A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor # A203840

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ROBERT COLEMAN of Spotsylvania & Culpeper Cos.

• b. 1710
• d. Will dtd. 5 or 25 Sep 1793, admitted to probate 16 Dec 1793 in Culpeper Co. WB D, p. 99, Culpeper Co. Records
• m. Sarah Ann Saunders

Sarah may have predeceased her husband, as she was not mentioned in his will. Robert lived first in Spotsylvania Co. and then in that portion of Orange Co. that became Culpeper Co. On 4 Jun 1745, he conveyed a tract of land on Gladys Run in Spotsylvania Co. to Henry Gatewood \(DB D, p. 169, Spotsylvania Co. Records\).

\(DB 11, p. 240, Orange Co. Records\) "Whereas Robert Coleman and Sarah, his wife, by indenture, 25 September 1741, unto Richard Lort Coleman, a fee simple estate of 300 acres formerly in Orange County and now (in) Culpeper , in Gourd Vine fork...Sarah cannot conveniently travel...please examine and certify." /s/ Geo. Taylor

24 June 1750: To Commissioners: Robert Slaughter, Philip Clayton and James Madison, Gents. Unknown By virtue of the Commission...did on 20 Sept. go to Sarah and examined her...she freely acknowledged conveyance 20 Sept. 1751. /s/ P. Clayton & J. Pendleton

On 30 Aug 1760, Robert and his wife, along with Thomas Coleman and his wife Milly of King & Queen Co., conveyed a tract of land in Essex Co. to Richard Hill \(DB 29, p. 12, Essex Co. Records\). The deed said that the land conveyed was that on which Thomas Coleman, late of Essex Co., had resided.

Robert’s will named only the following children: Frances Crutcher, Ann Clayton, Sarah Slaughter, Lucy Strother and Susanna Yancy.

The town of Fairfax (now Culpeper\) was established on 50 acres of this Robert Coleman./a>’s land in 1759. (VII Henning Statutes at Large, p. 306, 1759) His land adjoined that of Daniel Brown who married Elizabeth Coleman, daughter of Robert Coleman and Ann Spilsbe. (VII Henning Statutes at Large, p. 326) From Essex Co. Deed Bk. 1728-33, pp. 277-278: 15 Feb 1731/2 Thomas Coleman of King & Queen to his son Robert Coleman.

GEDCOM Note

By deed of 16 Oct 1760, Thomas' son Robert and wife Sarah of Culpepper Co., and son Thomas and wife Milly of King and Queen Co. conveyed 540 acres in Essex Co. to Richard Hill.
The deed says it is the land on which Thomas Coleman of Essex Co., lived. (D and WB 13, p.
598, Essex Co. Records)
i. Robert COLEMAN was born 20 Feb 1700/01 in Fairfax, Essex, Virginia, and died 1793 in Culpeper County, Virginia He married Sarah Anne SAUNDERS 24 NOV 1740 in Orange County, Virginia. She was born 1716, and died 1774.

Children

• 1. Lucy Coleman, b. 1733, Caroline County, Virginia , d. Aft 1762 (Age > 30 years)
• 2. Sarah Coleman, b. 1734, Culpeper County, Virginia , d. Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky
• 3. Mildred Coleman, b. 6 Mar 1736/37, Culpeper County, Virginia , d. 1 May 1758, Culpeper County, Virginia (Age 21 years)
• 4. Anne Coleman, b. 1740, Culpeper County, Virginia , d. Aft 1774, Culpeper County, Virginia (Age > 35 years)
• 5. Robert Coleman, b. Aft 1740, St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia d. Aft 1800, Nelson County, Kentucky (Age > 60 years)
• 6. Rose Coleman, b. 20 Dec 1742, St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia , d. 5 Aug 1816, Logan County, Kentucky (Age 73 years)
• 7. Frances Coleman, b. Abt 1745, St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia , d. Aft 1793, Culpeper County, Virginia (Age ~ 49 years)
• 8. Grizzell Coleman, b. Bef 1748, St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia , d. 4 Dec 1820, Culpeper County, Virginia (Age > 72 years)
• 9. Susannah Coleman, b. 1748, St. Marks Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia d. Aft 1800, Rockingham

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Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia by Raleigh Travers Green 1900
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• Children of Robert Coleman: He had one son, Robert, who emigrated to Kentucky and m. Mrs. Thompson, a sister of Major Philip Lightfoot. Gilly, dau. of the 1st Robert and Miss Saunders, m. General Edward Stevens, the Revolutionary hero and elector, who cast the vote of the district for Washington, and whose son John m. Polly, dau. of the first William Williams. Ann, 2d dau. of 1st. Robert, m. Samuel Clayton, Rosa, 3d dau., m. Foster of Tennessee, one of whose ch. was the Senator in Congress from that State. Another dau. of 1st Robert m. Col. John Slaughter, son of the 1st Francis of that name. Another dau. m. Francis Slaughter, brother to the foregoing John. Another dau. m. a Yancey. Lucy, another dau., m. Col George French Strother, so long representative of Culpeper in the General Assembly and in the Convention of 1775-G, and whose oldest daughter. Margaret Peggy French Strother was first wife of Capt. Phillip Slaughter. The 8th dau. of 1st. Robert m. a Crutcher, and one of their daughters m. a Foushee.
• WILL of Robert Coleman in his Will (1793) recorded in Culpeper, leaves legacies to his daughters Ann Clayton, Sarah Slaughter, Lucy Strother, Frances Crutcher Susanna Yancey. Philip Clayton was his executor