Newland-Finley connection. Fact or fiction???
According to a George A. Smathers Library Msp. dated 1937 [Bransford, Clifton W., WPA project). Homepage at http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00055106/00001/1jhttp://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00055106/00001/1j, University of Florida History and Heritage General Collection, 16 July 2013, University of Florida Digital Collection:
George Finley, baptized Jan. 30, 1743 by Rev. Craig, Augusta County, Va., son of John and Mary (Caldwell)Finley, married Ann Newland, 18 December 1761, daughter of Isaac Newland. She died 1782 at age 35, is buried in Sinking Springs church graveyard in Washington County, Va. Is this fact or fiction?
George Finley, with wife Jane/Jean lived at least from 1791 to 1798 on the north fork of the Holstein in Washington County, Va. Wife Jane is named as early as 1772 with George in Augusta County.
An Isaac Newland patented 180 acres on the north fork of the Holstein in Washington Co. in 1785. Isaac is also mentioned in other Washington Co. docs as early as the 1770s. Abraham Newland is also mentioned.
Are Isaac and Abraham children of John and Elizabeth (Linder) Newland? If so he is said to have been born in 1752 and too young to be the father of an Ann Newland who reportedly married George Finley.
I have been unable to confirm, so far, that Ann (Newland) Finley is buried at Sinking Springs Cemetery.
Can any of you Newland researchers add anything that will clarify this information on a Newland-Finley connection? Is it fact or fiction?
Carmen Finley
Santa Rosa, CA