| Name |
Phoebe Casto |
| Born |
2 Jan 1755 |
Dividing Creek, NJ  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
2 Jan 1855 |
Angerona, Jackson, West Virginia, USA |
| Notes |
Phoebe Casto (b 2 Jan 1755, Dividing Creek, NJ) m on 3 Jan 1782 at Winchester, Fredricks Co, VA to James McKown (b 2 Sep 1758, Ireland; d 9 Jan 1845, in Jackson Co, WV). Phoebe died and was buried at Jackson Co, (W)Va. The Jackson Co. Historical Society Book says Phoebe and James are buried at Angerona, Jackson Co WV.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR WIDOW'S PENSION APPLICATION - PHEBE CASTO
McKOWN
Contributed by: James Anderson [janderson@hockinghill.net]
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb
WVA
Pension application of Phoebe Casto McKown.
State of Virginia
County of Jackson
On the 12th day of November 1850 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Jackson and State of Virginia Phebe McKown a resident in the County aforesaid aged 95 years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of James McKown late of the State of Ohio who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and who resided for 30 years in the County of Jackson State of Virginia previous to his death which took place in said County of Jackson State of Virginia on the 9th day of January A.D. 1845 and who drew a pension from the U.S. under the Act of 7th June 1832 at
the rate of forty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th March 1831, as will more particularly appear by reference to the record of his certificate of pension given at the War office of the U.S. the 28th day of May 1833 and recorded in the Pension Office in BookE, Vol. 8, page 16. She further declares that she never received any pension under the Act of 17th June 1844 and that she is still a widow.
Phebe X McKown
mark
3 28 Feb 2006
Sworn to, and subscribed on the day and year above written before the
undersigned a Justice of the Peace in & for the State & County aforesaid.
E. S. Evans
Justice of the Peace
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| Person ID |
I1556 |
WVPioneers |
| Last Modified |
8 Aug 2010 |
| Father |
David CASTO, b. 1721, New Jersey, USA , d. Abt 1770, Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia), USA (Age 49 years) |
| Mother |
Phebe GANDY, b. CA 1736, New Jersey, USA , d. Abt 1770, Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia), USA (Age ~ 34 years) |
| Married |
17 Aug 1752 |
Cape May Courthouse, NJ |
| Notes |
David Casto traveled to Fairfield Township, Cumberland Co., South Jersey to accompany Phebe Gandy to a Baptist Church at Cape May Courthouse, NJ to be married. They were declared married on 17 August 1752 by Nathaniel Jenkins. They returned to Turkey Point and established a home at Downe Township north of Egg Island. A baptismal record for David and Phebe was found dated 1765 at the Dividing Creek Baptist Church, Downe Township, NJ. By this time, they had at least five children.
They traveled north to Salem, New Jersey, then took the Great Wagon Road at York , PA. They crossed the Potomac River into Hampshire Co. It is believed they had another daughter while at Hampshire (Berkeley) County. They traveled on to establish a claim at the mouth of Buffalo Creek on the Monongahela River. They both died about 1770 in Berkley County, WV.
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I believe this is what has been called the Billy Burris story. Pompey Leggit was the father of Thomas, about whom the story is written. Philippi is in what is now Braxton County, but it was 1738 before Augusta and Frederick counties were formed in what is now WV. Counties were formed as the population of an area grew large enough to need it's own government. Braxton was formed from parts of Kanawha, Lewis and Nicholas counties in 1836.
In "A While Ago Times", Volume 2, Page 12
At the end of a story titled "Thomas Leggit Story"
. . . Dr Leggett's great-great-great grandfather, Pompey Leggit, a man named William Burris, and others, whom Dr. Leggett named, did indeed establish a permanent settlement near present Philippi, West Virginia, in 1704; that William Burris, son of William and Mary Morgan Burris, born in Delaware in 1670, died in 1759 near the site of this settlement; and that his son, Enoch, and two stepsons, last name Casto, continued to live in that area until they died.
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| Family ID |
F149 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
James McKown, b. 2 Sep 1758, Ireland , d. 9 Jan 1845, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA (Age 86 years) |
| Married |
3 Jan 1782 |
Winchester, Frederick County, VA |
| Notes |
1840 Jackson County, VA, living with John, he is 83, she is 80-90
James McKown, age 83
1850 Delaware, Defiance, OH #747
Noah Hughes 28 VA
Phebe J 21 OH
Rosetta 4 VA
Isaac McCoun 19 VA
"Jackson County in the Wars"
Revolutionary Soldiers
James McKown. A Revolutionary soldier who was listed on the Mason county census of 1820. as being over 45 years of age. He had one son and one daughter and his wife was also over 45. Probably the father of Gilbert, John, Samuel and Isaac McKown, listed as aged 26-45 in that census. His wife's maiden name was Casto.
from Betty K Mcintyre:
Revolutionary War Pension Record: James McKown born 2 Sept 1758 esf 1776 Berkeley Co., Va where res; esf 1781 Hampshire Co., Va; res after RW in Pa., Va., & Ohio; PN 1833 Knox County, Ohio, res Milford Township; dd 9 Jan 1845 Jackson Co., Va; MD ca 1782 Phebe Casto, Winchester, Va; wid PN age 95 Jackson County , Va, 1850, when her sis Sarah Wright AAF there; son Gilbert McKown AAF there then; wid res there 1852 where Elias McKown (NKG) Co JP: wid dd 2 Jan 1855; Ch include Sarah, Isaac, Polly and Gilbert (b. 1787 Greene Co., Pa.) QF L 1929 from desc Mrs. Ora Gerhart Beatty, Centerburg, Ohio. F-W7430 R 1692
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JC website - pensions:
Pension application of Phoebe Casto McKown.
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| Children |
| | 1. Isaac McKown, b. 20 Oct 1782, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 2. Mary 'Polly' McKown, b. 11 Dec 1783, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 3. Sarah McKown, b. 3 Oct 1785, d. 10 May 1902, Conway, Faulkner Co, AR (Age 116 years) |
| | 4. Gilbert McKown, b. 2 Dec 1787, Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 8 Jul 1864, Roane County, West Virginia, USA (Age 76 years) |
| | 5. John McKown, b. 18 Jan 1789, d. 1883 (Age 93 years) |
| | 6. Samuel McKown, b. 25 Jul 1792, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 7. Edith McKown, b. 1793, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 8. James McKown, b. 5 Jul 1794 OR 1804, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 9. Frances 'Fanny' McKown, d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 10. Celia Phoebe McKown, b. Abt 1828, Virginia, USA , d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Family ID |
F572 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
West Virginia Pioneers
1755 - 1855 (100 years)
