Captain Andrew Bird, IV

Andrew Byrd of Rockingham, Anthony Reader of Rockingham and George Rader of Rockingham signed a petition for the formation of a new county out of Rockingham and Shenandoah in 1792.

1788 - A military voucher for Capt. Josiah Harrison's Company 9 in Rockingham County, Virginia, in 1788 includes:

   Andrew Bird 1 tithable

   Andrew Bird Sr. 1 tithable, 4 slaves, 9 horses

   David Rader above 16 "having 1 creature"

   Adam Rader 1 tithable, 3 slaves, 10 horses.

   Anthony Reader son John

   Mathias Reader son George

From "A History of Shenandoah County Virginia" by John W.Wayland p. 691

Capt. Andrew Byrd, Jr. d. 1799 of Rockingham County; Lieutenant of Militia 1742; Captain 1752; married Mary, widow of Joseph Reece, and had one daughter, Catherine and four sons. 1730c. Andrew Byrd, Jr., son of Andrew and Magdalene Jones Bird, was born about 1730. He married Mary -----. He died, 20Jan 1799. In 1753, Valentine Sevier and his wife, Joanna, sold to Andrew Bird, 184 acres of land "Between Limestone Ridge and Smiths Creek; corner Andrew Bird's survey, Robert Milsap's survey," etc. J. Houston Harrison,

Andrew Bird served in the Revolutionary War as a Captain from Rockingham County, Va.

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