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Surname: CAVENDISH, MURPHY, MANN, McCLINTIC, FLEMING
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TIMELINE FOR WILLIAM HUNTER CAVENDISH
~1740 = William Henderson CAVENDISH born in Ireland. (1)
1752 = "Tradition has it that this Lord Cavendish came to the colony of
Virginia with his mother and two sisters from England. A thorough search
of shipboard records by this researcher could only find one Cavendish before
the mid-eighteen hundreds. That was Margaret Cavendish who was probably
the mother. Early shipboard records did not record the names of children
or women, unless they were unaccompanied by a husband. If this was his
mother, she came on the convict ship -Litchfield- in 1752." (5)
Bet. 1756-1760 = Came to America with his mother Margaret and two sisters.
(1)
Date? = Settled in Virginia on the James River not far from Lexington.
The place where they settled is still known as the Cavendish Farm. (1)
1769 = "Cavendish, an Englishman, settled in Greenbrier in 1769." (2)
1769 = "Sufficient to say that young William Hunter Cavendish reflected
the education and breeding of his royal background at an early age. He
deposed in court documents that he was in Greenbrier County as early as
1769 before the formation of the county."(5)
1783 = "Greenbrier Court records-William Hunter Cavendish served on Grand
Jury this
was 1783" (7)
1777 = "Will Book 1-1777 will of James McCoy - William Hunter was a witness."
(7)
1778-1782 = Served as quarter-master general during the Revolutionary War.
(1)
Dates? "I have several documents pertaining to Wm.
H. Cavendish and his patriotism, including a formal request by President
John Adams for services." (8)
1780 = "William Hunter Cavendish married on June 13, 1780 to Jane Murphy
by Rev. John Alderson, Jr. in Rockingham or Greenbrier C - Minister's Returns."
(4)
1780 = "What is well documented is his marriage to my great-great-great-grandmother,
Jane Murphy, on 13 June 1780." (5)
1790 = "He was the first County Clerk of said Co., and served in the State
Legislature 1790-1800. When Bath Co. was organized in 1790 he was one of
the first lawyers given a permit to practice at Warm Springs. By a previous
marriage he had several children living in Greenbrier Co." (2)
1790 = "... William Hunter Cavendish, an Englishman, who was the first
clerk of Greenbrier and later the first clerk of Kanawha. He was a delegate
from Greenbrier almost continuously from 1790 to 1804." (6)
1796 = Appointed to first Board of Visitors at Washington College, Lexington,
Virginia. The proof of this is contained in Laws of Virginia, p. 44, ch.
41, reading, "An act for erecting Liberty Hall Academy into a College."
This act was passed December 21, 1796, and names the Board of Visitors,
including William H. Cavendish of Greenbrier. The duties of the Board of
Visitors were to appoint the president and professors, remove and suspend
the same for a good cause, fix their saleries, make inspections, and have
control of all property belonging to the college. (1)
1800 = Death of wife Jane Murphy. "What is well documented is his marriage
to my great-great-great-grandmother, Jane Murphy, on 13 June 1780. Subsequent
to her death in 1800 ..." (5)
1802-1805 = Served in the Assembly of Virginia, with the exception of two
years when he was Sheriff of Greenbrier County, at which time he lived
in Lewisburg. (1)
1804 = Wiliam H. Cavendish me. Alice McClintic on May 10, 1804. (3)
Date? = Sheriff of Greenbrier County. (1)
Date? = Cavendish vs. Fleming case on record at Lewisburg decided in settlement
of an estate of which William H. Cavendish was an administrator. (1)
1808 = "In 1808, Mrs. Alice McClintic married again to William Hunter Cavendish,
a Lawyer of Greenbrier Co." (3)
1818 = "When he died in 1818, according to his will, specified that he
had no strings attached to his wife's property, but property he owned in
Greenbrier Co., he gave to his own children. After his death, this farm
was always known as the "Old Cavendish" place, and his widow was called
Grandma Cavendish." (2)
1818 = "William Cavendish's will was probated in Bath Co., VA, in 1818."
(5)
(1) THE CAVENDISH FAMILY HISTORY, Printed at Cincinnati, Ohio in 1961.
(2)Info from Sharon McNeeley
*(Written in July and Aug. 1949 by Junius Hunter Arbuckle):
(3) Bath County Marriages 1791-1810, THE RESEARCHERS.
(4) Weilfeck, Marriages of Some VA Residents 1607-1800, Series 1 Vol. 2.
(5) Info from "Greenbrier Co. Family History," p. 43, sub. by Gradon Smales
Love (SAR National No. 142549)
(6) (Morton's "History of Allegheny Co." p. 209-210):
(7) Keith McClung
(8) bjenkins (I am trying to get copies of these documents - Frances)
Additions, corrections, assertions, legal proofs, questions, comments ...
send to me at 7cattys(a)keaconnect.net or Frances Cavendish Dorman, P.O.
Box 68, Kodiak, AK 99615.