Is anyone on this list interested in the Caldwells who lived on Vaughns
Creek in Prince Edward County, Virginia in the mid- to late- 1700s? I am
searching for a connection between them and John Finley, who lived in
Augusta County from the late 1730s until about 1765, when he moved to
Prince Edward County.
I have done extensive research on this John Finley and he was married
first to ____ Thomson, daughter of Rev. John Thomson; they had at least
six children. John married a second time Mary (presumably Caldwell)
before 1750, and they had at least three children. John and Mary Finley
moved to Prince Edward County and bought property on Vaughns Creek from
Jacob Garrett 15 June 1765. His son, William, also bought property near
Vaughns Creek from a John Caldwell on 19 August 1765. Another son,
George, was given 200 acres on branches of Vaughns Creek by his
father-in-law, Thomas Fulton, on 28 April 1769. Coincidentally, a John
Caldwell, who had been living on Vaughns Creek in Prince Edward County
went to live with his son, David, in 1766. David also lived on Vaughns
Creek. This is documented in a lengthy Augusta County Chancery case,
Watson vs. Caldwell, that spanned the years 1785 to 1804. On 25 March
1796 David Caldwell stated that his father lived with him from about 1766
until his death about August 1789, at the age of 94 year 6 months. The
elder John Caldwells birth year is, therefore, estimated as 1695.
Is this elder John Caldwell the father of Mary who married John Finley?
Carmen Finley