Note by Phyllis Brown: Captain John Linton was born in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1750. I believe he was possibly born in January, since the release of rights was dated January 1775. Usually a man came into his rights of inheritance at the age of twenty-five. John’s parents were Moses Linton […]
Note by Phyllis Brown: William Linton Lewis was the son of William Joseph Lewis and Catherine Jennings Linton. Catherine was the sister of Captain John Linton. I’m not sure who Nicholas L. Lewis is. I’m sure he is a relative, but more than that I cannot say. The […]
While researching in Prince William County, Virginia, ten years ago, Ritchey and I found Linton Hall School. It, indeed, had significance with our Linton family. Land that had been handed down through the generations came to the last daughter – Sarah E. Linton, daughter of John Tyler Linton […]
Euphemia Nesbitt Linton was born 165 years ago – July 12, 1839, in Virginia, to James Nesbitt Linton and Rachel M. Humphreys. She was the granddaughter of William Linton and Euphemia Nesbitt; and William Humphreys and Hannah Dolan.
A Genealogy Hunt for Two Brothers’ Graves Moses Linton, son of Captain John Linton and Nancy Mason, married Nancy Pead in Orange County, Virginia, December 17, 1800. Two of their children, Benjamin Clark and Nancy Millie, were born in Loudoun County, Virginia. In 1815 they moved their small […]
Note by Phyllis Brown: Edward Barber Edwards and Nancy Linton are my great-great-great-great-grandparents. They made the journey from Loudoun County, Virginia, to Washington County, Kentucky, in 1818 with Nancy’s parents, Captain John and Ann Nancy Mason Linton. The following was given to me by my dear friend Sally […]
Note by Phyllis Brown: Benjamin Mason is the father of Captain John Linton’s wife – Ann Nancy Mason Linton. He was first married to Elizabeth Berkeley, who preceded her husband in death, and second married Ann – I have no record of her last name. I believe his […]
This photograph looks very old and ragged – much the way John Cotton Taylor must have felt before he died. This man is my great-great-great-grandfather. He was part of the contingent who moved westward to Kentucky with Captain John Linton. John Cotton was a member of the Loudoun […]
Washington County, Kentucky, Marriage Bond Know all men by these presents that we, Horatio Mudd and Lewis Linton, are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in the just and full sum of fifty pounds current money to the payment of which well and truly to […]
Nicholas Martiau – Early Colonial Ancestor Nicholas Martiau is not only my earliest American ancestor, but also the earliest American ancestor of George Washington! George and I have a good thing in common! Martiau was a French Huguenot, born in 1591, who came to Virginia in 1620. “The […]
Isaiah and Lydia Ross Hill
1929 Wedding
Revolutionary War heroes and families.
Ritchey's Paternal Grandmother
George and Caroline's Wedding Day
Klein Sod House