Edward Tanner Jr. (abt. 1730 - 1796)

Born about 1730 in Hacker Valley Magisterial District, Webster, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Rachel (MacIntosh) Tanner — married about 1749 in Augusta County, Virginia

Descendants

Died 24 May 1796 at about age 66 in Gandeeville, Roane, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Military Service: Edward is credited with 132 days service in Lord Dunmore’s War in 1774 in a 1774 payroll of Harrison County VA residents who served in Captain William Lowther’s Company of VA militia.

Edward was born about 1730. He passed away in 1796 at the age 76 he died in Harrison County VA May 24, 1796. He married Rachel.

A land patent notes that he made improvements on land on the Buckhannon river in 1773.

Research Note

Quick look on FamilySearch produced no results Gilbert-5219 19:35, 11 March 2017 (EST)

The Tanner home was a large two story hewn log house erected, but not completed by Edward Tanner. It was a fine specimen of the fort-like residences of Virginia border days. The crevices between the heavy oak logs were firmly chinked with stone and mud. The massive chimney, built inside the west end of the house was made of irregular cobblestones laid in mortar and measured sixteen feet wide in the back. On the ground floor it was built in the shape of a half-diamond, each angle measuring ten feet across. In each of these angles was a huge open fireplace each facing a separate room. One fireplace was four feet high and five feet wide; the other four feet square. When first built they were deeper than two feet six inches, their later depth when false backs were built in. On the upper floor the chimney was half hexagon in shape and had a good sized fireplace. The chimney was twenty-eight feet high and carried its width of sixteen feet to the garret, where it narrowed to eight feet. At the top it measured six by two and one-half feet.

The original front door of black walnut boards crossed diagonally and fastened together with hammered nails. The boards had been cut with a whipsaw or hewed with an ax. It was three inches thick and hung on ponderous iron hinges that reached nearly across the entire width, and were secured in place with heavy hand-forged iron clinch nails. The house had three lower and two upper rooms. (from West Virginia Collection at U. of Va., Morgantown from Clarksburg Exponent Telegram, 1931)

Lived on the west fork of Monongalia River; and on South Branch of Potomac River and in Moorefile W. V. area of Hampshire County

1758 tax list Edward Tanner, Harrison Co. land grant Jully 22, 1782/8 Augusta Co now Mecklenburg Co. 1790 census Monongalia Co., Va. Edward and William Tanner

Jesse Hughes, Thomas Hughes and William Racliff came into court and entered into bond in due form in the sum of 100 pounds for said Jesse Hughes administrator of the estate of Edward Tanner deceased. personal estate and slave Harrison County Court Minutes Vol. 2, 1792-1797

They were Quakers.

Edward Tanner bought 300 acres in Monongalia Co on Buchanan River in 1773 that is now in Upshur Co.

In another report from Fairfax Co. MM (Quaker Records) A Rachel Tanner reports she had been violated by William Hacker, and he was thrown out of the meetings. This was Dec 31, 1757.

It looks like Edward is mentioned on his Upshur Co. Property in 1774 and 1776.

Other sources: From Mini Micro internet:

Descendants of Edward Tanner Generation No. 1 1. Edward1 Tanner was born 1730 in Virginia, and died 24 May 1796 in Harrison Co., WV. He married Rachel. Children of Edward Tanner and Rachel are: 2 i. Jean Tanner. She married Reuben Reynolds 31 Oct 1805. + 3 ii. Rachel Tanner. + 4 iii. Grace Tanner, born 1753 in Virginia; died 18 Jan 1842 in Roane Co., WV. 5 iv. Elizabeth Tanner, born 1756. She married Arnold Cain 12 Jan 1791 in Harrison Co., VA (WV). + 6 v. Samuel Tanner, born 15 May 1759 in Augusta County, Virginia (to be Rockingham); died Aft. 1850 in Roane Co., WV. 7 vi. James Tanner, born 1760; died 20 Jul 1813. He married (1) Margaret Robinson 03 Jun 1791 in Harrison Co., VA (WV). He married (2) Nancy Taylor 28 Apr 1806. 8 vii. Edward Tanner, born 1763; died 14 Mar 1831. He married Sarah Brown 02 Aug 1792 in Harrison Co., VA (WV). 9 viii. Nancy Tanner, born 09 Oct 1765. She married George Hyde 13 Dec 1796. 10 ix. William Tanner, born 1772. He married (1) UNknown. He married (2) Not known. He married (3) ??. He married (4) Catherine Jarvis 13 Aug 1806.

.EDWARD TANNER Edward Tanner was born in VA in 1730 and died in Harrison County VA May 24, 1796. He married Rachel ----. Edward is credited with 132 days service in Lord Dunmore’s War in 1774 in a 1774 payroll of Harrison County VA residents who served in Captain William Lowther’s Company of VA militia. A land patent notes that he made improvements on land on the Buckhannon river in 1773.

Edward was born in 1730. Edward Tanner ... ^[1]

Edward was born in 1720. He passed away in 1796.

Sources

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DESCENDANTS OF EDWARD TANNER

• West Virginia Collection at U. of Va., Morgantown from Clarksburg Exponent Telegram, 1931)

July 1798, page 97. James & Margaret Tanner, Arnold & Elizabeth (can't see it but he signs later as Cain), George and Nancy Hyde, Jesse & Grace Hewes, James & Rachel McDade, Edward & Wife Tanner, and Samuel & Wife Tanner, all of Harrison co, Virginia, to Alexander Sleeth for $1000.00, 1000 Acres. . in the forks of the west fork of the Little Kanawha River. . . signed James Tanner, Edward Tanner, Samuel Tanner, Jesse Hewes, James McDade, Arnold Cain. Recorded January 1799.

Tanner, Edward (b. ABT 1720/30, d. 1791) Note: !SOURCE:Inventory of Edward Tanner Deed - Augusta Co., VA 6 Jul 1790 Harrison Co., WV Marriage Records Will of Edward Tanner, 1770 Amelia Co., VA

"History of Harrison County, West Virginia, inventory of Edward Tanner, Sr., Harrison County, WV; marriage records. Book 1 Page 15. Deed-Land record Harrison County, West Virginia - Edward Tanner, Sr. children listed

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 30 April 2017, 01:14), entry for Edward Tanner(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:9HR3-6N2); contributed by various users.
• Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890