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Israel CHRISTIAN

SAR Patriot #: P-327394

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: VA Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service

DAR #: A021739

Birth: abt 1720 Londonderry / / Ireland
Death: 1784 / Botetourt / VA

Qualifying Service Description:

Oath of Allegiance, Botetourt County, VA, 1780

Additional References:

Summers, Annals of SW Virginia, Part 1, pg 318
Whitsitt, W. H. (1888). Life and Times of Judge Caleb Wallace: Some Time a Justice of the Court of Appeals of the State of Kentucky. United States: J.P. Morton, printers
Weaks, M. C, Draper, L. C. (1915). The Preston and Virginia Papers of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts. United States: The Society
Waddell, J. A. (1902). Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871. United States: C. R. Caldwell

Spouse: Elizabeth Starke
Children: Rosanna; Mary; Ann; William;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child	View Application Detail
2005-04-28	AR	22390	Dennis Erroll Boyer (147252)	Rosanna

Burial:

UNKNOWN_(Unindexed)

Location:

Botetourt / VA

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Comments:

No Find-a-Grave record found - May 2022
Israel died & was buried at “Dunkard’s Bottom” in what is now Pulaski County, Virginia; the site was flooded in 1939 to create Claytor Lake. The photo shows his “Walnut Hills” home in Staunton, VA, purchased in 1754 as two facing 2-story structures
Burial at Botetourt County based on DAR information, which is more recent than the latest approved SAR application for this ancestor

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Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Dennis Erroll Boyer
There exists no documentation to verify Israel’s date or place of birth, but it appears to have been about 1720, possibly in Londonderry, Ireland. He migrated about 1740, married Elizabeth Starke about 1742, and their first child and only son, William, was born in Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia in 1743. He became, in 1761, one of the organizing trustees/burgesses of Staunton (”Annals of Augusta County, Virginia”, Waddell, p. 166), remaining in that post until his dismissal in 1769 for refusing sign the required oath of allegiance to the Church of England (”Annals of Augusta County, Virginia”, Waddell, p. 214).

In 1754 in Staunton he purchased an estate known as “Walnut Hills”, with a standing home which, at that time, was comprised of two seperate two-story facing frame structures, later joined in the middle to form the antebellum home shown here in the linked photograph (Sold to son-n-law, Dr. William Fleming, in 1763; from “Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800 – Augusta County (Va.)”, Lyman Chalkley: Augusta Co. Deed Book 11, “Page 424. — 24th September, 1763. Israel Christian and Elisabeth ( ) to William Fleming, gent, £100, 300 acres, Beverley's Mill Place, crossing the Meadow Branch, part of Beverley Manor granted to James Miller, 28th May, 1751, and by Miller to Israel Christian, 26th March, 1754”.

In 1756 he served as one of three Captains of Horse from Augusta County (Annals of Augusta Co., Waddell, p. 137) and was a member of Augusta County’s Council of War, 20 May 1756 (Va’s Col. Soldiers, Bockstruck, p. 82). In 1759 his mercantile store served as commissary for Col. Peachey’s battalion, and sometimes for the First Virginia Regiment until April 1780 (Bockstruck, p. 248).

1759, 1761: member, Virginia House of Burgesses representing Augusta County (“Annals of Augusta County, Virginia”, Waddell, p 61).

1770: Justice of Botetourt County, Virginia, 17 Feb.
1770: Following organization of Botetourt County, donated land for establishment of the courthouse and jail for Botetourt County; this site became the county seat which remains as Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia.

Qualifying Revolutionary service derives from his signature on the Oath of Allegiance, 14 Apr 1780, in Botetourt County Court, and from his continued provision of supplies for Virginia militia.

Israel and his family continued moving south in Virginia, eventually to his final home in what is now Pulaski County, Virginia, built for him by his son William, in a region known as “Dunkard’s Bottom”, flooded in 1939 to make Claytor Lake. His burial site likely remains below this body of water; several interments were relocated prior to the flooding of the lake, but Israel’s remains have not been located among them.

In neighboring Montgomery County, Virginia, the city of Christiansburg was named to commemorate the memories of Israel and his son, William.

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