Re: John Rigney, Mary Cromwell
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In reply to:
Re: John Rigney, Mary Cromwell
Gary E Young 7/13/09
At the risk of providing more information than you may want - Here is a write-up of Peter Wolf in Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia.This shows you his relationship to the Hite family.
Surnames: Cornwell, Wolf, Hite, Fairfax, Fauquier, Borden, McKay, Green, Duff, Rentfro, Gilder, Redman, Hampton, Nichols, Beadles, Rout, Grubs, Thurston
WOLF
Peter Wolf (b.c. 1700) moved from New Jersey to the Shenandoah River area sometime in 1733. On 3 October 1734, he received a patent from the Coloney of Virginia for 600 acres which began at Robert Carter's (deceased) property line. The 600 acre tract is located in present-day Clarke and Warren counties with Borden Marsh Run crossing the west corner and Wolfe Marsh Run crossing the northeast corner. County Highway 624 provides access to the 600 acres and is the dividing line between Hite's land and Lord Fairfax's Northern Neck Proprietary tract which the Carters bought from Fairfax. A part of Wolf's 600-acre patent land (about 200 acres) southeast of the dividing line (Highway 624), was exchanged for adjacent waste and ungranted land from Hite's patent land.
Wolf appealed to "The Honorable Francis Fauquier His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of Virginia" and the other Judges of the General Court in Chancery, explaining the problems he was experiencing with the Fairfax Proprietary and requesting a judgment in his favor. He stated that he was a German Protestant who had come to Pennsylvania sometime gbefore 1734 and "by the Encouragement offered by this Government to come and settle the Frontiers of this Colony," he and his family had migrated to Orange County, Virginia."
Wolf sold 50 acres of the 600-acre tract to Benjamin Borden for three pounds on 19 September 1740.
Peter (Wolf) was appointed in 1736 to compile a list of settlements located on the McKay, Hite, Green and Duff 100,000-acre patent land on the North and South Forks of Shenandoah River. He was appointed Constable to succeed William Rentfroe on 26 May 1737 and was replaced by Hugh Gilder on 25 May 1738.
Peter Wolf was deceased by 5 October 1779 when his will (dated 28 April 1779) was proved in Frederick County Court. He bequeatheed his land holdings to: grandson John Wolf, son of his deceased son John; daughter Sarah, wife of Henry Redman; Anne, wife of Henry Hampton; Rebecah, wife of John Nichols and step-daughter Betsey Cornwell, daughter of his deceased wife ("when Betsey comes of age"). He willed money to his grandson James Hampton, son of his daughter Anne. Peter appointed William Beadles, Peter Rout and Humphrey Grubbs to serve as executors.
His grandson John Wolf and his wife Elizabeth sold his inherited share of the 600 acres on 6 June 1780. Peter's daughter Sarah and her husband Henry Redman sold her inherited 180 acres on 18 July 1780. His daughter Rebecah and her husband John Nichols sold her inherited 50 acres "where they have lived for many years" on 8 June 1785. Charles Mynn Thurston bought all three of these tracts.