Penny’s Family Tree - Person Sheet
Penny’s Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameThomas Gassaway
Birth1724, All Hallow's Parish, Anne Arundel Co., MD
Deathaft 1810, VA
FatherNicholas Gassaway (1696-1757)
MotherElizabeth Hawkins (~1700-<1747)
Misc. Notes
THOMAS IS THE GASAWAY THAT LEFT ANNE ARUNDEL.
HE MOVED FROM MARYLAND TO VIRGINIA IN 1762.

Genealogical History of the Gassaway Family, William Kenneth Rutherford...ect., see sources:
Thomas Gassaway and Nicholas Gassaway signed as next of kinsmen the inventory of the estate of Nicholas Gassaway appraised 22 November 1757 and filed at court 16 Narch 1758. The final settlement was made 25 February 1761 at which time Thomas received his proportionable share.

Thomas deposed in 1810 that he was them eighty-six years of age, that he had moved from Maryland to Virginia in 1762; and that he had a son named Thomas. John Gassaway, also a son of Thomas, was added to the Virginia tax list 20 Nov 1782 on the motion of the latter.
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From Ancestry.com
CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA EXTRACTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY 1745-1800 RECORD BOOKS IN CIRCUIT COURT OFFICE. BOOK MARKED "RECORDS." page 265
Page 105--Thos. Gassaway deposes, in Berkeley? (Frederick?), 1810, aged 86, he knew Joshua Hains, brother of Mary Collett, wife of Daniel Collett, who was alive when he left that part of the country where James McCormick lived and went to the Southward and was dead when he returned. He also knew Grace Haines. Deponent came to Virginia from Maryland about 1762. His deposition was formerly taken in Charleston and in Smithfield; has a son of same name.
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Don't know which Thomas this is. Father or son?:
Frederick County Rent Rolls 1771-1772
Rent Due on Land in Frederick County, 1771-1772
A List of Persons who stand charged with lands on Frederick County which are under such circumstances as rendered it out of the Power of George Scott, Farmer of the said County to collect the Rents and therefore Claims Allowance under his articles for the same - from March 1771 to March 1772.
GASSAWAY, Thomas, lives in AA Co
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Spouses
Birthabt 1724
Marriageabt 1750
ChildrenThomas 2 (1754-1835)
 John (1759-)
 Hannah (1780-)
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