BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS

Or, Subtitled: “Run away from the ſubſcriber, near Buchanan’s ferry, the 5^th inſtant”

In my preceding posting I focused on establishing when James Lauderdale (abt. 1707? – 1796/7) arrived in Virginia, and, insofar as this can be documented, where he was living prior to his arrival in Virginia. That posting showed that there’s sound documentation to indicate that James arrived in Augusta County, Virginia, from Maryland when his son William, who was born in 1741 or 1742, was an infant. On this point, my previous posting cites a Revolutionary pension affidavit William Lauderdale gave in Sumner County, Tennessee, in August 1833.[1]