Martha McPheeters was the daughter of William McPheeters and Rebecca Thompson. She was probably born in Northern Ireland. She married Samuel Downey at unknown date and place.
They had 10 known Downey children (birth dates are approximate):
Janet, abt 1738 (Robert Wardlaw), OH
Mary Ann AKA Marian/m, abt 1742 (Chas. Campbell?)
Rebecca, 17 Oct 1747 (Capt. Saml McCutchan), below
Margaret, abt 1757 (Charles Campbell, James Trotter), below
Elizabeth Betsy, abt 1758 (William Blair), below
Rachel, abt 1759 (John Willson), below
Isabella, abt 1760
Martha, abt 1762
Samuel, abt 1772
William, abt 1774
Page 126.--14th April, 1791. MARTHA DOWNEY, wife to Samuel Downey, deceased, Samuel Downey and Rachel to John Shuye of Washington County, Maryland, tract willed by Samuel to his son. Samuel, 2d January, 1773, in Beverley Manor; corner land laid off for William Blair and John Wilson; corner William Downey. Teste: Patrick Buchanan, Robert Donaldson, Godlib Harfman, Augustine Argenbright. Lyman Chalkley's Chronicles of a Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800, Vol. 3, p 592.
Downey's heirs vs. Blair--O. S. 125; N. S. 43--Orators are Samuel and William Downey of Kentucky, executors of will of MARTHA DOWNEY, DECEASED. Samuel Downey, father of orators, died in Augusta in 1773 testate. Daughter Margaret, now wife of James Trotter. Daughter ELIZABETH married William Blair. RACHEL married John Wilson. Sons orators; Martha, the widow, died testate; James Trotter and wife moved to Kentucky in 1784; MARTHA DOWNEY'S WILL OF CLEARK COUNTY KENTUCKY; sons SAMUEL and WILLIAM Downey; children Mariam, Rebeckah, Jenet, Margaret, Elizabeth, Rachel, Saml., William. Dated 20th January, 1801; recorded Clarke County, Ky., January, 1801. Ibid, Vol. 2, p 118.
1801 Kentucky and Virginia Obit/death notices were not located with my sources. Check local libraries.
Martha Downey's Clark Co., KY Will Book 1, page 202 - Written Jan. 20, 1801. Names two sons, Samuel & William Downey. Daughters: Marian, Rebecca, Janet, Margaret, Elizabeth and Rachel. Exec, Sons, Samuel & William. Witnesses, John Stevenson, Samuel Stevenson, and Reason Beall. Probated in Clark Co., in Jan. Court 1801. Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records, Abstracts...; by Mrs Harry Kennett McAdams, Lexington, KY, 1929, p 18. She must have been ill to have died so soon after writing her will.
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They had 10 known Downey children (birth dates are approximate):
Janet, abt 1738 (Robert Wardlaw), OH
Mary Ann AKA Marian/m, abt 1742 (Chas. Campbell?)
Rebecca, 17 Oct 1747 (Capt. Saml McCutchan), below
Margaret, abt 1757 (Charles Campbell, James Trotter), below
Elizabeth Betsy, abt 1758 (William Blair), below
Rachel, abt 1759 (John Willson), below
Isabella, abt 1760
Martha, abt 1762
Samuel, abt 1772
William, abt 1774
Page 126.--14th April, 1791. MARTHA DOWNEY, wife to Samuel Downey, deceased, Samuel Downey and Rachel to John Shuye of Washington County, Maryland, tract willed by Samuel to his son. Samuel, 2d January, 1773, in Beverley Manor; corner land laid off for William Blair and John Wilson; corner William Downey. Teste: Patrick Buchanan, Robert Donaldson, Godlib Harfman, Augustine Argenbright. Lyman Chalkley's Chronicles of a Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800, Vol. 3, p 592.
Downey's heirs vs. Blair--O. S. 125; N. S. 43--Orators are Samuel and William Downey of Kentucky, executors of will of MARTHA DOWNEY, DECEASED. Samuel Downey, father of orators, died in Augusta in 1773 testate. Daughter Margaret, now wife of James Trotter. Daughter ELIZABETH married William Blair. RACHEL married John Wilson. Sons orators; Martha, the widow, died testate; James Trotter and wife moved to Kentucky in 1784; MARTHA DOWNEY'S WILL OF CLEARK COUNTY KENTUCKY; sons SAMUEL and WILLIAM Downey; children Mariam, Rebeckah, Jenet, Margaret, Elizabeth, Rachel, Saml., William. Dated 20th January, 1801; recorded Clarke County, Ky., January, 1801. Ibid, Vol. 2, p 118.
1801 Kentucky and Virginia Obit/death notices were not located with my sources. Check local libraries.
Martha Downey's Clark Co., KY Will Book 1, page 202 - Written Jan. 20, 1801. Names two sons, Samuel & William Downey. Daughters: Marian, Rebecca, Janet, Margaret, Elizabeth and Rachel. Exec, Sons, Samuel & William. Witnesses, John Stevenson, Samuel Stevenson, and Reason Beall. Probated in Clark Co., in Jan. Court 1801. Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records, Abstracts...; by Mrs Harry Kennett McAdams, Lexington, KY, 1929, p 18. She must have been ill to have died so soon after writing her will.
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Martha McPheeters was the daughter of William McPheeters and Rebecca Thompson. She was probably born in Northern Ireland. She married Samuel Downey at unknown date and place.
They had 10 known Downey children (birth dates are approximate):
Janet, abt 1738 (Robert Wardlaw), OH
Mary Ann AKA Marian/m, abt 1742 (Chas. Campbell?)
Rebecca, 17 Oct 1747 (Capt. Saml McCutchan), below
Margaret, abt 1757 (Charles Campbell, James Trotter), below
Elizabeth Betsy, abt 1758 (William Blair), below
Rachel, abt 1759 (John Willson), below
Isabella, abt 1760
Martha, abt 1762
Samuel, abt 1772
William, abt 1774
Page 126.--14th April, 1791. MARTHA DOWNEY, wife to Samuel Downey, deceased, Samuel Downey and Rachel to John Shuye of Washington County, Maryland, tract willed by Samuel to his son. Samuel, 2d January, 1773, in Beverley Manor; corner land laid off for William Blair and John Wilson; corner William Downey. Teste: Patrick Buchanan, Robert Donaldson, Godlib Harfman, Augustine Argenbright. Lyman Chalkley's Chronicles of a Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800, Vol. 3, p 592.
Downey's heirs vs. Blair--O. S. 125; N. S. 43--Orators are Samuel and William Downey of Kentucky, executors of will of MARTHA DOWNEY, DECEASED. Samuel Downey, father of orators, died in Augusta in 1773 testate. Daughter Margaret, now wife of James Trotter. Daughter ELIZABETH married William Blair. RACHEL married John Wilson. Sons orators; Martha, the widow, died testate; James Trotter and wife moved to Kentucky in 1784; MARTHA DOWNEY'S WILL OF CLEARK COUNTY KENTUCKY; sons SAMUEL and WILLIAM Downey; children Mariam, Rebeckah, Jenet, Margaret, Elizabeth, Rachel, Saml., William. Dated 20th January, 1801; recorded Clarke County, Ky., January, 1801. Ibid, Vol. 2, p 118.
1801 Kentucky and Virginia Obit/death notices were not located with my sources. Check local libraries.
Martha Downey's Clark Co., KY Will Book 1, page 202 - Written Jan. 20, 1801. Names two sons, Samuel & William Downey. Daughters: Marian, Rebecca, Janet, Margaret, Elizabeth and Rachel. Exec, Sons, Samuel & William. Witnesses, John Stevenson, Samuel Stevenson, and Reason Beall. Probated in Clark Co., in Jan. Court 1801. Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records, Abstracts...; by Mrs Harry Kennett McAdams, Lexington, KY, 1929, p 18. She must have been ill to have died so soon after writing her will.
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They had 10 known Downey children (birth dates are approximate):
Janet, abt 1738 (Robert Wardlaw), OH
Mary Ann AKA Marian/m, abt 1742 (Chas. Campbell?)
Rebecca, 17 Oct 1747 (Capt. Saml McCutchan), below
Margaret, abt 1757 (Charles Campbell, James Trotter), below
Elizabeth Betsy, abt 1758 (William Blair), below
Rachel, abt 1759 (John Willson), below
Isabella, abt 1760
Martha, abt 1762
Samuel, abt 1772
William, abt 1774
Page 126.--14th April, 1791. MARTHA DOWNEY, wife to Samuel Downey, deceased, Samuel Downey and Rachel to John Shuye of Washington County, Maryland, tract willed by Samuel to his son. Samuel, 2d January, 1773, in Beverley Manor; corner land laid off for William Blair and John Wilson; corner William Downey. Teste: Patrick Buchanan, Robert Donaldson, Godlib Harfman, Augustine Argenbright. Lyman Chalkley's Chronicles of a Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800, Vol. 3, p 592.
Downey's heirs vs. Blair--O. S. 125; N. S. 43--Orators are Samuel and William Downey of Kentucky, executors of will of MARTHA DOWNEY, DECEASED. Samuel Downey, father of orators, died in Augusta in 1773 testate. Daughter Margaret, now wife of James Trotter. Daughter ELIZABETH married William Blair. RACHEL married John Wilson. Sons orators; Martha, the widow, died testate; James Trotter and wife moved to Kentucky in 1784; MARTHA DOWNEY'S WILL OF CLEARK COUNTY KENTUCKY; sons SAMUEL and WILLIAM Downey; children Mariam, Rebeckah, Jenet, Margaret, Elizabeth, Rachel, Saml., William. Dated 20th January, 1801; recorded Clarke County, Ky., January, 1801. Ibid, Vol. 2, p 118.
1801 Kentucky and Virginia Obit/death notices were not located with my sources. Check local libraries.
Martha Downey's Clark Co., KY Will Book 1, page 202 - Written Jan. 20, 1801. Names two sons, Samuel & William Downey. Daughters: Marian, Rebecca, Janet, Margaret, Elizabeth and Rachel. Exec, Sons, Samuel & William. Witnesses, John Stevenson, Samuel Stevenson, and Reason Beall. Probated in Clark Co., in Jan. Court 1801. Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records, Abstracts...; by Mrs Harry Kennett McAdams, Lexington, KY, 1929, p 18. She must have been ill to have died so soon after writing her will.
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