An American Family History

The West Famiily

The Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia borders Maryland and Virginia. The first European settlers started arriving about 1730.

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John West, was born about 1738 in Prince George's County, Maryland. He was the son of John West and Frances Osbourne.

He married Rachel Perry. Rachel was the daughter of James Perry of Montgomery County, Maryland.

Reason West (1760, married Polly Smither),
Rebecca West (1762, married James McCall),
Simeon West (1763, married Elizabeth Hopkins),
William West (1765, married Hannah Conklyn),
Sarah West (1772, married John Eades),
Margaret West (after 1774, married M. Tompkins Barlow),
Martha West (1777),
John West (1773),
Roger P. West (1785, married Nancy Moore)

John and Rachel attended the Rock Creek Church. Their four oldest children were baptized there.

Rachel died in Bourbon County, Kentucky in 1819 and John died in 1791.

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Kentucky was originally a Virginia county and included the lands west of the Appalachians. In 1780, it was divided into Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln counties. Kentucky officially became a state on June 1, 1792.

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