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Edmondsons in Virginia, by county, Hampshire to Westmoreland

By S W Edmondson January 19, 2010 at 08:16:40

Isle of Wight today is bounded on the north by Surry, on the northeast by the James River (Warwick on the northern bank), Nansemond on the southeast.

April 20, 1689.Richard Smith transported four persons, including Ann Edmondson, for which he patented 200 acres in Lower Norfolk County.

April 29, 1692.Bridgeman Joyner was granted 600 acres in Isle of Wight County for importation of 12 persons, including John Edmondson, Bridgeman Joyner, Elizabeth Jones, Jno. Edmond, Thomas Wright, William Walker, Phillip Rafford, Mary Wilkinson, Jno Edwards, Owen Ellis, Derick Stone, Black Moll, by Francis Nicholson, Esq., their Majesties Lieut. Governor. The land was described as beginning at a marked pine near Kingsale Swamp,James. Brians corner tree, along by the said Briant Line of marked trees, to a small hickory by the run of the Maine black water Swamp, down the said swamp to the mouth of Kingsale Swamp then up the swamp to the first station.(Virginia Land Patent Book 8, p. 222.Text provided by Beverly Brunelle).

Court Orders of Isle of Wight County Virginia, Oct. 1693-May 1695.No Edmondsons.

April 3, 1696.Humphrey Marshall of the Wight commissioners obliges himself to pay John Edmundson when he is 21 furniture and 2000 pounds tobacco. The same obligation was made to William Edmondson. Witnesses were Thomas Hill and John Giles.(This was probably an indenture agreement .Isle of Wight Deeds, 1647-1719. Provided by Louise Edmonston, Senoia, Georgia, EFAB, No. 74).

October 15, 1698.Patent for 300 acres of land to John Gyles by Sir Edmund Andros, Knight, Governor. Scituate between Kingsale swamp and the main blackwater in the Isle Wight County the said Land being formerly granted to Bridgeman Joyner by patent dated 16th day of Aprill 1683 and by him deserted and since granted unto the said John Giles by order of the Genelle Court dated 23rd day of Apll 1698 and further due by and for the transportation of Toe persons into this Colony Mr. Jno. Giles his pat for 300 acres of Land in Isle of Wight County. Ed. Jennings deputy secretary. Beginning at a Pine Hodges Counciie Corner tree thence N15E310P to a pine then West 160 P to a small hickory in Thomas Mans head Line and so parallel to the first Line 310 P by Thomas Mans aforesaid to two white Oake and then by Councill East 160 P to the first station.(Virginia Land Patent Book 9, p. 180.Copy provided by Beverly Brunelle).

1704/05.Rent Roll, Isle of Wight County.
Hodges Counciie
Hardy Councie
Jno. Councie
Bridgeman Joyner
Thado. Joyner
Thomas Joyner
(No Edmondsons are shown in Isle of Wight in this Rent Roll).

Aug. 2, 1724.Hodges Councill the Younger, and wife Katherine Councill of the lower parish of Isle of Wight Co to William Edmondson of the upper parish of Nansemond County….120 acres in the lower parish on Blackwater River adjoining Richard Watters being part of a patent granted Hodges Councill the Elder on 20 April 1682 and who willed it to his grandson, the said Hodges Council the Younger on 9 Aug 1699.Wit: Stephen Darden, William (X) Goling, Hodges Councill, James Holland. Recorded 18 Sep 1724.Catherine (X)Councill.(Isle of Wight Deeds, Wills---Great Book, Vol. 2, 1715-1726, p. 663).
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Marriages of Isle of Wight 1628-1800 includes no Edmondsons.

(Compiler’s note: John and William Edmondson are good candidates as the ancestor of Dr. Thomas Edmundson and some of the other settlers in the Halifax/Edgecombe areas of North Carolina in the mid-1700’s).

KING AND QUEEN COUNTY, Virginia.
Taken from New Kent in 1691.King William was taken from itin 1701 as was part of Spotsylvania in 1720.In turn, part of Caroline was taken from King William and part from the upper part of Essex in 1727.King and Queen bordered Essex.

Vestry Book of Stratton Major Parish, 1729-1783, showed no Edmondsons.

KING AND QUEEN COUNTY VIRGINIA, by Bagby, gives information on the Boulware’s Edmondsons mentioned.
April 30, 1782. William Meredith and Judith Edmondson of King and Queen were married. See: THE PARISH REGISTER OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH, MIDDLESEX COUNTY, VA, 1653-1812.National Society of Colonial Dames, 1897.

1810 Tax List.
Catherine Edmundson, 5 slaves.

1830 Census.
Ambrose J. Edmondson

KING WILLIAM COUNTY, Virginia.
Taken from King and Queen in 1701 which was taken from New Kent which was from original York County.

Gregorys lived in King William. Several graves are at Elsing Green Plantation.

An account of the Teackle family in KING WILLIAM COUNTY HOMES AND FAMILES, by Peyton Clark:
Thomas Teackle of Craddock, who was born Nov. 11, 1711, married Elizabeth Custis, daughter of John Custis of the Eastern Shore. Their son, Severn Teackle, married Lucretia Edmondson. Severn was a Revolutionary War hero.

July 4, 1771.From KING WILLIAM COUNTY VIRGINIA FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS, by E. Ryland, p. 45:

To be sold at King William Courthouse on Monday the 12th of August next, being Court Day, under a deed of Trust from Mr. William Hamlin, lately deceased, one moiety, or half part, of 1000 acres of Land, with a Forge and a Water Grist Mill, lying in King and Queen County, which said lands were drawn as a prize in Col. Bernard Moore’s lottery by the said Hamlin and Philip Parr Edmundson, gents. Signed by Thomas Bland and John Ruffin, Jr.

LANCASTERCOUNTY. An original county from which Rappahannock ,Essex, Richmond, Middlesex and other counties were formed .In 1653-54, it included all the territory on both sides of the Rappahannock from its mouth as far west as settlement extended.
In 1760, it was confined to land north of the Rappahannock near the Chesapeake Bay, bounded on the north by Northumberland (1648), and on the west by Richmond (1692).Westmoreland (1653) , King George (1724), Stafford (1664), Prince William (1731), Fairfax (1742), Loudon (1757) and Fauquier (1759) all lay north of the Rappahannock in the original territory of Lancaster, all east of the Blue Ridge.

Christ Church Parish lay in Lancaster.

The first tax levy in Lancaster was made in 1653.The second levy, Feb. 6, 1654, showed:
John Gregory, 3 tithable Edmondson is listed.(See VIRGINIA TAX Records. 236-264).
Dec. 3, 1725. Christ Church Parish. John Gregory married Jane Kidd.

March 23, 1726.Death of James Edmondson. Christ Church Parish Deaths,1653-1812.Burial: March 24, 1726.
Feb. 2, 1731. Christ Church Parish. Christian Gregory m. James Edmundson. However, Suzanne Derieux’s research shows James Edmondson, Jr. married Christian Gregory in Middlesex County, May 23, 1726.
After James Edmundson’s early death, his widow married John Gresham. See Essex County.

LOUDOUN COUNTY,VIRGINIA
The Treaty of Albany in 1722 moved the Indians west of the Blue Ridge, opening this area to settlement. Loudon was a part of original Lancaster County.
Loudoun was formed from Fairfax County in 1757, primarily from Truro Parish. It was named for John Campbell, the fourth Earl of Loudoun (Scotland).Lower Loudoun was part of the Fairfax Proprietary and much of its land was bought by large Tidewater landowners. Most of the Loudoun Valley went to immigrants from Pennsylvania who had small grants. Quakers settled Waterford, Hillsboro, Goose Creek (now called Lincoln) and Unison. Their stone buildings were a strong feature. Germans in the north end of Loudoun Valley built wood structures.The Scots-Irish were another contingent in this section. These small settlers did not hold slaves.

Leesburg is the county seat, dating from 1758.
By 1775, Loudon had the largest militia of any county in Virginia and in 1790 the largest population of any Virginia county.Pres. James Monroe drafted the Monroe Doctrine at his home at Oak Hill.

1770.       John Edmundson of Loudon County received land in Frederick County, adjoining Joseph Gibson. Proved Nov. 23, 1771.He was probably from the Edmundson of Chester County, Pennsylvania, at London Grove.

MARRIAGESOF LOUDONCOUNTY VIRGINIA,1757-1853, by Mary Alice Wentz, shows no Edmondsons.
INDEX TO TITHABLES OF LOUDON COUNTY VIRGINIA, 1758-1786,by Margaret Hopkins, shows no Edmondsons.

LOUISA COUNTY, Virginia.
A History of Louisa County Virginia by M. Harris mentions no Edmondsons.

Jan. 27, 1755. Deed Book B, p. 87. Robert Jones and Mary his wife of Essex County, carpenter, sold to Benjamin Edmondson of Essex County, planter, for 15 pounds, 185 acres on branches of Contrary and North East Creek being the land sd Jones bought of John Cumpton of deed of lease and release 2 June 1742, adjoining John Tomson, Estes, Roaches, Ambrose, Joshua Smith. Signed by Robert Jones and Mary Jones with their x marks and witnessed by Joseph Edmondson, Henry Kidd, Benja Paul.
Benjamin Edmondson is believed to be a son of Benjamin Edmondson and Margaret Upton Finney Edmondson and grandson of Thomas Edmondson the immigrant who died in 1715.Brother of Upton Edmondson who moved to Amelia County and Thomas Edmondson who moved in 1756 from Essex County to Lunenburg County.
Benjamin Edmondson married Sarah ____, possibly Sarah Underwood. They had:
1. Robert Edmondson who died about 1777, leaving property to his mother and siblings. Will probated August 18, 1777.Essex County Wills and Administrations. Accounts recorded Dec. 19, 1785. Wills No. 13, 1775-1785. Nov. 18, 1785. A division of the estate of Robert Edmondson was made to six legatees: Susanna Edmondson, Sarah Edmondson, Peggy Rowzee, Philip Edmondson, William Edmondson and Milly Edmondson who married Scott Noell. Susanna had died, her part to be split between the others. Division made by William Rowzee, Wm. Gray, Sr., Thomas Collins and Hancock Lee. Essex County Will Book 13, pp. 527-528. (From Tom Moore).

2.William Edmondson
3.Philip Edmondson (possibly Philip Edmondson who married Susan Jennings in Mercer County, Kentucky, March 7, 1795)
4. Susannah Edmondson, died before Nov. 18, 1785).
5. Milly Edmondson who married Scott Noell.
6. Margaret “Peggy” Edmondson who married William Rowzee.

1784.William Edmondson is cited in Legal Notices, Virginia Gazette, Richmond, for taxes owed at Louisa Court House on 200 acres, advertised by Sheriff Thomas Johnson for sale to satisfy tax due.

LUNENBURGCOUNTY, Virginia.
Formed from Brunswick County in 1746.Old Lunenberg embraced the area of present Lunenberg, Mecklenburg, Halifax, Charlotte, Pittsylvania, Bedford, Franklin, Patrick and Henry countess. James Parish of Lunenburg became Mecklenburg County in 1765.The South Meherrin River became the dividing line between Lunenburg and Mecklenburg. Charlotte County was formed in 1765 from the western portion of Lunenburg.

Landon C. Bell in THE OLD FREE STATE, Richmond, 1927, on the history of Lunenberg and Southside Virginia, says:
“The Edmondsons of Lunenberg a retraced from Thomas Edmondson of Rappahannock County. The children of Thomas Edmondson and his son Benjamin (who married Margaret Upton Finney and died in 1727) of Essex County are given. Benjamin’s son Upton moved to Amelia County where his will, dated May 25, 1771, was proved October 24, 1771.In his will he names his wife Mary and children:
1.       Benjamin Edmondson
2.       Constance Edmondson, wife of Edgecomb Suggett (her homestead in Mecklenburg County).
3.       Mary Edmondson (married to a Robertson) and her daughter Constance Robertson.

Capt. C.T. Allen, who made some notes upon the Edmondson Family of Lunenberg, states that the first member of the family he located in Lunenberg was Upton A. Edmondson; where he came from or who his ancestors were he did not learn. There is some lack of absolute certainty about the matter, but there is in Lunenberg County a marriage bond for the marriage of Benjamin Edmondson and Martha Tomlinson, dated May 12, 1791.This was probably Benjamin Edmondson, son of Upton Edmondson of Amelia County, and Upton A. Edmondson was most likely his son. He was the first of the name very prominently identified with the affairs of Lunenberg County.

Upton A. Edmondson represented the county in the legislature from 1846 to 1849.He married Frances Bagley August 14, 1817.She was the daughter of Anderson Bagley. They had:
1.       Upton Edmondson, Jr., a soldier of the War with Mexico, 1846-47, who died unmarried.
2.       Caroline Edmondson, who married (second wife) Aaron J.J. Brown of Nottaway County. They later moved to Lunenberg County near Kenbridge.
The old Edmondson home was near Fletcher’s Chapel Church. “
(Actually, Benjamin who married Martha Tomlinson was a son of Benjamin Edmundson and Mary Dunn Edmundson and grandson of Upton Edmundson of Amelia. SWE).

Chronological Record

Hugh Lawson, “Gent.”, took the tithable in 1748 for the area which is present Lunenburg County. The list included Roger Lawson but no Edmondsons. The 1747 list is missing entirely. All the tithes for1748, 1749, and 1750 have survived. Partial lists are available for 1751, 1752, 1764, 1769, 1772, 1773, 1775, 1776 and 1783.

Lewis Delaney’s list for 1748, for the area which later became Mecklenburg County, included no Edmondsons.

Tithable were a poll tax list and included all freemen above 16, all imported white male servants of any age, all imported negroes male and female of any age, all Indian servants of both sexes above 16.

May 1, 1755.Will Book 2, p. 3.Will of Thomas Edmundson of Lunenburg. Proved August 5, 1760.“In the name of God Amen. I Thomas Edmundson being sick and weak in body, but in perfect Sane mind and Memory, Thanks be to God for the same do make this my last Will and Testament in the same as follows. I give unto my loving wife Grisel Edmundson during her natural life my now dwelling Plantation with all my personal estate she making no waste thereof and at the decease of my wife I give unto my youngest son Benjamin Edmundson the said Plantation containing 100 acres. Item.I leave all the rest of my lands to be equally Divided between my other sons as they shall come of age. Item. And as for my personal Estate at the decease of my wife I leave it to be equally divided between my daughters, and I do constitute and appoint my wife and Randall Bracey my whole and sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament, Revoking all former Wills by me made as Witness my hand this the twenty first day of May One Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty. Signed Thomas Edmundson. Witnesses: Peter Parrish, Bryant Cradle, Thomas T. Addams, their marks.(Text provided by Mrs. Louise Edmonston, Senoia, Georgia)
Grissell Coleman was daughter of Thomas Coleman and Mary Lort Coleman. She was born about 1710, probably in Essex County, and died after 1760.Thomas Edmondson was brother of Upton Edmondson of Amelia County, both born in Essex County.

Feb. 15, 1756. Essex County. Drury Dobyns of St. David’s Parish, King William County, bought land on Dragon’s Swamp from Thomas Edmondson Jr. and Grizzel his wife in South Farnham Parish. Dobyns appears to have moved to this property as he drew his will in Essex County in 1759.

Nov. 24, 1756. Deed Book 4, p. 348. Upton Edmondson and Mary his wife of Nottoway Parish, Amelia County, deeded to Thomas Edmondson of Cumberland Parish, Lunenberg County, for 37 pounds 3 shillings 6 pence, 380 acres adjoining Brodnax, Lett and Ryland, part of a patent of 765 acres, 15 Dec. 1755.Witnesses: John Durham, Richard Edmondson.Signed by Upton Edmondson and Mary Edmondson. Recorded Dec. 7, 1756.(EARLY SETTLERS OF MECKLENBURG, Vol. II, p. 20).This land fell in Mecklenburg when it was formed in 1765.

Sept. 17, 1759.The return of Processioning ordered by the Vestry of Cumberland Parish reported that Thomas Edmundson gave no attendance, p. 504.( He died soon after this)He lived in Precinct 6.

August 5, 1760.At the Court held for Lunenburg the fifth day of August 1760.The within written last will and Testament of Thomas Edmundson deceased was attested in Court by Randall Brassey the Executor therein named and the same was proved by the oaths of two of the witnesses thereto Subscribed and Ordered to be Recorded on the Motion of the said Executor who made Oath according to Law. Certificate granted him for obtaining a Probate of the said Will in due form (he giving security) whereupon he together with Thomas Adams his security entered into and Acknowledged there Bond according to Law, for the said Executors due and Faithfull Execution of the said Will. Reserving Liberty to Grisell Edmundson the Executrix in the said Will appointed to join in Probate then if she thinks fit.
Tet Clem Read

Sept. 3, 1760.Will Book 2, p. 103.Inventory and Appraisal, Thomas Edmundson, deceased 1760.Inventory and appraisal of the estate of Thomas Edmundson, deceased, was made Sept. 1, 1760, by Isaac Holmes, John Hern and Peter Parrish. Value: 44 pounds, 8 shillings, 7 ½ pence. Returned to the Court by Randall Bracey, Executor, and recorded Sept. 3, 1760. (EARLY WILLS, Lunenburg County Virginia by Katherine Elliott).

The list of tithable taken by Edmund Taylor in 1764, St. James Parish, included: Richard Edmondson, 1 tithe, 150 acres.
Thomas Edmunds,1 tithe.
The list of tithable taken by Thomas Tabb for Cumberland Parish, 1764, included no Edmondson’s.

Jan. 15, 1762. Lunenburg County Deed Book 7, p. 190.(Thomas Edmondson lived in that part of Lunenburg County which became Mecklenburg in 1765). William Edmondson, St. James Parish, Lunenburg County, to Robert Cunningham, 102 acres on Miles Creek adjoining Upton Edmondson, Richard Edmondson, Col. Robert Ruffin and Samuel Edmondson, orphan of Thomas, part of a tract of 207 acres willed to Richard, William, Samuel and Benjamin, sons of Thomas Edmondson, divided 14 May, 1761.(From Beverly Brunelle).

Sept. 19, 1766. Samuel Edmundson & Richard Coleman Edmundson of Mecklenburg County deeded to Abram Mitchell of Orange County for 50 pounds…..152 acres on the north side of Miles Creek, part of a tract taken up by Upton Edmundson, adjacent to Robert Ruffin, Richard Coleman Edmundson and Benjamin Edmundson. Witnesses: Henry & Elizabeth Brown, Margaret x Edmondson. Signed by Samuel Edmundson and Richard C. Edmundson. Recorded 13 April, 1767.Deed Book 1, p. 371.Elizabeth, wife of Richard Coleman Edmundson, personally appeared in court and released her dower rights.

Feb. 10, 1773.William Edmondson was born in Lunenburg. William had at least four children: Harris, William, Martha and Jane Bonner. The son, William, was born Feb. 22, 1800, in Lunenburg. He had: Thomas, William Henry, and Robert. He died Oct. 3, 1876, probably in Tennessee. (Letter of Diana Isaacson, Aurora, Colorado, EFAB No. 61).
(Whose son was this William? SWE)

Feb. 10, 1780.Cumberland Parish, Lunenberg County, 1746-1718, p. 554.Vestry held at the Courthouse. Processionals included: Sterling Niblett and William Niblett; William Buford and Benjamin Gee; Christopher Robertson and John Hightower; William Chambers and Benjamin Edmondson.
The Report of Processionals, p. 557, noted that George Hightower was a neighbor of Benjamin Edmondson, as was Wm. Chambers, as in Benjamin Edmondson’s report.

Aug. 12, 1781.Benjamin Edmundson was among a large number to petition for the exchange of the Rev. James Craig who was on parole by Col. Tarleton. His name was high on the list of signers.(CUMBERLAND PARISH, LUNENBERG COUNTY VIRGINIA, 1746-1716, p. 106)

1782-87.       Virginia Taxpayers, by Fothergill and Naugle, 1940.
Benjamin Edmundson, 1 poll, 10 slaves.

A list of taxable property taken by Joseph Winn, March 15, 1783, included:Benjamin Edmondson, 4 tithes.10 whites.11 blacks.
(See SUNLIGHT ON THE SOUTHSIDE,by Landon C. Bell).

January 8, 1784.Cumberland Parish, Lunenberg County, 1746-1816.
p. 450.Vestry Order No. 24.John Cross and Edward Chambers to procession all land between Great Hounds Creek, Reedy Creek old road, and the path as goes from Daniel Winns to the old road, and the great road that goes by Ben Edmondson’s to Crosses bridge and Nottoway River.Report No. 24 by John Cross and Edward Chambers noted the processioning of the lines between George Hightower and Benjamin Edmondson in the presence of the same.

March 22, 1787.Marriage Bond of Constance Edmondson and Capt. Christopher Robertson. Surety: William Taylor.

June 8, 1781.Marriage bond of James Cole and Mary Clarke. Surety: Benjamin Edmundson.
March 22, 1787.Christopher Robertson and Constant Edmundson. Surety: William Taylor. Marriage Bond. (Robertson was a Captain in the Revolutionary forces in Lunenberg, his commission dated March 13, 1777.He was a member of the county court from 1781-1797 and was Sheriff from 1800-1802.CUMBERLAND PARISH LUNENBERG COUNTYVIRGINIA, 1746-1816, p. 282. This Constant Edmundson was the daughter of Benjamin and Mary Dunn Edmundson and niece of Constant Edmundson who married another Christopher Robertson. )

1787.       Virginia Land Tax, Lunenberg County.
John Edmundson was taxed for 228 acres ( “from R. Hight”?)
1788.       John Edmundson was taxed for 228 acres.
1789.       John Edmundson was taxed for 228 acres.
1790.       John Edmundson was taxed for 228 acres. This continues through 1794, then skips to 1807.
1807. John Edmundson was taxed for 222 acres.
1809.John Edmundson was taxed for 222 acres.
1810.John Edmundson was taxed for 222 acres.
(This man could not be the son of Benjamin and Mary Dunn Edmundson as he was still a minor in 1800.He appears to be the John Edmondson who died about 1812, below. SWE)
1811.Thomas Edmundson was taxed for 222 ½ “from John Edmundson”
1812. Thomas Edmundson was taxed for 222 ½ , Crooked Run Creek.
1813.Land not listed.

The 228 acres was on Stony Creek near the Brunswick County line, not on Crooked Creek where the Benjamin Edmundson family lived.
This tract became the property of William Edmondson at auction. Deed Book 29, Sept. 15, 1829.Recorded Dec. 14, 1829. (Evans abstracts).Thomas Adams and Sterling Neblett jr. commissioners, estate of Frederick Watkins Edmondson, $342.27 at auction, 228 acres.

Sept. 8, 1790. Coleman Edmundson and Frances Bowers. Surety: Sanford Bowers. Marriage Bond. THE OLD FREE STATE, p. 389.

May 12,1791.Benjamin Edmundson and Mary Tomlinson. Surety: Benjamin Orgain. Marriage Bond. VIRGINIA MARRIAGE RECORDS, p. 317.(This Benjamin was a son of Benjamin and Mary Dunn Edmundson).

Feb. 24, 1792.Benjamin Orgain and Susannah Edmundson. Surety: William Neblett. Marriage Bond.(Daughter of Benjamin and Mary Dunn Edmundson).

Nov. 26, 1792.Marriage of Upton Edmondson and Martha Hightower, Brunswick County, Virginia.(Son of Benjamin and Mary Dunn Edmondson).

Oct. 12, 1797.Daniel Robertson and Elizabeth Edmundson. Surety: Christopher Robertson. Marriage Bond. THE OLD FREE STATE.(A Register of Marriages for Bristol Parish kept by the Rev. John Cameron shows the marriage of Daniel Robertson and Betsy Edmundson, Oct. 26, 1797, in Cumberland Parish. The fee was $8.See CUMBERLAND PARISH LUNENBERG COUNTY VIRGINIA 1746-1816, p. 315). (Daughter of Benjamin and Mary Dunn Edmundson).

July 6, 1796.Polly Edmundson and John Blackwell were married in Lunenberg County by minister, John Neblett. MARRIAGES IN VIRGINIA, by Cecil D. McDonald, Jr.Also, Will Book 4, p. 133.
( She was Mary, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Dunn Edmundson).

1796/97.Upton Edmondson was commissioned Ensign of the Militia in Lunenburg by his Excellency, the Governor. Order Book 17, p. 69.

July 12, 1797. Rawleigh Hightower Senr of Brunswick County deeded to his son-in-law Upton Edmundson of Lunenburg County for love and affection several negroes Patience, Rose, Ned, Oney, Zilpah & every other species of Hightower’s property which is now in Upton’s possession. Deed Book 17, p. 489.

1800. Upton Edmundson was guardian of the orphans of Charles Parrish, deceased. Order Book 18, p. 61.

1800.Order Book 18, p. 110. Mary Edmundson, mother of William Edmundson, dec’d, Christopher Robertson and wife Constance, Benjamin Edmundson, Benjamin Orgain and Susannah his wife, John Blackwell and Mary his wife, Daniel Robertson and Betsy his wife, John Edmundson, Nancy Edmundson, Tabitha Edmundson, Thomas Edmundson, Samuel Edmundson, which said John, Nancy, Tabitha, Thomas and Samuel being minors, by Thomas Hamlin their friend against Upton Edmundson, administrator of William Edmundson, dec’d, Defendant, said William being son of Benjamin and died soon after his father.(Upton Edmundson was a son of Benjamin. He was being sued by his mother and siblings. John Edmundson married Sally Snead in 1800. He moved to Missouri. Benjamin Edmundson might have married twice: Keziah Hood, Oct. 17, 1785; Martha Tomlinson, May 12, 1791.)See EFAB No. 58, p. 50.

December, 1800. Upton Edmundson was guardian of the orphans of Benjamin Edmundson. Order Book 18, p. 125.

1805. The Lunenburg County Court shows Constance Robertson, widow of Christopher Robertson, had remarried to Stephen Wood. Order Book 19, p. 221.

1805. John Edmondson was appointed by the court as guardian of Elizabeth Robertson, Peter Robertson, Peromelia Robertson, orphans of Christopher Robertson. Order Book 19, p. 227.

Sept. 10, 1805. Upton Edmundson produced a commission from the Governor appointing him Captain in the Second Battalion in the county militia.Order Book 18, p. 159.

Dec. 10, 1807.Order Book 20, p. 217, Lunenburg County. Warning P. Robertson, guardian of Eliza Robertson, orphan of Christopher Robertson deceased, complainant in chancery, against Peter, Christopher, and Permelia Robertson, infants and orphans of Christopher Robertson deceased by John Robertson especially assigned by the court their guardian to defend them in he suit, defendant. ….it is decreed and ordered that William Ellis, Thomas Ellis, Ellison Ellis, John Knight and David Thompson or any three of them do audit and settle the account current of John Edmundson administrator of the said Christopher Robertson and…to allot and assign to the complainant Eliza Robertson one equal fourth part of the slaves and other personal estate of the said deceased as her absolute right and also that the complainant’s guardian do issue a bond with approved security to the said John Edmundson.
Another court case was brought in 1814 by Elizabeth Robertson against the administrator of Christopher, evidently John Edmundson. No details.

1808.Upton Edmondson was Justice of the County Court of Lunenberg. THE OLD FREE STATE, Vol. I, p. 328.

May __, 1808.James Gunn and Tabitha Edmundson. Ministers Returns. Minister: Thomas Adams.(See Will Book 6, p. 254.Descendant Colleen Morse Elliott of Fort Worth, Texas, stated to EFAB, No. 52, p. 88, that Tabitha Edmundson who married James Gunn was the daughter of James Edmondson who moved to Lunenberg County and lived on the James River? Near Rehoboth, Virginia. Wife not known. Other children: James; John who married an Overton; Emily who married Henry W. Lee. Tabitha Jane Edmondson Gunn died in 1862 in Rehoboth, Virginia. Her daughter Tabitha Jane Gunn married Arian William Foster. It is quite likely that Tabitha is the young daughter of Benjamin and Mary Edmundson listed in several documents prior to this date and not a daughter of James Edmondson.)

1810 Tax List.
Benjamin Edmundson, 1 slave.
Thomas Edmundson, 8 slaves.
Upton Edmundson, 26 slaves.

1810 Census.
Upton Edmundson0 1 0 1 02 2 0 1 026 slaves
Benjamin Edmondson2 m under 10.2 m under 16.1 m 26-45. 2 f under 10. 2 females 16-26.1 f 26-45.

Thomas Blackwell replaced Upton Edmondson as Captain in the 1st Battalion, 73rd Regiment, when Edmondson resigned. THE OLD FREE STATE, Vol. I, p. 281.

Oct. 24, 1811. Lunenburg County. Upton Edmondson & wife Patsey deeded to Wilfred Maddox of Lunenburg for 235 pounds, 17 shillings, 6 pence157 ¼ acres on the road to Jones Bridge, adjoining John Gatewood, James Jones, Edward Jordan, James Hammack, mill road, Thos Edmondson, Wilfred Maddox. Witnesses: Joseph Goodwin, Coleman Christopher, Upton Edmondson, Jr .Deed Book 22, p. 156.

Jan. 9, 1812.Upton Edmundson died before this date in Lunenburg County as his widow Martha Edmundson was granted letters of administration on the estate of Upton Edmundson. She gave bond and security according to law. Order Book 21, p. 46.

Jan. 24, 1812. Will Book 7, p. 34. Inventory and appraisal of the estate of Upton Edmondson decd in Lunenburg included 21 negroes.

Jan. 29, 1812. Will Book 7, p. 37. Account of the sale of the estate of Upton Edmondson decd in Brunswick County. Purchasers & those who hired Negroes: Wm. W. Harper (rented plantation), Leroy Tucker, Joseph Wills, Edward Pegram, Tandy Wallace, Wm Fisher, Thos Edmondson, Jason Stone, Richd Pryer, James Fisher, John Harwell, Edward Pegram, Richd Coleman, Sterling Biggs, Richd Trotter, Richd Edmund, Jesse Kennedy, John Snead, Richd Biggs, Wm Buckner, John Fisher, Alexander Walker, Thos D. Fisher, James Quarles Junr, Joseph M. Harper, Patsey Edmondson. Admx: Patsy Edmondson.

Feb. 3, 1812. Will Book 7, p. 36.Account of the Sale of the estate of Upton Edmondson decd in Lunenburg. Purchasers & those who hired negroes: Patsey Edmondson (rented plantation), Jennings Roberts, Peter Jefferson, Lewis Lambert, Wm. Lambert, Thos Jordan, Joseph Bohannon, John Laffoon, Banister Thomas, Wilfred Maddox, Reuben Rogers, James Pritchett, Abraham Buford, James Gunn, Thos Jordan, Joshua Pritchett, Daniel Reese, Benjamin Moore, Edward Jordan, Jr., Freeman Jordan Jr., Washington Maddox, Edmund Winn, Wm. Rash, Moses Collier, Turner Hamlett, Robt. Parrish Sr, Braxton R. Eckles, Thos. Edmondson, David Smith, Robt Waller, James Hinton, Hennings Justice, Josiah Nolley, Robt Pattillo, Asa Barnes.

1812. Order Book 21, p. 135. Lunenburg County. John Blackwell, administrator DeBonis non of Upton Edmundson deceased, who was guardian of Robert Parrish, orphan of Charles Parrish decd against Matthew Hubbard surviving obligor (Henry Collier the other obligor being dead), Defendant.

August 15, 1812. Order Book 21, p. 143. Upton Edmundson & Constant Edmundson orphans of Upton Edmundson make choice of Thomas Hamlin for their Guardian and the said Hamlin is appointed guardian of Patsey, Betsey and Tabitha Edmundson whereupon he gave bond…

August 19, 1812. Will Book 7, p. 38. Account of the estate, Jan. 30-August 12, 1812, Upton Edmondson decd with Patsey Edmondson, admx: among items listed—pair of shoes bought for Constant of a peddler; 3 hair combs bought for Patsey, Betsey & Tabitha of a peddler…. sundry account paid to John Blackwell, administrator.

Sept. 10, 1812. Deed. John Edmondson, deceased, to Frederick Watkins.(Was this deed to Frederick Watkins Edmondson?)

August 25, 1813. Deed Book 23, p. 126, Lunenburg County. Thos Edmundson & wife Martha to Wilfred Maddux, all of Lunenburg, $1100 for 222 ½ acres adjoining said Maddux, Lambert’s Millpond, estate of Upton Edmundson dec’d, Mrs. Widow Blackwell. Signed by Thomas Edmondson and by Martha Edmundson, she using an x.

Dec. 29, 1814.Michael Walker and Mary Edmundson. Surety: Benjamin Edmundson. Marriage Bond. They were married Dec. 30, 1814, by return of the minister, Charles Ogburn.(Daughter of Benjamin and Martha Edmondson).

Feb. 22, 1816.William Lambert and Constant Edmundson. Marriage bond. Ministers Returns show their marriage the same date.

August 14, 1817.Upton Edmondson and Frances Bagley. Surety: Anderson Bagley. Marriage Bond. THE OLD FREE STATE, p. 389.

1820 Census. Heads of families.
Benjamin Edmondson.1 m 10-16.1 m 16-26. 1 m over 45. 2 f10-16. 1 f 26-45.1 f over 45.
John Edmundson
Martha Edmundson

1821. Lunenburg County. Case of Martha Hubbard, plaintiff, against the administrator of Upton Edmundson.
Nov. 12, 1821.Daniel H. Robertson and Martha Edmondson. Surety: Edward Lee. Marriage bond. THE OLD FREE STATE. Ministers Returns show marriage the same day by Thomas Adams.
July 31, 1826.Sterling Lambert and Tabitha Edmondson. Surety: W.E. Robertson. Marriage bond. THE OLD FREE STATE.

Oct. 15, 1828. Power of attorney. Deed Book 28, p. 197. I Benjamin Edmundson of the county of Lunenburg and state of Virginia do make constitute & appoint Wm. Edmondson my true & lawful attorney for me in my name to receive the interest in the estate of my son Benjamin T. Edmondson dec’d in the county of Oglethorpe & state of Georgia with power also and attorney or attorneys under him for that purpose to make and substitute and to do all lawful acts requisite effecting the premises. ….. Signed: Ben Edmondson. Witnesses: William Parrott, Lawson Elder.

Sept. 14, 1829. Deed Book 28, pp. 404-405. Benjamin Edmondson, sent., Michael J. Walker, Susan Edmondson, William Edmondson, Harriss Edmondson, John Edmondson & Jane Edmondson, all of Lunenburg County, appoint William L. Wilson their attorney in the estate of Benjamin T. Edmondson jr. dec’d in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Signed: Benjamin Edmondson, Michael J. Walker, Susan Edmondson, Wm. Edmondson, Harris Edmondson, Jane B. Edmondson. Witnesses: Frs. Roberts, Lawson Elder.

Nov. 21, 1829. Deed Book 29, p. 26. Recorded Jan. 14, 1830. John Wilson and wife Mary of Brunswick County to Thomas Morgan of Lunenberg Count, $312.50 , 250 acres, lower Lunenberg (means east Lunenberg) on Stony Creek, adjoining William Edmondson, John Manson & others. Land rented to Nelson W. Gee until 25 Dec. next, but Morgan at liberty to carry property and work on plantation from day if Gee had no objection free of rent.

1830 Census.
William Edmundson.1 male 30-40.1 female under 5. a female 15-20. 9 slaves. 1 free colored male 24-30.(From Jo Lee Spears, Oct. 2002).

Dec. 7, 1833. Deed Book 30, p. 70A-71. Recorded Feb. 10, 1834. William Edmundson & wife Mary Ann R. to John R. Manson, all of Lunenberg, $300, 228 acres, lower end of Lunenberg County on Stony Creek, adjoining lands of late Thomas Morgan on north side, Manson on W, John C. Freeman at present overpaid by Edward R. Freeman on S (that’s what it says), on E by ….(from Jo Lee Gregory Spears, 2002).

March 23, 1835. William C. Penn and Tabitha Hardy. Surety: Harris Edmundson. Marriage Bond. THE OLD FREE STATE, P. 389.

June 11, 1838.James R. Dupree and Lucinda H. Edmundson. Surety: Daniel W. Parsons. Marriage bond. THE OLD FREE STATE.

1840 Census.
Upton Edmondson.1 male 20-30.1 male 40-50. 1 female 10-15. 1 female 40-50.
No other Edmondsons in Lunenburg.

Aug. 28, 1844.John R. Bayne and Ann B. Keeton. Surety: Upton A. Edmundson. Marriage bond. THE OLD FREE STATE.

Oct. 28, 1848.Aaron J. J. Brown and Caroline A.E. Edmundson. Surety: Reps Connally. Marriage bond. THE OLD FREE STATE.
Their daughter Rebecca J. Brown was born in 1847 in Lunenburg County and married Edmund Legion Webb, June 25, 1865, born at Liberty Hall Farm, Lunenburg County.

1850 Census.
Upton Edmondson, b. in VA about 1796. Frances Edmondson, b. in Virginia about 1799.

1870 Census.
Upton Edmundson, 85, retired farmer, b. in Virginia. Fannie Edmundson, 82, keeps house, b. in Virginia. Fannie Brown, 18. Upton Brown, 16. Connie Brown, 14. All b. in VA. Sarah Bagley, 1, mulatto, domestic servant, b. in Virginia.
A court case in 1871 in Lunenburg gives Upton Edmondson as plaintiff and Mary Frances Brown as defendant.

(Other Lunenberg marriages mentioned in EFAB, No. 83,which need documentation.)
Bette Edmondson and Robert Jackson, Marriage Record Book 12.
Bettie Edmondson and Lemon Seby. Marriage Record Book 126.
B. Edmondson and Henry Jones. Marriage Record Book, p. 50.
Ella Edmondson and Robert Stewart. Marriage Record Book, p. 46.
John Edmondson and Lucretia Inge. Marriage Record Book, p. 20. dEc
Lucy Edmondson and _______Patterson. Marriage Record Book, p. 75.
Martha W. Edmondson and Thomas Gregory (Will Book 9, p. 480)
M. Edmondson and M. Walker (Will Book 10, p. 182). This would be Mary Edmondson and Michael Walker. See above.
(Will Book 4, p. 133).

Marriages in Lunenberg County listed in EFAB, No. 103, p. 45.
July 6, 1776. John Blackwell married Polly Edmondson. Marriage Returns of the Rev. John Neblett.
Oct. 17, 1785.Benjamin Edmundson married Keziah Hood.
Oct. 6, 1792.John Edmondson, son of Coleman, married Judith Clay.
Oct. 14, 1793.Rachel Edmondson married William Phillips. Samuel Edmondson was bondsman. (She was a daughter of Samuel and Martha Edmondson who moved to Halifax County)
Dec. 16, 1793.Banister Edmondson married Janey Davis. (Brother of Rachel).
Aug. 12, 1794.Martha Edmondson married Joseph Anderson. (Sister of Rachel).
July 6, 1796.Polly Edmunson married John Blackwell. They had 6 children. Mary died in 1835. (See 1776, above).
August 8, 1796. Thomas Edmondson married Milley Arnold.
(An obituary in THE ARKANSIAN newspaper, Oct. 28, 1859, stated Thomas Edmondson, subject of the obit., was born in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Oct. 10, 1769. His uncle, aged father and older brother served in the Revolutionary War. Thomas died in Murray County, Georgia at the residence of his son James W. Edmondson at Spring Place, having lived in Arkansas a few years before moving back to be with his son. James W. Edmondson was born Jan. 4, 1798, in Virginia, which would fit the marriage date of Thomas who married Milley Arnold. Info. from Nancy Wood).

Dec. 16, 1796. Ann Edmondson married George B. Hamner. Ann was a sister of Banister Edmondson. (Sister of Rachel and Banister).
Jan. 13, 1800. Jane Edmundson married Thomas Wall.
Jan. 29, 1803.Robert Spilsby Edmondson married Nancy Singleton. Patsy Singleton was Nancy’s mother.
Oct. 15, 1810.Elizabeth Edmonson married John Budd.
Aug. 16, 1815.Richard Edmondson married Angelina Ogburn.
Dec. 17, 1825. James Edmondson married Mary Jarrott.
March 2, 1830.Angelina Edmondson married Wilshire Simmons. She was widow of Richard Edmondson.
Dec. 23, 1833.Jane Edmundson married William Tuck.

Nancy Jones married Samuel Edmundson. Her parents were Robert Jones, son of Rep Jones, and Christiana Blackwell Jones. Date needed.
They moved to Tennessee.

Emma B. Hayes married William Edmundson of Mecklenburg County. They had four children.

Ministers Returns, Lunenburg County:
August, 1817.Upton Edmundson and Frances Bagley were married.

The Martha Tomlinson who married Benjamin Edmondson in 1791, was probably Patty Tomlinson, daughter of Benjamin Tomlinson who was Vestryman from 1782-1780, and reached the rank of colonel in the Revolution (CUMBERLAND PARISH LUNENBERG COUNTY VIRGINIA, 1746-1816, p.295).

Upton A. Edmundson, probably a son of Upton Edmundson, and grandson of Benjamin Edmundson and Mary Dunn Edmundson, and great- grandson of Upton Edmundson of Amelia County, represented Lunenburg in the Legislature from 1846-1849.He married Frances Bagley, daughter of Anderson Bagley. They had:
1.       Upton Edmundson, a soldier in the War with Mexico, 1846-47,who died unmarried.
2.       Caroline Edmundson who married Aaron J.J. Brown (his second wife) of Nottaway County. They moved to Lunenburg and lived not far from the town of Kenbridge. They had: Upton E. Brown who married Alice Williams of Lunenburg County. Constance Brown who married Edward Gills of Lunenburg County and lived at the old Edmundson home near Fletcher’s Chapel Church.

1830 Census.
John Edmundson
Upton Edmundson
William Edmundson

1850 Census.
p. 34. Upton Edmundson, 54. Frances, 57.Both born in VA.

1864. J.B. Edmondson was a soldier in a company serving from Lunenberg County under Col. Beale. THE OLD FREE STATE, Vol. I.

William Edmundson (1773-)
Is this the William Edmundson who lived on Stony Creek in east Lunenburg near Brunswick?

He had at least four children:
1.       William Edmundson, b. Feb. 22, 1800, in Virginia.
2.       Jane Bonner Edmundson, born in 1807.Married Hartwell Reekes, Nov. 24, 1834, in Lunenberg County. She died in the 1870’s in Cheatham County, TN.
3.       Harris (or Harrison) Edmundson. Probably the man who was surety for the marriage of William C. Penn to Tabitha Hardy, March 23, 1835, in Lunenberg County.
4.       Martha Jane Edmundson who married a Richmond.
5.       Possibly a daughter who married a Yarbrough.
6.       Possibly Mary Elizabeth Edmundson who married a Richardson.

William Edmundson, son of William,was born in 1800 and died Oct. 3, 1876. He had at least three children:
1.       Thomas Edmundson
2.       William Henry Edmundson, b. March 21, 1836, in Virginia. Married Mary Josephine Foster and died Jan. 5, 1905.Had twelve children. He moved to Tennessee where his son Robert Upton Edmundson was born April 15, 1879, in Montgomery County. Robert Upton Edmundson married Mary Edna Caldwell. He died Nov. 6, 1950, had five surviving children one of whom was Ruth Hawthorn Edmondson, b. in 1912.
3.       Robert Edmundson.

(Information in letters from Mrs. Frank Gordon, Clawson, Michigan, and Audrey Hiltz of Detroit, Michigan, printed in EFAB, No. 58.)

MECKLENBURG COUNTY. Formed from St. James Parish, Lunenburg, in 1765.Boydton is county seat today.

Jan. 16, 1765. A deed in Lunenburg County records is for land which fell into Mecklenburg when it was formed. Deed Book 10, p. 97. William Edmondson deeded to Richard Coleman Edmondson of Lunenburg all that land that shall descend to him by dec’d father’s will, it being part of the land that his dec’d father lived on, on branches of Miles Creek, 101.25 acres. Signed: William Edmondson.

October 10, 1765.Benjamin, Thomas and Margaret Edmondson are shown as orphans of Thomas Edmonson, Senr., deceased. Guardians Book, 1765-1800.

Oct. 14, 1765.Guardians Book, 1765-1800.Benjamin Edmonson and Margaret Edmonson are under the guardianship of Thomas Edmonson.
(EARLY SETTLERS OF MECKLENBURG, Vol. II, p. 162).
Oct. 14, 1765. Deed Book 1, p. 192. Samuel Edmonson, planter, sold to Richard Coleman Edmonson, for 10 pounds 5 shillings sterling, land acreage not stated, on Miles Creek, adjoining Robert Ruffin. Witnesses: Owen Carter, John Cox. Signed by Saml. Edmonson. Recorded Oct. 14, 1765. (EARLY SETTLERS OF MECKLENBURG, Vol. II, p. 101).

June 9, 1766. Deed Book 1, p. 205. Upton Edmundson is cited as a neighbor of Amos Hix who was deeding land to John Tabb. Other neighbors: William Holmes, Robert Ruffin, Samuel Holmes. On Miles Creek.(EARLY SETTLERS OF MECKLENBURG, Vol. II, p. 102).

Sept. 19, 1766. Deed Book 1, p. 371. Samuel Edmundson, et alia. Samuel Edmundson and Richard Coleman Edmundson of Mecklenburg County to Abram Mitchell of Orange County for 50 pounds 152 acres on the north side of Miles Creek, part of a tract taken up by Upton Edmundson, adjoining Robert Ruffin, Richard Coleman Edmundson and Benjamin Edmundson. Witnesses: Henry Brown, Elizabeth (x) Brown; Margaret (x) Edmondson. Signed by Samuel Edmondson and Richard C. Edmundson. Recorded April 13, 1767.Elizabeth, wife of Richard Coleman Edmundson, personally appeared in court and released her dower rights, March 9, 1777.Deed Book 5, p. 215.(EARLY SETTLERS OF MECKLENBURG, Vol. II, p. 117).

March 9, 1777. Deed Book 5, p.215.Joshua Moss of Mecklenburg County deeded to Samuel Edmundson of Mecklenburg for 30 pounds 30 acres adjoing Roberts Spring Brance, Little Creek, Thomas Durham Madkins & Edmundson.

Oct. 27, 1777. Deed Book 5, p. 185. Benjamin Edmonson of Mecklenburg County leased to Richard Lewis of Mecklenburg 100 acres, apparently with no improvements, for 7 years, the first two years free providing Lewis would construct a dwelling and other buildings specified. Witnessed by Roger Gregory, James Simmons, Catey Brown, Richard Edmondson, Ann Simmons. This was located on the north side of Crab Tree Branch. He sold this land April 8, 1779, to Samuel Simmons. The land adjoined Samuel Simmons, Mr. Mary Tabb, Mr. Suggitt, Robinson, Pistole, Mecklin and Mason’s line. Witnessed by Richard Edmondson, Samuel Edmondson, Thomas Burnett. (Richard and Samuel were his first cousins, sons of Thomas and Grissell Edmundson)

Richard Coleman Edmondson was a son of Thomas Edmondson and Grissell Coleman Edmondson of Essex County, who moved to Lunenburg County about 1756.He was said by some to have married three times. However, record of his service in the Revolutionary War says he was married to Elizabeth Brown about 1762-64by whom he had: Richard Coleman Edmondson, Jr.; Robert Spilsby Edmondson. Elizabeth Brown was born about 1742 in King and Queen County. Their son Richard Coleman Edmondson Jr. married Frances Bowers, Sept. 8, 1790, and secondly, Elizabeth Featherstone, May 18, 1812, (pronounced Fairston).
Robert Spilsby Edmondson was born May 1, 1780, and married Nancy Singleton, Jan. 29, 1803.They moved to Tishimingo County, MI.
Richard Coleman Edmondson, Sr., died in Mecklenburg in 1810.

A list of colonial soldiers included Samuel Edmondson in Mecklenburg County. He might have served in the regiment of Col. William Byrd.(EARLY SETTLERS OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY VIRGINIA, Vol. I, by Katherine B. Elliott, p. 184).He provided 1.175 cwt of beef. Order Book 5, p. 125.

Sept. 20, 1779. Deed Book 6, p. 19. Samuel Edmundson was a bounding land owner of a 250 acre tract Josiah Tanner sold to Frances Hester where Tanner lived.

1782.Tax Lists.
Benjamin Edmundson, p. 33.1 white.
Richard Edmundson, p. 32. 7 whites, 2 blacks.
Samuel Edmundson, p. 32.8 whites, 4 blacks.
Oct. 17, 1785.Benjamin Edmundson married Keziah Hood, according to one record, in Mecklenburg County.

August 8, 1788. Grant of 13 acres on the north side of Allen’s Creek beginning at Stephen Mallett Senior’s line to Samuel Edmundson. See Land Office Grants, No. 18, 1788-1789, p. 292, Virginia Land Office.

Mecklenburg County Census of 1790.
Richard Edmondson
Samuel Edmundson
Benjamin Edmundson

September 8, 1790. Marriage Records, p. 11, # 246.Coleman Edmondson married Frances Bowers. (This would be Richard Coleman Edmondson, Jr.)They would divorce a few years later due to his infidelity.He then married Elizabeth Featherstone with whom he already had several children whom he legitimized.

Nov. 5, 1791. Deed Book 8, p. 146. John and Rachel Roberts for good will and affection to Samuel Edmondson. Livestock and personal property. Witnesses: Banister Edmondson, Nancy Edmondson, Thomas Edmondson. Recorded July 9, 1792.A deed in Deed Book 8, p. 458, reverses this gift. This deed was witnessed by Banister Edmondson and Jane Edmondson and recorded Sept. 8, 1794.This suggests a family relationship but why was the deed reversed?

1800 Property Tax List.
Benjamin Edmondson, 1;Coleman Edmondson, 1: Richard Edmondson, 2, with son Spilsby; Thomas Edmondson, 1. (EARLY SETTLERS OF MECKLENBURG, Vol. II, pp. 177, 187).

Taxpayers, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, 1810.
Benjamin Edmundson and son Frederick.2 men and 2 horses. March 6, p. M-8.
Sterling Edmundson. One man and one woman in household.
Spilsby Edmundson. One white man.1 horse. Nov. 14.
Charles Edmonson. One man. 14 slaves. No women shown.
John Edmundson.6 slaves. 2 horses. No man shown. (Another source says 13 slaves and 7 horses). Was this the man who had land in Lunenburg County who died about 1812.
Richard C. Edmundson. Two white men. 7 slaves. 7 horses. March 29.
Coleman Edmundson. One white man.1 horse.
(From: A SUPPLEMENT TO THE CENSUS OF 1810 OF VIRGINIA. For counties for which the census is missing. Netti-Schreiner-Yantis, Library of Congress Cat. # 70-165302, 1971).

Sterling Edmondson married Rebecca Taylor in Knox County, TN, July 27, 1816.Was he the man above? Said to be the son of Benjamin Edmondson of Mecklenburg County, VA, and Blount County, TN.

Oct. 20, 1817. Deed Book 17, p. 91.Richard Coleman Edmondson to Richard H. Edmondson, County of Mecklenburg, State of Virginia, in consideration of natural love and affection which he bears his son, Richard H. Edmondson, and in consideration of $1.00, a tract of land on the headwaters of Miles Creek, which said Richard C. Edmondson purchase of???Cradle, unto the said Richard H. Edmondson, 90 acres….etc. “Signed: Richard Edmondson (Richard Coleman Edmondson) (A researcher for Mrs. Stella Edmondson Richards reported the above, saying the Edmondson property was near the border of Mecklenburg and Lunenburg counties. He called attention to two Elizabeth Edmondsons in the records, one being the second wife of Richard Coleman Edmondson, Jr., and one his mother, the elder Elizabeth Edmondson, who was Elizabeth Brown, daughter of Henry).

1820 Census.
Elizabeth Edmondson, p. 162.
FrancesC. Edmondson, p. 155.
Richard H. Edmondson, p. 155, farmer. (Died in 1828)

1830 Census.
Wesley F. Edmonson
Benjamine Edmundson

Nov. 24, 1834.Jane Bonner Edmondson married Hartwell Reekes in Mecklenburg County. She was born in Virginia in 1807, the daughter of William Edmondson (born Feb. 10, 1773.
Hartwell and Jane Edmondson Reekes moved to Clarkesville, Montgomery County, TN. Jane’s brothers were: Harrison (Harris) and William, born Feb. 22, 1800, in Lunenburg County. Her sister Mary Elizabeth Edmondson married ______Robertson. Her brother William died Oct. 3, 1876, probably in TN. He had: Thomas, William Henry and Robert.

William Hart (Henry?) Edmondson of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, moved in 1837 to DeKalb County, Mississippi, and in 1838 to Jasper County. He married Melinda Street there in 1840.See Mississippi for their descendants in Clark County, in 1860.

Jan. 7, 1837. Wesley Featherstone Edmondson married Elizabeth Smith Simmons, daughter of Samuel Simmons and Elizabeth Edmondson Simmons. His wife was born Nov. 27, 1802, in Virginia and died Sept. 13, 1882.

Dec. 18, 1838.Charles R. Edmondson married Ann E. Arnold. Gill Family Bible.(Another note says the marriage bond was dated Dec. 9, 1839. Bond by Harwell Arnold. Is the year copied wrong?)

Gill Family Bible owned by Nell Edmondson Jones. .
C.R. Edmondson married Dec. 18, 1838, Ann E. Arnold.
Children: Angeline V.F. Edmondson, b. Jan. 6, 1840.
Martha Edmondson, b. Nov. 20, 1842.
Joseph Edmondson, b. Oct. 27, 1843.
Charles R. Edmondson, b. Dec. 18, 1845.
Martha V. E. Edmondson, b. August, 1848.
(It appears the first Martha died and another child was given her name, as was done in many other known similar situations).
V.F. Edmondson (Angeline) married L. Moss, Dec. 31, 1860.
Charles R. Edmondson was a son of Richard Coleman Edmondson. Ann E. Arnold was the daughter of Joseph and Martha Arnold and was born Sept. 23, 1821.Ann died Dec. 22, 1891.

1850 Census.
p. 91. John H. Edmondson, 53, overseer. Edy, 49. Amanda, 20. Elizabeth, 16. John, 10. All b. in VA.
p. 111. James Edmondson, 21, b. in VA.
p. 76. James W. Edmondson, 28, merchant. Martha A., 26.Sarah, 5. All b. in VA.
p. 82. Charles R. Edmondson, 32, merchant. Ann F., 30.Victoria, 10. Joseph, 7. Martha, 3.Edwin P., 25, brother of Charles. All b. in VA.
The family lived in Regiment 98.

Charles Richard Edmondson, son of Richard Henry Edmondson and grandson of Richard Coleman Edmondson, Jr., married Ann Arnold, daughter of Joseph and Martha Arnold. She was born Sept. 23, 1821.They had: Angeline Victoria F. Edmondson, Martha Edmondson who died young; Joseph Edmondson; Charles R. Edmondson; Martha V.E. Edmondson, born in 1848.See the Gill Bible, Mecklenburg County.

1860 Census.
C.R. Edmunson, 40, Regiment 98.Ordinary Keeper. Post Office: South Hill and Boydton. Ann Edmunson, 38. Angeline, 19. Joseph, 16.Martha, 12. Courtney, 7.Twelve persons staying at the inn.

1870, 1880, 1900.Samuel Washington Edmondson of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, had a son Richard H. Edmondson, living in Panola County, Texas. This family moved to Tennessee.

1870 Census. Boydton. Joseph H. Edmondson, b. about 1844 in VA. Margaret F. Edmonson, b. about 1848 in VA. Richard H. Edmonson, 1, b. in VA.(Son of Charles Richard Edmondson).

1880 Census, Mecklenburg County.
James W. Edmondson, 28.Emma F., 24.James L., 4.Mattie S., 2.All born in Virginia.

Chas. R. Edmundson, 61, b. in Virginia. Speculator in Tobacco. Parents born in VA. Ann E., wife, 59, b. in VA. Parents b. in VA. Lived at Buckhorn, Mecklenburg County.

Rehoboth Church Cemetery, River Road, Rt. 707, 4 miles from Boydton, Virginia.
Haynie Stokes Edmonson. 2, 1883-Oct. 15, 1946
George Stokes Edmonson Sept. 23, 1922-Jan. 22, 1924

Ogburn Cemetery, South Lawn on Rt. 47, 6 miles west of South Hill:
Emma Frances Hayes, wife of J.W. Edmonson, born Sept. 6, 1856. Died 17 January, 1891.
James Lewis Edmonson, b. Sept. 6, 1875.Died Dec. 2, 1899.

James W. Edmonson married Emma Hayes Dec. 2, 1874, South Lawn, Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
James W. Edmonson married 27 June, 1894Florence W. Hayes. He died June 28, 1921.Florence died March 23, 1919.
Haynie Stokes Edmonson married Oct. 19, 1908, Nell Bugg Jones.
Bettie Ann Edmondson m. Sam McCargo Warren, May 9, 1916.
Mattie Sue Edmonson m. April 27, 1927, J. Aubrey Holmes in Washington, D.C.
Bible owned by Nell Jones Edmonson, Baskerville, Virginia.
(Children of Haynie Stokes Edmonson)
James Watkins Edmonson, b. Dec. 2, 1909.
Sam Jones Edmonson, b. Feb. 21, 1911.
Haynie Hayes Edmonson, b. April 14, 1914.
Dan Hutcheson Edmonson, b. Nov. 12, 1916.
Mary Sue Edmonson, b. May 28, 1920.
George Stokes, b. Sept. 23, 1922.
James Stokes Edmonson, son of Sam Jones Edmonson and Marjorie T. Edmonson, was born June 22, 1940.William Treadway Stokes Edmonson was born Sept. 3, 1944.
Haynie Hayes Edmonson and his wife Annette Shumaker Edmonson had three children: Charles Dan Edmonson, b. Dec. 25, 1946.
George Hayes Edmonson, b. Feb. 2, 1950.
Lynda Bugg Edmonson, b. April 25, 1955.

Revised August 4,2008.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY, Virginia.
Formed in 1673 from old Lancaster County. It lay south of the Rappahannock River and east of Essex County (1692), jutting into Chesapeake Bay). Christ Church, Lancaster County, was formed early. A vestry book from 1663-1767 survived and was read by Bishop William Meade as he compiled his OLD CHURCHES, MINISTERS AND FAMILIES. Two parishes combined in 1666 to form Christ Church. The Rev. Mr. Cole was minister of the two early churches in 1657. Henry Corbin was first secretary of the parish after the union in 1666. The church was built on the model of the Williamsburg church, near Rappahannock and between Brandon and Rosegill, two famous estates. The Rev. Mr. Morris was dismissed, and an appeal was sent to England for a new minister. The Rev. Mr. Shepheard served until his death in 1688.The Rev. Bartholomew Yates was minister for many years, dying in 1734. This eminent man was related to several ministers of the Yates family who served in nearby parishes. His son Bartholomew succeeded him and served until 1767.

James Edmondson dyed March ye 23 and was buried March ye 24 1726.
(The Parish Register of Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia, 1653-1812.National Society of Colonial Dames, 1897.P. 184).
(Who was this James Edmondson?)
May 23, 1726. James Edmondson Jr. & Christian Gregory were married in Christ Church Parish. (Research of Suzanne Derieux, provided to SWE by Lee Edmundson, 2006. This disagrees with another reference which says they were married. 2, 1731.James Edmundson married Christiana Gregory, Christ Church Parish. MARRIAGES IN VIRGINIA, by Cecil D. McDonald, Jr.
(James was of the Essex County family, eldest son of James Edmondson and Judith Alleman Parr Edmondson).

April 12, 1753.William Upshaw Davis of NC wrote to John Lewis, attorney in King and Queen County, mentioning John Edmondson and William Dunn, assignees of Waters Dunn. (Chancery Suits, Court Papers. MIDDLESEX COUNTY VIRGINIA: WILLS AND INVENTORIES, 1673-1812,by W.L. Hopkins).John Edmondson was of the Essex County family.

July 7, 1753.William Upshaw Davis had 449 ¾ acres surveyed in Middlesex, adjoining John Thurston, John Kidd, Henry Johnson, Allden, Meachan, Thomas Kidd, Parson Thacker, Thomas Edmondson, John Bristow and John Thurston, Sr. (Middlesex County Surveys).
(Which Thomas Edmondson? )

Feb. 8, 1779/27 Sep 1779.Will of ___Evans. Wife, Mary Evans. Two daughters, Mary Evans and Sally Evans. Son, Thomas Evans, under 21, to receive the money in the hands of William Edmundson of Essex County. (MIDDLESEX COUNTY VIRGINIA: WILLS AND INVENTORIES, 1673-1812, by W.L. Hopkins).

April 30, 1782.William Meredith and Judith Edmondson of King and Queen County were married in Middlesex County. (Parish Register of Christ Church Parish, p. 208).
Richard Stalker and Elizabeth Emmerson were married April 14, 1784.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Virginia.

1810 Tax List. Henry Edmundson, 4 slaves.
Published in The Family Visitor, Richmond, Virginia:
Nov. 1, 1823.Married in Montgomery County by the Rev. William Harrison, Major Walter D. Blair to Miss Ellen B. Edmundson, daughter of Major Henry Edmundson. (See file for Edmondsons of Southwest Virginia)
1820 Census. Heads of families.
Henry Edmundson

1830 Census: Henry Edmundson

1850 Census.
P. 3. James P. Edmondson, 35, lawyer, b. in VA.
p. 72. Maria Edmondson, 56. William R., 23. David, 22. Mary, 23, twin of William. Sarah, 19. All b. in VA.

NANSEMOND COUNTY, Virginia.
Formed from Upper Norfolk County in 1646.Its territory was part of original Elizabeth City County when it was formed in 1634, one of the original shires in colonial Virginia. In 1636,the part of Elizabeth City County south of the James became Norfolk County. This was again divided in 1637into Upper Norfolk and Lower Norfolk. Upper Norfolk was changed to “Nansimum” in1646 .In 1744, the Virginia Assembly set the boundary between Suffolk Parish (founded in 1737) and the Upper Parish. Nansemond County records were destroyed by fire in 1734, 1779 and 1866.

The Upper Parish included the area of Nansemond south of Brewer Creek on the east side of the Nansemond River and from the Western Branch on the west side of the Nansemond. The town of Suffolk, dating from 1742, was in the Upper Parish, not in Suffolk Parish. The Vestry book of the Upper Parish covers the years 1743 to 1793.Lee Edmundson provided this and other early history of the Upper Parish:
“A list of the Parishes in Virginia”, dated June 30, 1680, showed Mr. John Gregory as minister of the Upper Parish. Vestry records dated Dec. 29, 1744, show: “This day the Vestry met and Whereas Capt. Wm Wright, Capt. Jno Gregory and Mr. Jno Milner Late Vestry men Are by Act of Assembly taken into Suffolk parish…..the Vestry elected their successors”. The association of the Gregorys with the Edmondsons in old Rappahannock County is of record.

1672.William Edmundson, the great Quaker missionary, visited Nansemond.

1704/1705.Rent Roll of Nansemond. No Edmondsons.

August 2, 1724.Isle of Wight Deeds, Great Book, Vol. 2, 1715-1726, p. 663.Hodges Councill, the Younger, and wife Katherine Councill of the lower parish of Isle of Wight County deed to William Edmondson of the upper parish of Nansemond County….129 acres in the lower parish on Blackwater River adjoining Richard Watters being part of a patent granted Hodges Council the Elder on 20 April 1682. and willed it to his grandson the said Hodges Councill the Younger on 9 August 1699.Witnessed by Stephen Darden, William Goling, Hodges Councill, James Holland. Recorded 28 September 1724.(Provided by Beverly Brunelle, March, 2006).

Vestry Book of the Upper Parish, Nansemond County, Virginia, 1743-1793, Virginia State Library, 1981, p. 53 (original minutes).

At vestry meeting held in Suffolk town, Oct. 21, 1751, for the upper parish:
To: Doctor. Thomas Edmonson for keeping Widow Green Nine months at 1000 per year.(Payment was in pounds of tobacco).

The “Widow Green” first appears in Vestry records October 14, 1748.Elizabeth Green had been kept four months, 17 days, by Sarah Johns for which she was paid 383 pounds of tobacco. The record of Oct. 16, 1749, shows Edward Miles being paid 800 pounds “for keeping Elizabeth Green 9 months”. The record of November 5, 1750, shows another payment to Miles for keeping her for 4 ½ months and six months board, 500 pounds. The next entry related to Widow Green pertains to Dr. Edmonson as given above. Neither Widow Green nor Dr. Edmonson is mentioned again in Vestry records. Several other doctors are mentioned for services to various parties’.Dr. Wm Flemming, Dr. Arthur Gourley, Dr. Robert Brown, Dr. Jesse Brown.

Members of the Webb family, long associated with Edmondsons in Essex, are linked to the Upper Parish. The Rev. William Webb was received by the Vestry on the King’s Bounty for Virginia, April 7, 1747.He served as minister for 13 years, resigning as rector in 1760 to become master of the Grammar School of the College of William and Mary. Other Webbs are found in the Vestry Book, James Webb in 1747 and Richard Webb, Dec. 19, 1747,for keeping Richard Rack. Richard Webb was appointed Clerk of the Vestry in May, 1751.

NELSON COUNTY, Virginia
Nelson was formed in 1806 from the northern half of Amherst. Amherst had been taken from the southern half of original Albemarle in 1761.

NEW KENT COUNTY, Virginia
Formed in 1654 from the upper part of old York County (1642).It lay between the Pamunkey and Chickahominy rivers with James City County (1634) on the east and Charles City County (1634) on the south. From it, King William, King and Queen and Hanover were later formed. Hanover County (1721) lay farthest west. King and Queen was taken from New Kent in 1691 and and King William taken from King and Queen in 1701.Part of King William was cut into Caroline in 1725.

Nov. 3, 1688.The Vestry of St. Peter’s Parish, New Kent County, meeting at St. Peter’s Upper Church, agreed to pay to Mr. Gideon Macon as assigned of John Edmondson for work done at ye Low Church. Apt. Gideon Macon was present.(Vestry Book and Register of St. Peter’s Parish, New Kent and James City Counties 1684-1786. P. 17)
Macon was a member of the vestry.

Oct. 26, 1699.John Higginson received 2087 acres in New Kent County for importing 42 persons including Thomas Edmundson. Recorded Oct. 31, 1716.(Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 3, p. 187)

These Edmondsons are possibly related to Thomas Edmondson of Essex but are not his descendants, it would appear. A connection must be proved. What happened to them? Some of the “orphan” Edmondsons in Virginia are likely their descendants, moving into northeastern NC in the early 1700’s.

NORFOLK COUNTY, Virginia
Formed in 1636 from Elizabeth City County. Divided in 1637 into Upper Norfolk and Lower Norfolk. In 1646, Upper Norfolk became Nansemond.
Nov. 21, 1698.John Edmundson and his wife Elizabeth sold land to a Smith. Was this in Norfolk County?
April 20, 1689.John Smith received 200 acres in Lower Norfolk County for importing Ann Edmundson and3 others. Patent Book 6.(From Sally Giddens Davis).

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Marriage Bonds, 1783-1850.No Edmondsons.
Wills and Administrations, 1713-1743.No Edmondsons.
Wills and Administrations, 1750-1770.No Edmondsons.
Wills and Administrations, 1770-1783.No Edmondsons.

NOTTAWAY COUNTY, VIRGINIA
1800.       Deed from John McRae, merchant of Petersburg, to Samuel Morgan. A tract of land in Nottoway, known commonly as “Burnt Ordinary” and also Morganville, formerly known as “Edmundson’s Old Ordinary. Nottaway Deeds Book 2, p. 203.

1907.       The Diary of Judge Watson. He speaks of fox hunting near Daniel Robertson’s old place near the Appomattox River, Nov. 9, 1907. He described another fox hunt at “Mill Quarter”, former home of Hilary Harris and now the property of Edmondson of Pittsburgh. See: Notes on Southside Virginia, Bulletin of Virginia State Library.

ORANGE COUNTY, Virginia

Original Orange included many later counties on the Virginia frontier. It was created in 1734 from the western portion of Spotsylvania County. Counties created from it include Frederick, Augusta, Culpepper, Madison, Greene, Shenandoah, Rockbridge, much of West Virginia and all of Kentucky.

1736.        Taxable: Thomas Edmundson, 5 taxable.
Thomas Edmundson (appears to be a different Thomas)

1738.Tithe List. In the precinct of James Pickett, Constable, Thomas Edmondson, 1, living in Henry Downs’ Quarter, p. 295.
1739.Tithe List. Elijah Daniel, Constable. John McCoy at Thomas Edmondson’s Courter (quarter), 5 tithes.(Virginia Tax Records, p. 294)

1746.       Taxable: Thomas Edmundson, 7 taxable.
Joseph Edmundson, 4 taxable.

Nov. 25, 1747.Sukey Edmondson, daughter of John Edmondson of Essex County, married John Wyatt (Wiatt), gentleman, of Spotsylvania, the first marriage found in the marriage records of Orange County. There was a pre-nuptial agreement between Thomas Wiatt of Essex and Sukey Edmondson.

(MARRIAGES OF ORANGE COUNTY VA, by Knorr, p. 96. Orange County Deeds, Book 11, p. 79, for marriage bond. See also: Virginia Historic Marriage Register, Orange County, 1747-1850,by J. Vogt and T.W. Kethley, Jr.) Sukey’s widowed mother married Gabriel Jones and lived in Orange.

1758. Tithable in John Williams’ Precinct:
Thomas Edmondson, 7
Joseph Edmondson, 4

1764.        Orange County Deed Book 14: A list of Surveys made in Orange County in 1764 included James Edmondson, 1.

March 4, 1774.Orange County Deed Book 16, pp. 260-162. An indenture between Andrew Trible and Sarah, his wife, of Louisa County, and Brumfield Long of Orange County …for 35 pounds…for which they sold 75 acres bounded by Joseph Dunkin, Mr. John Stevens, Edward Stephens. Presence of: Joseph Edmondson, Robert Chandler, Joseph Bell, Thornberry Boling. Recorded Sept. 22, 1774.

1774.       Sukey Edmondson m. Robert Chandler. VIRGINIA MARRIAGE RECORDS, p. 467.Deed Book 17.(Daughter of Martha “Patty” Stevens Edmondson and Joseph ? Edmondson/William ?)

1778.       Allowances of money were ordered to Peter Montague, Jere Chandler and Joseph Edmondson, soldiers in service.(ORANGE IN THE REVOLUTION, HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTYVA, by W.W. Scott, 1904, p. 71).

1785.Patty Edmondson is shown in the Orange County Tax Lists, p. 97,with 6 whites, a dwelling and two other buildings. She was a sister of Gen. Edmund Stevens.(See Washington County, Kentucky, to which she moved by 1790).

Joseph Edmondson of Orange served in the 14th Continental Line Regiment. He came to Orange County in 1788 according to one reference. He would appear to be a son of Joseph Edmondson and Martha Stevens Edmondson.

1790.Patty Edmonson gave consent for the marriage of her daughter Betsy to Joshua Embree in Washington County, KY.

1792.Patty Edmonson is on the Tax List inWashington County, KY, with 2000 acres of land.

May 20, 1802.Patty Edmonson received a gift of 950 acres on Cartwrights Creek, Washington County, Kentucky, from her brother Gen. Edward Stevens and his wife Gilly of Culpeper County, VA.
She made her will Jan. 11, 1802.It was proved in February, 1803, in Washington County, KY.Sons: John, James, Joseph, Robert. Daughters: Polly Chandler, Sally Evanson, Nancy Bland and Betty Embree. Executor was Robert Edmonson.

August 25, 1820.The will of General Edward Stevens (wife Gilly/Grizzell Coleman) of Culpepper County, Virginia, recorded in Washington County, Kentucky, left land to the children and grandchildren of his sister Patty Stevens Edmondson: the children of Joseph Edmondson, deceased; John Edmondson, James Scanland, William Edmondson, Betsey Emery, late Betsy Edmondson, Robert Edmondson “who may not be alive, as I am told he never married and had no children”, the children of Robert Chandler, deceased, Edward Evans and John ? Bland who married Nancy Edmonson.
(If I can interpret this, it seems Joseph, John, and Robert were sons of Patty Stevens Edmonson. Joseph had died at this date, as had probably Robert. A son James in her will would be James Scanland Edmondson. Daughter, Betsy, married Joshua Embree and then Thomas Spencer; another daughter, Susannah, married Robert Chandler, and a third daughter, Nancy , married John? Bland. A fourth daughter Sally, named in Patty’s will, married Edward Evans or Evanson. Patty Stevens husbandis not clear, possibly the older Joseph Edmondson shown in Orange County.

(See Culpepper County, Virginia, and Washington County, KY.)

STEVENS

John Stevens of the Parish of Abingdon, Gloucester County, Virginia, died before1707 in Gloucester County. He married Mary (Mumford?) A deed datedJune 9, 1671, shows he bought 600 acres in the County of Rappahannock on the south side of the Freshes of the Rappahannock River from John Prosser, who also sold land William Daniel, James Lindsay and Thomas Jackson, later of Caroline County. Old Rappahannock Deeds 1677-1682, Antient Press, RK.Dw-09, p. 86.
He and Mary had:
1.       Edward Stevens, b. about1662, possibly the eldest son. He married Martha, probably the daughter of Valentine Lane. He owned land in St. Mary’s Parish, Essex, and later Caroline County. He was buried January 21, 1731/32. See below.
2.       John Stevens who married Ann Griffin, daughter of Thomas Griffin (whose will was made in Essex, April 27, 1720.Will Book 3, pp. 156-157).Her mother was Ann Thomas, daughter of Robert Thomas (his will was dated Jan. 1, 1714, and recorded Jan. 13, 1714).John left no will. His widow Ann Griffin Stevens was granted letters of administration after he died May 17, 1724.She declared to the court “that the said John Stevens departed this life without making any Will so far as she knows”. Anne Stevens, Benjamin Edmundson and Thomas Edmundson made bond for her administration. Essex County Order Book 1723-1725. ( A SUPPLEMENT TO PAMUNKEY NEIGHBORSOF ORANGE COUNTY, Virginia. 25)There might have been one child, Stephen Stephens, who sold 100 acres in South Farnham Parish which land his father John Stevens was in possession of at his decease.(Essex Deed Book 20, p. 16, Feb. 27, 1727/28.
3.       Henry Stevens, b. about 1670, and died before 1727 when his son, Thomas Stevens sold 50 acres in St. Mary’s Parish to Mumford Stevens. Henry’s wife Rebecca died Oct. 7, 1730.In March 1713/14, Robert Thomas, Jun. Of St. Mary’s Parish sold Henry Stephens of Abington Parish, Gloucester County, 500 acres in St. Mary’s Parish. Witnesses were: Geo. Moore, Edward Stevens, June., John Stevens. Sarah Thomas, wife of Robert, relinquished her dower rights.
4.       James Stevens was baptized April 2, 1677.He was living in King & Queen County in 1721.He married (1) Sarah and (2) Mary. He moved to Spotsylvania County by 1735 as he bought 200 acres of land in St. George Parish of that county. (Spotsylvania Deeds C, 1734-1742.)
5.       Charles Stevens was baptized May 8, 1681. He married (1) Mary and before 1717, (2) Sarah. His third wife was Elizabeth. His will was signed in 1726 and probated in 1727 (Spotsylvania Will Book A, 1722-1749, p. 61).His widow, Elizabeth, was Executrix. She married William Bledsoe. Charles’ will gave his land in Essex County to Elizabeth and then to his son Mumford Stevens who had no heirs at the time. He had two daughters Mattie and Elizabeth Stevens. A deed recorded at Essex County Court, July 18, 1727, showed the sale of 50 acres in St. Mary’s Parish, Essex County, for five pounds, by Thomas Stevens of Parish of Abingdon, Gloucester County. This land was part of a patent granted to Robert Thomas. Witnesses: John Griffin, James Stevens and Gabriel Tombs.

Edward Stevens, son of John and Mary Stevens, b. about 1662, had land in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, and in St. Mary’s Parish, Essex County, later Caroline County. In 1718 he sold “All that land I properly hold except 118 acres which I give to my Son, James Stevens, in St. Mary’s Parish in Essex County. “The deed was witnessed by Henry Stevens, Edward Stevens, June., and John Lane. He married Martha (Lane?).They had:
1.       Mary Stevens, baptized April 13, 1684.
2.       John Stevens, b. May 10, 1685. Apparently died young.
3.       Edward Stevens, baptized July 19, 1687,and died in January, 1752. He married Elizabeth. He sold land in Essex to his brother, James Stevens “which was part of the Land that descended to me from my grandfather, John Stevens”. Essex County Deeds, 1724-1728.
4.       Martha Steven, b. March 9, 1689/90 (one source says and another says 1686).She married William Edmundson in Gloucester County. (Researchers have tried to interchange her with Martha Stevens, sister of Gen. Edward Stevens, who died in 1803. This is obviously an error. The other Martha Stevens married an Edmundson, too, his first name not yet known, about two generations later).
5.       James Stevens who died in 1744. Will made March 18, 1744, and probated April 12, 1744.See Caroline County Order Book. The estate was settled May 10, 1751.John Lane sold James Stevens 200 acres in Essex, being part of 600 acres bought of John Prosser by John Stevens, 9th June, 1671. The deed was acknowledged in Essex Court, March 15, 1725/26. (Essex County Deeds and Wills, 1724-1728)He married Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of John Thomas and Katherine Harrison of Essex County.
6.       Rebeccah Stevens, baptized April 3, 1698.
7.       Valentine Stevens, baptized Feb. 18, 1699/1700.
8.       Sarah Stevens, baptized August 31, 1701.
9.       John Stevens, baptized Oct. 17, 1703. Married Feb. 21, 1725/26, to Mary Whiting.

John Stevens (1703-1753)
John Stevens, son of Edward Stevens and Martha Lane Stevens, was born in Virginia and was baptized October 17, 1703.He was a generation younger than his sister Martha who married William Edmundson. John married Mary Whiting, Feb. 21, 1725/26, in St. Paul Parish, Stafford County. He died in 1753, in Caroline County, created from St. Mary’s Parish, Essex, in 1727.His will was presented to the court by Mary Stevens, March 8, 1753.When Mary died in 1771, administration of her estate was granted by the court to Edward Stevens, Nov. 14, 1771, in Caroline County.(PAMUNKEY NEIGHBORS, p. 105).Children of John and Mary Stevens:
1.       Edward Stevens, born in 1744.He married Grisell Coleman, b. about 1746, daughter of Robert Coleman and Sarah Saunders. He died August 17, 1820, in Culpepper County, Virginia, leaving a will. Edward was a general of some note and left considerable estate. His wife Grisell died Dec. 4, 1820, according to PAMUNKEY NEIGHBORS. Their children:
(1)       John Stevens, b. in 1765, and died Feb. 8, 1720. Married
Mary Williams, daughter of William Williams, born in 1755 and died May 11, 1828.No children.
(2)       Edward Stevens, June., b. in 1773, and died March 14,
1795.
(3)       Elizabeth Stevens, died in 1780, age 2 years.
Family graves are in a Culpepper County cemetery. The General left no descendants.
2.       Mary Stevens, who died Jan. 18, 1750, at the house of Edward Ralls.
3.       Martha Stevens, who married __________Edmondson. See documentation of children above. There is no proof at hand to support the contention of some that she married William Edmundson.

April 2, 1782. At a court continued and held for Orange County at the court house on Thurs. the 2nd day of April, 1782, for adjusting claims for property impressed or taken for public service.
John Stevens for 325 # beef granted by Ben Winslow, 9 Sept. 1781 @2 ½
Do Stevens for 250 # do… do Nov. 2, 1781, do.
Do Stevens for 5 barrels corn for the use of Gen. Mecklenburg’s Brigade. Certified by Wm. Edmondson, F M, May 31, 1781.
Sd Stevens for 5 barrels corn for do certified by Edwd Power FM, dated June 9, 1781. (Info fro Rom Winterrowd, 5-5-2008)
(Who was this William Edmundson? Was he a resident of Orange or an official traveling about settling claims?)

POCAHONTAS COUNTY, VIRGINIA (later West Virginia)
1850 Census. James Edmiston, 40. Wife, M.F., 35;daughter E., 7; daughter, M.A, 4, and A.A., 4, twins; Andrew J., 2.M.A. Broch, female, 23, lived with the family. All born in Virginia.

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Virginia
Formed in 1767 from original Brunswick County. Danville is the county seat.

Samuel Edmondson married Mary Johnson, Oct. 15, 1823.Surety: Richard Johnson.(MARRIAGES OF PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA,1806-1830, by Williams).

1880 Census. Danville.
M.H. Tredway, 49, clerk in office, b. in VA. Parents born in VA.
Sallie E. Tredway, wife, 42, b. in VA. Parents b. in VA.
Nannie K. Tredway, daughter 22, b. in VA. Mattie E. Tredway, daughter, 19, b. in VA. Mollie E. Tredway, dau., 16, b. in VA. R. Arthur Tredway, son, 12, b. in VA. Works in tobacco factory. Howell A. Tredway, son, 9, at school. Wm. M. Tredway, son, 7, at school. Moses H. Tredway, son, 6, at school.
Sallie Edmondson married M.H. Treadway in Halifax County in 1856. She was daughter of Richard Edmondson and granddaughter of Samuel Edmondson.

PRINCESS ANNE COUNTY
This county included Lynn Haven Parish. dty

RICHMOND COUNTY, Virginia (the northern section of old Rappahannock County, across the river from Essex)
James Edmondson, Jr .m. Ann McCarty. The Marriage Bond was dated April 19, 1775.Bondsman was Robert Singleton. Ann was a Singleton, a young widow. See: VIRGINIA MARRIAGE RECORDS, p. 543.The McCarty’s were early and prominent in this area.

1820 Census. Heads of families.
Phebe Edmondson

ROANOKE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
1850 Census. Henry Edmundson, 33, attorney. Mariah L., 9.Ellen, 7. Andrew L., 3.Mother-in-law, Mariah Lewis, 52.All born in Virginia. P. 285.

ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA

See early Orange and Augusta counties for the first settlers of later Rockbridge County. Rockbridge was formed about 1777-78.
The territory which later became Rockbridge included Borden’s Grant.
The St. Mary’s River, Woods Branch, the North River, Walker’s Creek, Hays Creek, Moffett’s Creek, Kerr’s Creek, Whistle Creek, Gordon’s Branch, Buffalo Creek, part of the upper James River near present Glasgow and the Natural Bridge, and the southern course of Calf pasture River lay in present Rockbridge. Lexington, Fairfield, Buena Vista and Glasgow are
towns.

Three Edmondson/Edmiston families lived in the territory of present Rockbridge in pioneer days. No relationship has been proven though such might have existed in Ireland.

Matthew Edmiston, b. about 1715, in Donagald, Ireland, m. Margaret Smith. He died at Jennings Creek, Augusta County, in 1796.It appears he lived at that area which was retained in Augusta County, after Rockbridge was separated, though he and his family were early members of the Tinkling Springs church.

John Edmiston settled in 1740 in old Orange County, later Augusta, in the area which would become Rockbridge. He moved from Cecil County, Maryland, bringing his sons William and Samuel with him. William and Samuel enlisted under Col. Byrd for an expedition down the Holston River against the Cherokees. William was made a lieutenant of militia in 1763 and served on the frontier of the Clinch and Sandy rivers. He is thought to have served in the Point Pleasant expedition.1765, he settled in present Washington County, VA. See Washington County.

David Edmondson was born about 1690 in Northern Ireland. His importation papers spelled the name Edmondson married Isabella (Buchanan? Robertson? Turk?), b. about 1695.The Beverly Manor was in Orange County from which Augusta County was created.
At a court held for Orange County on Thursday the 24th day of July 1740. Present: Robert Slaughter, James Pollard, and Henry Field, Gentlemen. John Lewis, Samuel Ball, Morgan, Justices. David Edmiston came into court and made oath that he had imported himself, Isabella, James, John, William, Rachel, David and Moses Edmiston, and also Jesse Gillespie and James Daley of Ireland to Philadelphia and from thence into this colony, at his own charge and that this is the first time of proving his and their rights in order to obtain land.This was certified by the clerk, Paul H. Scott.
There is no evidence in the records that David Edmiston was ever called David Turk Edmondson. The origin of this added name is not known.

David Edmiston, settled in the Beverly Manor where present day Hermitage Presbyterian Church is located, about 9 ½ miles north of Fishersville, VA.This was at one time in Augusta County but in present day Rockbridge. His grant from Beverly was received in 1740, for 350 acres,10 lbs, 10 shillings, Beverly Manor, DB 3-4, p. 41, , Orange County, July, 1740.He was an original member of Tinkling Springs Presbyterian Church (offI-64 near the Fishersville exit).A stone monument at the old church lists his name. David Edmiston signed the first recorded action of this congregation August 14, 1741.It is suspected he was buried there, but no stone or records document this. The Hermitage Church was an offshoot of the Tinkling Springs Church, from members in the area who met in their homes part of the time due to the great distance.

David Edmiston was active in the Indian conflict in 1742.A party of northern Indians on their way south failed to procure a pass from the authorities of Virginia. They came into Borden’s Settlement where they were entertained for a day by Capt. John McDowell. They were given whiskey. Moving down South Branch of North River, they disturbed the whites by foraging, shooting horses, etc. On complaint of the people Capt. McDowell was directed to call out his company and conduct the Indians beyond the settlements. They were taken to John Peter Salling’s, the most southern habitation. Some of the whites were on horse and all passed a lame Indian behind except one, who shot at him. This brought a fight in which Capt. McDowell and seven of his men were killed. The Indians lost seventeen. The men who claimed losses by the Indians were Richard Woods, John Mathews, Henry Kirkham, William Henderson, David Edmondson, Benj. Borden, and Magdalen, admix. Of John McDowell, Francis McCown, John Buchanan and others patrolling, Joseph Lapsley, Mary Dougherty, Andrew Myrtin, Isaac Anderson, Joseph Coulton, John Walker, Dominick Berrall, John Wilson, and other patrolling, James Walker, Thomas Black and others patrolling, all pressed into service by David Edmondson. (Kegley’s VIRGINIA FRONTIER).

Feb. 19, 1745/46: He made oath that the men named in his list were pressed into service by him and served the time mentioned.

Feb. 20, 1745/46.Moses Thompson, late of Augusta County, to James Edmiston, 13 pounds, 17 shillings current money of Virginia, 100 acres, patented 20 Aug 1745 to Moses, east side of south river, Shenandoah, on the Red Banks. Witness: David Edmiston. Recorded 15 Apr 1746 by Edmiston. Chalkley, Vol. III, p. 254.This land was sold to Alexander Henderson, March 17, 1757.

Dec. 10, 1745: William Wright (Right)was appointed Constable in place of David Edmondson in Samuel Hays Company. This is shown under date of 13 May, 1746, in Chalkley, Vol. I, p. 18.

3 September, 1747.David Edmondson and Thomas Stevenson were appointed processions from Alex Blair’s to Capt. Samuel Hays. Augusta County Vestry Book. See Chalkley, Vol. II, p. 433.

March 7, 1747/48.David Edmiston and Stevenson processioned. Also on March 12.See Chalkley, Vol. II, p. 435.
1747.David Edmiston’s land referenced in a deed. Chalkley, Vol III, p. 265.
August 17, 1748. David Edmiston was appointed overseer of a road from Tinkling Springs to Stuart and Christian’s Road. Chalkley, Vol I, p. 36.
Oct. 19, 1748: Robert Fowler and others were allowed to build a house of worship near David Edmondson. Chalkley, Vol. I, p. 37.

Sept. 23, 1749.Deed Book II, p. 421. William Beverly to Samuel McCune, on the line of David Edmondson.

May 24, 1750.Deed Book II, p. 774.Deed to Moses Whiteside mentions a corner on David Edmiston.
It appears from the records that David Edmiston continued to live on his 350 acres about 9 miles from Tinkling Spring Church until his death. Another tract was surveyed for him but no title given before his death. It is likely most of the children of David and Isabella were not of adult age when he died and moved with their mother some miles away to live with their brother James. No guardianship record has been found.

David and Isabella Edmiston had (only James is conclusively proved):
1.       Rachel Edmiston.
2.       James Edmiston, b. before 1724.He was eldest as he inherited his father’s property, there being no will and primogeniture applied. He lived on land south of the Borden Grant in then Augusta County and later Rockbridge. He married Agnes Thompson, daughter of William Thompson.
3.       John Edmiston, b.in Ireland. Howard V. Jones doubts the 1711 date stated by some and says this John is not the man who died in 1771 in Washington County, VA.See EFAB No. 4.There is no evidence he had a middle name of Turk.Dr. Jones thinks he moved to SC in the 1760’s, living near Moses Edmiston and David II’s widow Jane.
4.       William Edmiston, imported in 1740 was probably a son. He, too, might have moved to SC William Edmiston appears there in the 1760’s.Dr. Jones sternly declares (EFAB No. 126) that he is not Captain William Edmiston of Kings Mountain but might be William of Rockbridge County who died about 1783.
5.       Moses Edmiston, imported in 1740.Moved to SC about 1763. He might have moved back to Virginia in 1778, though a Moses is still shown in SC. The Moses Edmiston who turns up in Washington County VA in 1778 lived until 1806 and might be he.Dr. Jones discounts any claim his middle name was Thompson.
6.       David Edmiston, imported in 1740, probably a son. His wife was Jane Miller, living in SC in the 1760’s. She married (2) a Sansom. Their son John Edmiston married a Robinson.
7.       Jean (Jane) Edmiston, on the importation list in 1740.

May 28, 1751.DavidEdmiston, the immigrant, died in Rockbridge County. The bond of Isabella and James Edmondson, executors of David Edmondson, was made on this date. Securities were William McFeeters and Wm Henderson. Chalkley, Vol. III, p. 21.His widow lived with her son James Edmondson and his wife Agnes Thompson at James’ home on the east side of the Maury River. It was deserted but intact in 1996, located south of Buena Vista on Highway 501 opposite the mouth of Buffalo Creek. This house, one story with an over l oft, was made of logs. James operated a tanning business. Thomas “Buffalo” Paxton and his family operated a mill and a boat house at the mouth of Buffalo Creek. Thus it was easy for the Edmondsons and Paxton’s to meet socially.

August 27, 1751.Appraisement of David Edmiston’s estate by William Finley, William Jonston, Samuel McCune. Chalkley, Vol. III, p. 22.The land was sold.

19 Aug 1752.James Edmondson qualified as Captain of a troop of horse (Chalkley, Vol. I, p. 53).There was another James Edmiston in old Augusta County at this time but the reference is probably to James, son of David.

Aug. 20, 1752.Deed Book IV, p. 459.James Edmiston, son and heir and admr. of the estate of David Edmiston, and Isabella Edmiston, relict & heir & admx. to Hugh McClure, 350 acres in Beverly Manor deeded to David Edmiston, 24 July, 1740.May 23, 1755.Agnes Edmondson released her dower in the 350 acres deeded by her husband to Hugh Mc Cleeve (sic).

Aug. 21, 1754.A deed for land from Beverly to James Edmiston, son of David, for 200 acres on Elk Run in Beverly Manor, referenced a corner to a tract surveyed for David Edmiston, dec’d .Chalkley, Vol. III, p. 326.Another deed in 1765 refers to a tract of 200 acres known as Elk Run Corner, surveyed for David Edmiston. Vol. III, p. 426.

May 18, 1755.John and Mary Berrisford to James Edmiston, 115 pounds, 416 acres, north branch of the James River, Samuel McDowell’s line. Volume III, p. 343.This is where James established his family, just south of the Borden Tract and in Beverly Manor.

March 20, 1759.James Edmondson was a witness. Chalkley, Vol. III, p. 353.

1760.James Edmiston processioned. Vestry Book.II, 46.
March 5, 1762.James Edmondson, survey of 116 acres, Buffalo Hill on Buffalo Creek.
March 5, 1764. James Edmiston a witness. III, 306.
1765.James Edmiston processioned. Vestry Book. II, 450.
Oct. 7, 1767.James Edmiston a witness. III, 460.
Nov. 10, 1767.John Lowry and James Robinson deed 260 acres, north branch of the James, 120 pounds, John Dailey’s line. Delivered to James Edmiston, July, 1777.III, 460.

April 7, 1768. Will of James Robinson, weaver. Executors: wife Hanna and James Edmiston, miller .Proved March 15, 1769.James Edmiston qualified as executor.(Chalkley, Vol. III, p. 105).
June 21, 1769.James Edmiston was made constable in place ofJohn Gardner.

1783.James Edmondson died in Rockbridge County. He and his descendants spelled the name Edmondson. His siblings appear to have continued the Edmiston spelling.

David Edmondson (1750-1821)
David Edmiston (Edmondson), son of James Edmondson and Agnes Thompson Edmondson (see Augusta County, 1755) and grandson of David “Turk “Edmiston, was born in Rockbridge County about 1750.He served as 1st Lieutenant, Virginia State Regulars, 8-4-1788, He married Sarah Paxton in 1773, daughter of Thomas Paxton and Elizabeth McClung Paxton. He served as 1st Lieutenant, Virginia State Regulars, August 4, 1788.He died March 2, 1821, and was buried in Rockbridge County at Paxton-Amelia Cemetery.
Sarah Paxton was born in 1758 and died in 1828. Their grave stones are marble, spelling the family name Edmundson, not the spelling thought to be used bythis family at the time. However, as both James and Agnes Edmondson appear to have been illiterate (see the use of an X to sign their wills),the spellings in public records would mean little.

David Edmondson was a Justice of the Peace from 1794-1801.He is listed in the DAR Patriot Index.

David and Sarah were among the founders of the Falling Springs Presbyterian Church, as were Sarah’s family. This church and its cemetery is located near Buffalo Creek and are 3-4 miles south of the Paxton-Amelie Cemetery.

Children of David and Sarah Paxton Edmondson:
1.       Elizabeth Edmondson, eldest daughter, b. April 16, 1774.She married James Templeton and lived in a house almost identical to that of her father’s and about a mile west of his. Her place, called “Cedar Hill”, survives and is on the National Register, and can be reached by following I-81 south to Highway 60 and to county road 608, then south 3 miles to a house on the east side of the road. Montillo can be seen on its hill in the distance. She and her husband moved to Indiana in 1827, settled near Knightsville, and remained there when her brother William and his in-laws moved on to Iowa. The Paxton-Amelia Cemetery is located about one mile further south on Route 608.She died Sept. 24, 1839.
2.       Jane (Jean)Edmondson, b. about 1775.Died April 29, 1846.
3.       Agnes (Nancy) Edmondson, b. Jan. 3, 1776.Married in Rockbridge County, Jan. 5, 1798, Arthur McClure. Died Sept. 15, 1860.
4.       Thomas P. Edmondson, born in 1780, from one source. Dr. Howard V. Jones gives date about 1791. .
5.       Sarah Edmondson, b. 1782, Rockbridge, VA. She married Sept. 13, 1803, Joseph Paxton, son of John Paxton and Sarah Walker Paxton. He was born 25 Jan 1779 and died 6 Nov 1839.Sarahdied Dec. 10, 1849.David and Sarah were twins, according to one account.
6.       David Edmundson, Jr., about 1785 if the census of1850 gives his correct age. Married August 8, 1807, Rockbridge County, Hannah Paxton, born about 1795.No known children. The Census of 1850 shows David Edmondson, 65, farmer; Hannah, 55.One source says he died in 1856.He built a house about one mile north of his father’s house overlooking Mill Creek and the Edmondson Mill Site on the Maury River (called South River in that time as it was a tributary of the James).The house was empty and in disrepair in 1996 when visited by Paul Edmondson Brown, a descendant of David’s brother William (see EFAB, No. 116).He was buried at Falling Springs Church south of Lexington. Hannah’s gravestone shows dates of 1790-1872).
7.       Thompson Edmondson, b. in 1792.Died August 13, 1865, in Lexington, Rockbridge County. Buried at Falling Springs Cemetery.
8.        William Edmondson, b. March 3, 1795.(Major William Edmondson) and died October 13, 1866. He married in 1830Mary Bell McCutchen (1805-1866), daughter of William McCutchen and Margaret Bell McCutchen. (See Humphrey County, TN, Minute Book, 1842-1850). William and Mary McCutchen Edmondson moved to Indiana in 1831 and settled at Knightstown. They were founders of Bethel Presbyterian Church there. William and Margaret Bell McCutchen, Mary’s parents, moved to Indiana with them. William and Mary Edmondson moved on in 1846 to Van Buren County, Iowa, where he died and is buried at Oak Point Cemetery. His wife died Jan. 27, 1886.They had Henry Edmondson, (1832-1834); Sarah Edmondson, (1835-1843); Mary Jane Edmondson (1838-1905); John Calvin Edmondson (Nov. 7, 1841-1900) who married Hassie Strain (Jan. 28, 1840-July 24, 1916), daughter of David A. Strain and Maria McCutchen Strain; William F. Edmondson m. Clara Williamson.
9.       Mary(Polly)Edmondson, born August 17, 1799.Married David Laird, March 18, 1822.She was single in 1821 when her father made his will. Died Feb. 12, 1835.
10.       James Edmondson, born before 1800 and died in 1833,who married Margaret Glasgow. His home, “Savernake”, overlooked the Maury River just southwest of Buena Vista. It was owned and occupied in 1996 by Tom Dickinson. Their son James Kerr Edmondson (1832-1898) was colonel in command of the 27th Virginia Regiment, C.S.A., and lost his left arm at the Battle of Chancellorsville, May, 1863. the same battle in which his cousin Gen. Elisha Paxton was killed. He married Emily M. Taylor. He returned to Lexington and chaired the effort to raise money for the General Jackson Monument in Lexington and the Lee Chapel on the Washington and Lee College campus. He was mayor of Lexington and served as circuit and county judge for many years. He was a member of the House of Delegates for one term .His home was at 104 White Street in Lexington. Other children: David, Arthur, Rebecca Ann. The latter was buried in Dallas, Texas, according to Col. Edmondson’s cemetery stone. David and Arthur appear to have died in the 1830’s.

11.        John Edmondson.

The David Edmiston/Edmondson home, built about 1803, has survived and was bought in 1992 by Mr. and Mrs. Mark Johnson. It is located on County Road 608 south of Buena Vista, Ona side road along Mill Creek. The home was named “Montillo”.

The Edmondson Mill on Mill Creek at its confluence with the Maury River was run by William and David Edmondson after their father died in 1821. It provided power for a lumber mill, a grist mill and possibly a cement plant. William sold his interest to his brothers Thompson Edmondson and David Edmondson, Jr., when he moved in 1831 to Indiana. David Edmondson’s widow, Hannah, was the last operator of the Mill.

1762.John L. Edmiston was born in Rockbridge Feb. 13, 1762, son of David Edmiston and Jane Miller. David was born about1730,assumed to be a son of David Edmuston and Isabelle Edmiston, natives of Ireland, both of whom died in Virginia. John L. Edmiston m. Elizabeth Robinson, Sept. 10, 1791 in Washington County, VA, and moved to SC. He was a Revolutionary veteran, joining in 1778 in the Abbeville District when 17.John moved to Blount County, TN, where he lived 11 years, then to Lincoln County, TN, where he lived 16 years before moving to Alabama. He lived in 1833 in Jackson County, AL, age 71.He died in Randolph County, Illinois, in 1850. (Another source says he died in 1747 in Fulton County, Illinois). John and Elizabeth had John Edmiston, b about 1800 and William Edmiston, b. in 1809.After David’s death before the Revolution, his widow Jane Miller Edmiston, married John Sansom. Sansom was killed in the war when she was living in SC. David Edmiston and Jane Miller Edmiston had two other known children: Elizabeth and David Edmiston.

July 4, 1774.Will of William Thompson, Tinkling Spring. Children: Alexander, John, Robert, Agnes Edmondson, Rebecca McNeelly, Sarah Henry. Proved Nov. 20, 1781.

1778.       Tithable: James Edmunson, 3.David Edmonson, 2.Will Book I, Rockbridge County.

July 7, 1778.Order Book 1778-84, p. 19. James Edmonson vs. Andrew Newberry.

Aug. 3, 1778. Rockbridge County Deed Book A, p. 45. Samuel and Martha Jack deeded to David Edmundson for 50 pounds, land on the north side, north branch, of the James River, adjoining John Lusk.

August 4, 1778.David Edmondson and John Stuart produced commissions as1st Lieutenants, Rockbridge Militia. Order Book 1778-1784, p. 24.

June 1, 1779. Deed Book 1778-1784, p. 93.Thomas Simpson vs. David Edmonson. Alexander Tedford is special bail for David.

July, 1779 Tax List, Rockbridge, “A List of tables in Captain William Paxton’s Company”.
David Edmondson (2)
James Edmondson (3)
William Edmiston

Oct. 13, 1779. Deed Book A. Samuel and Hannah Robinson to John Welch, 51 acres, north branch of the James River. Witnesses: David Edmundson, Alexander Tedford, James Edmundson, Benjamin Williamson. Recorded Feb. 1, 1780.

March 6, 1780.Deed Book A, p. 284.James and Hannah Robinson, John and Mary Robinson and David Robinson to David Edmundson for 235 pounds, 209 acres on the north side of the north branch of the James River, adjoining John Bowyer. Witnesses: Alexander and George Tedford.

Feb. 5, 1782.Will of William Edmondson filed Feb. 5.Dated Feb. 23, 1779.In the name of God amen, I William Edmondson of Rockbridge County Being Very weak in body but in perfect mind and memory and calling to mind the Mortality of the body that is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this m last will and testament. This is to say principally and first I give and Recommend my soul to God that gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried at the discretion of my Executors and my Worldly Estate I give and Dispose in the following manner and form. And first I allow my Lands and two work horses and all my Plantation implements to be sold and the Money arising thin from to be equally divided amongst my three sons Viz William, Robert and John and I hereby impower my Executor to make a Title for my Lands when disposed of and also my stain of hogs to be Divided amongst my three sons equally and my Cattle and Sheep and Looms and all household Plenishings to be equally Divided amongst three daughters Isable, Anne and Mary excepting five pounds to be paid to my daughter Elizabeth Peebles. And hereby appoint Constitute and Ordain Charles Campbell and Samuel Patterson my sole and ----Executors of this my last Will and Testament and I hereby Revoke Disable and Disallow of all former wills by one mark. In Witness whereof I have set my hand and Seal this. Signed in presence of Thomas Steel and David Steel. Will Book 1,p. 146.

Dr. Howard V. Jones gave a strong opinion in EFAB No. 121 (1998) that William’s son, John Edmiston (Edmondson),married Esther Anderson and their son was John Baxter Edmondson. This William Edmiston/Edmondson was not Captain William Edmondson of Kings Mountain but the son of Robert Edmiston who died in Augusta County in 1749-50 and who lived next door to John Edmiston, father of Col. William Edmiston. John and Robert were likely related but there is no documentation. He reviewed Robert Edmiston, son of William of Rockbridge, who was a minor when William died.

Order Book 1778-84, p. 226:Robert Edmiston, minor, chose John Wilson as his guardian.

Taxpayers, 1782: David Edmundson, 1 slave, 5 horses, 16 cattle. (Morton, p. 371).

Dec. 16, 1782.Will Book I, p. 176.Will of James Edmondson. Filed March 4, 1783.Slaves (Anthony, Nann, Doff, Isaac, and Holbert) and personal property to wife Agnes. Twenty pounds each offspring granddaughters: Elizabeth, Agnes, Jean and Sarah Edmundson, and Sarah Tedford when they are 21 or married. Land and tenements on which he lives to wife during her life. To son David Edmondson one mulatto boy named Samuel, the land David lives on, and the remainder after the death of his mother, but he is to pay 60 pounds to his sister Jean if she is still alive at the death of her mother, if not, to her child Sarah Tedford. To daughter Jean Tedford, one Negro wench and child Philip and Easther, to go at her death to Sarah Tedford .If Sarah Tedford dies without children, Philis is to go to son Davidand Easther to the four other granddaughters named. Whatever my father-in-law hath willed me to be divided between Sarah, now married to Samuel Henry, and his granddaughter Agnes Thompson, daughter of his son Alexander Thompson. Executors: Agnes Edmondson, son David, James Templeton. Witnesses: John McNutt, Wm. Paxton, Isaac Tremble. Signed with an X. His inventory in Will Book I, p. 180.(See EFAB, No. 122, for complete copy of will which differs significantly from the abstract in VIRGINIA WILLS BEFORE 1799.The reference to his granddaughter Agnes Thompson, daughter of his son Alexander Thompson, does not make sense unless he meant his son-in-law).
The will of Alexander Tedford, signed Feb. 21, 1781 (Wills Vol. I, p. 114) refers to wife Jean, daughter Sarah if she lives, clothing to his father, rifle to brother John. Executors: John and Robert Tedford. The will seems to suggest the child Sarah was sick at the time.
Sept. 3, 1783.Deed Book A, p. 406.David and Sarah Edmundson to Wyatt Starke, for 300 pounds, 209 acres, north side of the north branch of the James, corner of John Bowyer. Signed by both and recorded Sept. ?1783.
Also, same date, David and Sarah sold 80 acres to Wyatt Starke, on the line of John Lusk.

Virginia Taxpayers 1782-87
David Edmundson1 poll1 slave
James Edmundson1 poll7 slaves
Robert Edmundson1 poll

Oct. 1, 1783. Deed Book A, p. 425. James and Mary Welch to David Edmundson for 5 pounds, 42 acres near North River, adjoining Edmondson, Grubbs, James McClung. Witnesses: Benjamin Roberts, John Snodgrass.

Nov. 6, 1787. Rockbridge Order Book, 1787-1794, p. 49.William Paxton and David Edmundson, executors of John Paxton, in a suit.

Sept. 13, 1788.Will Book I, p. 319.Will of Thomas Paxton mentions daughter Sarah, wife of David Edmundson.

Sept. 7, 1790.A marriage permission document in Rockbridge County, obtained by Dr. Howard V. Jones, was given by Susannah Buntain to the Register of Marriages, showing her daughter Susannah Hannah, was married to Robert Edmiston on Sept. 7, one day after permission was granted. Robert Edmiston had a guardian appointed about 1782. Dr. Jones is confident he was son of William Edmiston who died in 1782.The court ordered the executors of William Edmiston to make final settlement on his estate on the same day Robert married Susannah Hannah. (See Will E. Parham Collection, courtesy of Paul Medlock).
April 1790.Robert Edmiston bought 130 acres from Hugh and Catherine Cummings (Deed Book III, p. 119.This property was either the tract sold by William Edmiston’s executors in 1782 or adjacent to it.

1794. John Edmondson married Esther Anderson in Rockbridge County.
MARRIAGES IN VIRGINIA, by Cecil D. McDonald, Jr.

April 7, 1796. Elizabeth Edmundson married James Templeton. Elizabeth would appear to be a daughter of Agnes Edmundson.

Dec. 16, 1796.Will Book Ip. 235. Will of Agnes Edmundson. Bequeaths to granddaughter Sarah Barckley and son David Edmundson. Son David, executor. Signed with an Witnesses: James Templeton, David Hanna, Jean Edmundson. (Not clear who this Jean Edmundson is, possibly a daughter of David Edmundson. Agnes’s daughter Jean married Alexander Tedford and then married Samuel Henry. ). Proved June 2, 1801.

May 1, 1797.Isabella Edmundson, daughter of William Edmundson, deceased, to Jonathan Sterrett. Bond: Jonathan Sterrit and Robert Edmundson. Consent: Robert Edmundson. (Virginia Genealogist, Marriages, Rockbridge County, 1778-1805, p. 251).
Jan. 6, 1798. Nancy Edmondson m. Arthur McClure.
Sept. 13, 1803. Sarah Edmundson m. Joseph Paxton.

1810 Tax List and Census.
Robert Edmundson.0-3-1-0-1 males; 0-0-1-2-1 females. No slaves.

June 6, 1811.Robert and Susannah Edmiston sold their land to Samuel Myres (Deed Book G, p. 330.They moved to Franklin County, TN, where he soon died.

Feb. 18, 1813.Susannah Edmiston appointed her son David H. Edmiston to act in her behalf to collect debts due to her deceased husband, Robert Edmiston, from John Wilson of Rockbridge County, Virginia. This was produced in court in Rockbridge County, May 31, 1813.Deed Book H, p. 329.She was living in Franklin County, Tennessee, at the time. (EFAB, No. 119, p. 57).Note that John Wilson had been Robert Edmiston’s guardian. See EFAB No. 29 for Dr. Jones discussion of Robert Edmiston of Rockbridge. Robert and Susannah had a son named John Edmiston who married Vashti Joins and had Rhoda Edmiston in 1836.Rhodamarried Mathew McGunnigle. Robert’s son David H. Edmiston, one of the Davids in the 1820 Census of Rockbridge, moved to Lincoln County, TN, where he is found in the 1830 and 1840 censuses. He moved on to Marion County, Kentucky, where he is found in the 1860 census.
Another son, Alexander Edmiston, is found in Lincoln County in the 1830 census. In fact, there are two Alexander Edmiston’s in this census, one of whom is shown in the 1820, 1830, 1840 and 1850 censuses. Jones thinks this man, who is older, is not the son of Robert and Susannah. See Lincoln County, TN.
April 9, 1814. Thomas Edmundson m. Elizabeth Lair.

Heads of Families, 1820.
David Edmonson
David Edmonson
Thomas Edmonson

1830 Census.
Thompson Edmonson
James Edmonson
Thomas P. Edmonson
David Edmonson

1850 Census.
Thomas Edmondson, 59, farmer. Elizabeth, 58.James, 33.John M.C., 30.David L., 28.Mary J., 21.William P., 19.Mary McNutt, 80.All born in Virginia.Living in the same house, William Paxton, 72.Polly Paxton, 66.Polly A., 50.James H. Paxton, 36.Edmond Nash, 38.P. 417.

Thompson Edmondson, 57, farmer. Jane A., 44.Sarah E., 20.Palmyra, 16.All born in Virginia. 444.

Margaret Edmondson, 50.James, 18.Living with John B. Connery and wife Rebecca A, 23.Grandchildren: Margaret G. Connery, 2.Ann, 10 months on Aug. 11, 1850.P. 468.

E. Edmondson, 14, black, b. in Virginia. 473.

David Edmondson, 65.Hannah, 55, wife. Both born in Virginia.

June 22, 1862. W.C. Edmondson, son of Andrew and Jane Edmondson of Washington County, Virginia, where W.C. was born, married Sallie A. Edmondson, daughter of Thompson and Jane Edmondson. Sallie was 29 and W.C. was 46.

May 3, 1863.Col. James Kerr Edmondson was wounded at Chancellorsville, losing his left arm. He was colonel of the 27th Virginia Infantry Regiment.

April 8, 1866. Madeleine Edmondson married James Henry, age 24.
March 1, 1870.Andrew A. Edmondson, son of George and Nancy Edmondson of Pocohontas County, 29, married Julia Ann Teaford, 17, daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Teaford.

June 24, 1873.Margaret Glasgow Edmondson, widow of James Edmondson, died in Rockbridge County. A stone was erected to her memory by her son, Col. Edmondson. Erected by a son in memory of his mother Margaret Edmondson. Died June 24, 1873, aged 80 years. By her son James K. Edmondson, Col. of 27 VA Brig. b. 2/11-1832 d. 3/31-1898, his wife Emily J. Taylor b. 7/5-1835 d. 3/11-1904, and in memory of my father James and my brothers David and Arthur, who for sixty years are sleeping at Falling Spring Church and to sister Rebecca Ann in cemetery at Dallas, Texas, this stone is Erected”. Signed J.K.E. March 9, 1898” All this information was on one stone and would have been erected after Col. Edmondson’s death a few days later .Some of the details would have been added as late as 1904 when his widow died. The stone is in a cemetery in Lexington.(From Will E. Parham Collection, courtesy of Paul Medlock).

1889.Col. James Kerr Edmondson was mayor of Lexington. Documents signed by him are housed at James Madison University in the John L. Heatwole Collection, SC# 2040, Carrier Library.
1893-94.J.K. Edmondson served in the Virginia House of Assembly for Rockbridge.

April 25, 1893.William Edmondson was born to Samuel and Hadasah Edmondson.
March 31, 1898.Col. James Kerr Edmondson died, as recorded on his stone above.

SHENANDOAH COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
1850 Census.
Sanford W. Edmundson, 20. Rachel, 23. Andrew J. Emmons, 24. All living with Isaac Reager, 31 and his wife Athansa, 29, and daughters Mary, 4, and Frances V., 1.

SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Virginia.
Taken in 1720 from King William, King and Queen and Essex, this frontier county was parent to old Orange County which included the later counties of Augusta, Frederick, Madison, Greene, Rockbridge, most of West Virginia and all of Kentucky. Orange was taken from it in 1734 with a vast territory toward the west.

July 2, 1745. A deed from Robt. Silsbee Coleman of Essex County & wife Sarah to Richard Cozens, Deed Book D, (1742-1751) was witnessed by John Edmondson. (From Nancy Wood, 5-23-08).Was this deed signed in Essex or Spotsylvania? Probably in Essex. WAS the land in Essex or Spotsylvania?)

Thomas Wyatt was Justice of the Peace in Spotsylvania in 1762.He married Sukey Edmondson, daughter of John Edmondson.(See Orange County).Ref. COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA, by Hardy, p. 543.Her widowed mother married Gabriel Jones and moved to Orange County.

SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, Virginia.
County seat is Courtland. From original Isle of Wight County.
Bounded today by the North Carolina line (south), Suffolk and Isle of Wight and the Blackwater River (east), Surry and Sussex (northwest) and Greensville and the Meherrin River (southwest).

SMYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA
1850 Census.
Moses Edmondson, 32. Nancy B., 33.Perry R., 9.William, 7.Mary E., 5.George C., 2.George Edmondson, 30.John Edmondson, 17, brothers of Moses. All born in Virginia. 201.

SURRY COUNTY, Virginia.
Surry is the county seat. Bounded today by the James River (north), Isle of Wight (southeast), Sussex (southwest) and Prince George (northwest).Surry was detached from James City County in 1652.Sussex County was taken from Surry. Early records of Surry show no Edmondsons in Quit Rent Rolls of 1704, Militia records, land grants, tithable and other sources. No Edmondsons are in the 1782 Census of Surry.

SUSSEX COUNTY, Virginia
Sussex is the county seat. Bounded today by Dinwiddie and Prince George on the northwest, Surry and the Blackwater River on the northeast, Southampton on the southeast, and Greensville on the southwest. Sussex was originally part of Surry and before that was in James City County.

Surry Land Grants, 1710-1740, in the area which became Sussex included no Edmondsons.

March 15, 1771.Marriage Bond of Elizabeth Edmundson and Hartwell Hines, with the consent of his father Joshua Hines.(See: Sussex Marriage Bonds, COLONIAL SURRY, by Boddie).

No Edmondsons are listed in the Sussex Census of 1782, compiled from tax records. Hartwell Hines is shown with 11 whites and 12 blacks in his household.

TAZEWELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
1850 Census.
Rees Edmunson, 12, living with Rees P Bowen, 42,and Maria S. Bowen, 30.p. 317.Was the boy a son of Maria S. Bowen by a previous marriage?

WARWICK COUNTY.
One of the eight original shires.It included Martin’s Hundred.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA
1810 Census.
David Edmiston0 0 0 1 00 0 0 0 02 slaves
David Edmiston1 0 0 1 03 0 1 1 01 slave
John Edmiston0 0 0 1 00 0 0 1 05 slaves
Robert Edmiston11 1 1 03 2 0 1 05 slaves
William Edmiston 0 00 1 00 0 1 0 02 slaves
William Edmiston 0 0 1 0 11 0 2 0 15 slaves

1820 Census. Heads of families.
Andrew Edmondson, p.205A
Andrew Edmondson, p. 205A
Andrew Edmondson, p. 205A
David Edmondson
Jenny Edmondson, p. 205A
John Edmondson, Sr.p. 205A
John Edmondson, Jr., p. 205A
Robert Edmondson
William Edmondson
James Edmondson
Thomas Edmonson

WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Is Fredericksburg in this county?
Oct. 7, 1837. Walter Williams and Catherine G. Edmondson were married in Fredericksburg.Surety: John W. Edmondson.(MARRIAGES OF FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA, 1782-1850)

THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE.
Estimates prepared for the Continental Congress in 1774 put the total population of the thirteen colonies at 3,026,678, in this order:
Virginia, 650,000; Massachusetts, 400,000; Pennsylvania, 350,000; Maryland, 320,000; North Carolina, 300,000; New York, 250,000; South Carolina, 225,000; Connecticut, 192,000; New Hampshire, 150,000; New Jersey, 130,000; Georgia, 70,000; Rhode Island, 59,678.

Muster and Payrolls of the War of the Revolution (Collections of the N.Y. Hist. Society, 1914).
p. 628.Return of men considered as part of the quota of the State and settled for depreciation here, Richmond, May 28, 1785:
Richard Edmonston, Hazen’s Regiment, Sergeant, not in the returns.

p. 639.Return of Virginia men, settled.
Edmond Edmondson, settled Dec. 1780.

REVOLUTIONARYWAR RECORD, by G.M. Brumbaugh, 1936
Volume I, Virginia
p. 95.Doc. # 30, List No. 1, compiled after 1833
Benjamin Edmundson, Lieut. State Line, 3 years service.
2666 2/3 acres. Warrant obtained March 6, 1784.
p. 147.Officers in the State Line Army, Continentals, Navy, prepared
by Gov. Floyd:
Edmondson, Benjamin, Lieut., Infantry, State Line.
p. 339.Benjamin Edmondson, State Line, Warrant No. 2723.
Virginia Military District of Ohio.
p. 531.Edmundson, Benjamin, 1st Lieut., 2nd Virginia State Regiment
of Infantry (Nos. 3,621 and 15, 434).Roll of officers of Regi-
ment: Col. Wm. Brent, Lt. Col. Charles Dabney, Major John
Lee(Documents in State Dept., filed in Naval Records and
Library).
p. 533.Pay Roll, 2nd Virginia State Reg. Col. Gregory Smith, Lt. Col.
Charles Dabney, Maj. John Lee, Ensign Benjamin Edmondson.
p. 545.Benjamin Edmondson (A.G. 50, 056), Lieut., 2nd Virginia State
Regiment. Served 3 years, ending Feb. 6, 1782.Fought a duel
and killed an officer named Holmes. Granted 2,666 acres of
land. Married Margaret Harwood, widow of Samuel Harwood
of Weyancah, Charles City County, Virginia whose daughter
Margaret married Robert Munford. The latter died prior to
1838. The will of Margaret Edmondson, the soldier’s widow,
named two daughters, Ann and Margaret Waldrop Harwood.
The soldier left a sister, Elizabeth Edmondson who married
Henry Edloe and had a son, William Edloe, her only heir.
(Benjamin was made 2nd Lt., Virginia State Regulars, Sept. 22,
1777, and 1st Lt.,J an. 1, 1779.He was ordered to Richmond to
take command March 3, 1781.This data from unknown
source).
p. 237.Bounty Land Warrants.
John Edmonston, soldier, cav.
Edmund Edmundson, corporal, cav.
William Edmundson, soldier, cav.
p. 426.Continental Line Warrants, Ohio.
William Edmundson, sgt., 3 year’s service, No. 1030.
Richard Edmundson, assignee of John De Priest, sergeant,
Service of 3 years, No. 1962.
p. 428.Edmund Edmundson, corporal, 3 years service, No. 5707.
p. 611.Original Bounty Land Warrants in Va. Military Dist. of Ohio:
John Edmondson

Other Revolutionary service references:

William Edmondson appointed Lieutenant in Frederick County Militia, April 1, 1783.

William Edmondson was appointed Ensign in the Essex County Militia, August 13, 1777; 2nd Lt., June 25, 1778; 1st Lt., March 20, 1779.

William Edmondson served as Sergeant in the 7th, 11th and 15th Virginia Regiments of the Continental Line.
Mary Edmondson married Patrick Dougherty July 19, 1790, in Frederick County (widow of Thomas Edmundson, Jr.)
John Edmondson married Mary Elkins March 4, 1799, Frederick Co.

DAR Patriot Index:
William Edmondson, b. 1759, served as Sergeant in Virginia, 11th Virginia Regiment under Col. Dan Morgan in 1777,married Martha Green and died in 1820.
William Edmondson, Virginia soldier, born Oct. 17, 1750, married Mary Cook.
Benjamin Edmondson, b. June 5, 1752,enlisted in 1776,married Elizabeth Waddy in 1779 in Alexandria, Virginia, and died prior to 1801.Said to be born in Essex County. Vol. 74, p. 293.

James Edmondson, Vol. 105, p. 246.Said to be a member of the Committee of Safety, Essex County, born there in 1750.Married Ann McCarthy in 1775.Had son Thomas in 1776 who moved to Columbia County, Georgia, and then Putnam County where he died in 1822. Married Patience Hines. (Information for the DAR record from Mis Martha V. Edmondson, Eatonton, Georgia).This Thomas actually married Patience Spires. Hom

Tax List and substitute Census of Virginia, 1810
Henry Edmundson, Montgomery County, 3 males, 3 females, 4 slaves.
Robert Edmundson, Rockbridge, 5 males, 4 females, no slaves.
Lucy Edmundson, Augusta, 1 male, 2 females, 6 slaves.
William Edmundson, Caroline, 1 male, 2 females, no slaves.
Martha Edmundson, Dinwiddie, 1 male, 2 females, 29 slaves.
John Edmundson, Charlotte, 3 males, 5 females, 10 slaves.
Ann Edmondson, Frederick, 3 males, 2 females, no slaves.
John Edmunson, Berkeley, 5 males, 3 females, no slaves.
Joseph Edmunson, Hanover, 4 males, 6 females, 8 slaves.
Catherine Edmondson, King and Queen, 1 male, 2 females, 5 slaves.
Benjamin Edmondson, Lunenburg, 5 males, 5 females, 1 slave.
Thomas Edmunson, Lunenburg, 2 males, 2 females, 8 slaves.

Tax List and Census of Virginia, 1830 (including West Virginia)
John Edmonson, Augusta County
James Edmondson, Bath County.
Archibald Edmunson, Frederick County
William Edmondson, Hampshire
Carter Edmondson, Westmoreland
Samuel Edmundson, Halifax
Richard Edmundson, Halifax
Mary Edmundson, Halifax
Jane Edmundson, Halifax
John H. Edmundson, Halifax
Joseph N. Edmondson, Hanover
William Edmundson, Lunenburg
Upton Edmundson, Lunenberg
John Edmundson, Lunenberg
Wesley Edmonson, Mecklenburg
Benjamin Edmonson, Mecklenburg
Lewis W. Edmondson, Caroline
Henry Edmundson, Montgomery
James Edmison, Pendleton
William Edmonston, Pocahontas
James Edmonston, Pocahontas
Andrew Edmonston, Pocahontas
Thompson Edmonson, Rockbridge
James Edmonson, Rockbridge
Thomas P. Edmonson, Rockbridge
David Edmonson, Rockbridge
David Edmondson, Washington
Andrew Edmondson, Washington
Jane Edmondson, Washington
Mary Edmondson, Washington
William Edmondson, Washington
John Edmondson, Sr., Washington
Andrew Edmondson, Jr., Washington
John Edmondson, Washington
James Edmondson, Washington
Mary Edmondson, Washington
R.B. Edmondson, Washington
Robert B. Edmondson, signature, Washington
Ambrose Edmondson, King and Queen

Edmondsons from Virginia in the 1850 Census of Indiana.
Carroll County.
James Edmondson, 49, farmer, b. in VA.Wife Frances, 48, b. in VA. Carnik W., 19, b. in TN. Charlotte F., 17, b. in TN. Nancy E., 12, Lucinda J., 10, and Mary E., 6, all born in Indiana.
Harrison County.
William M. Edmondson, 48, farmer, b. in VA. Wife Susannah, 44, b. in KY. Children born in Indiana: George W, 14. Sarah E., 9.James H., 7.Lucy E., 4.Susan G., 3 months (August 5, 1850).
Madison County.
David Edmunson, 32, farmer, b. in VA. Wife Nancy 35, b. in VA. Margaret Edmunson, 24, b. in TN. Robert Edmunson, 19, b. in TN. David Edmunson, 17, b. in TN.
Marion County.
William Edmonson, 37, b. in VA, an inmate in the hospital for the insane.

(Compiled by Stephen W. Edmondson, Clayton, Georgia, from many sources. Conclusions are based on current available information and are subject to revision as additional records are obtained. Revised May,2008.)

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, Virginia.
1820 Heads of families.
William Edmonson
Thomas Edmundson

HANCOCK COUNTY,Virginia.
1820 Heads of families.
Joseph Edmondson

HANOVER COUNTY,Virginia.
Formed in 1721, it included the Chickahominy River and the Anna River and was bounded in 1740by New Kent and Henrico on the south, Goochland on the southwest, Spotsylvania, Caroline and King William on the northeast and Orange on the north.

1751-57.John Edmondson was living in St. Martin’s Parish.
1810.Joseph Edmondson owned eight slaves in Hanover, had 4 males and 6 females in his household.
1830 Census.
Joseph N. Edmondson

Feb. 4, 1834.John S. Edmondson of Hanover County, Virginia, was married to Miss Sarah J. Winningham of Huntsville, Surry County.
The Western Carolinian, Feb. 15, 1834.

1850 Census. P. 398.Bolling W. Edmonson, 35, b. in Virginia.

HARDING COUNTY, VIRGINIA
John Edmondson, 45, p. 14. Born in VA. Living with Andrew Russell, 78. Mary Russell, 82.Jane, 80.Salria Jones, 17.

HARRISON COUNTY, VIRGINIA
1850 Census. P. 163.
John Edmondson, 47, physician, born in Virginia. ElizaH., 46. Elizabeth H., 17.Lucy A., 15.Mary B., 11. Edwin, 18. All born in Virginia. Ann Eliza Davis, granddaughter, age 9.

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, VIRGINIA
1850 Census. P. 182.
Mary Edmondson, 62, b. in Maryland. Lived with John Hauser, 57, Thoams Hauser, 53, Jacob Hauser, 40.Lysander Hauser, 55.Charlotte Hauser, 54. Cassandra Hauser, 52.
p. 192. James Edmondson, 35,free black, b. in Virginia.

HENRICO COUNTY.

This early county is bounded today by the James River on the south, by Charles City County on the east, by New Kent on the northeast,faces Chesterfield across the James on the south.Most of Richmond lies within it.Malvern Hill lies within it, now in ruins.

Feb. 17, 1774. Virginia Gazette. Andrew Edmonstone of Richmond, deceased. His administrator is his brother John Edmondstone who intends to leave the colony soon.ABSTRACTS FROM EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VIRGINIA NEWSPAPERS.

1850 Census. P. 468. Joseph N. Edmondson, 76. Eliza, 30. Harriott, 29. Ella Christian, 9. All born in Virginia.

HENRY COUNTY.Formed in 1777.Originally in Charles City County (1734), then Brunswick County, then old Lunenberg County.Borders N.C., Pittsylvania (east), Patrick (west),Franklin (north).Includes the Mayo River, Smiths Creek, Reed Creek, Beaver Creek, Leatherwood Creek.

Jan. 2, 1776.Thomas Edmondson was paid for the board of an Indian hostage inHenry County.

Nov. 22, 1779.Humphrey Edmundson m. Frances Swanson, daughter of William Swanson and Mary McGuire Swanson.Frances was born April 15, 1760. (Her sister Ann married a Maxey.Many Swansons and Maxeys moved to Georgia and lived in Oglethorpe County.Maxeys lived in Goochland County).VIRGINIA MARRIAGE RECORDS, p. 276.

Aug. 5, 1780.Sally Edmundson m. William Cockran.MARRIAGES IN VIRGINIA,by Cecil D. McDonald, Jr.

1782-87.       Virginia Taxpayers, by Fothergill and Naugle, 1940.
Humphrey Edmundson, 1 poll, 1 slave.
Richard Edmundson, 1 poll, 9 slaves
Richard Edmundson, Jr. , 1 poll.

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY,Virginia.
County seat is Isle of Wight.Formed in 1637, it was one of the eight original shires.Itincluded later Surry (1652),Southampton (1749), Sussex (1754).Its original territory lay south of the James and included waters of the Blackwater River, the Nottoway River and the Meherrin River.It was bounded on the south by North Carolina.Prior to December 8, 1710,settlers were prohibited from entering or taking up land between the Nottaway and the Meherrin rivers as the boundary with North Carolina was in controversy.
Isle of Wight today is bounded on the north by Surry, on the northeast by the James River (Warwick on the northern bank), Nansemond on the southeast.

April 20, 1689.Richard Smith transported four persons, including Ann Edmondson, for which he patented 200 acres in LowerNorfolk County.

April 29, 1692.Bridgeman Joynerwas granted 600 acres in Isle of Wight County for importation of 12 persons, including John Edmondson, Bridgeman Joyner, Elizabeth Jones, Jno. Edmond, Thomas Wright, William Walker, Phillip Rafford, Mary Wilkinson, Jno Edwards, Owen Ellis, Derick Stone,Black Moll, by Francis Nicholson, Esq.,their Majesties Lieut. Governor.The land was described as beginning at a marked pine nearKingsale Swamp,James Brians corner tree, along by the said Briants Line of marked trees, to a small hickory by the run of the Maine black water Swamp, down the said swamp to the mouth of Kingsale Swamp then up the swamp to the first station.(Virginia Land Patent Book 8, p. 222.Text provided by Beverly Brunelle).

Court Orders of Isle of Wight County Virginia, Oct. 1693-May 1695.No Edmondsons.

April 3, 1696.Humphrey Marshall of the Wight commissioners obliges himself to pay John Edmundson when he is 21 furniture and 2000 pounds tobacco.The same obligation was made to William Edmondson.Witnesses were ThomasHill and John Giles.(This was probably an indenture agreement.Isle of Wight Deeds, 1647-1719. Provided by Louise Edmonston, Senoia, Georgia, EFAB, No. 74).

October 15, 1698.Patent for 300 acres of land to John Gyles by Sir Edmund Andros, Knight, Governor.Scituate between Kingsale swamp and the main blackwater in the Isle Wight County the said Land being formerly granted to Bridgeman Joyner by patent dated 16th day of Aprill 1683 and by him deserted and since granted unto the said John Giles by ordr of the Genll Court dated 23rd day of Apll 1698 and further due by and for the transportation of Toe persons into this Colony Mr. Jno. Giles his pat for 300 acres of Land in Isle of Wight County.Ed. Jennings depty sectry.Beginning at a Pine Hodges Councells Corner tree thence N15E310P to a pine then West 160 P to a small hickory in Thomas Mans head Line and so parralel to the first Line 310 P by Thomas Mans aforesaid to two white Oake and then by Councill East 160 P to the first station.(Virginia Land Patent Book 9, p. 180.Copy provided by Beverly Brunelle).

1704/05.Rent Roll, Isle of Wight County.
Hodges Councie
Hardy Councie
Jno. Councie
Bridgeman Joyner
Thdo. Joyner
Thomas Joyner
(No Edmondsons are shown in Isle of Wight in this Rent Roll).

Aug. 2, 1724.Hodges Councill the Younger, and wife Katherin Councill of the lower parish of Isle of Wight Co to William Edmondson of the upper parish of Nansemond County….120 acres in the lower parish on Blackwater River adjoining Richard Watters being part of a patent granted Hodges Councill the Elder on 20 April 1682 and who willed it to his grandson, the said Hodges Council the Younger on 9 Aug 1699.Wit: Stephen Darden, William (X) Goling, Hodges Councill, James Holland.Recorded 18 Sep 1724.Catherine (X)Councill.(Isle of Wight Deeds, Wills---Great Book, Vol. 2, 1715-1726, p. 663).
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Marriages of Isle of Wight 1628-1800 includes no Edmondsons.

(Compiler’s note: John and William Edmondson are good candidates as the ancestor of Dr. Thomas Edmundson and some of the other settlers in the Halifax/Edgecombe areas of North Carolina in the mid-1700’s).

KING AND QUEEN COUNTY, Virginia.
Taken from New Kent in 1691.King Williamwas taken from itin 1701 as waspart ofSpotsylvaniain 1720.In turn, part of Caroline was taken from King William and part from the upper part of Essex in 1727.King and Queen bordered Essex.

VestryBook of Stratton Major Parish, 1729-1783, showed no Edmondsons.

KING AND QUEEN COUNTY VIRGINIA, by Bagby, gives information on the Boulwares.No Edmondsons mentioned.
April 30, 1782. William Meredith and Judith Edmondson of King and Queen were married.See: THE PARISH REGISTER OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH, MIDDLESEX COUNTY, VA, 1653-1812.National Society of Colonial Dames, 1897.

1810 Tax List.
Catherine Edmundson, 5 slaves.

1830 Census.
Ambrose J. Edmondson

KING WILLIAM COUNTY,Virginia.
Taken from King and Queen in 1701 which was taken fromNew Kent which was from original York County.

Gregorys lived in King William.Several graves are at Elsing Green Plantation.

An account of the Teackle family in KING WILLIAM COUNTY HOMES AND FAMILES, by Peyton Clark:
Thomas Teackleof Craddock, who was born Nov. 11, 1711, married Elizabeth Custis, daughter of John Custis of the Eastern Shore.Their son, Severn Teackle, married Lucretia Edmondson.Severn was a Revolutionary War hero.

July 4, 1771.From KING WILLIAM COUNTY VIRGINIA FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS, by E. Ryland, p. 45:
To be sold at King William Courthouse on Monday the 12th of August next, being Court Day, under a deed of Trust from Mr. William Hamlin, lately deceased, one moiety,or half part, of 1000 acres of Land, with a Forge and a Water Grist Mill, lying in King and Queen County, which said lands were drawn as a prize in Col.Bernard Moore’s lottery by the said Hamlin and Philip Parr Edmundson, gents.Signed by Thomas Bland and John Ruffin, Jr.

LANCASTERCOUNTY.An original county from whichRappahannock,Essex, Richmond, Middlesexand other counties were formed.In 1653-54, it included all the territory on both sides of the Rappahannock from its mouth as far west as settlement extended.
In 1760, it was confined to land north of the Rappahannock near the Chesapeake Bay, bounded on the north by Northhumberland (1648), and on the west by Richmond (1692).Westmoreland (1653) , King George (1724), Stafford (1664), Prince William (1731), Fairfax (1742), Loudon (1757) andFauquier (1759) all lay north of the Rappahannock in the original territory of Lancaster, all east of the Blue Ridge.

Christ Church Parish lay in Lancaster.

The first tax levy in Lancaster was made in 1653.The second levy, Feb. 6, 1654, showed:
John Gregory, 3 tithables.No Edmondson is listed.(See VIRGINIA TAX RECORDS,pp. 236-264).
Dec. 3, 1725. Christ Church Parish. John Gregory married Jane Kidd.

March 23, 1726.Death of James Edmunston.Christ Church Parish Deaths,1653-1812.Burial: March 24, 1726.
Feb. 2, 1731. Christ Church Parish.Christian Gregory m. James Edmundson.However, Suzanne Derieux’s research shows James Edmondson, Jr. married Christian Gregory in Middlesex County, May 23, 1726.
After James Edmundson’s early death, his widow married John Gresham. See Essex County.

LOUDOUN COUNTY,VIRGINIA
The Treaty of Albany in 1722 moved the Indians west of the Blue Ridge, opening this area to settlement.Loudon was a part of original Lancaster County.
Loudoun was formed from Fairfax County in 1757, primarily from Truro Parish.It was named for John Campbell, the fourth Earl of Loudoun (Scotland).Lower Loudoun was part of the Fairfax Proprietary and much of its land was bought by large Tidewater landowners.Most of the Loudoun Valley went to immigrants from Pennsylvania who had small grants. Quakers settled Waterford, Hillsboro, Goose Creek (now called Lincoln) and Unison.Their stone buildings were a strong feature. Germans in the north end of Loudoun Valley built wood structures.The Scots-Irish were another contingent in this section.These small settlers did not hold slaves.

Leesburg is the county seat, dating from 1758.
By 1775, Loudon had the largest militia of any county in Virginia and in 1790 the largest population of any Virginia county.Pres. James Monroe drafted the Monroe Doctrine at his home at Oak Hill.

1770.       John Edmundson of Loudon County received land in Frederick County,adjoining Joseph Gibson. Proved Nov. 23, 1771.He was probably from the Edmundsons of Chester County, Pennsylvania, at London Grove.

MARRIAGESOF LOUDONCOUNTY VIRGINIA,1757-1853, by Mary Alice Wentz, shows no Edmondsons.
INDEX TO TITHABLES OF LOUDON COUNTY VIRGINIA, 1758-1786,by Margaret Hopkins, shows no Edmondsons.

LOUISA COUNTY, Virginia.
A History of Louisa County Virginia by M. Harris mentions no Edmondsons.

Jan. 27, 1755. Deed Book B, p. 87. Robert Jones and Mary his wife of Essex County, carpenter, sold to Benjamin Edmondson of Essex County, planter, for 15 pounds, 185 acres on branches of Contrary and North East Creek being the land sd Jones bought of John Cumpton of deed of lease and release 2 June 1742, adjoining John Tomson, Estes, Roaches, Ambrose, Joshua Smith.Signed by Robert Jones and Mary Jones with their x marks and witnessed by Joseph Edmondson, Henry Kidd, BenjaPaul.
Benjamin Edmondson is believed to be a son ofBenjamin Edmondson and Margaret Upton Finney Edmondson and grandson of Thomas Edmondson the immigrant who died in 1715.Brother ofUpton Edmondson who moved to Amelia County and Thomas Edmondson who moved in 1756 from Essex County to Lunenburg County.
Benjamin Edmondson married Sarah ____, possibly Sarah Underwood. They had:
1.Robert Edmondson who died about 1777, leaving property to his mother and siblings. Will probated August 18, 1777.Essex County Wills and Administrations. Accounts recorded Dec. 19, 1785. Wills No. 13, 1775-1785.Nov. 18, 1785. A division of the estate of Robert Edmondson was made to six legatees: Susasanna Edmondson, Sarah Edmondson, Peggy Rowzee, Philip Edmondson, William Edmondson and Milly Edmondson who married Scott Noell. Susanna had died, her part to be split between the others.Division made by William Rowzee, Wm. Gray, Sr., Thomas Collins and Hancock Lee.Essex County Will Book 13, pp. 527-528. (From Tom Moore).

2.William Edmondson
3.Philip Edmondson (possibly Philip Edmondson who married Susan Jennings in Mercer County, Kentucky, March 7, 1795)
4. Susannah Edmondson, died before Nov. 18, 1785).
5. Milly Edmondson who married Scott Noell.
6. Margaret “Peggy” Edmondson who married William Rowzee.

1784.William Edmondson is cited in Legal Notices, Virginia Gazette, Richmond, for taxes owed at Louisa Court House on 200 acres, advertised by Sheriff Thomas Johnson for sale to satisfy tax due.

LUNENBURGCOUNTY, Virginia.
Formed from Brunswick County in 1746.Old Lunenberg embraced the area of present Lunenberg, Mecklenberg, Halifax,Charlotte, Pittsylvania, Bedford, Franklin, Patrick and Henry counties.St. James Parish of Lunenburg became Mecklenburg County in 1765.The South Meherrin River became the dividing line between Lunenburg and Mecklenburg.Charlotte County was formed in 1765 from the western portion ofLunenburg.

Landon C. Bell in THE OLD FREE STATE, Richmond, 1927, on the history of Lunenberg and Southside Virginia, says:
“The Edmondsons of Lunenberg aretraced from Thomas Edmondson of Rappahannock County.The children of Thomas Edmondson and his son Benjamin (who married Margaret Upton Finneyand died in 1727) of Essex County are given.Benjamin’s son Upton moved to Amelia County where his will, dated May 25, 1771, was proved October 24, 1771.In his will he names his wife Mary and children:
1.       Benjamin Edmondson
2.       Constance Edmondson, wife of Edgecomb Suggett (her homestead in Mecklenberg County).
3.       Mary Edmondson (married to a Robertson) and her daughter Constance Robertson.

Capt. C.T. Allen, who made some notes upon the Edmondson Family of Lunenberg, states that the first member of the family he located in Lunenberg was Upton A. Edmondson; where he came from or who his ancestors were he did not learn.There is some lack of absolute certainty about the matter, but there is in Lunenberg County a marriage bond for the marriage of Benjamin Edmondson and Martha Tomlinson, dated May 12, 1791.This was probably Benjamin Edmondson, son of Upton Edmondson of Amelia County, and Upton A.Edmondson was most likely his son.He was the first of the name very prominently identified with the affairs of Lunenberg County.
Upton A. Edmondson represented the county in the legislature from 1846 to 1849.He married Frances Bagley August 14, 1817.She was the daughter of Anderson Bagley.They had:
1.       Upton Edmondson, Jr., a soldier of the War with Mexico, 1846-47, who died unmarried.
2.       Caroline Edmondson, who married (second wife) Aaron J.J. Brown of Nottaway County.They later moved to Lunenberg County near Kenbridge.
The old Edmondson home was near Fletcher’s Chapel Church. “
(Actually, Benjamin who married Martha Tomlinson was a son of Benjamin Edmundson and Mary Dunn Edmundson and grandson of Upton Edmundson of Amelia. SWE).

Chronological Record

Hugh Lawson, “gent.”,took the tithables in 1748 for the area which is present Lunenburg County.The list included Roger Lawson but no Edmondsons.The 1747 list is missing entirely.All the tithes for1748, 1749, and 1750 have survived.Partial lists are available for 1751, 1752, 1764, 1769, 1772, 1773, 1775, 1776 and 1783.

Lewis Delaney’s list for 1748, for the area which later became Mecklenburg County, included no Edmondsons.

Tithables were a poll tax list and included all freemen above 16, all imported white male servants of any age, all imported negroes male and female of any age, all Indian servants of both sexes above 16.

May 1, 1755.Will Book 2, p. 3.Will of Thomas Edmundson of Lunenburg.Proved August 5, 1760.“In the name of God Amen.I Thomas Edmundson being sick and weak in body, but in perfect Sane mind and Memory, Thanks be to God for the same do make this my last Will and Testament in the same as follows.I give unto my loving wife Grisel Edmundson during her natural life my now dwelling Plantation with all my personal estate she making no waste thereof and at the decease of my wife I give unto my youngest son Benjamin Edmundson the said Plantation containing 100 acres.Item.I leave all the rest of my lands to be equally Divided between my other sons as they shall come of age.Item.And as for my personal Estate at the decease of my wife I leave it to be equally divided between my daughters, and I do constitute and appoint my wife and Randall Bracey my whole and sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament, Revoking all former Wills by me made as Witnesse my hand this the twenty first day of May One Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty.Signed ThomasEdmundson.Witnesses: Peter Parrish,Bryant Cradle,Thomas T. Addams, their marks.(Text provided by Mrs. Louise Edmonston, Senoia, Georgia)
Grissell Coleman was daughter of Thomas Coleman and Mary Lort Coleman. She was born about 1710, probably in Essex County, and died after 1760.Thomas Edmondson was brother of Upton Edmondson of Amelia County, both born in Essex County.

Feb. 15, 1756. Essex County. Drury Dobyns of St. David’s Parish, King William County, bought land on Dragon’s Swamp from Thomas Edmondson Jr. and Grizzel his wife in South Farnham Parish.Dobyns appears to have moved to this property as he drew his will in Essex County in 1759.

Nov. 24, 1756. Deed Book 4, p. 348. Upton Edmondson and Mary his wife of Nottoway Parish, Amelia County,deeded to Thomas Edmondson ofCumberland Parish, Lunenberg County,for 37 pounds 3 shillings 6 pence, 380 acres adjoining Brodnax, Lett and Ryland, part of a patent of 765 acres, 15 Dec. 1755.Witnesses: John Durham, Richard Edmondson.Signed by Upton Edmondson and Mary Edmondson. Recorded Dec. 7, 1756.(EARLY SETTLERS OF MECKLENBURG, Vol. II, p. 20).This land fell in Mecklenburg when it was formed in 1765.

Sept. 17, 1759.The return of Processioning ordered by the Vestry of Cumberland Parish reported that Thomas Edmundson gave no attendance, p. 504.( He died soon after this)He lived in Precinct 6.

August 5, 1760.At the Court held for Lunenburg the fifth day of August 1760.The within written last will and Testament of Thomas Edmundson deceased was attested in Court by Randall Brassey the Executor therein named and the same was proved by the oaths of two of the witnesses thereto Subscribed and Ordered to be Recorded on the Motion of the said Executor who made Oath according to Law.Certificate granted him for obtaining a Probate of the said Will in due form (he giving security) whereupon he together with Thomas Adams his security entered into and Acknowledged there Bond according to Law, for the said Executors due and faithfull Execution of the said Will. Reserving Liberty to Grisell Edmundson the Executrix in the said Will appointed to join in Probate then if she thinks fit.
TetClem Read

Sept. 3, 1760.Will Book 2, p. 103.Inventory and Appraisal, Thomas Edmundson, deceased 1760.Inventory and appraisal of the estate of Thomas Edmundson, deceased, was made Sept. 1, 1760, by Isaac Holmes, John Hern and Peter Parrish.Value: 44 pounds, 8 shillings, 7 ½ pence.Returned to the Court by Randall Bracey, Executor, and recordedSept. 3, 1760. (EARLY WILLS, Lunenburg County Virginia by Katherine Elliott).

The list of tithables taken by Edmund Taylor in 1764, St. James Parish, included:Richard Edmudson, 1 tithe, 150 acres.
Thomas Edmunds,1 tithe.
The list of tithables taken by Thomas Tabb for Cumberland Parish, 1764, included no Edmundsons.

Jan. 15, 1762. Lunenburg County Deed Book 7, p. 190.(Thomas Edmondson lived in that part of Lunenburg County which became Mecklenburg in 1765). William Edmondson, St. James Parish, Lunenburg County, to Robert Cunningham, 102 acres on Miles Creek adjoining Upton Edmondson, Richard Edmondson, Col. Robert Ruffin and Samuel Edmondson, orphan of Thomas, part of a tract of 207 acres willed to Richard, William, Samuel and Benjamin, sons of Thomas Edmondson, divided 14 May, 1761.(From Beverly Brunelle).

Sept. 19, 1766. Samuel Edmundson & Richard Coleman Edmundson of Mecklenburg County deeded to Abram Mitchell of Orange County for 50 pounds…..152 acres on the north side of Miles Creek, part of a tract taken up by Upton Edmundson, adjacent to Robert Ruffin, Richard Coleman Edmundson and Benjamin Edmundson.Witnesses: Henry & Elizabeth Brown, Margaret x Edmondson.Signed by Samuel Edmundson and Richard C. Edmundson. Recorded 13 April, 1767.Deed Book 1, p. 371.Elizabeth, wife of Richard Coleman Edmundson, personally appeared in court and released her dower rights.

Feb. 10, 1773.William Edmondson was born in Lunenburg.William had at least four children: Harris, William, Martha and Jane Bonner.The son, William, was born Feb. 22, 1800, in Lunenburg. He had: Thomas, William Henry, and Robert. He died Oct. 3, 1876, probably in Tennessee. (Letter of Diana Isaacson, Aurora, Colorado, EFAB No. 61).
(Whose son was thisWilliam? SWE)

Feb. 10, 1780.Cumberland Parish, Lunenberg County, 1746-1718, p. 554.Vestry held at the Courthouse. Processioners included: Sterling Niblett and William Niblett; William Buford and Benjamin Gee; Christopher Robertson and John Hightower; William Chambers and Benjamin Edmondson.
The Report of Processioners, p. 557, noted that George Hightower was a neighbor of Benjamin Edmondson, as was Wm. Chambers, as in Benjamin Edmondson’s report.

Aug. 12, 1781.Benjamin Edmundson was among a large number to petition for the exchange of the Rev. James Craig who was on parole by Col. Tarleton.His name was high on the list of signers.(CUMBERLAND PARISH, LUNENBERG COUNTY VIRGINIA, 1746-1716, p. 106)

1782-87.       Virginia Taxpayers, by Fothergill and Naugle, 1940.
Benjamin Edmundson, 1 poll, 10 slaves.

A list of taxable property taken by Joseph Winn, March 15, 1783, included:Benjamin Edmondson, 4 tithes.10 whites.11 blacks.
(See SUNLIGHT ON THE SOUTHSIDE,by Landon C. Bell).

January 8, 1784.Cumberland Parish, Lunenberg County, 1746-1816.
p. 450.Vestry Order No. 24.John Cross and Edward Chambers to procession all land between Great Hounds Creek, Reedy Creek old road, and the path as goes from Daniel Winns to the old road, and the great road that goes by Ben Edmondson’s to Crosses bridge and Nottoway River.Report No. 24 by John Cross and Edward Chambers noted the processioning of the lines between George Hightower and Benjamin Edmondson in the presence of the same.

March 22, 1787.Marriage Bond of Constance Edmondson and Capt. Christopher Robertson. Surety: William Taylor.

June 8, 1781.Marriage bond ofJames Cole and Mary Clarke. Surety: Benjamin Edmundson.
March 22, 1787.Christopher Robertson and Constant Edmundson.Surety: William Taylor.Marriage Bond.(Robertson was a Captain in the Revolutionary forces in Lunenberg, his commission dated March 13, 1777.He was a member of the county court from 1781-1797 and was Sheriff from 1800-1802.CUMBERLAND PARISH LUNENBERG COUNTYVIRGINIA, 1746-1816, p. 282. This Constant Edmundson was daughter of Benjamin and Mary Dunn Edmundson and niece of Constant Edmundson who married another Christopher Robertson. )

1787.       Virginia Land Tax, Lunenberg County.
John Edmundson was taxed for 228 acres ( “from R. Hight”?)
1788.       John Edmundson was taxed for 228 acres.
1789.       John Edmundson was taxed for 228 acres.
1790.       John Edmundson was taxed for 228 acres. This continues through 1794, then skips to 1807.
1807. John Edmundson was taxed for 222 acres.
1809.John Edmundson was taxed for 222 acres.
1810.John Edmundson was taxed for 222 acres.
(This mancould not be theson of Benjamin and Mary Dunn Edmundson as he was still a minor in 1800.He appears to be the John Edmondson who died about 1812, below. SWE)
1811.Thomas Edmundson was taxed for 222 ½ “from John Edmundson”
1812. Thomas Edmundson was taxed for 222 ½ , Crooked Run Creek.
1813.Land not listed.

The 228 acres was on Stony Creek near the Brunswick County line, not on Crooked Creek where the Benjamin Edmundson family lived.
This tract became the property of William Edmondson at auction.Deed Book 29, Sept. 15, 1829.Recorded Dec. 14, 1829. (Evans abstracts).Thomas Adams and Sterling Neblett jr. commissioners, estate of Fredrk Watkins Edmondson, $342.27 at auction, 228 acres.

Sept. 8, 1790. Coleman Edmundson and Frances Bowers.Surety: Sanford Bowers.Marriage Bond.THE OLD FREE STATE, p. 389.

May 12,1791.Benjamin Edmundson and Mary Tomlinson. Surety: Benjamin Orgain.Marriage Bond. VIRGINIA MARRIAGE RECORDS, p. 317.(This Benjamin was a son of Benjamin and Mary Dunn Edmundson).

Feb. 24, 1792.Benjamin Orgain and Susannah Edmundson. Surety:William Neblett.Marriage Bond.(Daughter of Benjamin and Mary Dunn Edmundson).

Nov. 26, 1792.Marriage of Upton Edmondson and Martha Hightower, Brunswick County, Virginia.(Son of Benjamin and Mary Dunn Edmondson).

Oct. 12, 1797.Daniel Robertson and Elizabeth Edmundson.Surety: Christopher Robertson.Marriage Bond.THE OLD FREE STATE.(A Register of Marriages for Bristol Parish kept by the Rev. John Cameron shows the marriage of Daniel Robertson and Betsy Edmundson, Oct. 26, 1797, in Cumberland Parish. The fee was $8.See CUMBERLAND PARISH LUNENBERG COUNTY VIRGINIA 1746-1816, p. 315). (Daughter of Benjamin and Mary Dunn Edmundson).

July 6, 1796.Polly Edmundson and John Blackwell were married in Lunenberg County by minister, John Neblett.MARRIAGES IN VIRGINIA,by Cecil D. McDonald, Jr.Also, Will Book 4, p. 133.
( She was Mary, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Dunn Edmundson).

1796/97.Upton Edmondson was commissioned Ensign of the Militia in Lunenburg by his Excellency, the Governor.Order Book 17, p. 69.

July 12, 1797. Rawleigh Hightower Senr of Brunswick County deeded to his son-in-law Upton Edmundson of Lunenburg County for love and affection several negroes Patience, Rose, Ned, Oney, Zilpah & every other species of Hightower’s property which is now in Upton’s possession.Deed Book 17, p. 489.

1800. Upton Edmundson was guardian of the orphans of Charles Parrish, deceased.Order Book 18, p. 61.

1800.Order Book 18, p. 110. Mary Edmundson, mother of William Edmundson, dec’d, Christopher Robertson and wife Constance, Benjamin Edmundson,Benjamin Orgain and Susannah his wife, John Blackwell and Mary his wife, Daniel Robertson and Betsy his wife, John Edmundson, Nancy Edmundson, Tabitha Edmundson, Thomas Edmundson, Samuel Edmundson, which said John, Nancy, Tabitha, Thomas and Samuel being minors, by Thomas Hamlin their friend against Upton Edmundson, administrator of William Edmundson, dec’d, Defendant, said William being son of Benjamin and died soon after his father.(Upton Edmundson was a son of Benjamin.He was being sued by his mother and siblings. John Edmundson married Sally Snead in 1800. He moved to Missouri.Benjamin Edmundson might have married twice: Keziah Hood, Oct. 17, 1785; Martha Tomlinson, May 12, 1791.)See EFAB No. 58, p. 50.

December, 1800. Upton Edmundson was guardian of the orphans of Benjamin Edmundson.Order Book 18, p. 125.

1805. The Lunenburg County Court shows Constance Robertson, widow of Christopher Robertson, had remarried to Stephen Wood.Order Book 19, p. 221.

1805. John Edmondson was appointed by the court as guardian of Elizabeth Robertson, Peter Robertson, Permilia Robertson, orphans of Christopher Robertson.Order Book 19, p. 227.

Sept. 10, 1805. Upton Edmundson produced a commission from the Governor appointing him Captain in the Second Battalion in the county militia.Order Book 18, p. 159.

Dec. 10, 1807.Order Book 20, p. 217, Lunenburg County. Warning P. Robertson, guardian of Eliza Robertson, orphan of Christopher Robertson deceased, complainant in chancery, against Peter, Christopher, and Permelia Robertson, infants and orphans of Christopher Robertson deceased by John Robertson especially assinged by the court their guardian to defend them in he suit, defendant. ….it is decreed and ordered that William Ellis, Thomas Ellis, Ellison Ellis, John Knight and David Thompson or any three of them do audit and settle the account current of John Edmundson administrator of the said Christopher Robertson and…to allot and assign to the complainant Eliza Robertson one equal fourth part of the slaves and other personal estate of the said deceased as her absolute right and also that the complainant’s guardian do issue a bond with approved security to the said John Edmundson.
Another court case was brought in 1814 by Elizabeth Robertson against the administrator of Christopher, evidently John Edmundson.No details.

1808.Upton Edmondson was Justice of the County Court of Lunenberg.THE OLD FREE STATE, Vol. I, p. 328.

May __, 1808.James Gunn and Tabitha Edmundson. Ministers Returns.Minister: ThomasAdams.(See Will Book 6, p. 254.Descendant Colleen Morse Elliott of Fort Worth, Texas, stated to EFAB, No. 52, p. 88, that Tabitha Edmundson who married James Gunn was the daughter of James Edmondson who moved to Lunenberg County and lived on the James River?near Rehoboth, Virginia.Wife not known. Other children: James; John who married an Overton; Emily who married Henry W. Lee.Tabitha Jane Edmondson Gunn died in 1862 in Rehoboth, Virginia.Her daughter Tabitha Jane Gunn married Arian William Foster.It is quite likely that Tabitha is the young daughter of Benjamin and Mary Edmundson listed in several documents prior to this date and not a daughter of James Edmondson.)

1810 Tax List.
Benjamin Edmundson, 1 slave.
Thomas Edmundson, 8 slaves.
Upton Edmundson, 26 slaves.

1810 Census.
Upton Edmundson0 1 0 1 02 2 0 1 026 slaves
Benjamin Edmondson2 m under 10.2 m under 16.1 m 26-45. 2 f under 10. 2 females 16-26.1 f 26-45.

Thomas Blackwell replaced Upton Edmondson as Captain in the 1st Battalion, 73rd Regiment, when Edmondson resigned.THE OLD FREE STATE,Vol. I, p. 281.

Oct. 24, 1811. Lunenburg County. Upton Edmondson & wife Patsey deeded to Wilfred Maddox of Lunenburg for 235 pounds, 17 shillings, 6 pence157 ¼ acres on the road to Jones Bridge, adjoining John Gatewood, James Jones, Edward Jordan, James Hammack, mill road, Thos Edmondson, Wilfred Maddox. Witnesses: Joseph Goodwin, Coleman Christopher, Upton Edmondson, Jr.Deed Book 22, p. 156.

Jan. 9, 1812.Upton Edmundson died before this date in Lunenburg County as his widow Martha Edmundson was granted letters of administration on the estate of Upton Edmundson.She gave bond and security according to law.Order Book 21, p. 46.

Jan. 24, 1812. Will Book 7, p. 34. Inventory and appraisal of the estate of Upton Edmondson decd in Lunenburg included 21 negroes.

Jan. 29, 1812. Will Book 7, p. 37. Account of the sale of the estate of Upton Edmondson decd in Brunswick County.Purchasers & those who hired Negroes: Wm. W. Harper (rented plantation), Leroy Tucker, Joseph Wills, Edward Pegram, Tandy Wallace, Wm Fisher, Thos Edmondson, Jason Stone, Richd Pryer, James Fisher, John Harwell, Edward Pegram, Richd Coleman, Sterling Biggs, Richd Trotter, Richd Edmund, Jesse Kennedy, John Snead, Richd Biggs, Wm Buckner, John Fisher, Alexander Walker, Thos D. Fisher, James Quarles Junr, Joseph M. Harper, Patsey Edmondson.Admx: Patsy Edmondson.

Feb. 3, 1812. Will Book 7, p. 36.Account of the Sale of the estate of Upton Edmondson decd in Lunenburg. Purchasers & those who hired negroes: Patsey Edmondson (rented plantation), Jennings Roberts, Peter Jefferson, Lewis Lambert, Wm. Lambert, Thos Jordan, Joseph Bohannon, John Laffoon, Banister Thomas, Wilfred Maddox, Reuben Rogers, James Pritchett, Abraham Buford, James Gunn, Thos Jordan, Joshua Pritchett, Daniel Reese, Benjamin Moore, Edward Jordan, Jr., Freeman Jordan Jr., Washington Maddox, Edmund Winn, Wm. Rash, Moses Collier, Turner Hamlett, Robt. Parrish Sr, Braxton R. Eckles, Thos. Edmondson, David Smith, Robt Waller, James Hinton, Hennings Justice, Josiah Nolley, Robt Pattello, Asa Barnes.

1812. Order Book 21, p. 135. Lunenburg County. John Blackwell, administrator debonis non of Upton Edmundson deceased, who was guardian of Robert Parrish, orphan of Charles Parrish decd against Matthew Hubbard surviving obligor (Henry Collierthe other obligor being dead), Defendant.

August 15, 1812. Order Book 21, p. 143. Upton Edmundson & Constant Edmundson orphans of Upton Edmundson make choice of Thomas Hamlin for their Guardian and the said Hamlin is appointed guardian of Patsey, Betsey and Tabitha Edmundson whereupon he gave bond…

August 19, 1812. Will Book 7, p. 38. Account of the estate, Jan. 30-August 12, 1812, Upton Edmondson decd with Patsey Edmondson, admx: among items listed—pair of shoes bought for Constant of a pedlar; 3 hair combs bought for Patsey, Betsey & Tabitha of a pedlar….sundry account paid to John Blackwell, administrator.

Sept. 10, 1812. Deed.John Edmondson, deceased, to Frederick Watkins.(Was this deed to Frederick Watkins Edmondson?)

August 25, 1813. Deed Book 23, p. 126, Lunenburg County. Thos Edmundson & wife Marthyto Wilfred Maddux, all of Lunenburg, $1100 for 222 ½ acres adjoining said Maddux, Lambert’s Millpond, estate of Upton Edmundson dec’d, Mrs. Widdow Blackwell. Signed by Thomas Edmundsn and by Martha Edmundson, she using an x.

Dec. 29, 1814.Michael Walker and Mary Edmundson.Surety: Benjamin Edmundson.Marriage Bond.They were married Dec. 30, 1814, by return of the minister, Charles Ogburn.(Daughter of Benjamin and Martha Edmondson).

Feb. 22, 1816.William Lambert and Constant Edmundson.Marriage bond.MinistersReturns show their marriage the same date.

August 14, 1817.Upton Edmondson and Frances Bagley.Surety: Anderson Bagley.Marriage Bond.THE OLD FREE STATE, p. 389.

1820 Census.Heads of families.
Benjamin Edmondson.1 m 10-16.1 m 16-26. 1 m over 45. 2 f10-16. 1 f 26-45.1 f over 45.
John Edmundson
Martha Edmundson

1821. Lunenburg County. Case of Martha Hubbard, plaintiff, against the administrator of Upton Edmundson.
Nov. 12, 1821.Daniel H. Robertson and Martha Edmondson.Surety: Edward Lee.Marriage bond.THE OLD FREE STATE.Ministers Returns show marriage the same day by Thomas Adams.
July 31, 1826.Sterling Lambert and Tabitha Edmondson.Surety: W.E. Robertson.Marriage bond.THE OLD FREE STATE.

Oct. 15, 1828. Power of attorney. Deed Book 28, p. 197. I Benjamin Edmundson of the county of Lunenburg and state of Virginia do make constitute & appoint Wm. Edmondson my true & lawful attorney for me in my name to receive the interest in the estate of my son Benjamin T. Edmondson dec’d in the county of Oglethorpe & state of Georgia with power also and attorney or attorneys under him for that purpose to make and substitute and to do all lawful acts requisite effecting the premises. ….. Signed: Ben Edmondson. Witnesses: William Parrott, Lawson Elder.

Sept. 14, 1829. Deed Book 28, pp. 404-405. Benjamin Edmondson, senr., Michael J. Walker, Susan Edmondson, William Edmondson, Harriss Edmondson, John Edmondson & Jane Edmondson, all of Lunenburg County, appoint William L. Wilson their attorney in the estate of Benjamin T. Edmondson jr. dec’d in Oglethorp County, Georgia. Signed: Benjamin Edmondson, Michael J. Walker, Susan Edmondson, Wm. Edmondson, Harris Edmondson, Jane B. Edmondson. Witnesses: Frs. Roberts, Lawson Elder.

Nov. 21, 1829. Deed Book 29, p. 26. Recorded Jan. 14, 1830. John Wilson and wife Mary of Brunswick County to Thomas Morgan of Lunenberg Count, $312.50 , 250 acres, lower Lunenberg (means east Lunenberg) on Stony Creek, adjoining William Edmondson, John Manson & others. Land rented to Nelson W. Gee until 25 Dec. next, but sd Morgan at liberty to carry property and work on plantation from day if Gee had no objection free of rent.

1830 Census.
William Edmundson.1 male 30-40.1 female under 5. a female 15-20. 9 slaves. 1 free colored male 24-30.(From Jo Lee Spears, Oct. 2002).

Dec. 7, 1833. Deed Book 30, p. 70A-71. Recorded Feb. 10, 1834. William Edmundson & wife Mary Ann R. to John R. Manson, all of Lunenberg, $300, 228 acres, lower end of Lunenberg County on Stony Creek, adjoining lands of late Thomas Morgan on north side, Manson on W, John C. Freeman at present overpaid by Edward R. Freeman on S (that’s what it says), on E by ….(from Jo Lee Gregory Spears, 2002).

March 23, 1835. William C. Penn and Tabitha Hardy.Surety: Harris Edmundson.Marriage Bond.THE OLD FREE STATE, P. 389.

June 11, 1838.James R. Dupree and Lucinda H. Edmundson. Surety: Daniel W. Parsons.Marriage bond.THE OLD FREE STATE.

1840 Census.
Upton Edmondson.1 male 20-30.1 male 40-50. 1 female 10-15. 1 female 40-50.
No other Edmondsons in Lunenburg.

Aug. 28, 1844.John R. Bayne and Ann B. Keeton. Surety: Upton A. Edmundson.Marriage bond.THE OLD FREE STATE.

Oct. 28, 1848.Aaron J. J. Brown and Caroline A.E. Edmundson.Surety: Reps Connally.Marriage bond.THE OLD FREE STATE.
Their daughter Rebecca J. Brown was born in 1847 in Lunenburg County and married Edmund Legion Webb, June 25, 1865, born at Liberty Hall Farm, Lunenburg County.

1850 Census.
Upton Edmondson, b. in VA about 1796. Frances Edmondson, b. in Virginia about 1799.

1870 Census.
Upton Edmundson, 85, retired farmer, b. in Virginia. Fannie Edmundson, 82, keeps house, b. in Virginia. Fannie Brown, 18. Upton Brown, 16. Connie Brown, 14. All b. in VA. Sarah Bagley, 1, mulatto, domestic servant, b. in Virginia.
A court case in 1871 in Lunenburg gives Upton Edmondson as plaintiff and Mary Frances Brown as defendant.

(Other Lunenberg marriages mentioned in EFAB, No. 83,which need documentation.)
Bette Edmondson and Robert Jackson, Marriage Record Book 12.
Bettie Edmondson and Lemon Seby. Marriage Record Book 126.
B. Edmondson and Henry Jones.Marriege Record Book, p. 50.
Ella Edmondson and Robert Stewart. Marriage Record Book, p. 46.
John Edmondson and Lucretia Inge. Marriage Record Book, p. 20. dEc
Lucy Edmondson and _______Patterson. Marriage Record Book, p. 75.
Martha W. Edmondson and Thomas Gregory (Will Book 9, p. 480)
M. Edmondson and M. Walker (Will Book 10, p. 182). This would be Mary Edmondson and Michael Walker. See above.
(Will Book 4, p. 133).

Marriages in Lunenberg County listed in EFAB, No. 103, p. 45.
July 6, 1776. John Blackwell married PollyEdmondson. Marriage Returns of the Rev. John Neblett.
Oct. 17, 1785.Benjamin Edmundson married Keziah Hood.
Oct. 6, 1792.John Edmondson, son of Coleman, married Judith Clay.
Oct. 14, 1793.Rachel Edmondson married William Phillips.Samuel Edmondson was bondsman.(She was a daughter of Samuel and Martha Edmondson who moved to Halifax County)
Dec. 16, 1793.Banister Edmondson married Janey Davis. (Brother of Rachel).
Aug. 12, 1794.Martha Edmondson married Joseph Anderson. (Sister of Rachel).
July 6, 1796.Polly Edmunson married John Blackwell.They had 6 children.Mary died in 1835.(See 1776, above).
August 8, 1796. Thomas Edmondson married Milley Arnold.
(An obituary in THE ARKANSIAN newspaper, Oct. 28, 1859, stated Thomas Edmondson, subject of the obit., was born in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Oct. 10, 1769. His uncle, aged father and older brother served in the Revolutionary War.Thomas died in Murray County, Georgia at the residence of his son James W. Edmondson at Spring Place, having lived in Arkansas a few years before moving back to be with his son. James W. Edmondson was born Jan. 4, 1798, in Virginia, which would fit the marriage date ofThomas who married Milley Arnold.Info. from Nancy Wood).

Dec. 16, 1796. Ann Edmondson married George B. Hamner.Ann was a sister of Banister Edmondson. (Sister of Rachel and Banister).
Jan. 13, 1800. Jane Edmundson married Thomas Wall.
Jan. 29, 1803.Robert Spilsby Edmondson married Nancy Singleton.Patsy Singleton was Nancy’s mother.
Oct. 15, 1810.Elizabeth Edmonson married John Budd.
Aug. 16, 1815.Richard Edmondson married Angelina Ogburn.
Dec. 17, 1825. James Edmondson married Mary Jarrott.
March 2, 1830.Angelina Edmondson married Wilshire Simmons. She was widow of Richard Edmondson.
Dec. 23, 1833.Jane Edmundson married William Tuck.

Nancy Jones married Samuel Edmundson.Her parents were Robert Jones, son of Rep Jones, and Christiana Blackwell Jones.Date needed.
They moved to Tennessee.

Emma B. Hayes married William Edmundson of Mecklenburg County.They had four children.

Ministers Returns, Lunenburg County:
August, 1817.Upton Edmundson and Frances Bagley were married.

The Martha Tomlinson who married Benjamin Edmondson in 1791, was probably Patty Tomlinson, daughter of Benjamin Tomlinson who was Vestryman from 1782-1780, and reached the rank of colonel in the Revolution (CUMBERLAND PARISH LUNENBERG COUNTY VIRGINIA, 1746-1816, p.295).

Upton A. Edmundson, probably a son ofUptonEdmundson, andgrandson of Benjamin Edmundson and Mary Dunn Edmundson, andgreat- grandson of Upton Edmundson of Amelia County, represented Lunenburg in the Legislature from 1846-1849.He married Frances Bagley, daughter of Anderson Bagley.They had:
1.       Upton Edmundson, a soldier in the War with Mexico, 1846-47,who died unmarried.
2.       Caroline Edmundson who married Aaron J.J. Brown (his second wife) of Nottaway County.They moved to Lunenburg and lived not far from the town of Kenbridge.They had: Upton E. Brown who married Alice Williams of Lunenburg County.Constance Brown who married Edward Gills of Lunenburg County and lived at the old Edmundson home near Fletcher’s Chapel Church.

1830 Census.
John Edmundson
Upton Edmundson
William Edmundson

1850 Census.
p. 34. Upton Edmundson, 54. Frances, 57.Both born in VA.

1864. J.B. Edmondson was a soldier in a company serving from Lunenberg County under Col. Beale.THE OLD FREE STATE,Vol. I.

William Edmundson (1773-)
Is this the William Edmundson who lived on Stony Creek in east Lunenburg near Brunswick?

He had at least four children:
1.       William Edmundson, b. Feb. 22, 1800, in Virginia.
2.       Jane Bonner Edmundson, born in 1807.Married Hartwell Reekes, Nov. 24, 1834, in Lunenberg County.She died in the 1870’s in Cheatham County, TN.
3.       Harris (or Harrison) Edmundson . Probably the man who was surety for the marriage of William C. Penn to Tabitha Hardy, March 23, 1835, in Lunenberg County.
4.       Martha Jane Edmundson who married a Richmond.
5.       Possibly a daughter who married a Yarbrough.
6.       Possibly Mary Elizabeth Edmundson who married a Richardson.

William Edmundson, son of William,was born in 1800 and died Oct. 3, 1876. He had at least three children:
1.       Thomas Edmundson
2.       William Henry Edmundson, b. March 21, 1836, in Virginia. Married Mary Josephine Foster and died Jan. 5, 1905.Had twelve children. He moved to Tennessee where his son Robert Upton Edmundson was born April 15, 1879, in Montgomery County. Robert Upton Edmundson married Mary Edna Caldwell. He died Nov. 6, 1950, had five surviving children one of whom was Ruth Hawthorn Edmondson, b. in 1912.
3.       Robert Edmundson.

(Information in letters from Mrs. Frank Gordon, Clawson, Michigan, and Audrey Hiltz of Detroit, Michigan, printed in EFAB, No. 58.)

MECKLENBURG COUNTY.Formed from St. James Parish, Lunenburg, in 1765.Boydton is county seat today.

Jan. 16, 1765. A deed in Lunenburg County records is for land which fell into Mecklenburg when it was formed. Deed Book 10, p. 97. William Edmondson deeded to Richard Coleman Edmondson of Lunenrburg all that land that shall descend to him by dec’d father’s will, it being part of the land that his dec’d father lived on, on branches of Miles Creek, 101.25 acres. Signed: William Edmondson.

October 10, 1765.Benjamin, Thomas and Margaret Edmondson are shown as orphans of Thomas Edmonson, Senr., deceased.Guardians Book, 1765-1800.

Oct. 14, 1765.Guardians Book, 1765-1800.Benjamin Edmonson and Margaret Edmonson are under the guardianship of Thomas Edmonson.
(EARLY SETTLERS OF MECKLENBURG, Vol. II, p. 162).
Oct. 14, 1765. Deed Book 1, p. 192. Samuel Edmonson, planter, sold to Richard Coleman Edmonson, for 10 pounds 5 shillings sterling,land acreage not stated, on Miles Creek, adjoining Robert Ruffin. Witnesses: Owen Carter, John Cox. Signed by Saml. Edmonson.Recorded Oct. 14, 1765. (EARLY SETTLERS OF MECKLENBURG, Vol. II, p. 101).

June 9, 1766. Deed Book 1, p. 205. Upton Edmundson is cited as a neighbor of Amos Hix who was deeding land to John Tabb. Other neighbors: William Holmes, Robert Ruffin, Samuel Holmes. On Miles Creek.(EARLY SETTLERS OF MECKLENBURG, Vol. II, p. 102).

Sept. 19, 1766. Deed Book 1, p. 371. Samuel Edmundson, et alia. Samuel Edmundson and Richard Coleman Edmundson of Mecklenburg County to Abram Mitchell of Orange County for 50 pounds 152 acres on the north side of Miles Creek, part of a tract taken up by Upton Edmundson, adjoining Robert Ruffin, Richard Coleman Edmundson and Benjamin Edmundson. Witnesses: Henry Brown, Elizabeth (x) Brown; Margaret (x) Edmondson.Signed by Samuel Edmondson and Richard C. Edmundson.Recorded April 13, 1767.Elizabeth, wife of Richard Coleman Edmundson, personally appeared in court and released her dower rights, March 9, 1777.Deed Book 5, p. 215.(EARLY SETTLERS OF MECKLENBURG, Vol. II, p. 117).

March 9, 1777. Deed Book 5, p.215.Joshua Moss of Mecklenburg County deeded to Samuel Edmundson of Mecklenburg for 30 pounds 30 acres adjoing Roberts Spring Brance, Little Creek, Thomas Durham Madkins & Edmundson.

Oct. 27, 1777. Deed Book 5, p. 185. Benjamin Edmonson of Mecklenburg Countyleased to Richard Lewis of Mecklenburg 100 acres, apparently with no improvements, for 7 years, the first two years free providing Lewis would construct a dwelling and other buildings specified. Witnessed by Roger Gregory, James Simmons, Catey Brown, Richard Edmondson, Ann Simmons.This was located on the north side of Crab Tree Branch.He sold this land April 8, 1779, to Samuel Simmons.The land adjoined Samuel Simmons, Mr. Mary Tabb, Mr. Suggitt, Robinson, Pistole, Mecklin and Mason’s line. Witnessed by Richard Edmondson, Samuel Edmondson, Thomas Burnett. (Richard and Samuel were his first cousins, sons of Thomas and Grissell Edmundson)

Richard Coleman Edmondson was a son of Thomas Edmondson and Grissell Coleman Edmondson of Essex County, who moved to Lunenburg County about 1756.He was said by some to have married three times.However,record of his service in the Revolutionary War says he was marriedto Elizabeth Brown about 1762-64by whom he had: Richard Coleman Edmondson, Jr.; Robert Spilsby Edmondson.Elizabeth Brown was born about 1742 in King and Queen County. Theirson Richard Coleman Edmondson Jr.married Frances Bowers, Sept. 8, 1790, and secondly, Elizabeth Featherstone, May 18, 1812, (pronounced Fairston).
Robert Spilsby Edmondsonwas born May 1, 1780, and married Nancy Singleton, Jan. 29, 1803.They moved to Tishimingo County, MI.
Richard Coleman Edmondson, Sr., died in Mecklenburg in 1810.

A list of colonial soldiers included Samuel Edmondson in Mecklenburg County.He might have served in the regiment of Col. William Byrd.(EARLY SETTLERS OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY VIRGINIA, Vol. I, by Katherine B. Elliott, p. 184).He provided 1.175 cwt of beef. Order Book 5, p. 125.

Sept. 20, 1779. Deed Book 6, p. 19. Samuel Edmundson was a bounding landownere of a 250 acre tract Josiah Tanner sold to Frances Hester where Tanner lived.

1782.Tax Lists.
Benjamin Edmundson, p. 33.1 white.
Richard Edmundson, p. 32. 7 whites, 2 blacks.
Samuel Edmundson, p. 32.8 whites, 4 blacks.
Oct. 17, 1785.Benjamin Edmundson married Keziah Hood, according to one record, in Mecklenberg County.

August 8, 1788. Grant of 13 acres on the north side of Allens Creek beginning at Stephen Mallett Senior’s line to Samuel Edmundson.See Land Office Grants, No. 18, 1788-1789, p. 292, Virginia Land Office.

Mecklenberg County Census of 1790.
Richard Edmudson
Samuel Edmundson
Benjamin Edmundson

September 8, 1790. Marriage Records, p. 11, # 246.Coleman Edmondson married Frances Bowers. (This would be Richard Coleman Edmondson, Jr.)They would divorce a few years later due to his infidelity.He then married Elizabeth Featherstone with whom he already had several children whom he legitimized.

Nov. 5, 1791. Deed Book 8, p. 146. John and Rachel Roberts for good will and affection to Samuel Edmondson.Livestock and personal property. Witnesses: Banister Edmondson, Nancy Edmondson, Thomas Edmondson. Recorded July 9, 1792.A deed in Deed Book 8, p. 458, reverses this gift. This deed was witnessed by Banister Edmondson and Jane Edmondson and recorded Sept. 8, 1794.This suggests a family relationship but why was the deed reversed?

1800 Property Tax List.
Benjamin Edmondson, 1;Coleman Edmondson, 1: Richard Edmondson, 2, with son Spilsby; Thomas Edmondson, 1. (EARLY SETTLERS OF MECKLENBURG,Vol. II, pp. 177, 187).

Taxpayers, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, 1810.
Benjamin Edmundson and son Frederick.2 men and 2 horses.March 6, p. M-8.
Sterling Edmundson.One man and one woman in household.
Spilsby Edmundson.One white man.1 horse. Nov. 14.
Charles Edmonson.One man. 14 slaves.No women shown.
John Edmundson.6 slaves. 2 horses.No man shown. (Another source says 13 slaves and 7 horses). Was this the man who had land in Lunenburg County who died about 1812.
Richard C. Edmundson.Two white men. 7 slaves. 7 horses.March 29.
Coleman Edmundson. One white man.1 horse.
(From: A SUPPLEMENT TO THE CENSUS OF 1810 OF VIRGINIA. For counties for which the census is missing.Netti-Schreiner-Yantis, Library of Congress Cat. # 70-165302, 1971).

Sterling Edmondson married Rebecca Taylor in Knox County, TN,July 27, 1816.Was he the man above?Said to be the son of Benjamin Edmondson ofMecklenburg County, VA, and Blount County, TN.

Oct. 20, 1817. Deed Book 17, p. 91.Richard Coleman Edmondson to Richard H. Edmondson, County of Mecklenburg, State of Virginia, in consideration of natural love and affection which he bears his son, Richard H. Edmondson, and in consideration of $1.00, a tract of land on the headwaters of Miles Creek, which said Richard C. Edmondson purchasedof???Cradle, unto the said Richard H. Edmondson, 90 acres….etc.”Signed: Richard Edmondson (Richard Coleman Edmondson)(A researcher for Mrs. Stella Edmondson Richards reported the above, saying the Edmondson property was near the border of Mecklenberg and Lunenburg counties.He called attention to two Elizabeth Edmondsons in the records, one being the second wife of Richard Coleman Edmondson, Jr., and one his mother, the elder Elizabeth Edmondson, who was Elizabeth Brown, daughter of Henry).

1820 Census.
Elizabeth Edmondson, p. 162.
FrancesC. Edmondson, p. 155.
Richard H. Edmondson, p. 155, farmer. (Died in 1828)

1830 Census.
Wesley F. Edmonson
Benjamine Edmundson

Nov. 24, 1834.Jane Bonner Edmondson married Hartwell Reekes in Mecklenburg County.She was born in Virginia in 1807, the daughter of William Edmondson (born Feb. 10, 1773.
Hartwell and Jane Edmondson Reekes moved to Clarkesville, Montgomery County, TN.Jane’s brothers were: Harrison (Harris) and William, born Feb. 22, 1800, in Lunenburg County.Her sister Mary Elizabeth Edmondson married ______Robertson.Her brother William died Oct. 3, 1876, probably in TN.He had: Thomas, William Henry and Robert.

William Hart (Henry?) Edmondson of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, moved in 1837 to DeKalb County, Mississippi, and in 1838 to Jasper County.He married Melinda Street there in 1840.See Mississippi for their descendants in Clark County, in 1860.

Jan. 7, 1837. Wesley Featherstone Edmondson married Elizabeth Smith Simmons, daughter of Samuel Simmons and Elizabeth Edmondson Simmons.His wife was born Nov. 27, 1802, in Virginia and died Sept. 13, 1882.

Dec. 18, 1838.Charles R. Edmondson married Ann E. Arnold.Gill Family Bible.(Another note says the marriage bond was dated Dec. 9, 1839. Bond by Harwell Arnold.Is the year copied wrong?)

Gill Family Bible owned by Nell Edmondson Jones. .
C.R. Edmondson married Dec. 18, 1838, Ann E. Arnold.
Children: Angeline V.F. Edmondson, b. Jan. 6, 1840.
Martha Edmondson, b. Nov. 20, 1842.
JosephEdmondson, b. Oct. 27, 1843.
Charles R. Edmondson, b. Dec. 18, 1845.
Martha V. E. Edmondson, b. August, 1848.
(It appears the first Martha died and another child was given her name, as was done in many other known similar situations).
V.F. Edmondson (Angeline) married L. Moss, Dec. 31, 1860.
Charles R. Edmondson was a son of Richard Coleman Edmondson.Ann E. Arnold was the daughter of Joseph and Martha Arnold and was born Sept. 23, 1821.Ann died Dec. 22, 1891.

1850 Census.
p. 91. John H. Edmondson, 53, overseer. Edy, 49. Amanda, 20. Elizabeth, 16. John, 10. All b. in VA.
p. 111. James Edmondson, 21, b. in VA.
p. 76. James W. Edmondson, 28, merchant. Martha A., 26.Sarah, 5. All b. in VA.
p. 82. Charles R. Edmondson, 32, merchant.Ann F., 30.Victoria, 10. Joseph, 7. Martha, 3.Edwin P., 25, brother of Charles.All b. in VA.
The family lived in Regiment 98.

Charles Richard Edmondson, son of Richard Henry Edmondson and grandson of Richard Coleman Edmondson, Jr., married Ann Arnold, daughter of Joseph and Martha Arnold. She was born Sept. 23, 1821.They had: Angeline Victoria F. Edmondson, Martha Edmondson who died young; Joseph Edmondson; Charles R. Edmondson; Martha V.E. Edmondson, born in 1848.See the Gill Bible, Mecklenburg County.

1860 Census.
C.R. Edmunson, 40, Regiment 98.Ordinary Keeper. Post Office: South Hill and Boydton. Ann Edmunson, 38. Angeline, 19. Joseph, 16.Martha, 12. Courtney, 7.Twelve persons staying at the inn.

1870, 1880, 1900.Samuel Washington Edmondson of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, had a son Richard H. Edmondson,living in Panola County, Texas.This family moved to Tennessee.

1870 Census. Boydton.Joseph H. Edmondson, b. about 1844 in VA. Margaret F. Edmonson, b. about 1848 in VA. Richard H. Edmonson, 1, b. in VA.(Son of Charles Richard Edmondson).

1880 Census, Mecklenburg County.
James W. Edmondson, 28.Emma F., 24.James L., 4.Mattie S., 2.All born in Virginia.

Chas. R. Edmundson, 61, b. in Virginia. Speculator in Tobacco. Parents born in VA. Ann E., wife, 59, b. in VA. Parents b. in VA.Lived at Buckhorn, Mecklenburg County.

Rehoboth Church Cemetery, River Road, Rt. 707, 4 miles from Boydton, Virginia.
Haynie Stokes EdmonsonAug. 2, 1883-Oct. 15, 1946
George Stokes EdmonsonSept. 23, 1922-Jan. 22, 1924

Ogburn Cemetery, South Lawn on Rt. 47, 6 miles west of South Hill:
Emma Frances Hayes, wife of J.W. Edmonson, born Sept. 6, 1856. Died 17 January, 1891.
James Lewis Edmonson, b. Sept. 6, 1875.Died Dec. 2, 1899.

James W. Edmonson married Emma Hayes Dec. 2, 1874, South Lawn, Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
James W. Edmonson married 27 June, 1894Florence W. Hayes.He died June 28, 1921.Florence died March 23, 1919.
Haynie Stokes Edmonson married Oct. 19, 1908, Nell Bugg Jones.
Bettie Ann Edmondson m. Sam McCargo Warren,May 9, 1916.
Mattie Sue Edmonson m. April 27, 1927, J. Aubrey Holmes in Washington, D.C.
Bible owned by Nell Jones Edmonson, Baskerville, Virginia.
(Children of Haynie Stokes Edmonson)
James Watkins Edmonson, b. Dec. 2, 1909.
Sam Jones Edmonson, b. Feb. 21, 1911.
Haynie Hayes Edmonson, b. April 14, 1914.
Dan Hutcheson Edmonson, b. Nov. 12, 1916.
Mary Sue Edmonson, b. May 28, 1920.
George Stokes, b. Sept. 23, 1922.
James Stokes Edmonson, son of Sam Jones Edmonson and Marjorie T. Edmonson, was born June 22, 1940.William Treadway Stokes Edmonson was born Sept. 3, 1944.
Haynie Hayes Edmonson and his wife Annette Shumaker Edmonson had three children: Charles Dan Edmonson, b. Dec. 25, 1946.
George Hayes Edmonson, b. Feb. 2, 1950.
Lynda Bugg Edmonson, b. April 25, 1955.

RevisedAugust 4,2008.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY, Virginia.
Formed in 1673 from old Lancaster County.It lay south of the Rappahannock River and east of Essex County (1692), jutting into Chesapeake Bay). Christ Church, Lancaster County, was formed early. A vestry book from 1663-1767 survived and was read by Bishop William Meade as he compiled his OLD CHURCHES, MINISTERS AND FAMILIES.Two parishes combined in 1666 to form Christ Church. The Rev. Mr. Cole was minister of the two early churches in 1657. Henry Corbin was first secretary of the parish after the union in 1666. The church was built on the model of the Williamsburg church, near the Rappahannock and between Brandon and Rosegill, two famous estates.The Rev. Mr. Morris was dismissed and an appeal was sent to England for a new minister. The Rev. Mr. Shepheard served until his death in 1688.The Rev. Bartholomew Yates was minister for many years, dying in 1734. This eminent man was related to several ministers of the Yates family who served in nearby parishes. His son Bartholomew succeeded him and served until 1767.

James Edmunston dyed March ye 23 and was buried March ye 24 1726.
(The Parish Register of Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia, 1653-1812.National Society of Colonial Dames, 1897.P. 184).
(Who was this James Edmunston?)
May 23, 1726. James Edmondson Jr. & Christian Gregory were married in Christ Church Parish.(Research of Suzanne Derieux, provided to SWE by Lee Edmundson, 2006. This disagrees with another reference which says they were marriedFeb. 2, 1731.James Edmundson married Christiana Gregory, Christ Church Parish.MARRIAGES IN VIRGINIA,by Cecil D. McDonald, Jr.
(James was of the Essex County family, eldest son of James Edmondson and Judith Alleman Parr Edmondson).

April 12, 1753.William Upshaw Davis of NC wrote to John Lewis, attorney in King and Queen County, mentioning John Edmondson and William Dunn, assignees of Waters Dunn. (Chancery Suits, Court Papers.MIDDLESEX COUNTY VIRGINIA: WILLS AND INVENTORIES, 1673-1812,by W.L. Hopkins).John Edmondson was of the Essex County family.

July 7, 1753.William Upshaw Davis had 449 ¾ acres surveyed in Middlesex,adjoining John Thurston, John Kidd, Henry Johnson, Allden, Meachan, Thomas Kidd, Parson Thacker, Thomas Edmondson, John Bristow and John Thurston, Sr. (Middlesex County Surveys).
(Which Thomas Edmondson? )

Feb. 8, 1779/27 Sep 1779.Will of ___Evans. Wife, Mary Evans. Two daughters, Mary Evans and Sally Evans.Son, Thomas Evans, under 21, to receive the money in the hands of William Edmundson of Essex County. (MIDDLESEX COUNTY VIRGINIA: WILLS AND INVENTORIES, 1673-1812, by W.L. Hopkins).

April 30, 1782.William Meredithand Judith Edmondson of King and Queen County were married in Middlesex County. (Parish Register of Christ Church Parish, p. 208).
Richard Stalker and Elizabeth Emmerson were married April 14, 1784.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Virginia.

1810 Tax List.Henry Edmundson, 4 slaves.
Published in The Family Visitor, Richmond, Virginia:
Nov. 1, 1823.Married in Montgomery County by the Rev. William Harrison, Major Walter D. Blair to Miss Ellen B. Edmundson, daughter of Major Henry Edmundson.(See file for Edmondsons of Southwest Virginia)
1820 Census. Heads of families.
Henry Edmundson

1830 Census: Henry Edmundson

1850 Census.
P. 3. James P. Edmondson, 35, lawyer, b. in VA.
p. 72. Maria Edmondson, 56. William R., 23. David, 22. Mary, 23, twin of William. Sarah, 19. All b. in VA.

NANSEMOND COUNTY, Virginia.
Formed from Upper Norfolk County in 1646.Its territory was part of original Elizabeth City County when it was formed in 1634, one of the original shires in colonial Virginia.In 1636,the part ofElizabeth City County south of the James became Norfolk County.This was again divided in 1637into Upper Norfolk and Lower Norfolk.Upper Norfolk was changed to“Nansimum” in1646 .In 1744, the Virginia Assembly set the boundary between Suffolk Parish (founded in 1737) and the Upper Parish.Nansemond County records were destroyed by firein 1734, 1779 and 1866.

The Upper Parish includedthe area of Nansemond south of Brewer Creek on the east side of the Nansemond River and from the Western Branch on the west side of the Nansemond.The town of Suffolk,dating from 1742, was in the Upper Parish, not in Suffolk Parish.The Vestry book of the Upper Parish covers the years 1743 to 1793.Lee Edmundson provided this andother early history of the Upper Parish:
“A list of the Parishes in Virginia”,dated June 30, 1680, showed Mr. John Gregory as minister of the Upper Parish.Vestry records dated Dec. 29, 1744, show:“This day the Vestry met and Whereas Capt. Wm Wright, Capt Jno Gregory and Mr. Jno Milner Late Vestry men Are by Act of Assembly taken into Suffolk parish…..the Vestry elected their successors”.The association of the Gregorys with the Edmondsonsin old Rappahannock County is of record.

1672.William Edmundson, the great Quaker missionary, visited Nansemond.

1704/1705.Rent Roll of Nansemond.No Edmondsons.

August 2, 1724.Isle of Wight Deeds, Great Book, Vol. 2, 1715-1726, p. 663.Hodges Councill, the Younger, and wife Katherin Councill of the lower parish of Isle of Wight Countydeed to William Edmondson of the upper parish of Nansemond County….129 acres in the lower parish on Blackwater Riveradjoining Richard Watters being part of a patent granted Hodges Council the Elder on 20 April 1682. and willed it to his grandson the said Hodges Councill the Younger on 9 August 1699.Witnessed by Stephen Darden, William Goling, Hodges Councill, James Holland.Recorded 28 September 1724.(Provided by Beverly Brunelle, March, 2006).

Vestry Book of the Upper Parish, Nansemond County, Virginia, 1743-1793, Virginia State Library, 1981, p. 53 (original minutes).

At vestry meeting held in Suffolk town, Oct. 21, 1751, for the upper parish:
To: Doctr. Thomas Edmonson for keeping Widdow Green Nine months at 1000 per year.(Payment was in pounds of tobacco).

The “Widdow Green” first appears in Vestry recordsOctober 14, 1748.Elizabeth Greenhad been kept four months, 17 days, by Sarah Johns for which she was paid 383 pounds of tobacco.The record of Oct. 16, 1749, shows Edward Miles being paid 800 pounds “for keeping Elizabeth Green 9 months”.The record of November 5, 1750, shows another payment to Miles for keeping her for 4 ½ months and six months board, 500 pounds.The next entry related to Widdow Green pertains to Dr. Edmonson as given above.Neither Widdow Green nor Dr. Edmonson is mentioned again in Vestry records.Several other doctors are mentioned forservices to various parties:Dr. Wm Flemming, Dr. Arthur Gourley, Dr. Robert Brown, Dr. Jesse Brown.

Members of the Webb family, long associated with Edmondsons in Essex,are linked to the Upper Parish.The Rev. William Webb was received by the Vestry on the King’s Bounty for Virginia, April 7, 1747.He served as minister for 13 years, resigning as rector in 1760 to become master of the Grammar School of the College of William and Mary.Other Webbs are found in the Vestry Book, James Webb in 1747 and Richard Webb, Dec. 19, 1747,for keeping Richard Rack.Richard Webb was appointed Clerk of the Vestry in May, 1751.

NELSON COUNTY, Virginia
Nelson was formed in 1806 fromthe northern half ofAmherst.Amherst had been taken from the southern halfof original Albemarle in 1761.

NEW KENT COUNTY, Virginia
Formed in 1654 from the upper part of old York County (1642).It lay between the Pamunkey and Chickahominy rivers with James City County (1634) on the east andCharles City County (1634) on the south.From it, King William, King and Queen and Hanover were later formed.Hanover County (1721) lay farthest west.King and Queen was taken from New Kent in 1691 and and King William taken from King and Queen in 1701.Part of King William was cut into Caroline in 1725.

Nov. 3, 1688.The Vestry of St. Peter’s Parish, New Kent County, meeting at St. Peter’s Upper Church, agreed to pay to Mr. Gideon Macon as assigne of John Edmondson for work done at ye Low Church.Capt. Gideon Macon was present.(Vestry Book and Register of St. Peter’s Parish, New Kent and James City Counties 1684-1786. P. 17)
Macon was a member of the vestry.

Oct. 26, 1699.John Higginson received 2087 acres in New Kent County for importing 42 persons including Thomas Edmundson.Recorded Oct. 31, 1716.(Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 3, p. 187)

These Edmondsons are possibly related to Thomas Edmondson of Essexbut are not his descendants,it would appear.A connection must be proved.What happened to them?Some of the “orphan” Edmondsons in Virginia are likely their descendants, moving into northeastern NC in the early 1700’s.

NORFOLK COUNTY,Virginia
Formed in 1636 from Elizabeth City County.Divided in 1637 into Upper Norfolk and Lower Norfolk.In 1646, Upper Norfolk became Nansemond.
Nov. 21, 1698.John Edmundson and his wife Elizabeth sold land to a Smith.Was this in Norfolk County?
April 20, 1689.John Smith received 200 acresin Lower Norfolk County for importing Ann Edmundson and3 others.Patent Book 6.(From Sally Giddens Davis).

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Marriage Bonds, 1783-1850.No Edmondsons.
Wills and Administrations, 1713-1743.No Edmondsons.
Wills and Administrations, 1750-1770.No Edmondsons.
Wills and Administrations, 1770-1783.No Edmondsons.

NOTTAWAY COUNTY, VIRGINIA
1800.       Deed from John McRae, merchant of Petersburg, to Samuel Morgan. A tract of land in Nottoway, known commonly as “Burnt Ordinary” and also Morganville, formerly known as “Edmundson’s Old Ordinary.Nottaway Deeds Book 2, p. 203.

1907.       The Diary of Judge Watson.He speaks of fox hunting near Daniel Robertson’s old place near the Appomattox River,Nov. 9, 1907. He described another fox hunt at “Mill Quarter”, former home of Hilary Harris and now the property of Edmondson of Pittsburgh.See: Notes on Southside Virginia, Bulletin of Virginia State Library.

ORANGE COUNTY, Virginia

Original Orange included many later counties on the Virginia frontier.It was created in 1734 from the western portion of Spotsylvania County. Counties created from it include Frederick, Augusta, Culpepper, Madison, Greene, Shenandoah, Rockbridge, much of West Virginia and all of Kentucky.

1736.        Taxables: Thomas Edmundson, 5 taxables.
Thomas Edmundson (appears to be a different Thomas)

1738.Tithe List. In the precinct of James Pickett, Constable, Thomas Edmondson, 1, living in Henry Downs’ Quarter, p. 295.
1739.Tithe List.Elijah Daniel, Constable.John McCoy at Thomas Edmondson’s Courter (quarter), 5 tithes.(Virginia Tax Records, p. 294)

1746.       Taxables: Thomas Edmundson, 7 taxables.
Joseph Edmundson, 4 taxables.

Nov. 25, 1747.Sukey Edmondson, daughter of John Edmondson of Essex County, married John Wyatt (Wiatt), gentleman, of Spotsylvania,the first marriage found in the marriage records of Orange County.There was a pre-nuptial agreement between Thomas Wiatt of Essex and Sukey Edmondson.
(MARRIAGES OF ORANGE COUNTY VA, by Knorr, p. 96. Orange County Deeds, Book 11, p. 79, for marriage bond.See also: Virginia Historic Marriage Register, Orange County, 1747-1850,by J. Vogt and T.W. Kethley, Jr.) Sukey’s widowed mother married Gabriel Jones and lived in Orange.

1758. Tithables in John Williams’ Precinct:
Thomas Edmondson, 7
Joseph Edmondson, 4

1764.        Orange County Deed Book 14: A list of Surveys made in Orange County in 1764 included James Edmondson, 1.

March 4, 1774.Orange County Deed Book 16, pp. 260-162. An indenture between Andrew Trible and Sarah, his wife, of Louisa County, and Brumfield Long of Orange County …for 35 pounds…for which they sold 75 acres bounded by Joseph Dunkin, Mr. John Stevens, Edward Stephens.Presence of: Joseph Edmondson, Robert Chandler, Joseph Bell, Thornberry Boling. Recorded Sept. 22, 1774.

1774.       Sukey Edmondson m. Robert Chandler.VIRGINIA MARRIAGE RECORDS, p. 467.Deed Book 17.(Daughter of Martha “Patty” Stevens Edmondson and Joseph ? Edmondson/William ?)

1778.       Allowances of money were ordered to Peter Montague, Jere Chandler and Joseph Edmondson, soldiers in service.(ORANGE IN THE REVOLUTION, HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTYVA, by W.W. Scott, 1904, p. 71).

1785.Patty Edmondson is shown in the Orange CountyTax Lists, p. 97,with 6 whites, a dwelling and two other buildings.She was a sisterof Gen. Edmund Stevens.(See Washington County, Kentucky, to which she moved by 1790).

Joseph Edmondson of Orange served in the 14th Continental Line Regiment. He came to Orange County in 1788 according to one reference.He would appear to be a son ofJoseph Edmondson and Martha Stevens Edmondson.

1790.Patty Edmonson gave consent for the marriage of her daughterBetsy to Joshua Embree in Washington County, KY.

1792.Patty Edmonson is on the Tax List inWashington County, KY, with 2000 acres of land.

May 20, 1802.Patty Edmonson received a gift of 950 acres on Cartwrights Creek, Washington County, Kentucky, from her brother Gen. Edward Stevens and his wife Gilly of Culpeper County, VA.
She made herwill Jan. 11, 1802.It was proved in February, 1803, in Washington County, KY.Sons: John, James, Joseph, Robert.Daughters: Polly Chandler, Sally Evanson, Nancy Bland and Betty Embree.Executor was Robert Edmonson.

August 25, 1820.The will of General Edward Stevens (wife Gilly/Grizzell Coleman) of Culpepper County, Virginia, recorded in Washington County, Kentucky, left land to the children and grandchildrenofhis sister Patty Stevens Edmondson: the children of Joseph Edmondson, deceased; John Edmondson, James Scanland,William Edmondson,BetseyEmery, late Betsy Edmondson,Robert Edmondson “who may not be alive, as I am told he never married and had no children”, the children of Robert Chandler, deceased, Edward Evans and John ? Bland who married Nancy Edmonson.
(If I can interpret this, it seems Joseph, John, and Robert were sons of Patty Stevens Edmonson.Joseph had died at this date, as had probably Robert.A son James in her will would be James Scanland Edmondson.Adaughter, Betsy,married Joshua Embree and then Thomas Spencer; another daughter, Susannah, married Robert Chandler, and a third daughter,Nancy,married John? Bland.A fourth daughter Sally, named in Patty’s will,married Edward Evans or Evanson.Patty Stevens husbandis not clear,possibly the older Joseph Edmondson shown in Orange County.

(See Culpepper County, Virginia, and Washington County, KY.)

STEVENS

John Stevens of the Parish of Abingdon, Gloucester County, Virginia, died before1707 in Gloucester County. He married Mary (Mumford?) A deed datedJune 9, 1671, shows he bought 600 acres in the County of Rappahannock on the south side of the Freshes of the Rappahannock River from John Prosser, who also sold land William Daniel, James Lindsay and Thomas Jackson, later of Caroline County.Old Rappahannock Deeds 1677-1682, Antient Press, RK.Dw-09, p. 86.
He and Mary had:
1.       Edward Stevens,b. about1662, possibly the eldest son. He married Martha, probably the daughter of Valentine Lane. He owned land in St. Mary’s Parish, Essex, andand later Caroline County. He was buried January 21, 1731/32.See below.
2.       John Stevens who married Ann Griffin, daughter of Thomas Griffin (whose will was made in Essex, April 27, 1720.Will Book 3, pp. 156-157).Her mother was Ann Thomas, daughter of Robert Thomas (his will was dated Jan. 1, 1714, and recorded Jan. 13, 1714).John left no will. His widow Ann Griffin Stevens was granted letters of administration after he died May 17, 1724.She declared to the court “that the said John Stevens departed this life without making any Will so far as she knows”.Anne Stevens, Benjamin Edmundson and Thomas Edmundson made bond for her administration.Essex County Order Book 1723-1725. ( A SUPPLEMENT TO PAMUNKEY NEIGHBORSOF ORANGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA,p. 25)There might have been one child, Stephen Stephens, who sold 100 acres in Southfarnham Parish which land his father John Stevens was in possession of at his decease.(Essex Deed Book 20, p. 16, Feb. 27, 1727/28.
3.       Henry Stevens, b. about 1670, and died before 1727 when his son, Thomas Stevens sold 50 acres in St. Mary’s Parish to Mumford Stevens. Henry’s wife Rebecca died Oct. 7, 1730.In March 1713/14, Robert Thomas, Junr. Of St. Mary’s Parish sold Henry Stephens ofAbington Parish, Gloucester County, 500 acres in St. Mary’s Parish. Witnesses were: Geo. Moore, Edward Stevens, Junr., John Stevens. Sarah Thomas, wife of Robert, relinquished her dower rights.
4.       James Stevens was baptized April 2, 1677.He was living in King & Queen County in 1721.He married(1) Sarah and (2) Mary.He moved to Spotsylvania County by 1735 as he bought 200 acres of land in St. George Parish of that county.(Spotsylvania Deeds C, 1734-1742.)
5.       Charles Stevens was baptized May 8, 1681. He married(1) Mary and before 1717, (2) Sarah.His third wife was Elizabeth. His will was signed in 1726 and probated in 1727 (Spotsylvania Will Book A, 1722-1749, p. 61).His widow, Elizabeth, was Executrix. She married William Bledsoe.Charles’ will gave his land in Essex County to Elizabeth and then to his son Mumford Stevens who had no heirs at the time.He had two daughters Mattie and Elizabeth Stevens.A deed recorded at Essex County Court, July 18, 1727, showed the sale of 50 acres inSt. Mary’s Parish, Essex County, for five pounds, by Thomas Stevens ofParish of Abingdon, Gloucester County.This land was part of a patent granted to Robert Thomas. Witnesses: John Griffin, James Stevens and Gabriel Tombs.

Edward Stevens, son of John and Mary Stevens, b. about 1662, had land in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County,and inSt. Mary’s Parish, Essex County, later Caroline County.In 1718 he sold “All that land I properly hold except 118 acres which I give to my Son, James Stevens, in St. Mary’s Parish in Essex County.”The deed was witnessed by Henry Stevens, Edward Stevens, Junr., and John Lane.He married Martha (Lane?).They had:
1.       Mary Stevens, baptized April 13, 1684.
2.       John Stevens, b. May 10, 1685. Apparently died young.
3.       Edward Stevens, baptized July 19, 1687,and died in January, 1752. He married Elizabeth.He sold land in Essex to his brother, James Stevens “which was part of the Land that descended to me from my grandfather, John Stevens”.Essex County Deeds, 1724-1728.
4.       Martha Steven, b. March 9, 1689/90 (one source says and another says 1686).She married William Edmundson in Gloucester County. (Researchers have tried to interchange her with Martha Stevens, sister of Gen. Edward Stevens, who died in 1803. This is obviously an error. The other Martha Stevens married an Edmundson, too, his first name not yet known, about two generations later).
5.       James Stevens who died in 1744. Will made March 18, 1744, and probated April 12, 1744.See Caroline County Order Book.The estate was settled May 10, 1751.John Lane sold James Stevens 200 acres in Essex, being part of 600 acres bought of John Prosser by John Stevens, 9th June, 1671. The deed was acknowledged in Essex Court, March 15, 1725/26. (Essex County Deeds and Wills, 1724-1728)He married Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of John Thomas and Katherine Harrison of Essex County.
6.       Rebeccah Stevens, baptized April 3, 1698.
7.       Valentine Stevens, baptized Feb. 18, 1699/1700.
8.       Sarah Stevens, baptized August 31, 1701.
9.       John Stevens, baptized Oct. 17, 1703. Married Feb. 21, 1725/26, to Mary Whiting.

John Stevens (1703-1753)
John Stevens, son of Edward Stevens and Martha Lane Stevens, was born in Virginia and was baptized October 17, 1703.He was a generation younger than his sister Martha who married William Edmundson.John married Mary Whiting, Feb. 21, 1725/26, in St. Paul Parish, Stafford County.He died in 1753, in Caroline County, created from St. Mary’s Parish, Essex, in 1727.His will was presented to the courtby Mary Stevens, March 8, 1753.When Mary died in 1771, administration of her estate was granted by the court to Edward Stevens, Nov. 14, 1771, in Caroline County.(PAMUNKEY NEIGHBORS, p. 105).Children of John and Mary Stevens:
1.       Edward Stevens,born in 1744.He married Grisell Coleman, b. about 1746, daughter of Robert Coleman and Sarah Saunders. He died August 17, 1820, in Culpepper County, Virginia, leaving a will.Edward was a general of some note and left considerable estate.His wife Grisell died Dec. 4, 1820, according to PAMUNKEY NEIGHBORS.Their children:
(1)       John Stevens, b. in 1765, and died Feb. 8, 1720. Married
Mary Williams, daughter of William Williams, born in 1755 and died May 11, 1828.No children.
(2)       Edward Stevens, Junr., b. in 1773, and died March 14,
1795.
(3)       Elizabeth Stevens, died in 1780, age 2 years.
Family graves are in a Culpepper County cemetery.The General left no descendants.
2.       Mary Stevens, who died Jan. 18, 1750, at the house of Edward Ralls.
3.       Martha Stevens, who married __________Edmondson.See documentation of children above.There is no proof at hand to support the contention of some that she married William Edmundson.

April 2, 1782. At a court continued and held for Orange County at the court house on Thurs. the 2nd day of April, 1782, for adjusting claims for property impressed or taken for public service.
John Stevens for 325 # beef granted by Ben Winslow, 9 Sept. 1781 @2 ½
Do Stevens for 250 # do… do Nov. 2, 1781, do.
Do Stevens for 5 barrels corn for the use of Gen. Mecklenberg’s Brigade. Certified by Wm. Edundson, F M, May 31, 1781.
Sd Stevens for 5 barrels corn for do certified by Edwd Power FM, dated June 9, 1781. (Info fro Rom Winterrowd, 5-5-2008)
(Who was this William Edmundson?Was he a resident of Orange or an official traveling about settling claims?)

POCAHONTAS COUNTY, VIRGINIA (later West Virginia)
1850 Census. James Edmiston, 40.Wife, M.F., 35;daughter E., 7; daughter, M.A, 4, and A.A., 4, twins; Andrew J., 2.M.A. Broch, female, 23, lived with the family.All born in Virginia.

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Virginia
Formed in 1767 from original Brunswick County.Danville is the county seat.

Samuel Edmondson married Mary Johnson, Oct. 15, 1823.Surety: Richard Johnson.(MARRIAGES OF PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA,1806-1830, by Williams).

1880 Census.Danville.
M.H. Tredway, 49, clerk in office, b. in VA. Parents born in VA.
Sallie E. Tredway, wife, 42, b. in VA.Parents b. in VA.
Nannie K. Tredway, dau., 22, b. in VA.Mattie E. Tredway, dau., 19, b. in VA. Mollie E. Tredway, dau., 16, b. in VA. R. Arthur Tredway, son, 12, b. in VA. Works in tobacco factory. Howell A. Tredway, son, 9, at school.Wm. M. Tredway, son, 7, at school. Moses H. Tredway, son, 6, at school.
Sallie Edmondson married M.H. Treadway in Halifax County in 1856. She was daughter of Richard Edmondson and granddaughter of Samuel Edmondson.

PRINCESS ANNE COUNTY
This county included Lynn Haven Parish. dty

RICHMOND COUNTY,Virginia (the northern section of old Rappahannock County, across the river from Essex)
James Edmondson, Jr.m. Ann McCarty. The Marriage Bond was dated April 19, 1775.Bondsman was Robert Singleton.Ann was a Singleton, a young widow.See: VIRGINIA MARRIAGE RECORDS, p. 543.The McCartys were early and prominent in this area.

1820 Census. Heads of families.
Phebe Edmondson

ROANOKE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
1850 Census.Henry Edmundson, 33, attorney. Mariah L., 9.Ellen, 7. Andrew L., 3.Mother-in-law, Mariah Lewis, 52.All born in Virginia. P. 285.

ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA

See early Orange and Augusta counties for the first settlers of later Rockbridge County.Rockbridge was formed about 1777-78.
The territory which later became Rockbridge included Borden’s Grant.
The St. Mary’s River, Woods Branch, the North River, Walker’s Creek, Hays Creek, Moffett’s Creek, Kerr’s Creek, Whistle Creek, Gordon’s Branch, Buffalo Creek, part of the upper James Rivernear present Glasgow and the Natural Bridge, and the southern course of Calfpasture River lay in present Rockbridge.Lexington, Fairfield, Buena Vista and Glasgow are
towns.

Three Edmondson/Edmiston families lived in the territory of present Rockbridge in pioneer days. No relationship has been proven though such might have existed in Ireland.

Matthew Edmiston, b. about 1715, in Donagald, Ireland, m. Margaret Smith. He died at Jennings Creek, Augusta County, in 1796.It appears he lived at that area which was retained inAugusta County, after Rockbridge was separated, though he and his family were early members of the Tinkling Springs church.

John Edmiston settled in 1740 in old Orange County, later Augusta, in the area which would become Rockbridge.He moved from Cecil County, Maryland, bringing his sons William and Samuel with him.William and Samuel enlisted under Col. Byrd for an expedition down the Holston River against the Cherokees.Williamwas made a lieutenant of militia in 1763 and served on the frontier of the Clinch and Sandy rivers.He is thought to have served in the Point Pleasant expedition.1765, he settled in present Washington County,VA.See Washington County.

DavidEdmiston was born about 1690 in northern Ireland.His importation papers spelled the name Edmiston.He married Isabella (Buchanan? Robertson?Turk?), b. about 1695.The Beverly Manor was in Orange Countyfrom whichAugusta County was created.
At a court held for Orange County on Thursday the 24th day of July 1740. Present: Robert Slaughter, James Pollard, and Henry Field, Gentlemen. John Lewis, Samuel Ball, Morgan Morgan, Justices.David Edmiston came into court and made oath that he had imported himself, Isabella, James,John, William, Rachel, David and Moses Edmiston, and also Jesse Gelesby (Gillespie?) and James Daley of Ireland to Philadelphia and from thence into this colony, at his own charge and that this is the first time of proving his and their rights in order to obtain land.This was certified by the clerk, Paul H. Scott.
There is no evidence in the records that David Edmiston was ever called David Turk Edmiston.The origin of this added name is not known.

DavidEdmiston, settled in the Beverly Manor where present day Hermitage Presbyterian Church is located, about 9 ½ miles north ofFisherville, VA.This was at one time in Augusta County but in present day Rockbridge.His grant from Beverly was received in 1740, for 350 acres,10 lbs, 10 shillings,Beverly Manor, DB 3-4, p. 41, , Orange County, July, 1740.He was an original member of Tinkling Springs Presbyterian Church (offI-64 near the Fisherville exit).A stone monument at the old church lists his name.David Edmiston signedthe first recorded action of this congregation August 14, 1741.It is suspected he was buried there, but no stone or records document this.The Hermitage Church was an offshoot of the Tinkling Springs Church,from members in the area who met in their homes part of the time due to the great distance.

David Edmiston was active in the Indian conflict in 1742.A party of northern Indians on their way south failed to procure a pass from the authorities of Virginia. They came into Borden’s Settlement where they were entertained for a day by Capt. John McDowell.They were given whiskey.Moving down South Branch of North River, they disturbed the whites by foraging,shooting horses, etc. On complaint of the people Capt. McDowell was directedto call out his company and conduct the Indians beyond the settlements.They were taken to John Peter Salling’s, themost southern habitation.Some of the whites were on horse and all passed a lame Indian behind except one, who shot at him. This brought a fight in which Capt. McDowell and seven of his men were killed. The Indians lost seventeen.The men who claimed losses by the Indians were Richard Woods, John Mathews, Henry Kirkham, William Henderson, David Edmondson, Benj. Borden, and Magdalen, admx. Of John McDowell, Francis McCown, John Buchanan and others patrolling, Joseph Lapsley, Mary Doughert, Andrew Myrtin,Isaac Anderson, Joseph Coulton, John Walker,Dominick Berrall, John Wilson, and other patrolling, James Walker, Thomas Black and others patrolling, all pressed into service by David Edmondson. (Kegley’s VIRGINIA FRONTIER).

Feb. 19, 1745/46: He made oath that the men named in his list were pressed into service by him and served the time mentioned.

Feb. 20, 1745/46.Moses Thompson, late of Augusta County, to James Edmiston, 13 pounds, 17 shillings current money of Virginia, 100 acres, patented 20 Aug 1745 to Moses, east side of south river, Shanandoe, on the Red Banks.Witness: David Edmiston.Recorded 15 Apr 1746 by Edmiston.Chalkley, Vol. III, p. 254.This land was sold to Alexander Henderson, March 17, 1757.

Dec. 10, 1745: William Wright (Right)was appointed Constable in place ofDavid Edmondson in Samuel Hays Company.This is shown under date of 13 May, 1746, in Chalkley, Vol. I, p. 18.

3 September, 1747.David Edmondson and Thomas Stevenson were appointed processioners fromAlex Blair’s to Capt. Samuel Hays.Augusta County Vestry Book.See Chalkley, Vol. II, p. 433.

March 7, 1747/48.David Edmistonand Stevenson processioned.Also on March 12.See Chalkley, Vol. II, p. 435.
1747.David Edmiston’s land referenced in a deed.Chalkley, Vol III, p. 265.
August 17, 1748. David Edmiston wasappointed overseer of a road from Tinkling Springs to Stuart and Christian’s Road.Chalkley, Vol I, p. 36.
Oct. 19, 1748: Robert Fowler and others were allowed to build a house of worship near David Edmondson.Chalkley,Vol. I, p. 37.

Sept. 23, 1749.Deed Book II, p. 421. William Beverly to Samuel McCune, on the line of David Edmondson.

May 24, 1750.Deed Book II, p. 774.Deed to Moses Whiteside mentions a corner on David Edmiston.
It appears from the records that David Edmiston continued to live on his 350 acres about 9 miles from Tinkling Spring Church until his death.Another tract was surveyed for him but no title given before his death.It is likely most of the children of David and Isabella were not of adult age when he died and moved with their mother some miles away to live with their brother James.No guardianship record has been found.

David and Isabella Edmiston had (only James is conclusively proved):
1.       Rachel Edmiston.
2.       James Edmiston, b. before 1724.He was eldest as he inherited his father’s property, there being no will and primogeniture applied. He lived on land south of the Borden Grant in then Augusta County and later Rockbridge.He married Agnes Thompson, daughter of William Thompson.
3.       John Edmiston, b.in Ireland.Dr. Howard V. Jonesdoubts the 1711 date stated by some and says this John is not the man who died in 1771 in Washington County, VA.See EFAB No. 4.There is no evidence he had a middle name of Turk.Dr. Jones thinks he moved to SC in the 1760’s, living near Moses Edmiston and David II’s widow Jane.
4.       William Edmiston, imported in 1740 was probably a son. He, too, might have moved to SCasWilliam Edmiston appears there in the 1760’s.Dr. Jones sternly declares (EFAB No. 126) that he is not Captain William Edmiston of Kings Mountain but might be William of Rockbridge County who died about 1783.
5.       Moses Edmiston, imported in 1740.Moved to SC about 1763. He might have moved back to Virginia in 1778, though a Moses is still shown in SC .The Moses Edmiston who turns up in Washington County VA in 1778 lived until 1806 and might be he.Dr. Jones discounts any claim his middle name was Thompson.
6.       David Edmiston, imported in 1740, probably a son. His wife was Jane Miller, living in SC in the 1760’s.She married (2) a Sansom. Theirson John Edmiston married a Robinson.
7.       Jean (Jane) Edmiston, on the importation list in 1740.

May 28, 1751.DavidEdmiston, the immigrant, died in Rockbridge County.The bond of Isabella and James Edmondson, executors of David Edmondson, was made on this date.Securities were William McFeeters and Wm Henderson.Chalkley, Vol. III, p. 21.His widow lived with her son James Edmondson and his wife Agnes Thompson atJames’ home on the east side of the Maury River.It was deserted but intact in 1996, located south of Buena Vista on Highway 501 opposite the mouth of Buffalo Creek.This house, one story with an overloft, was made of logs.James operated a tanning business.Thomas “Buffalo” Paxton and his family operated a mill and a boat house atthe mouth ofBuffalo Creek.Thus it was easy for the Edmondsons and Paxtons to meet socially.

August 27, 1751.Appraisement of David Edmiston’s estate by William Finley, William Jonston, Samuel McCune.Chalkley, Vol. III, p. 22.The land was sold.

19 Aug 1752.James Edmondsonqualified as Captain of a troop of horse (Chalkley, Vol. I, p. 53).There was another James Edmiston in old Augusta County at this timebut the reference is probably to James, son of David.

Aug. 20, 1752.Deed Book IV, p. 459.James Edmiston, son and heir and admr. of the estate of David Edmiston, and Isabella Edmiston, relict & heir & admx. to Hugh McClure, 350 acres in Beverly Manor deeded to David Edmiston, 24 July, 1740.May 23, 1755.Agnes Edmondson released her dower in the 350 acres deeded by her husband to Hugh McCleeve (sic).

Aug. 21, 1754.A deed for land from Beverly to James Edmiston, son of David, for 200 acres on Elk Run in Beverly Manor, referenced a corner to a tract surveyed for David Edmiston, dec’d.Chalkley, Vol. III, p. 326.Another deed in 1765 refers to a tract of 200 acres known as Elk Run Corner, surveyed for David Edmiston.Vol. III, p. 426.

May 18, 1755.John and Mary Berrisford to James Edmiston, 115 pounds, 416 acres, north branch of the James River, Samuel McDowell’s line.Volume III, p. 343.This is where James established his family, just south of the Borden Tract and in Beverly Manor.

March 20, 1759.James Edmondson was a witness.Chalkley, Vol. III, p. 353.

1760.James Edmiston processioned.Vestry Book.II, 46.
March 5, 1762.James Edmenson, survey of 116 acres, Buffilo Hill on Buffilo Creek.
March 5, 1764. James Edmiston a witness. III, 306.
1765.James Edmiston processioned.Vestry Book.II, 450.
Oct. 7, 1767.James Edmiston a witness.III, 460.
Nov. 10, 1767.John Lowry and James Robinson deed 260 acres, north branch of the James, 120 pounds, John Dailey’s line.Delivered to James Edmiston, July, 1777.III, 460.

April 7, 1768. Will of James Robinson, weaver.Executors: wife Hanna and James Edmiston, miller.Proved March 15, 1769.James Edmiston qualified as executor.(Chalkley, Vol. III, p. 105).
June 21, 1769.James Edmiston was made constable in place ofJohn Gardner.

1783.James Edmondson died in Rockbridge County.He and hisdescendants spelled the name Edmondson.His siblings appear to have continued the Edmiston spelling.

David Edmondson (1750-1821)
David Edmiston (Edmondson), son of JamesEdmondson and Agnes Thompson Edmondson (see Augusta County, 1755) and grandson of David “Turk”Edmiston, was born in Rockbridge County about 1750.He served as 1st Lieutenant, Virginia State Regulars, 8-4-1788, Hemarried Sarah Paxton in 1773, daughter of Thomas Paxton and Elizabeth McClung Paxton.He served as 1st Lieutenant, Virginia State Regulars, August 4, 1788.He died March 2, 1821, andwas buried in Rockbridge County at Paxton-Amolie Cemetery.
Sarah Paxton was born in 1758 and died in 1828. Their grave stones are marble, spelling the family name Edmundson,not the spelling thought to be used bythis family at the time.However, as both James and Agnes Edmondson appear to have been illiterate (see the use of an X to sign their wills),the spellings in public records would mean little.

David Edmondson was a Justice of the Peace from 1794-1801.He is listed in the DAR Patriot Index.

David and Sarah were among the founders of the Falling Springs Presbyterian Church,as were Sarah’s family.This church and its cemetery is located near Buffalo Creek and are 3-4 miles south of the Paxton-Amolie Cemetery.

Children of David and Sarah Paxton Edmondson:
1.       Elizabeth Edmondson, eldest daughter, b. April 16, 1774.She married James Templeton and lived in a house almost identical to that of her father’sand about a mile west of his.Her place, called “Cedar Hill”, survives and is on the National Register, and can be reached by following I-81 south to Highway 60 and to county road 608, then south 3 miles to a house on the east side of the road.Montillico can be seen on its hill in the distance. She and her husband moved to Indiana in 1827, settled near Knightsville, and remained there when her brother William and his in-laws moved on to Iowa.The Paxton-Amolie Cemetery is located about one mile further south on Route 608.She died Sept. 24, 1839.
2.       Jane (Jean)Edmondson, b. about 1775.Died April 29, 1846.
3.       Agnes (Nancy) Edmondson, b. Jan. 3, 1776.Married in Rockbridge County, Jan. 5, 1798, Arthur McClure.Died Sept. 15, 1860.
4.       Thomas P. Edmondson, born in 1780, from one source.Dr. Howard V. Jones gives date about 1791. .
5.       Sarah Edmondson, b. 1782, Rockbridge, VA.She married Sept. 13, 1803, Joseph Paxton, son of John Paxton and Sarah Walker Paxton.He was born 25 Jan 1779 and died 6 Nov 1839.Sarahdied Dec. 10, 1849.David and Sarahwere twins, according to one account.
6.       David Edmundson, Jr., b.about 1785 if the census of1850 gives his correct age.Married August 8, 1807, Rockbridge County, Hannah Paxton, born about 1795.No known children.The Census of 1850 shows David Edmondson, 65, farmer; Hannah, 55.One source says he died in 1856.He built a house about one mile north of his father’s house overlooking Mill Creek and the Edmondson Mill Site on the Maury River (called South River in that time as it was a tributary of the James).The house was empty and in disrepair in 1996 when visited by Paul Edmondson Brown, a descendant of David’s brother William (see EFAB, No. 116).He was buried at Falling Springs Church south of Lexington.Hannah’s gravestone shows dates of 1790-1872).

7.       Thompson Edmondson, b. in 1792.Died August 13, 1865, in Lexington, Rockbridge County.Buried at Falling Springs Cemetery.
8.        William Edmondson, b. March 3, 1795.(Major William Edmondson) and died October 13, 1866. He married in 1830Mary Bell McCutchen (1805-1866), daughter of William McCutchen and Margaret Bell McCutchen.(See Humphrey County, TN, Minute Book, 1842-1850). William and Mary McCutchen Edmondsonmoved to Indiana in 1831 and settled at Knightstown.They were founders of Bethel Presbyterian Church there.William and Margaret Bell McCutchen, Mary’s parents, moved to Indiana with them.William and Mary Edmondson moved on in 1846 to Van Buren County, Iowa, where he died and is buried at Oak Point Cemetery.His wife died Jan. 27, 1886.They had Henry Edmondson, (1832-1834); Sarah Edmondson, (1835-1843); Mary Jane Edmondson (1838-1905); John Calvin Edmondson (Nov. 7, 1841-1900) who married Hassie Strain (Jan. 28, 1840-July 24, 1916), daughter of David A. Strain and Maria McCutchen Strain;William F. Edmondson m. Clara Williamson.
9.       Mary(Polly)Edmondson, bornAugust 17, 1799.Married David Laird, March 18, 1822.She was single in 1821 when her father made his will.Died Feb. 12, 1835.
10.       James Edmondson, born before 1800 and died in 1833,who married Margaret Glasgow.His home, “Savernnake”, overlooked the Maury River just southwestof Buena Vista.It was owned and occupied in 1996 by Tom Dickinson.Their son James Kerr Edmondson (1832-1898) was colonel in command of the 27th Virginia Regiment, C.S.A., and lost his left arm at the Battle of Chancellorsville, May, 1863. the same battle in which his cousin Gen. Elisha Paxton was killed.Hemarried Emily M. Taylor.He returned to Lexington and chaired the effort to raise money for the General Jackson Monument in Lexington and the Lee Chapel on the Washington and Lee College campus.He was mayor of Lexington and served as circuit and county judge for many years.He was a member of the House of Delegates for one term.His home was at 104 White Street in Lexington.Other children: David, Arthur, Rebecca Ann.The latter was buried in Dallas, Texas, according to Col. Edmondson’s cemetery stone.David and Arthur appear to have died in the 1830’s.

11.        John Edmondson.

The David Edmiston/Edmondson home, built about 1803,has survived and was bought in 1992 by Mr. and Mrs. Mark Johnson.It is located on County Road 608 south of Buena Vista,ona side road along Mill Creek.The home was named “Montillico”.

The Edmondson Mill on Mill Creek at its confluence with the Maury River was run by William and David Edmondson after their father died in 1821. It provided power for a lumber mill, a grist mill and possibly a cement plant.William sold his interest to his brothers Thompson Edmondson and David Edmondson, Jr., when he moved in 1831 to Indiana.David Edmondson’s widow, Hannah, was the last operator of the Mill.

1762.John L. Edmiston was born in Rockbridge Feb. 13, 1762, son of David Edmiston and Jane Miller.David was born about1730,assumed to be a son of DavidEdmuston and IsabelleEdmiston, natives of Ireland, both of whom died in Virginia.John L. Edmiston m. Elizabeth Robinson, Sept. 10, 1791 in Washington County, VA, and moved to SC.He was a Revolutionary veteran, joining in 1778 in the Abbeville District when 17.John moved to Blount County, TN, where he lived 11 years, then to Lincoln County, TN, where he lived 16 years before moving to Alabama. He lived in 1833 in Jackson County, AL, age 71.He died in Randolph County, Illinois, in 1850. (Another source says he died in 1747 in Fulton County, Illinois). John and Elizabeth had John Edmiston, b about 1800 and William Edmiston, b. in 1809.After David’s death before the Revolution, his widow Jane Miller Edmiston, married John Sansom.Sansom was killed in the war when she was living in SC.David Edmiston and Jane Miller Edmiston had two other known children: Elizabeth and David Edmiston.

July 4, 1774.Will of William Thompson, Tinkling Spring.Children: Alexander, John, Robert, Agnes Edmondson, Rebecca McNeelly, Sarah Henry.Proved Nov. 20, 1781.

1778.       Tithables: James Edmunson, 3.David Edminson, 2.Will Book I, Rockbridge County.

July 7, 1778.Order Book 1778-84, p. 19. James Edmonson vs. Andrew Newberry.

Aug. 3, 1778. Rockbridge County Deed Book A, p. 45. Samuel and Martha Jack deeded to David Edmundson for 50 pounds,land on the north side, north branch, of the James River, adjoining John Lusk.

August 4, 1778.David Edmondson and John Stuart produced commissions as1st Lieutenants, Rockbridge Militia.Order Book 1778-1784, p. 24.

June 1, 1779. Deed Book 1778-1784, p. 93.Thomas Simpson vs. David Edmonson.Alexander Tedford is special bail for David.

July, 1779 Tax List, Rockbridge, “A List ofTythables in CaptainWilliam Paxton’s Company”.
David Edmondson (2)
James Edmondson(3)
William Edmiston

Oct. 13, 1779. Deed Book A. Samuel and Hannah Robinson to John Welch, 51 acres, north branch of the James River.Witnesses: David Edmundson, Alexander Tedford, James Edmundson, Benjamin Williamson. Recorded Feb. 1, 1780.

March 6, 1780.Deed Book A, p. 284.James and Hannah Robinson, John and Mary Robinson and David Robinson to David Edmundson for 235 pounds, 209 acres on the north side of the north branch of the James River, adjoining John Bowyer.Witnesses: Alexander and George Tedford.

Feb. 5, 1782.Will of William Edmondsonfiled Feb. 5.Dated Feb. 23, 1779.In the name of God amen, I William Edmondson of Rockbridge County Being Very weak in body but in perfect mind and memory and calling to mind the Mortality of the body that is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this m last will and testament.This is to say principally and first I give and Recommend my soul to God that gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried at the discretion of my Exe-cutors and my Worldly Estate I give and Dispose in the following manner and form.And first I allow my Lands and two work horses and all my Plantation implements to be sold and the Money arising thin from to be equally divided amongst my three sons VizWilliam, Robert and John and I hereby impower my Executor to make a Title for my Lands when disposed of and also my stain of hogs to be Divided amongst my three sons equally and my Cattle and Sheepand Looms and________and all household Plenishings to be equally Divided amongst three daughters Isable, Anne and Mary excepting five pounds to be paid to my daughter Elizabeth Peobles.And hereby appoint Constitute and Ordain Charles Campbell and Samuel Patterson my sole and ----Executors of this my last Will and Testament and I hereby Revoke Disable and Disallow of all former wills by one mark.In Witness whereof I have set my hand and Sealthis.Signed in presence of Thomas Steel and David Steel.Will Book 1,p. 146.

Dr. Howard V. Jones gave a strong opinion in EFAB No. 121 (1998) that William’s son, John Edmiston (Edmondson),married Esther Anderson and their son was John Baxter Edmondson.This William Edmiston/Edmondson wasnot Captain William Edmondson of Kings Mountain but the son of Robert Edmiston who died in Augusta County in 1749-50 and who lived next door to John Edmiston, father of Col. William Edmiston.John and Robert were likely related but there is no documentation.He reviewed Robert Edmiston, son of William of Rockbridge,who was a minor when William died.

Order Book 1778-84, p. 226:Robert Edmiston, minor, chose John Wilson as his guardian.

Taxpayers, 1782: David Edmundson, 1 slave, 5 horses, 16 cattle. (Morton, p. 371).

Dec. 16,1782.Will Book I, p. 176.Will of James Edmondson.Filed March 4, 1783.Slaves (Anthony, Nann, Doff, Isaac, and Holbert)and personal property to wifeAgnes.Twenty poundsto each offive granddaughters:Elizabeth, Agnes, Jean and Sarah Edmundson, and Sarah Tedford when they are 21 or married.Land and tenements on which he livesto wife during her life.To son DavidEdmondson one mulatto boy named Samuel, the land Davidlives on, and the remainder after the death of his mother, but he is to pay 60 pounds to his sister Jean if she is still alive at the death of her mother, if not, to her child Sarah Tedford.To daughter Jean Tedford, one Negro wench and child Philis and Easther, to go at her death to Sarah Tedford .If Sarah Tedford dies without children,Philis is to go to son Davidand Easther to the four other granddaughters named. Whatever my father-in-law hath willed me to be divided between Sarah, now married to Samuel Henry, and his granddaughter Agnes Thompson, daughter of his son Alexander Thompson.Executors: Agnes Edmondson, son David, James Templeton.Witnesses: John McNutt, Wm. Paxton, Isaac Tremble.Signed with an X.His inventory in Will Book I, p. 180.(See EFAB, No. 122, for complete copy of will which differs significantly from the abstract in VIRGINIA WILLS BEFORE 1799.The reference to his granddaughterAgnes Thompson,daughter of his son Alexander Thompson, does not make sense unless he meant his son-in-law).
The will of Alexander Tedford, signed Feb. 21, 1781 (Wills Vol. I, p. 114) refers to wife Jean, daughter Sarah if she lives, clothing to his father, rifle to brother John. Executors: John and Robert Tedford.The will seems to suggest the child Sarah was sick at the time.
Sept. 3, 1783.Deed Book A, p. 406.David and Sarah Edmundson to Wyatt Starke, for 300 pounds, 209 acres, north side of the north branch of the James, corner of John Bowyer.Signed by both and recorded Sept. ?1783.
Also, same date, David and Sarah sold 80 acres to Wyatt Starke, on the line of John Lusk.

Virginia Taxpayers 1782-87
David Edmundson1 poll1 slave
James Edmundson1 poll7 slaves
Robert Edmundson1 poll

Oct. 1, 1783. Deed Book A, p. 425. James and Mary Welch to David Edmundson for 5 pounds, 42 acres near North River, adjoining Edmondson, Grubbs, James McClung.Witnesses: Benjamin Roberts, John Snodgrass.

Nov. 6, 1787. Rockbridge Order Book, 1787-1794, p. 49.William Paxton and David Edmundson, executors of John Paxton, in a suit.

Sept. 13, 1788.Will Book I, p. 319.Will of Thomas Paxton mentions daughter Sarah, wife ofDavid Edmundson.

Sept. 7, 1790.A marriage permission document in Rockbridge County, obtained by Dr. Howard V. Jones,was given by Susannah Buntain to the Register of Marriages, showing her daughter Susannah Hannah, was married to Robert Edmiston on Sept. 7, one day after permission was granted.Robert Edmiston had a guardian appointed about 1782. Dr. Jones is confident he was son of William Edmiston who died in 1782.The court ordered the executors of William Edmiston to make final settlement on his estate on the same day Robert married Susannah Hannah. (See Will E. Parham Collection, courtesy of Paul Medlock).
April, 1790.Robert Edmistonbought 130 acres from Hugh and Catherine Cummings (Deed Book III, p. 119.This property was either the tract sold by William Edmiston’s executors in 1782 or adjacent to it.

1794. John Edmondson married Esther Anderson in Rockbridge County.
MARRIAGES IN VIRGINIA, by Cecil D. McDonald, Jr.

April 7, 1796. Elizabeth Edmundson married James Templeton. Elizabeth would appear to be a daughter of Agnes Edmundson.

Dec. 16, 1796.Will Book II,p. 235. Will of Agnes Edmundson.Bequeaths to granddaughter Sarah Barckley and son David Edmundson.Son David, executor. Signed with an X.Witnesses: James Templeton, David Hanna, Jean Edmundson.( Not clear who this Jean Edmundson is, possibly a daughter of David Edmundson.Agnes’s daughter Jean married AlexanderTedford andthen married Samuel Henry. ).Proved June 2, 1801.

May 1, 1797.Isabella Edmundson, daughter of William Edmundson, deceased, to Jonathan Sterrett.Bond: Jonathan Sterrit and Robert Edmundson.Consent: Robert Edmundson.(Virginia Genealogist, Marriages, Rockbridge County, 1778-1805, p. 251).
Jan. 6, 1798. Nancy Edmondson m. Arthur McClure.
Sept. 13, 1803. Sarah Edmundson m. Joseph Paxton.

1810 Tax List and Census.
Robert Edmundson.0-3-1-0-1 males; 0-0-1-2-1 females.No slaves.

June 6, 1811.Robert and Susannah Edmiston sold their land to Samuel Myres (Deed Book G, p. 330.They moved to Franklin County, TN, where he soon died.

Feb. 18, 1813.Susannah Edmiston appointed her son David H. Edmiston to act in her behalf to collect debts due to her deceased husband, Robert Edmiston, from John Wilson of Rockbridge County, Virginia.This was produced in court in Rockbridge County, May 31, 1813.Deed Book H, p. 329.She was living in Franklin County, Tennessee, at the time. (EFAB, No. 119, p. 57).Note that John Wilson had been Robert Edmiston’s guardian.See EFAB No. 29 for Dr. Jones discussion ofRobert Edmiston of Rockbridge.Robert and Susannah had a son named John Edmiston who married Vashti Joins and hadRhoda Edmiston in 1836.Rhodamarried Mathew McGunnigle.Robert’s son David H. Edmiston, one of the Davids in the 1820 Census of Rockbridge,moved to Lincoln County, TN, where he is found in the 1830 and 1840 censuses.He moved on to Marion County, Kentucky, where he is found in the 1860 census.
Another son, Alexander Edmiston, is found in Lincoln County in the 1830 census.In fact, there are two Alexander Edmistons in this census, one of whom is shown in the 1820, 1830, 1840 and 1850 censuses.Dr. Jones thinks this man, who is older, is not the son ofRobert and Susannah.See Liincoln County, TN.
April 9, 1814. Thomas Edmundson m. Elizabeth Lair.

Heads of Families, 1820.
David Edmonson
David Edmonson
Thomas Edmonson

1830 Census.
Thompson Edmonson
James Edmonson
Thomas P. Edmonson
David Edmonson

1850 Census.
Thomas Edmondson, 59, farmer.Elizabeth, 58.James, 33.John M.C., 30.David L., 28.Mary J., 21.William P., 19.Mary McNutt, 80.All born in Virginia.Living in the same house, William Paxton, 72.Polly Paxton, 66.Polly A., 50.James H. Paxton, 36.Edmond Nash, 38.P. 417.

Thompson Edmondson, 57, farmer.Jane A., 44.Sarah E., 20.Palmyra, 16.All born in Virginia.P. 444.

Margaret Edmondson, 50.James, 18.Living with John B. Connery and wife Rebecca A, 23.Grandchildren: Margaret G. Connery, 2.Ann, 10 months on Aug. 11, 1850.P. 468.

E. Edmondson, 14, black, b. in Virginia.P. 473.

David Edmondson, 65.Hannah, 55, wife.Both born in Virginia.

June 22, 1862. W.C. Edmondson, son of Andrew and Jane Edmondson of Washington County, Virginia, where W.C. was born, married Sallie A. Edmondson, daughter of Thompson and Jane Edmondson. Sallie was 29 and W.C. was 46.

May 3, 1863.Col. James Kerr Edmondson was wounded at Chancellorsville, losing his left arm.He was colonel of the 27th Virginia Infantry Regiment.

April 8, 1866. Magadeline Edmondson married James Henry, age 24.
March 1, 1870.Andrew A. Edmondson, son of George and Nancy Edmondson of Pocohontas County, 29, married Julia Ann Teaford, 17, daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Teaford.

June 24, 1873.Margaret Glasgow Edmondson, widow of JamesEdmondson, died in Rockbridge County.A stone was erected to her memory by her son, Col. Edmondson.“Erected by a son in memory of his mother Margaret Edmondson. Died June 24, 1873, aged 80 years.By her son James K. Edmondson, Col. of 27 VA Brig.b. 2/11-1832 d. 3/31-1898, his wife Emily J. Taylor b. 7/5-1835 d. 3/11-1904, and in memory of my father James and my brothers David and Arthur, who for sixty years are sleeping at Falling Spring Church and to sister Rebecca Ann in cemetery at Dallas,Texas, this stone is Erected”.Signed J.K.E.March 9, 1898”All this information was on one stone and would have been erected after Col. Edmondson’s death a few days later.Some of the details would have been added as late as 1904 when his widow died.The stone is in a cemetery in Lexington.(From Will E. Parham Collection, courtesy of Paul Medlock).

1889.Col. James Kerr Edmondson was mayor ofLexington.Documents signed by him are housed at James Madison University in the John L. Heatwole Collection, SC# 2040, Carrier Library.
1893-94.J.K. Edmondson served in the Virginia House of Assembly for Rockbridge.

April 25, 1893.William Edmondson was born to Samuel and Hadasah Edmondson.
March 31, 1898.Col. James Kerr Edmondson died, as recorded on his stone above.

SHENANDOAH COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
1850 Census.
Sanford W. Edmundson, 20. Rachel, 23. Andrew J. Emmons, 24. All living with Isaac Reager, 31 and his wife Athansa, 29, and daughters Mary, 4, and Frances V., 1.

SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Virginia.
Taken in 1720 from King William, King and Queen and Essex,this frontier county was parent to old Orange County which included the later counties of Augusta, Frederick, Madison, Greene, Rockbridge, most of West Virginia and all of Kentucky. Orange was taken from it in 1734 with a vast territory toward thewest.

July 2, 1745. A deed from Robt. Spilsbe Coleman of Essex County & wife Sarah to Richard Cozens, Deed Book D, (1742-1751) was witnessed by John Edmondson.(From Nancy Wood, 5-23-08).Was this deed signed in Essex or Spotsylvania? Probably in Essex.Was the land in Essex or Spotsylvania?)

Thomas Wyatt was Justice of the Peace in Spotsylvania in 1762.He married Sukey Edmondson, daughter of John Edmondson.(See Orange County).Ref. COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA, by Hardy, p. 543.Her widowed mother married Gabriel Jones and moved to Orange County.

SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, Virginia.
County seat is Courtland.From original Isle of Wight County.
Bounded today by the North Carolina line (south), Suffolk and Isle of Wight and the Blackwater River (east), Surry and Sussex (northwest) and Greensville and the Meherrin River (southwest).

SMYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA
1850 Census.
Moses Edmondson, 32. Nancy B., 33.Perry R., 9.William, 7.Mary E., 5.George C., 2.George Edmondson, 30.John Edmondson, 17, brothers of Moses.All born in Virginia.P. 201.

SURRY COUNTY, Virginia.
Surry is the county seat.Bounded today by the James River (north), Isle of Wight (southeast), Sussex (southwest) and Prince George (northwest).Surry was detached from James City County in 1652.Sussex County was taken from Surry.Early records of Surry show no Edmondsons in Quit Rent Rolls of 1704, Militia records, land grants,tithables and other sources.No Edmondsons are in the 1782 Census of Surry.

SUSSEX COUNTY, Virginia
Sussex is the county seat.Bounded today by Dinwiddie and Prince George on the northwest, Surry and the Blackwater River on the northeast, Southampton on the southeast, and Greensville on the southwest.Sussex was originally part of Surry and before that was in James City County.

Surry Land Grants, 1710-1740, in the area which became Sussex included no Edmondsons.

March 15, 1771.Marriage Bond of Elizabeth Edmundson andHartwell Hines,with the consent of his father Joshua Hines.(See: Sussex Marriage Bonds, COLONIAL SURRY, by Boddie).

No Edmondsons are listed in the Sussex Census of 1782, compiled from tax records.Hartwell Hines is shown with 11 whites and 12 blacks in his household.

TAZEWELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
1850 Census.
Rees Edmunson, 12, living with Rees P Bowen, 42,and Maria S. Bowen, 30.p. 317.Was the boy a son of Maria S. Bowen by a previous marriage?

WARWICK COUNTY.
One of the eight original shires.It included Martin’s Hundred.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA
1810 Census.
David Edmiston0 0 0 1 00 0 0 0 02 slaves
David Edmiston1 0 0 1 03 0 1 1 01 slave
John Edmiston0 0 0 1 00 0 0 1 05 slaves
Robert Edmiston11 1 1 03 2 0 1 05 slaves
William Edmiston 0 00 1 00 0 1 0 02 slaves
William Edmiston 0 0 1 0 11 0 2 0 15 slaves

1820 Census.Heads of families.
Andrew Edmondson, p.205A
Andrew Edmondson, p. 205A
Andrew Edmondson, p. 205A
David Edmondson
Jenny Edmondson, p. 205A
John Edmondson, Sr.p. 205A
John Edmondson, Jr., p. 205A
Robert Edmondson
William Edmondson
James Edmondson
Thomas Edmonson

WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Is Fredericksburg in this county?
Oct. 7, 1837. Walter Williams and Catherine G. Edmondson were married in Fredericksburg.Surety: John W. Edmondson.(MARRIAGES OF FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA, 1782-1850)

THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE.
Estimates prepared for the Continental Congress in 1774 put the total population of the thirteen colonies at 3,026,678, in this order:
Virginia, 650,000; Massachusetts, 400,000; Pennsylvania, 350,000; Maryland, 320,000; North Carolina, 300,000; New York, 250,000; South Carolina, 225,000; Connecticut, 192,000; New Hampshire, 150,000; New Jersey, 130,000; Georgia, 70,000; Rhode Island, 59,678.

Muster and Payrolls of the War of the Revolution (Collections of the N.Y. Hist. Society, 1914).
p. 628.Return of men considered as part of the quota of the State and settled for depreciation here, Richmond, May 28, 1785:
Richard Edmonston, Hazen’s Regiment, Sergeant, not in the returns.

p. 639.Return of Virginia men, settled.
Edmond Edmondson, settled Dec. 1780.

REVOLUTIONARYWAR RECORD, by G.M. Brumbaugh, 1936
Volume I, Virginia
p. 95.Doc. # 30, List No. 1, compiled after 1833
Benjamin Edmundson, Lieut. State Line, 3 years service.
2666 2/3 acres.Warrant obtained March 6, 1784.
p. 147.Officers in the State Line Army, Continentals, Navy, prepared
by Gov. Floyd:
Edmondson, Benjamin, Lieut., Infantry, State Line.
p. 339.Benjamin Edmondson, State Line, Warrant No. 2723.
Virginia Military District of Ohio.
p. 531.Edmundson, Benjamin, 1st Lieut., 2nd Virginia State Regiment
of Infantry (Nos. 3,621 and 15, 434).Roll of officers of Regi-
ment: Col. Wm. Brent, Lt.Col. Charles Dabney, Major John
Lee(Documents in State Dept., filed in Naval Records and
Library).
p. 533.Pay Roll, 2nd Virginia State Reg.Col. Gregory Smith, Lt. Col.
Charles Dabney, Maj. John Lee, Ensign Benjamin Edmondson.
p. 545.Benjamin Edmondson (A.G. 50, 056), Lieut., 2nd Virginia State
Regiment.Served 3 years, ending Feb. 6, 1782.Fought a duel
and killed an officer named Holmes.Granted 2,666 acres of
land.Married Margaret Harwood, widow of Samuel Harwood
of Weyancah, Charles City County, Virginia whose daughter
Margaret married Robert Munford.The latter died prior to
1838.       The will of Margaret Edmondson, the soldier’s widow,
named two daughters, Ann and Margaret Waldrop Harwood.
The soldier left a sister, Elizabeth Edmondson who married
Henry Edloe and had a son, William Edloe, her only heir.
(Benjamin was made 2nd Lt., Virginia State Regulars, Sept. 22,
1777, and 1st Lt.,Jan. 1, 1779.He was ordered to Richmond to
take command March 3, 1781.This data from unknown
source).
p. 237.Bounty Land Warrants.
John Edmonston, soldier, cav.
Edmund Edmundson, corporal, cav.
William Edmundson, soldier, cav.
p. 426.Continental Line Warrants, Ohio.
William Edmundson, sgt., 3 years service, No. 1030.
Richard Edmundson, assignee of John De Priest, sergeant,
Service of 3 years, No. 1962.
p. 428.Edmund Edmundson, corporal, 3 years service, No. 5707.
p. 611.Original Bounty Land Warrants in Va. Military Dist. of Ohio:
John Edmunston

Other Revolutionary service references:

William Edmondson appointed Lieutenant in Frederick County Militia, April 1, 1783.

William Edmondson was appointed Ensign in the Essex County Militia, August 13, 1777; 2nd Lt., June 25, 1778; 1st Lt., March 20, 1779.

William Edmondson served as Sergeant in the 7th, 11th and 15th Virginia Regiments of the Continental Line.
Mary Edmondson married Patrick Dougherty July 19, 1790, in Frederick County (widow of Thomas Edmundson, Jr.)
John Edmondson married Mary Elkins March 4, 1799, Frederick Co.

DAR Patriot Index:
William Edmondson, b. 1759, served as Sergeant in Virginia, 11th Virginia Regiment under Col. Dan Morgan in 1777,married Martha Green and died in 1820.
William Edmondson, Virginia soldier, born Oct. 17, 1750, married Mary Cook.
Benjamin Edmondson, b. June 5, 1752,enlisted in 1776,married Elizabeth Waddy in 1779 in Alexandria, Virginia, and died prior to 1801.Said to be born in Essex County.Vol. 74, p. 293.

James Edmondson, Vol. 105, p. 246.Said to be a member of the Committee of Safety, Essex County, born there in 1750.Married Ann McCarthy in 1775.Had son Thomas in 1776 who moved to Columbia County, Georgia,and then Putnam County where he died in 1822. Married Patience Hines. ( Information for the DAR record from Mis Martha V. Edmondson, Eatonton, Georgia).This Thomas actually married Patience Spires. Hom

Tax List and substitute Census of Virginia, 1810
Henry Edmundson, Montgomery County, 3 males, 3 females, 4 slaves.
Robert Edmundson, Rockbridge, 5 males, 4 females, no slaves.
Lucy Edmundson, Augusta, 1 male, 2 females, 6 slaves.
William Edmundson, Caroline, 1 male, 2 females, no slaves.
Martha Edmundson, Dinwiddie, 1 male, 2 females, 29 slaves.
John Edmundson, Charlotte, 3 males, 5 females, 10 slaves.
Ann Edmondson, Frederick, 3 males, 2 females, no slaves.
John Edmunson, Berkeley, 5 males, 3 females, no slaves.
Joseph Edmunson, Hanover, 4 males, 6 females, 8 slaves.
Catherine Edmondson, King and Queen, 1 male, 2 females, 5 slaves.
Benjamin Edmondson, Lunenburg, 5 males, 5 females, 1 slave.
Thomas Edmunson, Lunenburg, 2 males, 2 females, 8 slaves.

Tax List and Census of Virginia, 1830 (including West Virginia)
John Edmonson, Augusta County
James Edminson, Bath County.
Archibald Edmunson, Frederick County
William Edmondson, Hampshire
Carter Edmondson, Westmoreland
Samuel Edmundson, Halifax
Richard Edmundson, Halifax
Mary Edmundson, Halifax
Jane Edmundson, Halifax
John H. Edmundson, Halifax
Joseph N. Edmondson, Hanover
William Edmundson, Lunenburg
Upton Edmundson, Lunenberg
John Edmundson, Lunenberg
Wesley Edmonson, Mecklenburg
Benjamin Edmonson, Mecklenburg
Lewis W. Edmondson, Caroline
Henry Edmundson, Montgomery
James Edmison, Pendleton
William Edmonston, Pocahontas
James Edmonston, Pocahontas
Andrew Edmonston, Pocahontas
Thompson Edmonson, Rockbridge
James Edmonson, Rockbridge
Thomas P. Edmonson, Rockbridge
David Edmonson, Rockbridge
David Edmondson, Washington
Andrew Edmondson, Washington
Jane Edmondson, Washington
Mary Edmondson, Washington
William Edmondson, Washington
John Edmondson, Sr.,Washington
Andrew Edmondson, Jr., Washington
John Edmondson,Washington
James Edmondson, Washington
Mary Edmondson, Washington
R.B. Edmondson, Washington
Robert B. Edmondson, signature, Washington
Ambrose Edmondson, King and Queen

Edmondsons from Virginia in the 1850 Census of Indiana.
Carroll County.
James Edmondson, 49, farmer, b. in VA.Wife Frances, 48, b. in VA. Carnik W., 19, b. in TN.Charlotte F., 17, b. in TN.Nancy E., 12, Lucinda J., 10, and Mary E., 6, all born in Indiana.
Harrison County.
William M. Edmondson, 48, farmer, b. in VA. Wife Susannah, 44, b. in KY.Children born in Indiana: George W, 14. Sarah E., 9.James H., 7.Lucy E., 4.Susan G., 3 months (August 5, 1850).
Madison County.
David Edmunson, 32, farmer, b. in VA. Wife Nancy 35, b. in VA.Margaret Edmunson, 24, b. in TN. Robert Edmunson, 19, b. in TN. David Edmunson, 17, b. in TN.
Marion County.
William Edmonson, 37, b. in VA, an inmate in the hospital for the insane.

(Compiled by Stephen W. Edmondson, Clayton,Georgia, from many sources.Conclusions are based on current available information and are subject to revison as additional records are obtained.Revised May,2008.)

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