David Brooks Buckles

Notes:

Died:
(also given as died 1829)

John married Mary Brooks in 1760 in Berkeley Co, WV. Mary (daughter of David Brooks and Mary) was born on 06 Mar 1763 in Frederick Co, VA; died on 14 May 1842 in OH; was buried in Upper Honey Creek Cemetery, Christianburg, Champaign Co, OH. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Aug 15, 1766 - James acquired 147 acres from Lord Fairfax.

Mar 16, 1779 - James was appointed captain of a company of Militia in Berkely County, Virginia...Revolutionary War.

1752 - James laid out the town of Bucklestown which was later called Darkesville in 1791.

1793 - James and Sarah gave a lot to the town for the first school.

1795 - Sold their plantation of 489 acres to Ed Beeson.

Aug 1799 - His father sold him 430 acres of land. (Deed Book 5 in Berkeley County Courthouse)



"In the years following the close of the Revolutionary War many of the people of Virginia left the state. In the fall of 1799 James (at the age of 67) and Sarah packed several wagons and headed westward with the family to Ohio. Their son William had already made this trip a couple of years before and they were probably following his path. They traveled across the mountains thru Wheeling to the Ohio River where James and his sons built large flatboats to carry the wagons and horses to Cincinnati. Winter caught up with the party and James became sick from exposure. The family found a vacant house along the Kentucky side of the river and moved in but James passed away and was buried at a place called Red Stone (near Maysville, KY). Sarah then took her family the rest of the way downriver and in the spring of 1800 they settled in Centerville, Montgomery Co. Ohio Territory." (undocumented history of Terry Lee Edwards family tree)

Birth:
Born in Berkeley Co, VA, James came to the area with his father, which James later laid out as Bucklestown (during the early years, called Buckles Town & James Town), in 1791 changed to Darkesville.

Died:
Will: Feb 13, 1796

James married Sarah Gerrard in 1760 in Gerrardstown, Berkeley Co, VA. Sarah (daughter of Rev. John Gerrard and Mehetable Haugen) was born on 05 Dec 1740 in Frederick Co, VA; died on 24 Sep 1815 in Sugar Creek Township, Greene Co, OH; was buried in Middle Run Baptist Church, Bellbrook, Greene Co, OH. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name:
(also given as Gerard, Gerrard, Garrard)

David married Mary. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name:
(in undocumented family records provided, Robert begins using the surname Buckles instead of Buckle, unlike his father and siblings)

Robert married Ann Brown in May 1727 in Bucks Co, PA. Ann (daughter of George Brown and Mercy Browne Wright) was born on 01 Aug 1705 in Bucks Co, PA; died on 27 Jun 1787 in Univilla, Berkeley Co, WV. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Will of August 19, 1787, proved September 18, 1787 (Berkeley County Will Book 1, p.460).

Sketch of John Gerrard Family
(drawn from Kari Northrup's summary of the works and research of Robert & Carolyn Gerard, Levi Rymph, James B. Taylor, Garnett Ryland, Gardiner, J.E. Norris, Cartmell,and Don Wood)

Rev. John Gerrard, John Bruce (an immigrant from Scotland), and Jeremiah Stewart (a frontier captain in the French and Indian War), along with their families, moved westward (to Berkeley County, Virginia Colony, probably from Pennsylvania), expanding British settlement and dominion.

John Gerrard married Mehitable around 1740 and it is said that the family arrived in Berkeley County in 1754, where John became the pastor of the Mill Creek Baptist Church.

John and his family removed south to Loudon County, Virginia due to Indian assaults, returning in 1757.

John received two land grants from Lord Fairfax: 227 acres December 11, 1762, and 251 acres August 29, 1766. On May 28, 1770, her purchased 90 acres of land adjoining his existing properties, excluding one acre for the Baptist Meeting House (Frederick Co. VA Deed Book 3, p.478, 481. The one-acre tract was deeded to the Baptist Congregation the same day). Standing on this 90-acre purchase was a two-story, limestone house, set into the hillside. The house had been built in 1743 by a John Hays. John Gerrard himself did not live in this house. However, his son David bought this house from his parents in 1779 and made it his home. In this house, David Gerrard laid out the plans for Gerrardstown, which was formally established as a town in 1787 and named after Rev. John Gerrard.

Another tract of 235 acres on the drains of Middle and Tuscarora Creeks was purchased 12 May 1769 (Frederick Co. VA Deed Book 13, p.40...they later sold this tract 19 Apr 1774).

They sold 150 acres of the 1766 grant to their son David 4 Apr 1769 (Berkeley Co. Deed Book 3, p.88), and the 90 acre tract to David in 1779 (Deed Book 5, p.268).

Rev. Gerrard's wife Mehitable died sometime after May 18, 1779 (after the sale of the house and lot to David). By 1781, John Gerrard had remarried, taking a Mary Gray as his second wife. At his death in September 1787, he had had 11 children by his first wife and three more by his second.

These properties are now in Gerrardstown, West Virginia. Historic sites: Gerrard House & marker designating the original site of the Mill Creek Baptist Church of Gerrardstown.

From a modern letter from Jack Jeffries to Bob Buckles: On the end of the house next to the tannery, is a room where the Baptist Church met until funds were collected to build the church building. The Methodists and the Presbyterians also used that same room to meet in as each of those congregations organized and prepared to build their own houses of worship. The room is on the left end of the house as viewed from the front. Immediately to the left of that is Rev. John Gerrard?s Tannery building. There is a picket fence all the way across the front of the relatively large building. Two complete stories with an open porch across the entire front. I assume that the church building that was erected was further to the left of that, yet. My reasoning is that most probably Rev. John would have been most likely to build his tannery downwind from his dwelling place. The book then mentions that the church was placed downwind of the tannery.

Further information: Berkeley County Historical Society. The Berkeley Journal. No. 15, 1991. "History of Gerrardstown."

John married Mehetable Haugen about 1740 in Frederick Co, VA. Mehetable was born in 1720; died after 18 May 1779 in Berkeley Co, VA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name:
Mehetable's surname being Haugen is not proven.