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Author: slpearson16
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Thanks. Especially for posting that scan of the original.
Scott
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Author: MisterCheek
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Hello Scott,
As researchers, we can only take these pieces of evidence at face value. Anything else is pure speculation.
I agree. George's affidavit states he was acquainted with Isaac during the Revolutionary War. He does not disclose his place of residence at the time of his enlistment.
Pension applications are usually riddled with mistakes. They contain the sixty or seventy year old recollections of a senior citizen.
Also, These documents were created with quill and ink. Extraneous ink spots are quite common.
Regards,
Terry Cheek
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Author: slpearson16
Surnames: Way, Cheek, Weathers
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A possibility that occurred to me was that Isaac Way had fought in the Revolution and been wounded, and other soldiers felt that he deserved his pension, so they embellished the story to back him up and to keep the government from turning him down. Soldiers sticking up for one of their own.
There were a number of cases where Revolutionary War soldiers were turned down for their pensions by the government because they didn't have any papers or witnesses. Isaac Way's papers discharge papers were lost in a fire. So this court hearing may have been his only chance to get his pension.
Scott
P.S. As regards the apparent "Frontroyal", why is there two dots above the word? Throughout the rest of the image any dots are appropriately associated with the letter i and there is no indication of any random artifacts anywhere else in the image.
Also the fact that he states that Charlotte is in South Carolina. Possible a head injury may have made it difficult for him to remember accurately.
Curiously, George Cheek never stated that he had met Isaac Way in Front Royal, VA. Only that he was acquainted with him during the Revolutionary War. Which could have been in any of several states as they moved around quite a bit.
George Cheek never mentions anything about Frontroyal. Only Isaac Way and Ralph Weathers did.
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Author: MisterCheek
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Hello Scott,
I have attached a portion of Isaac Way's original declaration for your review. It looks like "Frontroyal" to me. Frontroyal may have been a name used only by the local inhabitants of northernmost Fauquier County, during that time. We later find the town of Front Royal, just across the Fauquire-Fredrick County line. This part of Fredrick County would later became Warren County.
Regards,
Terry Cheek
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Author: slpearson16
Surnames: Cheek, Way
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Hi all,
Some problems with the Pension Application of Isaac Way which is sometimes used to help prove that a George Cheek, Jr. was at least in Front Royal, VA, if not born and raised there.
Copy is located here: http://www.southerncampaign.org/pen/s16568.pdf
In the application, it states, "That he (Isaac Way) enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1780" and "That he resided at the time of his enlistment in the town of
[illegible name of town, looks like "Frontroyal"] in the County of Fauquier and State of Virginia"
The problems with this is that, even though Front Royal was in several different counties due to changing county boundaries, it was never in the county of Fauquier. Another problem is that the town of Front Royal did not exist in 1780. It was founded in 1788, several years after the Revolutionary War ended.
So it is a bit of a problem for George Cheek, Jr. to have witnessed Isaac Way in a town that did not exist in a place where it never was.
Alternative explanations welcome.
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Author: spearson1491
Surnames: Cheek,
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Addendum
this link contains more information regarding Austin Cheek and his family.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wa6dsb/Mar-FamGrp/f1089...
including that the first name of his wife is not Demanda, but Janus (Janice) and Demanda is her middle name. This is towards the bottom of the page. Elsewhere she is referred to as Amanda and then later as Demanda.
This also mentions that Austin Cheek, his wife Amanda, and Thomas Cheek (most likely their son), selling land "...which formerly belonged to George Cheek, dec'd..." to a Mark Reid. This was in 1850. And again in 1856. And again in 1847, they sold land "...which formerly belonged to George Cheek, deceased." This would imply that that this George Cheek died in 1847 or earlier.
There is not enough known of the descendants of George Cheek of Front Royal and his wife Leanna to rule out this George Cheek being a descendant. His first son, James, may have stayed in the Front Royal area, and only two sons of his are known.
According to some, there was possible brother to George Cheek of Front Royal, named Francis Cheek and who died in Culpeper County, VA about 1824.
There was more than one Cheek family in Front Royal, VA at the same time, one the George Cheek family, and a Francis Cheek family, and I think an Elijah Cheek family. There is also recorded a Nancy Cheek (not the daughter of George Cheek as far as I can tell) and a Judith Cheek in land transactions in that area prior to 1800, although as these are women it is difficult to know if "Cheek" is their maiden name or the married name.
It is unknown if any of these families were related or not.
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