Audley Campbell Maxwell (1761 - 1835)

Born 15 May 1761 in Old Craig Parish, Augusta Co, VA

Ancestors

Husband of Ann (Matthews) Maxwell — married [date unknown] in Rockbridge, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 4 Mar 1835 at age 73 in Tazewell, Tazewell Co, VA

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Biography

Audley Maxwell of Tazewell county, Virginia, married Anne Mathews and had a large family.^[1]

Research

Cpt Maxwell may have been born in 1760 in Old Botetourt CO, VA and died early in 1835 in Tazewell Co, VA

Son of John Maxwell, Sr. and Margaret Mary Carson.

Audley Campbell Maxwell married Anne Matthews (1764-1820) in Rockbridge Co, VA, on 30 Dec 1780. They had eight children: Audley Campbell Edley (1783-1837); Elizabeth Lee (1786-1857); John (1788-1850); Thomas (1796-1850); Joseph P. (1800-1869); Jane (1803-1825); Sarah Jane (1806-1834); William M. (1811-1892).

Audley Maxwell was a veteran of the Revolutionary War having served as an Ensign in the Rockbridge Co, VA, militia from 8 Mar 1780.

Audley Maxwell served with his cousin James Maxwell on the first Grand Jury empanelled by the court of Tazewell Co, VA, in the November term, 1807.

Audley Maxwell received a grant (Grant No.40, page 240) on the North Branch of the Maiden Spring of the Clinch River in Wythe Co, VA, on 20 Jun 1798. He received another grant (Grant No. 61, page 181) of 282 acres on the waters of the Clinch River in Tazewell Co, VA, on 17 Sep 1810.

Sources

1. ↑ "The Mathews Family", Cole, J.R. History of Greenbriar County. [Lewisburg, West Virginia: J.R. Cole, 1917] p.69-70

• Brown, Immogene B. Hannan. Hannan and Greenlee Family and Allied Families, [1972]. note: Out of Print--Limited Availability

1. Ancestry.com, entry for "Audley Campbell Maxwell".

2. Jordan Dodd, Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800 (database on-line), Provo, UT, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1997.

3. J. T. McAllister, Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War-McAllister’s Data (Hot Springs, VA: McAllister Publishing Co., 1913), page 228.

4. John H. Gwathmey, Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution: Soldiers – Sailors – Marines, 1775-1783. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979), page 510.

5. John Newton Harmon, Sr., Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia from 1800 to 1922, Vol I (Richmond, VA: W. C. Hill Printing Company, 1922), page 170.