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| Birth: | 1749 in Culpeper County, Virginia |
| Death: | Aug 1810 in Fayette Co. KY |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | James E. PiLCHER b. 1729 in Culpeper Co., VA |
| Mother: | Phoebe FIELDING b. About 1735 in Culpepper County, Virginia |
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Individual:
Born in Culpepper County, Joshua was a Revolutionary Soldier. (I
assume she means the American Revolutionary war). He moved (1793) to
Lexington County, Kentucky, and is found on the tax list of Fayette
County Kentucky in 1807. His will was probated in Fayette Co. and
names wife Nancy, son Joshua, and grandsons Merritt and Prestly. It
was written May 3, 1810 and probated in August of that same year.
Recorded on Fayette County Will Book B:182 (Ardery--Kentucky Court and
other records) Married Nancy.
Source: "Campbell and their Kin" by Mrs. Nannie C. Pilcher. This came
in letter to Etta.
ID: I2202
Name: Joshua PILCHER
Sex: M
Birth: 1749 in Culpeper CO. VA
Death: 1810 in Fayette Co. KY
Father: James E. PILCHER b: BET 1729 AND 1731 in Culpeper Co. VA
Mother: Phoebe FIELDING b: in Culpeper Co. VA
Marriage 1 Nancy FIELDING
Children
Zachariah PITCHER b: BET 1785 AND 1790 in KY
1793 The Joshua Pilcher family moves from Culpeper Virginia to Fayette County, Kentucky, except for Moses Pilcher, who moves to Illinois.
When his parents and brothers moved to North Carolina, Joshua remained in Virginia and moved with his family to Kentucky in 1793. He remained most of his life on a rented farm in the hills of Virginia. He was hard working; however, he was not very successful on the property he had rented. The pressure mounted and finally in 1793, Joshua, when his son Shadrack was 25 and Fielding 24, Moses and Margaret, who were in their teens, Benjamin, Zachariah, John, and Joshua, Jr., who was 3, joined those heading to Kentucky. Five hundred miles later, they arrived at Lexington. Joshua had aranged to share-crop a tract of land, south of Lexington in the summer of 1795 and by 1796, the families lot in life had substantially improved. Joshua died in 1810. His will directed that his estate was to be liquidated, his bills paid, and that Nancy was to have the bulk of his estate for her support. At her death, anything that remained was to be divided equally among his children. He also gave a four year old horse to his son Joshua, a young mare colt to his grandson Meritt Pilcher and a recently born mare colt to another grandson, Prestly Pilcher. He instructed that one-half of his fall crop be sold directly; however, the other half could be sold on credit for a period up to one year. He wrote his will in May, 1810 and died the following August.
According to PFH, there is, or was, some question as to whether Nancy was Joshua's second wife. However, "...this cannot be fully verified since records and available information are not altogether clear on the point concerning an earlier marriage." [PFH, Vernon (1980), p. 4] In any event, if there was an earlier wife, there is no indication of an issue of that union.
Note: Pilcher researchers disagree on Joshua's ancestry. Jay Norwalk notes in The Genealogy of John Templeton (1997) that several LDS sources and others say Joshua's grandfather was Robert b. Wales who married Phoebe Chapman, and they had a son James who married also a Phoebe, maiden name Fielding. James and Phoebe had 4 sons: James Jr, Robert, Daniel, & Joshua.
However, Catherine Pilcher Avery in an Ancestry Chart (dtd 1950) says Joshua's grandfather was Richard b. Wales who married [Unknown] and had four children: Benjamin (Joshua's father), Robert, John, & Caleb. Kathryn S Pilcher agrees with first; ie, Robert & James Sr.
Pilcher Family History (Vernon-1980) states: "James...son of Robert, one of the four...[immigrant] brothers...married Phoebe Fielding. We do not know for certain how may children James and Phoebe had; but we know of four boys and two girls. The eldest son was Joshua who did not accompany the family when they came to North Carolina. In 1793, Joshua moved to Kentucky. The second son was Robert, called "the Patriot Soldier..."
Catherine Avery, who prepared the above 1950 chart was also a contributor to Mrs. Vernon's book, published 30 years later. Lucille Vernon did not mention or suggest Benjamin as his father, implying but not proving that Catherine Pilcher Avery may have subsequently changed her mind about Benjamin. This writer knew Cathrine Avery and I have seen the charts she prepared like the one above (She made several for the children of Matthew B. Pilcher, II. I have a similar one. In my conversations with her, circa 1975 plus, I do not recollect her refering to Benjamin one way or the other. I concur with Lucille Vernon and Kathryn S Pilcher based, in part, on Joshua's date of birth - 1749 and the research Lucille Vernon did in connection with her book. Further, all research to date suggests that either Benjamin probably died young, most likely soon after he immigrated.
The picture of the home in not "Joshua's" home; however, it is a representative home in Culpeper County for the time that Joshua lived lived there.
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