Jeremiah Darnall

Biography

JEREMIAH DARNALL born 1718 in Fauquier County, Virginia; died in 1795 in Fauquier County, VA; married on 3-23-1740 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia; son of Waugh DARNALL and Elizabeth BRONAUGH.

Jeremiah's wife - Catherine Holtzclaw is NOT the same lady as her sister Alice Catherine who married Henry Hitt. They are two very different sisters.

In Kentucky, 1794, Jeremiah served in Price's Battalion, Mounted Volunteers, as a Corporal.[1] For his service, he received a Kentucky Land Grant of 5,312-1/2 acres on Eagle Creek.[2]

"One of Jacob Holtzclaw's daughters married Jeremiah Darnall, Gent., a magistrate of Fauquier County and descendant of a long line of English gentry who had been settled for 200 years in the Northern Neck."[3]

An abstract of Jeremial Darnall's will states the following:

Wife: Catherine Darnall

Children

• 1) Elizabeth Sinclair,
• 2) Joseph,
• 3) Ann Weaver,
• 4) Mary Russell,
• 5) Margaret Sinclair,
• 6) Susannah Smith,
• 7) Leannah Ashby,
• 8) Caty Darnall,
• 9) Rosamond Darnall.

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Will

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Darnall-252

• Will for Jeremiah Darnall:[4] Page 247 – Will Book Two – Abstracts of Fauquier County Wills (on ancestry.com): PAGES 368-369:
• JEREMIAH DARNALL (WILL)
• DATE: 10 APRIL 1795
• WIFE: Catherine – all my Estate both “rale and personal during her life”
• DAU: Elizabeth Sinclor – tract of land whereon she now lives, 130 acres and 49 acres “joining the same whereon my son Joseph Darnall formerly lived” to her and her heirs forever.
• DAU: Ann Weaver – L50
• Son: Joseph – 300 a. “of my Kentucky land to be laid of in any convenient manner joining any two of the outlines.”
• Dau: Mary Russell – 300 acres “of Kentucky land joining the land given to my son Joseph”
• Dau: Margaret Sinclor – 300 a. of my Kentucy land joining the land given to Mary Russell
• Dau: Susannah Smith – 20 a. “the reason why I give her no more is because she is already provided for.”
• Dau: Leannah Ashbey – 215-1/2 a. “being part of the tract I sold to Josiah Fishback.”
• Dau: Caty Darnall – “all my land lying on the South west side of licking run it being part of the tract of land whereon I now live” also “the Tavern with five acres of land to be laid of in such manner as to include all the houses and gardin and join Colo’l. Randolph line.”
• Dau: Rosamond Darnall – the house wherein I now live and all the land lying on the North East side of licking run except the five acres given to my dau. Caty.
• Daus.: Rosamond and Caty – after the decease of my wife that my daus. have full passion of the land devised to them. Als all “Negroes stock of all kinds and household furniture to be equally divided, except one negro Garl named Silvey which I gave to my grand dau. Lucy Luess Ashby.”
• Exor.: friend James Wright – to sell “balance of my Kentucky land and 100 acres of land lying in Fauquier County and on the Broad run Mountain.”
• Signed: Jeremiah Darnall
• Wit.: Tilman Weaver; John Martin; Henry Kerns
• Proved: 22 June 1795, by o. of Henry Kerns, Tilman Weaver, John Martin. James Wright made o. with Tilman Weaver, John Martin and John Mauzy his securities under bond of $10,000, and granted cert. to obtain probate.
• [end of will]

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Origins - father

REF: "Darnall-Spence-Steers-Spangler-Stuckey-Sill" compiled by Erma D. Stuckey; LDS Library; Salt Lake City, Utah; Darnall Genealogies,p3 TEXT --- Probate-Genealogies of Virginia Families, vol IV p623 [Tyler's Quarterly]

Children of Waugh Darnall and Elizabeth::

1. Anne born 1716 in King George, Virginia married (1st) Charles GARNER (2nd) Jonas WILLIAMS;
2. Jeremiah born 1718 in Fauquier County, Virginia; died in 1795 in Fauquier County, Virginia;
3. Margaret born 1719 in Dumfries VA; married Simon MORGAN; son of Charles MORGAN and Alice THORNTON;

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Origins - mother

“Will of Jeremiah Darnall about 1720 - 1795” < link >

From Robert N. Grant:

The case of Smith vs. Darnall's Executors, Fauquier County, Virginia, Chancery Court, Papers terminating February 1802, which The Darnall, Darnell Family stated included the following Bill in Chancery by Augustine Smith:

"Augustine Smith of Fauquier County sayeth in 1781 he served in the Virginia Militia and became entitled for his said service to a certificate -8:10:0, and being anxious to become an adventurer in Kentucky lands mentioned same to Jeremiah Darnall, now deceased, and he said Jeremiah Darnall proposed to assist him in locating the said land thru Major James Wright who was then about to go to Kentucky for the purpose of locating lands, . . . . but being so nearly connected with the said Jeremiah as to have married his daughter and being also connected by marriage to the said James Wright . . . ."

On May 22, 1797, at Fauquier County, Virginia, Chancery Court Loose Papers, File Folder 1/15, James Wright filed his answer to the complaint in Smith v. Darnall as follows:

"The Answer of James Wright Exr of Jeremiah Darnall to the bill of Complt by Augustine Smith Complt . . . . This Defendnt knows it to be true that the sd Jeremiah Died possessed of the Quantity of Kentucky land stated in the Complts bill and he believes it to be the whole he did own This Defendt recollects that in the year 1783 when he made known his Intention of visiting Kentuckey for the purpose of locating & surveying lands that the sd Jeremiah applied to him to know if he procured a warrant whether this Defendt would locate & survey it and that on this Defendts giving his assent he shortly after procured a warrant for the amount stated in the Complts bill This Defendt located the same & surveyed the lands without making any charge for his services or trouble, demaning no more than his expences & costs which was paid by said Jeremiah. Had this Defendt known that the land was for the Complt, he does not think he should have done the business on the same terms The sd Jeremiah was a half brother of this Defendt & therefore he was induced to ask of him no more than his expences . . . ."

This record clearly identifies James Wright as the half brother of Jeremiah Darnall. For James Wright, the son of 1792 John Wright of Fauquier County and his wife Elizabeth, to be the half-brother of Jeremiah Darnall, the son of Waugh Darnall and his wife Elizabeth Darnall, then James Wright's mother would have had to have been the wife of both Waugh Darnall and 1792 John Wright. With the listing in Jeremiah Bronaugh's will of his daughter as Elizabeth Wright, the identification would seem complete that 1792 John Wright's wife was Elizabeth (Bronaugh) (Darnall) Wright. Robert N. Grant

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References

• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I2894...
• “Will of Jeremiah Darnall about 1720 - 1795” < link > cites
  • The Identification of 1809 William Wright of Franklin County, Virginia, As the Son of 1792 John Wright of Fauquier County, Virginia, And Elizabeth (Bronaugh) (Darnall) Wright by Robert N. Grant, 15 Campo Bello Court, Menlo Park, CA 94025, RNGrant @ grantandgordon. com.
• http://germannafamily.org/getperson.php?personID=I092733&tree=tree1
• Reference: TNG Genealogy - SmartCopy: Nov 17 2021, 23:44:56 UTC
• Tyler's quarterly historical and genealogical magazine - v. 4, no. 3 January 1923. Page 220. < FamilySearch >