Six generations of LaRues and allied families : containing sketch of Isaac LaRue, senior, who died in Frederick County, Virginia, in 1795, and some account of his American ancestors and three generations of his descendants and families who were connected by intermarriage, among others, Carman, Hodgen, Helm, Buzan, Rust, McDonald, Castleman, Walters, Alexander, Medley, McMahon, Vertrees, Keith, Wintersmith, Clay, Neill, Grantham, Vanmeter and Enlow; copies of six old wills and other old documents; various incidents connected with the settlement of the Nolynn Valley in Kentucky; also a chapter o
Six generations of LaRues and allied families : containing sketch of Isaac LaRue, senior, who died in Frederick County, Virginia, in 1795, and some account of his American ancestors and three generations of his descendants and families who were connected by intermarriage, among others, Carman, Hodgen, Helm, Buzan, Rust, McDonald, Castleman, Walters, Alexander, Medley, McMahon, Vertrees, Keith, Wintersmith, Clay, Neill, Grantham, Vanmeter and Enlow; copies of six old wills and other old documents; various incidents connected with the settlement of the Nolynn Valley in Kentucky; also a chapter on the La Rue family and the child Abraham Lincoln . ved sonJames 1 give all my right to land in Berkeley County. Isaac Larlte. James and Jabez LaRue were granted letters of administration,witla the will annexed, and executed bond in tlie sura of five thousandpounds, with .Tacob LaRue (I.) and Isaac Littler as securities. 36 I.—JAC0I5 LARUE Jacob (I.), the oldest of the ten chiklren of Isaac LaRue, Sr.,and his wife, Phebe Carman, was born on Long Marsh, in thatpart of Frederick (onnty which is now Clarke County, Virginia,on the first day of May, 1744. He was given a fair Englisheducation in the schools of the community in which his fatherlived. At the age of twenty-one, in the year 1765, he was mar-ried to Mary Frost, of Frederick County. They had a largefamily of children before the first permanent settlement wasmade in Kentucky. According to Sarah LaRue Castleman(I. M), their home in Virginia was not far from that of IsaacLaRue, Sr.—in AVhite Oak Bottom—where Jacob erected astone residence, barn and milk house. Mr. John J. LaRue. Tnteridi- view of Bloomfield, the Virg-inia home of Jacob LaRue (I.),built by him in 1775, and later the home of John Billups LaRue (IX. B). (IX. Bb) said, in a letter written April ]4, 1906: Jacob (I).son of Isaac (Sr.), built a large stone house, where I was has his wifes name on the gable and dated 1775. It is calledBloomfield. See Fr
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