Isaac was a son of Joseph and Catherine (Ward) Lemasters, was born around 1728. He spent the first thirty years of his life in Charles County. In 1748 he married Nancy Ann Scott, daughter of Reverend Robert and Elizabeth Scott. Anne Scott was born in 1728 in Chaptico, Maryland. Her father, Robert Scott, was an Anglican minister who had been sent to Maryland in 1724 by the Bishop of London to serve as rector of All Faith Parish, an assignment with included all of St. Mary's and Charles counties. Scott also established a school in the parish which his daughter probably attended. Anne Scott is on record as leasing a farm on 25 December 1746 at Chaptico from her mother and one Walter Burch. Anne was eighteen years old at the time.
After their marriage in 1748, Isaac Lemasters and Anne Scott settled farther west in Maryland in Prince George's County. Apprehensive over wild rumors that the Ohio Indians were preparing to descend on Maryland settlements following their shocking victory over the British and Virginian army led by General Edward Braddock in 1755, Isaac and Anne retreated to the relative safety of Charles County to await developments. With a new English army under the efficient direction of General John Forbes preparing to move against the French and Indians at the Forks of the Ohio Isaac Lemasters showed enough confidence in the expected outcome of the campaign to purchase a sixty acre farm in Frederick County, then the farthest western outpost of Maryland from an earlier settler, Joseph Flint, on 8 August 1758. Isaac was not disappointed in General Forbes. In November, Forbes directed an assault against Fort Duquesne which inspired the French to burn their own fort and flee the area, their Indian allies having already abandoned the defense.
The precise location of Isaac Lemasters's farm in Frederick County cannot be determined from the description of the property in the deed from Flint to Lemasters, but it is believed that the farm lay near the present-day community of Flintstone in Allegheny County northeast of Cumberland. Isaac Lemasters lived here throughout the decade of the 1760's, but in 1770, he again felt the urge to move farther west. He sold his sixty acres back to Joseph Flint on 18 August 1770, and removed beyond the headwaters of the Potomac River into an area just beginning to attract settlers, the great basin of the Monongahela River.
Isaac selected for his new settlement a site on the Monongahela River at the mouth of a small stream known locally as Decker's Creek. Isaac applied to the Virginia Land Office for a four hundred acre land grant, but before the grant was issued he agreed to sell part of it to Zackquill Morgan who had settled in the same area two years earlier. Morgan's survey as the assignee of Isaac Lemasters was completed on 29 April 1781, and Isaac's certificate of ownership from the Virginia Land Office was issued on 26 February 1780. Morgan immediately had his portion of Isaac Lemasters's land grant, some two hundred and twenty acres, surveyed into lots and established the town of Morgantown, the new county seat for Monongalia County formed in 1776. Isaac continued to live on the remainder of his land grant adjacent to Morgan's town. During the next seventeen years, Isaac acquired title to several pieces of real estate in the Morgantown area, all of which he sold before his death in 1797.
The children of Isaac Lemasters and Anne Scott may have been lost to history, mixed hopelessly among other Lemasters families living in Monongalia, Hampshire and Washington counties in the 1800's, had it not been for a Revolutionary War pension declaration filed by one of Isaac's sons, Joseph. On 21 June 1819, Joseph Lemasters, then a resident of Maury County, Tennessee, filed an application for a pension as a veteran of the armies of the Revolution. In his declaration, Joseph stated that he company being organized by Captain David Scott. He served in the regiments of Colonel William Crawford and Colonel John Gibson until 1 March 1780. He was discharged on that date and returned to Morgantown. Shortly afterwards Joseph Lemasters left Monongalia County and resettled in Abbeville County, South Carolina. There he married Mary Waddell and later moved to Tennessee where he was living when he filed for a pension.
While Joseph Lemasters's Revolutionary War record was interesting, of greater interest to Lemasters genealogists is the statement he made in closing his declaration Joseph stated for reasons unknown that he was the son of Isaac Lemasters of Monongalia County and that he had four brothers, Isaac Richard, Benjamin and Thomas, and three sisters, Mary, Charity and Cathryne.
Bio written by Ronald V Hardway
Transcribed by Carolyn Boggs-Burt
After their marriage in 1748, Isaac Lemasters and Anne Scott settled farther west in Maryland in Prince George's County. Apprehensive over wild rumors that the Ohio Indians were preparing to descend on Maryland settlements following their shocking victory over the British and Virginian army led by General Edward Braddock in 1755, Isaac and Anne retreated to the relative safety of Charles County to await developments. With a new English army under the efficient direction of General John Forbes preparing to move against the French and Indians at the Forks of the Ohio Isaac Lemasters showed enough confidence in the expected outcome of the campaign to purchase a sixty acre farm in Frederick County, then the farthest western outpost of Maryland from an earlier settler, Joseph Flint, on 8 August 1758. Isaac was not disappointed in General Forbes. In November, Forbes directed an assault against Fort Duquesne which inspired the French to burn their own fort and flee the area, their Indian allies having already abandoned the defense.
The precise location of Isaac Lemasters's farm in Frederick County cannot be determined from the description of the property in the deed from Flint to Lemasters, but it is believed that the farm lay near the present-day community of Flintstone in Allegheny County northeast of Cumberland. Isaac Lemasters lived here throughout the decade of the 1760's, but in 1770, he again felt the urge to move farther west. He sold his sixty acres back to Joseph Flint on 18 August 1770, and removed beyond the headwaters of the Potomac River into an area just beginning to attract settlers, the great basin of the Monongahela River.
Isaac selected for his new settlement a site on the Monongahela River at the mouth of a small stream known locally as Decker's Creek. Isaac applied to the Virginia Land Office for a four hundred acre land grant, but before the grant was issued he agreed to sell part of it to Zackquill Morgan who had settled in the same area two years earlier. Morgan's survey as the assignee of Isaac Lemasters was completed on 29 April 1781, and Isaac's certificate of ownership from the Virginia Land Office was issued on 26 February 1780. Morgan immediately had his portion of Isaac Lemasters's land grant, some two hundred and twenty acres, surveyed into lots and established the town of Morgantown, the new county seat for Monongalia County formed in 1776. Isaac continued to live on the remainder of his land grant adjacent to Morgan's town. During the next seventeen years, Isaac acquired title to several pieces of real estate in the Morgantown area, all of which he sold before his death in 1797.
The children of Isaac Lemasters and Anne Scott may have been lost to history, mixed hopelessly among other Lemasters families living in Monongalia, Hampshire and Washington counties in the 1800's, had it not been for a Revolutionary War pension declaration filed by one of Isaac's sons, Joseph. On 21 June 1819, Joseph Lemasters, then a resident of Maury County, Tennessee, filed an application for a pension as a veteran of the armies of the Revolution. In his declaration, Joseph stated that he company being organized by Captain David Scott. He served in the regiments of Colonel William Crawford and Colonel John Gibson until 1 March 1780. He was discharged on that date and returned to Morgantown. Shortly afterwards Joseph Lemasters left Monongalia County and resettled in Abbeville County, South Carolina. There he married Mary Waddell and later moved to Tennessee where he was living when he filed for a pension.
While Joseph Lemasters's Revolutionary War record was interesting, of greater interest to Lemasters genealogists is the statement he made in closing his declaration Joseph stated for reasons unknown that he was the son of Isaac Lemasters of Monongalia County and that he had four brothers, Isaac Richard, Benjamin and Thomas, and three sisters, Mary, Charity and Cathryne.
Bio written by Ronald V Hardway
Transcribed by Carolyn Boggs-Burt
Isaac was a son of Joseph and Catherine (Ward) Lemasters, was born around 1728. He spent the first thirty years of his life in Charles County. In 1748 he married Nancy Ann Scott, daughter of Reverend Robert and Elizabeth Scott. Anne Scott was born in 1728 in Chaptico, Maryland. Her father, Robert Scott, was an Anglican minister who had been sent to Maryland in 1724 by the Bishop of London to serve as rector of All Faith Parish, an assignment with included all of St. Mary's and Charles counties. Scott also established a school in the parish which his daughter probably attended. Anne Scott is on record as leasing a farm on 25 December 1746 at Chaptico from her mother and one Walter Burch. Anne was eighteen years old at the time.
After their marriage in 1748, Isaac Lemasters and Anne Scott settled farther west in Maryland in Prince George's County. Apprehensive over wild rumors that the Ohio Indians were preparing to descend on Maryland settlements following their shocking victory over the British and Virginian army led by General Edward Braddock in 1755, Isaac and Anne retreated to the relative safety of Charles County to await developments. With a new English army under the efficient direction of General John Forbes preparing to move against the French and Indians at the Forks of the Ohio Isaac Lemasters showed enough confidence in the expected outcome of the campaign to purchase a sixty acre farm in Frederick County, then the farthest western outpost of Maryland from an earlier settler, Joseph Flint, on 8 August 1758. Isaac was not disappointed in General Forbes. In November, Forbes directed an assault against Fort Duquesne which inspired the French to burn their own fort and flee the area, their Indian allies having already abandoned the defense.
The precise location of Isaac Lemasters's farm in Frederick County cannot be determined from the description of the property in the deed from Flint to Lemasters, but it is believed that the farm lay near the present-day community of Flintstone in Allegheny County northeast of Cumberland. Isaac Lemasters lived here throughout the decade of the 1760's, but in 1770, he again felt the urge to move farther west. He sold his sixty acres back to Joseph Flint on 18 August 1770, and removed beyond the headwaters of the Potomac River into an area just beginning to attract settlers, the great basin of the Monongahela River.
Isaac selected for his new settlement a site on the Monongahela River at the mouth of a small stream known locally as Decker's Creek. Isaac applied to the Virginia Land Office for a four hundred acre land grant, but before the grant was issued he agreed to sell part of it to Zackquill Morgan who had settled in the same area two years earlier. Morgan's survey as the assignee of Isaac Lemasters was completed on 29 April 1781, and Isaac's certificate of ownership from the Virginia Land Office was issued on 26 February 1780. Morgan immediately had his portion of Isaac Lemasters's land grant, some two hundred and twenty acres, surveyed into lots and established the town of Morgantown, the new county seat for Monongalia County formed in 1776. Isaac continued to live on the remainder of his land grant adjacent to Morgan's town. During the next seventeen years, Isaac acquired title to several pieces of real estate in the Morgantown area, all of which he sold before his death in 1797.
The children of Isaac Lemasters and Anne Scott may have been lost to history, mixed hopelessly among other Lemasters families living in Monongalia, Hampshire and Washington counties in the 1800's, had it not been for a Revolutionary War pension declaration filed by one of Isaac's sons, Joseph. On 21 June 1819, Joseph Lemasters, then a resident of Maury County, Tennessee, filed an application for a pension as a veteran of the armies of the Revolution. In his declaration, Joseph stated that he company being organized by Captain David Scott. He served in the regiments of Colonel William Crawford and Colonel John Gibson until 1 March 1780. He was discharged on that date and returned to Morgantown. Shortly afterwards Joseph Lemasters left Monongalia County and resettled in Abbeville County, South Carolina. There he married Mary Waddell and later moved to Tennessee where he was living when he filed for a pension.
While Joseph Lemasters's Revolutionary War record was interesting, of greater interest to Lemasters genealogists is the statement he made in closing his declaration Joseph stated for reasons unknown that he was the son of Isaac Lemasters of Monongalia County and that he had four brothers, Isaac Richard, Benjamin and Thomas, and three sisters, Mary, Charity and Cathryne.
Bio written by Ronald V Hardway
Transcribed by Carolyn Boggs-Burt
After their marriage in 1748, Isaac Lemasters and Anne Scott settled farther west in Maryland in Prince George's County. Apprehensive over wild rumors that the Ohio Indians were preparing to descend on Maryland settlements following their shocking victory over the British and Virginian army led by General Edward Braddock in 1755, Isaac and Anne retreated to the relative safety of Charles County to await developments. With a new English army under the efficient direction of General John Forbes preparing to move against the French and Indians at the Forks of the Ohio Isaac Lemasters showed enough confidence in the expected outcome of the campaign to purchase a sixty acre farm in Frederick County, then the farthest western outpost of Maryland from an earlier settler, Joseph Flint, on 8 August 1758. Isaac was not disappointed in General Forbes. In November, Forbes directed an assault against Fort Duquesne which inspired the French to burn their own fort and flee the area, their Indian allies having already abandoned the defense.
The precise location of Isaac Lemasters's farm in Frederick County cannot be determined from the description of the property in the deed from Flint to Lemasters, but it is believed that the farm lay near the present-day community of Flintstone in Allegheny County northeast of Cumberland. Isaac Lemasters lived here throughout the decade of the 1760's, but in 1770, he again felt the urge to move farther west. He sold his sixty acres back to Joseph Flint on 18 August 1770, and removed beyond the headwaters of the Potomac River into an area just beginning to attract settlers, the great basin of the Monongahela River.
Isaac selected for his new settlement a site on the Monongahela River at the mouth of a small stream known locally as Decker's Creek. Isaac applied to the Virginia Land Office for a four hundred acre land grant, but before the grant was issued he agreed to sell part of it to Zackquill Morgan who had settled in the same area two years earlier. Morgan's survey as the assignee of Isaac Lemasters was completed on 29 April 1781, and Isaac's certificate of ownership from the Virginia Land Office was issued on 26 February 1780. Morgan immediately had his portion of Isaac Lemasters's land grant, some two hundred and twenty acres, surveyed into lots and established the town of Morgantown, the new county seat for Monongalia County formed in 1776. Isaac continued to live on the remainder of his land grant adjacent to Morgan's town. During the next seventeen years, Isaac acquired title to several pieces of real estate in the Morgantown area, all of which he sold before his death in 1797.
The children of Isaac Lemasters and Anne Scott may have been lost to history, mixed hopelessly among other Lemasters families living in Monongalia, Hampshire and Washington counties in the 1800's, had it not been for a Revolutionary War pension declaration filed by one of Isaac's sons, Joseph. On 21 June 1819, Joseph Lemasters, then a resident of Maury County, Tennessee, filed an application for a pension as a veteran of the armies of the Revolution. In his declaration, Joseph stated that he company being organized by Captain David Scott. He served in the regiments of Colonel William Crawford and Colonel John Gibson until 1 March 1780. He was discharged on that date and returned to Morgantown. Shortly afterwards Joseph Lemasters left Monongalia County and resettled in Abbeville County, South Carolina. There he married Mary Waddell and later moved to Tennessee where he was living when he filed for a pension.
While Joseph Lemasters's Revolutionary War record was interesting, of greater interest to Lemasters genealogists is the statement he made in closing his declaration Joseph stated for reasons unknown that he was the son of Isaac Lemasters of Monongalia County and that he had four brothers, Isaac Richard, Benjamin and Thomas, and three sisters, Mary, Charity and Cathryne.
Bio written by Ronald V Hardway
Transcribed by Carolyn Boggs-Burt
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