Samuel Downey BIRTH 1722 DEATH 1773 (aged 50–51) Augusta County, Virginia, USA BURIAL Non-Cemetery Burial MEMORIAL ID 70586401 · View Source

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 1 FLOWERS 9 Samuel Downey was born in ABOUT 1722 in either Northern Ireland or Augusta County, Virginia. He married Martha McPheeters, the daughter of William McPheeters and Rebecca Thompson, prior to about 1737 (probably in Virginia).

Augusta County Will Book, # _, Page 110.--2d January, 1773. Samuel Downey's will--To wife; to daughter, Margaret; to four youngest children, viz: Elizabeth, Rachel, Samuel, William; to daughters, Mary Ann, Rebecca, and Janet. Executors: wife, William McPheeters, and Charles Campbell. Teste: Charles Campbell, Saml. McPheeters. Proved, 17th August, 1773, by the witnesses. Martha Downey and William McPheeters qualify with Robt. Thompson, and Saml. McPheeters. Lyman Chalkley's Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement, Vol. 3, page 130. So he died between 2 Jan and 17 Aug, 1773.

Page 171.—16th November, 1773. Charles Campbell's bond (with Wm. McPheeters, Saml. McCutcheon) as guardian to Elizabeth and Rachel Downey, orphans of SAML. DOWNEY. Lyman Chalkey’s Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County 1745 to 1800, Vol. 3, p 132.

I suspect his son Samuel Downey, Jr. owned the land in the Beverley Patent, dated 1806 for 220 plus 80 acres in different locations on J.R. Hildebrand's 1954 Beverley Patent 1736 map with orignal grantees.

His burial place is yet unknown.

Direct kin.

Family Members
Spouse Martha McPheeters Downey unknown–1801

Children Photo Rebecca Downey McCutchan 1747–1820

Margaret Downey Trotter 1755–1816

Elizabeth Downey Blair 1756–1836

Photo Rachel Downey Willson 1759–1816

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