R512
Husband: John Sitlington, Jr.
Father: John Sitlington, Sr. [R513]
Born: 1720, in Ballygown, Northern Ireland
Died: 1792, in Bath County Va.
Wife: ?
Married: In Ballygown, Northern Ireland
(1996) From [S004], “John Sitlington was the last of John Sitlington (Sr.)’s four sons to come from Northern Ireland to America. He arrived in 1774 and settled at Wallawhatoola Va., bringing with him his family of six daughters. It was he who became the AMERICAN ANCESTOR of all the Virginia Sitlingtons.” This is misleading; if John had only daughters, he could not have passed on the name to “all the Virginia Sitlingtons.” [S004] goes on to list six daughters plus one son, Robert Sitlington [R521], who was born in 1749 in Northern Ireland. Figure R512a is an abbreviated family tree of the Bath County Sitlingtons.
Children:
Jean Sitlington [R506]
Janet Sitlington, b. ?, d. 1821. M. James Sloan, 5 children; settled in
Indiana in the early 1800s, later moved farther west
Elizabeth (Betsy) Sitlington, m. James Kelso at Millboro Va.,
9/1/1789. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. John Brown.
James Kelso was born on Walker’s Creek (now in Rockbridge
County), and was a member of Captain James Buchannan’s
Company of Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War. John
Sitlington willed to James Kelso (11/9/1790) all his land on the
Cowpasture River and Jackson’s Run in consideration of his
marriage to his daughter Elizabeth.
Mary (Polly) Sitlington, m. John Young; settled in Indiana, later in
Missouri. Dau. m. __ Hughart
Agnes Sitlington, m. Andrew Beaty; settled in Springville, Lawrence
County, Indiana, where the couple had 6 children. (Andrew was
married twice more, had a total of 17 children.)
Robert Sitlington [R521].
John Sitlington was an Elder of the Windy Cove Church “at the outset” [S048].