THOMAS MILLSAP
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BIOGRAPHY
BORN: About 1679 at Armaugh, Tyrone County, Ireland
MARRIED: About 1706 at Tyrone County, Ireland _____________
DIED: After October 1759 at Augusta County, Virginia
BURIED:_____________________________________________
SPOUSE: Mary Poplin _________________________________
BORN: About 1684 at Down, Belfast County, Ireland ___
DIED: __________________________________________
BURIED: _____________________________________________
ACHIEVEMENTS
THE first record of Thomas in America was from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where he took out a warrant for 100 acres of land dated 3 January 1733. He did not comply with the conditions of the warrant and it became void. By another warrant dated 1 October 1742, this land was ordered returned to the secretary office for the use of Alexander Miller. After that, he migrated down the "Great Wagon" road (also known as the "Indian Road") to Virginia.
HE next appeared in the record books of Augusta County, Virginia. In 1747, he was a witness to several land deed transactions for the county. He witnessed the sale of 400 acres from John Millian and his wife, Hannah, to Travis Hughes from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on 4 September 1747.
A survey for Thomas was recorded on 8 December 1746 for 400 acres on a branch of Smith Creek in Augusta (present day Rockingham) County, Virginia. This location is about two miles south of the present day town of New Market. He received a land patent on 5 September 1749 for these 400 acres from King George II for a payment of 40 shillings.
THOMAS' 400 acres of land laid on the county boundary line of present day Rockingham and Shenandoah Counties. This boundary line was the old Lord Fairfax Line, which was his northern line. On the west and splitting his 400 acres slightly was the "Great Wagon" road. On the east was a branch of Smith Creek running north and south through his eastern property line. Also, just to the east of his property set the Massanutten Mountains. His sons, Thomas and Robert, migrated by the way of the "Great Wagon" road into the southeastern corner of Rowan (present day Iredell) County, North Carolina.
AFTER his death, an inventory of Thomas' estate was appraised on 7 June 1760 and it was valued at 108 pounds, 3 shillings, and 4 pence.
Contributed by: Colleen Hunter
Edited by: Dennis P. Arntzen
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