Or, Subtitled: “This summer we have had 12 or 13 sayle of ships from the North of Ireland with a swarm of people.”
In this posting, I’m moving the focus of my series about the Kerr family back another generation, from Samuel Kerr (1715-1725 — aft. 1762), who moved from Augusta County, Virginia, to the Long Cane settlement in South Carolina, to the James Kerr who appears to have been Samuel’s father and who is widely agreed to have been the progenitor of the Kerr family of Augusta County. About James Kerr’s date and place of birth and his whereabouts before he bought 473 acres of land in Beverley Manor in Orange (later Augusta) County, Virginia, from William Beverley on 28-29 February 1739, I have found no clear or conclusive information.[1] I’ll return to that point in a moment.
