Captain Samuel Abernathy

Male Abt 1748 - 1839  (~ 91 years)


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  • Name Captain Samuel Abernathy 
    Title Captain 
    Born Abt 1748  Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 26 Sep 1839  Hampshire County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1808647901  Abernathy, William and Sarah Samuels
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2013 

    Father William Abernathy,   b. Abt 1700, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Dec 1780, Winchester, Winchester County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 80 years) 
    Mother Sarah Ann Samuels,   b. Abt 1700,   d. Aft 1780, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 81 years) 
    Family ID F1079610274  Group Sheet

    Family Mary Lydia Shore,   b. Abt 1745,   d. Aft 1835, Hampshire County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 91 years) 
    Married Abt 1759 
    Children 
     1. John Abernathy,   b. Abt 1760
     2. James Abernathy,   b. Abt 1762
    +3. Samuel Abernathy, Sr,   b. Abt 1765, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Sep 1839, Romney, Hampshire County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 74 years)
     4. Elizabeth Abernathy,   b. 1 Nov 1780, Hampshire County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Jul 1865, Hampshire County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
     5. Eleanor Abernathy,   b. Unknown
     6. Susan Abernathy,   b. Abt 1790, Hampshire County, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Apr 1860, Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years)
    +7. William Abernathy,   b. 31 May 1797, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 May 1857, Azen, Scotland County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years)
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2013 
    Family ID F1079610327  Group Sheet

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - Abt 1748 - Pennsylvania Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 26 Sep 1839 - Hampshire County, West Virginia Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • From Elizabeth Ferguson at http://bellsouthpwp.net/n/s/nss8660/DNA/DNA.html

      Will of
      Samuel Abernathy
      24 Apr 1835
      I Samuel Abernathy of Hampshire County in the state of Virginia being weak in body but of sound mind and memory do hereby make my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say first I wish and Desire that my Just debts and all funeral charges Shall be paid After my decease and that my son Samuel Abernathy have and receive out of my estate one hundred dollars to be paid to him by my executor hereinafter named And 2ndly after the payment of my Just debts and funeral charges and the hundred Dollars to my son Samuel I give and bequeath to my son William Abernathy my plantation adjoining the town of Springfield and the same whereon I now reside including all the advantages thereto belonging or in anywise appertaining also all the stock of horses Cattle sheep and hogs and all the farming utensils together with all and every articles of household and kitchen furniture that [I] may possess upon the following terms and conditions that he the said William shall support myself and my beloved wife his mother so long as we may both or either of us live and, also pay pay to my son John Abernathy Ten Dollars to my Dawter Elizabeth Patterson Ten Dollars to my Daughter Elenor Chisler Ten Dollars to my daughter Susan Lee ten Dollars and to my son James Abernathy ten Dollars all of which said sums of ten each and I will and bequeath to the above named persons my children-?and lastly I do hereby Constitute and appoint my son William Abernathy my Executor of this my Last Will and testament hereby revoking all other or former wills or testaments by me heretofore made In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 24th day of April in the year of our Lord 1835.
      The words "that I may possess" in the above interlined before signed.

      Samuel Abernathy (seal)
      signed sealed Published and declared as and for the last will and Testament of the above named Samuel Abernathy in presence of us.
      William Abernathy John Brady

      At a court held for Hampshire County on the 23rd day of March 1840 This last will and testament of Samuel Abernathy decd was presented in court proved by the oaths of William Abernathy & John Brady witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of William Abernathy the executor therein named who made oath according to law certificate of the probate thereof is granted him in due form on his giving security whereupon he with James Abernathy, Capt. William Abernathy his secureties entered into and acknowledged bond in the penalty of five thousand dollars conditioned as the law directs.

      Teste John B White C.C.
      Source: Hampshire County Wills, v.11, p. 147, FHL 815337; transcribed by L. Phillips, 2008; formatted for internet display by Elizabeth Ferguson.


    • From jsalus2@verizon.net 10/2012

      The October 9, 1839, edition of the Daily National Intelligencer, Washington, DC, published this obituary for Samuel Abernathy. No date of death is given.

      Another Revolutionary Soldier Gone.
      Died, at his residence near Springfield, Hampshire County, Virginia [today West Virginia], Captain Samuel Abernathy, in about the 94th year of his age. The deceased was a native of Pennsylvania and a soldier of the Revolution. In company with his brother, the late William Abernathy, he went to that place, then a wilderness, soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, where he has resided ever since.


    • General Notes: From: Hampshire County, Virginia (Now West Virginia): Volume I--Minute Book Abstracts 1788-1802, page 95

      16 July 1798

      Ordered that the following persons be recommended to his excellency the governor and council as fit and proper persons be commissioned to execute the offices for which they are recommended respectively within the county and distinguished by the first and second Battalion in manner and form following to wit Second Battalion - John Perrill, Gent., Major James Smith Captain, Archibald Linthicum, Lieutenant and Erasmus Tucker Ensign - William Perrill Captain, Gabriel Throckmorton Lieutenant and Stephen Hickle Ensign - First Batalion, Robert Koyle Captain, Rawleigh Mollohan Lieutenant, Jacob Putnam Ensign - SAMUEL ABERNATHY CAPTAIN, William Donaldson Lieutenant, Charles Taylor Ensign. Page 159


    • [Source: History ofWest Virginia; By Virgil Anson Lewis; publ. 1887; Pgs. 486-493;

      Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack]

      Springfield, in the northwest, named from a' Massachusetts battle field of the Revolution, was established December 16, 1790, at the Cross Roads on the lands of William and Samuel Abernethy, with John Taylor, William Campbell, Robert Reynolds, Jacob Earsom, John Pancake, Fielding Calmes and Andrew Hughes, trustees.


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