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| Birth: | 1749 in Culpeper County, Virginia |
| Death: | Aug 1810 in Fayette Co. KY |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | James E. Pilcher Sr. b. 1729 in Culpeper Co., VA |
| Mother: | Phoebe Fielding b. About 1735 in Culpepper County, VA |
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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 C ounty, Kentucky, except for Moses Pilcher, who moves to Illinois.
When his parents and brothers moved to North Carolina, Joshua remain ed in Virginia and moved with his family to Kentucky in 1793. He remain ed most of his life on a rented farm in the hills of Virginia. He was ha rd working; however, he was not very successful on the property he had ren ted. The pressure mounted and finally in 1793, Joshua, when his son Shadra ck was 25 and Fielding 24, Moses and Margaret, who were in their teens, Be njamin, Zachariah, John, and Joshua, Jr., who was 3, joined those headi ng to Kentucky. Five hundred miles later, they arrived at Lexington. Josh ua had aranged to share-crop a tract of land, south of Lexington in the su mmer of 1795 and by 1796, the families lot in life had substantially impro ved. Joshua died in 1810. His will directed that his estate was to be liqu idated, his bills paid, and that Nancy was to have the bulk of his esta te for her support. At her death, anything that remained was to be divid ed equally among his children. He also gave a four year old horse to his s on Joshua, a young mare colt to his grandson Meritt Pilcher and a recent ly born mare colt to another grandson, Prestly Pilcher. He instructed th at one-half of his fall crop be sold directly; however, the other half cou ld be sold on credit for a period up to one year. He wrote his will in Ma y, 1810 and died the following August.
According to PFH, there is, or was, some question as to whether Nancy w as Joshua's second wife. However, "...this cannot be fully verified sin ce records and available information are not altogether clear on the poi nt concerning an earlier marriage." [PFH, Vernon (1980), p. 4] In any even t, if there was an earlier wife, there is no indication of an issue of th at union.
Note: Pilcher researchers disagree on Joshua's ancestry. Jay Norwalk not es in The Genealogy of John Templeton (1997) that several LDS sources a nd others say Joshua's grandfather was Robert b. Wales who married Phoe be Chapman, and they had a son James who married also a Phoebe, maiden na me Fielding. James and Phoebe had 4 sons: James Jr, Robert, Daniel, & Josh ua.
However, Catherine Pilcher Avery in an Ancestry Chart (dtd 1950) says Josh ua's grandfather was Richard b. Wales who married [Unknown] and had four c hildren: Benjamin (Joshua's father), Robert, John, & Caleb. Kathryn S Pilc her agrees with first; ie, Robert & James Sr.
Pilcher Family History (Vernon-1980) states: "James...son of Robert, o ne of the four...[immigrant] brothers...married Phoebe Fielding. We do n ot know for certain how may children James and Phoebe had; but we kn ow of four boys and two girls. The eldest son was Joshua who did not accom pany the family when they came to North Carolina. In 1793, Joshua mov ed to Kentucky. The second son was Robert, called "the Patriot Soldier..."
Catherine Avery, who prepared the above 1950 chart was also a contribut or to Mrs. Vernon's book, published 30 years later. Lucille Vernon did n ot mention or suggest Benjamin as his father, implying but not proving th at Catherine Pilcher Avery may have subsequently changed her mind about Be njamin. This writer knew Cathrine Avery and I have seen the charts she pre pared like the one above (She made several for the children of Matth ew B. Pilcher, II. I have a similar one. In my conversations with her, cir ca 1975 plus, I do not recollect her refering to Benjamin one way or the o ther. I concur with Lucille Vernon and Kathryn S Pilcher based, in par t, on Joshua's date of birth - 1749 and the research Lucille Vernon d id in connection with her book. Further, all research to date suggests th at either Benjamin probably died young, most likely soon after he immigrat ed.
The picture of the home in not "Joshua's" home; however, it is a represent ative home in Culpeper County for the time that Joshua lived lived there.
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