John Preston

"The Shipmaster of Dublin"

Sketches of Virginia
Chapter III. - Tinkling Spring

John Preston, a shipmaster in Dublin, married a sister of Col. James Patton; was not successful in his business in Ireland, particularly on account of his religious opinions; came with Col. Patton and resided for a time at Spring Hill, afterwards occupied by Dr. Waddell; and about the year 1743, purchased and occupied a tract near Staunton, lately occupied by General Baldwin. Here he soon died—leaving a widow and five children, all born in Ireland but one. His eldest daughter married Robert Breckenridge, of Botetourt— the grandfather of those ministers, Robert and John, whose acts have been inwoven with the history of the Presbyterian Church since about 1830. The second married Rev. John Brown, pastor of New Providence and Timber Ridge, whose descendants have been famous in Kentucky. The third child, William, was the father of a numerous family, male and female, that have not been unknown in Virginia. The fourth married Francis Smith, and the fifth John Howard, and their descendants are numerous in Kentucky and the south-western States. Devoutly attached to the Presbyterian Church, famed for its vigorous contests for liberty in Scotland, and Ireland, and America; a firm believer in the Calvinistic creed long and well tried as the creed to bear up men in great emergencies; conscientious in his personal religion, estimating the gospel and its advantages to man, a mortal and immortal creature, as beyond all price; devoutly thanking God, before his death, that an orthodox minister was connected with his family, the pastor of a congregation in the wilderness; though cut off in a few years, he impressed a character that has been handed down from generation to generation, by his descendants, for a hundred years, that speaks beyond all argumentation or praise the value of the principles on which the early settlers of the valley built up their society. You may find his son-in-law the first minister of New Providence, the traces of whose labors remain till this day: among his descendants you may find persons in all the varied stations of honest and honorable society, the mountain farmer, the minister of the gospel, the lawyer, the Governor ; you may find near Staunton the vale in which he lived and left his widow, you may see here the spot where he worshipped in the plainness and simplicity of the Presbyterian forms, you look to that yard where his ashes rest, and you find no monument inscribed John Preston.
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Archibald PRESTON of the Kingdom of Ireland was the father of John PRESTON who married Elizabeth PATTON, the daughter of Henry PATTON and Sarah LYNN.

John PRESTON and his wife immigrated to American with his brother-in-law Gov. (?) (Col.?) James PATTON to the County of Augusta in the year 1736. Those children were:

1. Mrs. Letece BRECKENRIDGE,
2. Mrs. Margaret BROWN,
3. William PRESTON,
4. Mrs. Ann SMITH,
5. Mrs. Mary HOWARD.

William PRESTON was born in the town of Newton Limavaddy in the north of Ireland on the 25th of Dec 1729. He married Susanna Smith of Hanover County, State of Virginia whose father was Francis SMITH of the same county whose father was Dr. John SMITH whose wife was Elizabeth BALLARD. ….

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name: John PRESTON gender: Male birth: 1699/1700 Of, , Londonderry, Ireland death: 1747 , Staunton, Augusta, Virginia burial: Tinklingmtghouse, , Augusta, Virginia AFN: LJ6B-LS

Parents father: Archibald PRESTON (AFN: XQXK-LS ) mother: Mrs-Archibald PRESTON (AFN: XQXK-M0 )

Marriages (1) spouse: Elizabeth PATTON (AFN: LJ6B-M0 ) marriage: 1727 Abt Of, , Donegal, Ireland

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child 1: Ann PRESTON (AFN: LJ6C-0T ) gender: Female birth: 1739 Of, , Londonderry, Ireland death: 1813 , , , Kentucky

child 2: Margaret PRESTON (AFN: LJ6B-XJ ) gender: Female birth: 1729 , , Londonderry, Ireland death: 1802 , , , Kentucky

child 3: Mary PRESTON (AFN: LJ6C-26 ) gender: Female birth: 1740 , Spring Hill, Augusta, Virginia death: 1814 , , , Kentucky

child 4: William PRESTON (AFN: LJ6C-3C ) gender: Male birth: 1729 Dec 12 , Newton, Limavaddy, Ireland death: 1783 Jun 28 , Smithfield, Montgomery, Virginia burial: Smithfield Home, Blacksburg, , Va

child 5: Letitia PRESTON (AFN: BCSD-7F ) gender: Female birth: 1728 , , Londonderry, Ireland death: 1797 Mar , , , Kentucky burial: Lexington, Fayette, Ky

child 6: Miss PRESTON (AFN: 1RLX-J7J ) gender: Female birth: 1733 < <, Newton, Limavaddy, Ireland>

child 7: Miss PRESTON (AFN: 1RLX-J6B ) gender: Female birth: 1731 < <, Newton, Limavaddy, Ireland>

child 8: James PRESTON (AFN: XQW8-3V ) gender: Male birth: 1742 Abt Of, Spring Hill, Augusta, Virginia death: , , , Virginia

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name: John PRESTON gender: Male birth: 1700 Abt Newtown, Limarady, Donegal Co., Ire death: 1748 Tinkeling Spring, Augusta Co., Va AFN: 1JDD-BC1

Parents father: Archibald PRESTON (AFN: BCSC-5X )

Marriages (1) spouse: Elizabeth PATTON (AFN: 1JDD-5LL )

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