Notes for: John Catesby Edrington, Sr.

From Bill Cheatham:

5 JOHN EDRINGTON, son of Christopher Edrington (II) & Mary (Payton or Jett)?, b. c.1710 King George Co. Va., d. c.1768 Fauquier Co. Va., m. 1st. c.1740 King George Co., Mrs. Margaret Pope Higdon, b. ??? , alive 1754 (she m. 1st. Nathaniel Pope, who d. 1737 & m. 2nd. Daniel Higdon, who d. 1739), m. 2nd. 29 Nov. 1762 Fauquier Co., Mrs. Elizabeth Ambrose O'Bannon, b. ??? , d. c.1777/8 Fauquier Co. Probable children by first wife:

.....15 i John Edrington (Jr.), b. 1740's Va., possibly m. Mary Wickliffe.
.....16 ii Benjamin Edrington, b. 1740's Va., m. by 1781, Mildred ??? . In 1777 King George Co. he sold slaves Joshua & Bett (named in the appraisement of the estate of John Edrington, recorded 1771 in Fauquier Co.) to William Marshall. In 1778 King George Co. Benjamin bought 100 acres of land, which he sold in 1781-83.