 1763.
MCMACHEN
A William MCMechan and his wife Rebecca sold 159 acres of land on Red Clay Creek to John Baldwin on 15 February 1734. 121
William McMachen (b. 1690 c.) was appointed a Justice of Frederick County, Virginia on 2 October 1743 and took the oath of office at the first Court on 11 November 1743. 122 John Calvert's Orange County, Virginia will (dated 2 October 1738) refers to William as his friend and brother, and names him one of the executors. On 28 June 1739, William signed his name "McMachen" as guarantor for a bond for the executors. 123 William lived on a 1,000-acre tract of land north of Nathaniel Thomas (Tract 55, Map 7). This land is adjacent west of a survey for John Calvert (Tract 169, Map 7) and contiguous south of George Hollingsworth's 620 acres. (Tract 2, Map 5) The U.S. Highway 11 and Virginia Highway 37 interchange is located on the southeast corner of this tract. Frederick County, Virginia Highway 739/Apple Pie Ridge Road runs near-by, along the west side of the 1,000 acres. Redbud Run, a branch of Opequon Creek, extends from the southeast corner to the proximity of the northwest!
corner.
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119 Frederick County, Virginia Will Book 6, p. 508.
120 Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 8, p. 365.
121 New Castle County, Delaware Deed Book K, p. 301.
122 Frederick County, Virginia Court Book 1, p. 1.
123 Orange County, Virginia Will Book 1, pp. 90, 92.
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