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- PARENTS: James and Rebecca BRATTON of Augusta County, VA.
CONFLICT: GENDEX on Internet lists parents as Andrew and Audrea BRATTON.
RESIDENCE: Augusta and Rockbridge Counties. Owned 2284 acres in Augusta
County, VA and Western Territories.
IMMIGRATION: Immigrated 1733 to Orange County (Now Augusta County), VA.
SOURCE: "Early Western Augusta County Pioneers" 1957 by George W. Cleek.
Robert Bratton, one of four brothers who came to America from Ireland in 1733.
Was born in Northern Ireland May 20, 1712; died 1785; married in 1745 in
Augusta County, Virginia, Ann (McFarland) Dunlap, born 1718 in Scotland; still
living in 1785, daughter of Robert McFarland and Esther Houston (incorrect),
and widow of Captain Alexander Dunlap. Robert Bratton came to Orange County,
Virginia (Now Augusta) in 1733. He was a Captain in the French and Indian War
1756-1758; a member of the council of war for protection of the Virginia
frontier, 1756; owner of 2,284 acres in Augusta County, Virginia and other
lands in the western territories. His will was dated May 10, 1783 and recorded
in Will Book 6, page 492, Augusta County, Virginia (Abstracts from the Records
of Augusta County, Virginia, Lyman Chalkley, Vol III, page 173).
SOURCE: World Family Tree Disk #7, and Internet at GENDEX.COM.
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