William Wilkinson Albin

Est 1717 - 1765  (~ 48 years)

• Name	William Wilkinson Albin  [1]
  Birth	Est 1717	Ireland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Abt Jun 1765	Mt Pleasant Meeting House Cemetery, Frederick Co, Virginia   [1, 2]
  Death	2 Jun 1765	Frederick Co, Virginia   [1]
  Person ID	I1303	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2021

  
  

  Family	Mary Bruce,   b. 3 Jul 1715, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d. Bef 1765, Winchester, Frederick Co, Virginia (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1738	Spotsylvania, Frederick Co, Virginia   [3]
  	The data on this couple is sparse and contradictory. One, for the marriage, is from a mysterious "Edmund West" who supposedly gathered individual and family data for a genetic study. The data are not sourced in a rigorous way required by genealogical standards.
  Children	1. James Albin,   b. Abt 1758, Virginia d. Abt 1827, Guernsey County, Ohio (Age ~ 69 years)
  Family ID	F360	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Dec 2018

  
  

• Notes

  William was the son of Robert Albin and Sarah Cansey, also from Ireland and they are buried there. William was an orphan and only five years of age when he came to this country. He was raised in Chester Co., PA and when about 21 years old he went to Virginia with two of his cousins. Estimated time was 1739. He was married in 1744 to Mary Bruce, who was born in Scotland and Christened June 3, 1715 at Portsoy, Fordyce Parish, Banff, Scotland. She was brought to this country at the age of 9, lived in PA and also moved to Virginia where she met William. The first record of William found in Frederick Co.., was in 1745 when he declared himself titheable. Land records indicate that he applied for warrants for a total for 1,078 acres from lord Fairfax, just north of red Bud, and west of the Opeckon. Of William's original 1,078 acres he retained only 189 acres, law suits filed by Wiliam and others were common at that time. Another serious problem were the Indian uprisings. In 1764, William Albin, John Parrell and Joseph Parrell, were appointed by the Frederick Co. Court to view the ground leading from the Lew Neill's Mill to the town of Winchester and make their report. Whereupon it is ordered that a road be opened, this by then said of, and that the titheables two miles and half on each side thereof. William, like many of his neighbors and Quaker freinds, paid their filing fees to obtain warrants from Fairfax. No doubt their experiences had conditioned them to expect that it as futile to try to win against the English nobility. William 1717 S/O Robert and Sarah Cansey Albin S/O James and Anne Margaret Yoeman Albin S/O Robert and Sarah Blackbourn Albin S/O Robert Albin and Xpian Hunt Albin - The Virginia Albins : the history of the Albin family out of old Frederick County : immigrants, Mary Bruce and William Albin and their descendants who migrated westward with the opening of new territories carving a civilization out of a wilderness / by Ethel Winifred Albin.

  
  

• Sources

  [S742] Erlene Huntress Davis, Bruce descendants. [S549] Ancestry submitters, Apocryphal, Burial information from Findagrave with no sources for burial in Mt Pleasant Cem (Reliability: 3). [S641] Edmund West, Edmund West, (Database on-line, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001. This database was created while gathering genealogical data for use in the study of human genetics and disease. Compiling data for genetic research does not require the same type of documentation as traditional genealogical research. The genes themselves verify relationships and qualify or disqualify a person from a particular study. Citing the source of every genealogical fact in the electronic gene pool was deemed unnecessary and cost prohibitive by medical researchers. ), Minimal information. Database not genealogically sourced. (Reliability: 3).