Library of Congress Map Collection drawn during the Civil War by the Engineering Office, 2nd Corps, Army of  Northern Virginia.  Enhanced view . 
  1862 Map of the Old Stage Road in Bowling Green area, Caroline County
. . .  showing secondary roads, creeks, various churches and residences along the way.   The secondary road  (light red) turning west from the Stage Road at the Childs residence toward Maracossic Creek passes a Eubank residence.  From a study of Eubank and other early surname references from sources such as the order books, wills, pension applications, census, and  histories,  this Eubank residence is likely where John Eubank and Margaret Newman lived before a move in 1780 to Amherst County, Virginia.    

Acknowledging their work and kindness . . .                                          
MARGARET JACQUELINE MOORE  of Jackson, Mississippi.  From  family, state, county, and church archives, "Jac" compiled a 19th century Eubank-Ware-Hunter-Allen history with charts and proof.  Her work has been a strong foundation for further research in developing this genealogy.  She and my father William were first cousins.

MRS. H. TUCKER EUBANK (Sallie Eubank) of Amherst County shared her time, and with sisters, Mrs. Evelyn  Jeter  and Mrs Rebecca Davidson, her gracious hospitality.  Mrs. Eubank's knowledge of the family of her great-great-grandfather George Eubank was a great help.

MAI EUBANK BOATWRIGHT of Mabank, Texas, some years ago corresponded and shared research with Jacqueline Moore.  Mrs. Boatwright is a descendant of Elias M. Eubank and Elizabeth W. Thompson.  Elias immigrated in the 1830's to Texas, and was co-founder of Mabank, Texas.

CURTIS HUMPHRIS who lives in Virginia, and is a descendant of John Eubank and Catharine Rose of Amherst, with trust and kindness, shared his research with us.  Catherine was descended from the Rev. Robert Rose of Amherst County.

The genealogical records of GEORGE MASON CLAIBORNE and NANNIE EUBANK CLAIBORNE of Amherst, through their daughter, NANNIE CLAIBORNE HUDSON in 1980, provided a direction back to King and Queen and Caroline County. 

 MARIANNE ELLISTON shared her excellent, detailed research of Ware families, and references to Eubank families, who lived in Clark County, Kentucky in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

ANN HUNTSMAN and  PATRICK HAYS were key sources in the study of Margaret Newman's family, in both Virginia and Kentucky.  Several of Margaret's brothers settled in old Jefferson County, Kentucky, and in the later partitioned counties.

                                                                       
            John Eubank b c 1720 and Mary Bullard
        John Eubank b c 1750 and Margaret Newman
                                        by Iris Teta Eubank Wagner

This 18th century genealogy begins with the earliest documented Eubank references found in Tidewater Virginia - the 1704 Quit Rent Roll, and several early 18th century items of reference.  Eubank entries from the Caroline County Order Books is a separate link.

Documents are referenced to develop a theoretical base and form possible connections of Eubank individuals in King and Queen and Caroline Counties.  As this site is a work in progress, new details will be added to the narrative when discovered.

18th Century Documented References to Eubank in Virginia

 1704 Quit Rent Tax, King and Queen and Accomack Counties            
 One of the earliest 18th century sources for proof of residence for King and Queen/Caroline Counties is the 1704 Quit Rent.
           WILLIAM EUBANK owned 350 acres in King and Queen County. There is reason to think that William's land would have been located in the upper part of King and Queen County, in the Maracossic Creek and Beverley Run areas, the Beverley Run being the boundary between Caroline and King and Queen.    All residents in the Virginia colony were required to pay the Quit Rents to the Crown, except residents in the Northern Neck, which were the several counties, Lancaster, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Richmond, and Stafford, that were owned by a proprietorship, and not subject for rents to the Crown.  Prior to 1699 the homestead laws allowed a settler 50 acres granted by the Crown, plus 50 acres to the settler's wife, and 50 acres to each of their children. As children were added to the family, the settler could add an additional 50 acres to his holdings. Using this guideline William may have had a family of at least five children in 1704.
           HENRY EUBANK (indexed Ubanke or Hubanck) was taxed for 400 acres in Accomack County.  This land at Occohannock (Onancock) Creek, by Whitelaw's account,  had evidently come through James Bonwell, the deceased husband of Mary Bonwell (nee: Watson).  Henry married the widow Bonwell on October 6, 1702 in Accomack County. This was most likely a later-life marriage for Henry, as it was a third marriage for Mary.  Again from Whitelaw, it appears that Henry died about 1714, as this is the year that Mary's son John Bonwell felt unsure of his claim to the land, and took out a new patent for it.   The estate of Mary Eubank (indexed Huebank)  was presented for probate by John Wise on July 5, 1732 in Accomack County.
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There is no other Eubank entry on the 1704 Quit Rent lists, and that would include all Virginia counties of the time, except those five counties in the Northern Neck

  <sup>1722 Fragment of a Deed - Austin to Jones - King William County 
  An item from Beverly Fleet, Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol 7, King William, p.57 -

            1 April 1722.  Tho. Austin of King and Queen Co., sells Jacob Jones and James Connor .
            . . .125 acres in King William County.  (Signature burned away.)  Witnesses:  JOHN
            EUBANK, LEWIS DILLARD, Ellinor ?  King, Margaret wife of sd Austin relinquishes
            dower rights.  Recorded King William Co., 21 June 1722. . . . .</sup>

 I think this is the Eubank lineage found in early order book and patent book references in the parish of St. Margaret in Caroline, living between the Reedy and Polecat Creeks.  Later in the 18th century in the Caroline order books, Dillard names appear with Eubank names. Lewis Dillard proved the will of John Eubank in 1737.

  1724 William Eubanck, 400 acres, King William County
              An entry from Nell Marion Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book 11, p.262

             WILLIAM EUBANCK, 400 acres (N.L.), King Wm. Co., in St. John Par.; on N. side of
             the Reedy Sw. of Mattapony River; on line of Thomas Cartwright  & Elizabeth Boboes;
             8 July 1724, p. 346. 40 Shill.

 This land lay in the parish of St. Margaret after Caroline County was created in 1727. St. Margaret was south of the Mattaponi in Caroline. Drysdale Parish was the area north of the Mattaponi, in both Caroline and upper King and Queen.  The parish of St. Mary was in the more northeastern portion of Caroline.
           
This William may be the son of John Eubank, who died 1737 [See Order Books link.], or a brother of John, and both William and John sons of William Eubank of the 1704 Quit Rent. From the patent books, neighbors of William Eubanck are Elizabeth Bobo(es), Thomas Cartwright, Thomas Floyd,   ?  Halcomb, John Watkins, Nicholas Gillintine, Thomas Carr, John Stones, John Harris, James Hurt, William Hurt, Mathew Harris, Richard Croshaw Walker, Capt. Philip Todd, and Timothy, Robert, and Joseph Chandler.  The George and the Goodwin families appear in Caroline records to be close neighbors of William Eubank of St. Margaret's Parish.  [June 10, 1748 Order].

1760 Reconstructed Census of Virginia
This census is based on primary records such as deeds, wills, tax lists, order books, etc.   Eubank individuals who were listed in three books among the eighty-nine used for the census are: 
                                John Eubank - Caroline County Order Book, 1759 - 1763.
                                William Eubank - Caroline County Order Book, 1759 - 1763
                                Richard Eubank - Vestry Book of Stratton-Major Parish, King & Queen 
                                            
From separate sources we know there were more than three persons named Eubank in Virginia in 1760.  But the census does provide a snapshot.                                                            
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Exploring the possibility that John Eubank, Sr. and John Eubank, Jr. of Caroline County, Drysdale Parish, and Margaret Newman's family, were connected to New Market, Col. John Baylor's plantation and thoroughbred stables of Caroline.
Shown below  the map of Caroline County drawn in the mid-1800's, yet the old roads shown here follow closely the routes through Caroline in the 1700's, when John Eubank lived there.  Col. John Baylor's home "New Market" was located just north of the fork in the road at Antioch Church.  The black line coming down from Bowling Green represents Maracossic Creek, and the red lines represent  roads. 

 JOHN EUBANK, Sr. of Caroline was born c1720, "most probably" in King and Queen, by the account of  19th and early 20th century family historian George Mason Claiborne of Amherst County.  Claiborne's records relate that JOHN EUBANK moved up from King and Queen County, and married MARY BULLARD, and their daughter, NANCY, married a MR. GATEWOOD, "and this family never moved up from the lower county."  Gatewood families lived in King and Queen, and Caroline, most often in Drysdale Parish. Nancy may have met Mr.Gatewood in Caroline, but lived in King and Queen.  Another possibility is that John's family may have moved up earlier into Caroline than Claiborne's records might indicate.  Or, possibly, as the area of  upper Drysdale Parish was King and Queen County until 1727, it may have been that John was born in King and Queen, in that area that became Caroline. From the evidence available, John Eubank and Mary Bullard met in Caroline, and married there c1740.

Bowling Green area of Caroline County, 1862  -   Once more, looking at this map drawn during the Civil War years, it shows two points of Eubank residence.  Bowling Green is located in the upper left.  The main road running southeast from Bowling Green is the bold red line.  The first secondary road, a light red line, turns north off the main road towards Maracossic Creek.  About 1.5 miles up that road is a Eubank residence.  On up this road from the Eubank residence would have been at the time  "the Bridge over Maracossic Creek near where the old Ivy Church stood," referred to in the road orders shown below. 

Road Orders of the 1760's in Caroline referring to John Eubank and his neighbors - Drysdale Parish.
1759 May 11  - EUSEBIUS STONE, Gent. is appointed overseer of the road from JOHN BAYLOR, ESQ. to the fork of the road by the Ivy Church and to have the following hands:  Colo. Baylor home house and mill quarter, JNO. BOWIN, BEN GATEWOOD, JOS. BULLARD, JOHN WALDING quarter, WILLIAM BULLARD,  ARMISTEAD's quarter, JOHN EUBANK and ABRAM WOOD. 

1760 July 10 - Ordered EUSEBIUS STONE have the following hands to assist him in keeping the road in repair, JOHN TAYLOR, JR., COLO. BAYLOR'S quarter, GEORGE PEAY [ Penn ?] and JOHN EUBANK.

1765 June 13 - Ordered that EUSEBIUS STONE do serve as overseer of the road from the bridge over Morocosick Creek near where the old Ivy Church stood to the old road opposite to COLO. BAYLOR's plantation and that he have besides his own hands those at COLO. BAYLOR'S HOME HOUSE, WILLIAM HARRISON's quarter, JOHN BOURN's,

                                                            The Old Ivy Church in Drysdale Parish
                                                                                                               Portion of a map of Caroline County indicating locations of the Colonial
                                                                                                                             Churches   . . . ,from T. E. Campbell's History of Caroline County
                                                                                                                 

 JOHN EUBANK, THOMAS GOODE and JOHN WILLIAMS to assist him in keeping the road in repair, which hands are discharged from working on any other road.

1767 May14 - JOHN EUBANK is appointed overseer of  the road in the room of  ( in place of  ) EUSEBIUS STONE

1770 Aug 9 - Ordered that RICHARD FLOYDE & JAMES GATEWOOD attend with their gangs do assist JOHN EUBANK in making a causeway at the Bridge near the Glebe. [ Refers certainly  to the Glebe of the old Ivy Church near the bridge crossing Maracossic. The  map above of Drysdale Parish shows the location of  Ivy Church to be three miles northwest of Sparta, a location that conforms to the location in the road orders.

It is likely that the family named Eubank who lived along this road in 1862 would have a connection to  John Eubank, Sr., of the road orders, above. The 1860 census lists in the Bowling Green Township, James Eubank, age 52 (born 1808) on page 681, residence 842.  His occupation is chair maker.  This James Eubank may be a son of Thomas Eubank, who lived in Drysdale Parish and signed a Religious Petition in 1808.  He is probably a brother to John Eubank, Jr. who married Margaret Newman and George Eubank who married Delilah Williams.

Comparing the Bowling Green / Sparta Neighborhood and the 1860 Caroline census
Evidence from the road orders of the1760's places John Eubank, Sr. and members of the Bullard family along the road that led to the old Ivy Church and the bridge across the Maracossic Creek. The 1862 map above shows a road  that would have likely followed approximately the same route, from Col. Baylor's "home house" to "the bridge over Maracossic Creek, near where the old Ivy Church stood."  From an item in John Baylor's will, it is likely the name of the road was Pendleton Hill Road - "Beginning at the end of Pendleton Hill road opposite to my house . . . "

Edmund Pendleton's plantation Edmundsbury was adjacent to the Baylor land, Pendleton's evidently bordering at several points the Maracossic Creek.

New Market/Edmundsbury/Maracossic Creek - Caroline
from David John Mays, Edmundton Pendleton : 1721-1803,
A Biography, page 34

Col. John Baylor of Caroline
New Market was Col. John Baylor's estate and plantation home in Caroline County, located three miles south of Bowling Green. It adjoined Edmund Pendleton's plantation Edmundsbury.  Both Baylor and Pendleton were wealthy and prominent leaders, serving as Caroline representatives to the Virginia House of Burgesses.  Baylor was a Burgess from 1742 until 1765.  In 1765 in the House of Burgesses, Baylor opposed Patrick Henry's "resolves" and argued against the "treasonable" measures.  The freeholders of Caroline were active politically, and because of Baylor's opposition to the "resolves," and through the influence of Baylor's opponents, voted Baylor out of office.  The freeholders were also not happy about Baylor's influence in advising Virginia's then Governor Fauquier to send an outsider to the county as sheriff.  Until then the sheriffs of Caroline had always been residents of the county.  Gov. Fauquier appointed William Goode to be the new sheriff of Caroline.  From order book entry of  February 8, 1770, JOHN EUBANK and AMBROSE BULLARD are two of the men appointed to appraise the estate of William Goode. John Baylor was still living in 1770, and had been influential in getting William Goode appointed as sheriff.  John and Ambrose may have been loyal to the interests of the Baylor estate, and to Col. John Baylor.            
           
 Baylor followed English traditions of the established Anglican Church.   He and others in the county built an Episcopal Church about 1740-45.  John Eubank likely contributed his share, he was Episcopalian, and later a vestryman in Lexington Parish in Amherst County.  He would have been a true ally of Col. Baylor.  Members of five subsequent generations of this Eubank lineage have held to the same tradition.

Col. Baylor's father had built a fortune in King and Queen County as a planter near Walkerton, but Col. Baylor's passion was in breeding and importing fine horses.  His stables were famous throughout Virginia, and in England, as having the finest horses in the colony.  At the time of Col. Baylor's death in 1772 his stables contained nearly 100 horses. There would have had to be a large contingent of employees to care for so many valuable thoroughbreds.

Caroline County Religious Petitions, Land Tax Books, and Order Books   In the absence of  deeds, wills, and other legal records that may have given specific relationships between 18th century Eubank families in Caroline, the Early Virginia Religious Petitions, the Land Tax Books, and the Order Books are useful in providing clues.   

Early Virginia Religious Petition, October 15, 1779, Caroline County.
Those signing were in favor of the division of Drysdale Parish into two parishes.
                                                                                                  --- The Library of Congress, American Memory Collection ---

Early Virginia Religious Petition October 15,  1779, Endorsing the Division of Drysdale Parish 
Drysdale was a  long parish, reaching from the Spotsylvania border on the north down into the upper part of King and Queen County.  The names of the signers who were in favor of the parish division appear to have lived in the Bowling Green area northward. On October 15, 1779, JOHN EUBANK and his brother GEORGE EUBANK signed the above petition Endorsing Division of their home parish, Drysdale.   John's signature appears next to James Jarrell and that of Mark Beazley, Mungo Roy and William Buckner. The column continues with the signatures of Thomas White, Jonah Allen, Francis Chandler, John Ironmonger, Elizabeth  Irion (?), Kenah Leongal (?).   Next in the column is the signature of George Eubank, followed immediately by the several signatures of COL. JOHN BAYLOR'S FAMILY. The Colonel had died at New Market in April, 1772, and here are the signatures of his son John Baylor IV (b 1750), son George Baylor, their mother Mrs. F. Baylor, daughters Frances Baylor and Courtenay Baylor. The Baylor's son Walker signed this petition on another column of signatures endorsing the division.

A day later on October 16, 1779,  the Religious Petition Opposing Division of Drysdale Parish was signed by JOHN EUBANK, WILLIAM EUBANK, AND JAMES EUBANK.  The names William and James appear together on the document. [Note:  This may have been the James Eubank who married Benjamin Hubbard's sister, and moved to Kentucky.]  The signature next to John Eubank is John Gardner, a surname associated with that of Eubank from earlier times in the the late 17th century in York County and earlier on the Eastern Shore. These signers lived in the lower area of Caroline.  In February, 1785, James and Joseph Eubank were executors of the will of William Eubank.   John Eubank, Sr. and William may have been brothers, and James, Joseph, and John first cousins to John and George Eubank.

Caroline County road orders prove that John Eubank, Sr. and family were close neighbors of John Baylor, most likely living on Pendleton Hill Road, "the road opposite my home house," as John Baylor described in his will.  Modern maps produced by the Virginia Department of Transportation  indicate this road as secondary road number 682, which has retained only 1.15 miles of its original length, which previously reached to Maracossic Creek.  The road is now known as Beazley Lane. That their names appear close on the petition above lends support to the theory that they were associated with the Baylor estate in some capacity or allegiance. 

Caroline County Land Books / Alterations   1782 - 1798

1787 William Eubank owned 225 acres in Nicholas Long's District - north of Mattaponi River (Drysdale area)
         William Eubank owned 122 acres in George Terrell's District - south of Mattaponi River (St. Margaret's area)
1788  ditto all -  1789 ditto all
1790 William Eubank, 225 acres, Nicholas Long's  -  William Eubank, 122 acres, Geo. Terrill's
          John Eubank, 145 acres, transferred from John Oliver, Geo. Terrill's 1791 ditto all
1792 William Eubank, 225 acres, Nicholas Long's  -  William Eubank, 122 acres, Geo. Terrill's
          John Eubank, 145 acres, Geo. Terrill's
(By 1793 the 225 acres that William Eubank owned in Nicholas Long's district had been transferred to George Isbell.  George Isbell married Susanna Eubank, daughter of this William Eubank.  George Isbell and James Eubank acted as co-administrators of the will of William Moore in April 1784.  This William Eubank who died in 1785 - and either he or a son William Eubank owned 225 acres in Nicholas Long's district - was  very likely a brother to John Eubank b c 1720, who married Mary Bullard.)
1793  William, John, and Richard Eubank inherited land from the Estate of Alice Taylor.
           to William, 80 and 1/2 acres, John, 241 acres, Richard 133 acres.
           In 1793 William Eubank is taxed for 202 acres in Geo. Terrill's district [William's original 122 acres plus the acreage he
           inherited equals 202 acres]
           In 1793 John Eubank is taxed for 241 acres in Terrill's district, the acreage he inherited.
           In 1793 Richard Eubank is taxed for 133 acres in Hargrave's district.
1796   William is taxed for 202 acres in Jesse Hargrave's district, formerly Geo. Terrill's district.
           Richard is taxed for 133 acres in Hargrave's district.
          
In February, 1785, in Caroline County, James Eubank and Joseph Eubank were administrators of William Eubank's will.  At the same time an appraisal and inventory of Sarah Taylor estate was administered by James and Joseph Eubank.  William's wife may have been Sarah Taylor, and her mother the Alice Taylor of the 1793 Estate bequest.  Alice Taylor was the wife of Caroline Magistrate John Taylor.

Mary Bullard's Family of Caroline County
Mary Bullard's father was most likely THOMAS BULLARD.  The Bullard family was settled early in the 18th century in the area where South River flows into the Mattaponi, about two miles southwest of Bowling Green.   Thomas Bullard's estate was presented for probate on June 11, 1767, by executors John and Mary Bullard Eubank.  Richard Woolfolk,  Robert Woolfolk,  Thomas Laughlin, and Eusebius Stone were appointed to appraise the estate. 
  
Thomas Bullard's father may have been ROBERT BULLARD, whose immigration was sponsored by established Caroline resident John Buckner in 1714.   The area of their patent was described  as being on the "South side of  [the] fork of South River issuing into Mattapony."   The area is about two miles southwest from Bowling Green.  The name Robert Bullard appears in early order book entries.   In 1760, Thomas Bullard was exempt from tithes or road work.  Such exemptions were given because of old age or illness.    AMBROSE BULLARD  [ Feb. 8, 1770 order] was most likely a brother or uncle to Mary, and LEWIS, JOHN, WILLIAM, JOSEPH, and GEORGE BULLARD were also probably uncles, brothers, or nephews.

John Eubank, Jr. and Margaret Newman - Caroline County
By 1780 John and Margaret had decided to leave Caroline. Together with George and his wife Delilah, they sold land to John Long and to Nicholas Long. [ See order of February 10, 1780.]   Nicholas Long was a Land Tax Commissioner of a district in Drysdale.

To John's occupation in Caroline and later in Amherst, there may be a few clues to consider. 
Of course, in Amherst, he managed his farm and he and Margaret raised a large family.  Also, he and George may have had experience in breeding and raising horses during their early years in Caroline.
           
Sally Eubank (Mrs. Tucker Eubank) related the main characteristics of her Eubank family from their first settlement in Amherst as, " having a love of horses and family. . . "   An 1800 tax taken in Lexington Parish, Amherst County, shows John is taxed for six horses and one stud horse. George is taxed for six horses.  A stud horse being valuable property, an owner would want to have some expertise and skill in the care of them. 

MARGARET NEWMAN was born in either Prince William, Orange, or Essex County, Virginia. Her parents, THOMAS NEWMAN and ELIZABETH VAWTER were married by the Rev. Robert Rose in Essex on Dec. 28, 1747.  Thomas Newman's father was ELIAS NEWMAN and his grandfather was ALEXANDER NEWMAN of Orange County. Margaret 's connection to the Newman genealogy is proved by a document filed in Amherst County in 1830, whereby the children of  the elder John and Margaret Newman Eubank, both deceased, gave to their brother Richard Newman Eubank, a Power of Attorney, " . . . to receive their share in the estate of their uncle, Obediah Newman, late, of  Jefferson County, Kentucky." 

Thomas Newman was Steward at New Market
 This reference from Caroline County Chancery Court records:
            "From the [Col. John Baylor] Estate Accounts : Apr. 1775 - Apr. 1801. 
            Paid James Newman, overseer in Orange in my father's lifetime. 
            Thomas Newman's claim as Steward at New Market in my father's lifetime.
            Ephraim Stonefield at the old house in my father's lifetime.  Mr. Victa[John Victor]
             for teaching Miss Betsey [on the spinnet](1788).  S. Newman for teaching
            Miss Betsey (1796).  And Wabelyn Welsh, ex. for Welsh.   May 18, 1802."

From family records it is known that John Eubank, Jr. "came from Bowling Green,Virginia."  John Baylor's plantation, and stables, were located two to three miles southwest of Bowling Green.  I think John and George may have in some capacity worked at Baylor's thoroughbred stables.  Working close to the interests of the estate would have given John an excellent opportunity to meet Margaret Newman.  Also, according to several road orders, John Eubank, Sr. lived in the area of the Baylor estate.  [Note the Orders for June13, 1765, May 14, 1767, and Aug 11, 1774. Names mentioned are residents of Drysdale Parish, as proved by extant Religious Petitions.]

 Alexander Newman of Orange County
 As well as his estate in Caroline, Col. Baylor owned a large tract and estate in Orange County, where he spent summers to escape the Tidewater's humidity. JAMES NEWMAN was overseer of the Baylor estate in Orange.  There are numerous entries concerning James Newman among the Baylor estate papers held in collections at the Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

ALEXANDER NEWMAN had three sons, Elias, Thomas and James.  The referenced Thomas Newman as Steward at New Market is probably Alexander's son Thomas, or his grandson Thomas, son of Elias.  Elias' son Thomas Newman is Margaret Newman's father.  Alexander's son Thomas, who married Elizabeth Morton, is reported by Boogher in his Gleanings of Virginia History as having moved from Orange before 1747.  It may have been to Caroline as Steward at New Market that he moved.  Whether the Thomas Newman who was Steward at New Market was Margaret's father or great uncle, her connection to them is proved.  Campbell notes that people of Caroline and Orange moved easily between the two counties, so that records are found for the same individuals in both counties.  The S. Newman in the above reference hasn't been identified, but is surely of the same family. 

1763 Will of William Fleet - St. Stephens Parish, King and Queen County
This is from Virginia Colonial Abstracts by Beverley Fleet, Vol. 14, King & Queen County
          (Williamsburg Wills, page 25)
            William Fleet of St. Stephens Parish, King and Queen County.
            Dated 20 April 1763.  Probated 11 October 1773.
            Sons John and William.  Land in Orange County to son Edwin.
            Daughters Mary Ann and Elizabeth.
            Grandmother Mrs. Eliz: Marriot.
            Friend Col. Humphrey Hill.
            Wife Susanna.
            Exors. Brother Edwin Fleet, John Semple.
            Wit. Charles Mortimer, Arthur Hopes, George Eubank, Wm. Birch

John Semple was the husband of Elizabeth Walker, sister of Susanna Walker, William Fleet's wife.  The Baylor family was well-established at Walkerton along the Mattaponi River in King and Queen County; and John Baylor was born there in 1705.  He married Frances Walker, a relative of the Walker family.
           
Not knowing the identity of John Eubank, Sr.'s father, GEORGE EUBANK is a possibility to consider.   George is evidently of some association with the Fleet family, and probably, therefore the Baylor and Walker families.
           
Also mentioned as a witness to the will above is William Birch.  In Caroline order book entry May 12, 1738, William Burch and Sarah his wife acknowledge their deeds of lease and release and bond indented to William Eubank  William Eubank may have been Sarah's father, or uncle.  The William Birch of the Fleet will may be a son, or a close relative of  Sarah's husband. May be a connection of William Eubank, Sarah (Eubank) and William Burch in 1738, and George Eubank and William Birch in 1763.

February, 1780 - John and George sell their property and move to Amherst County
John and wife Margaret and George Eubank and wife Delilah transferred their land jointly in 1780 to Nicholas and John Long of  Drysdale Parish.  This would indicate that they probably lived on shared  property.  John Eubank, Sr. had died in 1778, and John and George were co-executors.  Without a deed or will to confirm, both brothers probably inherited from him the property they sold in 1780.   Evidently, they bought land together in Amherst County in 1783. 

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  Children of John Eubank and Mary Bullard
  JOHN EUBANK b c 1750 married Margaret Newman

  GEORGE EUBANK b 1746 married Delilah Williams
 

NANCY EUBANK  -  The Claiborne/Eubank/Hudson account is that Nancy married a MR. GATEWOOD (no first name given), and  "this [Nancy's] family never moved from the lower county, most probably King & Queen." 

MARY "MOLLIE" EUBANK  -  According to Claiborne, Mollie Eubank married GEORGE SAUNDERSON of Caroline and moved to Kentucky.  No date for their move to Kentucky was given in the record, but they may have lived in Amherst a short time then moved on into Kentucky, as the area began to be safe for settlers.  There is an Edward Saunderson living in Caroline in 1782, and a neighbor to John Eubank in Amherst from the late 1780's to 1800. On the 1800 Lexington, Amherst County tax list, among other items, Edward Saunderson was taxed for one stud horse. Edward is likely a relative of George Saunderson.  The Saundersons may also been employed at the Baylor estate in Caroline. The records indicate two children of Mollie and George: John Saunderson and George Saunderson. "John Saunderson married and had (1) a son John, who married a Miss Logwood, (2) a daughter, who married a Leftwich, and this family lived in Botetourt County, Virginia, " according to the Claiborne account. 
 

 AMBROSE EUBANK  -  From the evidence found so far of Ambrose Eubank, he is either brother or first cousin to John.  I suspect he is a brother, as George named a son Ambrose Bullard. And Ambrose Bullard of Caroline is likely a brother to Mary Bullard.  Ambrose Eubank served in the Revolutionary War from Caroline, and may be older than John.
^{Amherst County}
1779   By deed of November 1, Ambrose bought 104 acres on Horsleys Creek from Roderick McCulloch and wife Elizabeth, located on Horsleys Creek in Amherst County, a few miles from the James River.  His farm bordered one of John Eubank's tracts, as proved in a deed of 1784, in which John buys 118 acres on Horsley's Creek on line of Ambrose Eubank     John, George, and Ambrose Eubank were neighbors on the 1785 Amherst County tax lists. They are on Amherst Co. Tax Returns in Commissioner William Ware's District in 1787 and 1789.
1792 October 2 - CATHARINE EUBANK m Lain Jones - Consent of her father  Ambrose Eubank, John Ware, surety.                      1793  Tax Entry  - THOMAS EUBANK  (Noted on Tax List as son of Ambrose.)
1797  Ambrose and wife Frankey sold their 104 acres to John Richerson of Amherst, and bought land in Bedford County. 
Bedford County
1798  September 1  -  JENNY EUBANK  m John King - Lain Jones, surety.
1800  July 17 -  SALLY EUBANK  m William Hensley  -  John King, surety, married by Jeremiah Hatcher.
1808 March 2  -  POLLY EUBANK  m  Charles Wright
1810 Census -  Ambrose Eubank  1 male 16-25, 1 male 45+   1 female 16-25, 1 female 45+
1822 January 4  -  NANCY EUBANK  m Joseph Crews
           
Ambrose may have had a son John Eubank, who married in Bedford County Sarah Palmore ( daughter of Benjamin; Jesse Lockett, surety, married by Isham Fuqua, Dec 26, 1797), and William Eubank, who married Nancy Hill in Bedford ( daughter of Elizabeth, William Hensley, surety, married by George Rucker August 18, 1805.)     

RICHARD EUBANK  -  The Richard Eubank named in the following order book reference is likely a grandson of Thomas Bullard, and son of John Eubank, Sr. who married Mary Bullard. John Eubank and Mary Bullard were co-executors of the estate of Thomas Bullard.

                 ^{"Caroline County Court, 11th of July, 1782,  p.68  - 
             RICHARD EUBANK & MARY his Wife, Complainants
             against John Eubank, Executor of THOMAS BULLARD,
             Defendant.  In Chancery.  Dismissed for want of prosecution."} 

^{From the study of several associated records, I think this Richard Eubank may be the Eubank ancestor who rode horseback from Virginia to Kentucky and is referred to in family tradition as "Uncle Dickie Eubank."  He is father of ACHILLES EUBANK whose second wife was young NANCY WARE, the daughter of  LUCY EUBANK who married JOHN WARE in 1796 in Amherst.  Lucy was the daughter of JOHN and MARGARET NEWMAN EUBANK.  On the theory that Richard Eubank, father of Achilles and who left Caroline County in the late 1750's to settle in Goochland County, and John Eubank (m Mary Bullard) were brothers, then NANCY WARE was Achilles' first cousin twice removed.  Achilles settled in Clark County, Kentucky by 1788 when he entered 783 acres along Four Mile Creek.  He was a member of Kentucky's first Constitutional Convention and Kentucky's first Legislature.   (More to come about Achilles Eubank.)}

THOMAS EUBANK    -  In 1801 in Caroline, Drysdale, THOMAS EUBANK signed a religious petition opposing the sale of the Drysdale Parish Glebe.  In September, 1795, in Caroline, Thomas Eubank was executor of Mary Eubank's will.  Thomas may have been a son of John and Mary Bullard Eubank.  Thomas's son may be the James Eubank, age 52 on Caroline County, Bowling Green, U.S. Census of 1860,  in residence on approximately the same land where this Eubank family lived, according to the road orders, etc.

Original Narrative © Iris Teta Eubank Wagner 2004-2009

 ^{Sources
  1.    Nannie Claiborne Hudson, genealogical knowledge of Amherst families,George Mason Claiborne
          and Nannie Eubank Claiborne of Amherst County, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1980.
  2.    Amherst County Will Book 6 , Amherst County Deed Books E,F,G,H,I, T
  3.    Caroline County Order Books, the transcribed abstracts of  John Frederick Dorman and Ruth and Sam
          Sparacio.
  4.    T.E. Campbell, Colonial Caroline.            
  5.    Dorothy Ford Wulfeck, Marriages of Some Virginia Residents, 1607 - 1800
  6.    Warner L. Forsyth, Mosely, Mosly Families, Appendix to Book 1, 2000
  7.    William F. Boogher, Gleanings of Virginia History, " Newman Family of Virginia," pp237-282.
  8.    Mai Eubank Boatwright (descendant of Elias M. Eubank and Elizabeth W. Thompson, who lived in Texas),
         and Curtis Humphris ( descendant of John Eubank and Catharine Rose of Amherst, Virginia)  
  9.    Amherst County Court Records, Amherst County, Virginia
10.   Family record of Sallie Eubank (Mrs. Tucker Eubank) of Amherst County.
11.   Bailey Fulton Davis, The Wills of Amherst County, 1761 - 1865.
12.   Thomas H. Ellis,  A Memorandum of the Ellis Family, Richmond. Virginia, August 14, 1849.
13.   William Hopkins, Caroline County, Virginia, Court Records - Chancery Suits.
14.   Alexander Brown's Early-Settlers List, Alexander Brown Papers, Special Collection Department,
        Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
15.   1783 Tax List, Amherst County, Virginia,  rootsweb.com.
16.   1785 Tax List, Amherst County, Virginia, rootsweb.com.
17.   1789 Amherst County Land Tax Return of William Ware, Commissioner.
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19.   Bishop William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia., 1857
20.   1800 Tax List for Lexington Parish, Amherst County, Virginia, Peter P. Thornton, Commissioner.
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31.   T.L.C. Genealogy, 1760 Reconstructed Census of Virginia
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33.   Clark County Historical Society, Clark County Chronicles, Winchester 1924
         Winchester Public Library, Dr. G. F. Doyle.
34.   Hardesty's Historical Encyclopedia
35.   Lenora Higginbotham Sweeney, Marriage Bonds and Other Records of Amherst County, Virginia, 1763 - 1800
36.   Caroline County, Virginia, Court Records, Probate and other Records from the Court Order
         and Minute Books, 1781 - 1799.
37.   The Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Manuscript Division, Baylor papers file #2257
38.   Daughters of the American Revolution, Roster of Revolutionary Ancestors, Vol II,
        Betti Boatwright McFaul, No. 560469 .
39   Virginia Historical Magazine," The Will of John Baylor of New Market,"  Vol. 24, p.367.
40.  Letter from Ambrose Bullard Eubank, 1859, Melrose, Nacogdoches County, Texas, to his sister in Amherst County, Virginia.}