Kerr, Andrew 1a
Birth Name | Kerr, Andrew |
Gender | male |
Age at Death | about 64 years |
Narrative
An Archibald Hamilton was administrator of the estate of James Kerr in Augusta County, Va in 1770. John Kerr's land is mentioned.
From Bill Lindsey:
For 1808 suit in Augusta Co., VA, noting that Wm. Kerr and brother Andrew lived side-by-side in Augusta Co. by 1742-3
Rev. John Craig's list of children baptized in Augusta Co., VA, has the following children listed for AK:
KERR, Andrew John Mar 27, 1748 N/A
" Andrew Jennet Aug 24, 1746 N/A
AK is on the list of the first justices of Augusta Co., VA, on 9 Dec. 1745, along with father James and brother-in-law John Pickens (Chalkley).
Aug. 1753: Andrew Kerr wit. deed of brother Wm. to Edward Rutledge, land on Flag Springs in Augusta; other wit. include his niece Jean/Jane's husband John Hind and his brother-in-law John Pickens. See file of Wm. Kerr.
A 1755 delinquent tax list submitted by Sheriff Robt. Breckinridge in Augusta Co., VA, shows both Andrew Carr and Saml. Carr charged twice for delinquency (Chalkley 2, 417). Names on the list (e.g., Brice Russell) suggest that Andrew may have had land in the bounds of what became Botetourt, then Rockbridge, Co., VA.
Per a 17 Nov. 1755 vestry order, lands of Cap. Wm. Christian's company in Augusta Co. and parish were processioned, with Wm. Karr on the list (Vestry Bk. 139; Chalkley 2, 440). John and Andrew Carr were processioned at the same time, evidently in the same company (ibid., 147; Chalkley 2, 440). The procession list suggests the latter lived side by side. Note that another procession list in 1755, by Samuel Given, shows AK living beside James and John.
[I believe that there were 2 Andrews, this one and a son of John (James). MAM]
Augusta Co. ct. judgments for March 1758 show a judgment in suit of Alex. Wright vs. Andrew Kerr (Chalkley 1, 323). (Possibly this Andrew's nephew, as this Andrew may have moved to Rowan Co, NC by this time.)
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Jim Veregge:
Andrew is found in the early records of Rowan Co, NC in 1754.
Bean, E.H. (1914), Rowan Co. (N.C.) Records Early Settlers: Kerr, David, 1758. First Kerr was Andrew in 1754.
8 August 1769 - Rowan County, North Carolina
Deed between Andrew Kerr and his wife Mary Kerr, and John Foster
1782 Rowan County, North Carolina
Will of Andrew Kerr, named wife MARY, daughter Ann and sons Joseph and Samuel.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=marciamcclure&id=I20153
Events
Event | Date | Place | Description | Sources |
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Birth | about 1718 | 1b | ||
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Death | about 1782 | Rowan County, North Carolina | 2a | |
Age: 64y |
Parents
Relation to main person | Name | Birth date | Death date | Relation within this family (if not by birth) |
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Father | Kerr, James | 1682 | 1770 | |
Mother | Ball, Martha | |||
Brother | Kerr, John | about 1705 | 1772 | |
Sister | Kerr, Elizabeth | about 1707 | before 1752 | |
Brother | Kerr, Samuel | 1715 | ||
Brother | Kerr, William | about 1716 | ||
Kerr, Andrew | about 1718 | about 1782 | ||
Brother | Kerr, David | 1719 | ||
Sister | Kerr, Eleanor | about 1720 | about 1781 | |
Sister | Kerr, Letitia | 1723-01-07 | ||
Brother | Kerr, James | 1726 | 1812-01-05 |
Families
Family of Kerr, Andrew and Hamilton, Mary |
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Married | Wife | Hamilton, Mary ( * about 1740 + about 1805 ) | |||||||||||||||
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Children |
Name | Birth Date | Death Date |
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Kerr, Margaret | ||
Kerr, Mary | ||
Kerr, Samuel | about 1760 | |
Kerr, Joseph | about 1760 | 1829-03-24 |
Family of Kerr, Andrew and
Name | Birth Date | Death Date |
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Kerr, Jennett | 1746 | |
Kerr, John | 1748 | 1772-05-20 |
Kerr, Ann | 1753 |
Pedigree
Ancestors
Source References
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ID: I20141
Name: James KERR
Given Name: James
Surname: Kerr
Sex: M
_UID: 267D11CC156E4431AD298EC6F9FED39E0AEF
Change Date: 15 Feb 2011
Note:
James Kerr was named one of the original Justices of the Peace in Augusta County, Virginia when the first Augusta County Court was formed on December 9, 1745. Also named as Justices of the Peace were John and Andrew Pickens. Several of the Pickens family intermarried with the Kerr's and other prominent Augusta County families. The family of James Kerr were members of Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church, the first church formed in Augusta County, Virginia, near present day Staunton, Virginia. (Source: "The Tinkling Spring: Headwater of Freedom", by Howard McKnight Wilson, pub. 1954.Jim Veregge, Cerritos, CA
Delijim@aol.com
"He and his family migrated from Scotland to Pennsylvania before 1728-1730, when his sons were married, probably in Chester/Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Lancaster was formed in 1729 from part of Chester County). Many researchers believe that this Kerr family came from Paxton Township, in Chester/Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and this has been at least partially corroborated by a statement of Lt. General Andrew Pickens (The Pickens family was very close to the Kerr family, and intermarried several times):1811 letter by Gen. Andrew Pickens to General Light Horse Harry Lee in which Gen. Pickens states that he was born in Paxton township (located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania). It's transcribed in Sharp's history of the Pickens family, p. 135.
"I was born in PA, Paxton Township, on the 19th Sept. 1739. My father removed with his family when I was very young to Virginia, and settled for a few years west of where Staunton now stands about 8 miles, and in the year 1752 or 3, removed to the Waxhaws and was amongst the first settlers of that part of South Carolina. My father and mother came from Ireland. My father's progenitors emigrated from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes."
In 1738/9, James Kerr purchased land in the Orange/Augusta County, Virginia area, where they migrated with several other prominent Scotch families (Buchanan, Steele, Pickens, Anderson, Allison, Campbell, Robertson and Hays just to name a few).
There was a James Ker of Augusta County, who left a will in Orange County, Virginia (the predecessor county of Augusta County) in Will Book 2, 66-7, dated 18 April 1745, proved 22 August 1745. This will mentions brothers DAVID and HUGH KERR; Charles Lewis, son of Col. John Lewis; William, son of William Hutchison; Elinor, wife of George Hutchison, MARGARET SPEAR, MARGARET PICKENS, William Henderson, Gabriel Home and DAVID CRAIG. It was witnessed by Andrew Russell and William Lewis. NOTE: In 1761, Andrew Russell witnessed a deed of John and Lucy Kerr to John Allison. Note, too the PICKENS reference. This James Kerr, COULD be a father of the James Kerr that died in 1770 in Augusta County. With the Pickens, Spear and Craig references, he is undoubtedly related, more research is necessary to prove a relationship.
James Kerr was one of the first settlers of Augusta County, Virginia, and built a large log house on Middle River between 1738-1740. This house, was used as an early meeting and court-house for the newly formed county of Augusta (formed in 1738-1745). This house was a rather large house, needed to house his large family that recently arrived from Pennsylvania. It is depicted and discussed in detail in the book "Kerrs and Kin, 1730-1930", by Vincent Brown Kerr, published 1930 in Staunton, Virginia.
This house is also pictured and described in Old Homes of Augusta County, The Pioneer Home of the Kerr Family, by Gladys B. Clem, Ninth of Landmark Series, pp. 53-56."
Birth: 1682 in Scotland / Northern Ireland ?
Death: 1770 in Augusta Co, VA
Note: An Archibald Hamilton was administrator of the estate of James Kerr in Augusta County, Va in 1770. John Kerr's land is mentioned.Father: James KERR
Marriage 1 Martha BALL \ BELL
Children
John KERR b: ABT 1705
Elizabeth KERR b: ABT 1707
Samuel KERR b: 1715
William KERR b: ABT 1716
Andrew KERR b: ABT 1718
David KERR b: 1719
Eleanor KERR b: ABT 1720
Letitia KERR b: 7 JAN 1723 in Pennsylvania
James KERR b: ABT 1725 in Pennsylvania -
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Source text:
ID: I20141
Name: James KERR
Given Name: James
Surname: Kerr
Sex: M
_UID: 267D11CC156E4431AD298EC6F9FED39E0AEF
Change Date: 15 Feb 2011
Note:
James Kerr was named one of the original Justices of the Peace in Augusta County, Virginia when the first Augusta County Court was formed on December 9, 1745. Also named as Justices of the Peace were John and Andrew Pickens. Several of the Pickens family intermarried with the Kerr's and other prominent Augusta County families. The family of James Kerr were members of Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church, the first church formed in Augusta County, Virginia, near present day Staunton, Virginia. (Source: "The Tinkling Spring: Headwater of Freedom", by Howard McKnight Wilson, pub. 1954.Jim Veregge, Cerritos, CA
Delijim@aol.com
"He and his family migrated from Scotland to Pennsylvania before 1728-1730, when his sons were married, probably in Chester/Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Lancaster was formed in 1729 from part of Chester County). Many researchers believe that this Kerr family came from Paxton Township, in Chester/Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and this has been at least partially corroborated by a statement of Lt. General Andrew Pickens (The Pickens family was very close to the Kerr family, and intermarried several times):1811 letter by Gen. Andrew Pickens to General Light Horse Harry Lee in which Gen. Pickens states that he was born in Paxton township (located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania). It's transcribed in Sharp's history of the Pickens family, p. 135.
"I was born in PA, Paxton Township, on the 19th Sept. 1739. My father removed with his family when I was very young to Virginia, and settled for a few years west of where Staunton now stands about 8 miles, and in the year 1752 or 3, removed to the Waxhaws and was amongst the first settlers of that part of South Carolina. My father and mother came from Ireland. My father's progenitors emigrated from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes."
In 1738/9, James Kerr purchased land in the Orange/Augusta County, Virginia area, where they migrated with several other prominent Scotch families (Buchanan, Steele, Pickens, Anderson, Allison, Campbell, Robertson and Hays just to name a few).
There was a James Ker of Augusta County, who left a will in Orange County, Virginia (the predecessor county of Augusta County) in Will Book 2, 66-7, dated 18 April 1745, proved 22 August 1745. This will mentions brothers DAVID and HUGH KERR; Charles Lewis, son of Col. John Lewis; William, son of William Hutchison; Elinor, wife of George Hutchison, MARGARET SPEAR, MARGARET PICKENS, William Henderson, Gabriel Home and DAVID CRAIG. It was witnessed by Andrew Russell and William Lewis. NOTE: In 1761, Andrew Russell witnessed a deed of John and Lucy Kerr to John Allison. Note, too the PICKENS reference. This James Kerr, COULD be a father of the James Kerr that died in 1770 in Augusta County. With the Pickens, Spear and Craig references, he is undoubtedly related, more research is necessary to prove a relationship.
James Kerr was one of the first settlers of Augusta County, Virginia, and built a large log house on Middle River between 1738-1740. This house, was used as an early meeting and court-house for the newly formed county of Augusta (formed in 1738-1745). This house was a rather large house, needed to house his large family that recently arrived from Pennsylvania. It is depicted and discussed in detail in the book "Kerrs and Kin, 1730-1930", by Vincent Brown Kerr, published 1930 in Staunton, Virginia.
This house is also pictured and described in Old Homes of Augusta County, The Pioneer Home of the Kerr Family, by Gladys B. Clem, Ninth of Landmark Series, pp. 53-56."
Birth: 1682 in Scotland / Northern Ireland ?
Death: 1770 in Augusta Co, VA
Note: An Archibald Hamilton was administrator of the estate of James Kerr in Augusta County, Va in 1770. John Kerr's land is mentioned.Father: James KERR
Marriage 1 Martha BALL \ BELL
Children
John KERR b: ABT 1705
Elizabeth KERR b: ABT 1707
Samuel KERR b: 1715
William KERR b: ABT 1716
Andrew KERR b: ABT 1718
David KERR b: 1719
Eleanor KERR b: ABT 1720
Letitia KERR b: 7 JAN 1723 in Pennsylvania
James KERR b: ABT 1725 in Pennsylvania -
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Marcia: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=marciamcclure&id=I20153 My Son Adam's Family
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Source text:
ID: I20153
Name: Andrew KERR
Given Name: Andrew
Surname: Kerr
Sex: M
_UID: 1AE91904C3F542F9B7D1F3950E4802118C08
Change Date: 22 Feb 2011
Note:An Archibald Hamilton was administrator of the estate of James Kerr in Augusta County, Va in 1770. John Kerr's land is mentioned.
From Bill Lindsey:
For 1808 suit in Augusta Co., VA, noting that Wm. Kerr and brother Andrew lived side-by-side in Augusta Co. by 1742-3Rev. John Craig's list of children baptized in Augusta Co., VA, has the following children listed for AK:
KERR, Andrew John Mar 27, 1748 N/A
" Andrew Jennet Aug 24, 1746 N/AAK is on the list of the first justices of Augusta Co., VA, on 9 Dec. 1745, along with father James and brother-in-law John Pickens (Chalkley).
Aug. 1753: Andrew Kerr wit. deed of brother Wm. to Edward Rutledge, land on Flag Springs in Augusta; other wit. include his niece Jean/Jane's husband John Hind and his brother-in-law John Pickens. See file of Wm. Kerr.
A 1755 delinquent tax list submitted by Sheriff Robt. Breckinridge in Augusta Co., VA, shows both Andrew Carr and Saml. Carr charged twice for delinquency (Chalkley 2, 417). Names on the list (e.g., Brice Russell) suggest that Andrew may have had land in the bounds of what became Botetourt, then Rockbridge, Co., VA.
Per a 17 Nov. 1755 vestry order, lands of Cap. Wm. Christian's company in Augusta Co. and parish were processioned, with Wm. Karr on the list (Vestry Bk. 139; Chalkley 2, 440). John and Andrew Carr were processioned at the same time, evidently in the same company (ibid., 147; Chalkley 2, 440). The procession list suggests the latter lived side by side. Note that another procession list in 1755, by Samuel Given, shows AK living beside James and John.
[I believe that there were 2 Andrews, this one and a son of John (James). MAM]Augusta Co. ct. judgments for March 1758 show a judgment in suit of Alex. Wright vs. Andrew Kerr (Chalkley 1, 323). (Possibly this Andrew's nephew, as this Andrew may have moved to Rowan Co, NC by this time.)
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Jim Veregge:
Andrew is found in the early records of Rowan Co, NC in 1754.Bean, E.H. (1914), Rowan Co. (N.C.) Records Early Settlers: Kerr, David, 1758. First Kerr was Andrew in 1754.
8 August 1769 - Rowan County, North Carolina
Deed between Andrew Kerr and his wife Mary Kerr, and John Foster1782 Rowan County, North Carolina
Will of Andrew Kerr, named wife MARY, daughter Ann and sons Joseph and Samuel.Birth: ABT 1718
Death: ABT 1782 in Rowan Co, NC.Father: James KERR b: 1682 in Scotland / Northern Ireland ?
Mother: Martha BALL \ BELLMarriage 1 Spouse Unknown
Married:
Children
Jennett KERR b: 1746 in Augusta Co, VA
John KERR b: 1748 in Augusta Co, VA
Ann KERR b: 1753Marriage 2 Mary HAMILTON b: ABT 1740
Married: BEF 1760
Children
Joseph KERR b: ABT 1760 in Rowan Co, NC
Samuel KERR b: ABT 1760 in Rowan Co, NC
Margaret KERR
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