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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
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Author: COL John Eldredge Sweeney (Ret.)
Valentine Cassell was born at Berks County, Pennsylvania, about 1743.
Cassell served as a private in the Augusta County Militia in 1758.1 For his Revolutionary War service, he paid the Rockingham County State Personal Property or “Supply” Tax in 1783.2 (Rockingham County was formed from Augusta County in 1778.)
Cassell sealed his Last Will and Testament, 25 December 1803. It was presented and recorded at the Pendleton County Court, 4 September 1804.3 In his Will, he named children: Christina, Mary, Henry, Peter, Valentine, John, Eve, George and Jacob. Valentine’s wife, Maria Margeretha Wilfong Cassell, and George Bible were named executors of the Will.4
1. “Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651-1776,” Vol. 2 [database on-line], Militia Rosters in Henning’s Statutes at Large, Pg. 60-61.
2. Library of Virginia: Rockingham County, Personnel Property Tax, 1782-1794, Reel #304; and Henning’s Statutes, Vol. 11, Pg. 112-129.
3. Last Will and Testament of Valentine Cassle “Pendleton County (West) Virginia, Probate Records, Wills, 1788-1866,” Inventories, Sale Bills, Settlements, Will book 2, Pg. 120-122.
4. West Virginia, County Court (Pendleton County), Wills Vol. 2-4, 1801-1858, Pg. 120-122.
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