Individual Details
James Atwood
( - )
Found in WorldConnect file:
The twenty-four hundred and twenty-eighth note in a series on the Germanna Colonies A correspondent asks about the family of James Atwood who married Catherine Fishback. What I know comes from an article by David B. Boles in Beyond Germanna (volume 1, number 4, page 32). I will quote from his work.
John Fishback (1691-1734) came to Virginia in 1714. His son John Frederick (ca 1716-1782) had nine children, one of whom was Catherine (ca 1753 - ca 1822) who married James Atwood. On 20 September 1782, Frederick Fishback made his will in Culpeper Co., Virginia, naming among his children his daughter Catharine Atwood. Though her husband was not named, there can be little doubt that it was James Atwood. A deed of gift was subsequently made by Martin Fishback, son of John Frederick, to James Atwood on 21 Mar 1785. Though James Atwood appeared in a 1787 tax list in Culpeper County, a later tax list gives "Caty" Atwood.
Some of the children of James and Catherine Atwood are given in two deeds dated 13 Aug 1802 and 14 Oct 1823. By the first, James and Ann Coones, Martha Atwood, James and Sally Mathis, and Lewis and Molly Runkle sold 142 plus acres in Culpeper County to Samuel Wood. The 1823 deed provides strong evidence that Ann Coones, Martha Atwood, Sally Mathis, and Molly Runkle were all daughters of James Atwood. In this deed, "Ann Coones Martha Atwood Lewis and John Atwood and Margaret his wife of the County of Stafford . . . Legatees of James Atwood decd." sold title to 170 acres in Culpeper County to Thomas Atwood "whereon the late Katherine Atwood decd. formerly lived being her third part of the land of James Atwood decd.". B. C. Holtzclaw made an error in stating that Ann Coones was the daughter of Thomas Atwood rather than James Atwood. The children of James and Catharine (Fishback) Atwood are:
1. Ann Atwood married James Coons,
2. Martha Atwood married William Atwood,
3. Sarah (Sally) Atwood married James Matthews,
4. Mary (Molly) married Lewis Runkle,
5. James Atwood married first Jael Hickson,
6. John Atwood married Margaret UNK,
7. Thomas Atwood,
8. Elizabeth Atwood (?) married George King.
Except for John, the other children moved to Indiana.
John Blankenbaker johblank@pipeline.com
Families
| Spouse | Catherine Fishback (1753 - ) |
| Child | Martha Atwood (1773 - 1839) |