George (Bley) Bly
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George (Bley) Bly (abt. 1758 - 1828)

George Bly formerly Bley
Born about in Pennsylvaniamap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 23 Apr 1783 in Shenandoah County, Virginiamap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 70 in Mount Olive, Shenandoah County, Virginiamap
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Biography

George Bley / Bly, son of Philip and Magdalena, was born in Pennsylvania about 1758, was ten to twelve years old when the family moved to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and married Elizabeth Taylor, 23 April 1783 in Shenandoah County, Virginia.[1] George was named a co-executor of his father's will but did not make payment to his siblings as directed and was sued by his brother-in-law and sister, Philip and Barbara Koontz in 1798. [2] George inherited 100 acres along with the sawmill and smith tools from his father in 1786 but sold it to George Rudolph in 1805. [3] George and Elizabeth had eight children and Elizabeth died by 1807 and two of his children were bound by the Overseer of the Poor to other guardians because he failed to prove that he could provide for them. [4]George was also father of a child born to Regina Boehm in 1810 but he did not marry her. George continued to live on the old homestead on Paddy Run in the Cedar Creek area of Shenandoah County until at least 1820, perhaps in exchange for working at the sawmill.[5] In his later years George lived with some of his children in the Mt. Olive area of Shenandoah County and in 1824 worked preparing planks for the building of Friedens Church in that neighborhood.[6] George died in the spring of 1828 and John Snarr and John Feller were paid to provide his coffin. [7] He is probably buried in the old Hottel-Keller graveyard, near the Snarr home at Mt. Olive, but there is no marker.[8]

Sources

  • Shenandoah County, Virginia public records.
  • Shenandoah County, Chancery Causes.
  • Friedens Church Register (Mt. Olive, Shenandoah County).

Footnotes

  1. Marriage performed by Rev. Anderson Moffett, Marriage Records in Shenandoah County, Court House, Woodstock, Virginia, published in the Appendix of John W. Wayland, A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Strasburg, VA (1927), p. 744.
  2. Shenandoah County Chancery Causes, Philip Koontz and wife, vs. EXRS of Philip Bly ETC, 1850-024, Local Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
  3. Shenandoah County, Virginia Deed Book, "O," p. 269.
  4. Minutes of the Circuit Court, Shenandoah County Minute Book 1806-1808, October 1807 Court.
  5. Accounts in the estate settlement of Benjamin Williams of Cedar Creek, dated 1810-1814 refer to "hauling logs to Bly's sawmill" and "hauling planks from Bly's sawmill." Shenandoah County, Virginia Chancery Causes: ADM of Cornelius E. Baldwin, vs. ADM of Benjamin Williams, ETC. 1832-036, p. 71. Local Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
  6. Mitzi Fox Price, ed. Friedens Church Register, Shenandoah County, Virginia 1821-1871, published by the Hottel-Keller Memorial INC, Toms Brook, VA, p. 56, 70,74, and 94.
  7. Report of the Overseer of the Poor, June, 1828-Jun 1 1829, Shenandoah County Court House, Woostock, VA.
  8. Daniel W. Bly, A History of the Bly Family, Baltimore, MD (1992), pp. 13-14

Note: There are 13 DNA matches between Daniel Bly (descendant of George and creator of this profile) and three of the children of George (excluding his direct ancestor, William, son of George), at the 4-6 cousin level at AncestryDNA (as of January, 2020).

Acknowledgments

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