Selected Families and Individuals


Captain Mathew ARBUCKLE [Parents] was born 1740 in Scottland. He died 1781 in Virginia. Mathew married HUNTER.

Other marriages:
LOCKHART,

Mathew was a captain in the army and in a march of about nineteen days through the virgin forest guided Gen. Andrew Lewis' army from Fort Union to Point Pleasant, leaving Fort Union September 19, 1774, and fought the battle of Point Pleasant October 10, 1774.


William Ward, eldest son of Captain James Ward and nephew of Captain Matthew Arbuckle, owned lands in different sections of the county, and was high sheriff in 1787, with John Rodgers and William Arbuckle as deputies. He gave a two-hundred-pound bond as sheriff, with William Renick, John Anderson, James Alexander, George Clendenin, and Samuel McClung as the justices for Greenbrier.
Source:Greenbrier Pioneers and Their Homes
by Ruth Woods Dayton, 1942
West Virginia Publishing Co.
Charleston, W. Va.
Donated by Keith McClung

HUNTER married Captain Mathew ARBUCKLE.


Abram J. CAMPBELL [Parents].

He had the following children:

  M i Columbus C. CAMPBELL.
  M ii Paley L. CAMPBELL.
  M iii John Seneca CAMPBELL.
  M iv Andrew N. CAMPBELL.

Fred GAITHRIGHT.

He had the following children:

  M i Dennis GAITHRIGHT.
  F ii Dorothea GAITHRIGHT.
  M iii John GAITHRIGHT.

Joseph MCNUTT [Parents] was born 1850 in approximate.

proposed only
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~markfreeman/mcnutt.html

He had the following children:

  M i Joseph MCNUTT was born 1780 in approximate. He died 1864.

Joseph McNutt came here in 1803, from Rockinghan county, Virginia, and settled on lands adjoining the Cross Lanes. With him came John Amick, a man by the name of Lipstaff and William Patten. The two last named soon left. Joseph McNutt made considerable improvements and in 1814, he sold to Joseph Malcolm one half of his land and afterwards he sold the balance of his land to Wm. Miller and started to move West in 1815 and only got as far as 20 Mile, and was there detained by sickness.--He changed his purpose andbought land on Richcreek and built a grist and saw-mill and done well, and there ended his days about 1864.
Source: West Virginia History, A Quarterly Magazine, Cecile R. Goodall, Editor; Volume XVI; January, 1955; Number 2; excerpt from Nicholas County's first Settlers, written by Edward Campbell in 1883; page 137

This may be Joseph McNutt son of Gov. John McNutt or the son of Joseph. Although information is available for John little is available of his children. John was in Rockbridge at the proposed time and this is the genealogy proposed.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~markfreeman/mcnutt.html

Frank BOGGS.

He had the following children:

  M i James BOGGS.

William MCCLUNG married Elizabeth MCCLUNG.

Elizabeth MCCLUNG [Parents] was born 1811. She married William MCCLUNG.

Other marriages:
MCCLUNG, Alpheus Paris
MCCLUNG, William


William ARBUCKLE [Parents] was born 1752 in Betetourt County, Virginia. He died 1836. William married Catherine MADISON.

William Arbuckle, brother of Capt. Mathew Arbuckle, was with the army at Point Pleasant and afterward, about 1796 or 1797, moved, and settled in Putnam county, on the Kanawha river. Capt. Mathew Arbuckle remained in comand of the fort at Point Pleasant until after 1777. In 1781, as he was returning from Richmond on a commission for the army, he was killed on Jackson river, in Bath county, June 27, 1787, in a storm, by the falling of a tree, under which he was caught. He was the father of a large family of sons and daughters, and many of his posterity are now valued citizens of the Greenbrier valley. One of his sons, Cen. Mathew Arbuckle, was with army in the Arkansas - many years and until his death, and was said to have had great influence among the Indians in his time. His name is revered in that country to this day. His brother, William, who settled in Putnam county, reared a large family of daughters, from whom descended many of the prominent families of Putnam and Mason counties. The only family of the name there now is that of James H. Arbuckle, of Putnam county, but he is a great-grandson of Capt. Mathew Arbuckle.

Her father, William Arbuckle, was born in Betetourt County, March 3, 1752, and in 1778 moved to Fort Randolph, now Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He lived there fifteen years and then went to Greenbrier County, but in the winter of 1796-97 returned to the Kanawha Valley and settled on his extensive estate some fifteen miles above Fort Randolph, where he spend the rest of his life.

Catherine MADISON married William ARBUCKLE.

William Arbuckle married Catherine Madison, a daughter of Humphrey Madison, niece of Bishop John Madison and Governor George Madison, and cousin to President James Madison. Her mother, Mary Dickinson, was a daughter of John Dickinson, one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States. The first husband of Catherine, William McClanahan, was killed at the battle of Point Pleasant October 10, 1774.

They had the following children:

  M i General Mathew ARBUCKLE was born 1776.

Matthew Arbuckle
Matthew Arbuckle was born in Greenbrier County, (West) Virginia in 1776. He entered the United States Army as an ensign in 1799, became a captain in 1806, a major in 1812 and was commissioned as colonel of the 7th U. S. Infantry regiment in 1820. In 1830 he was brevetted brigadier general. he was in command of the military forces stationed in the eastern part of the present state of Oklahoma for nearly twenty years. He died at Fort Smith, Arkansas, June 11, 1851.

In April, 1824, Fort Gibson was established by Colonel Matthew Arbuckle, of the 7th U. S. Infantry. This post was located on the Neosho (or Grand) River a short distance above its mouth.

Source: A History of Oklahoma by Joseph B. Throburn and Isaac M. Holcomb, Doub and Company San Francisco 1908.
  M ii William ARBUCKLE.
  F iii Elizabeth ARBUCKLE was born 1790 and died 1860.

ALDRICH married SEXTON.

SEXTON married ALDRICH.

They had the following children:

  F i Margaret ALDRICH.

Arthur SAMPSON "Rev" married Anne WILSON.

Anne WILSON married Arthur SAMPSON.

They had the following children:

  M i William SAMPSON was born Jan 1764 and died 28 Dec 1836.

She had the following children:

  M i Burman AMICK.
  M ii Avery AMICK.
  M iii William Darlington AMICK "WD".
  M iv Jacob Lonnie AMICK Jr..

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