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James Withers

Male Abt 1747 - 1791  (~ 44 years)


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  • Name James Withers  [1
    Birth Abt 1747  Fauquier County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death Between 4 May 1791 and Jul 1791  Fauquier County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7
    Person ID I35098  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JDM
    Last Modified 15 May 2021 

    Father Thomas Withers,   b. 15 Feb 1724, Potomac Creek, Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Dec 1794, Fauquier County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth   d. Between 1780 and 5 Nov 1784 
    Marriage Abt 1747 
    Family ID F20628  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Rosser   d. Aft 1825, Woodford County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Between 1767 and 1768  [8
    Children 
    +1. Patsy Withers,   b. 15 Feb 1789   d. 24 May 1836 (Age 47 years)
    Family ID F20625  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 May 2021 

  • Notes 
    • "During the Revolutionary War James Withers served during the years 1777 and 1778 as a First Lieutenant in Capt. Windsor Brown's Co., in the First Virginia State Regiment commanded by Col. George Gibson. At the conclusion of the War there is some evidence that he became a physician." [The Wigfield and Nelson Families of Fauquier Co., Virginia, citation details below]

  • Sources 
    1. [S5761] Withers - America, Or, A Collection of Genealogical Data Concerning the History of the Descendants in the Male Line of James Withers (1680/1 - 1746) of Stafford County, Virginia by Franz V. Recum. New York, 1949.

    2. [S5769] Find a Grave page for James Withers., year only.

    3. [S5770] Withers Family of the County Lancaster, England by Robert Edwin Withers with Kathrine Cox Gottschalk and A. May Osler. Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Printing Company, 1947.

    4. [S5742] The Paynes of Virginia by Brooke Payne. Richmond, Virginia: The William Byrd Press, 1937., year and place only.

    5. [S5769] Find a Grave page for James Withers., date only.

    6. [S5771] The Wigfield and Nelson Families of Fauquier Co., Virginia by J. Douglas Bradshaw. Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 1986., year and place only.

    7. [S5770] Withers Family of the County Lancaster, England by Robert Edwin Withers with Kathrine Cox Gottschalk and A. May Osler. Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Printing Company, 1947., year only.

    8. [S5771] The Wigfield and Nelson Families of Fauquier Co., Virginia by J. Douglas Bradshaw. Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 1986.