Samuel Garland Meredith, III b. ca 1760-65 Hanover County, Virginia d. 1825 Fayette County, Kentucky: Dabney Family of Early Virginia

65 - 1825 (~ 176 years)

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Father	Samuel Garland Meredith, Jr., b. 1732, Hanover County, Virginia , d. 22 Dec 1808, Amherst County, Virginia (Age 76 years)
Mother	Jane Henry, b. Hanover County, Virginia , d. 1819, Amherst County, Virginia
Married	1758/59	Hanover County, Virginia
Family ID	F529	Group Sheet

Family	Elizabeth Breckenridge, b. Abt 1766, d. Aft 1830 (Age ~ 65 years)
Last Modified	3 Dec 2017
Family ID	F1542	Group Sheet

Notes

Samuel Garland Meredith III was born to Samuel Garland Meredith Jr. and Jane Henry Meredith about 1760-1765 in Hanover County, Virginia.
He married first to Nancy Terry and had one child, Samuel IV, who married Elizabeth Holmes Meredith. He married second to Elizabeth Breckinridge, whose brother, John Breckenridge, was Attorney General in Jefferson’s cabinet. They had five children: Jane Henry, unmarried; Letitia P., married Major William S. Dallam, who became a prominent financier in Lexington; Mary Cabell, born 1802, married Robert Breckenridge, died 1827; Elizabeth, b. 1795, married June 5, 1815 to James Robert Coleman in Albemarle County; Sarah married, but was not mentioned in Samuel’s will, so was probably deceased before 1825.
Between 1785 and 1787, Samuel’s father, Samuel Garland Meredith Jr., obtained four land grants from the State of Virginia in Fayette County, Kentucky, that totalled 5,494 acres and one grant in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Since he died in1808, aged 76, he was unable to develop the lands, which descended to his son, Major Samuel Garland Meredith III, who emigrated to Kentucky in 1790. Samuel III was a pioneer settler of Fayette Co., a well-tp-do farmer, served on staff of a governor and was a colonel in the state militia.
Samuel III died in January or February, 1825, and Elizabeth was still living when the 1830 census was taken. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]