1750 - 1800 A Nation is Born

1750 - 1759

Samual Marrs grows up and reaches adulthood in York county. Raised in the Pennsylvania countryside, he takes favor and courts young Francina Bradshaw.

  • 1758 Chistopher Bradshaw, Francina's father, dies.

    1760 - 1769

  • 1760 Samual Marrs marries Francina Bradshaw in York County, PA
    and has children:
  • 1762 July 6 Henry M. 'Big Creek' Marrs, born in Virginia.
  • 1763 Sept 20 Phillis Marrs, born in Virginia.
  • 1764 Dec 20 Elizibeth Marrs, born in Virginia.
  • 1766 Feb 14 Christopher Marrs, born in Tazewell County, Virginia.
  • 1767 Oct 13 Ruth Marrs, born in Virginia.
  • 1769 Mar 31 Samuel W. Marrs, born in Virginia.
    the move to the frontier
    1755 map with frontier path of the Marrs family. York to Thompson's Valley near the Clinch River.

    Down the Wilderness Road
    The Wilderness road that was the frontier travel way in the 1700's. Much of it is todays I-81 running north and south in Virgina's back country.

    1770 - 1779

  • 1770 Oct 13 William B. Marrs, born in , Virginia.
  • 1772 John Marrs, born in Augusta County, Virginia.
  • 1774 Mar 14 James Marrs, born in Montgomery County, Virginia.
  • 1775 Francina Bradshaw Marrs killed in an Indian Raid in Thompson's Valley, Va.
  • 1776 July 4th - Declaration of Independance signed in Phildelphia

    1780 - 1789

    American Frontier is invading native "indian" lands and battle grounds between several tribal nations. Partly motivated by his mothers death, Henry Marrs actions gains him a reputation amoung these tribes as a fierce indian tracker and is given nickname 'Big Creek'.
  • 1781 Feb 16 Josiah Marrs, born in Virginia.
  • 1785 Henry M. 'Big Creek' Marrs marries Elizabeth Maxwell
  • 1785 Feb 24 Abigail Marrs, born in Virginia.
  • 1787 Feb 10 Christopher Marrs marries Mary Fowler in Tazewell County, Virginia.

    1790 - 1799

  • 1794 Nov 25 William B. Marrs marries Jane McClure in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
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