Alley's in Henrico County
I'm interested in a family of Alley's which included brothers Thomas, James, andJohn, and sister Fanny (Frances?).Fanny married a Napier (aka Napper).All four came to southwest Virginia settling within the Clinch River watershed about 1776.Thomas and James secured property through Pre-emption warrants, giving the date of settlement as 1776.Brother John was underage at this time, and presumably came with his brothers, or came slightly later---he begins to appear in land tax records of Russell County in the 1780's. Fanny and five of her children were killed by Indians in August 1777, during a Cherokee raid.
A son of John left a statement preserved in the Draper Manuscript collection (http://www.werelate.org/dlib/bitstream/381/2/Draper%20MSC%205%20C%2070.html):
My father's sister, Fanny Napper and her five (5) children were killed and scalped by Indians near Fort Blackmore. I was born in a few yards of the fort in 1801, and have just returned from a visit to my old birthplace. The ground where the fort stood was being cultivated. A large apple tree stands near the fort that my father set out. It is to this day called the "John Alley Apple Tree".
My aunt and family were killed, I think, in 1777. My father was born at Petersburg, VA, in 1760, and settled on Clinch when a young boy. Died on Piper Creek, Franklin Co., Indiana, in 1842, where I now live, aged 82 years.
I think it likely that these four siblings, Thomas, James, John, and Fanny, were born in the area now either in Henrico, Goochland County and Chesterfield Counties. Samuel's identficiation of his place of birth being Petersburg is consistent with this location (now Chesterfield County, then Henrico). Their parents are sometimes given as James Alley and Asbury Christian.
I'm looking for information that definitively ties Thomas, James, John, and Fanny to their parents.
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