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CASH/KASH FAMILY
GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
PREPARED BY: REIS R. KASH, 16 MARCH 1999

..................PROGRESS REPORT NUMBER 2..................

A significant break! After spending a year or so fruitlessly looking in Virginia for a birthplace/date and a date and place of death for John Cash (father of James and Caleb Cash/Kash who migrated from Virginia to Kentucky), I have learned that John Cash was not born in Virginia, but was probably born in Prince George’s County, Maryland! We have also confirmed that you have a Revolutionary War ancestor.

While reading Chalkley’s History of Augusta County, Virginia, vol 1, I found on p. 365 the following entries:

23 March 1779 - Relief of Rachel Cash, wife of John Cash, a soldier, (which meant that the county had provided Rachel Cash assistance while her husband, John, was off serving in the American army during the Revolution. (John Cash had a son named James (who moved to Greenbriar County, Virginia (West Virginia), and then moved to Kentucky, where he was the first Sheriff, Floyd County. We are descended from John and James Cash through Caleb Kash, Jr, Reese Kash, Carlton Kash, and Reis C. Kash.)

Relief did not come as easily in those days as it does now, as witnessed by the following entries from the same record:

10 October 1779 - Caleb Cash, son of John Cash, aged 5 years to be bound, and 27 March 1780 - Mary, daughter of John Cash, to be bound, apparently to defray the cost to the county of the relief provided their mother.

As a result of this indication that John Cash had served in the Revolutionary War, I wrote the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), asking for any records in their possession pertaining to John Cash of Augusta County, Virginia, whose wife was named Rachel. I just received the following two Application for Membership to the National Society of the DAR:

(1) Application 187740 in the name of Theodocia Lewman James, dated 30 May 1923, who claimed membership in the DAR through John Cash by way of his daughter Elizabeth Cash who married Moses Lewman in 1798. Surprisingly, these records disclosed that John Cash had not been born in Virginia, as I had thought, but had been born in Prince George’s County, Maryland, the date of birth not being shown. The DAR record reflected that John Cash served as a Private in two Revolutionary War units - for most of the war in the Rockingham County, Virginia, Militia, and, briefly, the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, militia. The exact remarks follow:

John Cash b. in Md moved to Rockingham Co VA (1776) and served as a Private in the Revolution (Chalkley vol. II, 365-366), and John Cash served as a private in Capt. John Yenser’s (sp?) Company, 4th Class, Fourth Battalion, Lancaster County Militia on a tour of duty at Lancaster guarding British prisoners of war, Aug 22 to Oct 23, 1781.

The document contained additional information about John Cash:

At the end of the war 1785 moved to Iredell County, N.C., and died there in 1805, at the home of his son-in-law, Moses Lewman.

John Cash’s daughter, Elizabeth Cash Lewman is discussed in an additional paragraph:

Clark Co. Ind. Census of 1850, states Elizabeth Cash Lewman, age 85, born in Maryland, living with her son John Lewman, age 47, born in North Carolina.

There is also an indication that John Cash’s father, also named John Cash, lived in Maryland.

John Cash Sr and Edward Dawson, both resided in Prince Georges County, Md, and both left wills recorded here. (Edward Dawson or Dauson is the father of Rachel Dawson or Dauson, who married John Cash, the father or grandfather of John Cash, the Revolutionary War soldier.)

The document further reflected that John Cash and Rachel (probably MacAllister) married in Prince Georges County, Md, during 1764. Their children were listed as: Sarah (m. John Walters), Elizabeth (b. 1765, m. Moses Lewman), Richard (b. 1768), Mary (b. 1770), and Caleb (b. 1774). James, our ancestor, is not mentioned in this document, but note the two year gap between Mary and Caleb’s births, i.e., 1772, which is James’ birth year. We have independent confirmation that James and Caleb were brothers and came from Augusta County, VA, to Kentucky, by way of Greenbriar County, Virginia (now West Virginia).

The second DAR application, 220239, in the name of Jessie Matilda Lewman, dated 29 September 1926 essentially repeats the information contained in the previously cited document, but adds that Sarah Cash, daughter of John Cash, married John Walters on 21 April 1789 at Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA, and cites Bairds History of Clark Co, Ind., p. 820; Chalkley’s History of Virginia, vol. II, p. 365-366, and the Index of Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia 8-88, 9-61 as authority for her DAR claim. She shows that John Cash and Rachel Dawson married in Prince Georges County, MD, during 1761, a difference of 3 years from that cited by the first application. (The birth dates of the children would tend to confirm the later date of marriage.)

Using the leads provided by the foregoing DAR applications, I conducted a file search of the International Genealogical Index of the Church of Latter Day Saints, Salt Lake, Utah, which reflected that John Cash and Mary Dawson or Dauson were the parents of the following children (all of whose births were registered with Saint Barnabas Church, Queen Anne Parish, Prince Georges County, Maryland):

(1) Dauson Cash, Male, b. 11 August 1712

(2) John Cash, Male, b. 22 Aug 1714 (this is either the father or grandfather of our Revolutionary ancestor, John Cash).

(3) Ruth Cash, Female, b. 5 October 1717.

(4) Rachel Kash, Female, b. 1 July 1720

(5) Ann Cash, Female, b. 28 April 1722, and

(6) Caleb Cash, Male, b. 10 July 1723.

Assuming that John Cash and Mary Dawson were married a year before the birth of their first child (Dauson Cash, b. 1712), and that John Cash was 25 years of age, John Cash (1)’s birth year would have been about 1685. (Note: One John Cash came to Maryland from England in 1684, one year before John Cash of Maryland’s birthday. A Richard Cash came to Maryland from a country not stated, but probably England in 1676. Two years later, in 1678 Edward Dawson came to Maryland from a country not identified, but again probably England. Both Cash and Dawson were transported, which means that someone else paid their passage for which the payee received a grant of land. John Cash or Richard Cash may be the father of John Cash (1), but I would suspect John is the father. The Early Settlers of Maryland Published from a List of Land Patents, Gust Skodas, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Md., 1968.)

I intend to follow up with the birth records in Saint Barnabas Church, the Cash and Dawson wills in Prince Georges County, MD, and the Revolutionary War records of John Cash.

A review of Maryland Calendar of Wills from 1635-1685), Jane Baldwin Cotton, ed., Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, 1968, (p 231), reflected the following:

Will of John Cash, Planter, Prince George’s County, 28 August 1726. (Probated 26 September 1726)
To wife, Mary, dwelling plantation during life; at her decease to son Caleb; use of personal estate during widowhood; shd she marry, 1/3 of personal estate and residue to children equally. Sons to receive portions at age 21, daus at age 16 or marriage. To 2 sons Doren (Dausen or Dawsen?) and John, Huckillberry Hilll, at east branch of Potomock River, equally. Ex [utor] not stated. Test [or witness]: Joseph Waters, John Moore, John Purdum.

A further review of Maryland Calendar of Wills reflected::

Will of Edward Dawson, Sr., Planter, Prince George’s County, 15 December 1729. (The will was probated 28 June 1732)
To son Edward and hrs., 214 A. Mill-land, where he now lives, except 50 A. thereof which is bequeathed to grandson John, son of John Cash, dec’d, and hrs., to be laid out of afsd. tract by son Edward, and after decease of wife said son Edward to enjoy all land left to her and personalty.
The will also provided certain unstated personal property to the aforesaid John Cash.

I plan to follow through on these leads and will keep you advised. Your comments would be appreciated.
CASH/KASH FAMILY
GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
PREPARED BY: REIS R. KASH, 16 MARCH 1999

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