Notes for Robert Samuel Brashears

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!Charlie Brashear (SDSU) Author of "Two Brashear Families": Death Date 15 Jan 1816
**RSB actually died late in 1815. This date above is when Basil, his youngest son and extr, opened probate. In one of the papers in the estate file, Basil mentions that his father died "last year."

!Charlie Brashear (SDSU):
Robert Samuel Brashears,--the "Rolling Stone" (Back #92) b. 20 Aug 1731 in MD; m. Phoebe Nicks, Lived in MD, VA, NC, SC, and TN. Had thousands of descendants, including most of the Brashears of Eastern KY, the Brashear, Brashears, Brashers, and Brasher families of TN, some in MO, some in TX, and just about everywhere!
He left Maryland, the colony of his birth, when he was eleven years old, and moved with his father to Fairfax Co., Virginia, c1742. He left there, at the age of fifteen, and went with the family to the colony of North Carolina, c1746-50, where, in 1760, he received Granville Grant #171 for 381 acres on Buffalo Creek, in present-day Guilford Co, NC.

!Web site - http://www.roanetn.com/families.htm : On 11 August 1794, ROBERT SAMUEL BRASHEAR, "of Hawkins Co., Tennessee" registered a deed from Reed and Swagerty for 640 acres on Poplar Creek and Clinch River, in a section of Knox County that would later become Roane County. (Knox Co. Deeds Book c, pg 15). Witnesses to the deed were PHILLIP BRASHEAR (son), ROBERT GILLILAND (son-in-law) and ELIAS ROBERTS (son in law). The land was on the west side of the Clinch river, where Cherokee title was not "extinguished" until 1806.

In 1794 Roane, their nearest neighbor would have been the troops at Fort South West Point five miles away. Certain soldiers from South West Point came courting, and Robert S. acquired at least one son-in-law in 1797, DANIEL MASON, and probably in 1801, NATHANIEL MASON. The nearest neighbor to the northeast would have been THOMAS FROST, SR., the first known settler in Anderson County.

ROBERT SAMUEL died in 1815 (estate probated 15 January 1816) at the age of 84, near present-day Harriman, Roane Co., Tennessee, and was buried almost in the back yard of his home there, where his grave is still clearly marked (and was buried beside his beloved Phoebe in the Brashear Graveyard). He left both a Will and a Bible, which name his children, however there is some confusion about one child. His will names "my daughter ELIZABETH SATTERFIELD" but mentions no MARGARET. His Bible lists MARGARET as born 17 May 1758, but does not mention an ELIZABETH. Some researchers believe this daughter was named MARGARET ELIZABETH and had married JEREMIAH SATTERFIELD and was living in Giles County in 1815. Or, perhaps the Margaret born 1758 was deceased by 1816.

His old home place in 1989 was owned by Mrs. Elmer Edwards.
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