Allied Families of Gillespies of the Colony of Virginia

Date: 1607 to 4 Jul 1776
Location: Colony of Virginia
Surnames/tags: Gillespie Gillespy Galespy

Contents 1 Purpose 2 Gillespies 3 Spouses, In-Laws 3.1 Place Creation 3.2 Conflated Persons 4 Sources

Purpose

The purpose of this page is to compile a list of (only) surnames found in PRIMARY records associated with the Gallespies of the Colony of Virginia prior to 4 July 1776.

For each individual listed below as a bolded heading, all primary records containing that individual are re-read, and all surnames found in that record are added to the list under that individual. Names that appear under more than one individual are italicized.

There are two locations identified to date of primary interest, and no proof yet the families found there are the same family:

1. Cowpastures River, Augusta County (CP)
   1. Botetourt County, Augusta County (a portion of CP, 28 Nov 1769 from Augusta County)
2. Beverley Manor, Augusta County (BM)

CP and BM, though close in distance, are separated by a mountion range and are therefore several days apart by ground at the time.

Gillespies

James Gillespie (abt.1700-abt.1769) of Orange Co, VA

• Wife and children in importation oath & Will, brother John's children in Ireland
• Alexander, Bell, Black, Dalhouse, Davidson, Hall, Hamilton, Harb, Jennings, Johnston, Lewis, Molloch, Ramsey, Russell, Stewart, Williams
• (Jr?) Davidson, Finley, MClure, Pilson (?)
• many names on map, many names in road orders (tbd whether to include these)

Simon Gillespie (1744-1823) of Cowpasture River, VA

• William Gillespie (1782, District 24, Botetourt)
• John Clendennon (1782, District 23, Botetourt)

Thomas Gillespie (abt.1720-bef.1790) of Cowpasture River, VA

• Wife and children in Will, son John
• William Galaspy
• Beall, Burnsides, Connell, Donally, Dougherty, Elliott, Gallispy, Gay, Glendening, Jones, Reamy
• many names on map, many names in road orders (tbd how to include these)

William Gillespie (1725-1801) of Cowpasture River, VA

• Thomas Gallespy
• Arbuckle, Beall, Beard, Burnsides, Connell, Dougherty, Elliott, Gay, Glendening, Huggard, Lawrence, McCasling, Muldrough, Nealls, Nicalls, Passinger, Poage, Reamey
• many names on map, many names in road orders (tbd how to include these)

Archibald (Glendenin) Glendinning (abt.1685-abt.1749) of Cowpasture, VA

• Burnsides, Dougherty, Elliott, Gallispy, Galaspy, Gay, Reamy
• many names on map, many names in road orders (tbd how to include these)

{add Archibald Clendining Jr inv & appr}

Spouses, In-Laws

Place Creation

• Orange County, Virginia was created in 20 Sep 1734 from Spotsylvania County.
• Augusta County, Virginia (unorganized; organized 1745) was created in 15 Dec 1738 and was formed from Orange County.
• Botetourt County, Virginia (pending; effective 1770) was created in 28 Nov 1769 from Augusta County.
• Cowpasture River lies to the west of and is not the same place as Beverley Manor.
• The entirety of Beverley Manor lies within present-day Augusta County, bounded on north by Middle River, east and south by South River, and west by a line a little east of Spotswood.

See Augusta County, Colony of Virginia for a map created from recent research. Spratlin-29 17:08, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Conflated Persons

See Deconflation of Gillespies of the Colony of Virginia.

Sources