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Possible 3rd generation:
John Ransdell,
son of Edward Ransdell and Mary Gorham, was
born about 1703 in Westmoreland Co., VA. He moved to Orange Co., VA by
1734 with his Thornton in-laws (his sister Millicent married Luke
Thornton).
John Randell is called
Luke Thornton’s brother-in-law in a deed dated 30 Nov 1734 (Deed Book C of
Spotsylvania County Records, p. 140). This establishes John as the son of
the Edward Ransdell who died in 1724 in Westmoreland Co., since we
already know that Luke Thornton’s wife Millicent was a daughter of Edward.
John Ransdell’s wife
is unknown.
They had the following
children:
i. William
Ransdell b. about 1742 Westmoreland Co., VA, m. Nancy Ann Petty,
d. about 1801 Mercer Co., KY.
ii. Jesse Ransdell d.
1792 Orange Co., VA (Historical Southern Families, Vol. XII, p. 14)
iii. Sanford Ransdell
d. 1832 Mercer Co., KY (Historical Southern Families, Vol. XII, p.
14)
iv. John Ransdell (Historical
Southern Families, Vol. XII, p. 14) also went to Mercer Co., KY
John Ransdell appears
in Orange County with two tithables in his
family in 1753, 1755, and 1758 (Brockman “Orange County Families” Vol. I,
pp. 142, 145, and 147).
Orange County Order
Book 6, p. 512, in 1760, indicates that John Ransdell, a poor man, must
bind his children out to others. Robert Moore wrote that since John was
born about 1703 and would be about 57 at this time, he might not have
minor children, so this could be another John, perhaps his son. However,
it seems to me that if William was 18 in 1760, one or more of his known
brothers (and there might have been sisters as well) could have been a
minor.
There is no further
record of John Ransdell in Orange County, thus he probably died around
1760.
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