Robert C. (Cager) BRASHEAR (19 FEB 1703/04 - JUL 1786)

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Robert C. (Cager) BRASHEAR ^[1325]

19 FEB 1703/04 - JUL 1786

BORN: 19 FEB 1703/04, Queen Annes Parish, Prince Georges Co. MD
DIED: JUL 1786, Rocky Springs, Rockingham Co. NC

Father: Samuel BRASHEAR , Sr.

Mother: Ann JONES

Notes

The Guilford County Brashear Colony

In the late 1740's or early 1750's, a group of Samuel Brashear, Sr.'s sons from Maryland, Robert C. Brashear, Basil Brashear, and Otho Brashear, and a number of their grown sons formed a colony in Orange and Rowan Counties, North Carolina. Several of them received Granville land grants in an area late included in Guilford County.

Maryland had become so overpopulated and the land so fragmented that it was hard to make a living there. Robert C. and Basil Brashear, as well as some of their brothers, had suffered financial reverses in the early 1740's and lost some or all of their land. Robert and Basil had both spent some time in jail for debt. So they moved in search of new land, more opportunities for their families, a better life.

Robert C. Brashear and Charity Dowell

Robert C. (Cager?) Brashear, the fifth Brashear named Robert, son of Samuel Brashear, Sr., the Maryland Carpenter, and Ann Jones, was born 19 Feb 1704/5 in Queen Annes Parish, Prince George's County, Maryland, and live the first years of his adult life at "Brashear's Meadows", a 200 acre parcel of land on a creek called Beaver Dam, a branch of the eastern branch of the Potomac River. His home was about 3 or 4 miles from Bladenburg, today a suburb of Washington, DC. In 1742, after financial difficulties, he migrated to Truro Parish, Fairfax Co, Virginia, then about 1746-50, to the wilds of North Carolina, where he lived most of his adult life in Orange, Guilford, and Rockingham Counties. He died at his home in Rocky Springs, in present-day Rockingham County, North Carolina, in July 1786. In the records, his surname appears about equally with and without the "s".

- A Brashear(s) Family History, Descendants of Robert and Benois Brasseur: Vol. 2:
Robert C. Brashear of North Carolina and Some Descendants in TN, KY, MO, TX, etc.,
by Charles Brashear

Family

Wife: Charity DOWELL

MARRIED: 13 OCT 1726, All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel Co. MD

Children:

Pedigree

                                                                     _Robert BRASSEUR ____
                                                                    | (1600 - 1667)       
                                               _Benois BRASSEUR ____|_____________________
                                              | (1620 - 1662)                             
                         _Robert BRASHIER III_|
                        | (1646 - 1712)       |
                        |                     |                      _____________________
                        |                     |                     |                     
                        |                     |_Mary ?RICHFORD _____|_____________________
                        |                       (.... - 1668)                             
 _Samuel BRASHEAR , Sr._|
| (1673 - 1740) m 1693  |
|                       |                                            _____________________
|                       |                                           |                     
|                       |                      _____________________|_____________________
|                       |                     |                                           
|                       |_ ? _________________|
|                                             |
|                                             |                      _____________________
|                                             |                     |                     
|                                             |_____________________|_____________________
|                                                                                         
|
|--Robert C. (Cager) BRASHEAR 
|  (1703 - 1786)
|                                                                    _____________________
|                                                                   |                     
|                                              _____________________|_____________________
|                                             |                                           
|                        _William JONES , Jr._|
|                       |                     |
|                       |                     |                      _____________________
|                       |                     |                     |                     
|                       |                     |_____________________|_____________________
|                       |                                                                 
|_Ann JONES ____________|
   m 1693               |
                        |                                            _____________________
                        |                                           |                     
                        |                      _____________________|_____________________
                        |                     |                                           
                        |_Dorothy CAGER ______|
                                              |
                                              |                      _____________________
                                              |                     |                     
                                              |_____________________|_____________________

Source references

[1325] A Brashear(s) Family History, Descendants of Robert and Benois Brasseur

AUTHOR: Charles Brashear
PUBLICATION: Vol. 2, 1999

REFERENCE: 17