Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Alex Wiley
• Name: Alexander Wylie
• Possessions: 25 Apr 1769, Augusta Co., VA; Property deeded to Alexander by John Wyley Sr.
• Residence: 16 Jun 1770, Botetourt Co., Virginia
• _MILT: 1774, Augusta County, Virginia
• Possessions: 18 Jan 1774, Montgomery County; Alexander Wiley, 235 acres on the Middle Fork of Holston River, beginning on Shelton's line. p. 4 of Early Adventurers on the Western Water, Vol. V, Mary B. Kegley.
• Residence: 1820, Blacksburg, Montgomery, Virginia, United States

Notes:

Birth:
Baptized Sept 13, 1742 at First Presbyterian in Philadelphia

Residence:
On list of tithables by Robert Doak for the area from Reed Creek to Stalnakers (on the Holston). Shown living next to John Riley (Wylie?) several Buchanans, Arthur Campbell, etc. p. 478 in Early Adventurers on the Western Waters, Vol. 5, Mary B. Kegley

_MILT:
Pay for 3 days service with Capt. Samuel McDowell's company as part of the Dunsmore's Expedition

Alexander married Margaret Callaghan on 21 Mar 1786 in Augusta County. Margaret was born in 1768; died in 1810 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Alexander Wyley was born in 1787 in Augusta, Virginia, USA.
2. Wyley was born in 1790 in Augusta, Virginia, USA.
3. Robert Wiley was born in 1800 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA.

Family/Spouse: Mary Unknown. Mary was born in 1775 in Virginia, United States; died in 1810 in Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Possessions: 1738, Augusta Co., VA; Augusta County was created from Orange County in 1738. For seven years, until the population grew large enough, Augusta’s records were kept in Orange.
• County development: 1740, Virginia
• Residence: 1740, Augusta Co., VA
• Possessions: 1750, Augusta County, Virginia; 280 acres in the Bordon Tract near Kerr Creek (northwest of Lexington in Rockbridge Co. today).
• Possessions: 1760, 1765, Augusta Co., VA; John Wiley (Willey) 170 acres on a branch of Buffalo in 1760, then another 70 acres in 1765 on Buffalo. These patents were outside the Bordon Grant, appear to be in Amherst County today.
• Possessions: 1769, Augusta Co., VA
• Possessions: 1770, Augusta County, Virginia; 236 acres on Kerr Creek. Not sure if the Bordon Tract entries and the Buffalo branch entries are all for this same John Wiley. Key 158.

Notes:

County development:
Monroe Co. VA formed 1799 from Greenbriar Co. Greenbriar formed 1778 from Botetourt and Montgomery. Botetourt formed 1770 from Augusta. Montgomery formed 1777 from Fincastle which became extinct in 1776 when it was divided to form Montgomery and Washington

Residence:
Per VA history document.

John married Catherine Chambers on 3 Oct 1738 in First Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Catherine was born in 1720 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; died on 18 Jun 1788 in Lincoln, West Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ric Blake Pa and Delware Wylie/Wiley/Wyley Notes:
18th Century DE and PA Willeys / Courtesy of Larry Coyle

Unknown Connections:
There is no proof that these three Wylies (Wileys) are connected. They all appear to have come from Ireland originally, settled in PA before moving to the outskirts of Augusta County VA in the 1740s, or soon thereafter.