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Memoranda of the Preston family.

Title: Memoranda of the Preston family.
Author: Brown, Orlando.
Publication: Albany, J. Munsell, 1864.

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26 p.; 26 cm.

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John Preston was born at Londonderry, Ireland, and married Elizabeth Patton in Ireland. They had four daughters and a son, 1728-ca. 1739. The family immigrated to Virginia in 1740 with Elizabeth Preston's brother, Col. James Patton, and settled first at Spring Hill, Augusta County. They moved to land near Staunton, Virginia, in 1743. John Preston died shortly after 1743. Elizabeth Preston died at the home of her son, Col. William Preston, at Grefield, Virginia, in 1776 at age 76. Children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, lived in Virginia, Kentucky, and elsewhere. Few dates given for descendants.

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