Rachel Vance

Page 189 A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander 1878. Rachel Alexander was third child and eldest daughter of John and Margaret G. Alexander. About the year 1763 she married Joseph Vance of Martinsburg. Berkely Co. Va. After her marriage, her brother, James Alexander, of Kishacoquillas Valley Pa. granted her and her husband a valuable tract of land on the east side of Spring Run, on condition that they would come and live hear him. They accepted the offer and removed to Pennsylvania, but after receiving deed for the land, and residing on it one year, they returned to Virginia, through fear of the Indians, who were then troublesome in that part of Pennsylvania. They finally settled on a plantation near Honeywood Mills, Berkeley County, Virginia. Children Samuel, Alexander, John, Joseph, Rachel, and Jane Vance.

some say son John b 1769 and son Samuel b. 1767 in Cumberland County, PA. and other children. That would mean they were there longer than one year? Kishacoquilla Valley is now in parts of Mifflin County which was originally part of Cumberland County. John died in Adams County Ohio so Rachel probably went to live with them after her husband's death.