Author : Ronald V. Hardway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964064409
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)
Book Synopsis Benjamin Lemasters of Nicholas County, West Virginia by : Ronald V. Hardway
Download or read book Benjamin Lemasters of Nicholas County, West Virginia written by Ronald V. Hardway and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham LeMaitre, a Huguenot, was born at Derval, Brittany, France, and immigrated to England, with his wife, Elizabeth, in the late 1650s. There they anglicized their surname to Lemasters. They immigrated to Maryland ca. 1660. He died in 1722 on his plantation "Betty's Delight, Charles County, Maryland. His great great grandson, Benjamin Lemasters (1756-1837), was born in Charles County, Virginia, the son of Isaac and Ann Scott Lemasters. His family lived in in Frederick County, Maryland, through the 1760s and migrated to to Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1770. After serving in the Revolutionary War, 1776-1779, Benjamin married Rebecca Ann Martin in 1779. They were the parents of ten known daughters, born 1780-1804, who lived to maturity. The family was living at Bucks Garden, Kanawha County, later in Nicholas County, Virginia, by 1793.