Or, Subtitled: “Tradition and history show that he [William Beverley] spent two nights with Justice James Kerr in the new log house (then only four years old), presumably the nights of Aug. 11 and 12, 1736”
This posting continues a previous one that discusses the pre-Virginia life of James Kerr, insofar as anything is known about that period of his life.
Vincent Brown Kerr states,[1]
The first Kerr who settled in the Valley of Virginia must have been James Kerr, who died in 1770, and his eldest son, John administered on his estate, and James Kerr, my great grandfather, must have been a son of the first James and brother of John, who had two sons, William and James, and a daughter Elizabeth McClure, and John, Samuel, William and Andrew Kerr all owned land on Middle River, and all had children baptized by Rev. John Craig from 1740-1749, and their land adjoined on Middle River from New Hope to Stone Church, and are the same family.
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