John William Laughlin

Source: AWT; "Garris Family Tree" by Charles Garris; Updated Oct 28,2002 http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GED&db=:1861715&id=I9135...

"Came to America about 1740, and settled in Chester Co, Pa.

During the next twenty years the Lauglins became closely associated with other Scotish Irish settlers, mainly the Duncans, Sharps, Prices, Berrys and Kings.

It is said that John acquired 200 acres of land in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and that he moved with his son John to Elk Garden Russell County Va about 1771.

As early as 1771 the Sharp family had moved to the Holston River Valley in an area that was thought to be a part of NC. Land grants were issued by the state of NC in 1774 to Alexander Laughlin and Thomas Sharp in Sinking Creek, a branch of the Holston River. Between this time and 1779 all of these families that had initially settled in Lancaster Co Pennsylvaniahad moved to the Holston River Valley. They had acquired large tracts of land in what is now Washington Co Va and Sullivan Co Tn. Most of the area was at that time claimed by both the states of Va and NC. Court records of that period reflect this confusion. Most of these families didn't really know where they lived. John Laughlin Sr and his sons John Jr, James Sr and Alexander had acquired over a thousand acres of land in the area and were considered to be "the ruling class" in the area. John Laughlin Sr died at his home in the Holston River Valley near Abingdon, Washington, Va in 1782. His wife Jane Matthews Laughlin apparently died sometime prior to John Sr's arrival in the Holston River Valley Area. Her name is not mentioned in any of the numerous land transaactions that are recorded in Sullivan Co Tenn land and deed records. John Laughlin Jr and Robert Craig were listed as "surviving executors" of John Laughlin Sr , deceased, when they sold the original homesite to John Vance on 3 Aug 1792. John Laughlin Sr is buried in the Green Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery near Abingdon Va."

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Source:"A Diary of Public Events and Notices of My Life and Family and Of My Private Transactions by Samuel Hervey Laughlin" http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/ViewStory.aspx?tid=6985294&pid=-118839...

". . .John Laughlin, my great grandfather, came from Ireland, with his family, consisting of three sons, John, James, and Alexander, James being the eldest, and Alexander the youngest, and three daughters, Jane, Elizabeth and Margaret, and on arriving in the then Colonies, at Philadelphia, about the year 1740, removed first to Chester County and then to the vicinity of where Harrisburg now stands in Pennsylvania, now Dauphin County I believe. About the year 1760, as Benjamin Sharp, my great uncle believes, (see his letter to me in my books of letters of 4 January, 1845, written from Warren County, Missouri) and about the year 1764, as my father remembers from family tradition, my great grandfather and his family, and many of his connections, intermarriages with the Sharps, Duncan's, etc. having been formed, removed from Pennsylvania to Virginia. My great grandfather afterwards also removed to what is now Russell County and before the commencement of the Revolutionary war two or three years, to what is now Washington County, Virginia near Abingdon. There my great grandfather died before I was born.

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• Residence: moved from PA to VA - Between 1760 and 1764
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