Waddell's Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871

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John Anderson, his wife, Jane, and his children, Esther, Mary and Margaret.

George Anderson, his wife, Elizabeth, and his children, William, Margaret, John and Frances.

Samuel Scott, his wife, Jane, and son, John.

Robert Scott, his wife, Ann, and his children, Mary, George and Esther.

David Wilson, his wife, Charity, and son, James.

James Caldwell and his children, Mary, Jean, Agnes, John, Sarah and Samuel.

John Stevenson and his children, Sarah and Mary.

John Preston came in with Breckinridge and others, but postponed proving his importation till 1746, when he appeared before the court of Augusta, “to partake of his Majesty’s bounty for taking up lands.”

On the 26th of June, 1740, the following Augusta people “proved their importation,” having come from Ireland through Philadelphia, viz:

Hugh Campbell and his children, Esther and Sarah.

Robert Young and his children, Agnes, John, Samuel and James.

John Smith, his wife, Margaret, his children, Abraham, Henry, Daniel, John and Joseph, and Robert McDowell. This was Captain John Smith, of Augusta, who became prominent during the Indian wars, as did his sons, Abraham, Daniel and John.

Henry Downs was presented by the Grand Jury, November 27, 1740, for “Sabbath-breaking by travelling with loaded horses to Sharrendo,” on the information of John and William Dewitt.

The Presbyterians of Augusta continued their “supplications” to the Presbytery of Donegal for a pastor to reside amongst them. In 1739, they first applied for the services of the Rev. Mr. Thompson who came and preached for a time. Next they presented a call to the Rev. John Craig. At a meeting of Presbytery, in September, 1740, “Robert Doak and Daniel Dennison, from Virginia, declared in the name of the congregation of Shenandoah, their adherence to the call formerly presented to Mr. Craig;” and on the next day Mr. Craig “was set apart for the work of the Gospel ministry in the south part of Beverley’s Manor.”

The Rev. John Craig was born in 1709. in County Antrim, Ireland. He was educated at Edinburgh; landed at New Castle upon the Delaware, August 17, 1734; and was licensed by the Presbytery to preach in 1737. As stated, he came to Augusta in 1740. “I was sent,” he recorded, “to a new settlement in Virginia of our own people, near three hundred miles distant.”